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PROVERBS- Idle people never have any leisure.
- If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again.
- If each would sweep before his own door, we should have a clean city.
- If 'ifs' and 'ans' were pots and pans, there'd be no work for tinkers!
- If it were not for hope, the heart would break.
- If one sheep leaps over the ditch, all the rest will follow.
- If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
- If the cap fits, wear it.
- If there were no clouds, we should not enjoy the sun.
- If two men ride on a horse, one must ride behind.
- If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.
- If you cannot bite, never show your teeth.
- If you run after two hares, you will catch neither.
- If you sing before breakfast, you will cry before night.
- If you want a thing well done, do it yourself.
- In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
- It is a foolish bird that soils its own nest.
- It is a foolish sheep that makes the wolf his confessor.
- It's a long lane that has no turning.
- It's a sad heart that never rejoices.
- It is better to give than to take.
- It is easier to pull down than to build.
- It is easy to be wise after the event.
- It is love that makes the world go round.
- It is never too late to mend.
- It is no use crying over spilt milk.
- It is too late to lock the stable when the horse has been stolen.
- It is useless to flog a dead horse.
- It never rains but it pours.
- It takes two to make a quarrel.
- A Jack of all trades is master of none.
- Jam tomorrow and jam yesterday -- but never jam today.
- Keep something for a rainy day.
- Kill not the goose that lays the golden eggs.
- Idle folk have the least leisure.
- If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me.
- If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing well.
- If the mountain will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet must go to the mountain.
- If you do not like it, you may lump it.
- If you want peace, prepare for war.
- Ill news comes apace.
- An ill payer never wants an excuse.
- Ill weeds grow apace.
- Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
- In a calm sea, every man is a pilot.
- In for a penny, in for a pound.
- In peace, prepare for war.
- In vino veritas.
- In wine, there is truth.
- It is a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.
- It's an ill wind that blows nobody any good.
- It is as well to know which way the wind blows.
- It is better to wear out than to rust out.
- It's dogged that does it.
- It is easy to bear the misfortunes of others.
- It is good fishing in troubled waters.
- It is ill jesting with edged tools.
- It is ill striving against the stream.
- It is ill waiting for dead men's shoes.
- It is the unexpected that always happens.
- It needs more skill than I can tell to play the second fiddle well.
- It takes all sorts to make a world.
- It will be all the same a hundred years hence.
- Judge not, that ye be not judged.
- Kind hearts are more than coronets.
- Know your own faults before blaming others for theirs.
- Knowledge is power.
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