FAMOUS PROVERBS
PROVERBS STARTING WITH ‘A’
Ø Absence makes the heart grow fonder
Ø Actions speak louder than words.
Ø Advice is cheap.
Ø Advice is least heeded when most needed.
Ø Advisers run no risks.
Ø All cats are grey in the dark.
Ø All good things come to those who wait.
Ø All that glitters is not gold.
Ø All days are short to Industry and long to Idleness.
Ø All is fair in love and war
Ø All's well that ends well
Ø All things grow with time - except grief.
Ø All things are difficult before they are easy.
Ø All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
Ø An empty purse frightens away friends.
Ø An idle brain is the devil's workshop.
Ø An onion a day keeps everyone away
Ø An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
Ø Anger is the one thing made better by delay.
Ø Any time means no time.
Ø April showers bring May flowers.
Ø A bad workman blames his tools.
Ø A bird in hand is worth two in a bush.
Ø A broken friendship may be soldered but will never be sound.
Ø A burden of one's own choice is not felt.
Ø A cat has nine lives.
Ø A change is as good as a rest.
Ø A dry March, a wet April and a cool May fill barn and cellar and bring much hay.
Ø A fault confessed is half redressed.
Ø A flower blooms more than once.
Ø A fool at forty is a fool forever.
Ø A friend in need is a friend indeed.
Ø A friend to all is a friend to none
Ø A friend's eye is a good mirror.
Ø A good example is the best sermon.
Ø A good beginning makes a good end.
Ø A good conscience is a soft pillow.
Ø A guilty conscience needs no accuser.
Ø A leopard cannot change its spots.
Ø A loaded wagon makes no noise.
Ø A loveless life is a living death.
Ø A man can die but once.
Ø A monkey in silk is a monkey no less
Ø A new broom sweeps clean.
Ø A rising tide lifts all boats.
Ø A rolling stone gathers no moss.
Ø A rotten apple spoils the barrel.
Ø A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner.
Ø A stitch in time saves nine.
Ø A stumble may prevent a fall.
Ø A swallow does not make the summer.
Ø A watched pot never boils
Ø A young idler, an old beggar.
Ø As you sow, so shall you reap
Ø Ask me no questions, I'll tell you no lies.
Ø Attack is the best form of defense
Ø A proverb is good sense brought to a point
Ø A proverb is the child of experience.
Ø A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs
Ø A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom
Ø Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it
Ø Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to keep on formulating them
Ø A short saying often contains much wisdom
