English Proverbs
Commonly-used proverbs beginning with the letter 'A'
LIST A, page 4
from: 'a watched pot' to: 'all that glitters'
- A watched pot never boils.
- If you wait anxiously for something to happen, it seems to take a long time.
- If you wait anxiously for something to happen, it seems to take a long time.
- A wise head keeps a still tongue
- An intelligent person knows when to stay silent.
- An intelligent person knows when to stay silent.
- A wonder lasts but nine days.
- The effects of an amazing or stirring event last only nine days; after that, life goes on as before.
- The effects of an amazing or stirring event last only nine days; after that, life goes on as before.
- A young idler, an old beggar.
- If you don't work, you won't have any money when you're old.
- If you don't work, you won't have any money when you're old.
- Absence is the mother of disillusion
- A period of absence may enable you to see people in a truer but less favourable light.
- A period of absence may enable you to see people in a truer but less favourable light.
- Absence makes the heart grow fonder
- When you are away from someone you love, you love them even more.
- When you are away from someone you love, you love them even more.
- Accidents will happen
- Some unfortunate events must be accepted as inevitable.
- Some unfortunate events must be accepted as inevitable.
- Actions speak louder than words
- What a person actually does is more important than what they say they will do.
- What a person actually does is more important than what they say they will do.
- Admiration is the daughter of ignorance
- Admiration can lead to blindness. Some people do not want to see any faults in those they admire.
- Admiration can lead to blindness. Some people do not want to see any faults in those they admire.
- Adversity makes strange bedfellows.
- People of all origins who share the same misfortune are drawn together.
- People of all origins who share the same misfortune are drawn together.
- Advice is cheap
- It doesn't cost anything to offer advice.
- It doesn't cost anything to offer advice.
- Advice is least heeded when most needed.
- When a problem is serious, people often do not follow the advice given.
- When a problem is serious, people often do not follow the advice given.
- Advisors run no risks.
- It's easier to give advice than to act.
- It's easier to give advice than to act.
- After dinner rest a while, after supper walk a while.
- Dinner is called 'lunch' nowadays, and supper has become 'dinner'.
- Dinner is called 'lunch' nowadays, and supper has become 'dinner'.
- Age before beauty
- Older people should be given precedence over the younger (who are thought to be more beautiful).
- Older people should be given precedence over the younger (who are thought to be more beautiful).
- Agree, for the law is costly.
- A compromise is better than an expensive lawsuit.
- A compromise is better than an expensive lawsuit.
- All cats are grey in the dark.
- People are
undistinguished until they have made a name for
themselves.
- People are
undistinguished until they have made a name for
themselves.
- All covet, all lose
- If you try to obtain everything, you risk losing everything.
- If you try to obtain everything, you risk losing everything.
- All days are short to industry and long to idleness.
- Time goes by slowly when you have nothing to do.
- Time goes by slowly when you have nothing to do.
- All good things come to those who wait.
- If you are patient you will be rewarded.
- If you are patient you will be rewarded.
- All is well that ends well.
- A happy ending makes up for any difficulties encountered along the way.
- A happy ending makes up for any difficulties encountered along the way.
- All that glitters is not gold.
- Appearances can be deceptive.
- Appearances can be deceptive.
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