Good proverbs

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If you say you will love a person all your life, is saying a candle will continue to burn all your life

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Tommorro is another day.

The last line of the american civil war novel gone with the wind.
Truth is stranger than fiction.

This proverbial saying is attributed to, and almost certinly coined by,lord byron,in the satirical poem juan,1823
Truth will out.

The truth will become known eventually.
Two heads are better than one.

Two people may be able to solve a problem that an individual cannot.
Pears for your heirs.

An adage to encourage us to think long-term and look after future generations.
When in rome,do as the romans do.

It is polite,and possibly also advantageous, to abide by the customs of a society when one is a visitor.
where there's muck there's brass.

Where there are dirty jobs to be done there is money to be made.
Don't keep a dog and bark yourself.

don'p pay someone to do a task and then do it yourself.
women and children first.

The seafaring command that women and children be the first to board the life boats when a ship abandoned.
You are what you eat.

The notion that to be fit and healthy you need to eat good food.
You can lead a horse to water,but you can't make it drink.

People,like horses, will only do what they have a mind to do.
You can't get blood out of a stone.

You cannot extract what isn't there to begin with.
You can't teach an old dog new tricks.

Old dogs learn less well than the young.
Baby blues.

feeling of depression or anxiety,experienced by some mothers following childbirth.
Baby boomer.

A person born during the temporary peak in the birth-rate that occured several countries following wwii,notably the usa and the uk.
Baby father.

The father of an infant who is not married to or in an exclusive relation ship with the mother.
Back - seat driver.

Some one who criticizes from the sidelines.
Back the field.

Place a bet on all the horses in a race, except one.
Back to basics.

A return to previously held values of decency.
Back to square one.

Back to the beginning, to start again.

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