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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A stitch in time saves nine.

A timely effort will prevent more work later.
A thing of beauty is a joy forever.

Literal meaning.
Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

The lack of something increases the desire for it.
Power corrupts: absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Accidents will happen.

Things sometimes go wrong,despite our best efforts.
All things come to he who waits.

In praise of patience.
Grist to the mill.

All things are a potential source of profit or advantage.
There is no such things as bad as publicity.

Literal meaning
All that glitters is not gold.

A showy article may not necessarily be valuable.
All's well that ends well

a risky enterprise is justified so long as it turns out well in the end.
An English man's home is his castle

the English dictum that a mans home is his refuge.
As you sow so shall you reap.


Your deeds good or bad will repay you in kind.
Ask a silly question and you'll get a silly answer.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.


This saying first appeared in the 3rd century BC in Greek.
Beauty is only skin deep.

physical beauty is superficial.
Beggars cant be choosers.

If you request something to be given you should not question what you are given.
Behind every great man there's a great woman.

This has been adopted as a feminist slogan.
Better late than never.

To arrive or do something later than expected isn't good, but it is better than at all.

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