Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Proverbs 1
Life is just a bowl of cherries | | Life is full of happiness and pleasure |
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| Like a bull in a china shop | | A clumsy or tactless person |
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| Lock the stable door after the horse has bolted | | Once a mistake has been made or an error committed, it's too late to take precautions to prevent it from happening. |
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| The longest day must have an end | | All difficult jobs or situations also have an end. |
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| Losers weepers, finders keepers | | If someone loses something, he weeps -- but if someone finds it, he keeps it. |
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| Love me, love my dog | | If we want a person's friendship we must accept him totally, faults and all. |
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| Many hands make light work | | Many people sharing a job or tasks make easier work of it. |
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| The mountain labors and brings forth a mouse | | To work hard and long on a project that turns out to be pretty useless. |
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| Opportunity only knocks once | | Seize an opportunity when it occurs for it may never happen again. |
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| An ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure | | It is even better to be cautious and prevent a misfortune or an accident from happening. |
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| Possession is nine points of the law | | In disputes over property ownership, the person in possession of something is sometimes said to have nine-tenths a chance of winning it in a legal argument |
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| Promises are like pie crust | | Most promises cannot be kept |
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| Put a quart into a pint pot | Doing something that's impossible | |
| The rain falls on the just and the unjust alike | No matter how good or bad a person, he must still face the everyday problems that confront us all. | |
| The sins of the fathers will be visited upon the children | People will be punished for the wrongs committed by their parents, forefathers, or those who have preceded them. | |
| Someone's bark is worse than his bite | People sometimes bark but in time we learn they're not always as frightening as they seem. | |
| The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak | To do something unworthy just because it gives you the pleasure | |
| A stitch in time saves nine | By taking immediate action we can prevent a fault, damage or trouble from getting worse | |
| A straw will show which way the wind blows | A small incident can reveal an important event | |
| Teach an old dog new tricks | It is impossible to change someone's ways or habits, especially if he is old and resists change | |
| That's where the shoe pinches | That's the source or cause of a problem or an annoyance | |
| There are none so blind as those that will not see | People ,who never admit they might be wrong, refuse to listen to the opinions or ideas of anyone | |
| There are none so deaf as those who will not hear | People sometimes hear only what they want to hear | |
| There's more than one way to skin a cat | There is more than one way of getting a job done | |
| The thin end of the wedge | That something can appear to be small and of no particular importance - yet it can turn out to be the beginning of a major problem. | |
| A thing of beauty is a joy forever | It means that though something beautiful may not last, the happy memory of it will live forever. | |
| Time heals old wounds | The passing of time helps us to forget things that have caused us pain or made us unhappy. | |
| The truth will out | Truth about something will eventually be discovered or made known | |
| Turn up like a bad penny | Something or someone disliked just won't go away | |
| Two wrongs do not make a right | If a person does something to harm or offend us, that's wrong. If we do something to harm them back, that's wrong too. | |
| Uneasy is the head that wears the crown | Notable or important people are often concerned about losing their positions. | |
| Waste not, want not | If we're careful and waste nothing we'll never go without things we need. | |
| The way to a man's heart is through his stomach | Most men love to eat so feed your husband well and he will always love you. | |
| Wear out one's welcome | One is no longer welcome, usually because he has become a nuisance | |
| When poverty comes in the door, love flies out the window | As soon as a happily married couple begin having financial problems and the bills pile up their love will disappear. | |
| Who keeps company with wolves, will learn to howl | If we associate with bad companions we, too, will become bad | |
| You pays your money and you takes your chances | A humorous way of saying that we sometimes must trust in luck when buying something. | |