English Proverbs

* A good beginning makes a good end.

* A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner.

* A stumble may prevent a fall.

* If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden; if you want to be happy for life, plant a tree.

* Adversity makes strange bedfellows.

* Every woman would rather be beautiful than good.

* All cats are grey in the dark.

* A miss is as good as a mile.

* Children and fools tell the truth.

* A ragged coat may cover an honest man.

* A good conscience is a soft pillow.

* Better to be envied than pitied.

* A man is as old as he feels.

* Use soft words and hard arguments.

* A rose by any other name would smell so sweet.

* A contented mind is a perpetual feast.

* Buy in the cheapest market and sell in the dearest.

* A thing of beauty is a joy forever.

* He who fails to study the past is doomed to repeat it.

* A stitch in time saves nine.

* Even the weariest river winds somewhere safe to sea.

* Where there's a will, there's a way.