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	Abilities.
1.	There are many rare abilities in the world that fortune never brings to light.
	Absence.
1.	A little absence does much good.	Fr.
2.	Absence doth but hold off a friend to make one see him the more truly.	Pope.
3.	Absence makes the heart grow fonder.	J. H. Bailey.
4.	Absence cools moderate passions but inflames violent ones.
5.	Absence of occupation is not rest, A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.	Cowper.
6.	Absence is love's foe, far from the eyes, far from the heart.	Sp.
7.	Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens.
8.	Absent or dead still let a friend be dear, A sigh the absent claim, the dead a tear.	Pope.
9.	Absent none without blame, present none without excuse.	Fr., Sp.
10.	Conspicuous by its absence.	Tacitus.
11.	Far from the eyes, far from the heart.
12.	He that is absent will not be the heir.
13.	Long absence changes friends.	Fr.
14.	Long absent soon forgotten.
15.	The absent are always in the wrong.	Fr., Dutch.
16.	The absent one will not be the heir.	Latin.
17.	Whoso absents himself his share absents itself.	Arabian.
	Absent Minded.
1.	He looks for his ass and sits upon his back.	Fr.
2.	The butcher looked for his knife while he had it in his mouth.
3.	You look for the horse you ride on.	Russian.
	Abstinence.
1.	Abstinence is the best medicine.	Tamil.
2.	Abstinence is the mother of competence.	Stilson Hutchins.
	Absurd.
1.	He calls for a shoeing horn to help on his gloves.
2.	He catches the wind with a net.
3.	He chastises the dead.
4.	He cleaves the clouds.
5.	He draws water with a sieve.	M. Greek.
6.	He gives grass to the lion—meat to the horse.	Turk.
7.	He gives straw to his dog—and bones to his ass.
8.	He hides the sun with a sieve.	M. Greek.
9.	He is building a bridge over the sea.
10.	He is making clothes for fishes.
11.	He is making ropes of sand.
12.	He numbers the waves.
13.	He ploughs the air.
14.	He pounds water in a mortar.
15.	He seeks water in the sea.
16.	He seeks wool on an ass.
17.	He sees a glow-worm and thinks it a conflagration.	Turk.
18.	He takes a spear to kill a fly.
19.	He takes oil to extinguish the fire.
20.	He tries to support an egg upon his nose.	M. Greek.
21.	To commit as many absurdities as a clown in eating an egg.
22.	To dig a well to put out a house on fire.	Tamil.
23.	To dig a well with a needle.	Turk.
24.	To drink from a colander.	Latin.
25.	To swim a river with a bridge close by.
26.	To the dog straw and to the ass bones.	M. Greek.
27.	To throw oil on the fire.	Dutch.
28.	To throw pearls before swine.
29.	To twist a rope of sand.
30.	You ask an elm tree for pears.
31.	You dance in a net and think nobody sees you.
32.	You go to a goat to buy wool.
33.	You look for hot water under the ice.
34.	You use a lantern at noon day.	Latin.
	Abundance.
1.	Abundance begets indifference.
2.	Abundance is trouble but competency brings delight.
3.	Abundance like want ruins many.
4.	Abundance maketh poor.
	Abuse.
1.	A man who is not spoken of is not abused.
2.	Are you not accustomed to look at home when you abuse others?	Plautus.
3.	He who abuses others must not be particular about the answers he gets.
	Accepting.
1.	Who accepts from another sells his freedom.	Ger.
2.	Who accepts nothing has nothing to return.	Ger.
3.	Who accepts sells himself.	Ital.
	Accident.
1.	Accident is a word not to be found in the divine vocabulary.
2.	Accident is commonly the parent of disorder.	Gibbon.
3.	No accidents are so unlucky but that the prudent may draw some advantage from them.	Rochefoucauld.
4.	Accidents do not threaten like rain.	Haytian.
5.	Nothing with God is accidental.	Longfellow.
6.	The greatest events often arise from accidents.	Greek.
	Accomplice.
1.	He sins as much who holds the bag as he who puts into it.	Fr.
2.	He that hides it is no better than he that steals.	Dan.
3.	He that holds is no better than he that scourges.	Dan.
4.	He who holds the ladder is as bad as the thief.	Ger.
5.	The accomplice is as bad as the thief.	Por.
	Accusation.
1.	Even doubtful accusations leave a stain behind them.
	Accuser.
1.	Woe be to him whose advocate becomes his accuser.
	Accusing.
1.	Accusing is proving when malice and force sit as judges.
2.	Accusing the times is only accusing yourselves.
3.	He who accuses too many accuses himself.
4.	It is honorable to be accused by those who deserve to be accused.	Latin.
	Achieving.
1.	Who faints not achieves.
	Acquaintances.
1.	The more acquaintances the more danger.
	Acquiring.
1.	That which we acquire with most difficulty we retain the longest.	Colton.
	Action.
1.	Act honestly and act boldly.	Dan.
2.	Action is eloquence and the eyes of the ignorant more learned than the ear.	Shaks.
3.	Action is the proper fruit of knowledge.
4.	Action must be founded on knowledge.	Bea.
5.	Actions measured by time, seldom prove bitter by repentance.
6.	Act so in the valley that you need not fear those who stand on the hill.	Dan.
7.	Brave actions never want a trumpet.
8.	Good actions carry their warrant with them.
9.	Great and good are the actions done by many whose worth is never known.	Hans Andersen.
10.	For the sake of one good action a hundred evil ones should be forgotten.	Chinese.
11.	Men boast of their great actions but they are oftener the effect of chance than design. Men's actions are not to be judged of at first sight.	Rochefoucauld.
12.	Only the actions of the great smell sweet and blossom in the dust.
13.	That action is best which procures the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers.	Hutchinson.
14.	'Tis not the action but the intention that is good or bad.
15.	'Tis not your posterity, but your actions, that will perpetuate your memory.
16.	We should consult three things in all our actions, justice, honesty and utility.
	Action (United).
1.	By the hands of many a great work is made light.
2.	By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.
3.	Three helping one another bear the burthen of six.
4.	Three if they unite against a town will ruin it.	Arabian.
5.	Weak things united become strong.
	Advancing.
1.	He who does not advance recedes.	Latin.
2.	Not to advance is to recede.
	Advantage.
1.	A finger's length in a sword and a palm in a lance are a great advantage.	Dan.
2.	Advantage is a better soldier than rashness.
3.	Every advantage has its disadvantage.	Latin.
	Adversity.
1.	Adversity borrows its sharpest stings from our impatience.	Bishop Horne.
2.	Adversity flattereth no man.
3.	Adversity has no friends.	Tacitus.
4.	Adversity is easier borne than prosperity forgot.
5.	Adversity is not without comfort and hopes.	Bacon.
6.	Adversity is the parent of virtue.	Plutarch.
7.	Adversity is the true scale to weigh friends in.
8.	Adversity makes men, prosperity monsters.	Fr.
9.	Adversity makes wise though not rich.
10.	Adversity may suspend our fondness for life but a single glance from prosperity recalls it.
11.	Adversity often leads to prosperity.
12.	Adversity reminds men of religion.	Livy.
13.	Adversity, sage useful guest, severe instructor but the best.	Somerville.
14.	Adversity successfully overcome is the highest glory.
15.	Adversity's sweet milk philosophy.	Shaks.
16.	Adversity tries virtue.	Arabian.
17.	Adversity willingly undergone is the highest glory.
18.	Adversity will not last forever.
19.	He that was never acquainted with adversity has seen the world but one side and is ignorant of half the scenes of nature.	Seneca.
20.	He who does not tire tires adversity.	Fr.
21.	He who swells in prosperity will shrink in adversity.
22.	In prosperity caution, in adversity patience.	Por.
23.	It is more difficult for a man to behave well in prosperity than adversity.	Rochefoucauld.
24.	Many can bear adversity but few contempt.
25.	Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which like the toad ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.	Shaks.
26.	There is no education like adversity.	Bea.
	Advice, Advisers, Advising.
1.	Advice after mischief is like medicine after death.	Dan.
2.	Advice given in the midst of a crowd is loathsome.	Arabian.
3.	Advice is not a popular thing to give.
4.	Advice is not compulsion.	Ger.
5.	Advice like water takes the form of the vessel it is poured into.	Punch.
6.	Advice should precede the act.	Ger.
7.	Advice to a fool goes in at one ear and out at the other.	Dan.
8.	Advice to all, security for none.
9.	Advice whispered is not worth a pea.	Sp.
10.	Advise no one to go to the wars or to marry.	Sp.
11.	Advise not what is most pleasant, but what is most useful.	Solon.
12.	Advisers are not givers.	Dutch.
13.	Advisers are not the payers.	Fr.
14.	Advising is easier than helping.	Ger.
15.	Advising is often better than fighting.	Ger.
16.	A good advice is as good as an eye in the hand.	Fr.
17.	Ask advice of your equals, help of your superiors.	Dan.
18.	Good advice can be given, a good name cannot be given.	Turk.
19.	He asks advice in vain who will not follow it.	Fr.
20.	He who follows his own advice must take the consequences.	Sp.
21.	He who will not take advice gets knowledge when trouble overtakes him.	Kaffir.
22.	He who will not take advice, will have to buy dear repentance.
23.	He who won't be advised can't be helped.	Ger.
24.	If you wish good advice consult an old man.
25.	It is better to seek advice at the beginning than the end.	Ger.
26.	It is easy to give advice when all goes well.	Ital.
27.	Less advice and more hands.	Ger.
28.	Let the meritorious and defective mutually advise.	Hindoo.
29.	Man gives nothing so willingly as advice.
30.	Many persons take advice as they do physic, to fling aside the moment the doctor's back is turned.	Punch.
31.	Never advise a man to go to the wars nor to marry.	Sp.
32.	Never give advice unasked.	Ger.
33.	No advice like a father's.
34.	Nothing is given so freely as advice.	Fr.
35.	One piece of good advice is better than a bag full.	Dan.
36.	Out of evils advice is easy.	M. Greek.
37.	Take advice of a red-bearded man and begone.	Dan.
38.	The advice of many persons is requisite in great affairs.	Coke.
39.	The worst men often give the best advice.	Bailey.
40.	There is nothing we receive so reluctantly as advice.	Spectator.
41.	Though old and wise be still advised.
42.	To prescribe physic for the dead and advice to the old is the same thing.	Diogenes.
43.	We are casting our words in a leaky cask. (Throwing away our advice.)	Plautus.
44.	We may give advice but we cannot give conduct.	Franklin.
45.	We receive nothing with such reluctance as advice.	Latin.
46.	We should never be too proud to take advice even from the lowly.	Ger.
47.	Whatever advice you give, be short.	Horace.
48.	When a thing is done advice comes too late.	Fr.
49.	When advice will not correct the rod will not.	M. Greek.
50.	When error is committed good advice comes too late.	Chinese.
51.	When the rabbit has escaped comes advice.	Sp.
52.	When they tell you you are drunk hold by the wall and go on. (Take advice.)	M. Greek.
53.	When things go well it is easy to advise.	Dutch.
54.	Worthless is the advice of fools.	Latin.
55.	Write down the advice of him that loves you though you like it not at present.
	Affairs.
1.	Affairs are lost when one stands looking at another.	M. Greek.
2.	Affairs like salt fish ought to be a good while a soaking.
3.	Affairs sleep soundly when fortune is present.	Ger.
4.	Affairs that are done by degrees are soon ended.
5.	Make your affairs known in the market place and one will call them black and another white.	Sp.
6.	One cannot manage too many affairs: Literal: Like pumpkins in the water, one pops up while you pop down the other.	Chinese.
	Affectation.
1.	Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than small-pox.
2.	Affected superiority mars good fellowship.
	Affection.
1.	Affection is the broadest basis of a good life.	George Eliot.
2.	Our domestic affections are the most salutary basis of all good government.	Bea.
3.	Instinctive, unlike rational affection, has no favorite.	Bulwer.
	Affliction.
1.	Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue.
2.	Affliction like the iron-smith shapes as it smites.
3.	Afflictions are the best blessings in disguise.
4.	Afflictions are the good man's shining time.	Emmons.
5.	Afflictions are the good man's treasure.	Dodd.
6.	Affliction's sons are brothers in distress. A brother to relieve how exquisite the bliss.	Burns.
7.	Are afflictions aught but mercies in disguise?	Mallet.
8.	Nothing would be more unhappy than a man that had not known affliction.	Demetrius.
9.	One affliction is better than a thousand exhortations.	Turk.
10.	The afflicted person is sacred.	Ovid.
11.	The angels of affliction spread their toils alike for the virtuous and the wicked, for the mighty and the mean.	Dr. Johnson.
12.	The best remedy of affliction is submitting to Providence.
13.	There is mercy in affliction's smart. It heals those wounds of sin which mock all human art.	Canter.
	Africa.
1.	Africa always brings something new.	Latin.
	Age.
1.	Age is a sorry travelling companion.	Dan.
2.	Age is venerable in man and would be in woman if ever she became old.	Punch.
3.	Age makes many a man white but not better.	Dan.
4.	Few persons know how to be old.
5.	Good-morrow, spectacles; farewell, lasses.	Fr.
6.	Gray beard and red lip seldom remain good friends.	Ger.
7.	He that would be long an old man must begin early to be one.	Spectator.
8.	He that would be old long must begin betimes.	Por.
9.	He wrongs not an old man who steals his supper from him.
10.	In telling the age of another, multiply by two; in telling your own, divide by two.	Punch.
11.	It has been a great misfortune to many a one that he lived too long.
12.	It is difficult to grow old gracefully.
13.	It is the common failing of old men to attribute all wisdom to themselves.	Fielding.
14.	Let me play the fool. With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.	Shaks.
15.	Most old men are like old trees, past bearing themselves, will suffer no young plants to flourish beneath them.	Pope.
16.	No man is so old but thinks he may live another day.	Pythagoras.
17.	No old age agreeable but that of a wise man.
18.	Old age brings companions with it.	Ger.
19.	Old age comes uncalled.	Ger.
20.	Old age is a troublesome guest.	Ger.
21.	Old age is honorable.
22.	Old age has deformities enough of its own, do not add the deformity of vice.	Cato.
23.	Old age itself is a disease.	Terence.
24.	Old age, though despised, is coveted by all.
25.	Old men are twice children.
26.	Old men do not readily form friendships because they are not easily susceptible of pleasure.	Aristotle.
27.	Old men who have loved young company have been of long life.	Bacon.
28.	Old people see best in the distance.	Ger.
29.	Poverty and age suit very ill together.	Burke.
30.	Save for the man on the white horse. (For old age.)
31.	Secure the three things, virtue, wealth and happiness, they will serve as a staff in old age.	Tamil.
32.	The old have every day something new.	Ger.
33.	The old man who dances furnishes the devil fine sport.	Ger.
34.	The old man who is loved is winter with flowers.	Ger.
35.	The old man's counsel is half deed.	Ger.
36.	The old man's staff is the rapper at death's door.
37.	The oldest man that ever lived died at last.	Gaelic.
38.	'Tis late ere an old man comes to know he is old.
39.	What the old man does is always right.	Hans Andersen.
40.	When an old man cannot drink prepare his grave.	Sp.
41.	When an old man dances he raises a great dust.	Ger.
42.	When an old man plays tenpins the balls make a great clatter.	Ger.
43.	When men grow old they become more foolish and more wise.	Fr.
44.	When old men are not upright they teach their sons and grandsons to be rogues.	Chinese.
45.	Who honors not age is unworthy of it.
	Youth, Age.
1.	A worm is in the bud of youth and at the root of age.	Cowper.
2.	A young man negligent, an old man necessitous.
3.	Action from youth, advice from middle age, prayers from the aged.	Hesiod.
4.	Age but tastes, youth devours.	Dryden.
5.	Better eat gray bread in your youth than in your age.	Scotch.
6.	Better poor, young and wise, than rich, old and a fool.	Ger.
7.	Better under the beard of the old than the whip of the young.	Polish.
8.	Consult with the old and fence with the young.	Ger.
9.	Crabbed age and youth cannot live together.	Shaks.
10.	Heavy work in youth is quiet rest in old age.	Ger.
11.	He that corrects not youth controls not age.	Fr.
12.	If the young knew, if the old man could, there is nothing but would be done.	Ital.
13.	If you lie upon roses when young, you'll lie upon thorns when old.
14.	If youth knew what age would crave, It would both get and save.
15.	Intemperate youth ends in an age imperfect and unsound.	Denham.
16.	In the lexicon of youth which fate reserves for a bright manhood there is no such word as fail.	Bulwer.
17.	It is hard to put old heads on young shoulders.
18.	It is less painful to learn in youth than to be ignorant in age.
19.	No one so old that he may not live a year, none so young but he may die to-day.	Ger.
20.	Of young men die many, of old escape not any.
21.	Old age is a tyrant which forbids the pleasures of youth on pain of death.	Rochefoucauld.
22.	Old boys have playthings as well as young ones, the difference is only in the price.	Franklin.
23.	Old head and young hand.
24.	Old men for counsel, young men for war.
25.	Old men go to death, but death comes to young men.
26.	Old men when they scorn young, make much of death.
27.	Old young and old long.
28.	Reckless youth makes rueful age.	Scotch.
29.	The aged in council, the young in action.	Dan.
30.	The blunders of youth are preferable to the triumphs of manhood or the success of old age.	Bea.
31.	The old effect more by counsel than the young by action.	Ger.
32.	The old for want of ability and the young for want of knowledge let things be lost.	Sp.
33.	The old forget, the young don't know.	Ger.
34.	The old have death before their face, the young behind their backs.	Ger.
35.	The old man at home and the young abroad lie after the same fashion.	Sp.
36.	The old ones sing, the young ones pipe.
37.	The old see better behind than the young before.	Ger.
38.	The warnings of age are the weapons of youth.
39.	The young are slaves to novelty, the old to custom.
40.	The young man's wrath is like straw of fire, But like red hot steel is the old man's ire.	Byron.
41.	The young may die, the old must die.	Ger., Dutch.
42.	They who would be young when they are old, must be old when they are young.
43.	We expiate in old age the follies of our youth.	Latin.
44.	What youth learns age does not forget.	Dan.
45.	When old age is evil youth can learn no good.
46.	Where the old are foolish the child learns folly.	Ger.
47.	Who follow not virtue in youth cannot fly sin in old age.	Ital.
48.	Who would be young in age, must in youth be sage.	Ger.
49.	Young folk, silly folk, old folk, cold folk.	Dutch.
50.	Young men soon give and soon forget affronts, old age is slow at both.	Byron.
51.	Young men's knocks, old men feel.
52.	Young people must be taught, old ones be honored.	Dan.
53.	Young men are made wise, old men become so.
54.	Young men should be learners when old men are actors.
55.	Young men think old men are fools, and old men know young men to be so.
56.	Youth is a garland of roses, age is a crown of thorns.	Hebrew.
57.	Youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, old age a regret.	Bea.
	Agree.
1.	They agree like bells, they want nothing but hanging.
2.	They agree like cats and dogs.
3.	They agree like harp and harrow.
4.	They agree like the clocks of London.
5.	They agree like pickpockets in a fair.
6.	Where they do agree on the stage their unanimity is wonderful.	Sheridan.
	Ague.
1.	A quartan ague kills old men and heals young.
2.	Agues come on horseback but go away on foot.
3.	An ague in spring is physic for a king.
	Air.
1.	Foul air slays like a sword.	Dr. Angus Smith.
2.	It is a great act of life to sell air well.
3.	The air of a window is as the stroke of a cross-bow.
	Alchemist.
1.	Beware of a poor alchemist.	Ital.
2.	The foolish alchemist sought to make gold of iron and made iron of gold.	Ital.
	Alchemy.
1.	It is approved alchemy to have an income and spend nothing.	Sp., Por.
	Ale.
1.	Ale sellers should na be tale tellers.
2.	Ale that would make a cat to speak.
3.	Good ale is meat, drink and cloth.
4.	He mends like sour ale in summer.
5.	He that buys land buys many stones, He that buys flesh buys many bones. He that buys eggs buys many shells, But he that buys good ale buys nothing else.
	Alexander.
1.	Alexander himself was once a crying babe.
2.	Alexander was below a man when he affected to be a god.
	“All But.”
1.	“All but” saves many a man.	Dan.
	“Almost.”
1.	“Almost” kills no man.	Dan.
2.	“Almost” never killed a fly.	Ger.
3.	“Almost” was never hanged.
	Alms.
1.	A friar who asks alms for God's sake begs for two.	Sp.
2.	Alms are the golden key that opens the gates of heaven.
3.	Alms are the salt of riches.	Hebrew.
4.	Alms do not empty the purse and a mass does not exhaust a day's duty.	Dan.
5.	Almsgiving never made a man poor, nor robbery rich, nor prosperity wise.
6.	Almsgiving secures heavenly bliss.	Tamil.
7.	Better give nothing than stolen alms.	Ger.
8.	Give not thy alms to the poor with grudging.	Phyoclides, 540 years before Christ.
9.	Give not your alms to a sound limbed beggar.	M. Greek.
10.	Giving alms never lessens the purse.	Sp.
11.	He steals a goose and gives the giblets in alms.
12.	He who gives alms makes the best use of his money.
13.	He who gives alms should do it with discretion.	Cing.
14.	It is small alms one beggar gives to another.	Ger.
15.	No one becomes poor through giving alms.	Ital.
16.	Steal a pig and give the trotters for God's sake.	Sp.
17.	Steal my goose and stick me down a feather.
18.	The door that is not opened to him who begs our alms will be opened to the physician.
19.	The little alms are the good alms.	Fr.
20.	To give alms is better than to take alms.	Ger.
	Altar.
1.	Who lives by the altar must serve the altar.	Ger.
	Ambergris.
1.	Many stop their noses at Ambergris.	Ital.
	Ambition.
1.	All are desirous to win the prize.
2.	Ambition has no rest.	Bulwer.
3.	Ambition hath one heel nailed in hell, Though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.	Lilly.
4.	Ambition is as hollow as the soul of an echo.
5.	Ambition is no cure for love.	Scott.
6.	Ambition is the last infirmity of noble minds.
7.	Ambition is the mind's immodesty.	Davenant.
8.	Ambition is the soldier's virtue.	Shaks.
9.	Ambition is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.	Beecher.
10.	Ambition is torment enough for an enemy.
11.	Ambition knows no gorge but the grave.	Carl Seelbach.
12.	Ambition like a torrent ne'er looks back.	Ben Jonson.
13.	Ambition, thou powerful source of good or ill.	Young.
14.	Blind ambition quite mistakes her road.	Young.
15.	Blood only serves to wash ambition's hands.	Byron.
16.	Black ambition stains a public cause.	Pope.
17.	By jumping at the stars you may fall in the mud.
18.	Climb not too high lest the fall be the greater.
19.	Earth's worst tempters, gold and ambition.	Bulwer.
20.	Fling away ambition, by that sin fell the angels.	Shaks.
21.	He cannot see the river, his heart is set on leaping the dragon gate.	Chinese.
22.	He has gone in search of the (fabulous) birds of the sea.(Said of an ambitious person.)	Kaffir.
23.	He that cuts above himself will get splinters in his eye.
24.	He that heweth above his height may have a chip in his eye.
25.	He who would rise in the world should veil his ambition with the forms of humanity.	Chinese.
26.	He would fain fly but wants feathers.
27.	He would open his hand in order to grasp the moon in the heavens, he would plunge into the sea to grasp leviathan.	Chinese.
28.	In heaven ambition cannot dwell, Nor avarice in the vaults of hell.	Southey.
29.	It is a mean ambition to be the 'squire of the company.
30.	Proud ambition is but a beggar.	Daniel.
31.	The trap to the high born is ambition.
32.	There is no eel so small but it hopes to become a whale.	Ger.
33.	There is no fir tree so small it does not expect to become a cedar.	Ger.
34.	There is nothing humbler than ambition when it is about to climb.	Franklin.
35.	Thriftless ambition, that wilt ravin up Thine own life's means.	Shaks.
36.	To take ambition from a soldier is to rob him of his spurs.
37.	Vaulting ambition o'erleaps itself.	Shaks.
	Amends.
1.	It argues an ignorant mind where we have wronged to higgle and dodge in the amends.	Hale.
	Amnesty.
1.	Amnesty, that noble word, the genuine dictate of wisdom.	Chinese.
	Amusement.
1.	Amusement to an observing mind is study.	Bea.
	Ancestors.
1.	To forget one's ancestors, is to be a brook without a source, a tree without a root.	Chinese.
	Anchor.
1.	“Allah is Allah, but I have two anchors astern.” (Turkish admiral speaking to Lady Hester Stanhope.)
2.	Good riding at two anchors, for if one break the other may hold.
3.	He is like the anchor that is always in the sea yet does not learn to swim.	Ital.
4.	It is best to trust to two anchors.	Latin.
	Angel.
1.	Angel visits, few and far between.	Campbell.
2.	Angels are bright still though the brightest fell.	Shaks.
3.	Angels hear the humblest human cry.	Bulwer.
4.	Like angel's visits, few and far between.
5.	They talk like angels but live like men.	Dr. Johnson.
6.	Write on the devil's horns “good angel,” and many will believe it.
	Anger.
1.	A hasty man never wants woe.
2.	A man in a passion rides a horse that runs away with him.
3.	A man is a stark fool all the while he is angry.
4.	A state's anger should not take knowledge either of fools or women.	Ben Jonson.
5.	An angry man cannot see right.	Ger.
6.	An angry man heeds no counsel.	Por.
7.	An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason.	Syrus.
8.	An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.	Cato.
9.	An irritable and passionate man is a downright drunkard.	Sp.
10.	Anger and haste hinder good counsel.
11.	Anger and love give bad counsel.
12.	Anger assists hands however weak.	Ovid.
13.	Anger begins with folly and ends with repentance.	Pythagoras.
14.	Anger cannot stand without a strong hand.
15.	Anger dieth quickly with a good man.
16.	Anger edges valor.
17.	Anger ends in cruelty.	Tamil.
18.	Anger first and pity afterwards.	Tamil.
19.	Anger increases love.	Ital.
20.	Anger is a short madness.	Dutch.
21.	Anger is a sworn enemy.
22.	Anger is as useless as the waves of the ocean without wind.	Chinese.
23.	Anger is often more hurtful than the injury that caused it.
24.	Anger is one of the sinews of the soul.	Fuller.
25.	Anger is the fever and frenzy of the soul.
26.	Anger is to be avoided in inflicting punishment.	Cicero.
27.	Anger last of all becomes old.	M. Greek.
28.	Anger makes a rich man hated and a poor man scorned.
29.	Anger manages everything badly.	Statius.
30.	Anger may glance into the breast of a wise man, but rests only in the bosom of fools.
31.	Anger occasioned by a trifle may extend to the sky before it ceases.
32.	Anger punishes itself.	Tamil.
33.	Anger rendereth the man insane and the prophet dumb.	Hebrew.
34.	Anger resteth in the bosom of fools.	Bible.
35.	Anger without power is folly.	Ger.
36.	Base terms are bellows to a slackening fire.
37.	Be master of thy anger.	Periander of Corinth.
38.	Be not choleric, it will make you look old.
39.	Dread the anger of the dove.
40.	He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.	Plato.
41.	He looks as angry as if he were vexed.	Irish.
42.	He overcomes a stout enemy who overcomes his own anger.	Chilo.
43.	He that can reply calmly to an angry man is too hard for him.
44.	He that is angry is seldom at ease.
45.	He that is angry without a cause, must be pleased without amends.
46.	He who has been angry becomes cool again.	M. Greek.
47.	He who overcomes his anger subdues his greatest enemy.	Syrus.
48.	If you be angry you may turn the buckle of your girdle behind you.
49.	Ruling one's anger well is not so good as preventing it.
50.	Striking and not making it felt is anger lost.
51.	Take this remark from Richard, poor and lame, Whate'er is begun in anger ends in shame.	Franklin.
52.	That anger is not warrantable that has seen two suns.
53.	The anger of a good man is the hardest to bear.	Syrus.
54.	The discretion of a man deferreth his anger and it is glory to overlook a transgression.	Bible.
55.	The pain of anger punishes the fault.	Homer.
56.	The physician of anger is reason.	M. Greek.
57.	The sun should never set on our anger.
58.	There is not in nature a thing that makes a man so deformed, so beastly, as intemperate anger.	John Webster.
59.	To be angry is to punish myself for another's fault.
60.	Two things a man should never be angry at: What he can help, and what he cannot help.
61.	Two to one in all things against the angry man.
62.	We all know that anger cannot look at anger without laughing.	Buckminster.
63.	When a man grows angry his reason rides out.
64.	When anger rushes unrestrained to action, like a hot mettled steed, it stumbles on its way.	Savage.
65.	When angry, count ten; when very angry, a hundred.	Jefferson.
	Angler, Angling.
1.	All that are lovers of virtue, be quiet and go angling.	Izaak Walton.
2.	Always keep your hook in the water, where you least expect one the fish will be found.	Ovid.
3.	An angler eats more than he gets.
4.	Angling is somewhat like poetry, men must be born so.	Izaak Walton.
5.	No angler can be a good man.	Byron.
6.	To angle with a silver hook.
	Annoyances.
1.	He puts up with small annoyances to gain great results.	Latin.
	Another's.
1.	What is another's always pines for its master.	Sp., Por.
	Answer.
1.	A sober man—a soft answer.
2.	A soft answer bids a furioso to put up his sword.
3.	A soft answer is a specific cure for anger.	Ger.
4.	A soft answer turneth away wrath.	Bible.
5.	No answer is also an answer.	Dan.
6.	Not all words require an answer.	Ital.
7.	The shortest answer is doing the thing.
8.	There is no answer for, “Get out of my house,” and, “What do you want with my wife?”	Sp.
9.	To answer one in his own language.
10.	Who answers for another pays.	Fr.
11.	Who answers suddenly knows little.
	Ant.
1.	A cocoanut-shell full of water is an ocean to an ant.	Tamil.
2.	An emmet (ant) may work its heart out, but cannot make honey.
3.	Ants never bend their course to an empty granary. No friend will visit departed wealth.	Ovid.
4.	Even an emmet may seek revenge.
5.	Even an ant is eight spans long as measured by its own hand.	Tamil.
6.	None preaches better than the ant, and she says nothing.	Franklin.
7.	The ant has wings to its hurt.	Don Quixote.
8.	What would the ant do if it had the head of a bull.	Ger.
	Ancients, Antiquity.
1.	All that is ancient is beautiful. All that is rich is wise.	M. Greek.
2.	Ancient time was the youth of the world.	Bacon.
3.	Antiquity cannot privilege an error, nor novelty prejudice a truth.
4.	Antiquity is not always a mark of verity.
5.	The living shun modern perfection for mouldering antiques.	Scribleomania.
6.	We extol the productions of the ancients but are wholly unmindful of contemporary merit.	Tacitus.
	Anvil.
1.	The anvil fears no blows.
2.	The anvil is used to noise.
3.	When many strike upon an anvil they must strike by measure.
	Anvil, Hammer.
1.	A good anvil does not fear the hammer.	Ital.
2.	If the hammer strikes hard the anvil lasts the longer.
3.	If thou art an anvil then suffer: if a hammer, then strike.	Roumanian.
4.	If you are an anvil be patient; if you are a hammer strike hard.	Ger.
5.	It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.	Fr.
6.	One must be either anvil or hammer.
7.	Some men are born anvils, some are born hammers.
8.	The anvil lasts longer than the hammer.	Ital.
9.	When you are an anvil bear, when you are a hammer strike.	Sp.
	Ape.
1.	An ape may chance to sit among the doctors.
2.	An ape's an ape, a varlet's a varlet, Though he be dressed in silk or scarlet.
3.	An ape's an ape, though he wear a gold ring.
4.	An ape is ne'er so like an ape, As when he wears a doctor's cape.
5.	An old ape hath an old eye.
6.	An old ape never made a pretty grimace.	Fr.
7.	As fond of it as an ape is of a ball or whip.
8.	The ape claspeth her young so long that at last she killeth them.
9.	The higher the ape climbs the more he shows his bald haunches.	Fr., Ger.
	Aphorisms.
1.	Aphorisms are portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feeling.	W. R. Alger.
	Apothegms.
1.	Apothegms are the most infallible mirror to represent a man truly what he is.	Plutarch.
	Appear, Appearance.
1.	A grave and majestic outside is as it were the palace of the soul.	Chinese.
2.	A man is not always known by his looks, nor is the sea measured with a bushel.	Chinese.
3.	Always appear what you are and a little below it.	M. Greek.
4.	Anxious about the shoe but disregarding the foot. (Careful about external appearance but regardless of the culture of the mind.)
5.	Appearances are deceitful.	Ger.
6.	Be what you appear to be.	Latin.
7.	Be what you seem to be.
8.	Do not always judge by appearances.	La Fontaine.
9.	There is no trusting to appearances.	Latin.
10.	What wretched shifts are they obliged to make use of who would support the appearance of a fortune they have not.	Fielding.
	Appetite.
1.	A good appetite does not want sauce.	Ital.
2.	Appetite comes with eating.	Fr., Ital.
3.	He who cheats his appetite avoids debt.	Chinese.
4.	Let appetite yield to reason.
5.	New dishes beget new appetites.
6.	No sauce like appetite.	Fr.
7.	The cattle know when to leave their pasture, but a foolish man knows not the measure of his own appetite.	Hans Andersen.
8.	Where reason rules appetite obeys.
	Applause.
1.	Applause is the root of abuse.	Japanese.
2.	Applause is the spur of noble minds.
3.	Mankind bestows more applause on her destroyers than her benefactors.	Gibbon.
4.	Men seek less to be instructed than applauded.
5.	The applause of the people is a blast of air.
	Application.
1.	It is for want of application rather than of means that men fail of success.	Rochefoucauld.
	April.
1.	A cold April bread and wine.	Sp.
2.	A cold April the barn will fill.
3.	April flood carries away the frog and her brood.
4.	April and May are the key of all the year.
5.	April borrows three days from March and they are ill.
6.	April cling good for nothing.
7.	April showers bring forth May flowers.
8.	The first day of April you may send a fool whither you will.
	Archer.
1.	A good archer is not known by his arrow but his aim.
2.	If you have no arrows in your quiver go not with archers.	Ger.
3.	The archer that shoots badly has a lie ready.	Sp., Por.
	Architect.
1.	One may live in a house without being an architect.	Goethe.
2.	The name of the architect who builds most of the castles in the air is “to-morrow,” and hope lays the foundation.	Punch.
	Architecture.
1.	Architecture is frozen music.	Mme de Stael.
	Argument.
1.	Argument makes three enemies to one friend.
2.	Argument seldom convinces any one against his inclination.
3.	The arguments of the strongest have always the most weight.	Fr.
4.	When either side grows warm with argument the wisest man gives over first.
	Arms.
1.	Arms and money require good hands.	Sp.
2.	Arms carry peace.	Ital.
3.	Arms, women, and books should be looked at daily.	Dutch.
4.	Let arms give place to the gown.	Cicero.
5.	Let arms revere the robe, the warrior's laurel yield to the palm of eloquence.	Cicero.
6.	The frailty of noble minds is love of arms and military glory.	Gibbon.
	Army.
1.	A headless army fights badly.	Dan.
2.	The army that comes off best loses some.
3.	What's an army without a general?
	Arrogance.
1.	Arrogance is a weed that grows mostly on a dunghill.
2.	Arrogance is the obstruction of wisdom.	Bion.
3.	Supple knees feed arrogance.
	Arrow.
1.	A man does not use one finger to take out an arrow.	Calabar.
2.	Not every sort of wood is fit to make an arrow.	Fr.
3.	One arrow does not bring down two birds.	Turk.
4.	The polished surface throws back the arrow.
5.	When the arrow is in the spring it must go.	Chinese.
6.	Why blame the arrow letting the archer go free?	Tamil.
	Art, Artist.
1.	A man may be an artist though he have not his tools about him.
2.	A thousand artisans a thousand plans.	Chinese.
3.	An artist lives everywhere.
4.	An art requires a whole man.	Fr.
5.	Art and hope are twin brothers and they die together.	Maga.
6.	Art and knowledge bring bread and honor.	Dan.
7.	Art helps nature and experience art.
8.	Art holds fast when all else is lost.	Ger.
9.	Art is art even though unsuccessful.	Dan.
10.	Art is long—life is short.
11.	Art is power.	Longfellow.
12.	Art may err but nature cannot miss.	Dryden.
13.	Art must be deluded by art.
14.	By deceit and art men live half a year, and by art and deceit the other half.
15.	He that sips many arts drinks none.
16.	He tries to match a grace beyond the reach of art.	Dutch.
17.	He who has an art has everywhere a part.	Ital.
18.	It is a poor art that maintains not the artisan.	Ital.
19.	The perfection of art is to conceal art.	Quintillian.
20.	To whiten ivory by ink is to spoil nature by art.	Latin.
	Arts.
1.	By hammer and hand all arts do stand.
	Ashes.
1.	A man never appreciates ashes until he slips on the ice.
2.	Ashes always fly back in the face of him that throws them.	Yoruba.
3.	Ashes are medicine for the sores of a bull.	Tamil.
4.	Under white ashes are often glowing embers.	Ital., Dan.
	Asking.
1.	A gude asker should hae a good nay—say.
2.	Ask for an inch and take an ell.
3.	Ask me no questions and I'll tell you no fibs.	Goldsmith.
4.	Ask my chum if I am a thief.
5.	Ask my comrade who is as great a liar as myself.	Fr.
6.	Ask not after a good man's pedigree.	Sp.
7.	Ask the host if he have good wine.	Ital.
8.	Ask the mother if the child be like the father.
9.	Ask the seller if the ware be bad.
10.	Ask the sick man if he wishes for a bed.	Turk.
11.	Ask which was born first the hen or the egg.	Ital.
12.	Asking costs little.	Ital.
13.	Better ask than go astray.	Ital.
14.	Better ask twice than lose your way once.	Dan., Ger.
15.	Do not ask which is the right way from a blind man.	Ger.
16.	He denies himself who asks what it is impossible to grant.
17.	He that asketh faintly beggeth a denial.
18.	He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning.	Dan.
19.	He'll never get a pennyworth that is afraid to ask the price.
20.	Lose nothing for asking.
21.	Never ask of him who has, but of him who wishes you well.	Sp.
	Ass.
1.	A braying ass eats little hay.	Ital.
2.	A dull ass near home needs no spur.
3.	A goaded ass must needs trot.	Fr., Ital.
4.	A living ass is better than a dead doctor.	Ital.
5.	A low ass is easy to ride on.	Turk.
6.	A thistle is a fat salad for an ass's mouth.
7.	All asses do not go on four feet.	Ger.
8.	All asses have not long ears.	Ger.
9.	An ass covered with gold is more respected than a good horse with a pack saddle.
10.	An ass does not hit himself twice against the same stone.	Dutch.
11.	An ass is but an ass though laden with gold.
12.	An ass is cold even in the summer solstice.
13.	An ass is the gravest beast, an owl the gravest bird.
14.	An ass let him be who brays at an ass.
15.	An ass loaded with gold climbs to the top of a castle.
16.	An ass must be tied where the master will have him.
17.	An ass's tail will not make a sieve.	Ital.
18.	An ass that carries a load is better than a lion that devours men.
19.	An ass that kicketh against the wall receiveth the blow himself.
20.	An ass to an ass is a beauty.	Latin.
21.	An ass's trot does not last long.	Ital.
22.	An ass was never cut out for a lap-dog.
23.	An ass with her colt goes straight to the mill.	Sp.
24.	Asses' bridge.	The fifth proposition of Euclid.
25.	Asses carry the oats and horses eat them.	Dutch.
26.	Asses die and wolves bury them.
27.	Asses must not be tied up with horses.	Fr.
28.	Asses sing badly because they pitch their voices too high.	Ger.
29.	Asses that bray most eat least.
30.	Better an ass that carries me than a horse that throws me.	Ger., Por.
31.	Better be killed by robbers than by the kick of asses.	Por.
32.	Better have a bad ass than be your own ass.	Sp., Por.
33.	Better strive with an ill ass than carry the wood one's self.
34.	Die not, mine ass, for the spring-time is coming and with it clover.	Turk.
35.	Either the ass will die or he that goads it.	Sp.
36.	Even an ass will not fall twice in the same quicksand.
37.	Even an ass loves to hear himself bray.
38.	For a stubborn ass a hard goad.	Fr.
39.	For a stubborn ass a stubborn driver.	Fr.
40.	For an ass buffoon is the best teacher.	Ger.
41.	Give an ass oats and he runs after thistles.	Dutch.
42.	Good, good, but God keep my ass out of his rye.	Sp.
43.	Hay is more acceptable to an ass than gold.	Latin.
44.	He that is good for something is the ass of the public.	Ital.
45.	He that makes himself an ass must not take it ill if men ride him.
46.	Horses run after benefices and asses get them.	Fr.
47.	If any one say that one of thine ears is the ear of an ass regard it not; if he say so of them both procure thyself a bridle.
48.	If one, two, three say you are an ass put on a bridle.	Sp.
49.	It is better to strive with a stubborn ass than to carry the wood on one's back.	Sp.
50.	Lay the burden on the slow-paced ass.	Latin.
51.	Make yourself an ass and every one will lay a sack on you.	Ger.
52.	Many guests matter little to the ass of the inn.	Wolofs.—(Africa.)
53.	Nothing passes between asses but kicks.	Ital.
54.	One ass among monkeys is grinned at by all.	Sp.
55.	One ass nicknames another long-ears.	Ger.
56.	One ass scratches another.	Latin.
57.	One's own ass is better than his neighbor's stallion.	Ger.
58.	Out of a little grass comes a great ass.	Ger.
59.	Put not an embroidered crupper on an ass.
60.	Rather an ass that carries than a horse that throws.	Ital.
61.	“Rough as it runs,” as the boy said when his ass kicked him.
62.	She was a neat dame that washed the ass's face.
63.	The ass and his driver do not think alike.	Ger., Dutch.
64.	The ass boasted there was no voice equal to his, And no gait equal to that of his elder sister.	Tamil.
65.	The ass brays when he pleases.
66.	The ass calls the cock big-headed.	M. Greek.
67.	The ass carries corn to the mill and gets thistles.	Ger.
68.	The ass does not know the worth of his tail until he has lost it.	Ital.
69.	The ass embraced the thistle, and they found themselves relations.	Por.
70.	The ass even eating oats dreams of thistles.	Ger.
71.	The ass is not learned though he be loaded with books.	Ger.
72.	The ass knows well in whose face he brays.	Sp.
73.	The ass loaded with gold still eats thistles.	Ger.
74.	The ass of many owners is eaten by wolves.	Sp.
75.	The ass of a king is still but an ass.	Ger.
76.	The ass that brays most eats least.
77.	The ass that carrieth wine drinketh water.
78.	The ass that is common property is always the worst saddled.
79.	The ass that is hungry eats thistles.	Por.
80.	The ass that trespasses on a stranger's premises will leave them laden with wood; i.e., well cudgelled.	Por.
81.	The ass's hide is used to the stick.	Sp.
82.	The ass's son brays one hour daily.	Por., Latin.
83.	The braying of an ass does not reach heaven.	Ital.
84.	The golden ass passes everywhere.
85.	The golden covering does not make the ass a horse.	Ger.
86.	The mountaineer's ass carries wine and drinks water.	Fr.
87.	The starving ass does not count the blows.	M. Greek.
88.	There are more asses than carry sacks.	Ital.
89.	There goes more than one ass to market.
90.	There is no ass but brays.	Turk.
91.	What good can it do an ass to be called a lion?
92.	What's the use of putting honey in an ass's mouth?	Ger.
93.	When all men say you are an ass, it is time to bray.
94.	When the ass bears too light a load, he wants to lie down.	Russian.
95.	When the ass is too happy, he begins dancing on the ice.	Dutch.
96.	Wherever an ass falleth, there will he never fall again.
97.	Wherever an ass is crowned to fame, Both town and country bear the blame.	Ger.
98.	Who is in great haste should not ride an ass.	Ger.
99.	Who would save an ass against his will?	Horace.
	Assassination.
1.	Assassination has never changed the history of the world.	Bea.
	Assertion.
1.	Assertion is no proof.	Ger.
	Assisting.
1.	In this world it is necessary that we assist one another.	La Fontaine.
	Association.
1.	A calf that goes with a pig will eat excrement.	Tamil.
2.	A wise man associating with the vicious becomes an idiot; a dog travelling with good men becomes a rational being.	Arabian.
	Atheist.
1.	An atheist is one point beyond the devil (devils, for they believe and tremble).
2.	An atheist's laugh is a poor excuse for deity offended.	Burns.
3.	By night an atheist half believes a God.	Young.
4.	Health chiefly keeps an atheist in the dark, A fever argues better than a clark.	Young.
5.	He became an infidel remaining between two mosques.	Turk.
6.	If you sit down a mere philosopher, you will rise almost an atheist.
7.	Men work themselves into an atheistical judgment by atheistical practices.	Whichcote.
8.	Some are atheists only in fair weather.
9.	When men leave religion and turn atheists, their own abilities leave them.	Massinger.
	At Last.
1.	At last all things come to be known.
2.	At last the fox turns monk.
3.	At last the foxes all meet at the furrier's.	Ital.
4.	At last the wolf's cub becomes a wolf.
	Attainable.
1.	Whatever has been attained is attainable.	Sir Wm. Jones.
	Attempting.
1.	Attempt nothing beyond your strength.	Latin.
2.	Attempt not or accomplish.	Latin.
	Auction.
1.	At an auction keep your mouth shut	Sp.
	Augur-Holes.
1.	Many men continually attempt to make augur-holes with a gimlet.	Franklin.
	Augurs.
1.	They got the ill name of augurs because they were bores.	Lowell.
	August.
1.	A wet August never brings dearth.	Ital.
2.	When it rains in August, it rains honey and wine.	Sp.
	Author.
1.	Among authors, jealousy and envy are incurable diseases.	Wharton's “Life of Pope.”
2.	Choose an author as you choose a friend.	Roscommon.
3.	Fear the worst from an enraged author.	Fr.
4.	Like author like book.
5.	Most authors steal their works or buy.	Pope.
6.	No author ever spares a brother.	John Gay.
	Avarice.
1.	Avarice and fidelity cannot dwell together in the same house.	Grimm's Fairy Tales.
2.	Avarice blinds our eyes.
3.	Avarice bursts the bag.	Fr.
4.	Avarice disposes men to fraud.
5.	Avarice increases with wealth.	Ital.
6.	Avarice is always poor, but poor by her own fault.	Johnson.
7.	Avarice is both knave and fool.	Greville.
8.	Avarice is insatiable, and is always pushing for more.	L'Estrange.
9.	Avarice is never satisfied.
10.	Avarice is the basest and most selfish of human passions.
11.	Avarice is the parent of all wickedness.	Claudianus.
12.	Avarice is the parent of evil deeds, but frugality is the sure guardian of our virtues.	Ancient Brahmin.
13.	Avarice loses all in seeking to gain all.	La Fontaine.
14.	Avarice rarely finishes its day without weeping.	La Fontaine.
15.	Avarice sheds a blasting influence over the fairest and sweetest of mankind.	Washington.
16.	Gold and silver were mingled with dirt till avarice parted them.
17.	Great honors and avarice fly one another.
18.	He would sell even his share of the sun.	Ital.
19.	If you wish to remove avarice you must remove its mother luxury.	Cicero.
20.	It is not want but abundance that makes avarice.
21.	No vice like avarice.
22.	Pour an ocean of melted gold down the throat of avarice, and it would still cry “Give, give.”	C. C. Baldwin's “Moral Maxims.”
23.	The avaricious man is always in want.	Latin.
24.	The older the colder; the more avaricious, the more vicious.	Ger.
25.	The wretch who avarice bids to pinch and spare, Starves, steals, pilfers to enrich an heir.	Franklin.
26.	When all other sins are old, avarice is still young.	Fr.
	Avenging.
1.	He who will avenge every affront means not to live long.
2.	If I had avenged every wrong, I had not worn my shirt so long.
3.	It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it.	Seneca.
4.	The avenging gods have their feet clothed in wool. (Noiseless is the approach of the avenging deities.)

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