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 * A cheerfull wife is the spice of life.




 * A good mind possess a kingdom.


 * Meaning: Material assets are fleeting, but inellectual assets will basically stay with you for the rest of your life. Therefore, intellectual assets are much more worth than material ones.




 * A good name is the best of all treasures.




 * The apple never falls far from the tree.


 * Meaning: Children are in many regards like their parents.




 * Advice most needed is least heeded.




 * Advisers run no risks.


 * Meaning: It is easy to give advice, but hard to act.




 * All are not thieves that the dogs bark at.


 * Idiomatic translation: "All are not thieves that dogs bark at.”




 * All's fair in love and war.




 * All are not friends that speak us fair.




 * All roads lead to Rome.




 * All things come to those who wait.




 * All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.


 * Meaning: Be sure to take breakes from work and do something entertaining.




 * An army marches on its stomach.




 * March winds and April showers bring forth May flowers.


 * Meaning: Bad things brings good things.




 * As you make your bed, so you must lie in it.


 * Similar to You reap what you sow




 * A hedge between keeps friends green.


 * Meaning: It is best to have some sort of wall towards your neighbours.




 * A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.


 * Meaning: A verbal contract is completely useless.


 * Note: Originally said by Samuel Goldwyn.




 * Absence makes the heart grow fonder.


 * Meaning: When you're away from something you miss it more.


 * From Isle of Beauty by Thomas Haynes Bayly




 * Actions speak louder than words.




 * A friend in need is a friend indeed.


 * John Heywood, A Dialogue Conteynyng Prouerbes and Epigrammes (1562) has Prove thy friend ere thou have need; but, in-deed A friend is never known till a man have need.


 * All cats love fish but hate to get their paws wet.


 * Meaning: Everyone wants success but many lack the self-discipline to become successful.




 * All for one and one for all.


 * Although people associate it with Alexandre Dumas's The Three Musketeers it is much older. It is a translating of the Latin Unus pro omnibus, omnes pro uno, the motto for Switzerland.


 * All good things must come to an end.




 * All's well that ends well.


 * Title of a play by William Shakespeare


 * Variant: All is well that ends well. - Divers Proverbs, Nathan Bailey, 1721


 * All that glisters is not gold.


 * William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, act II, scene 7.


 * Often corrupted to: All that glitters is not gold.


 * A staff is quickly found to beat a dog.


 * Meaning: Someone who wants to be mean will find things to be mean about no matter what.


 * Source:


 * An apple a day keeps the doctor away.


 * Cf. Notes and Queries magazine, Feb. 24, 1866, p. 153: "Eat an apple on going to bed, // And you'll keep the doctor from earning his bread."


 * Adapted to its current form in the 1900s as a marketing slogan used by American growers concerned that the temperance movement would cut into sales of apple cider. (Michael Pollan, The Botany of Desire, Random House, 2001, ISBN 0375501290, p. 22, cf. p. 9 & 50)


 * As the old cock crows, so crows the young.


 * Meaning: Children will become like older generations.


 * Source:


 * Ask me no questions, I'll tell you no lies.


 * Cf. Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer (1773): "Ask me no questions, and I’ll tell you no fibs"


 * A rotten apple injures its companions.