MAXIMS & PROVERBS
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Silence is half consent.
Safe bind, safe find.
Think of the devil and there he is.
Take care of the present and tomorrow will take care of itself.
To rob Peter to pay Paul.
To blow one's own trumpet.
Tit for tat.
To carry coal to New Castle.
To kill two birds with one stone.
Two of a trade seldom agree.
To make a mountain of a  molehill.
Think before you speak.
To expect grapes out of thistle.
The bough that bears most, bends most.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
Those who live in glass houses must not throw stones at others.
There is something wrong at the bottom.
The fox preys farthest from its den.
The safest way round is the shortest way home.
Truth is ever green.
 
To err is human, to forgive Divine.
Too much familiarity breeds contempt.
To owe is woe.
The master's eye makes the mare rat.
The butcher looked for the knife when he had it in his hand.
To pose as a saint after a life of vice.
Time is a great healer.
There is many a slip between the cup and the lips.
Truth is bitter.
Truth fears no examination.
The voice of people is the voice of God.
To build castles in the air.
To cast pearls before swine.
The pot calls the kettle black.
Sweep before your own door.
The wearer alone knows where the shoe pinches.
Too many cooks spoil the broth.
Time once past, can never be recalled.
There is no smoke without fire.
Time and tide wait for none.
     
 
     
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