OriginThe expression, in various forms, originated in or before the 12th-century. The original form of this phrase was ‘all that glisters is not gold’. The ‘glitters’ version long ago superseded the original and is now almost universally used.ExplanationShakespeare is the best-known writer to have expressed the idea that shiny things aren’t necessarily precious things.All that […]
OriginGeoffery Chaucer appears to have been the first person to have put the proverb into print, in The Yeoman’s Prologue and Tale, Canterbury Tales, in the year 1386.ExplanationThis proverb is often expressed with a degree of sarcasm, apparently saying something positive but in fact merely remarking on someone’s lateness. It is better to do something
Zeal when it is virtue, is a dangerous one.If passionate ardour is efficient too, then it is a dangerous situation.Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.Enthusiasm without cognition, is like a body without soul.Zeal without prudence is frenzy.Enthusiasm without intelligence is nothing bigger than temporary insanity.
Years know more than books.Books maintain not all that which is experienced by years, so years know more than books.Yelping curse will raise mastiffs.The painful cry of a dog becomes him even greater dog.As a curse, the painful crying of dog makes him a kind of bigger dog.Yesterday will not be called again.Past time never
Wage will get a page.You will get servants if you have the money to hire them.Wake not a sleeping lion.Dangers should not be invited.Wait before you hate.Think twice before hate.What maintains one vice, would bring up two children.Increases your problems.Wait and see.Have patience and look carefully.Walls have ears.One should be watchful while telling a secret.Want
Vainglory blossoms but never bears.Nobody suffers the flowers of false and empty pride.Valour can do little without discretion.Courage needs watchful prudence.Valour that parleys is near yielding.Discussions are always favourable to bravery and courage.Valour would fight, but discretion would run away.Bravery would fight but ‘bravery with watchful’ prudence make you victor.Vanity is the sixth sense.Vanity (Empty
Up the hill favour me, down the hill beware thee.One should be watchful in prosperity more than to adversity.Use makes perfectness.Practice makes perfect.Use the means and God will give the blessing.If you make bad into good, God will bless you.Under the blanket the black one is as good as the white.Nothing is different, all alike.Under
Tailors and writers must mind the fashion.It is good for both the profession because fashion changes often and they must change according to the fashion.Take a farthing from a thousand pounds, it will be a thousand pounds no longer.A Thousand pounds bill’s value is more than (fathing) small value coins of thousand pounds.Take all and
Sailor’s fingers must be all fish hooks.Sailor has to be a perfect sea-man.Salt seasons all things.Salt makes tasty all things.Salt water never gives cold.It hath of healing nature against cold.Samson was a strong man, but he could not pay money before he had it.It does not matter that how strong you are because you want
Rain before seven; fine before eleven.Rain forecast.Rather sell than be poor.Selling is a better option than to be live as a poor.Rats desert a sinking ship.Cowards run first and fast too.Raw dads make fat lads.Inexperience of fathers make stupid boys.Rise with the lark and go to the bed with the lamb.Who rises early in the
A bad bush is better than the open field.Something is always better than nothing.A bad boy sometimes makes a goodman.Time factor is great, it can change bad into good.A bad excuse is better than none.Excuse matters, not its way.A bad penny always comes back.Bad penny always denied, so goes back to his owner.A bad workman
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