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Life is just a bowl of cherries |
Life is full of happiness and pleasure |
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Like a bull in a china shop |
A clumsy or tactless person |
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Lock the stable door after the horse has bolted |
Once a mistake has been made or an error committed, it's too late to take precautions to prevent it from happening. |
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The longest day must have an end |
All difficult jobs or situations also have an end. |
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Losers weepers, finders keepers |
If someone loses something, he weeps -- but if someone finds it, he keeps it. |
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Love me, love my dog |
If we want a person's friendship we must accept him totally, faults and all. |
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Many hands make light work |
Many people sharing a job or tasks make easier work of it. |
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The mountain labors and brings forth a mouse |
To work hard and long on a project that turns out to be pretty useless. |
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Opportunity only knocks once |
Seize an opportunity when it occurs for it may never happen again. |
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An ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure |
It is even better to be cautious and prevent a misfortune or an accident from happening. |
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Possession is nine points of the law |
In disputes over property ownership, the person in possession of something is sometimes said to have nine-tenths a chance of winning it in a legal argument |
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Promises are like pie crust |
Most promises cannot be kept |
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Put a quart into a pint pot |
Doing something that's impossible | |
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The rain falls on the just and the unjust alike |
No matter how good or bad a person, he must still face the everyday problems that confront us all. | |
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The sins of the fathers will be visited upon the children |
People will be punished for the wrongs committed by their parents, forefathers, or those who have preceded them. | |
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Someone's bark is worse than his bite |
People sometimes bark but in time we learn they're not always as frightening as they seem. | |
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The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak |
To do something unworthy just because it gives you the pleasure | |
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A stitch in time saves nine |
By taking immediate action we can prevent a fault, damage or trouble from getting worse | |
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A straw will show which way the wind blows |
A small incident can reveal an important event | |
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Teach an old dog new tricks |
It is impossible to change someone's ways or habits, especially if he is old and resists change | |
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That's where the shoe pinches |
That's the source or cause of a problem or an annoyance | |
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There are none so blind as those that will not see |
People ,who never admit they might be wrong, refuse to listen to the opinions or ideas of anyone | |
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There are none so deaf as those who will not hear |
People sometimes hear only what they want to hear | |
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There's more than one way to skin a cat |
There is more than one way of getting a job done | |
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The thin end of the wedge |
That something can appear to be small and of no particular importance - yet it can turn out to be the beginning of a major problem. | |
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A thing of beauty is a joy forever |
It means that though something beautiful may not last, the happy memory of it will live forever. | |
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Time heals old wounds |
The passing of time helps us to forget things that have caused us pain or made us unhappy. | |
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The truth will out |
Truth about something will eventually be discovered or made known | |
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Turn up like a bad penny |
Something or someone disliked just won't go away | |
| Two wrongs do not make a right | If a person does something to harm or offend us, that's wrong. If we do something to harm them back, that's wrong too. | |
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Uneasy is the head that wears the crown |
Notable or important people are often concerned about losing their positions. | |
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Waste not, want not |
If we're careful and waste nothing we'll never go without things we need. | |
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The way to a man's heart is through his stomach |
Most men love to eat so feed your husband well and he will always love you. | |
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Wear out one's welcome |
One is no longer welcome, usually because he has become a nuisance | |
| When poverty comes in the door, love flies out the window | As soon as a happily married couple begin having financial problems and the bills pile up their love will disappear. | |
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Who keeps company with wolves, will learn to howl |
If we associate with bad companions we, too, will become bad | |
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You pays your money and you takes your chances |
A humorous way of saying that we sometimes must trust in luck when buying something. | |
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Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them |
If you are rich and successful, you will attract many friends, but if you should suffer hardship or have misfortune ( adversity ), your friends will quickly depart. | |
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