2500 English Proverbs and Sayings - Softcover

Joshi, Manik

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1973192098 ISBN 13: 9781973192091

Publisher: Independently published, 2017

Synopsis

Proverbs and Sayings are well-known phrases or statements that give pieces of advice and/or express wisdom and are generally true. They are easily memorized and contain traditional beliefs.

List of English proverbs and sayings in alphabetical order. Popular sayings and proverbs used in daily life English

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Proverbs and Sayings - A

* Abide by your deeds. | Meaning: You have to bear consequences of your actions.
* Absence makes the heart grow fonder. | Meaning: When you are far away from your beloved person for a period of time, you miss or desire him/her more and feel his/her real importance in your life.
* Absence sharpens love, (presence strengthens it.)
* (An) accidental meeting may be better than a fixed date.
* Accidents will happen (in the best-regulated families). | Meaning: It is normal for things to go wrong, so you needn't worry much.
* (An) accused is required to be presumed innocent until proven guilty.
* Actions speak louder than words. [Variation: Doing is better than saying.] | Meaning: What you do is more important than what you say.
* Admonish your friends in private, praise them in public.
* Adversity flatters no man.
* Adversity makes a man wise, not rich.
* Advice most needed is least heeded. | Meaning: People often ignore the advice they need the most.
* Advisers run no risks. | Meaning: It is easy to give advice, but hard to act.
* Affection blinds reason.
* After a storm, comes calm. | Meaning: There is an end of every problem, so be stress-free.
* After dinner comes the reckoning.
* After lunch sleep a while, after dinner walk a mile.
* After rain comes fair weather.
* Age and wedlock tame man and beast.
* (The) age of miracles is past.
* Alarm bells ring/start ringing. | Meaning: People are starting to worry.
* All are not friends that speak us fair.
* All are not hunters that blow the horn.
* All are not like.
* All are not merry that dance lightly.
* All are not saints that go to church.
* All are not thieves that dogs bark at.
* All are presumed good till they are found in fault.
* All asses wag their ears.
* All bread is not baked in one oven.
* All cats are grey in the dark (in the night).
* All cats love fish but hate to get their paws wet. | Meaning: Every one of us wants success but many of us don't want to work hard or be in discipline to become successful.
* All covet, all lost
* All doors open to courtesy.
* All for one and one for all. | Meaning: People who are committed to working together in order to get positive outcome.
* All good things come to an end. | Meaning: Every enjoyable or charitable activity/event eventually ends at some point; you cannot be lucky forever.
* All good things come to those who wait | Meaning: A person will get what he/she wants if he/she is willing to wait for it patiently.
* All is fair in love and war. | Meaning: Strong emotion or passion doesn't follow rules of behavior.
* All is fish that comes the net. | Meaning: Everything that we get in life may be useful or beneficial for us.
* All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds.
* All is not lost that is in peril.
* All is well that ends well. | Meaning: A positive outcome of a difficult or risky situation is always welcome because it helps us disregard the earlier trouble that we suffered.
* All lay loads on a willing horse.
* All men are mortal.
* All men cannot be masters.
* All men must die.
* All promises are either broken or kept.
* All publicity is good publicity.
* All roads lead to Rome.
* All sugar and honey.
* All that glitters/glistens is not gold. | Meaning: Every shiny and superficially attractive thing is not valuable.
* All the world loves a lover. | Meaning: We love to see people who are in love.
* All the world will beat the man whom fortune buffets.
* All things are difficult before they are easy.
* All things must pass. | Meaning: Nothing is permanent or everlasting.

About this title

From the Author

'ENGLISH DAILY USE' TITLES BY MANIK JOSHI

01. How to Start a Sentence
02. English Interrogative Sentences
03. English Imperative Sentences
04. Negative Forms in English
05. Learn English Exclamations
06. English Causative Sentences
07. English Conditional Sentences
08. Creating Long Sentences in English
09. How to Use Numbers in Conversation
10. Making Comparisons in English
11. Examples of English Correlatives
12. Interchange of Active and Passive Voice
13. Repetition of Words
14. Remarks in English Language
15. Using Tenses in English
16. English Grammar- Am, Is, Are, Was, Were
17. English Grammar- Do, Does, Did
18. English Grammar- Have, Has, Had
19. English Grammar- Be and Have
20. English Modal Auxiliary Verbs
21. Direct and Indirect Speech
22. Get- Popular English Verb
23. Ending Sentences with Prepositions
24. Popular Sentences in English
25. Common English Sentences
26. Daily Use English Sentences
27. Speak English Sentences Everyday
28. Popular English Idioms and Phrases
29. Common English Phrases
30. Daily English- Important Notes

'ENGLISH WORD POWER' TITLES BY MANIK JOSHI

01. Dictionary of English Synonyms
02. Dictionary of English Antonyms
03. Homonyms, Homophones and Homographs
04. Dictionary of English Capitonyms
05. Dictionary of Prefixes and Suffixes
06. Dictionary of Combining Forms
07. Dictionary of Literary Words
08. Dictionary of Old-fashioned Words
09. Dictionary of Humorous Words
10. Compound Words in English
11. Dictionary of Informal Words
12. Dictionary of Category Words
13. Dictionary of One-word Substitution
14. Hypernyms and Hyponyms
15. Holonyms and Meronyms
16. Oronym Words in English
17. Dictionary of Root Words
18. Dictionary of English Idioms
19. Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs
20. Dictionary of Difficult Words
OTHER TITLES BY MANIK

01. English Word Exercises (Part 1)
02. English Word Exercises (Part 2)
03. English Word Exercises (Part 3)
04. English Sentence Exercises
05. Test Your English
06. Match the Two Parts of the Words
07. Letter-Order In Words
08. Simple, Compound, Complex, & Compound-Complex Sentences
09. Transitional Words and Phrases
10. Regular and Irregular Verbs

About the Author

Manik Joshi, the author of this book was born on Jan 26, 1979 at Ranikhet and is permanent resident of Haldwani, Kumaon zone of India. He is an Internet Marketer by profession. He is interested in domaining (business of buying and selling domain names), web designing (creating websites), and various online jobs (including 'self-publishing'). He is science graduate with ZBC (zoology, botany, and chemistry) subjects. He is also an MBA (with specialization in marketing). He has done three diploma courses in computer too. ManikJoshi.com is the personal website of the author.

Edition details

• Publisher: Independently published
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1973192098
• ISBN 13: 9781973192091
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 125