A nod from a lord is a breakfast for a fool. - A thousand years scarce serve to form a state: an hour may lay it in the dust.
- A nod from a lord is a breakfast for a fool.
- A peasant needs thunder to cross himself and wonder.
- A penny saved is a penny gained.
- A penny soul never came to twopence.
- A period of travel and relaxation when you take twice clothes and half the money you need.
- A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction.
- A pike lives in the lake to keep all fish awake.
- A proper way to think of business is in terms of service.
- A prosperous man is never sure that he is loved for himself.
- A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
- A Pyrrhic victory.
- A quick mare is in time everywhere.
- A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder.
- A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
- A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was.
- A rolling stone gathers no moss.
- A room without books is like a body without a soul.
- A round peg in a square hole.
- A ship in harbour is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.
- A shy cat makes a proud mouse.
- A silent fool is counted wise.
- A single thread from everyone – and there's a shirt for a naked one.
- A Sisyphean labour.
- A small debt produces a debtor; a large one an enemy.
- A small leak will sink a great ship.
- A smile a day brings a friend your way.
- A soft answer turns away wrath.
- A soldier who doesn't want to be a general is a bad soldier.
- A sound mind in a sound body.
- A sow is no match for a goose.
- A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.
- A spoon is dear when lunch time is near.
- A still tongue makes a wise head.
- A stitch in time saves nine.
- A storm in a tea-cup.
- A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
- A tattler is worse than a thief.
- A thief knows a thief as a wolf knows a wolf.
- A thief passes for a gentleman when stealing has made him rich.
- A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
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