A bad settlement is better than a good lawsuit.
A coin of gold is delighting in a bag of silver coins
Meaning: English people make modest company.
Alternative meaning: One who is unique is often praised or receives more pleasure.
A journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step.-Chinese Origin-千里之行，始于足下
Lao Tzu[1]
A bad penny always turns up.
Meaning: Your mistakes will come back to haunt you. Or Bad people will always return.
A bean in liberty is better than a comfit in prison.
A bellyful is one of meat, drink, or sorrow.
A bellyful of food is a good one
A good enemy is a better person than a false friend
A big tree attracts the woodsman's axe.
Meaning: Great people will attract great criticism
An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
A bad workman (always) blames his tools.
Meaning (Implied): A good workman will take responsibility for his mistakes
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
Meaning: A sure thing is better than a gamble for more.
A burnt child dreads the fire.
Chinese Version: One bitten by a snake for a snap dreads a rope for a decade.一朝被蛇咬，十年怕井绳
Indian Version: The one burnt by hot milk drinks even cold buttermilk with precaution. Transliteration: Doodh ka jala chaanchko bhi phook phook ke peeta hai.
Meaning: Similar to "Once bitten, twice shy"
This Proverb intimates, That it is natural for all living Creatures, whether rational or irrational,
to consult their own Security, and Self-Preservation; and whether they act by Instinct or Reason, it still
tends to some care of avoiding those things that have already done them an Injury. - Divers Proverbs, Nathan Bailey, 1721 [1]
A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.
Attributed to Mevlana Celaleddin-i Rumi
A little pot is easily hot.
A new broom sweeps clean.
A cat may look at a king.
Meaning: If a cat may look at the king - then I have a right to look where I please.
A camel is a horse designed by committee.
Meaning: a vision is more perfect from the individual rather than a group of people where it becomes anodyne.
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link.
Meaning: The strength of any group depends on the individual strength of each of its members.
A closed mouth catches no flies.
Meaning: You cannot say a bad thing if you don't speak at all.
A constant guest is never welcome.
A coward dies a thousand times before his death. The valiant tastes of death but once.
From William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar[2]
Meaning: The valiant (the brave) take no account of possible danger, whereas cowards are constantly fearing the worst. [3]
A fool and his money are soon parted.
A fox smells its own lair first. Or: A fox smells its own stink first.
Meaning: One knows where they belong, and knows when they make a mistake.
A friend in need is a friend indeed.
Meaning: A genuine friend is with you even in times of trouble.
A good beginning makes (for) a good ending.
Chinese Version: A good beginning is half a succession-好的开始是成功的一半
Meaning: Planning is the key to success.
A good man in an evil society seems the greatest villain of all.
A good surgeon has an eagle's eye, a lion's heart, and a lady's hand.
A guilty conscience needs no accuser.
A half truth is a whole lie.
A jack of all trades is master of none.
A kingdom is lost for want of a shoe (OR for want of a nail).
Meaning: serious consequences can result from seemingly tiny or trivial omissions and errors.
Originally a rhyme
A lie can be halfway around the world before the truth gets its boots on.
Charles Spurgeon. A great lie may be widely accepted before the truth comes to light.
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
A little Learning is a dangerous Thing;
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring:
There shallow Draughts intoxicate the Brain,
And drinking largely sobers us again. ~ Alexander Pope
A loaded wagon makes no noise.
People with real wealth don't talk about it.
A man is known by the company he keeps.
A miss by an inch is a miss by a mile.
Meaning: A miss is a miss regardless the distance
A night with Venus and a life with mercury.
Anti-promiscuity adage, alluding to a 18th-century mercury-based folk treatment for syphilis
Cited in Bartz, Diane, "Har, me hearties! Excavating Blackbeard's ship", Reuters (via Yahoo! News), 30 October 2006. URL accessed on 2006-11-01.
A paragraph should be like a lady's skirt: long enough to cover the essentials but short enough to keep it interesting.
A Pasoly in the eye is worth several in the shins.