Dictionary of English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases - LightNovelsOnl.com
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997. LOSERS. Losers are always in the wrong.
998. LOSS.
He that goeth out with often loss, At last comes home by Weeping Cross.
999. LOST. 'Tis not lost that comes at last.
1000. LOVE. Love is no lack.
1001. LOVE. Love is blind.
1002. LOVE. Love is the touchstone of virtue.
1003. LOVE. Love lives in cottages as well as in courts.
1004. LOVE. Love me little, love me long.
1005. LOVE. Love me, love my dog.
1006. LOVE. They love too much who die for love.
1007. LOVE. Whom we love best to them we can say least.
1008. LOVE AND A COUGH. Love and a cough cannot be hid.
1009. LOVE (HOT). Hot love is soon cold.
1010. LOVERS. Lovers live on love, as larks on leeks.
1011. LOWLY SIT. Lowly sit and be richly warm.
1012. LUCK. Give a man luck, and throw him into the sea.
1013. LUCK. The devil's children have the devil's luck.
1014. LUCK (ILL). What is worse than ill-luck?
1015. LUCKY. It is better to be born lucky than rich.
1016. LUCKY. It's better to be lucky than wise.
1017. LUCKY. Happy go lucky.
1018. LURCH. Never leave a friend in the lurch.
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1019. MAIDENS. Maidens must be seen and not heard.
1020. MALICE. Malice is mindful.
1021. MALT. Slow fire makes sweet malt.
1022. MAN. A man at five may be a fool at fifteen.
1023. MAN. Man proposes, G.o.d disposes.
1024. MAN. Man doth what he can, and G.o.d what He will.
1025. MANNERS. Manners often make fortunes.
1026. MANY HANDS. Many hands make light work.
1027. MARCH.
March wind and May sun, Make clothes white and maids dun.
1028. MARCH. March many weathers.
1029. MARCH DUST. A bushel of March dust is worth a king's ransom.
1030. MARKET. A man must sell his ware at the rate of the market.
1031. MARKET. Forsake not the market for the toll.
1032. MARKET. If fools went not to market, bad ware would not be sold.
1033. MARKET. Three women and a goose make a market.
1034. MARRIAGE (ILL). An ill marriage is a spring of ill fortune.
1035. MARRIAGE. Marriage halves our griefs, and doubles our joys.
1036. MARRIAGES. Marriages are made in heaven.
1037. MARRIES. He who marries for wealth sells his liberty.
1038. MARRY. Marry in haste, repent at leisure.
1039. MARRY.
Bachelors, before you marry, Have a house wherein to tarry.
1040. MARRY.
If you regard old saws, mind, thus they say, 'Tis bad to marry in the month of May.
1041. MASTER. Like master like man.
