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Meaning: People with important similarities seek out one another's company, often to the exclusion of others.

Concise Dictionary of European Proverbs (Abbreviated ed.).

Meaning: The seemingly most respectable people are quiet often scoundrels Evil people often act innocently.

Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.

Meaning: The aim for perfection or mastery might be in the way of progress.

Better an egg today than a hen tomorrow.

The best things come in small packages.

Meaning: influence young people while they are young and impressionable.

A bellyful is one of meat, drink, or sorrow.

A Dictionary of American Proverbs (Reprint ed.).

Be Careful What You Wish For, Hodder & Stoughton. People are not satisfied with what they have, people are satisfied with what they don't have.Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer (1773): "Ask me no questions, and I’ll tell you no fibs". Ask me no questions, I'll tell you no lies.Meaning: Children will become like older generations.As the old cock crows, so crows the young.( Michael Pollan, The Botany of Desire, Random House, 2001, ISBN 0375501290, p. Adapted to its current form in the 1900s as a marketing slogan used by American growers concerned that the temperance movement would cut into sales of apple cider.153: "Eat an apple on going to bed, // And you'll keep the doctor from earning his bread." Meaning: Someone who wants to be mean will find things to be mean about no matter what.A staff is quickly found to beat a dog.Often corrupted to: All that glitters is not gold.William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, act II, scene 7.Speake, Jennifer Simpson, John (2009).

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It is a translation of the Latin Unus pro omnibus, omnes pro uno, the motto for Switzerland.

Although people associate it with Alexandre Dumas's The Three Musketeers it is much older.

Love Eating Fish But Hate Getting Wet Paws.

Meaning: Everyone wants success but many lack the self-discipline to become successful.

All cats love fish but hate to get their paws wet.

Prove thy friend ere thou have need but, in-deedĪ friend is never known till a man have need.

John Heywood, A Dialogue Conteynyng Prouerbes and Epigrammes (1562) has.

McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.

From Isle of Beauty by Thomas Haynes Bayly.

Meaning: When you're away from something, you miss it more.

Note: Originally said by Samuel Goldwyn.

Meaning: A verbal contract is completely useless.A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.Meaning: It is best to have some sort of wall towards your neighbours.Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (2, illustrated ed.). As you make your bed, so you must lie on it.Meaning: Sometimes unpleasant things are required to bring good things.March winds and April showers bring forth May flowers.Meaning: Be sure to take breaks from work and do something entertaining.All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.The Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs (Illustrated ed.). All are not friends that speak us fair.Idiomatic translation: "All are not thieves that dogs bark at.”.All are not thieves that the dogs bark at.Arranged alphabetically by author or source: