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All work and no play make Jack a dull body.

Proverbs and old sayings English about body, work

Repeating a lie, doesn't make that lie true.

Proverbs and old sayings English about lie

As you make your bed, so you must lie in it.

Proverbs and old sayings English about lie, contentment

Wise men make proverbs but fools repeat them.

Proverbs and old sayings English about man

The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives.

Proverbs and old sayings English

You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.

Proverbs and old sayings English about contentment

Better never to begin than never to make an end.

Proverbs and old sayings English about end

You have to break a few eggs to make an omelette.

Proverbs and old sayings English about contentment

Two wrongs don't make a right, but three lefts do.

Proverbs and old sayings English about rightness

Stupidity won't kill you, but it can make you sweat.

Proverbs and old sayings English about stupidity, contentment

He that shippeth the devil must make the best of him.

Proverbs and old sayings English about devil

You cannot make people honest by an act of parliament.

Proverbs and old sayings English about people, contentment

His fore feet though you sever, his grip he'll make good.

Proverbs and old sayings English about good, good luck, contentment

He that laughs when he is alone will make sport in company.

Proverbs and old sayings English about sport, companies

You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink.

Proverbs and old sayings English about drinking, water, contentment

You can take a horse to the water, but you can't make him drink.

Proverbs and old sayings English about drinking, water, contentment

Practice does not make perfect but a perfect practice makes perfect.

Proverbs and old sayings English about perfection

If you make songs about yourself, you can't blame other people for singing them.

Proverbs and old sayings English about people, contentment

Set out wisely at first; custom will make every virtue more easy and pleasant to you than any vice can be.

Proverbs and old sayings English about vice, virtue, contentment

One cannot make soup out of beauty.

Proverbs and old sayings Estonian about beauty