A good shape is in the shear's (clippers) mouth. (5501)
A good shepherd must fleece his sheep, not flay them. (5502)
A good shift may serve long, but it cannot (o. will not) serve for ever. (5503)
A good shot is worth many bad ones. (5504)
A good simile is the sunshine of wisdom. Hosea Ballou (5505)
A good simile, - as concise as a king's declaration of love. Sterne (5506)
A good smile shows how happy the soul is. (5507)
A good soldier has only three things to think about; the king, God, and nothing. (5508)
A good soldier is a poor scout. (5509)
A good son makes a good husband. (5510)
A good son needs no inheritance, the bad needs none. (5511)
A good son-in-law is like the acquisition of a new son; a bad one is like the loss of your daughter. (5512)
A good speaker makes a good liar. (5513)
A good spectator also creates. (5514)
A good start is half the battle. (5515)
A good start is half the job done. (5516)
A good stomach is the best sauce. (5517)
A good storyteller must be able to lie a little. (5518)
A good style fits like a good costume. Alcott (5519)
A good surfer will not get wet. (5520)
A good surgeon has an eagle's eye, a lion's heart, and a lady's hand. var] A good surgeon must have an eagle's eye, a lion's heart, and a lady's hand. (5521)
A good swimmer is not safe against drowning. (5522)
A good swimmer sinks at last. (5523)
A good sword is the one left in its scabbard. (5524)
A good swordsman is never quarrelsome. (5525)
A good swordsman is not given to quarrel. (5526)
A good take heed will surely speed. (5527)
A good 'take heed' will surely speed. (5528)
A good tale ill told in the telling is marred. (5529)
A good tale is no the waur o' being twice tale. var] A good tale is none the worse for being told twice. var] A good tale is none the worse for being twice told. var] A good tale is not the worse for being told twice. (5530)
A good taste in art feels the presence or the absence of merit; a just taste discriminates the degree - the poco più and the poco meno. A good taste rejects faults; a just taste selects excellences. A good taste is often unconscious; a just taste is always conscious. A good taste may be lowered or spoilt; a just taste can only go on refining more and more. Mrs. Jameson (5531)
A good taste is often unconscious; a just taste is always conscious. Mrs. Jameson (5532)
A good teacher is the intellectual father of his pupils. (5533)
A good thief is the best guardian. (5534)
A good thing can be twice, nay, even thrice spoken. (5535)
A good thing can't be cruel. Dickens (5536)
A good thing is all the sweeter when won with pain. (5537)
A good thing is esteemed more in its absence than in its enjoyment. (5538)
A good thing is known when it is lost. (5539)
A good thing is soon caught up. (5540)
A good thing is soon snatched up. (5541)
A good thing lost is a good thing valued. (5542)
A good thing lost is valued. (5543)
A good thing sells it self, a bad one advertises it self. (5544)
A good thought is a great boon, for which God is to be first thanked, then he who is the first to utter it, and then, in a lesser, but still in a considerable degree, the man who is the first to quote it to us. (5545)
A good tongue is a good weapon. (5546)
A good trade will carry farther than a thousand florins. (5547)
A good tree bears good fruit. (5548)
A good tree can lodge ten thousand birds. (5549)
A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit. (5550)
A good tree is a good shelter. (5551)
A good trencherman. (5552)
A good vineyard provides bread, wine, and firewood. (5553)
A good well-lived today makes every yesterday a dream of a good future, and every morning is a vision of hope. (5554)
A good wife and a good name hath no mate in goods nor fame. (5555)
A good wife and a wholesome cabbage soup, what more could you want? (5556)
A good wife and health are a man's best wealth. (5557)
A good wife is a good portion. (5558)
A good wife is easy to find, but suitable in-laws are rare. (5559)
A good wife is heaven's last gift to man; his angel and minister of graces innumerable; his gem of many virtues; his casket of jewels; her voice his sweet music; her smiles his brightest day; her kiss the guardian of his innocence; her arms the pale of his safety, the balm of his health, the balsam of his life; her industry, his surest wealth; her economy, his safest steward; her lips, his faithful counselors; her bosom, the softest pillow of his cares; and her prayers, the ablest advocates of heaven's blessings on his head. (5560)
A good wife is like the ivy which beautifies the building to which it clings, twining its tendrils more lovingly as time converts the ancient edifice into a ruin. Johnson (5561)
A good wife is the crown of the house. (5562)
A good wife makes a good husband. (5563)
A good wife's a goodly prize, saith Solomon the wise. (5564)
A good winter brings a good summer. (5565)
A good wit will make use of anything. Shakespeare (5566)
A good woman is a hidden treasure; who discovers her will do well not to boast about it. La Rochefoucauld (5567)
A good woman is the loveliest flower that blooms under heaven; and we look with love and wonder upon its silent grace, its pure fragrance, its delicate bloom of beauty. Sweet and beautiful! the fairest and the most spotless! is it not pity to see them bowed down or devoured by grief or death inexorable, wasting in disease, pining with long pain, or cut off by sudden fate in their prime? We may deserve grief, but why should these be unhappy? - except that we know that heaven chastens those whom it loves best; being pleased, by repeated trials, to make these pure spirits more pure. Thackeray (5568)
A good woman is worth (if she were sold) the fairest crown that's made of gold. (5569)
A good woman should be as bright as sunshine, as black as ink, and as sweet as honey. (5570)
A good woman should be plump as a hen, with eyes dark as the midnight sky, and a disposition as fiery as pepper. (5571)
A good word costs no more than a bad one. (5572)
A good word extinguishes more than a pailful of water. (5573)
A good word is an easy obligation, but not to speak ill requires only our silence, which costs us nothing. (5574)
A good word is as soon said as a bad (o. an ill) one. (5575)
A good word never broke a tooth. (5576)
A good word quenches more than a cauldron of water. (5577)
A good workman is known by his chips. (5578)
A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes. Montesquieu (5579)
A good year is determined by its spring. (5580)
A good yeoman makes a good woman. (5581)
A good, warmed vodka makes a carnation bloom inside your stomach. (5582)
A good-looking man is pleasant to look at, but it is easier to live with an amusing one. (5583)
A goose cannot graze after him. (5584)
A goose doesn't befriend a pig. (5585)
A goose drinks as much as a gander. (5586)
A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend. Holmes (5587)
A goose is not a pig's friend. (5588)
A goose never voted for an early Christmas. (5589)
A goose quill is more dangerous than a lion's claw. (5590)
A goose with a goose, a baldhead with a baldhead, a featherless hen with a crippled rooster. (5591)
A goose, a woman, and a goat, are bad things lean. (5592)
A goose-quill gentleman. (5593)
A goose-quill is more dangerous than a lion's claw. (5594)
A goose's child is a swimmer. (5595)
A goose's child is an excellent diver. (5596)
A gorda galinha faz gorda a cozinha. (5597)
A gordura é capa de defeitos. (5598)
A gorge blanche et grasse, le noir n'a point mauvaise grâce. (5599)
A goshawk is an egg child, if sleeps hungry its his own fault. (5600)