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English proverbs (L)

English proverbs (L)

Proverbs are popularly defined as short expressions of popular wisdom. Efforts to improve on the popular definition have not led to a more precise definition. The wisdom is in the form of a general observation about the world or a bit of advice, sometimes more nearly an attitude toward a situation.

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  • Laugh and the world laughs with you .. Cry and you will find no one with tears.
  • Laugh when you're happy, cry when you're sad, and do both when you're the happiest you've ever been.
  • Laughter is the best medicine for them who do not know how to laugh.
  • Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.
  • The law is a jealous mistress.
    • - Professor Ferdinand Fairfax Stone, Tulane Law School, early and mid 1960s.
  • Law is the solemn expression of legislative will.
  • Lead to Success, Follow to Failure
  • Learn to walk before you run.
    • Possible interpretation: Do not rush into what you do not know.
    • Alt. interpretation: Learn the basics before you start using more complex tools or methods
  • Least said sooner mended.
    • meaning: those who speak less get more done
    • Alt. Interpretation: dwelling on the problem/blame makes it worse and delays the ability to get on and fix things
  • Leave it alone and it will grow on its own.
  • Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.
    • Jesus Christ
  • Let sleeping dogs lie.
    • Agatha Christie's Sleeping Murder
  • Let the cobbler stick to his last.
  • Let us go hand in hand,not one before another.
  • 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.
  • Lie down with dogs, wake up with fleas.
    • meaning: When you get revenge, you will be punished in some way or other
  • Life begins at forty.
  • Life does not come with any guarantees
  • Life imitates art
  • Life imitates chess -Kasparov
  • Life is a perception of your own reality.
  • Life is just a bowl of cherries.
  • Life is like a box of chocolate, you never know what you're gonna get
  • Life is too short to drink bad wine.
  • Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
    • Attributed to John Lennon
  • Life is what you do while you're waiting to die.
    • Quote from song sung by Zorba from the musical 'Zorba' by Kander and Ebb
  • Life is what you make of it.
    • meaning: Nothing's going to change unless you do something about it
  • Life's battle don't always go to the stronger or faster man, but sooner or later the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.
  • Lightning never strikes twice in the same place.
  • Like cures like.
    • Meaning: A person can better help another if they have something in common.
  • Like father, like son.
  • Like water off a duck's back.
    • interpretation: Do not let this impact you, but let it pass off you like water rolls off of a ducks back.
  • Little bean comes around his little salary
  • Little by little and bit by bit.
    • Meaning: Do things slowly and carefully
  • Little enemies and little wounds must not be despised.
  • 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 little pot is easily hot.
  • Live and let live.
    • Alternative: Live simply to let others simply live.
  • A loaded wagon makes no noise.
    • People with real wealth don't talk about it.
  • Long absent, soon forgotten.
  • The longest mile is the last mile home.
  • Look after the pennies and the pounds will look after themselves.
    • Possible interpretation: Take care of the details. (12 pence to the shilling, 20 shillings to the pound.)
    • Alt. interpretation: Save every penny you can and it will build up into a significant amount of money.
  • Look before you leap.
  • Look on the sunny side of life.
  • Loose lips sink ships.
    • World Wartime mantra encouraging people to avoid talking about things which could have been overheard by spies
  • Love is a bridge between two hearts.
  • Love is anger disappointed.
  • Love is blind.
  • Love is like war, Easy to start, Hard to end, Impossible to forget.
  • Love is not finding someone to live with; it's finding someone whom you can't live without.
  • Love laughs at locksmiths.
  • Luck favors the prepared - Louis Pasteur
  • Luck is a mirror of hard work - Beslin

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