ABSENCE. Absence cools moderate passions, and inflames violent ones. ABSENT. The absent are always at fault. ABSENT. Long absent, soon forgotten. ACHING TEETH. Who hath aching teeth, hath ill tenants. ADVERSITY. Adversity makes a man wise, not rich. ADVERSITY. Adversity tries friends. ADVERSITY. Adversity flattereth no man. ADVICE. Give neither advice nor salt until you are asked for it. ADVICE. What every one asks, what every one gives, but what very few take--advice. ADVICE. In vain he craves advice who will not follow it. ADVICE. Advice comes too late when a thing is done. AFRAID. More afraid than hurt. AFRAID OF WOUNDS. He that's afraid of wounds must not come nigh a battle. AGE. Age before honesty. AGE (OLD). Old age is honourable.
Dictionary of English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases With a Copious Index of Principal Words by Thomas Preston, published originally in 1880 in London by Whittaker & Co
