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Funny Sayings
Adam got a hoe, and Eve got a spinning-wheel, and thence come all our nobles.
Adam must have an Eve, to blame for his own faults.
Adapt the remedy to the disease.
Add a flower to a bouquet.
Add frost to snow.
Add legs to the snake after you have finished drawing it.
Add legs to the snake one has just painted.
Add not fire to fire.
Add oil to a fire.
Add oil to a flame.
Admission by the defendant is worth a hundred witnesses.
Admonish your friends secretly, but praise them openly.
Advantage is a better soldier than rashness.
Adventures are to the adventurous.
Adversity and loss make a man wise.
Adversity borne with patience opens the door to Heaven.
Adversity brings knowledge, and knowledge wisdom.
Adversity brings out a man’s virtue.
Adversity brings us into deep waters not to drown us, but to cleanse us.
Adversity comes with instruction in his hand.
Adversity flatters no man.
Adversity is a better teacher than prosperity.
Adversity is a mirror that reveals one’s true self.
Adversity is easier borne than prosperity forgot.
Adversity is the foundation of virtue.
Adversity is the parent of virtue.
Adversity makes a great man.
Adversity makes a man wise, not rich.
Adversity makes a man wise.
Adversity makes strange bedfellows.
Adversity often leads to prosperity.
Adversity reminds men of religion.
Adversity reveals genius, and prosperity conceals it.
Adversity teaches us life’s most valuable lessons.
Adversity tries men.
Advice after injury is like medicine after death.
Advice given at the right time is better than gold given at the wrong time.
Advice is least heeded when most needed.
Advice should be viewed from behind.
Advice should precede the act.
Advice to a fool goes in one ear and out the other.
Advice to all, security for none.
Advise and counsel him; if he does not listen, let adversity teach him.
