The Seven C’s of
Effective
Communication
The Seven C’s Of Effective
Communication
•Completeness
•Provide all necessary
information / answer all
questions asked / give
something extra, when
desirable
•Conciseness
•Eliminate wordy
expressions / include only
relevant material / avoid
unnecessary repetition
The Seven C’s Of Effective
Communication
•Consideration
•Focus on “you” instead of
“I” or “we” / show
audience benefit or
interest in the receiver /
emphasize positive,
pleasant facts
•Concreteness
•Use specific facts and
figures / put action in
your verbs / choose vivid,
image-building words
The Seven C’s Of Effective
Communication
•Clarity
•Choose precise, concrete,
and familiar words /
construct effective
sentences and
paragraphs
•Courtesy
•Be sincerely tactful,
thoughtful, and
appreciative / use
expressions that show
respect / choose
nondiscriminatory
expressions
The Seven C’s Of Effective
Communication
•Correctness
•Use the right level
of language /
check accuracy of
figures, facts and
words / maintain
acceptable writing
mechanics
Completeness
Conciseness
Consideration
Concreteness
Clarity
Courtesy
Correctness
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
NUCLEAR WEAPONS AND MYTHS
TEN FACTS ABOUT NUCLEAR WEAPONS
1. There are still some 26,000 nuclear warheads in the world, enough to destroy civilization many times
over and destroy most life on earth. Nuclear weapons make humans an endangered species.
2. More than 95% of all nuclear weapons are in the arsenals of the US and Russia.
3. The average nuclear weapon in the US arsenal is approximately eight times more powerful than the
nuclear bomb that destroyed Hiroshima, immediately killing some 90,000 people.
4. There are currently nine countries with nuclear weapons (US, Russia, UK, France, China, Israel, India,
Pakistan and North Korea).
5. The 1970 Non-Proliferation Treaty, ratified by nearly every country in the world, requires the nuclear
weapons states to engage in good faith negotiations for nuclear disarmament.
6. The United States unilaterally withdrew from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty in 2002 in order to
pursue missile defenses and space weaponization. US withdrawal from the treaty has caused both
Russia and China to improve their offensive nuclear capabilities.
7. There are up to 2,000,000 kilograms of Highly Enriched Uranium (HEU) in global stockpiles, and it
takes just 15-24 kilograms for a nuclear weapon. There are 28 countries with at least one bomb’s worth
of HEU and 12 countries with at least 20 bombs’ worth.
8. Plutonium created in nuclear power reactors is another source of bomb material. It takes as little as
three to five kilograms of plutonium to create a nuclear weapon. There are now some 500,000
kilograms of separated plutonium in global stockpiles. Plutonium stocks continue to increase due to
civilian ‘spent’ fuel reprocessing.
9. The 2001 US Nuclear Posture Review provides for developing contingency plans for nuclear weapons
use against seven countries: Iraq, Iran, Syria, Libya, North Korea, Russia and China.
10. The Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty (SORT) between the US and Russia requires the two
countries to reduce their deployed strategic warheads to between 1,700 and 2,200 by December 31,
2012. On the following day the treaty terminates, and each side can redeploy as many nuclear warheads
as it chooses. Many of the nuclear warheads taken off deployed status are not being dismantled, but
rather placed in storage, where they might be stolen by criminal or terrorist groups.
NUCLEAR WEAPONS AND
THE HUMAN FUTURE
TEN MYTHS ABOUT NUCLEAR WEAPONS
1. Nuclear weapons were needed to defeat Japan in World War II. This is not the opinion of many leading US
military figures in the war. General Dwight Eisenhower, the Supreme Allied Commander in Europe during World
War II and later US president, wrote, “I thought that our country should avoid shocking world opinion by the use of
a weapon whose employment was, I thought, no longer mandatory as a measure to save American lives. It was my
belief that Japan was, at that very moment, seeking some way to surrender with a minimum loss of ‘face’….”
2. Nuclear weapons prevented a war between the United States and the Soviet Union. There were many deadly
conflicts and “proxy” wars carried out by the superpowers in Asia, Africa and Latin America. The Vietnam War,
which took several million lives, is a prominent example. These wars made the supposed nuclear peace very bloody
and deadly.
3. Nuclear threats have gone away since the end of the Cold War. In the aftermath of the Cold War, a variety of
new nuclear threats have emerged. Among these are the following dangers:
• Increased chances of nuclear weapons falling into the hands of terrorists willing to use them;
• Policies of the US government to make nuclear weapons smaller and more usable;
• Use of nuclear weapons by accident, particularly because of decaying Russian infrastructure; and
• Spread of nuclear weapons to other states that may perceive them to be an “equalizer” against a more
powerful state.
4. The United States needs nuclear weapons for its national security. US national security would be far improved
if the US took a leadership role in seeking to eliminate nuclear weapons throughout the world. Nuclear weapons are
the only weapons that could actually destroy the United States, and their existence and proliferation threaten US
security.
5. Nuclear weapons make a country safer. By threatening massive retaliation, the argument goes, nuclear weapons
prevent an attacker from starting a war. There are many ways, though, in which deterrence could fail, including
misunderstandings, faulty communications, irrational leaders, miscalculations and accidents.
6. No leader would be crazy enough to actually use nuclear weapons. US leaders, considered by some to be
highly rational, have used nuclear weapons in war, against Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Threats of nuclear attack by
India and Pakistan are an example of nuclear brinksmanship that could turn into a nuclear war. Globally and
historically, leaders have done their best to prove that they would use nuclear weapons.
7. Nuclear weapons are a cost-effective method of national defense. The cost of US nuclear weapons research,
development, testing, deployment and maintenance has exceeded $7.5 trillion.
8. Nuclear weapons are well protected and there is little chance that terrorists could get their hands on one. In
the aftermath of the Cold War, the ability of the Russians to protect their nuclear forces has declined precipitously.
In addition, a coup in a country with nuclear weapons, such as Pakistan, could lead to a government coming to
power that was willing to provide nuclear weapons to terrorists.
9. The United States is working to fulfill its nuclear disarmament obligations. The United States has failed for
nearly four decades to fulfill its obligations under Article VI of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, requiring good
faith negotiations to achieve nuclear disarmament. The United States has failed to ratify the Comprehensive Test
Ban Treaty and has withdrawn from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
10. Nuclear weapons are needed to combat threats from terrorists and “rogue states.” The threat of nuclear
force cannot act as a deterrent against terrorists because they do not have a territory to retaliate against. If the
leaders of a rogue state do not use a rational calculus regarding their losses from retaliation, deterrence can fail.
1. There are still some 26,000 nuclear warheads in the world, enough to destroy civilization many times
over and destroy most life on earth. Nuclear weapons make humans an endangered species.
2. More than 95% of all nuclear weapons are in the arsenals of the US and Russia.
3. The average nuclear weapon in the US arsenal is approximately eight times more powerful than the
nuclear bomb that destroyed Hiroshima, immediately killing some 90,000 people.
4. There are currently nine countries with nuclear weapons (US, Russia, UK, France, China, Israel, India,
Pakistan and North Korea).
5. The 1970 Non-Proliferation Treaty, ratified by nearly every country in the world, requires the nuclear
weapons states to engage in good faith negotiations for nuclear disarmament.
6. The United States unilaterally withdrew from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty in 2002 in order to
pursue missile defenses and space weaponization. US withdrawal from the treaty has caused both
Russia and China to improve their offensive nuclear capabilities.
7. There are up to 2,000,000 kilograms of Highly Enriched Uranium (HEU) in global stockpiles, and it
takes just 15-24 kilograms for a nuclear weapon. There are 28 countries with at least one bomb’s worth
of HEU and 12 countries with at least 20 bombs’ worth.
8. Plutonium created in nuclear power reactors is another source of bomb material. It takes as little as
three to five kilograms of plutonium to create a nuclear weapon. There are now some 500,000
kilograms of separated plutonium in global stockpiles. Plutonium stocks continue to increase due to
civilian ‘spent’ fuel reprocessing.
9. The 2001 US Nuclear Posture Review provides for developing contingency plans for nuclear weapons
use against seven countries: Iraq, Iran, Syria, Libya, North Korea, Russia and China.
10. The Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty (SORT) between the US and Russia requires the two
countries to reduce their deployed strategic warheads to between 1,700 and 2,200 by December 31,
2012. On the following day the treaty terminates, and each side can redeploy as many nuclear warheads
as it chooses. Many of the nuclear warheads taken off deployed status are not being dismantled, but
rather placed in storage, where they might be stolen by criminal or terrorist groups.
NUCLEAR WEAPONS AND
THE HUMAN FUTURE
TEN MYTHS ABOUT NUCLEAR WEAPONS
1. Nuclear weapons were needed to defeat Japan in World War II. This is not the opinion of many leading US
military figures in the war. General Dwight Eisenhower, the Supreme Allied Commander in Europe during World
War II and later US president, wrote, “I thought that our country should avoid shocking world opinion by the use of
a weapon whose employment was, I thought, no longer mandatory as a measure to save American lives. It was my
belief that Japan was, at that very moment, seeking some way to surrender with a minimum loss of ‘face’….”
2. Nuclear weapons prevented a war between the United States and the Soviet Union. There were many deadly
conflicts and “proxy” wars carried out by the superpowers in Asia, Africa and Latin America. The Vietnam War,
which took several million lives, is a prominent example. These wars made the supposed nuclear peace very bloody
and deadly.
3. Nuclear threats have gone away since the end of the Cold War. In the aftermath of the Cold War, a variety of
new nuclear threats have emerged. Among these are the following dangers:
• Increased chances of nuclear weapons falling into the hands of terrorists willing to use them;
• Policies of the US government to make nuclear weapons smaller and more usable;
• Use of nuclear weapons by accident, particularly because of decaying Russian infrastructure; and
• Spread of nuclear weapons to other states that may perceive them to be an “equalizer” against a more
powerful state.
4. The United States needs nuclear weapons for its national security. US national security would be far improved
if the US took a leadership role in seeking to eliminate nuclear weapons throughout the world. Nuclear weapons are
the only weapons that could actually destroy the United States, and their existence and proliferation threaten US
security.
5. Nuclear weapons make a country safer. By threatening massive retaliation, the argument goes, nuclear weapons
prevent an attacker from starting a war. There are many ways, though, in which deterrence could fail, including
misunderstandings, faulty communications, irrational leaders, miscalculations and accidents.
6. No leader would be crazy enough to actually use nuclear weapons. US leaders, considered by some to be
highly rational, have used nuclear weapons in war, against Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Threats of nuclear attack by
India and Pakistan are an example of nuclear brinksmanship that could turn into a nuclear war. Globally and
historically, leaders have done their best to prove that they would use nuclear weapons.
7. Nuclear weapons are a cost-effective method of national defense. The cost of US nuclear weapons research,
development, testing, deployment and maintenance has exceeded $7.5 trillion.
8. Nuclear weapons are well protected and there is little chance that terrorists could get their hands on one. In
the aftermath of the Cold War, the ability of the Russians to protect their nuclear forces has declined precipitously.
In addition, a coup in a country with nuclear weapons, such as Pakistan, could lead to a government coming to
power that was willing to provide nuclear weapons to terrorists.
9. The United States is working to fulfill its nuclear disarmament obligations. The United States has failed for
nearly four decades to fulfill its obligations under Article VI of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, requiring good
faith negotiations to achieve nuclear disarmament. The United States has failed to ratify the Comprehensive Test
Ban Treaty and has withdrawn from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
10. Nuclear weapons are needed to combat threats from terrorists and “rogue states.” The threat of nuclear
force cannot act as a deterrent against terrorists because they do not have a territory to retaliate against. If the
leaders of a rogue state do not use a rational calculus regarding their losses from retaliation, deterrence can fail.
Monday, March 29, 2010
DENGUE
Protect yourself from mosquito bites and dengue
Dengue symptoms can include:
• Fever
• Headache
• Muscle and joint pains
• Nausea / vomiting
• Rash
• Hemorrhagic manifestations
If you have these symptoms, ask your physician to order a test for dengue.
========================================
Treatment:
• Rest, drink plenty of fluids
and consult a physician.
• Avoid pain relievers that
contain aspirin and non
steroidal anti-inflammatory
medications such as
ibuprofen. Acetaminophen or
paracetamol may be used.
================================================
If you have dengue:
• Avoid mosquito bites while you
have a fever.
• Don't let mosquitoes bite you. They
can infect other members of your
family with dengue after biting you.
• Use mosquito barriers until the fever
subsides, to prevent day-biting
mosquitoes from biting a sick person,
becoming infected, and then biting
someone else.
• Rest in a screened room or under a
bed net.
• Use insect repellents and spray
insecticide indoors if there are
mosquitoes.
================================
================
Dengue is carried by the Aedes aegypti
mosquito, which can be found in the
home.
This mosquito lays its eggs on the walls of
water holding containers that are found
around the home. Eggs hatch when
submerged in water. Within 8 days the
mosquito can complete its life cycle from
egg, to larvae, to pupae and to an adult
flying mosquito.
To help reduce the mosquito population in
your community and the risk of exposure
to dengue, eliminate larvae that grow in
stored water.
==========================================
If you have mosquitoes in your house:
Eliminate or control
any containers
where the mosquito
can lay her eggs,
either by emptying
the water, covering
them or turning them upside down.
• Keep mosquitoes outside by fixing or
installing window and door screens.
Don't give mosquitoes a place to
breed. A small amount of water can
be enough for a mosquito to lay her eggs
• Look around every week for possible
mosquito breeding places. Empty water
from buckets, cans, pool covers, flower
pots and other items that aren't being
used. Clean pet water bowls daily. Check
if rain gutters are clogged. If you store
water outside or have a cistern, make sure
it's covered up. Encourage your neighbors
to do the same.
If you have problems with the water
supply in your area and you have to
store water:
• Wash the interior of containers with a
brush or sponge, to remove mosquito eggs
that might be present, before filling them
with water.
• Keep containers with water tightly sealed
so that mosquitoes can not get inside and
lay eggs. If you observe mosquito larvae,
empty the container to eliminate any
mosquito eggs.
Dengue symptoms can include:
• Fever
• Headache
• Muscle and joint pains
• Nausea / vomiting
• Rash
• Hemorrhagic manifestations
If you have these symptoms, ask your physician to order a test for dengue.
========================================
Treatment:
• Rest, drink plenty of fluids
and consult a physician.
• Avoid pain relievers that
contain aspirin and non
steroidal anti-inflammatory
medications such as
ibuprofen. Acetaminophen or
paracetamol may be used.
================================================
If you have dengue:
• Avoid mosquito bites while you
have a fever.
• Don't let mosquitoes bite you. They
can infect other members of your
family with dengue after biting you.
• Use mosquito barriers until the fever
subsides, to prevent day-biting
mosquitoes from biting a sick person,
becoming infected, and then biting
someone else.
• Rest in a screened room or under a
bed net.
• Use insect repellents and spray
insecticide indoors if there are
mosquitoes.
================================
================Dengue is carried by the Aedes aegypti
mosquito, which can be found in the
home.
This mosquito lays its eggs on the walls of
water holding containers that are found
around the home. Eggs hatch when
submerged in water. Within 8 days the
mosquito can complete its life cycle from
egg, to larvae, to pupae and to an adult
flying mosquito.
To help reduce the mosquito population in
your community and the risk of exposure
to dengue, eliminate larvae that grow in
stored water.
==========================================
If you have mosquitoes in your house:
Eliminate or control
any containers
where the mosquito
can lay her eggs,
either by emptying
the water, covering
them or turning them upside down.
• Keep mosquitoes outside by fixing or
installing window and door screens.
Don't give mosquitoes a place to
breed. A small amount of water can
be enough for a mosquito to lay her eggs
• Look around every week for possible
mosquito breeding places. Empty water
from buckets, cans, pool covers, flower
pots and other items that aren't being
used. Clean pet water bowls daily. Check
if rain gutters are clogged. If you store
water outside or have a cistern, make sure
it's covered up. Encourage your neighbors
to do the same.
If you have problems with the water
supply in your area and you have to
store water:
• Wash the interior of containers with a
brush or sponge, to remove mosquito eggs
that might be present, before filling them
with water.
• Keep containers with water tightly sealed
so that mosquitoes can not get inside and
lay eggs. If you observe mosquito larvae,
empty the container to eliminate any
mosquito eggs.
Incorrect
In order to prevent the Aedes aegypti
mosquito from laying its eggs in
containers where you store water,
In order to prevent the Aedes aegypti
mosquito from laying its eggs in
containers where you store water,
keep it covered.
correct
correct
Remember that after the rain… there are more mosquitoes
Some mosquitoes lay eggs in the walls of
artificial (plastic, metal, glass) containers
with fresh water. Other mosquitoes prefer
dirty water in trenches or brackish water in
swamps to reproduce. In only one week
these eggs can hatch and grow into adult
mosquitoes.
Immediately after the rain, SEARCH for and
ELIMINATE all WATER accumulated in
containers and help your community to
PREVENT DENGUE.
artificial (plastic, metal, glass) containers
with fresh water. Other mosquitoes prefer
dirty water in trenches or brackish water in
swamps to reproduce. In only one week
these eggs can hatch and grow into adult
mosquitoes.
Immediately after the rain, SEARCH for and
ELIMINATE all WATER accumulated in
containers and help your community to
PREVENT DENGUE.
C EN T ERS FO R DI S E A S E C O N TROL
A N D PRE V E N T I O N
1324 Cañada Street
Puerto Nuevo
San Juan, Puerto Rico 00920
Phone: 787-706-2399
Fax: 787-706-2496
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvbid/dengue/index.htm
Sunday, March 28, 2010
Vaccinations - The Darker Side
There is a wide spread assumption that vaccinations of the young children
against infectious diseases are good thing both for the children themselves
and the community as a whole. This leads to further assumption that the
vaccination of all children would eliminate these diseases with general
increase of health. However a search of medical literature on the subject
indicates that there is another side of this.
THE PRINCIPLE OF VACCINATION: By injecting the vaccine directly
into body an important part of usual system of building up of an immune
response to a foreign material is bypassed. For example a child inhales
measles virus in a droplet thrown into air by coughing or sneezing of an
infected child, nothing appears to happen during the ten to fourteen day
incubation period. But under the surface the virus begins to multiply first in
tonsils & adenoids & then in lymph nodes before entering the blood. Hence
the virus reaches the spleen, liver, thymus and bone marrow which together
form a major part of the immune system. By the time first symptoms of the
measles become obvious, the immune system has started to produce
antibodies against the virus and these are detectable in blood. When the
symptoms reach their peak and the characteristic rash has appeared, the
antibodies have also reached their maximum number.
The symptoms represent the body’s efforts to clear the virus from the blood
and the virus is coughed out by very route through which it entered.
In this way, the entire immune system is profoundly stimulated and not only
will the child who recovers from measles remain immune to it for life but he
or she will be able to respond rapidly and effectively to any subsequent
infections. It has long been suggested that infectious diseases are necessary
for maturation of the immune system in a healthy child.
As a result of injecting vaccine directly into the body, only the antibody
response is stimulated, not he generalised inflammatory response and viral
elements from the vaccine may persist in body for long afterwards. Due to
this vaccinations may actually suppress the immune response in the same
way that radiation, cancer, chemotherapy and corticosteroid drugs.
A link between increased incidence of autoimmune diseases like rheumatoid
arthritis, multiple sclerosis and leukemia and increase in vaccinations is also
being probed.
Small Pox: - Jenner developed vaccine for small pox in 1796. There are two
things of interest around this time of Jenner`s work. First is that James
Phipps, an eight-year-old boy initially vaccinated by Jenner in 1796, was
re-vaccinated 20 times, died at the age of twenty.
Second Jenner`s own son, who was also vaccinated more than once, died at
the age of twenty-one. Both succumbed to tuberculosis, a condition that
some researchers have linked to small pox vaccination.
Another thing of importance is that small pox and other communicable
diseases were declining before vaccination programs were enforced. This
may be attributed to the sanitary reforms and nutritional teachings instituted
around mid 1800s, as other communicable diseases for which no vaccination
was available were also declining at the same time.
The interesting thing however is that incidence of small pox actually
increased once vaccination programs were instituted. In Jenner`s time, there
were only few cases of smallpox in England. After more than fifteen years of
mandatory vaccinations, 1860-71 alone more than 23000 people died from
the disease. Later, in Japan, nearly 29000 people died in just seven years
under a stringent compulsory vaccination and re-vaccination program.
This increase in smallpox cases deaths was associated with a noticeable lack
of protection. For example in Germany over 124000 people died of smallpox
during the same epidemic. All had been vaccinated. Additionally, hospital
records consistently show that about 90 percent of all smallpox cases
occurred after the individual was vaccinated.
This lack of efficacy and increase in disease incidence, while other
communicable diseases were on decline, led to the refusal of small pox
vaccination by some countries. This resulted in drop of the incidence of the
disease that is quite remarkable. In Australia, when two children died from
smallpox shots, the government terminated compulsory vaccinations. As a
result smallpox virtually disappeared from that country.
Polio: This is another disease for which people assume that vaccination has
made a difference in incidence. From 1923 to 1953, before the Salk killed
virus vaccine was introduced, the polio death rate in USA and England had
already declined on its own by 47 percent and 55 percent respectively.
When vaccines became available, many European countries questioned its
effectiveness and refused to systematically inoculate their citizens. Yet Polio
epidemics also ended in these countries as well.
As with smallpox vaccine, the number of reported cases of polio following
mass inoculations with killed virus vaccine were significantly greater than
before mass vaccinations.
In 1976, Dr Jones Salk testified that the live virus vaccine, used almost
exclusively in USA since early 60`s was “ the principle if not the solo cause
‘ of all reported polio cases in USA since 1960.
Few days back in a popular Indian TV show children of a village were
shown. All of them got affected with polio after taking polio drops.
MMR: When this vaccine for measles, mumps and rubella was launched in
1988, it was implied that a single dose would provide life long protection
against all three diseases. Yet if we look further at just one component of this
vaccine – Rubella, there is little evidence to show that vaccine induced
immunity to disease is complete or as long lasting as immunity acquired by
having the disease.
Rubella is generally mild in childhood but may damage the unborn child if a
woman contracts the disease in early pregnancy.
In USA, where MMR Vaccine has been available for more than 10 years, a
number of studies have shown that a proportion of children have no
evidence of immunity to rubella in blood tests taken four to five years after
vaccination.
A Danish study has shown that when measles has been suppressed in
childhood by vaccination so that the typical rash was not shown but
antibodies were made, there was a predisposition to develop arthritis,
dermatitis and bone diseases later in life. A 1991 study by Marvin Krober
revealed that even a simple coryza could neutralize the vaccine.
The information supplied to doctors by the manufacturers of MMR Vaccine
lists the following – Immediate allergic reactions, Febrile convulsions,
Swelling of lymph glands, Temporary arthritic symptoms, transient
disturbance of nervous system including one sided paralysis, deafness and
encephalitis. Some of these symptoms may not develop until several weeks
after the injection.
DPT: The major controversy over the use of Peruses (Whooping Cough)
vaccine has been the possibility of Brain damage. Data published form
Glasgow in 1977 showed that the vaccine offered little protection to infants
under the age of six months, the most dangerous time to get this disease and
the majority of the older children who suffered the disease had been fully
vaccinated.
Known effects are: Sudden death of an previously completely healthy child
(Sudden infant death syndrome); inconsolable crying, more or less severe
brain damage appearing within a given time period after inoculation;
Localized redness, swelling, induration and pain at the site of vaccination;
Exceptionally high fevers, pronounced sleepiness, strabismus, epileptic
seizures, hemiplegia, paraplegia and epileptoid convulsions. These are the
effects for which the children may suffer for the rest of their lives and which
are remarkably resistant to therapy. A number of less obvious damages are
hyperactivity beginning for the time of vaccination, learning disabilities,
dyslexia, reading disorders, character flaws appearing in the aftermath.
Due to these harmful side effects the US congress passed the “National
Childhood Vaccine Injury Compensation Act ” for the children who were
damaged by the side effects of the vaccines.
Measles Vaccine: Measles vaccine was introduced in 1963, yet in US and
England, from 1915 to 1958, a greater than 95 percent decline in measles
death rate had already occurred. In addition, the death rate from measles in
Mid 1970`s i.e. several years after vaccine had been introduced remained as
same as in early 1960`s i.e. several years before the vaccine was introduced.
According to a study by WHO, chances are 14 times greater that those
vaccinated against the disease than those who are not vaccinated will
contract measles.
It has been determined that the measles vaccine may cause ataxia, learning
disabilities, retardation, aseptic meningitis, seizure disorders, paralysis and
death. It has also been investigated as a possible cause for multiple sclerosis,
blood clotting disorders and juvenile onset diabetes.
Another additional harmful effect is that the disease has changed form and
now affects primarily a different age group. The peak incidence of measles
no longer occurs in children but in adolescents and young adults.
Also before the vaccine was introduced, it was extremely rare for an infant
to contract measles. However by 1993 more than 25% of all measles cases
were occurring in babies under a year of age. This is attributed to the
growing number of mothers who were vaccinated during the last 30 years
and therefore have no natural immunity of their own to pass on to their
children.
BCG: This vaccine is used as preventive against tuberculosis. Few weeks
back in all major newspapers a report from Indian Council of Medical
Research said that this vaccine is a failure and it has actually lead to an
increase in the number of tuberculosis patients.
There is no scientific evidence so far that mass vaccination can be credited
with eliminating any childhood infectious disease. The incidence of
diphtheria was already declining before vaccine started in 1940`s. Some,
once common diseases have become less widespread and serious through
increased standards of hygiene and nutrition. Scarlet fever is now rare
disease and yet a vaccine has never been developed against it.
Where a vaccine offers only a limited protection against a disease, changed
symptoms may appear causing difficulty with diagnosis and treatment.
For example, some vaccinated children have been shown to have whooping
cough, although the traditional whoop was absent.
As WHO maintains, “ The best vaccine against common infectious diseases
is an adequate diet”. By active promotion of good health through varied diet
containing plenty of fresh fruits, vegetables, a child is less susceptible to
disease and when it does occur, he or she is in a good position to deal with it
effectively.
Dr Dushyant Kamal Dhari
09-01-2000 Daily Excelsior.
(NaturalNews) Vaccines are the quackery of modern medicine. Mass
vaccination programs not only fail to protect the population from infectious
disease, they actually accelerate the spread of disease in many cases.
Many website have cropped up over the last few years to counter the provaccine
propaganda put out by drug companies (who profit from vaccines) and
health regulators (who serve the drug companies). One of those sites is
www.VaccinationDebate.com , which lists the following historical facts about
vaccines:
• In the USA in 1960, two virologists discovered that both polio vaccines were
contaminated with the SV 40 virus which causes cancer in animals as well as
changes in human cell tissue cultures. Millions of children had been injected
with these vaccines. (Med Jnl of Australia 17/3/1973 p555)
• In 1871-2, England, with 98% of the population aged between 2 and 50
vaccinated against smallpox, it experienced its worst ever smallpox outbreak
with 45,000 deaths. During the same period in Germany, with a vaccination
rate of 96%, there were over 125,000 deaths from smallpox.
(http://www.soilandhealth.org/02/020...)
The Hadwen Documents
• In Germany, compulsory mass vaccination against diphtheria commenced in
1940 and by 1945 diphtheria cases were up from 40,000 to 250,000. (Don't Get
Stuck, Hannah Allen)
• In 1967, Ghana was declared measles free by the World Health Organisation
after 96% of its population was vaccinated. In 1972, Ghana experienced one of
its worst measles outbreaks with its highest ever mortality rate. (Dr H Albonico,
MMR Vaccine Campaign in Switzerland, March 1990)
• In 1977, Dr Jonas Salk who developed the first polio vaccine, testified along
with other scientists, that mass inoculation against polio was the cause of most
polio cases throughout the USA since 1961. (Science 4/4/77 "Abstracts" )
• In the UK between 1970 and 1990, over 200,000 cases of whooping cough
occurred in fully vaccinated children. (Community Disease Surveillance Centre,
UK)
• In the 1970's a tuberculosis vaccine trial in India involving 260,000 people
revealed that more cases of TB occurred in the vaccinated than the
unvaccinated. (The Lancet 12/1/80 p73)
• In 1978, a survey of 30 States in the US revealed that more than half of the
children who contracted measles had been adequately vaccinated. (The
People's Doctor, Dr R Mendelsohn)
• The February 1981 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association
found that 90% of obstetricians and 66% of pediatricians refused to take the
rubella vaccine.
• In 1979, Sweden abandoned the whooping cough vaccine due to its
ineffectiveness. Out of 5,140 cases in 1978, it was found that 84% had been
vaccinated three times! (BMJ 283:696-697, 1981)
• In the USA, the cost of a single DPT shot had risen from 11 cents in 1982 to
$11.40 in 1987. The manufacturers of the vaccine were putting aside $8 per
shot to cover legal costs and damages they were paying out to parents of brain
damaged children and children who died after vaccination. (The Vine, Issue 7,
January 1994, Nambour, Qld)
• In Oman between 1988 and 1989, a polio outbreak occurred amongst
thousands of fully vaccinated children. The region with the highest attack rate
had the highest vaccine coverage. The region with the lowest attack rate had
the lowest vaccine coverage. (The Lancet, 21/9/91)
• In 1990, a UK survey involving 598 doctors revealed that over 50% of them
refused to have the Hepatitis B vaccine despite belonging to the high risk group
urged to be vaccinated. (British Med Jnl, 27/1/1990)
• In the USA, from July 1990 to November 1993, the US Food and Drug
Administration counted a total of 54,072 adverse reactions following
vaccination. The FDA admitted that this number represented only 10% of the
real total, because most doctors were refusing to report vaccine injuries. In
other words, adverse reactions for this period exceeded half a million! (National
Vaccine Information Centre, March 2, 1994)
• In 1990, the Journal of the American Medical Association had an article on
measles which stated " Although more than 95% of school-aged children in the
US are vaccinated against measles, large measles outbreaks continue to occur
in schools and most cases in this setting occur among previously vaccinated
children." (JAMA, 21/11/90)
• In the New England Journal of Medicine July 1994 issue a study found that
over 80% of children under 5 years of age who had contracted whooping cough
had been fully vaccinated.
• On November 2nd, 2000, the Association of American Physicians and
Surgeons (AAPS) announced that its members voted at their 57th annual
meeting in St Louis to pass a resolution calling for an end to mandatory
childhood vaccines. The resolution passed without a single "no" vote.
http://www.wellnesschiro.com/physic...
(Report by Michael Devitt)
Source: http://www.vaccinationdebate.com/we...
against infectious diseases are good thing both for the children themselves
and the community as a whole. This leads to further assumption that the
vaccination of all children would eliminate these diseases with general
increase of health. However a search of medical literature on the subject
indicates that there is another side of this.
THE PRINCIPLE OF VACCINATION: By injecting the vaccine directly
into body an important part of usual system of building up of an immune
response to a foreign material is bypassed. For example a child inhales
measles virus in a droplet thrown into air by coughing or sneezing of an
infected child, nothing appears to happen during the ten to fourteen day
incubation period. But under the surface the virus begins to multiply first in
tonsils & adenoids & then in lymph nodes before entering the blood. Hence
the virus reaches the spleen, liver, thymus and bone marrow which together
form a major part of the immune system. By the time first symptoms of the
measles become obvious, the immune system has started to produce
antibodies against the virus and these are detectable in blood. When the
symptoms reach their peak and the characteristic rash has appeared, the
antibodies have also reached their maximum number.
The symptoms represent the body’s efforts to clear the virus from the blood
and the virus is coughed out by very route through which it entered.
In this way, the entire immune system is profoundly stimulated and not only
will the child who recovers from measles remain immune to it for life but he
or she will be able to respond rapidly and effectively to any subsequent
infections. It has long been suggested that infectious diseases are necessary
for maturation of the immune system in a healthy child.
As a result of injecting vaccine directly into the body, only the antibody
response is stimulated, not he generalised inflammatory response and viral
elements from the vaccine may persist in body for long afterwards. Due to
this vaccinations may actually suppress the immune response in the same
way that radiation, cancer, chemotherapy and corticosteroid drugs.
A link between increased incidence of autoimmune diseases like rheumatoid
arthritis, multiple sclerosis and leukemia and increase in vaccinations is also
being probed.
Small Pox: - Jenner developed vaccine for small pox in 1796. There are two
things of interest around this time of Jenner`s work. First is that James
Phipps, an eight-year-old boy initially vaccinated by Jenner in 1796, was
re-vaccinated 20 times, died at the age of twenty.
Second Jenner`s own son, who was also vaccinated more than once, died at
the age of twenty-one. Both succumbed to tuberculosis, a condition that
some researchers have linked to small pox vaccination.
Another thing of importance is that small pox and other communicable
diseases were declining before vaccination programs were enforced. This
may be attributed to the sanitary reforms and nutritional teachings instituted
around mid 1800s, as other communicable diseases for which no vaccination
was available were also declining at the same time.
The interesting thing however is that incidence of small pox actually
increased once vaccination programs were instituted. In Jenner`s time, there
were only few cases of smallpox in England. After more than fifteen years of
mandatory vaccinations, 1860-71 alone more than 23000 people died from
the disease. Later, in Japan, nearly 29000 people died in just seven years
under a stringent compulsory vaccination and re-vaccination program.
This increase in smallpox cases deaths was associated with a noticeable lack
of protection. For example in Germany over 124000 people died of smallpox
during the same epidemic. All had been vaccinated. Additionally, hospital
records consistently show that about 90 percent of all smallpox cases
occurred after the individual was vaccinated.
This lack of efficacy and increase in disease incidence, while other
communicable diseases were on decline, led to the refusal of small pox
vaccination by some countries. This resulted in drop of the incidence of the
disease that is quite remarkable. In Australia, when two children died from
smallpox shots, the government terminated compulsory vaccinations. As a
result smallpox virtually disappeared from that country.
Polio: This is another disease for which people assume that vaccination has
made a difference in incidence. From 1923 to 1953, before the Salk killed
virus vaccine was introduced, the polio death rate in USA and England had
already declined on its own by 47 percent and 55 percent respectively.
When vaccines became available, many European countries questioned its
effectiveness and refused to systematically inoculate their citizens. Yet Polio
epidemics also ended in these countries as well.
As with smallpox vaccine, the number of reported cases of polio following
mass inoculations with killed virus vaccine were significantly greater than
before mass vaccinations.
In 1976, Dr Jones Salk testified that the live virus vaccine, used almost
exclusively in USA since early 60`s was “ the principle if not the solo cause
‘ of all reported polio cases in USA since 1960.
Few days back in a popular Indian TV show children of a village were
shown. All of them got affected with polio after taking polio drops.
MMR: When this vaccine for measles, mumps and rubella was launched in
1988, it was implied that a single dose would provide life long protection
against all three diseases. Yet if we look further at just one component of this
vaccine – Rubella, there is little evidence to show that vaccine induced
immunity to disease is complete or as long lasting as immunity acquired by
having the disease.
Rubella is generally mild in childhood but may damage the unborn child if a
woman contracts the disease in early pregnancy.
In USA, where MMR Vaccine has been available for more than 10 years, a
number of studies have shown that a proportion of children have no
evidence of immunity to rubella in blood tests taken four to five years after
vaccination.
A Danish study has shown that when measles has been suppressed in
childhood by vaccination so that the typical rash was not shown but
antibodies were made, there was a predisposition to develop arthritis,
dermatitis and bone diseases later in life. A 1991 study by Marvin Krober
revealed that even a simple coryza could neutralize the vaccine.
The information supplied to doctors by the manufacturers of MMR Vaccine
lists the following – Immediate allergic reactions, Febrile convulsions,
Swelling of lymph glands, Temporary arthritic symptoms, transient
disturbance of nervous system including one sided paralysis, deafness and
encephalitis. Some of these symptoms may not develop until several weeks
after the injection.
DPT: The major controversy over the use of Peruses (Whooping Cough)
vaccine has been the possibility of Brain damage. Data published form
Glasgow in 1977 showed that the vaccine offered little protection to infants
under the age of six months, the most dangerous time to get this disease and
the majority of the older children who suffered the disease had been fully
vaccinated.
Known effects are: Sudden death of an previously completely healthy child
(Sudden infant death syndrome); inconsolable crying, more or less severe
brain damage appearing within a given time period after inoculation;
Localized redness, swelling, induration and pain at the site of vaccination;
Exceptionally high fevers, pronounced sleepiness, strabismus, epileptic
seizures, hemiplegia, paraplegia and epileptoid convulsions. These are the
effects for which the children may suffer for the rest of their lives and which
are remarkably resistant to therapy. A number of less obvious damages are
hyperactivity beginning for the time of vaccination, learning disabilities,
dyslexia, reading disorders, character flaws appearing in the aftermath.
Due to these harmful side effects the US congress passed the “National
Childhood Vaccine Injury Compensation Act ” for the children who were
damaged by the side effects of the vaccines.
Measles Vaccine: Measles vaccine was introduced in 1963, yet in US and
England, from 1915 to 1958, a greater than 95 percent decline in measles
death rate had already occurred. In addition, the death rate from measles in
Mid 1970`s i.e. several years after vaccine had been introduced remained as
same as in early 1960`s i.e. several years before the vaccine was introduced.
According to a study by WHO, chances are 14 times greater that those
vaccinated against the disease than those who are not vaccinated will
contract measles.
It has been determined that the measles vaccine may cause ataxia, learning
disabilities, retardation, aseptic meningitis, seizure disorders, paralysis and
death. It has also been investigated as a possible cause for multiple sclerosis,
blood clotting disorders and juvenile onset diabetes.
Another additional harmful effect is that the disease has changed form and
now affects primarily a different age group. The peak incidence of measles
no longer occurs in children but in adolescents and young adults.
Also before the vaccine was introduced, it was extremely rare for an infant
to contract measles. However by 1993 more than 25% of all measles cases
were occurring in babies under a year of age. This is attributed to the
growing number of mothers who were vaccinated during the last 30 years
and therefore have no natural immunity of their own to pass on to their
children.
BCG: This vaccine is used as preventive against tuberculosis. Few weeks
back in all major newspapers a report from Indian Council of Medical
Research said that this vaccine is a failure and it has actually lead to an
increase in the number of tuberculosis patients.
There is no scientific evidence so far that mass vaccination can be credited
with eliminating any childhood infectious disease. The incidence of
diphtheria was already declining before vaccine started in 1940`s. Some,
once common diseases have become less widespread and serious through
increased standards of hygiene and nutrition. Scarlet fever is now rare
disease and yet a vaccine has never been developed against it.
Where a vaccine offers only a limited protection against a disease, changed
symptoms may appear causing difficulty with diagnosis and treatment.
For example, some vaccinated children have been shown to have whooping
cough, although the traditional whoop was absent.
As WHO maintains, “ The best vaccine against common infectious diseases
is an adequate diet”. By active promotion of good health through varied diet
containing plenty of fresh fruits, vegetables, a child is less susceptible to
disease and when it does occur, he or she is in a good position to deal with it
effectively.
Dr Dushyant Kamal Dhari
09-01-2000 Daily Excelsior.
(NaturalNews) Vaccines are the quackery of modern medicine. Mass
vaccination programs not only fail to protect the population from infectious
disease, they actually accelerate the spread of disease in many cases.
Many website have cropped up over the last few years to counter the provaccine
propaganda put out by drug companies (who profit from vaccines) and
health regulators (who serve the drug companies). One of those sites is
www.VaccinationDebate.com , which lists the following historical facts about
vaccines:
• In the USA in 1960, two virologists discovered that both polio vaccines were
contaminated with the SV 40 virus which causes cancer in animals as well as
changes in human cell tissue cultures. Millions of children had been injected
with these vaccines. (Med Jnl of Australia 17/3/1973 p555)
• In 1871-2, England, with 98% of the population aged between 2 and 50
vaccinated against smallpox, it experienced its worst ever smallpox outbreak
with 45,000 deaths. During the same period in Germany, with a vaccination
rate of 96%, there were over 125,000 deaths from smallpox.
(http://www.soilandhealth.org/02/020...)
The Hadwen Documents
• In Germany, compulsory mass vaccination against diphtheria commenced in
1940 and by 1945 diphtheria cases were up from 40,000 to 250,000. (Don't Get
Stuck, Hannah Allen)
• In 1967, Ghana was declared measles free by the World Health Organisation
after 96% of its population was vaccinated. In 1972, Ghana experienced one of
its worst measles outbreaks with its highest ever mortality rate. (Dr H Albonico,
MMR Vaccine Campaign in Switzerland, March 1990)
• In 1977, Dr Jonas Salk who developed the first polio vaccine, testified along
with other scientists, that mass inoculation against polio was the cause of most
polio cases throughout the USA since 1961. (Science 4/4/77 "Abstracts" )
• In the UK between 1970 and 1990, over 200,000 cases of whooping cough
occurred in fully vaccinated children. (Community Disease Surveillance Centre,
UK)
• In the 1970's a tuberculosis vaccine trial in India involving 260,000 people
revealed that more cases of TB occurred in the vaccinated than the
unvaccinated. (The Lancet 12/1/80 p73)
• In 1978, a survey of 30 States in the US revealed that more than half of the
children who contracted measles had been adequately vaccinated. (The
People's Doctor, Dr R Mendelsohn)
• The February 1981 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association
found that 90% of obstetricians and 66% of pediatricians refused to take the
rubella vaccine.
• In 1979, Sweden abandoned the whooping cough vaccine due to its
ineffectiveness. Out of 5,140 cases in 1978, it was found that 84% had been
vaccinated three times! (BMJ 283:696-697, 1981)
• In the USA, the cost of a single DPT shot had risen from 11 cents in 1982 to
$11.40 in 1987. The manufacturers of the vaccine were putting aside $8 per
shot to cover legal costs and damages they were paying out to parents of brain
damaged children and children who died after vaccination. (The Vine, Issue 7,
January 1994, Nambour, Qld)
• In Oman between 1988 and 1989, a polio outbreak occurred amongst
thousands of fully vaccinated children. The region with the highest attack rate
had the highest vaccine coverage. The region with the lowest attack rate had
the lowest vaccine coverage. (The Lancet, 21/9/91)
• In 1990, a UK survey involving 598 doctors revealed that over 50% of them
refused to have the Hepatitis B vaccine despite belonging to the high risk group
urged to be vaccinated. (British Med Jnl, 27/1/1990)
• In the USA, from July 1990 to November 1993, the US Food and Drug
Administration counted a total of 54,072 adverse reactions following
vaccination. The FDA admitted that this number represented only 10% of the
real total, because most doctors were refusing to report vaccine injuries. In
other words, adverse reactions for this period exceeded half a million! (National
Vaccine Information Centre, March 2, 1994)
• In 1990, the Journal of the American Medical Association had an article on
measles which stated " Although more than 95% of school-aged children in the
US are vaccinated against measles, large measles outbreaks continue to occur
in schools and most cases in this setting occur among previously vaccinated
children." (JAMA, 21/11/90)
• In the New England Journal of Medicine July 1994 issue a study found that
over 80% of children under 5 years of age who had contracted whooping cough
had been fully vaccinated.
• On November 2nd, 2000, the Association of American Physicians and
Surgeons (AAPS) announced that its members voted at their 57th annual
meeting in St Louis to pass a resolution calling for an end to mandatory
childhood vaccines. The resolution passed without a single "no" vote.
http://www.wellnesschiro.com/physic...
(Report by Michael Devitt)
Source: http://www.vaccinationdebate.com/we...
FOOD FACTS
FACTS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT FOOD
1. The food industry annually spends over £10.5 3
billion on chemicals to add to food and alter it
2. The largest modern fishing trawler drags a net
twice the size of the Millennium Dome in London
3. The contents of the average British shopping
trolley travel 95,000 miles to get there
4. One in three kids born in America in 2000 will
develop Type 2 diabetes
5. The smell of raspberry comes from the interaction
of over 300 different chemicals
6. It takes 5,000 litres of water to make 1kg of
cheese, 20,000 litres to grow 1kg of coffee, and
100,000 litres to produce 1kg of hamburger beef
7. McDonalds gives away over 1.5 billion toys every
year
8. In just ten years, Vietnam has made itself the
worlds second-largest coffee producer, growing
fourteen times more coffee than a decade ago
9. A third of all the fruit and vegetables we eat
contain pesticide residues
10. The worlds most delicious, nutritious food
disappeared 2,000 years ago
11. Changes in farming have cut levels of vital
minerals in fruit and vegetables by up to 75%
12. The UK market for probiotic yoghurts was worth
a third of a billion pounds in 2006
13. 80% of ten-year-old American girls diet
14. The way fast food changes brain chemistry can
make it as addictive as heroin
15. Up to 4 million people in the USA are infected by
salmonella food poisoning each year
16. Natural chemicals found in onions and garlic may
protect against cancer
17. Most people in the world lose their ability to digest
milk when theyre young
18. The organic food industry is expanding by 11% a
year
19. Avocados contain a special kind of sugar that
helps prevent low blood sugar, so may be the
ideal diet food
20. The temperature of food affects its taste
21. Drinking a little red wine could be good for your
brain
22. Chicken breasts are often less than 54% chicken,
and may even contain pork or beef
23. Studies in Australia suggest that over half the
profit of big supermarkets comes from
contributions from suppliers
24. Margarine enriched with plant sterols may help
guard against heart disease
25. More than a billion people around the world are
classified as overweight; nearly a billion people
are now malnourished
26. Beef consumption has risen 240% in China in the
last ten years
27. The biggest beneficiaries of the European Unions
farming subsidies are not farmers but food
manufacturers
28. Two out of every five beans grown go to waste
because theyre rejected by supermarkets
29. Replacing hydrogenated fat with natural
unhydrogenated vegetable oils in processed
food would prevent 100,000 deaths a year from
heart disease in the USA alone
30. Consumption of broccoli has risen 940% in the
last 25 years in the USA
31. By 2007, 158 people in Europe had died of the
disease vCJD caused by eating beef infected
with BSE
32. A 350g portion of 90% fat-free pie would give a
woman over half her daily recommended fat intake
33. Omega-3 oils may help to increase attention span
and improve brain function
34. 75% of the salt in our diet comes from processed
foods
35. Strawberry-flavoured yoghurt may contain very
little strawberry; strawberry-flavour contains no
strawberry at all
36. 47% of broiler chickens sold suffer from crippling
bone disorders
37. The food industry spends $40 billion on
advertising food every year
38. Cheese contains ten times the amount of the two
supposed feel-good chemicals in chocolate
39. The aroma of liquorice may be a genuine
aphrodisiac
40. Dessert is traditionally served after dinner
because of 17th-century concerns about sugar
41. In the USA, the key tool in government advice for
the general public on nutrition is the food pyramid
42. Polytunnels give Spanish lettuce growers four
crops a year
43. Antibiotic-resistant GM bacteria, introduced
to help make crops self-fertilising, are now
widespread in American soil
44. 60% of deaths around the world are related to
changes in diet and increased consumption of
fatty, salty and sugary food
45. The average fourteen-year-old today is taller than
the average soldier in the Boer War 100 years ago
because of improved nutrition
46. Milk from cloned, genetically modified farm
animals could be medicines for the future
47. It takes more than three hours to burn off the
energy in a small packet of crisps
48. McDonalds food contains so many preservatives
and chemicals that it doesnt grow mould
49. Junk food can impair mental ability
50. It takes 23kg of fishmeal protein to produce each
kilogram of farmed fish protein
51. A strawberry milk-shake in a fast-food outlet
contains at least 59 ingredients; making one at
home takes four
52. Instant coffee, typically costing $25 or more per
kilo, may be bought from growers at just 14 cents
per kilo, a mark-up of 7,000%
53. British people buy 1.8 billion sandwiches a year
54. Trials are under way with crops genetically
engineered to deliver edible vaccines
55. 90% of American milk comes from a single breed
of cow
56. About 1 in 4 people in the Western world are said
to be allergic to monosodium glutamate
57. Wal-Mart is the worlds largest retailer, with
annual sales of well over $250 billion
58. Honey may contain significant levels of
antibiotics
59. Eating potatoes will raise your blood sugar levels
more than eating an equivalent amount of castor
sugar
60. Children in Europe and the USA eat more than
twice the recommended amount of salt in their
diet every day
61. Bananas contain a chemical called tryptophan
which makes them the perfect night-time food
62. 1 in 30 or so adults and 1 in 15 children suffers
from an allergy or physical intolerance to a
particular food
63. France lost half of its farmers between 1982 and
1999; Germany has lost 25% of its farmers since
1995
64. One of the fastest growing sectors in the food
market is for so-called functional foods or
neutraceuticals
65. Blueberries may be more effective in protecting
people against heart disease than statin drugs
66. 28 million Americans are at risk of osteoporosis
because their diet is not rich enough in calcium
67. The world produces and eats over 134 million
tonnes of sugar a year
68. In the 1950s, around 60% of the cost of food
in the shops went to the farmers. Now its less
than 9%
69. 97% of English meadows, 60% of ancient
woodland and 20,000 miles of traditional
hedgerow have been lost since 1950
70. A pound of minced beef can contain the meat
from up to 400 different cows
71. Genetically modified rice could not only stop
many people starving but could prevent half
a million children a year going blind
72. A typical family throws away 3050kg of food
packaging every month
73. 60% of all food on supermarket shelves probably
contains soya
74. The average American consumes 3,699 calories of
food energy a day
75. Almost 10 million live cows, 17 million pigs and
18 million sheep are transported around the world
every year
76. If a meat-packing plant has surplus meat at the
end of the day, it can put a new use-by date on
the pack and send it out the next day
77. The B vitamins are vital for the health of the
brain
78. Pre-washed salads are typically washed in 144
chlorine solution twenty times stronger than
that in a swimming pool
79. The best way to stay young may be to eat less
80. The first GM food product was the Flavr-Savr
tomato, which went on sale in 1994
81. A number of foods have been labelled superfoods
because of their supposed health benefits
82. A cup or two of coffee daily can improve mental
performance and alertness
83. Simply by eating, most of us are building up a
store of toxic environmental chemicals in our
bodies
84. Over four-fifths of the worlds grain is marketed
by just three large American corporations
85. On average, people in the UK eat out at least
once a day
86. Deficiencies in essential acids in the diet can
cause health problems
87. The sweetener aspartame can cause mental
retardation in infants with phenylketonuria
(PKU)
88. Most bread is now at least 45% water
89. People who eat organic foods are eight times
more likely to be attacked by the deadly new
E. coli bacteria
90. A simple lack of vitamin A makes tens of
thousands of children go blind each year
91. Half of the worlds total food energy and a third
of its protein comes from just three cereals: wheat,
rice and maize
92. Surveys of childrens food show that a third
contains azo dyes linked to asthma and
hyperactivity
93. A third of all food produced in the UK is simply
thrown away
94. The human body needs to take in small quantities
of certain minerals regularly to stay healthy
95. Sales of chicken have increased five-fold in the
last twenty years
96. Many food crops have now been genetically
engineered to be weedkiller-resistant
97. Amino acids are the basic materials from which
all living matter is made
98. Food filled with chemicals that counter the effect
of oxygen could slow down the ageing process
99. The Glycaemic Index may give a better idea of
how fattening a food is than calories alone
100. Eating dark chocolate could be good for your
heart
101. In future, meat may be grown in cubes in
factories
1. The food industry annually spends over £10.5 3
billion on chemicals to add to food and alter it
2. The largest modern fishing trawler drags a net
twice the size of the Millennium Dome in London
3. The contents of the average British shopping
trolley travel 95,000 miles to get there
4. One in three kids born in America in 2000 will
develop Type 2 diabetes
5. The smell of raspberry comes from the interaction
of over 300 different chemicals
6. It takes 5,000 litres of water to make 1kg of
cheese, 20,000 litres to grow 1kg of coffee, and
100,000 litres to produce 1kg of hamburger beef
7. McDonalds gives away over 1.5 billion toys every
year
8. In just ten years, Vietnam has made itself the
worlds second-largest coffee producer, growing
fourteen times more coffee than a decade ago
9. A third of all the fruit and vegetables we eat
contain pesticide residues
10. The worlds most delicious, nutritious food
disappeared 2,000 years ago
11. Changes in farming have cut levels of vital
minerals in fruit and vegetables by up to 75%
12. The UK market for probiotic yoghurts was worth
a third of a billion pounds in 2006
13. 80% of ten-year-old American girls diet
14. The way fast food changes brain chemistry can
make it as addictive as heroin
15. Up to 4 million people in the USA are infected by
salmonella food poisoning each year
16. Natural chemicals found in onions and garlic may
protect against cancer
17. Most people in the world lose their ability to digest
milk when theyre young
18. The organic food industry is expanding by 11% a
year
19. Avocados contain a special kind of sugar that
helps prevent low blood sugar, so may be the
ideal diet food
20. The temperature of food affects its taste
21. Drinking a little red wine could be good for your
brain
22. Chicken breasts are often less than 54% chicken,
and may even contain pork or beef
23. Studies in Australia suggest that over half the
profit of big supermarkets comes from
contributions from suppliers
24. Margarine enriched with plant sterols may help
guard against heart disease
25. More than a billion people around the world are
classified as overweight; nearly a billion people
are now malnourished
26. Beef consumption has risen 240% in China in the
last ten years
27. The biggest beneficiaries of the European Unions
farming subsidies are not farmers but food
manufacturers
28. Two out of every five beans grown go to waste
because theyre rejected by supermarkets
29. Replacing hydrogenated fat with natural
unhydrogenated vegetable oils in processed
food would prevent 100,000 deaths a year from
heart disease in the USA alone
30. Consumption of broccoli has risen 940% in the
last 25 years in the USA
31. By 2007, 158 people in Europe had died of the
disease vCJD caused by eating beef infected
with BSE
32. A 350g portion of 90% fat-free pie would give a
woman over half her daily recommended fat intake
33. Omega-3 oils may help to increase attention span
and improve brain function
34. 75% of the salt in our diet comes from processed
foods
35. Strawberry-flavoured yoghurt may contain very
little strawberry; strawberry-flavour contains no
strawberry at all
36. 47% of broiler chickens sold suffer from crippling
bone disorders
37. The food industry spends $40 billion on
advertising food every year
38. Cheese contains ten times the amount of the two
supposed feel-good chemicals in chocolate
39. The aroma of liquorice may be a genuine
aphrodisiac
40. Dessert is traditionally served after dinner
because of 17th-century concerns about sugar
41. In the USA, the key tool in government advice for
the general public on nutrition is the food pyramid
42. Polytunnels give Spanish lettuce growers four
crops a year
43. Antibiotic-resistant GM bacteria, introduced
to help make crops self-fertilising, are now
widespread in American soil
44. 60% of deaths around the world are related to
changes in diet and increased consumption of
fatty, salty and sugary food
45. The average fourteen-year-old today is taller than
the average soldier in the Boer War 100 years ago
because of improved nutrition
46. Milk from cloned, genetically modified farm
animals could be medicines for the future
47. It takes more than three hours to burn off the
energy in a small packet of crisps
48. McDonalds food contains so many preservatives
and chemicals that it doesnt grow mould
49. Junk food can impair mental ability
50. It takes 23kg of fishmeal protein to produce each
kilogram of farmed fish protein
51. A strawberry milk-shake in a fast-food outlet
contains at least 59 ingredients; making one at
home takes four
52. Instant coffee, typically costing $25 or more per
kilo, may be bought from growers at just 14 cents
per kilo, a mark-up of 7,000%
53. British people buy 1.8 billion sandwiches a year
54. Trials are under way with crops genetically
engineered to deliver edible vaccines
55. 90% of American milk comes from a single breed
of cow
56. About 1 in 4 people in the Western world are said
to be allergic to monosodium glutamate
57. Wal-Mart is the worlds largest retailer, with
annual sales of well over $250 billion
58. Honey may contain significant levels of
antibiotics
59. Eating potatoes will raise your blood sugar levels
more than eating an equivalent amount of castor
sugar
60. Children in Europe and the USA eat more than
twice the recommended amount of salt in their
diet every day
61. Bananas contain a chemical called tryptophan
which makes them the perfect night-time food
62. 1 in 30 or so adults and 1 in 15 children suffers
from an allergy or physical intolerance to a
particular food
63. France lost half of its farmers between 1982 and
1999; Germany has lost 25% of its farmers since
1995
64. One of the fastest growing sectors in the food
market is for so-called functional foods or
neutraceuticals
65. Blueberries may be more effective in protecting
people against heart disease than statin drugs
66. 28 million Americans are at risk of osteoporosis
because their diet is not rich enough in calcium
67. The world produces and eats over 134 million
tonnes of sugar a year
68. In the 1950s, around 60% of the cost of food
in the shops went to the farmers. Now its less
than 9%
69. 97% of English meadows, 60% of ancient
woodland and 20,000 miles of traditional
hedgerow have been lost since 1950
70. A pound of minced beef can contain the meat
from up to 400 different cows
71. Genetically modified rice could not only stop
many people starving but could prevent half
a million children a year going blind
72. A typical family throws away 3050kg of food
packaging every month
73. 60% of all food on supermarket shelves probably
contains soya
74. The average American consumes 3,699 calories of
food energy a day
75. Almost 10 million live cows, 17 million pigs and
18 million sheep are transported around the world
every year
76. If a meat-packing plant has surplus meat at the
end of the day, it can put a new use-by date on
the pack and send it out the next day
77. The B vitamins are vital for the health of the
brain
78. Pre-washed salads are typically washed in 144
chlorine solution twenty times stronger than
that in a swimming pool
79. The best way to stay young may be to eat less
80. The first GM food product was the Flavr-Savr
tomato, which went on sale in 1994
81. A number of foods have been labelled superfoods
because of their supposed health benefits
82. A cup or two of coffee daily can improve mental
performance and alertness
83. Simply by eating, most of us are building up a
store of toxic environmental chemicals in our
bodies
84. Over four-fifths of the worlds grain is marketed
by just three large American corporations
85. On average, people in the UK eat out at least
once a day
86. Deficiencies in essential acids in the diet can
cause health problems
87. The sweetener aspartame can cause mental
retardation in infants with phenylketonuria
(PKU)
88. Most bread is now at least 45% water
89. People who eat organic foods are eight times
more likely to be attacked by the deadly new
E. coli bacteria
90. A simple lack of vitamin A makes tens of
thousands of children go blind each year
91. Half of the worlds total food energy and a third
of its protein comes from just three cereals: wheat,
rice and maize
92. Surveys of childrens food show that a third
contains azo dyes linked to asthma and
hyperactivity
93. A third of all food produced in the UK is simply
thrown away
94. The human body needs to take in small quantities
of certain minerals regularly to stay healthy
95. Sales of chicken have increased five-fold in the
last twenty years
96. Many food crops have now been genetically
engineered to be weedkiller-resistant
97. Amino acids are the basic materials from which
all living matter is made
98. Food filled with chemicals that counter the effect
of oxygen could slow down the ageing process
99. The Glycaemic Index may give a better idea of
how fattening a food is than calories alone
100. Eating dark chocolate could be good for your
heart
101. In future, meat may be grown in cubes in
factories
DIESEL EXHAUST
Health Effects of Diesel Exhaust
What is diesel exhaust?
Diesel exhaust is produced when an engine burns diesel fuel.
It is a complex cocktail of thousands of gases and particles
(PM, also commonly known as soot) that contains more than
40 toxic air contaminants.
Diesel exhaust contains other harmful pollutants, including
nitrogen oxides that contribute to the formation of ozone.
Since 1990, diesel exhaust has been listed as a known carcinogen under California’s Prop 65. California has formally recognized diesel exhaust particulate as a toxic air contaminant.
A major source of particle pollution in California- over 90% of diesel emissions are estimated to be fine particles that can bypass respiratory systems and lodge deep in the lungs.
Photo taken from a presentation by Ed Avol, University of Southern California, Southern California Environmental Health Sciences Center
What are the health impacts of diesel exhaust?
The California Air Resources Board (CARB) has determined that more than 70 percent of the cancer the average Californian faces from breathing toxic pollutants stems from diesel exhaust particulate.
Epidemiological studies conducted in cities around the world have demonstrated a strong link between elevated particle pollution and increased death rates. CARB has linked particulate matter to 2,900 premature deaths statewide.
CARB has linked direct exposure to diesel particulate
to 5,400 premature hospital admissions for COPD,
pneumonia, cardiovascular disease and asthma.
Who is at risk?
Those spending time on or near roads and freeways,
truck loading and unloading operations, rail facilities,
and port operations may face particularly high levels
of diesel exhaust and consequently face higher health risks.
The twin Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach are the single largest source of toxic diesel pollution in the South Coast Air Basin. The amount of air pollution blowing inland every day from the Long Beach/Los Angeles ports is astoundingly equal to the amount of air pollution generated daily by three million cars. The pollution generated at the ports spreads throughout the basin, creating secondhand smog.
Children are particularly vulnerable to the health risks from diesel exposure. It is well known that children raised in heavily polluted areas face the prospect of reduced lung capacity and prematurely aged lungs.
Asthma is a serious health concern in port communities, especially among children. CARB has linked asthma with 3.3 million school absences per year in California. Missed school days affect children’s ability to learn and be successful in life.
Diesel exhaust contains more than 40 toxic air contaminants.
Diesel soot has been linked to asthma attacks and increased respiratory infections, hospitalizations, and school absences.
Effects of Some Common Air Pollutants1
Ozone (ground-level ozone is the principal component of smog)
Source - chemical reaction of pollutants; VOCs and NOx
Health Effects - breathing problems, reduced lung function, asthma, irritates eyes, stuffy nose, reduced resistance to colds and other infections, may speed up aging of lung tissue
Environmental Effects - can damage plants and trees; smog can cause reduced visibility
Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs); smog-formers
Source - VOCs are released from burning fuel (gasoline, oil, wood, coal, natural gas, etc.), solvents, paints, glues, and other products used at work or at home. Cars are an important source of VOCs. VOCs include chemicals such as benzene, toluene, methylene chloride and methyl, cholorform.
Health Effects- in addition to ozone (smog) effects, many VOCs can cause serious health problems such as cancer and other effects.
Environmental Effects – in addition to ozone (smog) effects, some VOCs such as formaldehyde and ethylene may harm plants
Nitrogen Dioxide (One of the Nox); smog-forming chemical
Source – burning of gasoline, natural gas, coal, oil, etc. Cars are an important source
Health Effects – lung damage, illnesses of breathing passages and lungs
Environmental Effects – nitrogen dioxide is an ingredient of acid rain (acid aerosols), which can damage trees and lakes. Acid aerosols can reduce visibility.
Carbon Monoxide (CO)
Source – burning of gasoline, natural gas, coal, oil, etc.
Health Effects – reduces ability of blood to bring oxygen to body cells and tissues; cells and tissues need oxygen to work. Carbon monoxide may be particularly hazardous to people who have heart or circulatory (blood vessel) problems and people who have damaged lungs or breathing passages.
Particulate Matter (PM-2.5 and PM-10)*; (dust, smoke, soot)
Source – burning of wood, diesel and other fuels; industrial plants; agriculture (plowing, burning of fields); unpaved roads
Health Effects – nose and throat irritation, lung damage, bronchitis, early death
Environmental Effects – particulates are the main source of haze that reduces visibility
*Both state and federal ambient air quality standards exist for respirable particulate matter (PM10) and fine particulate matter (PM2.5), but not for ultra fine particulate matter, which researchers are finding may be especially harmful to breathe.
Sulfur Dioxide
Source – burning of coal and oil, especially high-sulfur fuel used in ships; industrial processes (paper, metals)
Health Effects – breathing problems, may cause permanent damage to lungs
Environmental Effects – SO2 is an ingredient in acid rain (acid aerosols), which can damage trees and lakes. Acid particulates are the main source of haze that reduces visibility
1 Environmental Protection Agency. http://www.epa.gov/oar/oaqps/peg_caa/pegcaa11.html. Oct. 4, 2006. Fact Sheet developed by Colleen Callahan, American Lung Association of California, 2007
Friday, March 26, 2010
ProverbS and SayingS in English-1000
1. A bad beginning makes a bad ending.
2. A bad corn promise is better than a good lawsuit.
3. A bad workman quarrels with his tools.
4. A bargain is a bargain.
5. A beggar can never be bankrupt.
6. A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
7. A bird may be known by its song.
8. A black hen lays a white egg.
9. A blind leader of the blind.
10. A blind man would be glad to see.
11. A broken friendship may be soldered, but will never be sound.
12. A burden of one's own choice is not felt.
13. A burnt child dreads the fire.
14. A cat in gloves catches no mice.
15. A city that parleys is half gotten.
16. A civil denial is better than a rude grant.
17. A clean fast is better than a dirty breakfast.
18. A clean hand wants no washing.
19. A clear conscience laughs at false accusations.
20. A close mouth catches no flies.
21. A cock is valiant on his own dunghill.
22. A cracked bell can never sound well.
23. A creaking door hangs long on its hinges.
24. A curst cow has short horns.
25. A danger foreseen is half avoided.
26. A drop in the bucket.
27. A drowning man will catch at a straw.
28. A fair face may hide a foul heart.
29. A fault confessed is half redressed.
30. A fly in the ointment.
31. A fool always rushes to the fore.
32. A fool and his money are soon parted.
33. A fool at forty is a fool indeed.
34. A fool may ask more questions in an hour than a wise man can answer
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in seven years.
1000 Proverb and Saying in English
35. A fool may throw a stone into a well which a hundred wise men cannot
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pull out.
36. A fool's tongue runs before his wit.
37. A forced kindness deserves no thanks.
38. A foul morn may turn to a fair day.
39. A fox is not taken twice in the same snare.
40. A friend in need is a friend indeed.
41. A friend is never known till needed.
42. A friend to all is a friend to none.
43. A friend's frown is better than a foe's smile.
44. A good anvil does not fear the hammer.
45. A good beginning is half the battle.
46. A good beginning makes a good ending.
47. A good deed is never lost.
48. A good dog deserves a good bone.
49. A good example is the best sermon.
50. A good face is a letter of recommendation.
51. A good Jack makes a good Jill.
52. A good marksman may miss.
53. A good name is better than riches.
54. A good name is sooner lost than won.
55. A good name keeps its lustre in the dark.
56. A good wife makes a good husband.
57. A great dowry is a bed full of brambles.
58. A great fortune is a great slavery.
59. A great ship asks deep waters.
60. A guilty conscience needs no accuser.
61. A hard nut to crack.
62. A heavy purse makes a light heart.
63. A hedge between keeps friendship green.
64. A honey tongue, a heart of gall.
65. A hungry belly has no ears.
66. A hungry man is an angry man.
67. A Jack of all trades is master of none.
68. A Joke never gains an enemy but often loses a friend.
69. A lawyer never goes to law himself.
70. A lazy sheep thinks its wool heavy.
71. A liar is not believed when he speaks the truth.
72. A lie begets a lie.
73. A light purse is a heavy curse.
74. A light purse makes a heavy heart.
75. A little body often harbours a great soul.
76. A little fire is quickly trodden out.
77. A man can die but once.
78. A man can do no more than he can.
79. A man is known by the company he keeps.
80. A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds.
81. A miserly father makes a prodigal son.
82. A miss is as good as a mile.
83. A new broom sweeps clean.
84. A nod from a lord is a breakfast for a fool.
85. A penny saved is a penny gained.
86. A penny soul never came to twopence.
87. A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder.
88. A rolling stone gathers no moss.
89. A round peg in a square hole.
90. A shy cat makes a proud mouse.
91. A silent fool is counted wise.
92. A small leak will sink a great ship.
93. A soft answer turns away wrath.
94. A sound mind in a sound body.
95. A stitch in time saves nine.
96. A storm in a teacup.
97. A tattler is worse than a thief.
98. A thief knows a thief as a wolf knows a wolf.
99. A thief passes for a gentleman when stealing has made him rich.
100. A threatened blow is seldom given.
101. A tree is known by its fruit.
102. A wager is a fool's argument.
103. A watched pot never boils.
104. A wise man changes his mind, a fool never will.
105. A wolf in sheep's clothing.
106. A wonder lasts but nine days.
107. A word is enough to the wise.
108. A word spoken is past recalling.
109. Actions speak louder than words.
110. Adversity is a great schoolmaster.
111. Adversity makes strange bedfellows.
112. After a storm comes a calm.
113. After dinner comes the reckoning.
114. After dinner sit (sleep) a while, after supper walk a mile.
115. After rain comes fair weather.
116. After us the deluge.
117. Agues come on horseback, but go away on foot.
118. All are good lasses, but whence come the bad wives?
119. All are not friends that speak us fair.
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120. All are not hunters that blow the horn.
121. All are not merry that dance lightly.
122. All are not saints that go to church.
123. All asses wag their ears.
124. All bread is not baked in one oven.
125. All cats are grey in the dark (in the night).
126. All covet, all lose.
127. All doors open to courtesy.
128. All is fish that comes to his net.
129. All is not lost that is in peril.
130. All is well that ends well.
131. All lay load on the willing horse.
132. All men can't be first.
133. All men can't be masters.
134. All promises are either broken or kept.
135. All roads lead to Rome .
136. All sugar and honey.
137. All that glitters is not gold.
138. All things are difficult before they are easy.
139. All truths are not to be told.
140. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
141. "Almost" never killed a fly (was never hanged).
142. Among the blind the one-eyed man is king.
143. An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
144. An ass in a lion's skin.
145. An ass is but an ass, though laden with gold.
146. An ass loaded with gold climbs to the top of the castle.
147. An empty hand is no lure for a hawk.
148. An empty sack cannot stand upright.
149. An empty vessel gives a greater sound than a full barrel.
150. An evil chance seldom comes alone.
151. An honest tale speeds best, being plainly told.
152. An hour in the morning is worth two in the evening.
153. An idle brain is the devil's workshop.
154. An ill wound is cured, not an ill name.
155. An oak is not felled at one stroke.
156. An old dog barks not in vain.
157. An open door may tempt a saint.
158. An ounce of discretion is worth a pound of learning.
159. An ox is taken by the horns, and a man by the tongue.
160. An unfortunate man would be drowned in a teacup.
161. Anger and haste hinder good counsel.
162. Any port in a storm.
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163. Appearances are deceitful.
164. Appetite comes with eating.
165. As drunk as a lord.
166. As innocent as a babe unborn.
167. As like as an apple to an oyster.
168. As like as two peas.
169. As old as the hills.
170. As plain as the nose on a man's face.
171. As plain as two and two make four.
172. As snug as a bug in a rug .
173. As sure as eggs is eggs.
174. As the call, so the echo.
175. As the fool thinks, so the bell clinks.
176. As the old cock crows, so does the young.
177. As the tree falls, so shall it lie.
178. As the tree, so the fruit.
179. As welcome as flowers in May.
180. As welcome as water in one's shoes.
181. As well be hanged for a sheep as for a lamb.
182. As you brew, so must you drink.
183. As you make your bed, so must you lie on it.
184. As you sow, so shall you reap.
185. Ask no questions and you will be told no lies.
186. At the ends of the earth.
187. Bacchus has drowned more men than Neptune .
188. Bad news has wings.
189. Barking does seldom bite.
190. Be slow to promise and quick to perform.
191. Be swift to hear, slow to speak.
192. Beauty is but skin-deep.
193. Beauty lies in lover's eyes.
194. Before one can say Jack Robinson.
195. Before you make a friend eat a bushel of salt with him.
196. Beggars cannot be choosers.
197. Believe not all that you see nor half what you hear.
198. Best defence is offence.
199. Better a glorious death than a shameful life.
200. Better a lean peace than a fat victory.
201. Better a little fire to warm us, than a great one to burn
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us.
202. Better an egg today than a hen tomorrow.
203. Better an open enemy than a false friend.
204. Better be alone than in bad company.
205. Better be born lucky than rich.
206. Better be envied than pitied.
207. Better be the head of a dog than the tail of a lion.
208. Better deny at once than promise long.
209. Better die standing than live kneeling.
210. Better early than late.
211. Better give a shilling than lend a half-crown.
212. Better go to bed supperless than rise in debt.
213. Better late than never.
214. Better lose a jest than a friend.
215. Better one-eyed than stone-blind.
216. Better the devil you know than the devil you don't.
217. Better the foot slip than the tongue.
218. Better to do well than to say well.
219. Better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven.
220. Better unborn than untaught.
221. Better untaught than ill-taught.
222. Between the cup and the lip a morsel may slip.
223. Between the devil and the deep (blue) sea.
224. Between two evils 'tis not worth choosing.
225. Between two stools one goes (falls) to the ground.
226. Between the upper and nether millstone.
227. Betwixt and between.
228. Beware of a silent dog and still water.
229. Bind the sack before it be full.
230. Birds of a feather flock together.
231. Blind men can judge no colours.
232. Blood is thicker than water.
233. Borrowed garments never fit well.
234. Brevity is the soul of wit.
235. Burn not your house to rid it of the mouse.
236. Business before pleasure.
237. By doing nothing we learn to do ill.
238. By hook or by crook.
239. By the street of 'by-and-bye' one arrives at the house of
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'Never'.
240. Calamity is man's true touchstone.
241. Care killed the cat.
242. Catch the bear before you sell his skin.
243. Caution is the parent of safety.
244. Charity begins at home.
245. Cheapest is the dearest.
246. Cheek brings success.
247. Children and fools must not play with edged tools.
248. Children are poor men's riches.
249. Choose an author as you choose a friend.
250. Christmas comes but once a year, (but when it comes it brings good
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cheer).
251. Circumstances alter cases.
252. Claw me, and I will claw thee.
253. Cleanliness is next to godliness.
254. Company in distress makes trouble less.
255. Confession is the first step to repentance.
256. Counsel is no command.
257. Creditors have better memories than debtors.
258. Cross the stream where it is shallowest.
259. Crows do not pick crow's eyes.
260. Curiosity killed a cat.
261. Curses like chickens come home to roost.
262. Custom is a second nature.
263. Custom is the plague of wise men and the idol of fools.
264. Cut your coat according to your cloth.
265. Death is the grand leveller.
266. Death pays all debts.
267. Death when it comes will have no denial.
268. Debt is the worst poverty.
269. Deeds, not words.
270. Delays are dangerous.
271. Desperate diseases must have desperate remedies.
272. Diligence is the mother of success (good luck).
273. Diseases are the interests of pleasures.
274. Divide and rule.
275. Do as you would be done by.
276. Dog does not eat dog.
277. Dog eats dog.
278. Dogs that put up many hares kill none.
279. Doing is better than saying.
280. Don't count your chickens before they are hatched.
281. Don't cross the bridges before you come to them.
282. Don't have thy cloak to make when it begins to rain.
283. Don't keep a dog and bark yourself.
284. Don't look a gift horse in the mouth.
285. Don't put all your eggs in one basket.
286. Don't sell the bear's skin before you've caught it.
287. Don't trouble trouble until trouble troubles you.
288. Don't whistle (halloo) until you are out of the wood.
289. Dot your i's and cross your t's.
290. Draw not your bow till your arrow is fixed.
291. Drive the nail that will go.
292. Drunken days have all their tomorrow.
293. Drunkenness reveals what soberness conceals.
294. Dumb dogs are dangerous.
295. Each bird loves to hear himself sing.
296. Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and
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wise.
297. Easier said than done.
298. East or West ? home is best.
299. Easy come, easy go.
300. Eat at pleasure, drink with measure.
301. Empty vessels make the greatest (the most) sound.
302. Enough is as good as a feast.
303. Envy shoots at others and wounds herself.
304. Even reckoning makes long friends.
305. Every ass loves to hear himself bray.
306. Every barber knows that.
307. Every bean has its black.
308. Every bird likes its own nest.
309. Every bullet has its billet.
310. Every country has its customs.
311. Every dark cloud has a silver lining.
312. Every day is not Sunday.
313. Every dog has his day.
314. Every dog is a lion at home.
315. Every dog is valiant at his own door.
316. Every Jack has his Jill.
317. Every man has a fool in his sleeve.
318. Every man has his faults.
319. Every man has his hobby-horse.
320. Every man is the architect of his own fortunes.
321. Every man to his taste.
322. Every miller draws water to his own mill.
323. Every mother thinks her own gosling a swan.
324. Every one's faults are not written in their foreheads.
325. Every tub must stand on its own bottom.
326. Every white has its black, and every sweet its sour.
327. Every why has a wherefore.
328. Everybody's business is nobody's business.
329. Everything comes to him who waits.
330. Everything is good in its season.
331. Evil communications corrupt good manners.
332. Experience is the mother of wisdom.
333. Experience keeps a dear school, but fools learn in no other.
334. Experience keeps no school, she teaches her pupils singly.
335. Extremes meet.
336. Facts are stubborn things.
337. Faint heart never won fair lady.
338. Fair without, foul (false) within.
339. Fair words break no bones.
340. False friends are worse than open enemies.
341. Familiarity breeds contempt.
342. Far from eye, far from heart.
343. Fasting comes after feasting.
344. Faults are thick where love is thin.
345. Feast today and fast tomorrow.
346. Fine feathers make fine birds.
347. Fine words butter no parsnips.
348. First catch your hare.
349. First come, first served.
350. First deserve and then desire.
351. First think, then speak.
352. Fish and company stink in three days.
353. Fish begins to stink at the head.
354. Follow the river and you'll get to the sea.
355. Fool's haste is no speed.
356. Fools and madmen speak the truth.
357. Fools grow without watering.
358. Fools may sometimes speak to the purpose.
359. Fools never know when they are well.
360. Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
361. For the love of the game.
362. Forbearance is no acquittance.
363. Forbidden fruit is sweet.
364. Forewarned is forearmed.
365. Fortune favours the brave (the bold).
366. Fortune is easily found, but hard to be kept.
367. Four eyes see more (better) than two.
368. Friends are thieves of time.
369. From bad to worse.
370. From pillar to post.
371. Gentility without ability is worse than plain beggary.
372. Get a name to rise early, and you may lie all day.
373. Gifts from enemies are dangerous.
374. Give a fool rope enough, and he will hang himself.
375. Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.
376. Give him an inch and he'll take an ell.
377. Give never the wolf the wether to keep.
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378. Gluttony kills more men than the sword.
379. Go to bed with the lamb and rise with the lark.
380. Good clothes open all doors.
381. Good counsel does no harm.
382. Good health is above wealth.
383. Good masters make good servants.
384. Good words and no deeds.
385. Good words without deeds are rushes and reeds.
386. Gossiping and lying go hand in hand.
387. Grasp all, lose all.
388. Great barkers are no biters.
389. Great boast, small roast.
390. Great cry and little wool.
391. Great spenders are bad lenders.
392. Great talkers are great liars.
393. Great talkers are little doers.
394. Greedy folk have long arms.
395. Habit cures habit.
396. Half a loaf is better than no bread.
397."Hamlet" without the Prince of Denmark.
398. Handsome is that handsome does.
399. Happiness takes no account of time.
400. Happy is he that is happy in his children.
401. Hard words break no bones.
402. Hares may pull dead lions by the beard.
403. Harm watch, harm catch.
404. Haste makes waste.
405. Hasty climbers have sudden falls.
406. Hate not at the first harm.
407. Hatred is blind, as well as love.
408. Hawks will not pick hawks' eyes.
409. He begins to die that quits his desires.
410. He cannot speak well that cannot hold his tongue.
411. He carries fire in one hand and water in the
other. 412. He dances well to whom fortune pipes.
413. He gives twice who gives in a trice.
414. He goes long barefoot that waits for dead man's shoes.
415. He is a fool that forgets himself.
416. He is a good friend that speaks well of us behind our backs.
417. He is happy that thinks himself so.
418. He is lifeless that is faultless.
419. He is not fit to command others that cannot command
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himself.
420. He is not laughed at that laughs at himself first.
421. He is not poor that has little, but he that desires
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much.
422. He jests at scars that never felt a wound.
423. He knows best what good is that has endured evil.
424. He knows how many beans make five.
425. He knows much who knows how to hold his tongue.
426. He laughs best who laughs last.
427. He lives long that lives well.
428. He must needs swim that is held up by the chin.
429. He should have a long spoon that sups with the devil.
430. He smells best that smells of nothing.
431. He that comes first to the hill may sit where he will.
432. He that commits a fault thinks everyone speaks of it.
433. He that does you an i!i turn will never forgive you.
434. He that fears every bush must never go a-birding.
435. He that fears you present wiil hate you absent.
436. He that goes a borrowing, goes a sorrowing.
437. He that goes barefoot must not plant thorns.
438. He that has a full purse never wanted a friend.
439. He that has a great nose thinks everybody is speaking of it.
440. He that has an ill name is half hanged.
441. He that has no children knows not what love is.
442. He that has He head needs no hat.
443. He that has no money needs no purse.
444. He that is born to be hanged shall never be drowned.
445. He that is full of himself is very empty.
446. He that is ill to himself will be good to nobody.
447. He that is warm thinks all so.
448. He that knows nothing doubts nothing.
449. He that lies down with dogs must rise up with fleas.
450. He that lives with cripples learns to limp.
451. He that mischief hatches, mischief catches.
452. He that never climbed never fell.
453. He that once deceives is ever suspected.
454. He that promises too much means nothing.
455. He that respects not is not respected.
456. He that seeks trouble never misses.
457. He that serves everybody is paid by nobody.
458. He that serves God for money will serve the devil for better
wages.
459. He that spares the bad injures the good.
460. He that talks much errs much.
461. He that talks much lies much.
462. He that will eat the kernel must crack the nut.
463. He that will not when he may, when he will he shall have nay.
464. He that will steal an egg will steal an ox.
465. He that will thrive, must rise at five.
466. He that would eat the fruit must climb the tree.
467. He that would have eggs must endure the cackling of hens.
468. He who is born a fool is never cured.
469. He who hesitates is lost.
470. He who likes borrowing dislikes paying.
471. He who makes no mistakes, makes nothing.
472. He who pleased everybody died before he was born.
473. He who says what he likes, shall hear what he doesn't like.
474. He who would catch fish must not mind getting wet.
475. He who would eat the nut must first crack the shell.
476. He who would search for pearls must dive below.
477. He will never set the Thames on fire.
478. He works best who knows his trade.
479. Head cook and bottle-washer.
480. Health is not valued till sickness comes.
481. His money burns a hole in his pocket.
482. Honesty is the best policy.
483. Honey is not for the ass's mouth.
484. Honey is sweet, but the bee stings.
485. Honour and profit lie not in one sack.
486. Honours change manners.
487. Hope is a good breakfast, but a bad supper.
488. Hope is the poor man's bread.
489. Hunger breaks stone walls.
490. Hunger finds no fault with cookery.
491. Hunger is the best sauce.
492. Hungry bellies have no ears.
493. Idle folks lack no excuses.
494. Idleness is the mother of all evil.
495. Idleness rusts the mind.
496. If an ass (donkey) bray at you, don't bray at
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him.
497. If ifs and ans were pots and pans...
498. If my aunt had been a man, she'd have been my uncle.
499. If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
500. If the sky falls, we shall catch larks.
501. If there were no clouds, we should not enjoy the sun.
502. If things were to be done twice all would be wise.
503. If we can't as we would, we must do as we can.
504. If wishes were horses, beggars might ride.
505. If you agree to carry the calf, they'll make you carry the cow.
506. If you cannot bite, never show your teeth.
507. If you cannot have the best, make the best of what you have.
508. If you dance you must pay the fiddler.
509. If you laugh before breakfast you'll cry before
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supper.
510. If you run after two hares, you will catch neither.
511. If you sell the cow, you sell her milk too.
512. If you throw mud enough, some of it will stick.
513. If you try to please all you will please none.
514. If you want a thing well done, do it yourself.
515. Ill-gotten gains never prosper.
516. Ill-gotten, ill-spent.
517. In every beginning think of the end.
518. In for a penny, in for a pound.
519. In the country of the blind one-eyed man is a king.
520. In the end things will mend.
521. In the evening one may praise the day.
522. Iron hand (fist) in a velvet glove.
523. It is a good horse that never stumbles.
524. It is a long lane that has no turning.
525. It is a poor mouse that has only one hole.
526. It is an ill bird that fouls its own nest.
527. It is an ill wind that blows nobody good.
528. It is a silly fish, that is caught twice with the same bait.
529. It is easy to swim if another hoids up your chin (head).
530. It is enough to make a cat laugh.
531. It is good fishing in troubled waters.
532. It is never too late to learn.
533. It is no use crying over spilt milk.
534. It is the first step that costs.
535. It never rains but it pours.
536. It's as broad as it's long.
537. It's no use pumping a dry well.
538. It's one thing to flourish and another to fight.
539. It takes all sorts to make a world.
540. Jackdaw in peacock's feathers.
541. Jest with an ass and he will flap you in the face with his tail.
542. Judge not of men and things at first sight.
543. Just as the twig is bent, the tree is inclined.
544. Keep a thing seven years and you will find a use for it.
545. Keep your mouth shut and your ears open.
546. Keep your mouth shut and your eyes open.
547. Last, but not least.
548. Laws catch flies, but let hornets go free.
549. Learn to creep before you leap.
550. Learn to say before you sing.
551. Learn wisdom by the follies of others.
552. Least said, soonest mended.
553. Leaves without figs.
554. Let bygones be bygones.
555. Let every man praise the bridge he goes over.
556. Let sleeping dogs lie.
557. Let well (enough) alone.
558. Liars need good memories.
559. Lies have short legs.
560. Life is but a span.
561. Life is not a bed of roses.
562. Life is not all cakes and ale (beer and skittles).
563. Like a cat on hot bricks.
564. Like a needle in a haystack.
565. Like begets like.
566. Like cures like.
567. Like father, like son.
568. Like draws to like.
569. Like master, like man.
570. Like mother, like daughter.
571. Like parents, like children.
572. Like priest, like people.
573. Like teacher, like pupil.
574. Little chips light great fires.
575. Little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
576. Little pigeons can carry great messages.
577. Little pitchers have long ears.
578. Little strokes fell great oaks.
579. Little thieves are hanged, but great ones escape.
580. Little things amuse little minds.
581. Live and learn.
582. Live and let live.
583. Live not to eat, but eat to live.
584. Long absent, soon forgotten.
585. Look before you leap.
586. Look before you leap, but having leapt never look back.
587. Lookers-on see more than players.
588. Lord (God, Heaven) helps those (them) who help themselves.
589. Lost time is never found again.
590. Love cannot be forced.
591. Love in a cottage.
592. Love is blind, as well as hatred.
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593. Love me, love my dog.
594. Love will creep where it may not go.
595. Make haste slowly.
596. Make hay while the sun shines.
597. Make or mar.
598. Man proposes but God disposes.
599. Many a fine dish has nothing on it.
600. Many a good cow has a bad calf.
601. Many a good father has but a bad son.
602. Many a little makes a mickle.
603. Many a true word is spoken in jest.
604. Many hands make light work.
605. Many men, many minds.
606. Many words hurt more than swords.
607. Many words will not fill a bushel.
608. Marriages are made in heaven.
609. Measure for measure.
610. Measure thrice and cut once.
611. Men may meet but mountains never.
612. Mend or end (end or mend).
613. Might goes before right.
614. Misfortunes never come alone (singly).
615. Misfortunes tell us what fortune is.
616. Money begets money.
617. Money has no smell.
618. Money is a good servant but a bad master.
619. Money often unmakes the men who make it.
620. Money spent on the brain is never spent in vain.
621. More haste, less speed.
622. Much ado about nothing.
623. Much will have more.
624. Muck and money go together.
625. Murder will out.
626. My house is my castle.
627. Name not a rope in his house that was hanged.
628. Necessity is the mother of invention.
629. Necessity knows no law.
630. Neck or nothing.
631. Need makes the old wife trot.
632. Needs must when the devil drives.
633. Neither fish nor flesh.
634. Neither here nor there.
635. Neither rhyme nor reason.
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636. Never cackle till your egg is laid.
637. Never cast dirt into that fountain of which you have sometime
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drunk.
638. Never do things by halves.
639. Never fry a fish till it's caught.
640. Never offer to teach fish to swim.
641. Never put off till tomorrow what you can do (can be done) today.
642. Never quit certainty for hope.
643. Never too much of a good thing.
644. Never try to prove what nobody doubts.
645. Never write what you dare not sign.
646. New brooms sweep clean.
647. New lords, new laws.
648. Nightingales will not sing in a cage.
649. No flying from fate.
650. No garden without its weeds.
651. No great loss without some small gain.
652. No herb will cure love.
653. No joy without alloy.
654. No living man all things can.
655. No longer pipe, no longer dance.
656. No man is wise at all times.
657. No man loves his fetters, be they made of gold.
658. No news (is) good news.
659. No pains, no gains.
660. No song, no supper.
661. No sweet without (some) sweat.
662. No wisdom like silence.
663. None but the brave deserve the fair.
664. None so blind as those who won't see.
665. None so deaf as those that won't hear.
666. Nothing comes out of the sack but what was in it.
667. Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
668. Nothing must be done hastily but killing of fleas.
669. Nothing so bad, as not to be good for something.
670. Nothing succeeds like success.
671. Nothing venture, nothing have.
672. Oaks may fall when reeds stand the storm.
673. Of two evils choose the least.
674. Old birds are not caught with chaff.
675. Old friends and old wine are best.
676. On Shank's mare.
677. Once bitten, twice shy.
678. Once is no rule (custom).
680. One chick keeps a hen busy.
681. One drop of poison infects the whole tun of wine.
682. One fire drives out another.
683. One good turn deserves another.
684. One law for the rich, and another for the
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poor.
679. One beats the bush, and another catches the bird.
685. One lie makes many.
686. One link broken, the whole chain is broken.
687. One man, no man.
688. One man's meat is another man's poison.
689. One scabby sheep will mar a whole flock.
690. One swallow does not make a summer.
691. One today is worth two tomorrow.
692. Open not your door when the devil knocks.
693. Opinions differ.
694. Opportunity makes the thief.
695. Out of sight, out of mind.
696. Out of the frying-pan into the fire.
697. Packed like herrings.
698. Patience is a plaster for all sores.
699. Penny-wise and pound-foolish.
700. Pleasure has a sting in its tail.
701. Plenty is no plague.
702. Politeness costs little (nothing), but yields much.
703. Poverty is no sin.
704. Poverty is not a shame, but the being ashamed of it is.
705. Practise what you preach.
706. Praise is not pudding.
707. Pride goes before a fall.
708. Procrastination is the thief of time.
709. Promise is debt.
710. Promise little, but do much.
711. Prosperity makes friends, and adversity tries them.
712. Put not your hand between the bark and the tree.
713. Rain at seven, fine at eleven.
714. Rats desert a sinking ship.
715. Repentance is good, but innocence is better.
716. Respect yourself, or no one else will respect you.
717. Roll my log and I will roll yours.
718. Rome was not built in a day.
719. Salt water and absence wash away love.
720. Saying and doing are two things.
721. Score twice before you cut once.
722. Scornful dogs will eat dirty puddings.
723. Scratch my back and I'll scratch yours.
724. Self done is soon done.
725. Self done is well done.
726. Self is a bad counsellor.
727. Self-praise is no recommendation.
728. Set a beggar on horseback and he'll ride to the devil.
729. Set a thief to catch a thief.
730. Shallow streams make most din.
731. Short debts (accounts) make long friends.
732. Silence gives consent.
733. Since Adam was a boy.
734. Sink or swim!
735. Six of one and half a dozen of the other.
736. Slow and steady wins the race.
737. Slow but sure.
738. Small rain lays great dust.
739. So many countries, so many customs.
740. So many men, so many minds.
741. Soft fire makes sweet malt.
742. Something is rotten in the state of Denmark .
743. Soon learnt, soon forgotten.
744. Soon ripe, soon rotten.
745. Speak (talk) of the devil and he will appear (is sure to appear).
746. Speech is silver but silence is gold.
747. Standers-by see more than gamesters.
748. Still waters run deep.
749. Stolen pleasures are sweetest.
750. Stretch your arm no further than your sleeve will
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reach.
751. Stretch your legs according to the coverlet.
752. Strike while the iron is hot.
753. Stuff today and starve tomorrow.
754. Success is never blamed.
755. Such carpenters, such chips.
756. Sweep before your own door.
757. Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves.
758. Take us as you find us.
759. Tarred with the same brush.
760. Tastes differ.
761. Tell that to the marines.
762. That cock won't fight.
763. That which one least anticipates soonest comes to pass.
764. That's a horse of another colour.
765. That's where the shoe pinches!
766. The beggar may sing before the thief (before a footpad).
767. The best fish smell when they are three days old.
768. The best fish swim near the bottom.
769. The best is oftentimes the enemy of the good.
770. The busiest man finds the most leisure.
771. The camel going to seek horns lost his ears.
772. The cap fits.
773. The cask savours of the first fill.
774. The cat shuts its eyes when stealing cream.
775. The cat would eat fish and would not wet her paws.
776. The chain is no stronger than its weakest link.
777. The cobbler should stick to his last.
778. The cobbler's wife is the worst shod.
779. The darkest hour is that before the dawn.
780. The darkest place is under the candlestick.
781. The devil is not so black as he is painted.
782. The devil knows many things because he is old.
783. The devil lurks behind the cross.
784. The devil rebuking sin.
785. The dogs bark, but the caravan goes on.
786. The Dutch have taken Holland !
787. The early bird catches the worm.
788. The end crowns the work.
789. The end justifies the means.
790. The evils we bring on ourselves are hardest to bear.
791. The exception proves the rule.
792. The face is the index of the mind.
793. The falling out of lovers is the renewing of love.
794. The fat is in the fire.
795. The first blow is half the battle.
796. The furthest way about is the nearest way home.
797. The game is not worth the candle.
798. The heart that once truly loves never forgets.
799. The higher the ape goes, the more he shows his tail.
800. The last drop makes the cup run over.
801. The last straw breaks the camel's back.
802. The leopard cannot change its spots.
803. The longest day has an end.
804. The mill cannot grind with the water that is past.
805. The moon does not heed the barking of dogs.
806. The more haste, the less speed.
807. The more the merrier.
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808. The morning sun never lasts a day.
809. The mountain has brought forth a mouse.
810. The nearer the bone, the sweeter the flesh.
811. The pitcher goes often to the well but is broken at last.
812. The pot calls the kettle black.
813. The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
814. The receiver is as bad as the thief.
815. The remedy is worse than the disease.
816. The rotten apple injures its neighbours.
817. The scalded dog fears cold water.
818. The tailor makes the man.
819. The tongue of idle persons is never idle.
820. The voice of one man is the voice of no one.
821. The way (the road) to hell is paved with good intentions.
822. The wind cannot be caught in a net.
823. The work shows the workman.
824. There are lees to every wine.
825. There are more ways to the wood than one.
826. There is a place for everything, and everything in its place.
827. There is more than one way to kill a cat.
828. There is no fire without smoke.
829. There is no place like home.
830. There is no rose without a thorn.
831. There is no rule without an exception.
832. There is no smoke without fire.
833. There's many a slip 'tween (== between) the cup and the lip.
834. There's no use crying over spilt milk.
835. They are hand and glove.
836. They must hunger in winter that will not work in
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summer.
837. Things past cannot be recalled.
838. Think today and speak tomorrow.
839. Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones.
840. Time and tide wait for no man.
841. Time cures all things.
842. Time is money.
843. Time is the great healer.
844. Time works wonders.
845. To add fuel (oil) to the fire (flames).
846. To angle with a silver hook.
847. To be born with a silver spoon in one's mouth.
848. To be head over ears in debt.
849. To be in one's birthday suit.
850. To be up to the ears in love.
851. To be wise behind the hand.
852. To beat about the bush.
853. To beat the air.
854. To bring grist to somebody's mill.
855. To build a fire under oneself.
856. To buy a pig in a poke.
857. To call a spade a spade.
858. To call off the dogs.
859. To carry coals to Newcastle.
860. To cast pearls before swine.
861. To cast prudence to the winds.
862. To come away none the wiser.
863. To come off cheap.
864. To come off with a whole skin.
865. To come off with flying colours.
866. To come out dry.
867. To come out with clean hands.
868. To cook a hare before catching him.
869. To cry with one eye and laugh with the other.
870. To cut one's throat with a feather.
871. To draw (pull) in one's horns.
872. To drop a bucket into an empty well.
873. To draw water in a sieve.
874. To eat the calf in the cow's belly.
875. To err is human.
876. To fiddle while Rome is burning.
877. To fight with one's own shadow.
878. To find a mare's nest.
879. To fish in troubled waters.
880. To fit like a glove.
881. To flog a dead horse.
882. To get out of bed on the wrong side.
883. To give a lark to catch a kite.
884. To go for wool and come home shorn.
885. To go through fire and water (through thick and
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thin).
886. To have a finger in the pie.
887. To have rats in the attic.
888. To hit the nail on the head.
889. To kick against the pricks.
890. To kill two birds with one stone.
891. To know everything is to know nothing.
892. To know on which side one's bread is buttered.
893. To know what's what.
894. To lay by for a rainy day.
895. To live from hand to mouth.
896. To lock the stable-door after the horse is stolen.
897. To look for a needle in a haystack.
898. To love somebody (something) as the devil loves holy water.
899. To make a mountain out of a molehill.
900. To make both ends meet.
901. To make the cup run over.
902. To make (to turn) the air blue.
903. To measure another man's foot by one's own last.
904. To measure other people's corn by one's own bushel.
905. To pay one back in one's own coin.
906. To plough the sand.
907. To pour water into a sieve.
908. To pull the chestnuts out of the fire for somebody.
909. To pull the devil by the tail.
910. To put a spoke in somebody's wheel.
911. To put off till Doomsday.
912. To put (set) the cart before the horse.
913. To rob one's belly to cover one's back.
914. To roll in money.
915. To run with the hare and hunt with the
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hounds.
916. To save one's bacon.
917. To send (carry) owls to Athens .
918. To set the wolf to keep the sheep.
919. To stick to somebody like a leech.
920. To strain at a gnat and swallow a camel.
921. To take counsel of one's pillow.
922. To take the bull by the horns.
923. To teach the dog to bark.
924. To tell tales out of school.
925. To throw a stone in one's own garden.
926. To throw dust in somebody's eyes.
927. To throw straws against the wind.
928. To treat somebody with a dose of his own medicine.
929. To use a steam-hammer to crack nuts.
930. To wash one's dirty linen in public.
931. To wear one's heart upon one's sleeve.
932. To weep over an onion.
933. To work with the left hand.
934. Tomorrow come never.
935. Too many cooks spoil the broth.
936. Too much knowledge makes the head bald.
937. Too much of a good thing is good for nothing.
938. Too much water drowned the miller .
939. Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.
940. True blue will never stain.
941. True coral needs no painter's brush.
942. Truth comes out of the mouths of babes and sucklings.
943. Truth is stranger than fiction.
944. Truth lies at the bottom of a well.
945. Two blacks do not make a white.
946. Two heads are better than one.
947. Two is company, but three is none.
948. Velvet paws hide sharp claws.
949. Virtue is its own reward.
950. Wait for the cat to jump.
951. Walls have ears.
952. Wash your dirty linen at home.
953. Waste not, want not.
954. We know not what is good until we have lost it.
955. We never know the value of water till the well is dry.
956. We shall see what we shall see.
957. We soon believe what we desire.
958. Wealth is nothing without health.
959. Well begun is half done.
960. What can't be cured, must be endured.
961. What is bred in the bone will not go out of the flesh.
962. What is done by night appears by day.
963. What is done cannot be undone.
964. What is got over the devil's back is spent under his belly.
965. What is lost is lost.
966. What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
967. What is worth doing at alt is worth doing well.
968. What must be, must be.
969. What the heart thinks the tongue speaks.
970. What we do willingly is easy.
971. When angry, count a hundred.
972. When at Rome, do as the Romans do.
973. When children stand quiet, they have done some
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harm.
974. When flatterers meet, the devil goes to dinner.
975. When guns speak it is too late to argue.
976. When pigs fly.
977. When Queen Anne was alive.
978. When the cat is away, the mice will play.
979. When the devil is blind.
980. When the fox preaches, take care of your geese.
981. When the pinch comes, you remember the old shoe.
982. When three know it, alt know it.
983. When wine is in wit is out.
984. Where there's a will, there's a way.
985. While the grass grows the horse starves.
986. While there is life there is hope.
987. Who breaks, pays.
988. Who has never tasted bitter, knows not what is sweet.
989. Who keeps company with the wolf, will learn to howl.
990. Wise after the event.
991. With time and patience the leaf of the mulberry becomes
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satin.
992. Words pay no debts.
993. You can take a horse to the water but you cannot make him drink.
994. You cannot eat your cake and have it.
995. You cannot flay the same ox twice.
996. You cannot judge a tree by it bark.
997. You cannot teach old dogs new tricks.
998. You cannot wash charcoal white.
999. You made your bed, now lie in it.
1000. Zeal without knowledge is a runaway horse.
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2. A bad corn promise is better than a good lawsuit.
3. A bad workman quarrels with his tools.
4. A bargain is a bargain.
5. A beggar can never be bankrupt.
6. A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
7. A bird may be known by its song.
8. A black hen lays a white egg.
9. A blind leader of the blind.
10. A blind man would be glad to see.
11. A broken friendship may be soldered, but will never be sound.
12. A burden of one's own choice is not felt.
13. A burnt child dreads the fire.
14. A cat in gloves catches no mice.
15. A city that parleys is half gotten.
16. A civil denial is better than a rude grant.
17. A clean fast is better than a dirty breakfast.
18. A clean hand wants no washing.
19. A clear conscience laughs at false accusations.
20. A close mouth catches no flies.
21. A cock is valiant on his own dunghill.
22. A cracked bell can never sound well.
23. A creaking door hangs long on its hinges.
24. A curst cow has short horns.
25. A danger foreseen is half avoided.
26. A drop in the bucket.
27. A drowning man will catch at a straw.
28. A fair face may hide a foul heart.
29. A fault confessed is half redressed.
30. A fly in the ointment.
31. A fool always rushes to the fore.
32. A fool and his money are soon parted.
33. A fool at forty is a fool indeed.
34. A fool may ask more questions in an hour than a wise man can answer
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in seven years.
1000 Proverb and Saying in English
35. A fool may throw a stone into a well which a hundred wise men cannot
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pull out.
36. A fool's tongue runs before his wit.
37. A forced kindness deserves no thanks.
38. A foul morn may turn to a fair day.
39. A fox is not taken twice in the same snare.
40. A friend in need is a friend indeed.
41. A friend is never known till needed.
42. A friend to all is a friend to none.
43. A friend's frown is better than a foe's smile.
44. A good anvil does not fear the hammer.
45. A good beginning is half the battle.
46. A good beginning makes a good ending.
47. A good deed is never lost.
48. A good dog deserves a good bone.
49. A good example is the best sermon.
50. A good face is a letter of recommendation.
51. A good Jack makes a good Jill.
52. A good marksman may miss.
53. A good name is better than riches.
54. A good name is sooner lost than won.
55. A good name keeps its lustre in the dark.
56. A good wife makes a good husband.
57. A great dowry is a bed full of brambles.
58. A great fortune is a great slavery.
59. A great ship asks deep waters.
60. A guilty conscience needs no accuser.
61. A hard nut to crack.
62. A heavy purse makes a light heart.
63. A hedge between keeps friendship green.
64. A honey tongue, a heart of gall.
65. A hungry belly has no ears.
66. A hungry man is an angry man.
67. A Jack of all trades is master of none.
68. A Joke never gains an enemy but often loses a friend.
69. A lawyer never goes to law himself.
70. A lazy sheep thinks its wool heavy.
71. A liar is not believed when he speaks the truth.
72. A lie begets a lie.
73. A light purse is a heavy curse.
74. A light purse makes a heavy heart.
75. A little body often harbours a great soul.
76. A little fire is quickly trodden out.
77. A man can die but once.
78. A man can do no more than he can.
79. A man is known by the company he keeps.
80. A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds.
81. A miserly father makes a prodigal son.
82. A miss is as good as a mile.
83. A new broom sweeps clean.
84. A nod from a lord is a breakfast for a fool.
85. A penny saved is a penny gained.
86. A penny soul never came to twopence.
87. A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder.
88. A rolling stone gathers no moss.
89. A round peg in a square hole.
90. A shy cat makes a proud mouse.
91. A silent fool is counted wise.
92. A small leak will sink a great ship.
93. A soft answer turns away wrath.
94. A sound mind in a sound body.
95. A stitch in time saves nine.
96. A storm in a teacup.
97. A tattler is worse than a thief.
98. A thief knows a thief as a wolf knows a wolf.
99. A thief passes for a gentleman when stealing has made him rich.
100. A threatened blow is seldom given.
101. A tree is known by its fruit.
102. A wager is a fool's argument.
103. A watched pot never boils.
104. A wise man changes his mind, a fool never will.
105. A wolf in sheep's clothing.
106. A wonder lasts but nine days.
107. A word is enough to the wise.
108. A word spoken is past recalling.
109. Actions speak louder than words.
110. Adversity is a great schoolmaster.
111. Adversity makes strange bedfellows.
112. After a storm comes a calm.
113. After dinner comes the reckoning.
114. After dinner sit (sleep) a while, after supper walk a mile.
115. After rain comes fair weather.
116. After us the deluge.
117. Agues come on horseback, but go away on foot.
118. All are good lasses, but whence come the bad wives?
119. All are not friends that speak us fair.
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120. All are not hunters that blow the horn.
121. All are not merry that dance lightly.
122. All are not saints that go to church.
123. All asses wag their ears.
124. All bread is not baked in one oven.
125. All cats are grey in the dark (in the night).
126. All covet, all lose.
127. All doors open to courtesy.
128. All is fish that comes to his net.
129. All is not lost that is in peril.
130. All is well that ends well.
131. All lay load on the willing horse.
132. All men can't be first.
133. All men can't be masters.
134. All promises are either broken or kept.
135. All roads lead to Rome .
136. All sugar and honey.
137. All that glitters is not gold.
138. All things are difficult before they are easy.
139. All truths are not to be told.
140. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
141. "Almost" never killed a fly (was never hanged).
142. Among the blind the one-eyed man is king.
143. An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
144. An ass in a lion's skin.
145. An ass is but an ass, though laden with gold.
146. An ass loaded with gold climbs to the top of the castle.
147. An empty hand is no lure for a hawk.
148. An empty sack cannot stand upright.
149. An empty vessel gives a greater sound than a full barrel.
150. An evil chance seldom comes alone.
151. An honest tale speeds best, being plainly told.
152. An hour in the morning is worth two in the evening.
153. An idle brain is the devil's workshop.
154. An ill wound is cured, not an ill name.
155. An oak is not felled at one stroke.
156. An old dog barks not in vain.
157. An open door may tempt a saint.
158. An ounce of discretion is worth a pound of learning.
159. An ox is taken by the horns, and a man by the tongue.
160. An unfortunate man would be drowned in a teacup.
161. Anger and haste hinder good counsel.
162. Any port in a storm.
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163. Appearances are deceitful.
164. Appetite comes with eating.
165. As drunk as a lord.
166. As innocent as a babe unborn.
167. As like as an apple to an oyster.
168. As like as two peas.
169. As old as the hills.
170. As plain as the nose on a man's face.
171. As plain as two and two make four.
172. As snug as a bug in a rug .
173. As sure as eggs is eggs.
174. As the call, so the echo.
175. As the fool thinks, so the bell clinks.
176. As the old cock crows, so does the young.
177. As the tree falls, so shall it lie.
178. As the tree, so the fruit.
179. As welcome as flowers in May.
180. As welcome as water in one's shoes.
181. As well be hanged for a sheep as for a lamb.
182. As you brew, so must you drink.
183. As you make your bed, so must you lie on it.
184. As you sow, so shall you reap.
185. Ask no questions and you will be told no lies.
186. At the ends of the earth.
187. Bacchus has drowned more men than Neptune .
188. Bad news has wings.
189. Barking does seldom bite.
190. Be slow to promise and quick to perform.
191. Be swift to hear, slow to speak.
192. Beauty is but skin-deep.
193. Beauty lies in lover's eyes.
194. Before one can say Jack Robinson.
195. Before you make a friend eat a bushel of salt with him.
196. Beggars cannot be choosers.
197. Believe not all that you see nor half what you hear.
198. Best defence is offence.
199. Better a glorious death than a shameful life.
200. Better a lean peace than a fat victory.
201. Better a little fire to warm us, than a great one to burn
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us.
202. Better an egg today than a hen tomorrow.
203. Better an open enemy than a false friend.
204. Better be alone than in bad company.
205. Better be born lucky than rich.
206. Better be envied than pitied.
207. Better be the head of a dog than the tail of a lion.
208. Better deny at once than promise long.
209. Better die standing than live kneeling.
210. Better early than late.
211. Better give a shilling than lend a half-crown.
212. Better go to bed supperless than rise in debt.
213. Better late than never.
214. Better lose a jest than a friend.
215. Better one-eyed than stone-blind.
216. Better the devil you know than the devil you don't.
217. Better the foot slip than the tongue.
218. Better to do well than to say well.
219. Better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven.
220. Better unborn than untaught.
221. Better untaught than ill-taught.
222. Between the cup and the lip a morsel may slip.
223. Between the devil and the deep (blue) sea.
224. Between two evils 'tis not worth choosing.
225. Between two stools one goes (falls) to the ground.
226. Between the upper and nether millstone.
227. Betwixt and between.
228. Beware of a silent dog and still water.
229. Bind the sack before it be full.
230. Birds of a feather flock together.
231. Blind men can judge no colours.
232. Blood is thicker than water.
233. Borrowed garments never fit well.
234. Brevity is the soul of wit.
235. Burn not your house to rid it of the mouse.
236. Business before pleasure.
237. By doing nothing we learn to do ill.
238. By hook or by crook.
239. By the street of 'by-and-bye' one arrives at the house of
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'Never'.
240. Calamity is man's true touchstone.
241. Care killed the cat.
242. Catch the bear before you sell his skin.
243. Caution is the parent of safety.
244. Charity begins at home.
245. Cheapest is the dearest.
246. Cheek brings success.
247. Children and fools must not play with edged tools.
248. Children are poor men's riches.
249. Choose an author as you choose a friend.
250. Christmas comes but once a year, (but when it comes it brings good
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cheer).
251. Circumstances alter cases.
252. Claw me, and I will claw thee.
253. Cleanliness is next to godliness.
254. Company in distress makes trouble less.
255. Confession is the first step to repentance.
256. Counsel is no command.
257. Creditors have better memories than debtors.
258. Cross the stream where it is shallowest.
259. Crows do not pick crow's eyes.
260. Curiosity killed a cat.
261. Curses like chickens come home to roost.
262. Custom is a second nature.
263. Custom is the plague of wise men and the idol of fools.
264. Cut your coat according to your cloth.
265. Death is the grand leveller.
266. Death pays all debts.
267. Death when it comes will have no denial.
268. Debt is the worst poverty.
269. Deeds, not words.
270. Delays are dangerous.
271. Desperate diseases must have desperate remedies.
272. Diligence is the mother of success (good luck).
273. Diseases are the interests of pleasures.
274. Divide and rule.
275. Do as you would be done by.
276. Dog does not eat dog.
277. Dog eats dog.
278. Dogs that put up many hares kill none.
279. Doing is better than saying.
280. Don't count your chickens before they are hatched.
281. Don't cross the bridges before you come to them.
282. Don't have thy cloak to make when it begins to rain.
283. Don't keep a dog and bark yourself.
284. Don't look a gift horse in the mouth.
285. Don't put all your eggs in one basket.
286. Don't sell the bear's skin before you've caught it.
287. Don't trouble trouble until trouble troubles you.
288. Don't whistle (halloo) until you are out of the wood.
289. Dot your i's and cross your t's.
290. Draw not your bow till your arrow is fixed.
291. Drive the nail that will go.
292. Drunken days have all their tomorrow.
293. Drunkenness reveals what soberness conceals.
294. Dumb dogs are dangerous.
295. Each bird loves to hear himself sing.
296. Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and
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wise.
297. Easier said than done.
298. East or West ? home is best.
299. Easy come, easy go.
300. Eat at pleasure, drink with measure.
301. Empty vessels make the greatest (the most) sound.
302. Enough is as good as a feast.
303. Envy shoots at others and wounds herself.
304. Even reckoning makes long friends.
305. Every ass loves to hear himself bray.
306. Every barber knows that.
307. Every bean has its black.
308. Every bird likes its own nest.
309. Every bullet has its billet.
310. Every country has its customs.
311. Every dark cloud has a silver lining.
312. Every day is not Sunday.
313. Every dog has his day.
314. Every dog is a lion at home.
315. Every dog is valiant at his own door.
316. Every Jack has his Jill.
317. Every man has a fool in his sleeve.
318. Every man has his faults.
319. Every man has his hobby-horse.
320. Every man is the architect of his own fortunes.
321. Every man to his taste.
322. Every miller draws water to his own mill.
323. Every mother thinks her own gosling a swan.
324. Every one's faults are not written in their foreheads.
325. Every tub must stand on its own bottom.
326. Every white has its black, and every sweet its sour.
327. Every why has a wherefore.
328. Everybody's business is nobody's business.
329. Everything comes to him who waits.
330. Everything is good in its season.
331. Evil communications corrupt good manners.
332. Experience is the mother of wisdom.
333. Experience keeps a dear school, but fools learn in no other.
334. Experience keeps no school, she teaches her pupils singly.
335. Extremes meet.
336. Facts are stubborn things.
337. Faint heart never won fair lady.
338. Fair without, foul (false) within.
339. Fair words break no bones.
340. False friends are worse than open enemies.
341. Familiarity breeds contempt.
342. Far from eye, far from heart.
343. Fasting comes after feasting.
344. Faults are thick where love is thin.
345. Feast today and fast tomorrow.
346. Fine feathers make fine birds.
347. Fine words butter no parsnips.
348. First catch your hare.
349. First come, first served.
350. First deserve and then desire.
351. First think, then speak.
352. Fish and company stink in three days.
353. Fish begins to stink at the head.
354. Follow the river and you'll get to the sea.
355. Fool's haste is no speed.
356. Fools and madmen speak the truth.
357. Fools grow without watering.
358. Fools may sometimes speak to the purpose.
359. Fools never know when they are well.
360. Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
361. For the love of the game.
362. Forbearance is no acquittance.
363. Forbidden fruit is sweet.
364. Forewarned is forearmed.
365. Fortune favours the brave (the bold).
366. Fortune is easily found, but hard to be kept.
367. Four eyes see more (better) than two.
368. Friends are thieves of time.
369. From bad to worse.
370. From pillar to post.
371. Gentility without ability is worse than plain beggary.
372. Get a name to rise early, and you may lie all day.
373. Gifts from enemies are dangerous.
374. Give a fool rope enough, and he will hang himself.
375. Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.
376. Give him an inch and he'll take an ell.
377. Give never the wolf the wether to keep.
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378. Gluttony kills more men than the sword.
379. Go to bed with the lamb and rise with the lark.
380. Good clothes open all doors.
381. Good counsel does no harm.
382. Good health is above wealth.
383. Good masters make good servants.
384. Good words and no deeds.
385. Good words without deeds are rushes and reeds.
386. Gossiping and lying go hand in hand.
387. Grasp all, lose all.
388. Great barkers are no biters.
389. Great boast, small roast.
390. Great cry and little wool.
391. Great spenders are bad lenders.
392. Great talkers are great liars.
393. Great talkers are little doers.
394. Greedy folk have long arms.
395. Habit cures habit.
396. Half a loaf is better than no bread.
397."Hamlet" without the Prince of Denmark.
398. Handsome is that handsome does.
399. Happiness takes no account of time.
400. Happy is he that is happy in his children.
401. Hard words break no bones.
402. Hares may pull dead lions by the beard.
403. Harm watch, harm catch.
404. Haste makes waste.
405. Hasty climbers have sudden falls.
406. Hate not at the first harm.
407. Hatred is blind, as well as love.
408. Hawks will not pick hawks' eyes.
409. He begins to die that quits his desires.
410. He cannot speak well that cannot hold his tongue.
411. He carries fire in one hand and water in the
other. 412. He dances well to whom fortune pipes.
413. He gives twice who gives in a trice.
414. He goes long barefoot that waits for dead man's shoes.
415. He is a fool that forgets himself.
416. He is a good friend that speaks well of us behind our backs.
417. He is happy that thinks himself so.
418. He is lifeless that is faultless.
419. He is not fit to command others that cannot command
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himself.
420. He is not laughed at that laughs at himself first.
421. He is not poor that has little, but he that desires
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much.
422. He jests at scars that never felt a wound.
423. He knows best what good is that has endured evil.
424. He knows how many beans make five.
425. He knows much who knows how to hold his tongue.
426. He laughs best who laughs last.
427. He lives long that lives well.
428. He must needs swim that is held up by the chin.
429. He should have a long spoon that sups with the devil.
430. He smells best that smells of nothing.
431. He that comes first to the hill may sit where he will.
432. He that commits a fault thinks everyone speaks of it.
433. He that does you an i!i turn will never forgive you.
434. He that fears every bush must never go a-birding.
435. He that fears you present wiil hate you absent.
436. He that goes a borrowing, goes a sorrowing.
437. He that goes barefoot must not plant thorns.
438. He that has a full purse never wanted a friend.
439. He that has a great nose thinks everybody is speaking of it.
440. He that has an ill name is half hanged.
441. He that has no children knows not what love is.
442. He that has He head needs no hat.
443. He that has no money needs no purse.
444. He that is born to be hanged shall never be drowned.
445. He that is full of himself is very empty.
446. He that is ill to himself will be good to nobody.
447. He that is warm thinks all so.
448. He that knows nothing doubts nothing.
449. He that lies down with dogs must rise up with fleas.
450. He that lives with cripples learns to limp.
451. He that mischief hatches, mischief catches.
452. He that never climbed never fell.
453. He that once deceives is ever suspected.
454. He that promises too much means nothing.
455. He that respects not is not respected.
456. He that seeks trouble never misses.
457. He that serves everybody is paid by nobody.
458. He that serves God for money will serve the devil for better
wages.
459. He that spares the bad injures the good.
460. He that talks much errs much.
461. He that talks much lies much.
462. He that will eat the kernel must crack the nut.
463. He that will not when he may, when he will he shall have nay.
464. He that will steal an egg will steal an ox.
465. He that will thrive, must rise at five.
466. He that would eat the fruit must climb the tree.
467. He that would have eggs must endure the cackling of hens.
468. He who is born a fool is never cured.
469. He who hesitates is lost.
470. He who likes borrowing dislikes paying.
471. He who makes no mistakes, makes nothing.
472. He who pleased everybody died before he was born.
473. He who says what he likes, shall hear what he doesn't like.
474. He who would catch fish must not mind getting wet.
475. He who would eat the nut must first crack the shell.
476. He who would search for pearls must dive below.
477. He will never set the Thames on fire.
478. He works best who knows his trade.
479. Head cook and bottle-washer.
480. Health is not valued till sickness comes.
481. His money burns a hole in his pocket.
482. Honesty is the best policy.
483. Honey is not for the ass's mouth.
484. Honey is sweet, but the bee stings.
485. Honour and profit lie not in one sack.
486. Honours change manners.
487. Hope is a good breakfast, but a bad supper.
488. Hope is the poor man's bread.
489. Hunger breaks stone walls.
490. Hunger finds no fault with cookery.
491. Hunger is the best sauce.
492. Hungry bellies have no ears.
493. Idle folks lack no excuses.
494. Idleness is the mother of all evil.
495. Idleness rusts the mind.
496. If an ass (donkey) bray at you, don't bray at
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him.
497. If ifs and ans were pots and pans...
498. If my aunt had been a man, she'd have been my uncle.
499. If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
500. If the sky falls, we shall catch larks.
501. If there were no clouds, we should not enjoy the sun.
502. If things were to be done twice all would be wise.
503. If we can't as we would, we must do as we can.
504. If wishes were horses, beggars might ride.
505. If you agree to carry the calf, they'll make you carry the cow.
506. If you cannot bite, never show your teeth.
507. If you cannot have the best, make the best of what you have.
508. If you dance you must pay the fiddler.
509. If you laugh before breakfast you'll cry before
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supper.
510. If you run after two hares, you will catch neither.
511. If you sell the cow, you sell her milk too.
512. If you throw mud enough, some of it will stick.
513. If you try to please all you will please none.
514. If you want a thing well done, do it yourself.
515. Ill-gotten gains never prosper.
516. Ill-gotten, ill-spent.
517. In every beginning think of the end.
518. In for a penny, in for a pound.
519. In the country of the blind one-eyed man is a king.
520. In the end things will mend.
521. In the evening one may praise the day.
522. Iron hand (fist) in a velvet glove.
523. It is a good horse that never stumbles.
524. It is a long lane that has no turning.
525. It is a poor mouse that has only one hole.
526. It is an ill bird that fouls its own nest.
527. It is an ill wind that blows nobody good.
528. It is a silly fish, that is caught twice with the same bait.
529. It is easy to swim if another hoids up your chin (head).
530. It is enough to make a cat laugh.
531. It is good fishing in troubled waters.
532. It is never too late to learn.
533. It is no use crying over spilt milk.
534. It is the first step that costs.
535. It never rains but it pours.
536. It's as broad as it's long.
537. It's no use pumping a dry well.
538. It's one thing to flourish and another to fight.
539. It takes all sorts to make a world.
540. Jackdaw in peacock's feathers.
541. Jest with an ass and he will flap you in the face with his tail.
542. Judge not of men and things at first sight.
543. Just as the twig is bent, the tree is inclined.
544. Keep a thing seven years and you will find a use for it.
545. Keep your mouth shut and your ears open.
546. Keep your mouth shut and your eyes open.
547. Last, but not least.
548. Laws catch flies, but let hornets go free.
549. Learn to creep before you leap.
550. Learn to say before you sing.
551. Learn wisdom by the follies of others.
552. Least said, soonest mended.
553. Leaves without figs.
554. Let bygones be bygones.
555. Let every man praise the bridge he goes over.
556. Let sleeping dogs lie.
557. Let well (enough) alone.
558. Liars need good memories.
559. Lies have short legs.
560. Life is but a span.
561. Life is not a bed of roses.
562. Life is not all cakes and ale (beer and skittles).
563. Like a cat on hot bricks.
564. Like a needle in a haystack.
565. Like begets like.
566. Like cures like.
567. Like father, like son.
568. Like draws to like.
569. Like master, like man.
570. Like mother, like daughter.
571. Like parents, like children.
572. Like priest, like people.
573. Like teacher, like pupil.
574. Little chips light great fires.
575. Little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
576. Little pigeons can carry great messages.
577. Little pitchers have long ears.
578. Little strokes fell great oaks.
579. Little thieves are hanged, but great ones escape.
580. Little things amuse little minds.
581. Live and learn.
582. Live and let live.
583. Live not to eat, but eat to live.
584. Long absent, soon forgotten.
585. Look before you leap.
586. Look before you leap, but having leapt never look back.
587. Lookers-on see more than players.
588. Lord (God, Heaven) helps those (them) who help themselves.
589. Lost time is never found again.
590. Love cannot be forced.
591. Love in a cottage.
592. Love is blind, as well as hatred.
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593. Love me, love my dog.
594. Love will creep where it may not go.
595. Make haste slowly.
596. Make hay while the sun shines.
597. Make or mar.
598. Man proposes but God disposes.
599. Many a fine dish has nothing on it.
600. Many a good cow has a bad calf.
601. Many a good father has but a bad son.
602. Many a little makes a mickle.
603. Many a true word is spoken in jest.
604. Many hands make light work.
605. Many men, many minds.
606. Many words hurt more than swords.
607. Many words will not fill a bushel.
608. Marriages are made in heaven.
609. Measure for measure.
610. Measure thrice and cut once.
611. Men may meet but mountains never.
612. Mend or end (end or mend).
613. Might goes before right.
614. Misfortunes never come alone (singly).
615. Misfortunes tell us what fortune is.
616. Money begets money.
617. Money has no smell.
618. Money is a good servant but a bad master.
619. Money often unmakes the men who make it.
620. Money spent on the brain is never spent in vain.
621. More haste, less speed.
622. Much ado about nothing.
623. Much will have more.
624. Muck and money go together.
625. Murder will out.
626. My house is my castle.
627. Name not a rope in his house that was hanged.
628. Necessity is the mother of invention.
629. Necessity knows no law.
630. Neck or nothing.
631. Need makes the old wife trot.
632. Needs must when the devil drives.
633. Neither fish nor flesh.
634. Neither here nor there.
635. Neither rhyme nor reason.
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636. Never cackle till your egg is laid.
637. Never cast dirt into that fountain of which you have sometime
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drunk.
638. Never do things by halves.
639. Never fry a fish till it's caught.
640. Never offer to teach fish to swim.
641. Never put off till tomorrow what you can do (can be done) today.
642. Never quit certainty for hope.
643. Never too much of a good thing.
644. Never try to prove what nobody doubts.
645. Never write what you dare not sign.
646. New brooms sweep clean.
647. New lords, new laws.
648. Nightingales will not sing in a cage.
649. No flying from fate.
650. No garden without its weeds.
651. No great loss without some small gain.
652. No herb will cure love.
653. No joy without alloy.
654. No living man all things can.
655. No longer pipe, no longer dance.
656. No man is wise at all times.
657. No man loves his fetters, be they made of gold.
658. No news (is) good news.
659. No pains, no gains.
660. No song, no supper.
661. No sweet without (some) sweat.
662. No wisdom like silence.
663. None but the brave deserve the fair.
664. None so blind as those who won't see.
665. None so deaf as those that won't hear.
666. Nothing comes out of the sack but what was in it.
667. Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
668. Nothing must be done hastily but killing of fleas.
669. Nothing so bad, as not to be good for something.
670. Nothing succeeds like success.
671. Nothing venture, nothing have.
672. Oaks may fall when reeds stand the storm.
673. Of two evils choose the least.
674. Old birds are not caught with chaff.
675. Old friends and old wine are best.
676. On Shank's mare.
677. Once bitten, twice shy.
678. Once is no rule (custom).
680. One chick keeps a hen busy.
681. One drop of poison infects the whole tun of wine.
682. One fire drives out another.
683. One good turn deserves another.
684. One law for the rich, and another for the
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poor.
679. One beats the bush, and another catches the bird.
685. One lie makes many.
686. One link broken, the whole chain is broken.
687. One man, no man.
688. One man's meat is another man's poison.
689. One scabby sheep will mar a whole flock.
690. One swallow does not make a summer.
691. One today is worth two tomorrow.
692. Open not your door when the devil knocks.
693. Opinions differ.
694. Opportunity makes the thief.
695. Out of sight, out of mind.
696. Out of the frying-pan into the fire.
697. Packed like herrings.
698. Patience is a plaster for all sores.
699. Penny-wise and pound-foolish.
700. Pleasure has a sting in its tail.
701. Plenty is no plague.
702. Politeness costs little (nothing), but yields much.
703. Poverty is no sin.
704. Poverty is not a shame, but the being ashamed of it is.
705. Practise what you preach.
706. Praise is not pudding.
707. Pride goes before a fall.
708. Procrastination is the thief of time.
709. Promise is debt.
710. Promise little, but do much.
711. Prosperity makes friends, and adversity tries them.
712. Put not your hand between the bark and the tree.
713. Rain at seven, fine at eleven.
714. Rats desert a sinking ship.
715. Repentance is good, but innocence is better.
716. Respect yourself, or no one else will respect you.
717. Roll my log and I will roll yours.
718. Rome was not built in a day.
719. Salt water and absence wash away love.
720. Saying and doing are two things.
721. Score twice before you cut once.
722. Scornful dogs will eat dirty puddings.
723. Scratch my back and I'll scratch yours.
724. Self done is soon done.
725. Self done is well done.
726. Self is a bad counsellor.
727. Self-praise is no recommendation.
728. Set a beggar on horseback and he'll ride to the devil.
729. Set a thief to catch a thief.
730. Shallow streams make most din.
731. Short debts (accounts) make long friends.
732. Silence gives consent.
733. Since Adam was a boy.
734. Sink or swim!
735. Six of one and half a dozen of the other.
736. Slow and steady wins the race.
737. Slow but sure.
738. Small rain lays great dust.
739. So many countries, so many customs.
740. So many men, so many minds.
741. Soft fire makes sweet malt.
742. Something is rotten in the state of Denmark .
743. Soon learnt, soon forgotten.
744. Soon ripe, soon rotten.
745. Speak (talk) of the devil and he will appear (is sure to appear).
746. Speech is silver but silence is gold.
747. Standers-by see more than gamesters.
748. Still waters run deep.
749. Stolen pleasures are sweetest.
750. Stretch your arm no further than your sleeve will
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reach.
751. Stretch your legs according to the coverlet.
752. Strike while the iron is hot.
753. Stuff today and starve tomorrow.
754. Success is never blamed.
755. Such carpenters, such chips.
756. Sweep before your own door.
757. Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves.
758. Take us as you find us.
759. Tarred with the same brush.
760. Tastes differ.
761. Tell that to the marines.
762. That cock won't fight.
763. That which one least anticipates soonest comes to pass.
764. That's a horse of another colour.
765. That's where the shoe pinches!
766. The beggar may sing before the thief (before a footpad).
767. The best fish smell when they are three days old.
768. The best fish swim near the bottom.
769. The best is oftentimes the enemy of the good.
770. The busiest man finds the most leisure.
771. The camel going to seek horns lost his ears.
772. The cap fits.
773. The cask savours of the first fill.
774. The cat shuts its eyes when stealing cream.
775. The cat would eat fish and would not wet her paws.
776. The chain is no stronger than its weakest link.
777. The cobbler should stick to his last.
778. The cobbler's wife is the worst shod.
779. The darkest hour is that before the dawn.
780. The darkest place is under the candlestick.
781. The devil is not so black as he is painted.
782. The devil knows many things because he is old.
783. The devil lurks behind the cross.
784. The devil rebuking sin.
785. The dogs bark, but the caravan goes on.
786. The Dutch have taken Holland !
787. The early bird catches the worm.
788. The end crowns the work.
789. The end justifies the means.
790. The evils we bring on ourselves are hardest to bear.
791. The exception proves the rule.
792. The face is the index of the mind.
793. The falling out of lovers is the renewing of love.
794. The fat is in the fire.
795. The first blow is half the battle.
796. The furthest way about is the nearest way home.
797. The game is not worth the candle.
798. The heart that once truly loves never forgets.
799. The higher the ape goes, the more he shows his tail.
800. The last drop makes the cup run over.
801. The last straw breaks the camel's back.
802. The leopard cannot change its spots.
803. The longest day has an end.
804. The mill cannot grind with the water that is past.
805. The moon does not heed the barking of dogs.
806. The more haste, the less speed.
807. The more the merrier.
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808. The morning sun never lasts a day.
809. The mountain has brought forth a mouse.
810. The nearer the bone, the sweeter the flesh.
811. The pitcher goes often to the well but is broken at last.
812. The pot calls the kettle black.
813. The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
814. The receiver is as bad as the thief.
815. The remedy is worse than the disease.
816. The rotten apple injures its neighbours.
817. The scalded dog fears cold water.
818. The tailor makes the man.
819. The tongue of idle persons is never idle.
820. The voice of one man is the voice of no one.
821. The way (the road) to hell is paved with good intentions.
822. The wind cannot be caught in a net.
823. The work shows the workman.
824. There are lees to every wine.
825. There are more ways to the wood than one.
826. There is a place for everything, and everything in its place.
827. There is more than one way to kill a cat.
828. There is no fire without smoke.
829. There is no place like home.
830. There is no rose without a thorn.
831. There is no rule without an exception.
832. There is no smoke without fire.
833. There's many a slip 'tween (== between) the cup and the lip.
834. There's no use crying over spilt milk.
835. They are hand and glove.
836. They must hunger in winter that will not work in
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summer.
837. Things past cannot be recalled.
838. Think today and speak tomorrow.
839. Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones.
840. Time and tide wait for no man.
841. Time cures all things.
842. Time is money.
843. Time is the great healer.
844. Time works wonders.
845. To add fuel (oil) to the fire (flames).
846. To angle with a silver hook.
847. To be born with a silver spoon in one's mouth.
848. To be head over ears in debt.
849. To be in one's birthday suit.
850. To be up to the ears in love.
851. To be wise behind the hand.
852. To beat about the bush.
853. To beat the air.
854. To bring grist to somebody's mill.
855. To build a fire under oneself.
856. To buy a pig in a poke.
857. To call a spade a spade.
858. To call off the dogs.
859. To carry coals to Newcastle.
860. To cast pearls before swine.
861. To cast prudence to the winds.
862. To come away none the wiser.
863. To come off cheap.
864. To come off with a whole skin.
865. To come off with flying colours.
866. To come out dry.
867. To come out with clean hands.
868. To cook a hare before catching him.
869. To cry with one eye and laugh with the other.
870. To cut one's throat with a feather.
871. To draw (pull) in one's horns.
872. To drop a bucket into an empty well.
873. To draw water in a sieve.
874. To eat the calf in the cow's belly.
875. To err is human.
876. To fiddle while Rome is burning.
877. To fight with one's own shadow.
878. To find a mare's nest.
879. To fish in troubled waters.
880. To fit like a glove.
881. To flog a dead horse.
882. To get out of bed on the wrong side.
883. To give a lark to catch a kite.
884. To go for wool and come home shorn.
885. To go through fire and water (through thick and
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thin).
886. To have a finger in the pie.
887. To have rats in the attic.
888. To hit the nail on the head.
889. To kick against the pricks.
890. To kill two birds with one stone.
891. To know everything is to know nothing.
892. To know on which side one's bread is buttered.
893. To know what's what.
894. To lay by for a rainy day.
895. To live from hand to mouth.
896. To lock the stable-door after the horse is stolen.
897. To look for a needle in a haystack.
898. To love somebody (something) as the devil loves holy water.
899. To make a mountain out of a molehill.
900. To make both ends meet.
901. To make the cup run over.
902. To make (to turn) the air blue.
903. To measure another man's foot by one's own last.
904. To measure other people's corn by one's own bushel.
905. To pay one back in one's own coin.
906. To plough the sand.
907. To pour water into a sieve.
908. To pull the chestnuts out of the fire for somebody.
909. To pull the devil by the tail.
910. To put a spoke in somebody's wheel.
911. To put off till Doomsday.
912. To put (set) the cart before the horse.
913. To rob one's belly to cover one's back.
914. To roll in money.
915. To run with the hare and hunt with the
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hounds.
916. To save one's bacon.
917. To send (carry) owls to Athens .
918. To set the wolf to keep the sheep.
919. To stick to somebody like a leech.
920. To strain at a gnat and swallow a camel.
921. To take counsel of one's pillow.
922. To take the bull by the horns.
923. To teach the dog to bark.
924. To tell tales out of school.
925. To throw a stone in one's own garden.
926. To throw dust in somebody's eyes.
927. To throw straws against the wind.
928. To treat somebody with a dose of his own medicine.
929. To use a steam-hammer to crack nuts.
930. To wash one's dirty linen in public.
931. To wear one's heart upon one's sleeve.
932. To weep over an onion.
933. To work with the left hand.
934. Tomorrow come never.
935. Too many cooks spoil the broth.
936. Too much knowledge makes the head bald.
937. Too much of a good thing is good for nothing.
938. Too much water drowned the miller .
939. Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.
940. True blue will never stain.
941. True coral needs no painter's brush.
942. Truth comes out of the mouths of babes and sucklings.
943. Truth is stranger than fiction.
944. Truth lies at the bottom of a well.
945. Two blacks do not make a white.
946. Two heads are better than one.
947. Two is company, but three is none.
948. Velvet paws hide sharp claws.
949. Virtue is its own reward.
950. Wait for the cat to jump.
951. Walls have ears.
952. Wash your dirty linen at home.
953. Waste not, want not.
954. We know not what is good until we have lost it.
955. We never know the value of water till the well is dry.
956. We shall see what we shall see.
957. We soon believe what we desire.
958. Wealth is nothing without health.
959. Well begun is half done.
960. What can't be cured, must be endured.
961. What is bred in the bone will not go out of the flesh.
962. What is done by night appears by day.
963. What is done cannot be undone.
964. What is got over the devil's back is spent under his belly.
965. What is lost is lost.
966. What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
967. What is worth doing at alt is worth doing well.
968. What must be, must be.
969. What the heart thinks the tongue speaks.
970. What we do willingly is easy.
971. When angry, count a hundred.
972. When at Rome, do as the Romans do.
973. When children stand quiet, they have done some
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harm.
974. When flatterers meet, the devil goes to dinner.
975. When guns speak it is too late to argue.
976. When pigs fly.
977. When Queen Anne was alive.
978. When the cat is away, the mice will play.
979. When the devil is blind.
980. When the fox preaches, take care of your geese.
981. When the pinch comes, you remember the old shoe.
982. When three know it, alt know it.
983. When wine is in wit is out.
984. Where there's a will, there's a way.
985. While the grass grows the horse starves.
986. While there is life there is hope.
987. Who breaks, pays.
988. Who has never tasted bitter, knows not what is sweet.
989. Who keeps company with the wolf, will learn to howl.
990. Wise after the event.
991. With time and patience the leaf of the mulberry becomes
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satin.
992. Words pay no debts.
993. You can take a horse to the water but you cannot make him drink.
994. You cannot eat your cake and have it.
995. You cannot flay the same ox twice.
996. You cannot judge a tree by it bark.
997. You cannot teach old dogs new tricks.
998. You cannot wash charcoal white.
999. You made your bed, now lie in it.
1000. Zeal without knowledge is a runaway horse.
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CONSCIOUSNESS TO CONSCIENCE
CONSCIOUSNESS
TO
CONSCIENCE
Dr. Shriniwas Kashalikar
Consciousness is associated with biological
growth in you.
Conscience needs to be achieved. It is
achievable for you.
Consciousness is associated with not merely
differences but disputes and discord.
Conscience is associated with appreciation of
the differences and harmony.
Consciousness is influenced affected by
disturbing impulses from unconscious realm.
Unconscious realm is a product of metabolic,
endocrine and autonomic nervous events.
Conscience is a product of the evolution of
consciousness and hence can overpower the
impulses of the unconscious realm.
Consciousness is associated with petty
behavior in many forms. It is associated with
mean conflicts and indiscriminate violence.
Conscience is associated with noble and
generous actions in many forms. It is
associated with universal love and justice.
Consciousness enables you to learn science,
art and philosophy.
Conscience is the culmination of the study of
science, art and philosophy.
The growth and consolidation of collective
universal conscience is the culmination of the
endeavors of human civilization.
NAMASMARAN is the vehicle, core and
hallmark of spiritual renaissance and
blossoming of conscience!
One can verify this by practice of
NAMASMARAN and experience of the
globally benevolent fountain of creative bliss!
DR. SHRINIWAS KASHALIKAR
TO
CONSCIENCE
Dr. Shriniwas Kashalikar
Consciousness is associated with biological
growth in you.
Conscience needs to be achieved. It is
achievable for you.
Consciousness is associated with not merely
differences but disputes and discord.
Conscience is associated with appreciation of
the differences and harmony.
Consciousness is influenced affected by
disturbing impulses from unconscious realm.
Unconscious realm is a product of metabolic,
endocrine and autonomic nervous events.
Conscience is a product of the evolution of
consciousness and hence can overpower the
impulses of the unconscious realm.
Consciousness is associated with petty
behavior in many forms. It is associated with
mean conflicts and indiscriminate violence.
Conscience is associated with noble and
generous actions in many forms. It is
associated with universal love and justice.
Consciousness enables you to learn science,
art and philosophy.
Conscience is the culmination of the study of
science, art and philosophy.
The growth and consolidation of collective
universal conscience is the culmination of the
endeavors of human civilization.
NAMASMARAN is the vehicle, core and
hallmark of spiritual renaissance and
blossoming of conscience!
One can verify this by practice of
NAMASMARAN and experience of the
globally benevolent fountain of creative bliss!
DR. SHRINIWAS KASHALIKAR
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