·         A very cunning fellow seldom wins

·         Too much flattery often results in misdeed

·         A worthless person always comes back to the place he or she started out.

·         Futile effort or prayer

·         Eloquent writing persuades people better than military force

·         Money is the root cause of all unhappiness

·         To use power and prestige selfishly to provide for oneself

·         No evil can touch the pure

·         The son show off much more than the father

·         The bad and the good exist side by side

·         One’s own things are the best

·         Waste too good a thing on one least deserving

·         One is punished for another’s sin

·         To heart someone who has helped you

·         To be of same habit

·         To say two contradictory words

·        To lose both sides

·         One sows, another reaps

·         The commencement of evil

·         Unity is strength, disruption is ruin

·         To be benefited doubly at the same time

·         The most expert person starts at last

·         To arrange something instantly without any preparation

·         To be much old and very near to death

·         There is no smoke without fire

·         To forbear an insult

·         To know how many beans, make five

·         To set a thief to catch a thief or Like cures like

·         The powerful make law

·         Do not allow someone to go beyond his limit

·         Black will take no other hue.

·         It is useless to deal with the vile

·         Don’t search for trouble

·         one thorn drives away another

·         All seem yellow to the jaundiced eye

·         Set a thief to catch a thief

·         Nero fiddles while Rome burns

·         What is sport to the cat is death to the rat.

·         Dog does not eat a dog

·         Reality may sometime be more surprising than the fiction

·         Absence begets forgetfulness

·         To waste inconsiderably

·         do not rebuke someone for a fault or problem you have yourself

·         It takes a lot of time to achieve something important

·         A glutton is often very slack

·         An idle fellow can do nothing in life

·         Shun evil company

·         Vows made in storm are forgotten in clam

·         When danger is gone, God is forgotten

·         One must submit to the inevitable

·         Necessity knows no law.

·         To make way for one’s own destroyer

·         No to help after giving the promise of help

·         Those who seek favour must accept any term

·         To entertain a man by this own money

·         To be benefited doubly at the same time

• To water the top of a plant after laying the axe to its root

• You cannot make a man of an ass.
• You cannot make someone more refined than he or she is by nature.

• One is not so soon healed as hurt.
• It takes more time to build up than to pull down

• Nobody listens to the advice of an ordinary man
• A poor man’s word is often ignored, though it may be effective sometime.

·         To gain something in disorder

·         To make a mess or disorder of something; to reverse the natural facts

·         A disguised enemy in one’s own house

• Unwilling to work when there is somebody to help.
• Loath to work finding someone to depend upon.

·         You must not see things with half an eye

·         To disclose inner words before outward people

·         A good-looking man may not always be good to the core.

·         Once bitten, twice shy.

·         Experience teaches us caution;

·         if something has hurt you once, you avoid it after that

·         Stealing is not crime if not caught

·         There is no unmixed good

·         Character is the best wealth in a man’s life

·         To cheat a cheat.

·         A tooth for a tooth

·         To be confounded or nonghosted.

·         A known man needs no recommendation

• After death comes the doctor.
  To be wise after the event

·         A rogue is deaf to all good

·         You can never reform a rogue.

·         call the kettle black.

·         Man’s eyes indicate inner emotions

·         Life lies in action not in mere thinking

·         Do not judge a book by its cover

·         A burnt child dreads the fire; experience teaches has caution.

·         A dangerous person pretending to be harmless; a serpent under flower

·         A wise man does not talk very much

·         Wise people do not need long explanation

• Between the devil and the deep blue sea or,
• between a rock and a hard place.
• Between Scylla and Charybdis,
• between two fires.

·         A man’s action is more important rather than his appearance

• Life is but a walking shadow
•  Life is very trifling.

·         Only the powerful can enjoy rights

• Nothing succeeds like success.
• Success leads to success.

·         Death is a must for a living being

·         Trying different things keeps life interesting

• He prayeth best who loveth best.
• To love the creatures of Allah is to pray to God

·         Things are often clam after an upheaval

• As the wind blows, you must set your sail.
• Make the best use of an opportunity,
•  make hay while the sun shines.

• Nothing succeeds like success.
• Success leads to success.

• To teach the guilty a lesson by railing at the innocent.
• To teach something to someone tactfully.

·         Birds of feather flock together

·         Sufficient money can accomplish anything

• A light purse is a heavy curse.
• If you do not have enough money, you will worry and be unhappy.

·         Anybody can be convinced by a certain amount of money more or less

• Lend your money and loss your friend .
• Money breaks friendship.

·         A criminal is always weak in mind though he tries to conceal this weakness

• Nothing like force.
• All impossible are made possible by force.

• Extravagant hopes lead to complete disappointment.
• Over aspiration may end in despair

• Habit is the second nature.
• Black will take no other hue.

• To make a mountain of a molehill.
• Magnify trifles.

·         Common sense will help you solve problems more than theory

·         .Help one who needs no help

·         Hurrying will cause you to make mistakes

• He is a bit crazy or eccentric.

• A wish, gained or lost, leaves one unsatisfied in either case

• Better an empty house than an ill tenant
•  .Better alone than in evil company
• One black sheep spoils the whole flock

• Blessings are not valued till they are gone.
• Men are always neglectful to their blessings.

·         Grass in always greener on the other side of the fence .

·         Someone may be listening

·         Misery ends in happiness; after clouds comes fair weather

·         Everybody should target one objective at a particular time

• It is never too late to mend
• There is always time for rectifying a wrong.

• To utter a downright false-hood.

·         Two heads are better than one.
We stand or fall together

·         To patronize an enemy.

·         Breed up a crow, and it will pluck your eyes

• Virtue proclaims itself.
• Truth will come out naturally

• To make sure of something without risking anything.
• A cat loves fishes but is loath to wet her feet.

·         An inefficient man complains of circumstances

• To be careless about what happens

• What the eye doesn’t see, the heart doesn’t grieve over.
• What you don’t know won’t hurt you.

• না আঁচালে বিশ্বাস নেই ।

• Praise a fair day at night .
• Suspend your judgment till the end.

·         Half a loaf is better than no loaf

·         All feet tread not in one shoe .

·         As many men, so many minds

• Make new friends but keep the old, These are silver those are gold .

• A beggar may sing before a pick-pocket.
• A beggar has nothing to lose.
• A pauper has nothing to lose .
• A destitute has no fear of losing anything

·         Hunger waits for no delicacy

·         one’s own things are the best.

• To hoist with one’s own petard.
• A man falls in that trap which he makes for others.

• Burn not your house to fright the mouse away .
• Don’t cut your nose to spite another’s face.

• Sweet’s the wine, but sour’s the payment.

• To dig one’s own grave.

·         Don’t think over a mad man’s speech.

• To make cat’s paw of person.
• one both the geath, another hath the scorn.

• To keep counsel.

·         A poor or hungry person cannot function properly

• Love conquers all

• What can’t be cured must be endured.
• One must submit to the inevitable.

• Prevention is better than cure.

• Necessity is the mother of invention.
  Urgent need impels one to devise means

• Cleanliness is next to godliness.
  Cleanliness is a step to devotion to God

• Fortune favors the industrious .
• Luck befalls on the courageous

• Count not money that is still to come .
• Your money may not be of any use if not in your hand

• Diligence is the mother of good luck.
• Perseverance or industry is the key to success.

• If the cap fits, wear it.

• Ill got, ill spent.
• Money gained dishonestly, spent dishonestly

• Not to remember a thing aright

• The grapes are sour.
• One blames what one cannot get.

• Pain is forgotten where gain follows
• One can digest an insult after getting profit.

• The wages of the sin is death.
• Sin ultimately leads to death

• Every sin carries its own punishment .
• Sinners cannot go unpunished

• Cheats never prosper .
• Cheats always fail in the long run.

·         To biased mind everything is in fault.

• You cannot catch an old bird with chaff.
• Wise men are not easily fooled.

·         A man’s actual character is known by his actions

·         Cleanliness is a step to devotion to God

• Give him an inch and he will take an ell.
• Give no chance to an intruder.

·         The strength of faith is unthinkable.

·         Foolish people spend money easily without thinking.

• Sweet are the uses of adversity

• A growing youth has a wolf in his belly

• A humble gift made by a poor man with a sincere heart .
• Presentation from a poor friend.

·         Treachery masked in friendship;

·         an angel’s face with a devil’s mind

• Like father, like son

• The parent’s life is the child’s copybook.

• Home is where the heart is.
• People long to be at home.

• The chip tougher than the old block.
• The son shows off much more

• Little birds may peck a dead lion

• An old dog learns no trick.

·         Life is too short for all that we have to learn

• Learning is a priceless treasure.

• Like cures like .
• one thorn drives away another

• Be sure before you marry of a house wherein to tarry.
• Think twice before you take a risk.

·         Sweet are the uses of adversity.

• The more laws, the more flaws.
• The opposites are also available.

• Much ado about nothing .
• Too much fuss, and little is done;
• Too much talk ends in nothing.

• He would climb the ladder must begin at the bottom .
• if you want to gain high status, you must start with low status.

• None but the brave deserve the fair.
  Only the brave deserve the best.

• When the cat’s away, the mice will play

• Fools of yesterday are the wise men of today
• Fools understand later.

·         Adversity is the forerunner of prosperity

·         Acting like the young in one’s old age

• Impossibility ; absurdity

• Virtue thrives best in adversity.
• Men’s qualities come out in danger.

• Danger never comes alone .
• Danger comes in battalions.

·         Justice must be done then and there

• Show the thumb in derision.

• Every dog is a lion at home.
• A dog is a lion is his lane.

·         It is easy to say but difficult to do.

·         People crowd round a wealthy person.

·         Shrewd people perceive at the slightest symptom

·         অজ্ঞতাই ভক্তি করে

• An ass that is a common property is always worst saddle .
• Everybody’s business is nobody’s business.

·         One needs not spend money to be good

• Lean on a broken reed

• To bring utter ruin

• Look before you leap .
• Think before you act

• Lost credit is like a broken glass .
• Once fame lost; it can’t be regained

• To bring a hornet’s nest about one’s ears

• The devil listening to the Scriptures

• Cowards die many times before their death.
• Cowards are very afraid to die.

• what is looted can’t be blotted.

·         Luck befalls on the courageous.

·         Bachelors’ wives’ and maids’ children are always well taught

·         Costly things are always costly

·         To take a hammer to spread a plaster

·         Treachery masked in friendship;

·         an angel’s face with a devil’s mind.

• After clouds comes fair weather.
• Happiness follows misery

• Do not teach your grandmother to such egg.
• Never lecture before an expert.

·         Fine words butter no parsnips

·         Men of higher thinking think the same thing

·         Empty vessels sound much

• Heaven lies at the foot of mother .
• Obey your mother first.

• Ill news runs apace.

·         A lot of bad things tend to happen at the same time

·         The words uttered by dying men are always true.

• To pour water on a drowned mouse.
• To slay the slain.

• To follow in the footsteps of the wise.

·         It is natural for man to make mistakes

·         A drawing man catches or clutches at a straw

·         As you make your bed, so you must lie on it

• A poacher turned gamekeeper .
• One who is savior also the destroyer

• After sweet meat comes sour sauce .
• If you laugh today, you may cry tomorrow.

·         Patience is bitter but its fruit is sweet

·         Desperate diseases must have desperate remedies .

·         , tit for tat.

• Be true to your salt.

• Danger often comes where danger is feared
• Danger always comes at the most critical moment.

·          .Distance makes the heart grow fonder

• Give the devil his due.
• Be just even to one who does not deserve sympathy.

• Hand that rocks the cradle rules the world .
• mothers are the most powerful people,

• It is a pity he is good for nothing (Ne’er-do well).

·         Tit for tat;

·         as is the evil so is the remedy

• Like saint, like offering .
• As is the master so is the homage.

·         One cannot enjoy his riches always

• Rumour has some element of truth in it

·         None but the sufferer knows his trouble

• Thou he is careless to make his mark, others are moving mountains for him.

·         যস্মিন দেশে যাদাচার

• When in Rome, do as Romans do.
• Do as the time demands.

• It is beyond human endurance.

• The cat is out of the bag.\
• To disclose anything in public.

• An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure .
• Prevention is better than cure..

• Handsome is that handsome does

• Diamond cuts diamond .
• Everything finds an equal

• Blood is thicker than water
• The tie of kindred is real.

• Rome was not built in a day.

• Constant dripping wears away a stone .
• persistence accomplishes things.

• Fortune is fickle .
• Riches have wings..

·         Don’t worry to waste money inconsiderable

• All well that ends well .
• He laughs best who loveth best .

• An interested witness is no witness
• An unwanted help has no importance.

• Children and fools tell the truth .
• No knowledgeable person tells the truth.

·         empty promise will not help anybody in distress, wishes never fill the bag

·          .After cloud comes fair weather

·         A cheat must not be trusted with anything

• We first make our habits, and than our habits make us.

• Wishes never fill the bag.
• Only fine words butter no parsnips.

·         A Greek meeting a Greek.

·         A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush

·         Sometimes you cannot get what you want by being careful and polite

• সুখের সময়গুলো দ্রুত চলে যায় ।.

·         man’s marry days are very transient

• সোনার চামচ মুখে নিয়ে জন্মান; সচ্ছল পরিবারে জন্মগ্রহন করা।

• Be born with a silver spoon in one’s mouth .
• Be born into wealth and privilege

• স্পষ্টাস্পষ্টি কথা বলা ।.

·         Speak plain and spare none

• .সৌন্দর্য ধরা পড়ে চোখে আর জ্ঞান ধরা পড়ে অন্তরে।

• Charm strikes the sight, merit wins the soul .
• External beauty strikes our eyesight and inner qualities impress our soul.

• সস্তার তিন অবস্থা।.

• স্বজাতির ক্ষতি কেউ চায় না ।

·         One raven will not pluck another’s eyes

• সে কচি খোকা নয়।

• সাপ হয়ে কাটে, আর ওঝা হয়ে ঝাড়ে ;

·         To be in both groups.

·         Hit the iron while it is hot,

·          make hay while the sun shines

·         One does many things fairly well, but is not an expert at anything

• সম্মান একবার গেলে আর ফিরে আসে না;

·         Once fame lost; it can’t be regained. .

·         The old merry times are no more

• সবুরে মেওয়া ফলে।

• Patience has its reward.
• Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet .

• সুখের চেয়ে স্বস্তি ভাল।

• Peace is more cove-table than physical comforts..

• সুসময়ের বন্ধু অনেকেই হয়, অসময়ে হাহ হায় কেউ কারো নয়।

• Prosperity brings friends, adversity tries them .
• A friend in need is a friend indeed.

• সাবধানের মার নেই।

·         To be forewarned is to be forearmed

• স্বাবলম্বনই সর্বশ্রেষ্ট অবলম্বন ।.

·         Depend on yourself

·         One cannot change one’s nature; Old habits die hard

• সব শিয়ালের এক রা।

• They see eye to eye with one another

• সময়েই ক্ষত শুকোয়।
  সময়ই সবচেয়ে ভাল উপাশক।

• Time cures more than the doctor.
• Time is the best healer

• সুখে থাকতে ভূতে কিলায়।

• সত্যের কোন রূপান্তর নেই, আজও যা কালও তা।

• Truth has no colour.
• Truth has no change as the different changing colours of falsehood.

• সুন্দর শুরুই অর্ধেক সাফল্য।

• Well begun is half done.
• Beginning a project well makes it easier to do the rest.

• সৃষ্টিকর্তা যা করেন মঙ্গলের জন্যেই করেন।

• What god wills is for good.
• Be content with the result after doing anything.

• সকল রোগীর এক পথ্য নহে।.

·         What suits one may not suit another

• সত্য কখনো চাপা থাকে না।

·         The truth will always be discovered

·         Misery has its sequel in happiness

·         The rash will undertake a thing from which the wise shrink

·         He would bend the bow of Ulysses .

·         Fools rush in where angels fear to tread

·         people who marry quickly, suffer at last

• One does not know whether to laugh or weep.
• One swallow does not makes a summer.
• Nothing ends for ever.

• To lead the life of a dog.

·         After fair weather comes cloud, change is the law of nature

• Forgive and forget .
• Forgiveness is a great virtue..

• Hunger is the best sauce.
• Hunger gives taste to our food;
•  hunger is a great appetizer…..