Ôn tập Anh Văn 12 - Proverbs about love - Thẩm Tâm Vy

 Thẩm Tâm Vy, December 18th, 2018 ENGLISH PROVERBS ABOUT LOVE & HAPPINESS 
PROVERBS ABOUT LOVE 
Its blindness 
1. Love is blind. 
2. If Jack's in love, he's no judge of Jill's beauty. 
3. Love sees no faults. 
4. In the eyes of the lover, pock-marks are dimples. 
5. No love is foul, nor prison fair. 
Its irrationality 
6. Love is without reason. 
7. Love is lawless. 
8. Affection blinds reason. 
9. No folly to being in love. 
10. One cannot love and be wise. 
11. Lovers are madmen. 
Its value 
12. To be beloved is above all bargains. 
13. A penny-weight of love is worth a pound of law. 
14. Love covers many infirmities. 
15. Where love fails, we espy all faults. 
16. Faults are thick where love is thin. 
17. Labour is light where love doth pay. 
18. Love makes one fit for any wort 
19. He that has love in his breast, has spurs in his sides. 
20. Love is free. 
21. In love is no lack. 
22. Love locks no cupboards. 
23. True love kythes in time of need. ["Kythes" means "shows itself'] 
24. All the world loves a lover. 
25. Love is the touchstone of virtue. 
26. Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. 
[Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-92) In Memoriam. 
The basic sentiment of this now proverbial quotation was first expressed many 
centuries earlier] 
Its power 
27. Love conquers all. 
28. Love rules his kingdom without a sword. 
29. Love makes the world go round. 
30. Love makes all men equal. 
31. Love and business teach eloquence. 
32. Love makes a wit of the fool. 
33. Love makes all hard hearts gentle. 
34. Love laughs at locksmiths. 
35. Love will find a way. 
36. Love will go through stone walls. 
37. Love cannot be compelled. 
38. A man has choice to begin love, but not to end it. 
39. Perfect love casteth out fear. [1 John 4:18] 
40. Love is as strong as death. [Song of Solomon 8:6] 
41. Love and a cough cannot be'hid. 
[Variations of this proverb substitute or add "light", "fire", "smoke", "gout", 
and "an itch" as things that can no more be concealed than love] 
Its universality 
42. He that does not love a woman, sucked a sow. 
43. Love and leprosy few escape. [Chinese proverb] 
Its steadfastness 
44. Old love will not be forgotten. 
45. Old love does not rust 
46. Sound love is not soon forgotten. 
47. True love never grows old. 
48. Love wul creep where it may not go. 
 [The implication is that love will always do what little it can to help] 
49. Love without end has no end. 
 [This implies that true love will last forever, whereas false love, which has a 
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particular aim in view, will fade as soon as its goal is attained] 
Its ups and. downs 
50. The course of true love never did run smooth. 
[William Shakespeare (1564-1616) Midsummer Night's Dream] 
51. Never rely on love or the weather. 
52. Of honey and gall in love there is store. 
53. Love is sweet in the beginning but sour in the ending. 
54. Love is a sweet torment. 
55. War, hunting, and love are as full of trouble as pleasure. 
Its disadvantages 
56. Love is full of fear. 
57. When love puts in, friendship is gone. 
Its dangers 
58. Love and pease-pottage are two dangerous things. 
 [The implication is that one attacks the heart and the other the stomach] 
59. The love of the wicked is more dangerous than their hatred. 
60. They love too much that die for love. 
Its inadequacy 
61. Fear is stronger than love. 
62. Of soup and love, the first is the best. 
63. 'Sweet-heart' and 'Honey-bird' keeps no house. 
Its silence 
64. Love speaks, even when the lips are closed. 
65. When love is greatest, words are fewest. 
66. Whom we love best, to them we can say least. 
67. Next to love, quietness. 
Its sources 
68. Congruity is the mother of love. 
69. Likeness causes liking. 
70. Looks breed love. 
71. Love begets love. 
72. Love is the loadstone of love. 
73. Love is the true reward of love. 
74. Love needs no teaching. 
75. Love is not found in the market. 
76. Love is the fruit of idleness. 
Its remedies 
77. Cold pudding will settle your love. 
78. Time, not the mind, puts an end to love. 
79. In love's wars, he who flies is conqueror. 
 [The implication is that the only remedy for love is to run away] 
80. No herb will cure love. 
Its rules and conditions 
81. All is fair in love and war. 
82. Love is a game in which both players always cheat. 
83. Love me, love my dog. [The implication is that in loving a person 
 one must also love those who are close to him] 
Its tactics 
84. Love delights in praise. 
85. Scorn at first makes after-love the more. 
86. He that would the daughter win, must with the mother first begin. 
87. Follow love and it will flee thee: flee love and it will follow thee. 
88. The last suitor wins the maid. 
89. He that woos a maid, must seldom come in her sight; but he that 
 woos a widow must woo her day and night. 
90. Puddings and paramours should be hotly handled. [The implication 
 is that neither puddings nor love should be allowed to grow cold] 
Courtship 
91. To woo is a pleasure in a young man, a fault in an old. 
92. A man may woo where he will, but he will wed where his hap is. 
93. Happy is the wooing that is not long a-doing. 
94. Sunday's wooing draws to ruin. 
95. When petticoats woo, breeks may come, speed. 
 [A reference to women courting men] 
Lover's quarrels 
96. Lovers' quarrels are soon mended. 
97. The quarrel of lovers is the renewal of love. 
98. Jove laughs at lovers' perjuries. 
99. Biting and scratching is Scots folk's wooing. 
Young love 
100. Calf love, half love; old love, cold love. 
101. Love of lads and fire of chats is soon in and soon out. 
 ["Chats" are wood-chips] 
102. Lad's love's a busk of broom, hot awhile and soon done. 
103. No love like the first love. 
New love 
104. The new love drives out the old love. 
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105. One love expels another. 
106. It is best to be off with the old love before you are on with the new. 
107. As good love comes as goes. 
108. Many a heart is caught in the rebound. 
Unrequited love 
109. Love without return is like a question without an answer. 
110. There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved. 
Parental love 
111. It is a dear collop that is cut out of thine own flesh. 
[A "collop" is a slice, here referring to one's offspringl 
112. A mother's love never ages. 
113. A mother's love is best of all. 
114. No love to a father's. 
115. Love the babe for her that bare it. 
[The implication of this and the next two proverbs is that if a man loves a woman 
he must also love her children] 
116. If you love the boll, you cannot hate the branches. 
117. He that loves the tree, loves the branch. 
Love and faith 
118. Love asks faith, and faith asks firmness. 
119. Where love is, there is faith. 
120. Where there.is no trust there is no love. 
Love and jealousy 
121. Love being jealous, makes a good eye look asquint. 
122. Love is never without jealousy. 
123. Love and lordship like no fellowship. 
[This proverb may be interpreted in two ways: that neither love nor lordship will 
tolerate a rival, or that love and lordship are not compatible. The first 
interpretation applies here] 
Love and money 
124. Love does much, money does everything. 
125. Love lasts as long as money endures. 
126. Money is the sinews of love as well as of war. 
127. When poverty comes in at the door, love flies out of the window. 
128. Love lives in cottages as well as in courts. 
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PROVERBS ABOUT HAPPINESS 
Its sources 
1. Content is happiness. 
2. Children and fools have merry lives. 
3. Laughter is the hiccup of a fool. 
4. It is comparison that makes men happy or miserable. 
5. Let him that would be happy for a day, go to the barber; for a week, marry a 
wife; for a month, buy him a new horse; for a year, build him a new house; for 
all his life time, be an honest man. 
6. Happy is he that chastens himself. 
7. Happy is he that is happy in his children. 
8. Happy is he whose friends were born before him. 
 [This and the following proverb are ironic references to those who inherit rich 
estates] 
9. Happy is that child whose father goes to the devil. 
 [There is also a reference here to the ill-gotten gains inherited by the son of a 
criminal] 
10. Happy is she who marries the son of a dead mother. 
11. Happy is the country which has no history. 
12. Peace in a thatched hut - that is happiness. [Chinese proverb] 
13. Sadness and gladness succeed each other. 
14. Seill comes not till sorrow be gone. ["Seill" means "happiness"] 
15. True happiness consists in making happy. [Hindi proverb] 
16. All happiness is in the mind. 
17. He is happy, that knoweth not himself to be otherwise. 
18. He who leaves his house in search of happiness pursues a shadow. 
 [Chinese proverb. The implication is that happiness is to be found at home] 
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19. Who will in time present pleasure refrain, shall in time to come the more 
pleasure obtain. 
20. Who can sing so merry a note, as he that cannot change a groat? 
Its effects 
21. Pleasant hours fly past. 
22. A blithe heart makes a blooming visage. 
23. The joy of the heart makes the face fair. 
24. A man of gladness seldom falls into madness. 
25. Laughter makes good blood. 
26. Laugh and grow fat. 
27. As long lives a merry man as a sad. 
28. With happiness comes intelligence to the heart. [Chinese proverb] 
29. When a man is happy he does not hear the clock strike. 
30. Merry meet, merry part. 
Its value 
31. Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep, and you weep alone. 
 [Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850-1919) Solitude] 
32. Better be happy than wise. 
33. To weep for joy is a kind of manna. 
34. One joy scatters a hundred griefs. [Chinese proverb] 
35. Laughter is the best medicine. 
36. One day of pleasure is worth two of sorrow. 
37. An ounce of mirth is worth a pound of sorrow. 
38. Aye be as merry as be can, for love ne'er delights in a sorrowful man. 
39. When good cheer is lacking, our friends will be packing. 
40. A merry heart goes all the way. 
41. Mirth is the sugar of life. 
42. Mustard is a good sauce, but mirth is better. 
Its disadvantages 
43. Pleasure has a sting in its tail. 
44. No joy without annoy. 
45. No pleasure without pain. 
46. Short pleasure, long pain. 
47. Pleasure is not pleasant unless it cost dear. 
48. Take a pain for a pleasure all wise men can. 
49. Great happiness, great danger. 
50. Sudden joy kills sooner than excessive grief. 
51. It is misery enough to have once been happy. 
52. Merry is the feast-making till we come to the reckoning. 
53. Sorrow is at parting if at meeting there be laughter. 
Its ephemerality 
54. The mirth of the world dureth but a whjle. 
55. Over jolly dow not. ["Dow not" means "does not last"] 
56. Joy and sorrow are next door neighbours. 
57. God send you joy, for sorrow will come fast enough. 
58. Laugh at leisure, you may greet ere night. ["Greet" means "weep"] 
59. Laugh before breakfast, you'll cry before supper. 
60. If you sing before breakfast, you'U cry before night. 
61. He that sings on Friday, will weep on Sunday. 
Handling happiness 
62. Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it. [Chinese proverb] 
63. Possessed of happiness, don't exhaust it. 
64. We should publish our joys, and conceal our griefs. 
65. Mirth without measure is madness. 
 [This and the following two proverbs recommend moderation in one's joy] 
66. It is good to be merry and wise. 
67. He laughs ill that laughs himself to death. 
68. Of thy sorrow be not too sad, of thy joy be not too glad. 
69. He that talks much of his happiness, summons grief. 
Jollity 
70. There is no jollity but has a smack of folly. 
71. It is a poor heart that never rejoices. 
72. It is good to be merry ft meat. 
73. It is merry in hall when beards wag all. 
74. It's merry when maltmen meet. 
 [Variants of this proverb substitute "friends", "gossips", or "knaves" for 
"maltmen"] 
75. The more the merrier; the fewer the better fare. 
76. A cheerful look makes a dish a feast. 
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