Abide, Ability, Absence : Proverbs
Key-Words Based Proverbs
Abide :
A Rotten case abides no handling.
Things well-fitted abide.
Ability :
Without luck ability is nothing.
Ability is of little account without opportunity.
Behind an able man there are always other able men.
A man may be so much of everything but he is nothing of anything.
From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
They are able because they think they are able.
People are always ready to admit a man's ability after he gets there.
Do what you can with what you have where you are.
Absence :
Out of sight, out of mind.
Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
Absence sharpens love. Presence strengthens it.
Far from eye, far from heart.
Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and kindles fire.
Never were the absent in the right.
Seldom seen, soon forgotten.
Far from court, far from care.
Absence is to love what wind is to fire.
When the cat is away, the mice will play.
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