Java - The path ahead

PROVERBS
1. A friend in need is a friend indeed.
2. A good dog deserves a good bone.
3. A great talker is a great liar.
4. A hungry man is an angry man.
5. A rolling stone gathers no moss.
6. A short cut is often a wrong cut.
7. A wise man changes his mind sometimes, a fool never.
8. Nine day’s wonder.
9. Action speaks louder than words.
10. All that glitters is not gold
11. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
12. An idle brain is the devil’s workshop.
13. Appetite comes with eating.
14. As you sow, so you shall reap.
15. Barking dog seldom bite.
16. Beggars must not be choosers.
17. Better be alone than in ill company.
18. Birds of same feather flock together.
19. Charity begins at home.
20. Courtesy costs nothing.
21. Cut your coat according to your cloth.
22. Early to bed and early to rise; Makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
23. Easier said than done.
24. Eat to live, but do not live to eat.
25. Employment brings enjoyment.
26. Empty vessel sounds much.
27. Every dog has his day.
28. Extremes are dangerous.
29. First come, first served.
30. Fortune favours the brave.
31. God helps those who help themselves.
32. Good beginnings make good endings.
33. He that knows nothing ,doubts nothing.
34. Hope is the last thing that we lose.
35. It is no use crying over spilt milk.
36. Jack of all trades and master of none.
37. Knowledge is power.
38. Live and let live.
39. Man proposes, God disposes.
40. Misfortune never comes alone.
41. Necessity is the mother of invention.
42. Never say die! Up man, and try.
43. Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you.
44. No gain without pain.
45. Nothing succeeds like success.
46. Practice makes a man perfect.
47. Rome was not build in a day.
48. Seeing is believing.
49. Slow and steady wins the race.
50. Soft words win hard hearts.
51. Speaking without thinking is shooting without aim.
52. Talk of the devil and he’ll appear.
53. The darkest hour is nearest the dawn.
54. The exception proves the rule.
55. There are two sides to every question .
56. There is a ‘But’ in everything.
57. Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones.
58. Time and tide waits for none.
59. To err is human.
60. When wits meet sparks fly out.
61. When there is smoke there is fire.
62. Where there’s a will, there’s a way.
63. Zeal without knowledge is a runway horse.
64. The end justifies the means.
65. The face is the index of the mind.
66. No rose without a horn.
67. Every dark cloud has a silver lining.
68. Mistakes are to life what shadows are to light.
69. Joys and sorrows come after one another.
70. If winter comes, can spring be far behind?
71. One flower makes no garland.
72. Coming events cast their shadows before.
73. When in Rome do as Romans do.


SYNONYMS
Abundant : ample, copious, plentiful
Alive : lively, vivacious
Ally : colleague, partner, accomplice
Amend : improve, ameliorate
Assent : consent, acquiesce, agree
Bad : evil, wicked, naughty, worthless
Beg : implore, solicit, supplicate
Big : enormous, gigantic, immense
Brave : courageous, fearless, daring
Bright : brilliant, transparent, intelligent
Brittle : frail, fragile
Busy : active, alert, energetic
Candid : frank, sincere, straight forward
Catch : capture, seize, arrest
Cause : reason, purpose, motive
Choose : select, discriminate, differentiate
Clothes : dress, apparel
Confess : admit, apologise, acknowledge
Dangerous : risky, hazardous
Dear : expensive, costly
Decrease : curtail, reduce diminish
Difficult : hard, intricate, unmanageable
Disaster : misfortune, adversity
Dishonest : unjust, unfair, fraudulent
Dull : gloomy, cheerless, backward
Eager : keen, enthusiastic
Earn : achieve, gain, acquire
Educate : train, guide, instruct, teach
Emotion : feeling, passion
Enough : adequate, sufficient
Enquire : search, explore, inspect
Entire : whole, total
Esteem : love, value, honour, admire
Exaggerate : heighten, enlarge
Famous : renowned, eminent
Fashion : custom, style
Fatal : deadly, mortal
Fault : flaw, defect, error
Fear : terror, dread
Fight : contest, combat, struggle
Fruitful : fertile, productive
Generous : liberal, big-hearted
Increase : enlarge, amplify, magnify
Invasion : raid, attack
Kind : thoughtful, considerate, good
Narrate : tell, say, report
Power : ability, capacity, talent
Praise : compliment, applaud
Pretty : beautiful, lovely, attractive
Propagate : broadcast, advertise
Rash : careless, tactless
Ready : prompt, alert, agile
Real : authentic, genuine, original
Smell : scent, odour, perfume
Souvenir : memento, token
Speech : eloquence, oratory, rhetoric
Strong : muscular, stalwart
Timid : cowardly, fearful, faint-hearted
Victory : success, triumph


ANTONYMS
Joy : sorrow, grief
Begin : end, cease
Find : lose
Busy : idle
Sweet : sour, acid, bitter
Win : lose
Peace : war
Coarse : fine
Rough : smooth
Proud : humble
Easy : difficult, hard
Cheap : expensive, dear
Kind : cruel
Ever : never
Bless : curse
Entrance : exit
Lend : borrow
Live : die
Enjoy : dislike
Rejoice : mourn, grieve
Harmony : discord
Blessing : curse
Generous : mean, selfish
Valour : cowardice
Arrive : depart
Attack : defend
Appear : vanish
Collect : disperse
Former : latter
Robust : feeble, delicate
Many : few
Often : seldom
Fresh : state
Deep : shallow
Praise : blame
Lead : follow
Knowledge : ignorance
Prosperity : adversity
Victory : defeat
Dynamic : static
Common : rare
Barren : fruitful
: pessimist
Guilty : innocent
Amateur : professional
Orthodox : heterodox
Hostile : friendly
Order : chaos
: flexible
: veteran
Accelerate : retard
Compulsory : optional
Analysis : synthesis
Excess : shortage
Surplus : deficit
Prosperous : indigent
Include : exclude
Indigenous : exotic
Apprehend : release






SIMILES
As ageless as the sun.
As ambitious as Lady Macbeth.
As far apart as the poles.
As brown as berry.
As beautiful as the rainbow.
As big as the elephant.
As blind as a bat.
As blue as the sky.
As bold as a Lion.
AS boundless as the Ocean.
As brainless as a chimpanzee.
As brittle as glass.
As costly as an election.
As cute as a bug.
As cruel as winter.
As dangerous as machine-guns.
As deep as an ocean.
As distant as the horizon.
As dreadful as the gathering storm.
As clear as crystal.
As cunning as fox.
As easy as ABC.
As essential as air.
As familiar as a popular song.
As fast as light.
As firm as faith.
As free as breeze.
As fresh as a rose.
As grey as smoke.
As gloomy as night.
As grand as a victory.
As green as grass.
As hairless as an egg.
As hard as granite.
As high as the stars.
As ignorant as a child.
As immense as the sea.
As immortal as the stars.
As red as a rose.
As inevitable as death.
As inflexible as granite/rock.
As innocent as a lamb.
As liberal as the sun.
As loud as thunder.
As mean as a miser.
As mobile as humanity.
As monotonous as the sea.
As natural as life.
As opposite as the poles.
As progressive as time.
As rare as the blue rose.
As rugged as a Rhinoceros.
As selfish as a fox.
As serious as a Doctor.
As sour as lime.
As sweet as sugar.
As tender as a bud.
As troublesome as a Monkey.
As uncertain as the weather.
As unreal as the dream.
As venomous as snake.
As vulgar as money.
As white as snow.
As warm as toast.
As zigzag as lightening.



LANGUAGE INITIATORS
• It’s wonderful how he has.
• I am growing tired of.
• I wonder if it wouldn’t be better.
• I feel that it’s not right to.
• It has been a comfort to me to talk.
• It has been nice of you to.
• I really don’t know what has happened to.
• You really can’t expect him to.