Points out that a situation has not occurred not from lack of trying.

Charity begins at home. Pay attention to your surroundings before you start thinking about other things further away. If you are going to help others, help your neighbors first, before helping people in other cities or countries.

Out of sight, out of mind. Once a person is gone from your view (often in a romantic sense) it is easy to forget about them, and move on.

Nothing lasts forever. Said to someone that is suffering through a problem or situation, consoling them that eventually they will die and the problem will go away.

When someone is bothering you, this phrase is an indirect way of telling them to go somewhere else, and stop bothering you.

To move rapidly, to go by quickly

Fight against all odds. To achieve something against all possibilities, Overcome difficult obstacles.

Something smells here. This is a bad situation. Something is not right here.

Here today, gone tomorrow. Highlights both the mortality of humans, and the unexpectedness with which death can arrive.

You owe me one. Comment made after helping a friend out of a jam, highlights that you expect the same in return in the future.

Give credit where credit is due. You should recognize people for the good they have done.

The person that anticipates events is worth extra

What goes around comes around. Whatever you did as a child, your children will do the same thing to you.

Like father, like son. Children mimic what they see their parents doing.

Criticizes the person that arrives for dinner, eats and then immediately leaves. Someone does this regularly comes off as a freeloader and rude.

Worry about yourself and how you act, you do not need to compare yourself to others and see what they’re up to.

Seeing is believing. Something so unbelievable has happened, that the only way that people will believe it is by seeing it themselves.

In order to receive the benefits of something, a person must first plan and prepare so that those benefits appear.

To remove yourself from a bad situation. To pull back to avoid becoming involved.

Be prepared for anything

Put someone in his place. When someone steps out of line, it is necessary to remind them of their status or position.

To bend over backwards. To begin from a disadvantaged starting position and to build something of great value, to start empty-handed and by using force and ingenuity create something amazing.

Stretch your limits, Test the waters. You need to see how far you can go, or how far something will take you. For example, try painting, you may find out you are really good, and could actually be a professional, but you’ll never know until you try.

An indirect way of calling someone lazy, someone else must feed him and then literally move his mouth to chew it, since he is too lazy to move his own jaw.

Don’t rush things, take your time

Take his word for it. When a situation is not clear, or all necessary information is not available, a person just accepts or believes what the other person says.

It is better to give than to receive. You need to be generous to others before they will be generous to you.

Give a little to get a little. Sometimes it is necessary to give up something to get something else you want.

Sleep on it. To think something over overnight, mull it over while you sleep.