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A bad beginning makes a bad ending. |
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A bad corn promise is better than a good lawsuit. |
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A bad workman quarrels with his tools. |
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A bargain is a bargain. |
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A beggar can never be bankrupt. |
6 |
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. |
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A bird may be known by its song. |
8 |
A black hen lays a white egg. |
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A blind leader of the blind. |
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A blind man would be glad to see. |
11 |
A broken friendship may be soldered, but will never be sound. |
12 |
A burden of one's own choice is not felt. |
13 |
A burnt child dreads the fire. |
14 |
A cat in gloves catches no mice. |
15 |
A city that parleys is half gotten. |
16 |
A civil denial is better than a rude grant. |
17 |
A clean fast is better than a dirty breakfast. |
18 |
A clean hand wants no washing. |
19 |
A clear conscience laughs at false accusations. |
20 |
A close mouth catches no flies. |
21 |
A cock is valiant on his own dunghill. |
22 |
A cracked bell can never sound well. |
23 |
A creaking door hangs long on its hinges. |
24 |
A curst cow has short horns. |
25 |
A danger foreseen is half avoided. |
26 |
A drop in the bucket. |
27 |
A drowning man will catch at a straw. |
28 |
A fair face may hide a foul heart. |
29 |
A fault confessed is half redressed. |
30 |
A fly in the ointment. |
31 |
A fool always rushes to the fore. |
32 |
A fool and his money are soon parted. |
33 |
A fool at forty is a fool indeed. |
34 |
A fool may ask more questions in an hour than a wise man can answer in seven years. |
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A fool may throw a stone into a well which a hundred wise men cannot pull out. |
36 |
A fools tongue runs before his wit. |
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A forced kindness deserves no thanks. |
38 |
A foul morn may turn to a fair day. |
39 |
A fox is not taken twice in the same snare. |
40 |
A friend in need is a friend indeed. |
41 |
A friend is never known till needed. |
42 |
A friend to all is a friend to none. |
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A friend's frown is better than a foe's smile. |
44 |
A good anvil does not fear the hammer. |
45 |
A good beginning is half the battle. |
46 |
A good beginning makes a good ending. |
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A good deed is never lost. |
48 |
A good dog deserves a good bone. |
49 |
A good example is the best sermon. |
50 |
A good face is a letter of recommendation. |
51 |
A good Jack makes a good Jill. |
52 |
A good marksman may miss. |
53 |
A good name is better than riches. |
54 |
A good name is sooner lost than won. |
55 |
A good name keeps its lustre in the dark. |
56 |
A good wife makes a good husband. |
57 |
A great dowry is a bed full of brambles. |
58 |
A great fortune is a great slavery. |
59 |
A great ship asks deep waters. |
60 |
A guilty conscience needs no accuser. |
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A hard nut to crack. |
62 |
A heavy purse makes a light heart. |
63 |
A hedge between keeps friendship green. |
64 |
A honey tongue, a heart of gall. |
65 |
A hungry belly has no ears. |
66 |
A hungry man is an angry man. |
67 |
A Jack of all trades is master of none. |
68 |
A Joke never gains an enemy but often loses a friend. |
69 |
A lawyer never goes to law himself. |
70 |
A lazy sheep thinks its wool heavy. |
71 |
A liar is not believed when he speaks the truth. |
72 |
A lie begets a lie. |
73 |
A light purse is a heavy curse. |
74 |
A light purse makes a heavy heart. |
75 |
A little body often harbours a great soul. |
76 |
A little fire is quickly trodden out. |
77 |
A man can die but once. |
78 |
A man can do no more than he can. |
79 |
A man is known by the company he keeps. |
80 |
A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds. |
81 |
A miserly father makes a prodigal son. |
82 |
A miss is as good as a mile. |
83 |
A new broom sweeps clean. |
84 |
A nod from a lord is a breakfast for a fool. |
85 |
A penny saved is a penny gained. |
86 |
A penny soul never came to twopence. |
87 |
A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder. |
88 |
A rolling stone gathers no moss. |
89 |
A round peg in a square hole. |
90 |
A shy cat makes a proud mouse. |
91 |
A silent fool is counted wise. |
92 |
A small leak will sink a great ship. |
93 |
A soft answer turns away wrath. |
94 |
A sound mind in a sound body. |
95 |
A stitch in time saves nine. |
96 |
A storm in a teacup. |
97 |
A tattler is worse than a thief. |
98 |
A thief knows a thief as a wolf knows a wolf. |
99 |
A thief passes for a gentleman when stealing has made him rich. |
100 |
A threatened blow is seldom given. |
101 |
A tree is known by its fruit. |
102 |
A wager is a fool's argument. |
103 |
A watched pot never boils. |
104 |
A wise man changes his mind, a fool never will. |
105 |
A wolf in sheep's clothing. |
106 |
A wonder lasts but nine days. |
107 |
A word is enough to the wise. |
108 |
A word spoken is past recalling. |
109 |
Actions speak louder than words. |
110 |
Adversity is a great schoolmaster. |
111 |
Adversity makes strange bedfellows. |
112 |
After a storm comes a calm. |
113 |
After dinner comes the reckoning. |
114 |
After dinner sit sleep a while, after supper walk a mile. |
115 |
After rain comes fair weather. |
116 |
After us the deluge. |
117 |
Agues come on horseback, but go away on foot. |
118 |
All are good lasses, but whence come the bad wives? |
119 |
All are not friends that speak us fair. |
120 |
All are not hunters that blow the horn. |
121 |
All are not merry that dance lightly. |
122 |
All are not saints that go to church. |
123 |
All asses wag their ears. |
124 |
All bread is not baked in one oven. |
125 |
All covet, all lose. |
126 |
All doors open to courtesy. |
127 |
All is fish that comes to his net. |
128 |
All is not lost that is in peril. |
129 |
All is well that ends well. |
130 |
All lay load on the willing horse. |
131 |
All men can't be first. |
132 |
All men can't be masters. |
133 |
All promises are either broken or kept. |
134 |
All roads lead to Rome. |
135 |
All sugar and honey. |
136 |
All that glitters is not gold. |
137 |
All things are difficult before they are easy. |
138 |
All truths are not to be told. |
139 |
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. |
140 |
'Almost' never killed a fly. |
141 |
Among the blind the one-eyed man is king. |
142 |
An apple a day keeps the doctor away. |
143 |
An ass in a lion's skin. |
144 |
An ass is but an ass, though laden with gold. |
145 |
An ass loaded with gold climbs to the top of the castle. |
146 |
An empty hand is no lure for a hawk. |
147 |
An empty sack cannot stand upright. |
148 |
An empty vessel gives a greater sound than a full barrel. |
149 |
An evil chance seldom comes alone. |
150 |
An honest tale speeds best, being plainly told. |
151 |
An hour in the morning is worth two in the evening. |
152 |
An idle brain is the devils workshop. |
153 |
An ill wound is cured, not an ill name. |
154 |
An oak is not felled at one stroke. |
155 |
An old dog barks not in vain. |
156 |
An open door may tempt a saint. |
157 |
An ounce of discretion is worth a pound of learning. |
158 |
An ox is taken by the horns, and a man by the tongue. |
159 |
An unfortunate man would be drowned in a teacup. |
160 |
Anger and haste hinder good counsel. |
161 |
Any port in a storm. |
162 |
Appearances are deceitful. |
163 |
Appetite comes with eating. |
164 |
As drunk as a lord. |
165 |
As innocent as a babe unborn. |
166 |
As like as an apple to an oyster. |
167 |
As like as two peas. |
168 |
As old as the hills. |
169 |
As plain as the nose on a man's face. |
170 |
As plain as two and two make four. |
171 |
As snug as a bug in a rug. |
172 |
As sure as eggs is eggs. |
173 |
As the call, so the echo. |
174 |
As the fool thinks, so the bell clinks. |
175 |
As the old cock crows, so does the young. |
176 |
As the tree falls, so shall it lie. |
177 |
As the tree, so the fruit. |
178 |
As welcome as flowers in May. |
179 |
As welcome as water in one's shoes. |
180 |
As well be hanged for a sheep as for a lamb. |
181 |
As you brew, so must you drink. |
182 |
As you make your bed, so must you lie on it. |
183 |
As you sow, so shall you reap. |
184 |
Ask no questions and you will be told no lies. |
185 |
At the ends of the earth. |
186 |
Bacchus has drowned more men than Neptune. |
187 |
Bad news has wings. |
188 |
Barking does seldom bite. |
189 |
Be slow to promise and quick to perform. |
190 |
Be swift to hear, slow to speak. |
191 |
Beauty is but skin deep. |
192 |
Beauty lies in lover's eyes. |
193 |
Before one can say Jack Robinson. |
194 |
Before you make a friend eat a bushel of salt with him. |
195 |
Beggars cannot be choosers. |
196 |
Believe not all that you see nor half what you hear. |
197 |
Best defence is offence. |
198 |
Better a glorious death than a shameful life. |
199 |
Better a lean peace than a fat victory. |
200 |
Better a little fire to warm us, than a great one to burn us. |
201 |
Better an egg today than a hen tomorrow. |
202 |
Better an open enemy than a false friend. |
203 |
Better be alone than in bad company. |
204 |
Better be born lucky than rich. |
205 |
Better be envied than pitied. |
206 |
Better be the head of a dog than the tail of a lion. |
207 |
Better deny at once than promise long. |
208 |
Better die standing than live kneeling. |
209 |
Better early than late. |
210 |
Better give a shilling than lend a half-crown. |
211 |
Better go to bed supperless than rise in debt. |
212 |
Better late than never. |
213 |
Better lose a jest than a friend. |
214 |
Better one-eyed than stone-blind. |
215 |
Better the devil you know than the devil you don't. |
216 |
Better the foot slip than the tongue. |
217 |
Better to do well than to say well. |
218 |
Better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven. |
219 |
Better unborn than untaught. |
220 |
Better untaught than ill-taught. |
221 |
Between the cup and the lip a morsel may slip. |
222 |
Between the devil and the deep blue sea. |
223 |
Between two evils 'tis not worth choosing. |
224 |
Between two stools one goes falls to the ground. |
225 |
Between the upper and nether millstone. |
226 |
Betwixt and between. |
227 |
Beware of a silent dog and still water. |
228 |
Bind the sack before it be full. |
229 |
Birds of a feather flock together. |
230 |
Blind men can judge no colours. |
231 |
Blood is thicker than water. |
232 |
Borrowed garments never fit well. |
233 |
Brevity is the soul of wit. |
234 |
Burn not your house to rid it of the mouse. |
235 |
Business before pleasure. |
236 |
By doing nothing we learn to do ill. |
237 |
By hook or by crook. |
238 |
By the street of 'by-and-bye' one arrives at the house of 'Never'. |
239 |
Calamity is man's true touchstone. |
240 |
Care killed the cat. |
241 |
Catch the bear before you sell his skin. |
242 |
Caution is the parent of safety. |
243 |
Charity begins at home. |
244 |
Cheapest is the dearest. |
245 |
Cheek brings success. |
246 |
Children and fools must not play with edged tools. |
247 |
Children are poor men's riches. |
248 |
Choose an author as you choose a friend. |
249 |
Christmas comes but once a year, but when it comes it brings good cheer. |
250 |
Circumstances alter cases. |
251 |
Claw me, and I will claw thee. |
252 |
Cleanliness is next to godliness. |
253 |
Company in distress makes trouble less. |
254 |
Confession is the first step to repentance. |
255 |
Counsel is no command. |
256 |
Creditors have better memories than debtors. |
257 |
Cross the stream where it is shallowest. |
258 |
Crows do not pick crows eyes. |
259 |
Curiosity killed a cat. |
260 |
Curses like chickens come home to roost. |
261 |
Custom is a second nature. |
262 |
Custom is the plague of wise men and the idol of fools. |
263 |
Cut your coat according to your cloth. |
264 |
Death is the grand leveller. |
265 |
Death pays all debts. |
266 |
Death when it comes will have no denial. |
267 |
Debt is the worst poverty. |
268 |
Deeds, not words. |
269 |
Delays are dangerous. |
270 |
Desperate diseases must have desperate remedies. |
271 |
Diligence is the mother of success good luck. |
272 |
Diseases are the interests of pleasures. |
273 |
Divide and rule. |
274 |
Do as you would be done by. |
275 |
Dog does not eat dog. |
276 |
Dog eats dog. |
277 |
Dogs that put up many hares kill none. |
278 |
Doing is better than saying. |
279 |
Don't count your chickens before they are hatched. |
280 |
Don't cross the bridges before you come to them. |
281 |
Don't have thy cloak to make when it begins to rain. |
282 |
Don't keep a dog and bark yourself. |
283 |
Don't look a gift horse in the mouth. |
284 |
Don't put all your eggs in one basket. |
285 |
Don't sell the bears skin before you've caught it. |
286 |
Don't trouble trouble until trouble troubles you. |
287 |
Don't whistle halloo until you are out of the wood. |
288 |
Dot your i's and cross your t's. |
289 |
Draw not your bow till your arrow is fixed. |
290 |
Drive the nail that will go. |
291 |
Drunken days have all their tomorrow. |
292 |
Drunkenness reveals what soberness conceals. |
293 |
Dumb dogs are dangerous. |
294 |
Each bird loves to hear himself sing. |
295 |
Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise. |
296 |
Easier said than done. |
297 |
East or West home is best. |
298 |
Easy come, easy go. |
299 |
Eat at pleasure, drink with measure. |
300 |
Empty vessels make the greatest the most sound. |
301 |
Enough is as good as a feast. |
302 |
Envy shoots at others and wounds herself. |
303 |
Even reckoning makes long friends. |
304 |
Every ass loves to hear himself bray. |
305 |
Every barber knows that. |
306 |
Every bean has its black. |
307 |
Every bird likes its own nest. |
308 |
Every bullet has its billet. |
309 |
Every country has its customs. |
310 |
Every dark cloud has a silver lining. |
311 |
Every day is not Sunday. |
312 |
Every dog has his day. |
313 |
Every dog is a lion at home. |
314 |
Every dog is valiant at his own door. |
315 |
Every Jack has his Jill. |
316 |
Every man has a fool in his sleeve. |
317 |
Every man has his faults. |
318 |
Every man has his hobby-horse. |
319 |
Every man is the architect of his own fortunes. |
320 |
Every man to his taste. |
321 |
Every miller draws water to his own mill. |
322 |
Every mother thinks her own gosling a swan. |
323 |
Every one's faults are not written in their foreheads. |
324 |
Every tub must stand on its own bottom. |
325 |
Every white has its black, and every sweet its sour. |
326 |
Every why has a wherefore. |
327 |
Everybody's business is nobody's business. |
328 |
Everything comes to him who waits. |
329 |
Everything is good in its season. |
330 |
Evil communications corrupt good manners. |
331 |
Experience is the mother of wisdom. |
332 |
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools learn in no other. |
333 |
Experience keeps no school, she teaches her pupils singly. |
334 |
Extremes meet. |
335 |
Facts are stubborn things. |
336 |
Faint heart never won fair lady. |
337 |
Fair without, foul false within. |
338 |
Fair words break no bones. |
339 |
False friends are worse than open enemies. |
340 |
Familiarity breeds contempt. |
341 |
Far from eye, far from heart. |
342 |
Fasting comes after feasting. |
343 |
Faults are thick where love is thin. |
344 |
Feast today and fast tomorrow. |
345 |
Fine feathers make fine birds. |
346 |
Fine words butter no parsnips. |
347 |
First catch your hare. |
348 |
First come, first served. |
349 |
First deserve and then desire. |
350 |
First think, then speak. |
351 |
Fish and company stink in three days. |
352 |
Fish begins to stink at the head. |
353 |
Follow the river and you'll get to the sea. |
354 |
Fools haste is no speed. |
355 |
Fools and madmen speak the truth. |
356 |
Fools grow without watering. |
357 |
Fools may sometimes speak to the purpose. |
358 |
Fools never know when they are well. |
359 |
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. |
360 |
For the love of the game. |
361 |
Forbearance is no acquittance. |
362 |
Forbidden fruit is sweet. |
363 |
Forewarned is forearmed. |
364 |
Fortune favours the brave the bold. |
365 |
Fortune is easily found, but hard to be kept. |
366 |
Four eyes see better than two. |
367 |
Friends are thieves of time. |
368 |
From bad to worse. |
369 |
From pillar to post. |
370 |
Gentility without ability is worse than plain beggary. |
371 |
Get a name to rise early, and you may lie all day. |
372 |
Gifts from enemies are dangerous. |
373 |
Give a fool enough, and he will hang himself. |
374 |
Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice. |
375 |
Give him an inch and he'll take an ell. |
376 |
Give never the wolf the wether to keep. |
377 |
Gluttony kills more men than the sword. |
378 |
Go to bed with the lamb and rise with the lark. |
379 |
Good clothes open all doors. |
380 |
Good counsel does no harm. |
381 |
Good health is above wealth. |
382 |
Good masters make good servants. |
383 |
Good words and no deeds. |
384 |
Good words without deeds are rushes and reeds. |
385 |
Gossiping and lying go hand in hand. |
386 |
Grasp all, lose all. |
387 |
Great barkers are no biters. |
388 |
Great boast, small roast. |
389 |
Great cry and little wool. |
390 |
Great spenders are bad lenders. |
391 |
Great talkers are great liars. |
392 |
Great talkers are little doers. |
393 |
Greedy folk have long arms. |
394 |
Habit cures habit. |
395 |
Half a loaf is better than no bread. |
396 |
Hamlet without the Prince of Denmark. |
397 |
Handsome is that handsome does. |
398 |
Happiness takes no account of time. |
399 |
Happy is he that is happy in his children. |
400 |
Hard words break no bones. |
401 |
Hares may pull dead lions by the beard. |
402 |
Harm watch, harm catch. |
403 |
Haste makes waste. |
404 |
Hasty climbers have sudden falls. |
405 |
Hate not at the first harm. |
406 |
Hatred is blind, as well as love. |
407 |
Hawks will not pick hawks eyes. |
408 |
He begins to die that quits his desires. |
409 |
He cannot speak well that cannot hold his tongue. |
410 |
He carries fire in one hand and water in the other. |
411 |
He dances well to whom fortune pipes. |
412 |
He gives twice who gives in a trice. |
413 |
He goes long barefoot that waits for dead man's shoes. |
414 |
He is a fool that forgets himself. |
415 |
He is a good friend that speaks well of us behind our backs. |
416 |
He is happy that thinks himself so. |
417 |
He is lifeless that is faultless. |
418 |
He is not fit to command others that cannot command himself. |
419 |
He is not laughed at that laughs at himself first. |
420 |
He is not poor that has little, but he that desires much. |
421 |
He jests at scars that never felt a wound. |
422 |
He knows best what good is that has endured evil. |
423 |
He knows how many beans make five. |
424 |
He knows much who knows how to hold his tongue. |
425 |
He laughs best who laughs last. |
426 |
He lives long that lives well. |
427 |
He must needs swim that is held up by the chin. |
428 |
He should have a long spoon that sups with the devil. |
429 |
He smells best that smells of nothing. |
430 |
He that comes first to the hill may sit where he will. |
431 |
He that commits a fault thinks everyone speaks of it. |
432 |
He that does you an ill turn will never forgive you. |
433 |
He that fears every bush must never go abirding. |
434 |
He that fears you present will hate you absent. |
435 |
He that goes a borrowing, goes a sorrowing. |
436 |
He that goes barefoot must not plant thorns. |
437 |
He that has a full purse never wanted a friend. |
438 |
He that has a great nose thinks everybody is speaking of it. |
439 |
He that has an ill name is half hanged. |
440 |
He that has no children knows not what love is. |
441 |
He that has head needs no hat. |
442 |
He that has no money needs no purse. |
443 |
He that is born to be hanged shall never be drowned. |
444 |
He that is full of himself is very empty. |
445 |
He that is ill to himself will be good to nobody. |
446 |
He that is warm thinks all so. |
447 |
He that knows nothing doubts nothing. |
448 |
He that lies down with dogs must rise up with fleas. |
449 |
He that lives with cripples learns to limp. |
450 |
He that mischief hatches, mischief catches. |
451 |
He that never climbed never fell. |
452 |
He that once deceives is ever suspected. |
453 |
He that promises too much means nothing. |
454 |
He that respects not is not respected. |
455 |
He that seeks trouble never misses. |
456 |
He that serves everybody is paid by nobody. |
457 |
He that serves God for money will serve the devil for better wages. |
458 |
He that spares the bad injures the good. |
459 |
He that talks much errs much. |
460 |
He that talks much lies much. |
461 |
He that will eat the kernel must crack the nut. |
462 |
He that will not when he may, when he will he shall have nay. |
463 |
He that will steal an egg will steal an ox. |
464 |
He that will thrive, must rise at five. |
465 |
He that would eat the fruit must climb the tree. |
466 |
He that would have eggs must endure the cackling of hens. |
467 |
He who is born a fool is never cured. |
468 |
He who hesitates is lost. |
469 |
He who likes borrowing dislikes paying. |
470 |
He who makes no mistakes, makes nothing. |
471 |
He who pleased everybody died before he was born. |
472 |
He who says what he likes, shall hear what he doesn't like. |
473 |
He who would catch fish must not mind getting wet. |
474 |
He who would eat the nut must first crack the shell. |
475 |
He who would search for pearls must dive below. |
476 |
He will never set the Thames on fire. |
477 |
He works best who knows his trade. |
478 |
Head cook and bottle-washer. |
479 |
Health is not valued till sickness comes. |
480 |
His money burns a hole in his pocket. |
481 |
Honesty is the best policy. |
482 |
Honey is not for the ass's mouth. |
483 |
Honey is sweet, but the bee stings. |
484 |
Honour and profit lie not in one sack. |
485 |
Honours change manners. |
486 |
Hope is a good breakfast, but a bad supper. |
487 |
Hope is the poor mans bread. |
488 |
Hunger breaks stone walls. |
489 |
Hunger finds no fault with cookery. |
490 |
Hunger is the best sauce. |
491 |
Hungry bellies have no ears. |
492 |
Idle folks lack no excuses. |
493 |
Idleness is the mother of all evil. |
494 |
Idleness rusts the mind. |
495 |
If an ass donkey bray at you, don't bray at him. |
496 |
If ifs and ands were pots and pans. |
497 |
If my aunt had been a man, she'd have been my uncle. |
498 |
If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch. |
499 |
If the sky falls, we shall catch larks. |
500 |
If there were no clouds, we should not enjoy the sun. |
501 |
If things were to be done twice all would be wise. |
502 |
If we can't as we would, we must do as we can. |
503 |
If wishes were horses, beggars might ride. |
504 |
If you agree to carry the calf, they'll make you carry the cow. |
505 |
If you cannot bite, never show your teeth. |
506 |
If you cannot have the best, make the best of what you have. |
507 |
If you dance you must pay the fiddler. |
508 |
If you laugh before breakfast you'll cry before supper. |
509 |
If you run after two hares, you will catch neither. |
510 |
If you sell the cow, you sell her milk too. |
511 |
If you throw mud enough, some of it will stick. |
512 |
If you try to please all you will please none. |
513 |
If you want a thing well done, do it yourself. |
514 |
Illgotten gains never prosper. |
515 |
Illgotten, illspent. |
516 |
In every beginning think of the end. |
517 |
In for a penny, in for a pound. |
518 |
In the country of the blind one-eyed man is a king. |
519 |
In the end things will mend. |
520 |
In the evening one may praise the day. |
521 |
Iron hand in a velvet glove. |
522 |
It is a good horse that never stumbles. |
523 |
It is a long lane that has no turning. |
524 |
It is a poor mouse that has only one hole. |
525 |
It is an ill bird that fouls its own nest. |
526 |
It is an ill wind that blows nobody good. |
527 |
It is a silly fish, that is caught twice with the same bait. |
528 |
It is easy to swim if another holds up your head. |
529 |
It is enough to make a cat laugh. |
530 |
It is good fishing in troubled waters. |
531 |
It is never too late to learn. |
532 |
It is no use crying over spilt milk. |
533 |
It is the first step that costs. |
534 |
It never rains but it pours. |
535 |
It's as broad as it's long. |
536 |
It's no use pumping a dry well. |
537 |
It's one thing to flourish and another to fight. |
538 |
It takes all sorts to make a world. |
539 |
Jackdaw in peacocks feathers. |
540 |
Jest with an ass and he will flap you in the face with his tail. |
541 |
Judge not of men and things at first sight. |
542 |
Just as the twig is bent, the tree is inclined. |
543 |
Keep a thing seven years and you will find a use for it. |
544 |
Keep your mouth shut and your ears open. |
545 |
Keep your mouth shut and your eyes open. |
546 |
Last, but not least. |
547 |
Laws catch flies, but let hornets go free. |
548 |
Learn to creep before you leap. |
549 |
Learn to say before you sing. |
550 |
Learn wisdom by the follies of others. |
551 |
Least said, soonest mended. |
552 |
Leaves without figs. |
553 |
Let bygones be bygones. |
554 |
Let every man praise the bridge he goes over. |
555 |
Let sleeping dogs lie. |
556 |
Let well enough alone. |
557 |
Liars need good memories. |
558 |
Lies have short legs. |
559 |
Life is but a span. |
560 |
Life is not a bed of roses. |
561 |
Life is not all cakes and ale beer and skittles. |
562 |
Like a cat on hot bricks. |
563 |
Like a needle in a haystack. |
564 |
Like begets like. |
565 |
Like cures like. |
566 |
Like father, like son. |
567 |
Like draws to like. |
568 |
Like master, like man. |
569 |
Like mother, like daughter. |
570 |
Like parents, like children. |
571 |
Like priest, like people. |
572 |
Like teacher, like pupil. |
573 |
Little chips light great fires. |
574 |
Little knowledge is a dangerous thing. |
575 |
Little pigeons can carry great messages. |
576 |
Little pitchers have long ears. |
577 |
Little strokes fell great oaks. |
578 |
Little thieves are hanged, but great ones escape. |
579 |
Little things amuse little minds. |
580 |
Live and learn. |
581 |
Live and let live. |
582 |
Live not to eat, but eat to live. |
583 |
Long absent, soon forgotten. |
584 |
Look before you leap. |
585 |
Look before you leap, but having leapt never look back. |
586 |
Lookers-on see more than players. |
587 |
Lord God, Heaven helps those them who help themselves. |
588 |
Lost time is never found again. |
589 |
Love cannot be forced. |
590 |
Love in a cottage. |
591 |
Love is blind, as well as hatred. |
592 |
Love me, love my dog. |
593 |
Love will creep where it may not go. |
594 |
Make haste slowly. |
595 |
Make hay while the sun shines. |
596 |
Make or mar. |
597 |
Man proposes but God disposes. |
598 |
Many a fine dish has nothing on it. |
599 |
Many a good cow has a bad calf. |
600 |
Many a good father has but a bad son. |
601 |
Many a little makes a mickle. |
602 |
Many a true word is spoken in jest. |
603 |
Many hands make light work. |
604 |
Many men, many minds. |
605 |
Many words hurt more than swords. |
606 |
Many words will not fill a bushel. |
607 |
Marriages are made in heaven. |
608 |
Measure for measure. |
609 |
Measure thrice and cut once. |
610 |
Men may meet but mountains never. |
611 |
Mend or end. |
612 |
Might goes before right. |
613 |
Misfortunes never come alone singly. |
614 |
Misfortunes tell us what fortune is. |
615 |
Money begets money. |
616 |
Money has no smell. |
617 |
Money is a good servant but a bad master. |
618 |
Money often unmakes the men who make it. |
619 |
Money spent on the brain is never spent in vain. |
620 |
More haste, less speed. |
621 |
Much ado about nothing. |
622 |
Much will have more. |
623 |
Muck and money go together. |
624 |
Murder will out. |
625 |
My house is my castle. |
626 |
Name not a rope in his house that was hanged. |
627 |
Necessity is the mother of invention. |
628 |
Necessity knows no law. |
629 |
Neck or nothing. |
630 |
Need makes the old wife trot. |
631 |
Needs must when the devil drives. |
632 |
Neither fish nor flesh. |
633 |
Neither here nor there. |
634 |
Neither rhyme nor reason. |
635 |
Never cackle till your egg is laid. |
636 |
Never cast dirt into that fountain of which you have sometime drunk. |
637 |
Never do things by halves. |
638 |
Never fry a fish till it's caught. |
639 |
Never offer to teach fish to swim. |
640 |
Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today. |
641 |
Never quit certainty for hope. |
642 |
Never too much of a good thing. |
643 |
Never try to prove what nobody doubts. |
644 |
Never write what you dare not sign. |
645 |
New brooms sweep clean. |
646 |
New lords, new laws. |
647 |
Nightingales will not sing in a cage. |
648 |
No flying from fate. |
649 |
No garden without its weeds. |
650 |
No great loss without some small gain. |
651 |
No herb will cure love. |
652 |
No joy without alloy. |
653 |
No living man all things can. |
654 |
No longer pipe, no longer dance. |
655 |
No man is wise at all times. |
656 |
No man loves his fetters, be they made of gold. |
657 |
No news is good news. |
658 |
No pains, no gains. |
659 |
No song, no supper. |
660 |
No sweet without some sweat. |
661 |
No wisdom like silence. |
662 |
None but the brave deserve the fair. |
663 |
None so blind as those who won't see. |
664 |
None so deaf as those that won't hear. |
665 |
Nothing comes out of the sack but what was in it. |
666 |
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart. |
667 |
Nothing must be done hastily but killing of fleas. |
668 |
Nothing so bad, as not to be good for something. |
669 |
Nothing succeeds like success. |
670 |
Nothing venture, nothing have. |
671 |
Oaks may fall when reeds stand the storm. |
672 |
Of two evils choose the least. |
673 |
Old birds are not caught with chaff. |
674 |
Old friends and old wine are best. |
675 |
On Shanks mare. |
676 |
Once bitten, twice shy. |
677 |
Once is no rule custom. |
678 |
One beats the bush, and another catches the bird. |
679 |
One chick keeps a hen busy. |
680 |
One drop of poison infects the whole tun of wine. |
681 |
One fire drives out another. |
682 |
One good turn deserves another. |
683 |
One law for the rich, and another for the poor. |
684 |
One lie makes many. |
685 |
One link broken, the whole chain is broken. |
686 |
One man, no man. |
687 |
One mans meat is another mans poison. |
688 |
One scabby sheep will mar a whole flock. |
689 |
One swallow does not make a summer. |
690 |
One today is worth two tomorrow. |
691 |
Open not your door when the devil knocks. |
692 |
Opinions differ. |
693 |
Opportunity makes the thief. |
694 |
Out of sight, out of mind. |
695 |
Out of the frying pan into the fire. |
696 |
Packed like herrings. |
697 |
Patience is a plaster for all sores. |
698 |
Penny wise and pound foolish. |
699 |
Pleasure has a sting in its tail. |
700 |
Plenty is no plague. |
701 |
Politeness costs little nothing but yields much. |
702 |
Poverty is no sin. |
703 |
Poverty is not a shame, but the being ashamed of it is. |
704 |
Practise what you preach. |
705 |
Praise is not pudding. |
706 |
Pride goes before a fall. |
707 |
Procrastination is the thief of time. |
708 |
Promise is debt. |
709 |
Promise little, but do much. |
710 |
Prosperity makes friends, and adversity tries them. |
711 |
Put not your hand between the bark and the tree. |
712 |
Rain at seven, fine at eleven. |
713 |
Rats desert a sinking ship. |
714 |
Repentance is good, but innocence is better. |
715 |
Respect yourself, or no one else will respect you. |
716 |
Roll my log and I will roll yours. |
717 |
Rome was not built in a day. |
718 |
Salt water and absence wash away love. |
719 |
Saying and doing are two things. |
720 |
Score twice before you cut once. |
721 |
Scornful dogs will eat dirty puddings. |
722 |
Scratch my back and Ill scratch yours. |
723 |
Self done is soon done. |
724 |
Self done is well done. |
725 |
Self is a bad counsellor. |
726 |
Self-praise is no recommendation. |
727 |
Set a beggar on horseback and hell ride to the devil. |
728 |
Set a thief to catch a thief. |
729 |
Shallow streams make most din. |
730 |
Short debts accounts make long friends. |
731 |
Silence gives consent. |
732 |
Since Adam was a boy. |
733 |
Sink or swim. |
734 |
Six of one and half a dozen of the other. |
735 |
Slow and steady wins the race. |
736 |
Slow but sure. |
737 |
Small rain lays great dust. |
738 |
So many countries, so many customs. |
739 |
So many men, so many minds. |
740 |
Soft fire makes sweet malt. |
741 |
Something is rotten in the state of Denmark. |
742 |
Soon learnt, soon forgotten. |
743 |
Soon ripe, soon rotten. |
744 |
Speak talk of the devil and he will appear. |
745 |
Speech is silver but silence is gold. |
746 |
Standersby see more than gamesters. |
747 |
Still waters run deep. |
748 |
Stolen pleasures are sweetest. |
749 |
Stretch your arm no further than your sleeve will reach. |
750 |
Stretch your legs according to the coverlet. |
751 |
Strike while the iron is hot. |
752 |
Stuff today and starve tomorrow. |
753 |
Success is never blamed. |
754 |
Such carpenters, such chips. |
755 |
Sweep before your own door. |
756 |
Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves. |
757 |
Take us as you find us. |
758 |
Tarred with the same brush. |
759 |
Tastes differ. |
760 |
Tell that to the marines. |
761 |
That cock won't fight. |
762 |
That which one least anticipates soonest comes to pass. |
763 |
That's a horse of another colour. |
764 |
That's where the shoe pinches. |
765 |
The beggar may sing before the thief. |
766 |
The best fish smell when they are three days old. |
767 |
The best fish swim near the bottom. |
768 |
The best is oftentimes the enemy of the good. |
769 |
The busiest man finds the most leisure. |
770 |
The camel going to seek horns lost his ears. |
771 |
The cap fits. |
772 |
The cask savours of the first fill. |
773 |
The cat shuts its eyes when stealing cream. |
774 |
The cat would eat fish and would not wet her paws. |
775 |
The chain is no stronger than its weakest link. |
776 |
The cobbler should stick to his last. |
777 |
The cobblers wife is the worst shod. |
778 |
The darkest hour is that before the dawn. |
779 |
The darkest place is under the candlestick. |
780 |
The devil is not so black as he is painted. |
781 |
The devil knows many things because he is old. |
782 |
The devil lurks behind the cross. |
783 |
The devil rebuking sin. |
784 |
The dogs bark, but the caravan goes on. |
785 |
The Dutch have taken Holland. |
786 |
The early bird catches the worm. |
787 |
The end crowns the work. |
788 |
The end justifies the means. |
789 |
The evils we bring on ourselves are hardest to bear. |
790 |
The exception proves the rule. |
791 |
The face is the index of the mind. |
792 |
The falling out of lovers is the renewing of love. |
793 |
The fat is in the fire. |
794 |
The first blow is half the battle. |
795 |
The furthest way about is the nearest way home. |
796 |
The game is not worth the candle. |
797 |
The heart that once truly loves never forgets. |
798 |
The higher the ape goes, the more he shows his tail. |
799 |
The last drop makes the cup run over. |
800 |
The last straw breaks the camels back. |
801 |
The leopard cannot change its spots. |
802 |
The longest day has an end. |
803 |
The mill cannot grind with the water that is past. |
804 |
The moon does not heed the barking of dogs. |
805 |
The more haste, the less speed. |
806 |
The more the merrier. |
807 |
The morning sun never lasts a day. |
808 |
The mountain has brought forth a mouse. |
809 |
The nearer the bone, the sweeter the flesh. |
810 |
The pitcher goes often to the well but is broken at last. |
811 |
The pot calls the kettle black. |
812 |
The proof of the pudding is in the eating. |
813 |
The receiver is as bad as the thief. |
814 |
The remedy is worse than the disease. |
815 |
The rotten apple injures its neighbours. |
816 |
The scalded dog fears cold water. |
817 |
The tailor makes the man. |
818 |
The tongue of idle persons is never idle. |
819 |
The voice of one man is the voice of no one. |
820 |
The way the road to hell is paved with good intentions. |
821 |
The wind cannot be caught in a net. |
822 |
The work shows the workman. |
823 |
There are lees to every wine. |
824 |
There are more ways to the wood than one. |
825 |
There is a place for everything, and everything in its place. |
826 |
There is more than one way to kill a cat. |
827 |
There is no fire without smoke. |
828 |
There is place like home. |
829 |
There is no rose without a thorn. |
830 |
There is no rule without an exception. |
831 |
There is no smoke without fire. |
832 |
There's many a slip between the cup and the lip. |
833 |
There's no use crying over spilt milk. |
834 |
They are hand and glove. |
835 |
They must hunger in winter that will not work in summer. |
836 |
Things past cannot be recalled. |
837 |
Think today and speak tomorrow. |
838 |
Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones. |
839 |
Time and tide wait for no man. |
840 |
Time cures all things. |
841 |
Time is money. |
842 |
Time is the great healer. |
843 |
Time works wonders. |
844 |
To add fuel to the fire. |
845 |
To angle with a silver hook. |
846 |
To be born with a silver spoon in one's mouth. |
847 |
To be head over ears in debt. |
848 |
To be in one's birthday suit. |
849 |
To be up to the ears in love. |
850 |
To be wise behind the hand. |
851 |
To beat about the bush. |
852 |
To beat the air. |
853 |
To bring grist to somebody's mill. |
854 |
To build a fire under oneself. |
855 |
To buy a pig in a poke. |
856 |
To call a spade a spade. |
857 |
To call off the dogs. |
858 |
To carry coals to Newcastle. |
859 |
To cast pearls before swine. |
860 |
To cast prudence to the winds. |
861 |
To come away none the wiser. |
862 |
To come off cheap. |
863 |
To come off with a whole skin. |
864 |
To come off with flying colours. |
865 |
To come out dry. |
866 |
To come out with clean hands. |
867 |
To cook a hare before catching him. |
868 |
To cry with one eye and laugh with the other. |
869 |
To cut one's throat with a feather. |
870 |
To draw pull in one's horns. |
871 |
To drop a bucket into an empty well. |
872 |
To draw water in a sieve. |
873 |
To eat the calf in the cows belly. |
874 |
To err is human. |
875 |
To fiddle while Rome is burning. |
876 |
To fight with one's own shadow. |
877 |
To find a mares nest. |
878 |
To fish in troubled waters. |
879 |
To fit like a glove. |
880 |
To flog a dead horse. |
881 |
To get out of bed on the wrong side. |
882 |
To give a lark to catch a kite. |
883 |
To go for wool and come home shorn. |
884 |
To go through fire and water. |
885 |
To have a finger in the pie. |
886 |
To have rats in the attic. |
887 |
To hit the nail on the head. |
888 |
To kick against the pricks. |
889 |
To kill two birds with one stone. |
890 |
To know everything is to know nothing. |
891 |
To know on which side one's bread is buttered. |
892 |
To know what's what. |
893 |
To lay by for a rainy day. |
894 |
To live from hand to mouth. |
895 |
To lock the stable door after the horse is stolen. |
896 |
To look for a needle in a haystack. |
897 |
To love somebody something as the devil loves holy water. |
898 |
To make a mountain out of a molehill. |
899 |
To make both ends meet. |
900 |
To make the cup run over. |
901 |
To make to turn the air blue. |
902 |
To measure another man's foot by one's own last. |
903 |
To measure other people's corn by one's own bushel. |
904 |
To pay one back in one's own coin. |
905 |
To plough the sand. |
906 |
To pour water into a sieve. |
907 |
To pull the chestnuts out of the fire for somebody. |
908 |
To pull the devil by the tail. |
909 |
To put a spoke in somebody's wheel. |
910 |
To put off till Doomsday. |
911 |
To put set the cart before the horse. |
912 |
To rob one's belly to cover one's back. |
913 |
To roll in money. |
914 |
To run with the hare and hunt with the hounds. |
915 |
To save one's bacon. |
916 |
To send carry owls to Athens. |
917 |
To set the wolf to keep the sheep. |
918 |
To stick to somebody like a leech. |
919 |
To strain at a gnat and swallow a camel. |
920 |
To take counsel of one's pillow. |
921 |
To take the bull by the horns. |
922 |
To teach the dog to bark. |
923 |
To tell tales out of school. |
924 |
To throw a stone in one's own garden. |
925 |
To throw dust in somebody's eyes. |
926 |
To throw straws against the wind. |
927 |
To treat somebody with a dose of his own medicine. |
928 |
To use a steam-hammer to crack nuts. |
929 |
To wash one's dirty linen in public. |
930 |
To wear one's heart upon one's sleeve. |
931 |
To weep over an onion. |
932 |
To work with the left hand. |
933 |
Tomorrow come never. |
934 |
Too many cooks spoil the broth. |
935 |
Too much knowledge makes the head bald. |
936 |
Too much of a good thing is good for nothing. |
937 |
Too much water drowned the miller. |
938 |
Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow. |
939 |
True blue will never stain. |
940 |
True coral needs no painters brush. |
941 |
Truth comes out of the mouths of babes and sucklings. |
942 |
Truth is stranger than fiction. |
943 |
Truth lies at the bottom of a well. |
944 |
Two blacks do not make a white. |
945 |
Two heads are better than one. |
946 |
Two is company, but three is none. |
947 |
Velvet paws hide sharp claws. |
948 |
Virtue is its own reward. |
949 |
Wait for the cat to jump. |
950 |
Walls have ears. |
951 |
Wash your dirty linen at home. |
952 |
Waste not, want not. |
953 |
We know not what is good until we have lost it. |
954 |
We never know the value of water till the well is dry. |
955 |
We shall see what we shall see. |
956 |
We soon believe what we desire. |
957 |
Wealth is nothing without health. |
958 |
Well begun is half done. |
959 |
What can't be cured, must be endured. |
960 |
What is bred in the bone will not go out of the flesh. |
961 |
What is done by night appears by day. |
962 |
What is done cannot be undone. |
963 |
What is got over the devils back is spent under his belly. |
964 |
What is lost is lost. |
965 |
What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. |
966 |
What is worth doing at alt is worth doing well. |
967 |
What must be, must be. |
968 |
What the heart thinks the tongue speaks. |
969 |
What we do willingly is easy. |
970 |
When angry, count a hundred. |
971 |
When at Rome, do as the Romans do. |
972 |
When children stand quiet, they have done some harm. |
973 |
When flatterers meet, the devil goes to dinner. |
974 |
When guns speak it is too late to argue. |
975 |
When pigs fly. |
976 |
When Queen Anne was alive. |
977 |
When the cat is away, the mice will play. |
978 |
When the devil is blind. |
979 |
When the fox preaches, take care of your geese. |
980 |
When the pinch comes, you remember the old shoe. |
981 |
When three know it, all know it. |
982 |
When wine is in wit is out. |
983 |
Where there's a will, there's a way. |
984 |
While the grass grows the horse starves. |
985 |
While there is life there is hope. |
986 |
Who breaks, pays. |
987 |
Who has never tasted bitter, knows not what is sweet. |
988 |
Who keeps company with the wolf, will learn to howl. |
989 |
Wise after the event. |
990 |
With time and patience the leaf of the mulberry becomes satin. |
991 |
Words pay no debts. |
992 |
You can take a horse to the water but you cannot make him drink. |
993 |
You cannot eat your cake and have it. |
994 |
You cannot flay the same ox twice. |
995 |
You cannot judge a tree by its bark. |
996 |
You cannot teach old dogs new tricks. |
997 |
You cannot wash charcoal white. |
998 |
You made your bed, now lie in it. |
999 |
Zeal without knowledge is a runaway horse. |
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