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1	A bad beginning makes a bad ending.
2	A bad corn promise is better than a good lawsuit.
3	A bad workman quarrels with his tools.
4	A bargain is a bargain.
5	A beggar can never be bankrupt.
6	A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
7	A bird may be known by its song.
8	A black hen lays a white egg.
9	A blind leader of the blind.
10	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.
35	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.
37	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.
43	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.
47	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.
61	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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