| 1 |
Hell is paved with good intentions. |
| 2 |
Diamond cut diamond. |
| 3 |
The appetite comes with eating. |
| 4 |
Velvet paws hide sharp claws. |
| 5 |
Bacchus has drowned more men than Neptune. |
| 6 |
Adversity is a good teacher. |
| 7 |
An evil chance seldom comes alone. |
| 8 |
Adversity flatters no man is not poor that has little, but he that desires much. |
| 9 |
Friendless is poor. |
| 10 |
Poverty is not a shame, but the being ashamed of it is. |
| 11 |
Poverty is no sin. |
| 12 |
Poverty breeds strife. |
| 13 |
A beggar can never be bankrupt. |
| 14 |
Beggars cannot be choosers. |
| 15 |
Misfortunes never come alone. |
| 16 |
It never rains but it pours. |
| 17 |
If it were not for hope, the heart would break. |
| 18 |
No bees, no honey; no work, no money. |
| 19 |
No pains, no gains. |
| 20 |
No gain without pain is lifeless that is faultless. |
| 21 |
Idleness rusts the mind. |
| 22 |
Keen eyes are small gain in the head without brain. |
| 23 |
There is safety in numbers. |
| 24 |
Safety lies in the middle course. |
| 25 |
Don't quarrel with your bread and butter. |
| 26 |
Take heed of the snake in the grass. |
| 27 |
Beware of a silent dog and still water. |
| 28 |
Take the bull by the horns. |
| 29 |
It's no use pumping a dry wel. |
| 30 |
No use pumping a dry well. |
| 31 |
A wager is a fool's argument. |
| 32 |
The road to hell is paved with good intentions. |
| 33 |
Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries the. |
| 34 |
Discretion is the better part of valour. |
| 35 |
It is more blessed to give than to receive. |
| 36 |
Charity begins at home. |
| 37 |
Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed. |
| 38 |
God helps those who help themselves. |
| 39 |
A great dowry is a bed full of bramble. |
| 40 |
A great fortune is a great slavery. |
| 41 |
Wealth is nothing without health. |
| 42 |
Riches take wing, honour will cling. |
| 43 |
Wealth like want ruins many. |
| 44 |
They are rich who have true friends. |
| 45 |
The gods send nuts to those who have no teeth. |
| 46 |
Diseases are the interests of pleasures. |
| 47 |
Agues come on horseback, but go away on foot. |
| 48 |
A tattler is worse than a thief. |
| 49 |
The great fish eat up the small. |
| 50 |
They brag most who can do least. |
| 51 |
Nothing comes out of the sack but what was in it. |
| 52 |
Great oaks from little acorns grow. |
| 53 |
A great fortune is a great slavery. |
| 54 |
A great ship asks deep waters. |
| 55 |
The cask savours of the first fill. |
| 56 |
Marriage is a lottery. |
| 57 |
Marriages are made in heaven. |
| 58 |
Scornful dogs will eat dirty puddings. |
| 59 |
Harm watch, harm catch. |
| 60 |
Be just before you are generous. |
| 61 |
Be slow to promise and quick to perform. |
| 62 |
Oaks may fall when reeds stand the storm. |
| 63 |
An ox taken by the horns, and a man by the tongue. |
| 64 |
The bull must be taken by the horns. |
| 65 |
Poverty is no sin. |
| 66 |
A great city, a great solitude. |
| 67 |
Any port in a storm. |
| 68 |
Money is the root of all evil. |
| 69 |
In a long journey a straw weighs. |
| 70 |
There is a crook in the life of everyon. |
| 71 |
A close mouth catches no flies. |
| 72 |
A sound mind in a sound body. |
| 73 |
Every family has a black sheep. |
| 74 |
Every law has a loophole. |
| 75 |
There is a black sheep in every flock. |
| 76 |
There is a skeleton in every cupboard. |
| 77 |
In the end things will mend. |
| 78 |
There are more ways to the wood than one. |
| 79 |
Little bodies may have great souls. |
| 80 |
A little body often harbours a great soul. |
| 81 |
Everything is mixed with mercy. |
| 82 |
There are as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it. |
| 83 |
There is a great force in soft command carries fire in one hand and water in the other. |
| 84 |
Company in distress makes trouble less. |
| 85 |
Despair gives courage to a coward. |
| 86 |
Rain before seven, fine before eleven. |
| 87 |
Hope springs eternal in the human breast. |
| 88 |
It will be a forward cock that crows in the shell. |
| 89 |
Better luck next time. |
| 90 |
In a calm sea every man is a pilot. |
| 91 |
Standing pools gather filth. |
| 92 |
In the country of the blind one - eyed man is a king. |
| 93 |
All cats are grey in the dark. |
| 94 |
Two can play at that game. |
| 95 |
Drive the nail that will g. |
| 96 |
Two in distress makes sorrow less. |
| 97 |
Do in Rome as the Romans do. |
| 98 |
Courtesy costs nothing. |
| 99 |
Politeness costs nothing, but yields much. |
| 100 |
Politeness costs little, but yields much. |
| 101 |
A civil denial is better than a rude grant. |
| 102 |
Lucky at cards, unlucky in love. |
| 103 |
Great deeds live. |
| 104 |
The camel going to seek horns lost his ears . |
| 105 |
A faithful friend is a medicine of life. |
| 106 |
Sport as you may while the master's away. |
| 107 |
A merry heart is a good medicine. |
| 108 |
All lay loads on a willing horse. |
| 109 |
The wind can't be caught in a net. |
| 110 |
Wine is in, truth is out. |
| 111 |
When wine is in, wit is out. |
| 112 |
Variety is the spice of life. |
| 113 |
There is no accounting for tastes. |
| 114 |
Tastes diffe. |
| 115 |
United we stand, divided we fall. |
| 116 |
Things are seldom what they seem. |
| 117 |
Appearances are deceptive. |
| 118 |
On the second Sunday of the next week. |
| 119 |
War is the sport of kings. |
| 120 |
War is sweet to them that know it not. |
| 121 |
Ill comes upon war's back must needs swim that is held up by the chin. |
| 122 |
The wolf may change his coat, but not his disposition. |
| 123 |
Wolf never wars against wolf. |
| 124 |
Once a thief, always a thief. |
| 125 |
Opportunity makes the thief. |
| 126 |
Crows do not pick crow's eyes. |
| 127 |
The cat shuts its eyes when stealing cream. |
| 128 |
Every day is not Sunday. |
| 129 |
East or West, home is best. |
| 130 |
That's where the shoe pinches. |
| 131 |
After death the doctor. |
| 132 |
Times change. |
| 133 |
Forbearance is no acquittance. |
| 134 |
Time is the great healer. |
| 135 |
Time is money. |
| 136 |
Time cures all things. |
| 137 |
Time and tide wait for no man. |
| 138 |
With time and patience the leaf of the mulberry bush becomes satin. |
| 139 |
Time flies. |
| 140 |
Time and tide wait for no man. |
| 141 |
Time works wonders. |
| 142 |
All the future exists in the past. |
| 143 |
All in good time. |
| 144 |
All are good lasses, but whence come bad wives? |
| 145 |
All roads lead to Rome. |
| 146 |
All covet, all lose. |
| 147 |
Everything must have a beginning. |
| 148 |
All promises are either broken or kept. |
| 149 |
All asses wag their ears. |
| 150 |
Everything comes to him who waits. |
| 151 |
As well be hanged for a sheep as for a lamb. |
| 152 |
All will come out in the washing. |
| 153 |
All good things come to an end. |
| 154 |
Everything is good in its season. |
| 155 |
All is well that ends well. |
| 156 |
What we do willingly is easy It is the unexpected that always happens. |
| 157 |
There is a time for everything. |
| 158 |
A place for everything, and everything in its place. |
| 159 |
Every tub must stand on its own bottom. |
| 160 |
Every mother thinks her own gosling a swan. |
| 161 |
Every bird likes its own nest. |
| 162 |
Each bird loves to hear himself sing. |
| 163 |
Every miller draws water to his own mill. |
| 164 |
Every ass loves to hear himself bray. |
| 165 |
Every Jack has his Jill. |
| 166 |
Second thoughts are best. |
| 167 |
Choose an author as you choose a friend. |
| 168 |
Mend or end. |
| 169 |
A forced kindness deserves no thanks. |
| 170 |
Where there's muck there's brass. |
| 171 |
Where there's a will, there's a way. |
| 172 |
Love will creep where it may not go. |
| 173 |
Self conies first. |
| 174 |
The eye is bigger than the belly. |
| 175 |
The eye is the mirror of the soul. |
| 176 |
A friend's eye is a good mirror. |
| 177 |
The voice of the people is the voice of God. |
| 178 |
Deep will call to deep. |
| 179 |
It is a foolish bird that soils its own nest. |
| 180 |
It is a silly fish that is caught twice with the same bait. |
| 181 |
Fools and madmen speak the truth. |
| 182 |
Foolish fear doubles danger. |
| 183 |
Anger is a sworn enemy. |
| 184 |
Anger is a short madness. |
| 185 |
Anger and haste hinder good counsel. |
| 186 |
The rotten apple injures its neighbours. |
| 187 |
Slow to speak, but quick to act. |
| 188 |
Speaking without thinking is shooting without aiming. |
| 189 |
A big head and little wit. |
| 190 |
You cannot put old heads on young shoulders. |
| 191 |
Hunger is the best sauce. |
| 192 |
Hunger breaks stone walls. |
| 193 |
Hunger finds no fault with cookery. |
| 194 |
A hungry belly has no ears. |
| 195 |
A hungry man is an angry man. |
| 196 |
The voice of one man is the voice of none. |
| 197 |
The mountain has brought forth a mouse. |
| 198 |
Pride goes before a fall. |
| 199 |
Woe to him who is alone. |
| 200 |
A city that parleys is half gotten. |
| 201 |
The pot calls the kettle black. |
| 202 |
A watched pot never boils. |
| 203 |
Hot love soon cools. |
| 204 |
Hasty love is soon hot and soon cold. |
| 205 |
Provide for the worst, the best will save itself. |
| 206 |
Unkindness destroys love. |
| 207 |
Hard words break no bones. |
| 208 |
An ass loaded with gold climbs to the top of the castle. |
| 209 |
A burden of one's own choice is not felt. |
| 210 |
Muck and money go together. |
| 211 |
Geese with geese and women with women. |
| 212 |
Give and take. |
| 213 |
Even Homer sometimes nod. |
| 214 |
There are spots even in the sun. |
| 215 |
The best fish smell when they are three days old. |
| 216 |
Even sugar itself may spoil a good dish. |
| 217 |
Even a worm will tur. |
| 218 |
Give a fool rope enough, and he will hang himself. |
| 219 |
Give him an inch and he'll take a mile. |
| 220 |
Give him an inch and he'll take an el. |
| 221 |
Far from eye, far from heart. |
| 222 |
Don't look a gift horse in the mouth. |
| 223 |
Two blacks do not make a white gives twice who gives in a trice. |
| 224 |
Measure twice ( trice) and cut once. |
| 225 |
Score twice before you cut once. |
| 226 |
Two heads are better than one. |
| 227 |
Two dogs fight for a bone, and a third runs away with it. |
| 228 |
Two dogs over one bone seldom agree. |
| 229 |
A door must be either shut or open. |
| 230 |
Two is company, but three is none. |
| 231 |
Ninety per cent of inspiration is perspiration. |
| 232 |
The act proves the intention. |
| 233 |
Deeds, not words. |
| 234 |
Make the best of a bad job. |
| 235 |
Doing is better than saying. |
| 236 |
Business is the salt of life. |
| 237 |
Everybody's business is nobody's business. |
| 238 |
In the evening one may praise the day. |
| 239 |
The day is lost on which you did not laugh. |
| 240 |
Money is a good servant but a bad master. |
| 241 |
Money talks. |
| 242 |
Money has no smell. |
| 243 |
Money begets money. |
| 244 |
Money often unmakes the men who make it. |
| 245 |
Money spent on the brain is never spent in vain. |
| 246 |
A tree must be bent while young. |
| 247 |
A tree is known by its fruit. |
| 248 |
Keep your mouth shut and your ears open. |
| 249 |
Children are poor men's riches. |
| 250 |
Children and fools must not play with edged tools. |
| 251 |
Cheapest is the dearest. |
| 252 |
Jack is no judge of Jill's beauty. |
| 253 |
A Jack of all trades is master of none. |
| 254 |
The game walks into one's bag It is a long lane that has no turning. |
| 255 |
Long ways, long lies. |
| 256 |
One law for the rich, and another for the poor. |
| 257 |
A nod from a lord is a breakfast for a fool. |
| 258 |
Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof. |
| 259 |
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart. |
| 260 |
It takes two to make a quarrel. |
| 261 |
Happiness takes no account of tim. |
| 262 |
Character is prosperity. |
| 263 |
Good fame sleeps, bad fame creeps. |
| 264 |
You will never see good and bad to agree. |
| 265 |
Virtue is its own reward. |
| 266 |
One good turn deserves another. |
| 267 |
A good deed is never lost. |
| 268 |
Good health is above wealth. |
| 269 |
A good name keeps its lustre in the dark. |
| 270 |
A good name is better than riches. |
| 271 |
A good name will sell itself. |
| 272 |
A good name is sooner lost than won. |
| 273 |
Kind hearts are more than coronets. |
| 274 |
Fair words break no bones. |
| 275 |
Put your trust in God, but keep your powder dry. |
| 276 |
It never rains but it pours. |
| 277 |
Debt is the worst poverty lives long that lives well. |
| 278 |
As old as the hills. |
| 279 |
A friend in need is a friend indeed. |
| 280 |
A friend is never known till needed. |
| 281 |
At heed one sees who his friend is. |
| 282 |
Other times, other manners. |
| 283 |
Friends are thieves of time. |
| 284 |
Think not on what you lack as much as on what you have. |
| 285 |
A fool and his money are soon parted. |
| 286 |
A fool may throw a stone into a well which a hundred wise men cannot pull out. |
| 287 |
A fool at forty is a fool indeed fool may ask more questions in an hour than a wise man can answer in seven years. |
| 288 |
A fool always rushes to the fore. |
| 289 |
As the fool thinks, so the bell clink. |
| 290 |
Fools have fortune. |
| 291 |
Fools grow without watering. |
| 292 |
Fools will be fools. |
| 293 |
Fools never know when they are well. |
| 294 |
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread who is born a fool is never cured. |
| 295 |
Fool's haste is no spee. |
| 296 |
Bad news has wings. |
| 297 |
Evil communications corrupt good manners. |
| 298 |
The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak. |
| 299 |
The devil knows many things because he is old. |
| 300 |
The devil is not so black as he is painted will never set the Thames on fire. |
| 301 |
If ifs and ans were post and. |
| 302 |
If things were to be done twice all would be wise. |
| 303 |
If wishes were horses, beggars might ride. |
| 304 |
If things were to be done twice all would be wise. |
| 305 |
If my aunt had been a man, she would have been my uncle. |
| 306 |
If there were no clouds, we should not enjoy the sun. |
| 307 |
Sow the wind and reap the whirlwind. |
| 308 |
If you throw mud enough, some of it will stick. |
| 309 |
If the mountain will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet must go to the mountain. |
| 310 |
If two men ride on a horse, one must sit behind. |
| 311 |
Don't keep a dog and bark yourself. |
| 312 |
When children stand quiet, they have done some harm. |
| 313 |
If you laugh before breakfast, you'll cry before supper. |
| 314 |
Where there's a will there's a way. |
| 315 |
Every flow must have its ebb. |
| 316 |
When three know it, all know it. |
| 317 |
If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me. |
| 318 |
If we can't as we would, we must do as we can. |
| 319 |
If you cannot have the best, make the best of what you have. |
| 320 |
If the sky falls, we shall catch larks. |
| 321 |
Better some of the pudding than none of the pie. |
| 322 |
If you want a pretence to whip a dog, say that he ate a frying-pa. |
| 323 |
If one sheep leaps over the ditch, all the rest will follow. |
| 324 |
If an ass bray at you, don't bray at him. |
| 325 |
If you run after two hares, you will catch neither. |
| 326 |
If you try to please all, you will please none. |
| 327 |
Early start makes easy stages. |
| 328 |
If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch. |
| 329 |
When in doubt do nothing If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again. |
| 330 |
If you try to please all you will please none. |
| 331 |
If you dance you must pay the fiddler. |
| 332 |
What is worth doing is worth doing well. |
| 333 |
If you want a thing well done, do it yourself. |
| 334 |
If the cap fits, wear it. |
| 335 |
There is a time to speak and a time to be silent. |
| 336 |
Pigs grunt about everything and nothing. |
| 337 |
An apple a day keeps the doctor away. |
| 338 |
Eat with pleasure, drink with measure. |
| 339 |
Tomorrow is another day. |
| 340 |
There is life in the old dog yet. |
| 341 |
A covetous man is good to none but worst to himself. |
| 342 |
It is a sad heart that never rejoices. |
| 343 |
Pity is akin to love. |
| 344 |
The wish is father to the thought. |
| 345 |
Desires are nourished by delays. |
| 346 |
As welcome as water in one's shoes. |
| 347 |
As welcome as flowers in may. |
| 348 |
Iron hand ( fist) in a velvet glove. |
| 349 |
The belly is not filled with fair words. |
| 350 |
The belly carries legs. |
| 351 |
The tailor's wife is the worst clad. |
| 352 |
The cobbler's wife is the worst shod. |
| 353 |
Ceaser's wife must be beyond suspicion. |
| 354 |
Live and let live. |
| 355 |
Live and learn. |
| 356 |
Live not to eat, but eat to live. |
| 357 |
Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones. |
| 358 |
Experience is the mother of wisdom. |
| 359 |
Life is not all clear sailing in calm waters. |
| 360 |
Life is not all beer and skittles. |
| 361 |
Life is but a span. |
| 362 |
Life is short and time is swift. |
| 363 |
Life is not all cakes and ale. |
| 364 |
Life is not a bed of roses. |
| 365 |
Life is sweet It is a great life if you don't weaken. |
| 366 |
Life is made up of little things. |
| 367 |
The fat is in the fire. |
| 368 |
Grasp all, lose all. |
| 369 |
If you run after two hares, you will catch neither. |
| 370 |
A fair face may hide a foul soul. |
| 371 |
The bait hides the hook. |
| 372 |
Bad luck often brings good luck. |
| 373 |
Salt cooks bear blame, but fresh bear shame. |
| 374 |
Truth can be blamed, but cannot be shamed. |
| 375 |
The devil lurks behind the cross. |
| 376 |
The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong. |
| 377 |
A hedge between keeps friendship green. |
| 378 |
Care killed the cat. |
| 379 |
A forgetful head makes a weary pair of heels. |
| 380 |
Envy has no holiday. |
| 381 |
Envy shoots at others and wounds herself. |
| 382 |
Tomorrow never comes. |
| 383 |
Bind the sack before it is full. |
| 384 |
Talk of the devil and he is sure to appear. |
| 385 |
Make hay while the sun shines. |
| 386 |
A bully is always a coward. |
| 387 |
Borrowed garments never fit well. |
| 388 |
Law makers should not be law breakers. |
| 389 |
Laws catch flies but let hornets free. |
| 390 |
Let the cock crow or not, the day will come. |
| 391 |
Forbidden fruit is' sweet. |
| 392 |
Forewarned is forearmed. |
| 393 |
A stick is quickly found to beat a dog with. |
| 394 |
Health is better than wealth. |
| 395 |
Health is not valued till sickness comes. |
| 396 |
Grain by grain, and the hen fills her belly. |
| 397 |
An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes. |
| 398 |
Knowledge is power. |
| 399 |
Knowledge is no burden know everything is to know nothing. |
| 400 |
Call a spade a spade. |
| 401 |
Lookers-on see more that players. |
| 402 |
Lookers-on see most of the game. |
| 403 |
Standers-by see more than gamesters. |
| 404 |
There is poison in good wine. |
| 405 |
Fools may sometimes speak to the purpose. |
| 406 |
One chick keeps a hen busy. |
| 407 |
Fish and company stink in three days. |
| 408 |
The longest day must have an end. |
| 409 |
Many a good cow has a bad calf. |
| 410 |
A good marksman may miss. |
| 411 |
Head cook and bottle-washer. |
| 412 |
The game is not worth the candle. |
| 413 |
Follow the river and you'll get to the sea. |
| 414 |
Of two evils choose the least. |
| 415 |
Between two evils 'tis not worth choosing. |
| 416 |
You cannot get blood out of stone. |
| 417 |
Mother's darlings are but milksop heroes. |
| 418 |
A small spark makes a great fire. |
| 419 |
Nothing comes from nothing. |
| 420 |
No man can make a good coat with bad cloth. |
| 421 |
You cannot make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. |
| 422 |
Avoid evil and it will avoid you. |
| 423 |
Too much water drowned the miller. |
| 424 |
Plenty is no plague. |
| 425 |
By hook or by crook. |
| 426 |
Make or mar. |
| 427 |
I will either win the saddle or lose the horse. |
| 428 |
Sink or swim. |
| 429 |
More than enough is too much. |
| 430 |
Enough is as good as a feast. |
| 431 |
Sometimes the best gain is to lose. |
| 432 |
That which was bitter to endure may be sweet to remember. |
| 433 |
The exception proves the rule. |
| 434 |
Art is long, life is short. |
| 435 |
History repeats itself. |
| 436 |
There is no royal road to learning. |
| 437 |
There are two sides to every question. |
| 438 |
Everything comes to him who waits. |
| 439 |
No great loss without some small gain. |
| 440 |
Every tub must stand on its own bottom. |
| 441 |
Every mother thinks her own gosling a swan. |
| 442 |
Each bird loves to hear himself sing. |
| 443 |
Every bullet has its billet. |
| 444 |
Every family has a skeleton in the cupboard. |
| 445 |
Every dog is a lion at home. |
| 446 |
Every cloud has a silver lining. |
| 447 |
Every heart knows its ache. |
| 448 |
Every cock sings in his own manner. |
| 449 |
Every cook praises his own broth. |
| 450 |
Every man for himself, and God for us all. |
| 451 |
Every man is the architect of his own fortune. |
| 452 |
Every man is of importance to himself. |
| 453 |
It is like talking to the wall. |
| 454 |
As the tree falls, so shall it lie. |
| 455 |
As the call, so the echo. |
| 456 |
As you sow, so shall you reap. |
| 457 |
As you make your bed, so must you lie on it. |
| 458 |
So said, so done. |
| 459 |
As the old cock crows, so does the young. |
| 460 |
No sooner said than done. |
| 461 |
What is the good of a sundial in the shade? |
| 462 |
As the call, so the echo. |
| 463 |
Like father, like son. |
| 464 |
Like author, like book. |
| 465 |
As is the workman, so is the work. |
| 466 |
Like priest, like people. |
| 467 |
Like teacher, like pupil. |
| 468 |
Like master, like man. |
| 469 |
Like mother, like daughter. |
| 470 |
As the tree, so the fruit. |
| 471 |
Such carpenters, such chips. |
| 472 |
Like parents, like children. |
| 473 |
What does the moon care if the dogs bark at her? |
| 474 |
Drop by drop the sea is drained. |
| 475 |
A rolling stone gathers no moss. |
| 476 |
Vows made in storm are forgotten in calms. |
| 477 |
Books and friends should be few but good. |
| 478 |
When Queen Anne was alive. |
| 479 |
When poverty comes in at the door,. |
| 480 |
love flies out of the window. |
| 481 |
When all men speak, no man hears. |
| 482 |
When Greek meets Greek, then comes the tug of war. |
| 483 |
When flatterers meet, the devil goes to dinner. |
| 484 |
When anger blinds the mind, truth disappears. |
| 485 |
When guns speak it is too late to argue. |
| 486 |
The feet are slow when the head wears snow. |
| 487 |
When things are at the worst they are sure to mend. |
| 488 |
Long absent, soon forgotten. |
| 489 |
When a friend asks there is no tomorrow. |
| 490 |
Company in distress makes trouble less. |
| 491 |
When it rains it rains on all alike. |
| 492 |
When the cat is away, the mice will play. |
| 493 |
A light purse makes a heavy heart. |
| 494 |
When the fox preaches, take care of your geese. |
| 495 |
When the moon turns green cheese. |
| 496 |
A hedge between keeps friendship green. |
| 497 |
Many commanders sink the ship. |
| 498 |
When the pinch comes, you remember the old shoe. |
| 499 |
When war begins, the devil makes the hell bigger. |
| 500 |
When I lent I had a friend; when I asked he was unkind. |
| 501 |
When one door shuts another opens. |
| 502 |
When guns speak it is too late to argue. |
| 503 |
Work done, have your fun. |
| 504 |
When angry, count a hundred. |
| 505 |
Many hands make light work. |
| 506 |
When it rains pottage you must hold up your dish. |
| 507 |
When pigs fly. |
| 508 |
When angry, count ten. |
| 509 |
When the word is out it belongs to another. |
| 510 |
Laugh and the world laughs with you, weep and you weep alone. |
| 511 |
Death when it comes will have no denial. |
| 512 |
When in Rome do as the Romans do. |
| 513 |
Long absent, soon forgotten. |
| 514 |
Any time is no time. |
| 515 |
Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad. |
| 516 |
Out of sight, out of mind. |
| 517 |
A man who has not been flogged is not educated. |
| 518 |
A room without books is a body without soul. |
| 519 |
Much is expected where much is given that is born to be hanged shall never be drowned. |
| 520 |
The end crowns the work. |
| 521 |
No longer pipe, no longer dance. |
| 522 |
A penny soul never came to two pence. |
| 523 |
The cow knows not what her tail is worth until she has lost it. |
| 524 |
Queen Anne is dead. |
| 525 |
The royal crown cures not the headache. |
| 526 |
Short debts make long friends. |
| 527 |
Make hay while the sun shines. |
| 528 |
A cat in gloves catches no mice. |
| 529 |
The cat shuts its eyes when stealing cream. |
| 530 |
A cat may look at a king. |
| 531 |
The cat would eat fish and wouldn't wet her paws. |
| 532 |
Cats hide their claws. |
| 533 |
Extremes meet. |
| 534 |
Handsome is as handsome does. |
| 535 |
Fair without, foul within. |
| 536 |
Fine feathers make fine birds. |
| 537 |
Fine words dress ill deeds. |
| 538 |
Fine words butter no parsnips. |
| 539 |
Beauty lies in lover's eyes. |
| 540 |
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. |
| 541 |
Beauty is but skin deep. |
| 542 |
Prettiness dies first. |
| 543 |
Virtue lives when beauty dies. |
| 544 |
Brevity is the soul of wit. |
| 545 |
Blood is thicker than water. |
| 546 |
Cut your coat according to your cloth. |
| 547 |
A soft answer turns away wrath. |
| 548 |
Rats desert a sinking ship. |
| 549 |
Adversity overcome is the greatest glory is lifeless that is faultless who begins many things, finishes but few that fears lives not. |
| 550 |
Quick at meat, quick at work that laughs on Friday will weep on. |
| 551 |
Saturday. |
| 552 |
They that take the sword shall perish with the sword. |
| 553 |
Who keeps company with the wolf will learn to howl who gains time gains everything that server everybody is paid by nobody that lives a knave will hardly die an honest man. |
| 554 |
A friend to all is a friend to none that does not respect is not respected goes long barefoot than waits for dead man's shoes that mischief hatches, mischief catches. |
| 555 |
A danger foreseen is half avoided that seeks trouble never misses who hesitates is lost. |
| 556 |
The biter is sometimes bit. |
| 557 |
They must hunger in winter that will not work in summer. |
| 558 |
Great spenders are bad lenders. |
| 559 |
Who breaks, pays that loves the tree, loves the branch that goes a-borrowing, goes a sorrowing. |
| 560 |
Slow at meat, slow at work. |
| 561 |
Great talkers are little doers that talks much errs much. |
| 562 |
Great talkers are great liars that talks much lies much. |
| 563 |
Great barkers are no biters who gives fair words feeds you with an empty spoon that comes first to the hill, may sit where he will is not fit to command others that cannot command himself cannot speak well that cannot hold his tongue. |
| 564 |
He that dares not venture must not complain of ill luck. |
| 565 |
The receiver is as bad as the thief deserves not the sweetest that will not taste the sour that will not be counselled cannot be helped who makes no mistakes, makes nothing that is long a-giving knows not how to give. |
| 566 |
Who will not keep a penny never shall have any. |
| 567 |
He that cannot obey cannot command that will not work shall not eat that never climbed, never fell. |
| 568 |
Who has never tasted bitter knows not what is sweet that knows nothing doubts nothing. |
| 569 |
Once bitten, twice shy most prevails who nobly dares. |
| 570 |
Too hasty burned his lips. |
| 571 |
He that comes first to the hill may sit where he will. |
| 572 |
First come, first served who swims in sin will sink in sorrow, that always complains is never pitied. |
| 573 |
Danger foreseen is half avoided that once deceives is ever suspected. |
| 574 |
An early riser is sure to be in luck. |
| 575 |
Early to bed and early to rise makes people healthy, wealthy and wise that lies down with dogs must rise with fleas. |
| 576 |
Who eats with heart is a worker smart. |
| 577 |
Between two stools you fall to the ground that promises too much means nothing who laughs at crooked men should need walk very straight who sleeps catches no fish. |
| 578 |
Who chatters to you will chatter of you. |
| 579 |
Happiness takes no account of time. |
| 580 |
He begins to die that quits his desires needs a long spoon that sups with the devil that will steal an egg will steal an ox that goes a-borrowing, goes a sorrowing lives long that lives well works best who knows his trade that will eat the kernel must crack the nut that would have eggs must endure the cackling of hens. |
| 581 |
He who would search for pearls must dive below that will thrive, must rise at five who would catch fish must not mind getting wet who would eat the nut must first crack the shell that would eat the fruit must climb the tree that shoots oft at last shall hit the mark that loses his honesty has nothing else to lose. |
| 582 |
The pitcher goes so often to the well that it is broken at last. |
| 583 |
Just as the twig is bent, the tree is inclined. |
| 584 |
Strike while the iron is ho. |
| 585 |
Between the cup and lip a morsel may slip. |
| 586 |
The hole calls the thief. |
| 587 |
Barking dogs seldom bite. |
| 588 |
A liar is not believed when he tells the truth. |
| 589 |
A light purse is a heavy curse. |
| 590 |
It is easy to be wise after the event. |
| 591 |
It is good fishing in troubled waters. |
| 592 |
It is easy to swim if another holds up your chin. |
| 593 |
Lightly come, lightly go. |
| 594 |
Easy come, easy go. |
| 595 |
Nothing is given so freely as advice. |
| 596 |
It is easier to pull down than to build. |
| 597 |
Easier said than done. |
| 598 |
It is easier to fall than to rise. |
| 599 |
A lazy sheep thinks its wool heavy. |
| 600 |
Lazy folks take the most pains. |
| 601 |
A lazy man is the beggar's brother. |
| 602 |
The leopard cannot change its spots. |
| 603 |
Lieas should have good memories. |
| 604 |
Make or break. |
| 605 |
Neck or nothing. |
| 606 |
The fox may grow grey, but never good. |
| 607 |
Leaves without figs. |
| 608 |
The fox is not taken twice in the same snare. |
| 609 |
Ill gotten, ill spent. |
| 610 |
The face is the index of the mind. |
| 611 |
Face to face, the truth comes out. |
| 612 |
Go to bed with lamb and rise with the lark. |
| 613 |
A lie begets a lie. |
| 614 |
The moon does not heed the barking of the dogs. |
| 615 |
Best defence is attack. |
| 616 |
The best fish swim near the bottom. |
| 617 |
Prevention is better than cure. |
| 618 |
Better be the head of a dog than the tail of a lion. |
| 619 |
Better be a fool than a knave. |
| 620 |
Better be alone than in bad company. |
| 621 |
Better untaught than ill-taught. |
| 622 |
Better one-eyed than stone-blind. |
| 623 |
Better one word in time than two afterwards. |
| 624 |
Better lose a jest than a friend. |
| 625 |
Better never begin than never make an end smells best that smells of nothing knows best what good is that has endured evil works best who knows his trade laughs best who laughs last. |
| 626 |
Better be envied than pitied. |
| 627 |
Better speak truth rudely than lie covertly It is better to give than to take. |
| 628 |
Better ride an ass that carries us than a horse that throws us. |
| 629 |
It is better to wear out than to rust out. |
| 630 |
Better suffer a great evil than do a small one. |
| 631 |
Better go to bed supper less than rise in debt. |
| 632 |
A little help is worth a deal of pity. |
| 633 |
Better one small fish than an empty dish. |
| 634 |
Better a little fire to warm us, than a great one to burn us. |
| 635 |
Better bend the neck than bruise the forehead. |
| 636 |
Better unborn than untaught. |
| 637 |
Better the foot slip than the tongue. |
| 638 |
A bad bush is better than an open field. |
| 639 |
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. |
| 640 |
Better the foot slip than the tongue. |
| 641 |
Better a finger off than aye wagging. |
| 642 |
A bad compromise is better than a good lawsuit. |
| 643 |
Better give a shilling than lend a half crown. |
| 644 |
Better late than never. |
| 645 |
Lose a leg rather than life. |
| 646 |
An injury forgiven is better than an injury revenged. |
| 647 |
Better early than late. |
| 648 |
Better be born lucky than rich. |
| 649 |
Better a glorious death than a shameful life. |
| 650 |
Better to ask the way than to go astray. |
| 651 |
Better deny at once than promise long. |
| 652 |
Half a loaf is better than no bread. |
| 653 |
Better the last smile than the first laughter. |
| 654 |
Better die standing than live kneeling. |
| 655 |
Better to do well than to say well. |
| 656 |
Better a lean peace than a fat victory. |
| 657 |
Better the devil you know than the devil you don't know. |
| 658 |
Better an open enemy than a false friend. |
| 659 |
Better an egg today than a hen tomorrow. |
| 660 |
The best is often the enemy of the good. |
| 661 |
Love and cough cannot be hid. |
| 662 |
No herb will cure love. |
| 663 |
Love me little, love me long. |
| 664 |
Love me, love my dog. |
| 665 |
Love in a cottage. |
| 666 |
Love conquers all. |
| 667 |
Love will find a way. |
| 668 |
Love lives in cottages as well as in courts. |
| 669 |
It is love that makes the world go around. |
| 670 |
Love is ageless. |
| 671 |
Love is not found in the market. |
| 672 |
No herb will cure love. |
| 673 |
Love is stronger than death. |
| 674 |
Love is blind. |
| 675 |
Love laughs at locksmiths. |
| 676 |
Love makes all hearts gentle. |
| 677 |
Any port in a storm. |
| 678 |
Curiosity killed the cat. |
| 679 |
Men may meet but mountains never. |
| 680 |
Men are blind in their own cause. |
| 681 |
People who live in glass houses should not throw stones. |
| 682 |
Tarred with the same brush. |
| 683 |
A small leak will sink a great ship. |
| 684 |
Little pigeons can carry great messages. |
| 685 |
Little children, little sorrow, big children, big sorrow. |
| 686 |
A little pot is soon hot. |
| 687 |
Little and sweet. |
| 688 |
A little string will tie a title bird. |
| 689 |
Light gains make heavy purses. |
| 690 |
Little by little and bit by bit. |
| 691 |
Little strokes fell great oaks. |
| 692 |
Boys will be boys. |
| 693 |
The smallest axe may fell the hugest oak. |
| 694 |
Manners make the man. |
| 695 |
A child may have too much of his. |
| 696 |
mother's blessing. |
| 697 |
Honey is sweet but the bee stings. |
| 698 |
Honey is not for the ass's mouth. |
| 699 |
Slow but sure. |
| 700 |
Slow and steady wins the race. |
| 701 |
Slow help is no help. |
| 702 |
A honey tongue, a heart of gall. |
| 703 |
Betwixt and between. |
| 704 |
Between promising and performing a man may marry his daughter. |
| 705 |
There is many a slip twixt the cup and the lip. |
| 706 |
Little thieves are hanged, but great ones escape. |
| 707 |
Little things please little minds. |
| 708 |
The mill cannot grind with the water that is past. |
| 709 |
A still tongue makes a wise head. |
| 710 |
Less haste, more speed. |
| 711 |
Measure for measure. |
| 712 |
Hares may pull dead lions by the beard. |
| 713 |
Revenge is sweet. |
| 714 |
It takes all sorts to make a world. |
| 715 |
A little bird told me. |
| 716 |
Opinions differ. |
| 717 |
Many wish, but few will. |
| 718 |
Many a fine dish has nothing on it. |
| 719 |
Many stumble at a straw and leap over a block. |
| 720 |
Many kiss the hand they wish to cut off. |
| 721 |
Plenty is no plague. |
| 722 |
A lot of water has flown under the bridge since that time. |
| 723 |
Much gold, much care knows much who knows how to hold his tongue. |
| 724 |
Great cry and little wool. |
| 725 |
Great boast, small roast. |
| 726 |
Much ado about nothing. |
| 727 |
Much will have more. |
| 728 |
Can the leopard change his spots? |
| 729 |
Call me cousin but cousin me not. |
| 730 |
You may lead a horse to the water, but you cannot make him drink. |
| 731 |
My house is my castle. |
| 732 |
Youth will be served. |
| 733 |
Dumb dogs are dangerous. |
| 734 |
A silent fool is counted wise. |
| 735 |
Silence is golden. |
| 736 |
Silence gives consent. |
| 737 |
A silent fool is counted wise. |
| 738 |
That's wisdom which is wisdom in the end. |
| 739 |
Experience is the mother of wisdom. |
| 740 |
A man is as old as he feels, a woman as old as she looks. |
| 741 |
Men make houses, women make homes. |
| 742 |
No longer pipe, no longer dance. |
| 743 |
Flies go to the lean horse. |
| 744 |
We soon believe what we desire. |
| 745 |
We are all slaves of opinion. |
| 746 |
We know not what is good until we have lost it. |
| 747 |
We never know the value of water till the well is dry. |
| 748 |
We soon believe what we desire. |
| 749 |
We shall see what we shall see. |
| 750 |
The mouse that has but one hole is quickly taken. |
| 751 |
The mouse lordships where a cat is not. |
| 752 |
A soft answer turns away wrath. |
| 753 |
Meekness is not weakness. |
| 754 |
Each stain comes to sight on a horse that is white. |
| 755 |
Anything to keep him quiet. |
| 756 |
One of these days is none of these days. |
| 757 |
Return good for evil. |
| 758 |
Every why has a wherefore. |
| 759 |
Every path has a puddle. |
| 760 |
Worse things happen at sea. |
| 761 |
Men are best loved farthest off. |
| 762 |
Respect is greater from a distance. |
| 763 |
Paddle your own canoe. |
| 764 |
On Shank's mare. |
| 765 |
Advice when most needed is least heeded. |
| 766 |
All lay loads on a willing horse. |
| 767 |
Packed like herrings. |
| 768 |
Fling dirt enough and some will stick jests at scars that never felt a wound. |
| 769 |
Hope is a poor man's bread. |
| 770 |
Hope is a good breakfast, but a bad supper. |
| 771 |
Hope floats. |
| 772 |
Hope for the best and prepare for the worst. |
| 773 |
Call things by their proper names. |
| 774 |
Fortune is easily found, but hard to be kept. |
| 775 |
Good riddance! |
| 776 |
Appearances are deceitful. |
| 777 |
The course of true love never did run smooth. |
| 778 |
True blue will never stain. |
| 779 |
True coral needs no painter's brush. |
| 780 |
Through obedience learn to command. |
| 781 |
A friend's frown is better than a foe's smile. |
| 782 |
In every beginning think of the end. |
| 783 |
Don't strike (kick hit) a man when he is down. |
| 784 |
Neither a borrower, nor a lender be. |
| 785 |
Take not a musket to kill a butterfly. |
| 786 |
Don't take your harp to the party. |
| 787 |
One thing at a time. |
| 788 |
Do not cast pearls before swine. |
| 789 |
Cast not the first stone. |
| 790 |
Wake not a sleeping lion. |
| 791 |
Let sleeping dogs lie. |
| 792 |
Don't make yourself a mouse, or the cat will eat you. |
| 793 |
No great loss without some small gain. |
| 794 |
There is no smoke without fire. |
| 795 |
No joy without alloy. |
| 796 |
Love not at the first look. |
| 797 |
All is not gold that glitters. |
| 798 |
All are not saints that go to church. |
| 799 |
All are not thieves that dogs bark at. |
| 800 |
All is not lost that is in peril. |
| 801 |
All bread is not baked in one oven. |
| 802 |
All men can't be first. |
| 803 |
All men can't be masters. |
| 804 |
Believe not all that you see, nor. |
| 805 |
half what you hear. |
| 806 |
Don't meet trouble half-way. |
| 807 |
All are not merry that dance lightly. |
| 808 |
All are not saints that go to church. |
| 809 |
All are not friends that speak us fair. |
| 810 |
All are not hunters that blow the horn. |
| 811 |
All truths are not to be told. |
| 812 |
Don't pour out the dirty water before you have clean. |
| 813 |
Don't empty the baby out with the bath water. |
| 814 |
Don't tell tales out of school. |
| 815 |
Make not your sauce till you have caught the fish. |
| 816 |
Don't make a mountain out of a molehill. |
| 817 |
Don't make a rod for your own back. |
| 818 |
Hide not your light under a bushel. |
| 819 |
Honey is not for the ass's mouth. |
| 820 |
Never fry a fish till it's caught. |
| 821 |
Ask no questions and you'll be told no lies. |
| 822 |
Light not a candle to the sun. |
| 823 |
Do not wear out your welcome. |
| 824 |
Harp not for ever on the same string. |
| 825 |
Don't play with fire. |
| 826 |
Every day is not Sunday. |
| 827 |
Don't put all your eggs in one basket. |
| 828 |
Put not your hand between the bark and the tree. |
| 829 |
It is not the gay coat that makes the gentleman. |
| 830 |
Don't halloo till you are out of the wood. |
| 831 |
Don't cry before you are hurt. |
| 832 |
By hook or by crook. |
| 833 |
Don't change horses in midstream If he cannot bite, he scratches is not fit to command others that cannot command himself. |
| 834 |
If you cannot bite, never show your teeth. |
| 835 |
It is ill striving against the stream. |
| 836 |
Don't whistle until you are out of the wood. |
| 837 |
Draw not your bow till your arrow is fixed. |
| 838 |
Wink at small faults. |
| 839 |
Open not your door when the devil knocks. |
| 840 |
Never jump your fences till you meet them. |
| 841 |
Wade not in unknown waters. |
| 842 |
Don't cross a bridge before you come to it. |
| 843 |
If you cannot see the bottom, do not cross the river. |
| 844 |
Clothes do not make the man. |
| 845 |
It is a poor mouse that has only one hole. |
| 846 |
The worse luck now, the better another time. |
| 847 |
Don't set the fox to keep your geese. |
| 848 |
Let not your wits go woolgathering. |
| 849 |
Nothing seek, nothing find. |
| 850 |
Give never the wolf the wether to keep. |
| 851 |
Send not a cat for lard. |
| 852 |
Don't have thy cloak to make when it begins to rain. |
| 853 |
Don't sell the bear's skin before you've caught it. |
| 854 |
Not to advance is to retreat. |
| 855 |
Name not a rope in his house that was hanged. |
| 856 |
Waste not, want not. |
| 857 |
Never try to prove what nobody doubts. |
| 858 |
Nothing risk, nothing win. |
| 859 |
Don't cut the bough you are standing on. |
| 860 |
Don't ride the high horse is not the best carpenter that makes the most chips. |
| 861 |
Burn not your house to frighten the mouse away. |
| 862 |
If you cannot bite, never show your teeth. |
| 863 |
Don't put all your eggs in one basket. |
| 864 |
Never spur a willing horse is not laughed at that laughs at himself first. |
| 865 |
Don't look a gift horse in the mouth. |
| 866 |
Do not look upon the vessel but upon that which it contains. |
| 867 |
Hate not at the first harm. |
| 868 |
No song, no supper. |
| 869 |
Don't put the cart before the horse. |
| 870 |
Don't wash your dirty linen in public. |
| 871 |
Between two evils it is not worth choosing. |
| 872 |
Don't judge a book by its cover. |
| 873 |
Judge not of men and things at first sight. |
| 874 |
Judge not, that ye be not judged. |
| 875 |
Don't count your chickens before they are hatched. |
| 876 |
Man does not live by bread alone e slow to promise and quick to. |
| 877 |
perform B slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him is not poor that has little, but he that desires much. |
| 878 |
Don't trouble trouble till trouble troubles you. |
| 879 |
Let well alone. |
| 880 |
Stretch your arm no further than your sleeve will reach. |
| 881 |
Don't teach fishes to swim. |
| 882 |
Do not boast until you see the enemy dead. |
| 883 |
Better lose a jest than a friend. |
| 884 |
Never make threats you cannot carry out. |
| 885 |
No safe wading in unknown waters. |
| 886 |
Small rain lays great dust. |
| 887 |
A miss is as good as a mile. |
| 888 |
An unfortunate man would be drowned in a teacup. |
| 889 |
As innocent as a babe unborn. |
| 890 |
One cannot be too careful. |
| 891 |
You cannot make a crab walk straight. |
| 892 |
You cannot sell the cow and drink the milk. |
| 893 |
You cannot make an omelette without breaking eggs. |
| 894 |
No man can serve two masters. |
| 895 |
A man convinced against his will is of the same opinion still. |
| 896 |
Discontent is the first step to progress. |
| 897 |
No friendship is strong that owes its rise to a pot. |
| 898 |
Every one's faults are not written in their foreheads. |
| 899 |
Faults are thick where love is thin. |
| 900 |
A little learning is a dangerous thing. |
| 901 |
No man is indispensable. |
| 902 |
False friends are worse than open enemies. |
| 903 |
Some people cannot see the wood for the trees. |
| 904 |
One cannot be in two places at once. |
| 905 |
One cannot run with the hare and hunt with the hounds. |
| 906 |
No man can call again yesterday. |
| 907 |
One cannot blow and swallow at the same time. |
| 908 |
You cannot have it both ways. |
| 909 |
You cannot touch pitch and not be defiled. |
| 910 |
You cannot eat your cake and have it. |
| 911 |
One cannot put back the clock. |
| 912 |
You cannot burn the candle at both sides. |
| 913 |
You cannot judge a tree by its bark. |
| 914 |
One cannot please everyone. |
| 915 |
Hatred is blind, as well as love. |
| 916 |
A foul morn may turn to a fair day. |
| 917 |
Necessity is the mother of invention. |
| 918 |
The unexpected always happens. |
| 919 |
A roving heart gathers no affection. |
| 920 |
Accidents will happen in the best regulated families. |
| 921 |
Unbidden guests are welcome when they are gone. |
| 922 |
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. |
| 923 |
Adversity is great schoolmaster. |
| 924 |
Calamity is man's true touchstone. |
| 925 |
Misery loves company. |
| 926 |
An evil chance seldom comes alone. |
| 927 |
Misfortunes never come singly. |
| 928 |
Misfortunes tell us what fortune is. |
| 929 |
Accidents will happen in the best regulated families. |
| 930 |
The evils we bring on ourselves are hardest to bear. |
| 931 |
There is no friend so faithful as a good book. |
| 932 |
None so deaf as those that won't hear. |
| 933 |
None so blind as those who won't see. |
| 934 |
There is no time like the present. |
| 935 |
There is no room to swing a cat. |
| 936 |
There is no place like home. |
| 937 |
Old friends and old wine are best. |
| 938 |
Nothing so bad, as not to be good for something. |
| 939 |
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart. |
| 940 |
No wisdom like silence. |
| 941 |
There is no rule without an exception. |
| 942 |
No rose without a thorn. |
| 943 |
No garden without its weeds. |
| 944 |
No sweet without some bitter. |
| 945 |
It is no use crying over spilt milk. |
| 946 |
No wool is so white that a dyer cannot blacken. |
| 947 |
No fool like an old fool. |
| 948 |
No man is wise at all times. |
| 949 |
Failure teaches success. |
| 950 |
An unfortunate man would be drowned in a teacup. |
| 951 |
Ill-gotten goods never prosper. |
| 952 |
An evil conscience breaks many a man's neck. |
| 953 |
A guilty conscience needs no accuser. |
| 954 |
No living man all things can. |
| 955 |
Never cast dirt into that fountain if which you have sometime drunk. |
| 956 |
Never tell your enemy that your foot aches. |
| 957 |
Never say die. |
| 958 |
You never know what you can do till you try. |
| 959 |
Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today. |
| 960 |
Never write what you dare not sign. |
| 961 |
It is never too late to mend. |
| 962 |
Never buy a pig in a poke. |
| 963 |
Never quit certainty for hope. |
| 964 |
Never offer to teach fish to swim. |
| 965 |
Never try to prove what nobody doubts. |
| 966 |
Never judge by appearances. |
| 967 |
Never spend your money before you have it. |
| 968 |
Never do things by halves. |
| 969 |
No one is a fool always, every one sometimes. |
| 970 |
No man is infallible. |
| 971 |
No one knows what he can do till he tries. |
| 972 |
No man loves his fetters, be they made of gold. |
| 973 |
No man is a prophet in his own country. |
| 974 |
No man is born wise or learned. |
| 975 |
No man is his craft's master the first day. |
| 976 |
None so deaf as those who won't hear. |
| 977 |
None so blind as those who won't see. |
| 978 |
The thread breaks where it is weakest. |
| 979 |
Never do things by halves. |
| 980 |
By doing nothing we learn to do ill. |
| 981 |
Nothing is lost for asking. |
| 982 |
Good words cost nothing and arc worth much. |
| 983 |
There is nothing that costs less than civility. |
| 984 |
There is nothing new under the sun. |
| 985 |
Nothing venture, nothing have. |
| 986 |
Nothing is as good as it seems beforehand. |
| 987 |
Nothing hurts more than truth. |
| 988 |
Nothing succeeds like success. |
| 989 |
The beggar may sing before a thief. |
| 990 |
Beggars cannot be choosers. |
| 991 |
A new broom sweeps clean. |
| 992 |
New lord, new laws. |
| 993 |
The foot is too large for the shoe. |
| 994 |
Wear the old coat and buy a new book. |
| 995 |
If you don't like it you may ( can) lump it. |
| 996 |
Want is the mother of industry. |
| 997 |
Need makes the old wife trot. |
| 998 |
Necessity knows no law. |
| 999 |
Adversity makes strange bedfellows. |
| 1000 |
Men must do as they may, not as they would. |
| 1001 |
You must take the fat with the lean. |
| 1002 |
Speak well of the dead. |
| 1003 |
What the heart thinks the tongue speaks. |
| 1004 |
Promise little, but do much. |
| 1005 |
Promise is debt. |
| 1006 |
Promises are like pie-crust, made to be broken. |
| 1007 |
A burnt child dreads the fire. |
| 1008 |
Gluttony kills more men than the sword. |
| 1009 |
Give a dog a bad name and hang him. |
| 1010 |
Cheats never prosper. |
| 1011 |
Exchange is no robbery. |
| 1012 |
Circumstances alter cases. |
| 1013 |
Master your temper lest it masters you. |
| 1014 |
Everybody's business is nobody's business. |
| 1015 |
Honours change manners. |
| 1016 |
Custom is the plague of wise men and the idol of fools. |
| 1017 |
Custom rules the law. |
| 1018 |
One fire drives out another. |
| 1019 |
One sheep follows another. |
| 1020 |
One beats the bush, and another catches the bird. |
| 1021 |
One woodcock doesn't make a winter. |
| 1022 |
One volunteer is worth two pressed men. |
| 1023 |
One fool makes many. |
| 1024 |
One law for the rich and another for the poor. |
| 1025 |
Once is no rule. |
| 1026 |
A stich in time saves nine. |
| 1027 |
An hour in the morning is worth two in the evening. |
| 1028 |
One body is nobody. |
| 1029 |
One man, no man. |
| 1030 |
It is an equal failing to trust everybody and to trust nobody. |
| 1031 |
A lone sheep is in danger of the wolf. |
| 1032 |
One misfortune comes on the back of another. |
| 1033 |
One drop of poison infects the whole tun of wine. |
| 1034 |
One swallow does not make a summer. |
| 1035 |
One lie makes many. |
| 1036 |
One foot is better than two crutches. |
| 1037 |
One scabby sheep will mar a whole frock. |
| 1038 |
Habit cures habit. |
| 1039 |
All work and no play make Jack a dull boy. |
| 1040 |
One good head is better than a hundred strong hands. |
| 1041 |
One good turn deserves another. |
| 1042 |
One scabbed sheep will mar a whole flock. |
| 1043 |
Once bitten, twice shy. |
| 1044 |
Good words and no deeds. |
| 1045 |
Some are wise and some are otherwise. |
| 1046 |
One nail drives out another. |
| 1047 |
Saying and doing are two things. |
| 1048 |
One link broken, the whole chain is broken. |
| 1049 |
One today is worth two tomorrows. |
| 1050 |
You cannot flay the same ox twice. |
| 1051 |
Lend your money and lose your friend. |
| 1052 |
Expectation is better than realization. |
| 1053 |
An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth. |
| 1054 |
No man loves his fetters, be they made of gold knows how many beans make five. |
| 1055 |
They are hand and glove. |
| 1056 |
Beware of a silent dog and still water. |
| 1057 |
Experience is the best teacher. |
| 1058 |
Experience is the teacher of fools. |
| 1059 |
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools learn in no other. |
| 1060 |
An ass is but an ass, though laden with gold. |
| 1061 |
Let sleeping dogs lie. |
| 1062 |
Discretion is the better part of valour. |
| 1063 |
Caution is the parent of safety. |
| 1064 |
Of idleness comes no goodness. |
| 1065 |
One step above the sublime makes the ridiculous. |
| 1066 |
From the sublime to the ridiculous is but one step. |
| 1067 |
The rotten apple injures its neighbours. |
| 1068 |
Bare walls make giddy housewives. |
| 1069 |
A wild goose never laid a tame egg. |
| 1070 |
Store is no sore. |
| 1071 |
A light purse makes a heavy heart. |
| 1072 |
Every little helps. |
| 1073 |
Gluttony kills more men than the sword. |
| 1074 |
From bad to worse. |
| 1075 |
Constant dripping wears away the stone. |
| 1076 |
Too much pudding will choke the dog. |
| 1077 |
Haste makes waste. |
| 1078 |
From pillar to post. |
| 1079 |
No flying from fate that is ill to himself will be good to nobody. |
| 1080 |
A heavy purse makes a light heart. |
| 1081 |
A woman's blow never gave a black eye. |
| 1082 |
Too much knowledge makes the head bald. |
| 1083 |
Take away my good name, take away my life. |
| 1084 |
Give credit where credit is due. |
| 1085 |
Procrastination is the thief of time. |
| 1086 |
An open door may tempt a saint. |
| 1087 |
No news is good news. |
| 1088 |
No answer is also an answer. |
| 1089 |
The absent are always wrong. |
| 1090 |
One man's fault is another man's lesson. |
| 1091 |
The scalded cat fears cold water. |
| 1092 |
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me. |
| 1093 |
Penny and penny laid up will be many. |
| 1094 |
A penny saved is a penny gained. |
| 1095 |
First impressions are most lasting. |
| 1096 |
The first blow is half the battle. |
| 1097 |
All doors open to courtesy. |
| 1098 |
Cross the stream where it is shallowest. |
| 1099 |
A feather in the hand is better than a bird in the air. |
| 1100 |
The pen is mightier than the sword. |
| 1101 |
Feather by feather a goose is plucked. |
| 1102 |
A cock is valiant on his own dunghill. |
| 1103 |
It's an ill wind that blows nobody good. |
| 1104 |
It is a poor mouse that has only one hole. |
| 1105 |
It is an ill bird that fouls its own nest. |
| 1106 |
A bad wound is cured, not a bad name. |
| 1107 |
Ill news conies apace. |
| 1108 |
Bad news travels fast. |
| 1109 |
Two wrongs do not make a right. |
| 1110 |
A bad beginning makes a bad ending. |
| 1111 |
Evil communications corrupt good manners. |
| 1112 |
The evil field will evil yield. |
| 1113 |
A bad compromise is better than a good lawsuit. |
| 1114 |
A bad workman quarrels with his tools. |
| 1115 |
Little wit in the head makes much work for the feet. |
| 1116 |
Stretch your legs according to the coverlet. |
| 1117 |
You may know by a handful the whole sack. |
| 1118 |
By the street of "By-and-by" one arrives at the house of "Never". |
| 1119 |
An apple a day keeps the doctor away. |
| 1120 |
Repetition is the mother of learning. |
| 1121 |
Gifts from enemies are dangerous. |
| 1122 |
Sweep before your own door. |
| 1123 |
Hoist your sail when the wind is fair. |
| 1124 |
Like cures like. |
| 1125 |
Like draws to like. |
| 1126 |
Like begets like. |
| 1127 |
Wait for the cat to jump. |
| 1128 |
Spare the rod and spoil the child. |
| 1129 |
We shall see what we shall see. |
| 1130 |
Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves. |
| 1131 |
It is too late to lock the stable when the horse has been stolen It is late to seek advice after you have run into danger. |
| 1132 |
When a thing is done, advice comes too late. |
| 1133 |
Set a thief to catch a thief. |
| 1134 |
While there's life, there's hope. |
| 1135 |
Whilst I live, let me not live in vain. |
| 1136 |
We never know the value of water till the well is dry. |
| 1137 |
There is many a slip between the cup and the lip. |
| 1138 |
While the grass grows, the horse starves. |
| 1139 |
Never cackle till your egg is laid. |
| 1140 |
Roll my log and I will roll yours. |
| 1141 |
Repentance is good, but innocence is better. |
| 1142 |
Break the legs of an evil custom. |
| 1143 |
Full of courtesy, full of craft. |
| 1144 |
A gift in the hand is better than two promises. |
| 1145 |
Little and often fills the purse. |
| 1146 |
Set a beggar on horseback and he'll ride to the devil. |
| 1147 |
After a storm comes a calm. |
| 1148 |
After rain comes fair weather. |
| 1149 |
After meat comes mustard. |
| 1150 |
After us the deluge. |
| 1151 |
After rain comes fair weather. |
| 1152 |
After dinner sit a while, after supper walk a mile. |
| 1153 |
After dinner comes the reckoning. |
| 1154 |
Fasting comes after feasting. |
| 1155 |
The falling out of lovers is the renewing of love. |
| 1156 |
Last, but not least. |
| 1157 |
The last drop makes the cup run over. |
| 1158 |
The last straw breaks the camel's back. |
| 1159 |
Proverbs are the wisdom of the streets. |
| 1160 |
And what are proverbs but the public voice. |
| 1161 |
If you laugh before breakfast you'll cry before supper. |
| 1162 |
Look before you leap. |
| 1163 |
Look before you leap, but having leapt never look back. |
| 1164 |
Take counsel of your pillow. |
| 1165 |
Haste makes waste. |
| 1166 |
Hasty climbers have sudden falls. |
| 1167 |
Nothing must be done hastily but killing of fleas. |
| 1168 |
Quick choice - long repentance. |
| 1169 |
Dot your i's and cross your t's. |
| 1170 |
Do as you would be done by. |
| 1171 |
Do as you would be done by. |
| 1172 |
Actions speak louder than words. |
| 1173 |
Lost time is never found again. |
| 1174 |
Sink or swim! |
| 1175 |
In for a penry, in for a pound. |
| 1176 |
Praise is no pudding. |
| 1177 |
Praise makes good men better and bad men worse. |
| 1178 |
Claw me, an i will claw thee. |
| 1179 |
Great boast, small roast. |
| 1180 |
As like as two peas. |
| 1181 |
Scratch my back and I will scratch yours. |
| 1182 |
"Almost" never killed a fly. |
| 1183 |
Jest with an ass and he will flap you in the face with his tail. |
| 1184 |
Truth is stronger than fiction. |
| 1185 |
The truth will out. |
| 1186 |
Truth comes out of the mouths of babes and sucklings. |
| 1187 |
Truth lies at the bottom of a well. |
| 1188 |
Truth filters through stone. |
| 1189 |
Diet cures more than lancet. |
| 1190 |
Idleness is the root of all evil. |
| 1191 |
Idleness rusts the mind. |
| 1192 |
An idle brain is the devil's workshop. |
| 1193 |
Practice makes perfect. |
| 1194 |
Catch the bear before you sell his skin. |
| 1195 |
Know your own faults before blaming others for theirs. |
| 1196 |
Before you make a friend eat a bushel of salt with him. |
| 1197 |
Learn to creep before you leap. |
| 1198 |
All things are difficult before they are easy. |
| 1199 |
Before one can say Jack Robinson. |
| 1200 |
A fair face may hide a foul heart. |
| 1201 |
Fine words butter no parsnips. |
| 1202 |
When candles are out all cats are grey. |
| 1203 |
When queen Ann was alive. |
| 1204 |
Cut your coat according to your cloth. |
| 1205 |
Necessity makes even timid brave. |
| 1206 |
Custom is the second nature. |
| 1207 |
Habit is a second nature. |
| 1208 |
A fault confessed is half redressed. |
| 1209 |
Confession is good for the soul. |
| 1210 |
Diligence is the mother of success. |
| 1211 |
Example is better than precept. |
| 1212 |
Take things as you find them. |
| 1213 |
Take the rough with the smooth. |
| 1214 |
Take us as you find us. |
| 1215 |
Nature abhors a vacuum. |
| 1216 |
Nature is stronger than rearing. |
| 1217 |
Needs must when the devil drives. |
| 1218 |
Pleasant hours fly fast. |
| 1219 |
If you sell the cow, you sell the milk too. |
| 1220 |
Curses like chickens come home to roost. |
| 1221 |
A miss is as good as a mile. |
| 1222 |
Procrastination is the thief of time. |
| 1223 |
Delays are dangerous. |
| 1224 |
A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country and in his own house. |
| 1225 |
Forgive and forget. |
| 1226 |
Praise is not pudding. |
| 1227 |
A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of seeds. |
| 1228 |
The beaten road is the safest. |
| 1229 |
Stretch your legs according to your coverlet. |
| 1230 |
Prosperity discovers vice, adversity virtue. |
| 1231 |
Prosperity makes friends, and adversity tries them. |
| 1232 |
The strength of the chain is in its weakest link. |
| 1233 |
Out of sight, out of mind. |
| 1234 |
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. |
| 1235 |
A bird may be known by its song. |
| 1236 |
A bird may be known by its flight. |
| 1237 |
A bird is known by its note and a man by his talk. |
| 1238 |
Birds in their little nests agree. |
| 1239 |
Birds of a feather flock together that is full of himself is very empty. |
| 1240 |
An empty hand is no lure for a hawk. |
| 1241 |
An empty sack cannot stand upright. |
| 1242 |
An empty vessel gives a greater sound than a full barret. |
| 1243 |
Empty vessels make the most sound. |
| 1244 |
Let the cobbler stick to his last. |
| 1245 |
Let every man praise the bridge he goes over. |
| 1246 |
Better be envied than pitied. |
| 1247 |
Let the dead bury their dead. |
| 1248 |
Let bygones be bygones. |
| 1249 |
Deliver your words not by number but by weight. |
| 1250 |
Travellers lie by authority. |
| 1251 |
The way to a man's heart is through his stomach. |
| 1252 |
Drink is the source of evil. |
| 1253 |
Drunkenness reveals what soberness conceals. |
| 1254 |
The work shows the workman. |
| 1255 |
Joys shared with others are more enjoyed. |
| 1256 |
A broken friendship may be soldered but will never be sound. |
| 1257 |
Speak fair and think what you like. |
| 1258 |
Divide and rule. |
| 1259 |
Absence makes heart grow fonder. |
| 1260 |
It's one thing to flourish and another to fight. |
| 1261 |
The early bird catches the worm. |
| 1262 |
The early bird gets the late one's breakfast. |
| 1263 |
Zeal without knowledge is a runaway horse. |
| 1264 |
Take things as they come. |
| 1265 |
A babe in the house is a well-spring of pleasure. |
| 1266 |
The child says nothing but what is heard by the fire. |
| 1267 |
A child must first creep, then go. |
| 1268 |
A bitten child dreads the dog. |
| 1269 |
Seldom seen, soon forgotten. |
| 1270 |
A threatened blow is seldom given. |
| 1271 |
Hard words break no bones. |
| 1272 |
The end justifies the means. |
| 1273 |
Rome was not built in a day. |
| 1274 |
Faint heart never won fair lady. |
| 1275 |
Christmas comes but once a year. |
| 1276 |
Keep your mouth shut and your eyes open. |
| 1277 |
Near is my shirt, but nearer is my skin. |
| 1278 |
If you swear, you will catch no fish. |
| 1279 |
Fish and company stink in three days. |
| 1280 |
Fish begins to stink at the head. |
| 1281 |
With foxes we must play the fox. |
| 1282 |
An oak is not felled with one stroke. |
| 1283 |
It is ill jesting with edged tools. |
| 1284 |
Since Adam was a boy. |
| 1285 |
There has been many a peck of salt eaten since that time. |
| 1286 |
You must grin and bear it. |
| 1287 |
Good company on the road is the shortest cut. |
| 1288 |
A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder. |
| 1289 |
You made your bed, now lie in it. |
| 1290 |
A lawyer never goes to law himself. |
| 1291 |
The furtherest way about is the nearest way home. |
| 1292 |
The best fish swim near the bottom. |
| 1293 |
The hardest work is to do nothing. |
| 1294 |
Self-praise is no recommendation. |
| 1295 |
The highest tree has the greatest fall. |
| 1296 |
An honest tale speeds best, being plainly told. |
| 1297 |
It is always darkest before the dawn. |
| 1298 |
The darkest place is under the candlestick. |
| 1299 |
Cheek brings success. |
| 1300 |
Shallow streams make most din. |
| 1301 |
The busiest man finds the most leisure. |
| 1302 |
The darkest hour is before the dawn. |
| 1303 |
The biggest fools have the best luck. |
| 1304 |
The cobbler should stick to his last. |
| 1305 |
Satan finds some mischief still for idle hands to do. |
| 1306 |
Even reckoning makes long friends. |
| 1307 |
In for a penny, in for a pound. |
| 1308 |
A bargain is a bargain. |
| 1309 |
Stuff today and starve tomorrow. |
| 1310 |
Feast today an fast tomorrow. |
| 1311 |
Think today and speak tomorrow. |
| 1312 |
Laugh today and cry tomorrow. |
| 1313 |
Put the saddle on the right horse. |
| 1314 |
The heart that once truly loves never forgets. |
| 1315 |
Might goes before right. |
| 1316 |
Love cannot be forced. |
| 1317 |
Tell me with whom you go and I'll tell you what you do. |
| 1318 |
Tell that to the marines. |
| 1319 |
A word spoken is past recalling. |
| 1320 |
Saying and doing are two things. |
| 1321 |
A foul morning may turn to a fine day. |
| 1322 |
As many heads, as many wits. |
| 1323 |
So many men, so many minds. |
| 1324 |
So many countries, so many customs. |
| 1325 |
Soon learn, soon forgotten. |
| 1326 |
Self done is soon done. |
| 1327 |
Soon ripe, soon rotten. |
| 1328 |
A creaking gate hangs long. |
| 1329 |
Better a lean peace than a fat victory. |
| 1330 |
The receiver is as bad as the thief. |
| 1331 |
The weakest goes to the wall. |
| 1332 |
Soft fire makes sweet malt. |
| 1333 |
Honey is sweet, but the bee stings. |
| 1334 |
Practise what you preach. |
| 1335 |
A blind man would be glad to see. |
| 1336 |
Blind man can judge no colours. |
| 1337 |
All covet, all lose. |
| 1338 |
Too many cooks spoil the broth. |
| 1339 |
They need much whom nothing will content. |
| 1340 |
Too much of a good thing. |
| 1341 |
Too good to be true. |
| 1342 |
Words are but wind. |
| 1343 |
Good words without deeds are rushes and reeds. |
| 1344 |
Good words and no deeds. |
| 1345 |
Words may pass, but blows fall heavy. |
| 1346 |
Words cut more than swords. |
| 1347 |
Words pay no debts. |
| 1348 |
Speech is silver, silence is gold. |
| 1349 |
"Almost" never killed a fly. |
| 1350 |
An honest man's word is as good as his bond. |
| 1351 |
Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice. |
| 1352 |
Hear much, speak little. |
| 1353 |
Laugh and grow fat! |
| 1354 |
Cheek brings success. |
| 1355 |
Death is the great leveller. |
| 1356 |
Death pays all debts. |
| 1357 |
Business before pleasure. |
| 1358 |
First deserve and then desire. |
| 1359 |
Learn to say before you sing. |
| 1360 |
First think, then speak. |
| 1361 |
First catch your hare. |
| 1362 |
Catch the bear before you sell his skin. |
| 1363 |
Out of the frying-pan into the fire. |
| 1364 |
The dog barks, but the caravan goes on. |
| 1365 |
Dog eat dog. |
| 1366 |
Dog does not eat dog. |
| 1367 |
The dog that trots about finds a bone. |
| 1368 |
The dogs bark, but the caravan goes on. |
| 1369 |
Dogs that bark at a distance don't bite at hand. |
| 1370 |
Dogs that put up many hares kill none. |
| 1371 |
Gather your rosebuds while you may. |
| 1372 |
Possession is nine points of the law. |
| 1373 |
Wit once bought is worth twice taught. |
| 1374 |
Counsel breaks not the head. |
| 1375 |
If you agree to carry the calf they'll make you carry the cow. |
| 1376 |
Get a name to rise early, and you may lie all day. |
| 1377 |
Salt water and absence wash away love. |
| 1378 |
The sun casts beams upon the lowest shrubs. |
| 1379 |
The sun will shine down our street too. |
| 1380 |
Nightingales will not sing in a cage. |
| 1381 |
A fool at forty is a fool indeed. |
| 1382 |
Love your neighbour, yet pull not down your fence. |
| 1383 |
Keep a thing seven years and you will find a use for it. |
| 1384 |
Keep something for a rainy day. |
| 1385 |
Go to bed with the lamb and rise with the lark. |
| 1386 |
First deserve and then desire. |
| 1387 |
First think, then speak. |
| 1388 |
First catch your hare. |
| 1389 |
Make haste slowly. |
| 1390 |
Fool's haste is no speed. |
| 1391 |
Gossiping and lying go hand in hand. |
| 1392 |
The sleeping fox catches no poultry. |
| 1393 |
There is small choice in rotten apples. |
| 1394 |
Among the blind the one-eyed man is king. |
| 1395 |
The falling out of lovers is the renewing of love. |
| 1396 |
The ruler shows the man. |
| 1397 |
Old love does not rust. |
| 1398 |
An old dog will learn no new tricks. |
| 1399 |
The old cow thinks she was never a calf. |
| 1400 |
An old fox is not easily snared. |
| 1401 |
Old friends and old wine are best. |
| 1402 |
An old ox makes a straight furrow. |
| 1403 |
An old ox will find a shelter for himself. |
| 1404 |
An old dog barks not in vain. |
| 1405 |
Old foxes want no tutors. |
| 1406 |
Old birds are not to be caught with chaff. |
| 1407 |
You cannot catch old birds with chaff. |
| 1408 |
You cannot teach old dogs new tricks. |
| 1409 |
Wash your dirty linen at home. |
| 1410 |
One barking dog sets the whole street a-barking. |
| 1411 |
Fortune favours the brave. |
| 1412 |
Fortune is fickle. |
| 1413 |
Dry bread at home is better than roast meat abroad. |
| 1414 |
There are more ways than one to kill a cat. |
| 1415 |
Grasp the nettle and it won't sting you is happy who thinks himself so. |
| 1416 |
Happy is he that is happy in his children. |
| 1417 |
Happy is he whose friends were born before him. |
| 1418 |
Opportunity seldom knocks twice. |
| 1419 |
Fortune is easily found, but hard to be kept. |
| 1420 |
Short accounts make long friends. |
| 1421 |
As sure as eggs is eggs. |
| 1422 |
As plain as the nose on a man's face. |
| 1423 |
As like as an apple to an oyster. |
| 1424 |
It's as broad as it's long. |
| 1425 |
So much to do, so little done. |
| 1426 |
Faults are thick where love is thin dances well to whom fortune pipes. |
| 1427 |
They also serve who only stand and wait. |
| 1428 |
A body is more dressed than a soul. |
| 1429 |
A patient man wins the day. |
| 1430 |
Patience is a plaster for all sores. |
| 1431 |
Patience is a virtue. |
| 1432 |
Patience is a plaster for all sores. |
| 1433 |
Still waters run deep. |
| 1434 |
Things past cannot be recalled. |
| 1435 |
What is worth doing at all is worth doing well. |
| 1436 |
Self done is soon done. |
| 1437 |
What we do willingly is easy. |
| 1438 |
Things done cannot be undone that respects not is not respected that once deceives is ever suspected. |
| 1439 |
Hitch your wagon to a star. |
| 1440 |
In the evening one may praise the day. |
| 1441 |
It is a good horse that never stumbles. |
| 1442 |
It is the first step that costs. |
| 1443 |
It is an ill wind that blows nobody good. |
| 1444 |
None but the brave deserve the fair. |
| 1445 |
If you agree to carry the calf, they'll make you carry the cow. |
| 1446 |
Patience brings everything about. |
| 1447 |
Only the wearer knows where the shoe pinches. |
| 1448 |
It is dogged that does it. |
| 1449 |
None but the brave deserve the fair that has no head needs no hat. |
| 1450 |
Make haste slowly gives twice who gives in a trice is a fool who forgets himself who pleased everybody died before he was born gains enough who misses all ill turn is a good friend that speaks well of us behind our backs is a good man whom fortune makes better knows the water well who has waded through it that is warm thinks all so that fears every bush must never go a-birding that is afraid of wounds must not come near a battle that fears you present will hate you absent what he likes, shall hear what he doesn't like. |
| 1451 |
A friend to all is a friend to none that lives with cripples learns to limp. |
| 1452 |
who pays the piper calls the tune is never at ease that is angry that mischief hatches, mischief catches who likes borrowing dislikes paying. |
| 1453 |
He that would eat the fruit must climb the tree that will not when he may, when he will he shall have nay who scrubs every pig he sees will not long be clean himself that does you an ill turn will never forgive you. |
| 1454 |
The labourer is worthy of his hire that is ill to himself will be good to nobody that serves. |
| 1455 |
God for money will serve the devil for better wages whose belly is full believes not him who is fasting that fears you present will hate you absent. |
| 1456 |
He that will steal an egg will steal an ox that dies pays all debts that goes barefoot must not plant thorns that commits a fault thinks everyone speaks of it that spares the bad injures the good that has a great nose thinks every-body is speaking of it that has an ill name is half hanged. |
| 1457 |
He that has no children knows not what love is. |
| 1458 |
Punctuality is the politeness of kings. |
| 1459 |
Worry killed the cat. |
| 1460 |
A broken friendship may be soldered, but will never be sound. |
| 1461 |
A cracked bell can never sound well. |
| 1462 |
Measure thrice and cut once. |
| 1463 |
A busy bee has no time for sorrow. |
| 1464 |
Cowards are cruel. |
| 1465 |
Cowards die many times before their deaths. |
| 1466 |
An ill wound is cured, not an ill name. |
| 1467 |
Desperate diseases must have desperate remedies. |
| 1468 |
Every white has its black, and every sweet its sour. |
| 1469 |
Every man has a fool in his sleeve. |
| 1470 |
There are lees to every wine. |
| 1471 |
Every man to his taste. |
| 1472 |
A hungry belly has no ears. |
| 1473 |
Between friends all is common. |
| 1474 |
Covetousness breaks the bag. |
| 1475 |
Greedy folk have long arms. |
| 1476 |
The cobbler's wife is the worst shod. |
| 1477 |
Experience keeps no school, she teaches her pupils singly. |
| 1478 |
Busiest men find the most time. |
| 1479 |
Every bean has its black. |
| 1480 |
Every Jack must have his Jill. |
| 1481 |
Every man to his trade. |
| 1482 |
Every man has his hobby-horse. |
| 1483 |
There is no trader that does not meet with losses. |
| 1484 |
Every man has his faults. |
| 1485 |
Every man to his taste. |
| 1486 |
Every medal has two sides. |
| 1487 |
Every bullet has its billet. |
| 1488 |
Every dog has his day. |
| 1489 |
Every country has its customs that has no children knows not what love is he has that children will keep that has a full purse never wanted a friend that has no money needs no purse begins to die that quits his desires that has a full purse never wanted a friend that has a tongue in his mouth can find his way anywhere. |
| 1490 |
A horse stumbles that has four legs. |
| 1491 |
A cat has nine lives. |
| 1492 |
Idle folk lack no excuses. |
| 1493 |
Lies have short legs. |
| 1494 |
Idle folks lack no excuses. |
| 1495 |
Little pitchers have long ears. |
| 1496 |
A green wound is soon healed. |
| 1497 |
His money burns a hole in his pocket has a head and so has a pin has got the fiddle but not the stick. |
| 1498 |
Experience keeps no school, she teaches her pupils singly. |
| 1499 |
A miserly father makes a prodigal son. |
| 1500 |
A bad shearer never had a good sickle. |
| 1501 |
Fields have eyes, and woods have ears. |
| 1502 |
A curst cow has short horns. |
| 1503 |
Drunken days have all their tomorrow. |
| 1504 |
A shy cat makes a proud mouse. |
| 1505 |
The longest day has an end. |
| 1506 |
Every dog is valiant at his own door. |
| 1507 |
Every dog is a lion at home. |
| 1508 |
A blind leader of the blind. |
| 1509 |
An old ape has an old eye. |
| 1510 |
Walls have ears. |
| 1511 |
Fear has long legs. |
| 1512 |
Creditors have better memories than debtors. |
| 1513 |
Tradition wears a snowy beard. |
| 1514 |
Pleasure has a sting in its tail. |
| 1515 |
Success has many friends. |
| 1516 |
A good Jack makes a good Jill. |
| 1517 |
A good husband makes a good wife. |
| 1518 |
A good wife makes a good husband. |
| 1519 |
A good cow may have an evil calf. |
| 1520 |
Good masters make good servants. |
| 1521 |
Take away fuel, take away flame. |
| 1522 |
Murder will out. |
| 1523 |
Respect yourself, or no one else will respect you. |
| 1524 |
Seeing is believing. |
| 1525 |
You cannot wash charcoal white. |
| 1526 |
You cannot hide an eel in a sack. |
| 1527 |
A threatened blow is seldom given. |
| 1528 |
Luck goes in cycles. |
| 1529 |
A wonder lasts but nine days. |
| 1530 |
Stolen pleasures are sweetest. |
| 1531 |
Wit is better than wealth. |
| 1532 |
Penny-wise and pound-foolish. |
| 1533 |
Moderation in all things. |
| 1534 |
Waste not, want not. |
| 1535 |
A word is enough to the wise. |
| 1536 |
Great wits jump. |
| 1537 |
Wise men learn by other men's mistakes; fools by their own. |
| 1538 |
A wise man changes his mind, a fool never will. |
| 1539 |
A wise man may sometimes learn from a fool. |
| 1540 |
Wise after the event. |
| 1541 |
A wise man is never less alone than when alone. |
| 1542 |
An ounce of discretion is worth a pound of learning. |
| 1543 |
Perseverance performs greater works than strength. |
| 1544 |
The sting of a reproach is the truth of it. |
| 1545 |
Zeal in good case is commendable. |
| 1546 |
Success is a ladder that cannot be climbed with your hands in your pockets. |
| 1547 |
Success has brought many to destruction. |
| 1548 |
Success is never blamed. |
| 1549 |
A mill cannot grind with the water that is past. |
| 1550 |
A drowning man will clutch at a straw. |
| 1551 |
The morning sun never lasts a day. |
| 1552 |
Learning is the eye of the mind. |
| 1553 |
Learn wisdom by the follies of others. |
| 1554 |
It is never too late to learn. |
| 1555 |
One is never too old to learn. |
| 1556 |
As snug as a bug in a rug. |
| 1557 |
Facts are stubborn things. |
| 1558 |
False friends are worse than open enemies. |
| 1559 |
Praise little, dispraise less. |
| 1560 |
A boaster and a liar are cousins. |
| 1561 |
Take time by the forelock. |
| 1562 |
Catch as catch can. |
| 1563 |
Cunning craft is but the ape of wisdom. |
| 1564 |
Cunning is the fool's substitute for wisdom. |
| 1565 |
Bread never falls but on its buttered side. |
| 1566 |
A friend's frown is better than a foe's smile. |
| 1567 |
It is a good horse that never stumbles. |
| 1568 |
It is good fish if it were but caught. |
| 1569 |
A good anvil does not fear the hammer. |
| 1570 |
Good clothes open all doors. |
| 1571 |
A good dog deserves a good bone. |
| 1572 |
No good building without good foundation. |
| 1573 |
Good wine needs no bush. |
| 1574 |
Good health is above wealth. |
| 1575 |
A good face is a letter of recommendation. |
| 1576 |
Well begun is half done. |
| 1577 |
A good beginning is half the battle. |
| 1578 |
A good beginning makes a good ending. |
| 1579 |
Never too much of a good thing. |
| 1580 |
Good can never grow out of evil. |
| 1581 |
A good face is a letter of recommendation. |
| 1582 |
Good advice is beyond price. |
| 1583 |
A good maxim is never out of season. |
| 1584 |
A good friend is my nearest relation is a good friend who speaks well of us behind our backs. |
| 1585 |
A good example is the best sermon. |
| 1586 |
Good counsel does no harm. |
| 1587 |
A good marksman may miss. |
| 1588 |
Self done is well done. |
| 1589 |
It is good fishing in troubled waters dances well to whom fortune pipes laughs best who laughs last. |
| 1590 |
Fast enough is well enough. |
| 1591 |
Fortune knocks once at least at every man's gate. |
| 1592 |
The way to have a friend is to be one. |
| 1593 |
If you want peace, prepare for war. |
| 1594 |
If you wish good advice ask an old man lengthen your life, lessen your meals. |
| 1595 |
Keep a thing seven years and you will find a use for it. |
| 1596 |
Who goes more bare than the shoemaker's wife and the smith's mare. |
| 1597 |
The worth of a thing is best known by the want of it. |
| 1598 |
The chain is no stronger than its weakest link. |
| 1599 |
Many a true word is spoken in jest. |
| 1600 |
A constant guest is never welcome. |
| 1601 |
That which one least anticipates soonest comes to pass. |
| 1602 |
What can't be cured, must be endured. |
| 1603 |
Man is a bundle of habits. |
| 1604 |
A man can die but once. |
| 1605 |
A man cannot spin and reel at the same time. |
| 1606 |
A man can do no more than he can. |
| 1607 |
Man was not born to himself. |
| 1608 |
Man proposes, God disposes. |
| 1609 |
Gentility without ability is worse than plain beggary. |
| 1610 |
Men may meet but mountains never. |
| 1611 |
Self is a bad counsellor. |
| 1612 |
A man is known by the company he keeps. |
| 1613 |
The tailor makes the man err is human. |
| 1614 |
The nearer the bone, the sweeter the flesh. |
| 1615 |
The more you have, the more you want. |
| 1616 |
The more, the merrier. |
| 1617 |
The wider we roam, the welcomer home. |
| 1618 |
More haste, less speed. |
| 1619 |
Better deny at once then promise long. |
| 1620 |
The higher the ape goes, the more he shows his tail. |
| 1621 |
Good fences make good neighbours. |
| 1622 |
The less said the better. |
| 1623 |
Least said, soonest mended. |
| 1624 |
Much water runs by the mill that the miller knows not of. |
| 1625 |
The best fish smell when they are three days old. |
| 1626 |
Through hardships to the stars. |
| 1627 |
Too much of a good thing is good for nothing. |
| 1628 |
A black hen lays a white egg. |
| 1629 |
A black plum is as sweet as white. |
| 1630 |
Two blacks do not make a white. |
| 1631 |
The black crow thinks her own birds white. |
| 1632 |
The devil is the root of evil. |
| 1633 |
Better the devil you know than the devil you don't. |
| 1634 |
The devil is not so black as he is painted. |
| 1635 |
The devil rebuking sin. |
| 1636 |
Honesty is the best policy. |
| 1637 |
Honour and profit lie not in one sack. |
| 1638 |
A clean fast is better than a dirty breakfast. |
| 1639 |
Honour and profit lie not in one sack. |
| 1640 |
Four eyes see more than two. |
| 1641 |
While it is fine weather, mend your sail. |
| 1642 |
A clear conscience laughs at false accusations. |
| 1643 |
Cleanliness is next to godliness. |
| 1644 |
A clean hand wants no washing. |
| 1645 |
Familiarity brings contempt. |
| 1646 |
Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow. |
| 1647 |
What will be will be. |
| 1648 |
Soon learnt, soon forgotten. |
| 1649 |
Soon ripe, soon rotten. |
| 1650 |
What is bred in the bone - will not go out of the flesh. |
| 1651 |
What the eye does not see the heart does not grieve over. |
| 1652 |
One man's meat is another man's poison. |
| 1653 |
What must be must be. |
| 1654 |
What is bred in the bone will never come out of the flesh. |
| 1655 |
As you brew, so must you drink. |
| 1656 |
What can you expect from a hog but a grunt? |
| 1657 |
What may be done at any time is done at no time. |
| 1658 |
What is got over the devil's back is spent under his belly. |
| 1659 |
What is writ is writ. |
| 1660 |
Finding's keeping. |
| 1661 |
All is lost that goes beside one's mouth. |
| 1662 |
What can't be cured must be endured. |
| 1663 |
All is fish that comes to his net. |
| 1664 |
What is good for one is bad for another. |
| 1665 |
As the man sows, so shall he reap. |
| 1666 |
What one loses on the swings, one makes up on the roundabouts. |
| 1667 |
What is lost is lost. |
| 1668 |
Practise what you preach. |
| 1669 |
Let bygones be bygones. |
| 1670 |
What man has done man can do. |
| 1671 |
What is done by night appears by day. |
| 1672 |
What is done cannot be undone. |
| 1673 |
What will Mrs Grundy say? |
| 1674 |
A thing that is said is said, and forth it goes. |
| 1675 |
What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. |
| 1676 |
What soberness conceals, drunkenness reveals. |
| 1677 |
What the heart thinks the tongue speaks. |
| 1678 |
No sweet without sweat. |
| 1679 |
A little time is enough to hatch great mischief. |
| 1680 |
It needs more skill than I can tell to play the second fiddle well. |
| 1681 |
One must draw back in order to leap better. |
| 1682 |
No sweet without some sweat. |
| 1683 |
It takes all sorts of people to make the world. |
| 1684 |
The proof of the pudding is in the eating. |
| 1685 |
Something is rotten in the state of Denmark. |
| 1686 |
A wonder lasts but nine days. |
| 1687 |
The cap fits. |
| 1688 |
Six of one and half a dozen of the other. |
| 1689 |
Be swift to hear, slow to speak. |
| 1690 |
A joke never gains an enemy but often loses a friend. |
| 1691 |
Every barber knows that. |
| 1692 |
It is enough to make a cat laugh. |
| 1693 |
A lawyer never goes to law himself. |
| 1694 |
I fear Greeks even when bringing gifts. |
| 1695 |
The apples on the other side of the wall are the sweetest. |
| 1696 |
The tongue of idle persons is never idle. |
| 1697 |
The tongue ever turns to the aching tooth. |
| 1698 |
A fool's tongue runs before his wit. |
| 1699 |
A honey tongue, a heart of gall. |
| 1700 |
The tongue is not steel, yet it cuts. |
| 1701 |
Hawk will not pick out hawk's eyes. |
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