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
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36. A fool's 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.
43. 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 two pence.
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 cats are grey in
the dark (in the night).
126. All covet, all lose.
127. All doors open to
courtesy.
128. All is fish that comes
to his net.
129. All is not lost that
is in peril.
130. All is well that ends
well.
131. All lay load on the
willing horse.
132. All men can't be
first.
133. All men can't be
masters.
134. All promises are
either broken or kept.
135. All roads lead to Rome
.
136. All sugar and honey.
137. All that glitters is
not gold.
138. All things are
difficult before they are easy.
139. All truths are not to
be told.
140. All work and no play
makes Jack a dull boy.
141. "Almost"
never killed a fly (was never hanged).
142. Among the blind the
one-eyed man is king.
143. An apple a day keeps
the doctor away.
144. An ass in a lion's
skin.
145. An ass is but an ass,
though laden with gold.
146. An ass loaded with
gold climbs to the top of the castle.
147. An empty hand is no
lure for a hawk.
148. An empty sack cannot
stand upright.
149. An empty vessel gives
a greater sound than a full barrel.
150. An evil chance seldom
comes alone.
151. An honest tale speeds
best, being plainly told.
152. An hour in the morning
is worth two in the evening.
153. An idle brain is the
devil's workshop.
154. An ill wound is cured,
not an ill name.
155. An oak is not felled
at one stroke.
156. An old dog barks not
in vain.
157. An open door may tempt
a saint.
158. An ounce of discretion
is worth a pound of learning.
159. An ox is taken by the
horns, and a man by the tongue.
160. An unfortunate man
would be drowned in a teacup.
161. Anger and haste hinder
good counsel.
162. Any port in a storm.
163. Appearances are
deceitful.
164. Appetite comes with
eating.
165. As drunk as a lord.
166. As innocent as a babe
unborn.
167. As like as an apple to
an oyster.
168. As like as two peas.
169. As old as the hills.
170. As plain as the nose
on a man's face.
171. As plain as two and
two make four.
172. As snug as a bug in a
rug .
173. As sure as eggs is
eggs.
174. As the call, so the
echo.
175. As the fool thinks, so
the bell clinks.
176. As the old cock crows,
so does the young.
177. As the tree falls, so
shall it lie.
178. As the tree, so the
fruit.
179. As welcome as flowers
in May.
180. As welcome as water in
one's shoes.
181. As well be hanged for
a sheep as for a lamb.
182. As you brew, so must
you drink.
183. As you make your bed,
so must you lie on it.
184. As you sow, so shall
you reap.
185. Ask no questions and
you will be told no lies.
186. At the ends of the
earth.
187. Bacchus has drowned
more men than Neptune .
188. Bad news has wings.
189. Barking does seldom
bite.
190. Be slow to promise and
quick to perform.
191. Be swift to hear, slow
to speak.
192. Beauty is but
skin-deep.
193. Beauty lies in lover's
eyes.
194. Before one can say
Jack Robinson.
195. Before you make a
friend eat a bushel of salt with him.
196. Beggars cannot be
choosers.
197. Believe not all that
you see nor half what you hear.
198. Best defence is
offence.
199. Better a glorious
death than a shameful life.
200. Better a lean peace
than a fat victory.
201. Better a little fire
to warm us, than a great one to burn us.
202. Better an egg today
than a hen tomorrow.
203. Better an open enemy
than a false friend.
204. Better be alone than
in bad company.
205. Better be born lucky
than rich.
206. Better be envied than
pitied.
207. Better be the head of
a dog than the tail of a lion.
208. Better deny at once
than promise long.
209. Better die standing
than live kneeling.
210. Better early than
late.
211. Better give a shilling
than lend a half-crown.
212. Better go to bed
supperless than rise in debt.
213. Better late than
never.
214. Better lose a jest
than a friend.
215. Better one-eyed than
stone-blind.
216. Better the devil you
know than the devil you don't.
217. Better the foot slip
than the tongue.
218. Better to do well than
to say well.
219. Better to reign in
hell, than serve in heaven.
220. Better unborn than
untaught.
221. Better untaught than
ill-taught.
222. Between the cup and
the lip a morsel may slip.
223. Between the devil and
the deep (blue) sea.
224. Between two evils 'tis
not worth choosing.
225. Between two stools one
goes (falls) to the ground.
226. Between the upper and
nether millstone.
227. Betwixt and between.
228. Beware of a silent dog
and still water.
229. Bind the sack before
it be full.
230. Birds of a feather
flock together.
231. Blind men can judge no
colours.
232. Blood is thicker than
water.
233. Borrowed garments
never fit well.
234. Brevity is the soul of
wit.
235. Burn not your house to
rid it of the mouse.
236. Business before
pleasure.
237. By doing nothing we
learn to do ill.
238. By hook or by crook.
239. By the street of
'by-and-bye' one arrives at the house of 'Never'.
240. Calamity is man's true
touchstone.
241. Care killed the cat.
242. Catch the bear before
you sell his skin.
243. Caution is the parent
of safety.
244. Charity begins at
home.
245. Cheapest is the
dearest.
246. Cheek brings success.
247. Children and fools
must not play with edged tools.
248. Children are poor
men's riches.
249. Choose an author as
you choose a friend.
250. Christmas comes but
once a year, (but when it comes it brings good cheer).
251. Circumstances alter
cases.
252. Claw me, and I will
claw thee.
253. Cleanliness is next to
godliness.
254. Company in distress
makes trouble less.
255. Confession is the
first step to repentance.
256. Counsel is no command.
257. Creditors have better
memories than debtors.
258. Cross the stream where
it is shallowest.
259. Crows do not pick
crow's eyes.
260. Curiosity killed a
cat.
261. Curses like chickens
come home to roost.
262. Custom is a second
nature.
263. Custom is the plague
of wise men and the idol of fools.
264. Cut your coat
according to your cloth.
265. Death is the grand
leveller.
266. Death pays all debts.
267. Death when it comes
will have no denial.
268. Debt is the worst
poverty.
269. Deeds, not words.
270. Delays are dangerous.
271. Desperate diseases
must have desperate remedies.
272. Diligence is the
mother of success (good luck).
273. Diseases are the
interests of pleasures.
274. Divide and rule.
275. Do as you would be
done by.
276. Dog does not eat dog.
277. Dog eats dog.
278. Dogs that put up many
hares kill none.
279. Doing is better than
saying.
280. Don't count your
chickens before they are hatched.
281. Don't cross the
bridges before you come to them.
282. Don't have thy cloak
to make when it begins to rain.
283. Don't keep a dog and
bark yourself.
284. Don't look a gift
horse in the mouth.
285. Don't put all your
eggs in one basket.
286. Don't sell the bear's
skin before you've caught it.
287. Don't trouble trouble
until trouble troubles you.
288. Don't whistle (halloo)
until you are out of the wood.
289. Dot your i's and cross
your t's.
290. Draw not your bow till
your arrow is fixed.
291. Drive the nail that
will go.
292. Drunken days have all
their tomorrow.
293. Drunkenness reveals
what soberness conceals.
294. Dumb dogs are
dangerous.
295. Each bird loves to
hear himself sing.
296. Early to bed and early
to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
297. Easier said than done.
298. East or West ? home is
best.
299. Easy come, easy go.
300. Eat at pleasure, drink
with measure.
301. Empty vessels make the
greatest (the most) sound.
302. Enough is as good as a
feast.
303. Envy shoots at others
and wounds herself.
304. Even reckoning makes
long friends.
305. Every ass loves to
hear himself bray.
306. Every barber knows
that.
307. Every bean has its
black.
308. Every bird likes its
own nest.
309. Every bullet has its
billet.
310. Every country has its
customs.
311. Every dark cloud has a
silver lining.
312. Every day is not
Sunday.
313. Every dog has his day.
314. Every dog is a lion at
home.
315. Every dog is valiant
at his own door.
316. Every Jack has his
Jill.
317. Every man has a fool
in his sleeve.
318. Every man has his
faults.
319. Every man has his
hobby-horse.
320. Every man is the
architect of his own fortunes.
321. Every man to his
taste.
322. Every miller draws
water to his own mill.
323. Every mother thinks
her own gosling a swan.
324. Every one's faults are
not written in their foreheads.
325. Every tub must stand
on its own bottom.
326. Every white has its
black, and every sweet its sour.
327. Every why has a
wherefore.
328. Everybody's business
is nobody's business.
329. Everything comes to
him who waits.
330. Everything is good in
its season.
331. Evil communications
corrupt good manners.
332. Experience is the
mother of wisdom.
333. Experience keeps a
dear school, but fools learn in no other.
334. Experience keeps no
school, she teaches her pupils singly.
335. Extremes meet.
336. Facts are stubborn
things.
337. Faint heart never won
fair lady.
338. Fair without, foul
(false) within.
339. Fair words break no
bones.
340. False friends are
worse than open enemies.
341. Familiarity breeds
contempt.
342. Far from eye, far from
heart.
343. Fasting comes after
feasting.
344. Faults are thick where
love is thin.
345. Feast today and fast
tomorrow.
346. Fine feathers make
fine birds.
347. Fine words butter no
parsnips.
348. First catch your hare.
349. First come, first
served.
350. First deserve and then
desire.
351. First think, then
speak.
352. Fish and company stink
in three days.
353. Fish begins to stink
at the head.
354. Follow the river and
you'll get to the sea.
355. Fool's haste is no
speed.
356. Fools and madmen speak
the truth.
357. Fools grow without
watering.
358. Fools may sometimes
speak to the purpose.
359. Fools never know when
they are well.
360. Fools rush in where
angels fear to tread.
361. For the love of the
game.
362. Forbearance is no acquaintance.
363. Forbidden fruit is
sweet.
364. Forewarned is forearmed.
365. Fortune favours the
brave (the bold).
366. Fortune is easily
found, but hard to be kept.
367. Four eyes see more
(better) than two.
368. Friends are thieves of
time.
369. From bad to worse.
370. From pillar to post.
371. Gentility without ability
is worse than plain beggary.
372. Get a name to rise
early, and you may lie all day.
373. Gifts from enemies are
dangerous.
374. Give a fool rope
enough, and he will hang himself.
375. Give every man thy
ear, but few thy voice.
376. Give him an inch and
he'll take an ell.
377. Give never the wolf
the wether to keep.
378. Gluttony kills more
men than the sword.
379. Go to bed with the
lamb and rise with the lark.
380. Good clothes open all
doors.
381. Good counsel does no
harm.
382. Good health is above
wealth.
383. Good masters make good
servants.
384. Good words and no
deeds.
385. Good words without
deeds are rushes and reeds.
386. Gossiping and lying go
hand in hand.
387. Grasp all, lose all.
388. Great barkers are no
biters.
389. Great boast, small
roast.
390. Great cry and little
wool.
391. Great spenders are bad
lenders.
392. Great talkers are
great liars.
393. Great talkers are
little doers.
394. Greedy folk have long
arms.
395. Habit cures habit.
396. Half a loaf is better
than no bread.
397. "Hamlet"
without the Prince of Denmark .
398. Handsome is that
handsome does.
399. Happiness takes no
account of time.
400. Happy is he that is
happy in his children.
401. Hard words break no
bones.
402. Hares may pull dead
lions by the beard.
403. Harm watch, harm
catch.
404. Haste makes waste.
405. Hasty climbers have
sudden falls.
406. Hate not at the first
harm.
407. Hatred is blind, as
well as love.
408. Hawks will not pick
hawks' eyes.
409. He begins to die that
quits his desires.
410. He cannot speak well
that cannot hold his tongue.
411. He carries fire in one
hand and water in the other.
412. He dances well to whom
fortune pipes.
413. He gives twice who
gives in a trice.
414. He goes long barefoot
that waits for dead man's shoes.
415. He is a fool that
forgets himself.
416. He is a good friend
that speaks well of us behind our backs.
417. He is happy that
thinks himself so.
418. He is lifeless that is
faultless.
419. He is not fit to
command others that cannot command himself.
420. He is not laughed at
that laughs at himself first.
421. He is not poor that
has little, but he that desires much.
422. He jests at scars that
never felt a wound.
423. He knows best what
good is that has endured evil.
424. He knows how many
beans make five.
425. He knows much who
knows how to hold his tongue.
426. He laughs best who
laughs last.
427. He lives long that
lives well.
428. He must needs swim
that is held up by the chin.
429. He should have a long
spoon that sups with the devil.
430. He smells best that
smells of nothing.
431. He that comes first to
the hill may sit where he will.
432. He that commits a
fault thinks everyone speaks of it.
433. He that fears every
bush must never go a-birding.
435. He that fears you
present will hate you absent.
436. He that goes a
borrowing, goes a sorrowing.
437. He that goes barefoot
must not plant thorns.
438. He that has a full
purse never wanted a friend.
439. He that has a great
nose thinks everybody is speaking of it.
440. He that has an ill
name is half hanged.
441. He that has no
children knows not what love is.
442. He that has He head
needs no hat.
443. He that has no money
needs no purse.
444. He that is born to be
hanged shall never be drowned.
445. He that is full of
himself is very empty.
446. He that is ill to
himself will be good to nobody.
447. He that is warm thinks
all so.
448. He that knows nothing
doubts nothing.
449. He that lies down with
dogs must rise up with fleas.
450. He that lives with
cripples learns to limp.
451. He that mischief
hatches, mischief catches.
452. He that never climbed,
never fell.
453. He that once deceives
is ever suspected.
454. He that promises too
much means nothing.
455. He that respects not
is not respected.
456. He that seeks trouble
never misses.
457. He that serves
everybody is paid by nobody.
458. He that serves God for
money will serve the devil for better wages.
459. He that spares the bad
injures the good.
460. He that talks much
errs much.
461. He that talks much
lies much.
462. He that will eat the
kernel must crack the nut.
463. He that will not when
he may, when he will he shall have nay.
464. He that will steal an
egg will steal an ox.
465. He that will thrive,
must rise at five.
466. He that would eat the
fruit must climb the tree.
467. He that would have
eggs must endure the cackling of hens.
468. He who is born a fool
is never cured.
469. He who hesitates is
lost.
470. He who likes borrowing
dislikes paying.
471. He who makes no
mistakes, makes nothing.
472. He who pleased
everybody died before he was born.
473. He who says what he
likes, shall hear what he doesn't like.
474. He who would catch
fish must not mind getting wet.
475. He who would eat the
nut must first crack the shell.
476. He who would search
for pearls must dive below.
477. He will never set the
Thames on fire.
478. He works best who
knows his trade.
479. Head cook and
bottle-washer.
480. Health is not valued
till sickness comes.
481. His money burns a hole
in his pocket.
482. Honesty is the best
policy.
483. Honey is not for the
ass's mouth.
484. Honey is sweet, but
the bee stings.
485. Honour and profit lie
not in one sack.
486. Honours change
manners.
487. Hope is a good
breakfast, but a bad supper.
488. Hope is the poor man's
bread.
489. Hunger breaks stone
walls.
490. Hunger finds no fault
with cookery.
491. Hunger is the best
sauce.
492. Hungry bellies have no
ears.
493. Idle folks lack no
excuses.
494. Idleness is the mother
of all evil.
495. Idleness rusts the
mind.
496. If an ass (donkey)
bray at you, don't bray at him.
497. If ifs and ans were
pots and pans...
498. If my aunt had been a
man, she'd have been my uncle.
499. If the blind lead the
blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
500. If the sky falls, we
shall catch larks.
501. If there were no
clouds, we should not enjoy the sun.
502. If things were to be
done twice all would be wise.
503. If we can't as we
would, we must do as we can.
504. If wishes were horses,
beggars might ride.
505. If you agree to carry
the calf, they'll make you carry the cow.
506. If you cannot bite,
never show your teeth.
507. If you cannot have the
best, make the best of what you have.
508. If you dance you must
pay the fiddler.
509. If you laugh before
breakfast you'll cry before supper.
510. If you run after two
hares, you will catch neither.
511. If you sell the cow,
you sell her milk too.
512. If you throw mud
enough, some of it will stick.
513. If you try to please
all you will please none.
514. If you want a thing
well done, do it yourself.
515. Ill-gotten gains never
prosper.
516. Ill-gotten, ill-spent.
517. In every beginning
think of the end.
518. In for a penny, in for
a pound.
519. In the country of the
blind one-eyed man is a king.
520. In the end things will
mend.
521. In the evening one may
praise the day.
522. Iron hand (fist) in a
velvet glove.
523. It is a good horse
that never stumbles.
524. It is a long lane that
has no turning.
525. It is a poor mouse
that has only one hole.
526. It is an ill bird that
fouls its own nest.
527. It is an ill wind that
blows nobody good.
528. It is a silly fish,
that is caught twice with the same bait.
529. It is easy to swim if
another holds up your chin (head).
530. It is enough to make a
cat laugh.
531. It is good fishing in
troubled waters.
532. It is never too late
to learn.
533. It is no use crying
over spilt milk.
534. It is the first step
that costs.
535. It never rains but it
pours.
536. It's as broad as it's
long.
537. It's no use pumping a
dry well.
538. It's one thing to
flourish and another to fight.
539. It takes all sorts to
make a world.
540. Jackdaw in peacock's
feathers.
541. Jest with an ass and
he will flap you in the face with his tail.
542. Judge not of men and
things at first sight.
543. Just as the twig is
bent, the tree is inclined.
544. Keep a thing seven
years and you will find a use for it.
545. Keep your mouth shut
and your ears open.
546. Keep your mouth shut
and your eyes open.
547. Last, but not least.
548. Laws catch flies, but
let hornets go free.
549. Learn to creep before
you leap.
550. Learn to say before
you sing.
551. Learn wisdom by the
follies of others.
552. Least said, soonest
mended.
553. Leaves without figs.
554. Let bygones be
bygones.
555. Let every man praise
the bridge he goes over.
556. Let sleeping dogs lie.
557. Let well (enough)
alone.
558. Liars need good
memories.
559. Lies have short legs.
560. Life is but a span.
561. Life is not a bed of
roses.
562. Life is not all cakes
and ale (beer and skittles).
563. Like a cat on hot
bricks.
564. Like a needle in a
haystack.
565. Like begets like.
566. Like cures like.
567. Like father, like son.
568. Like draws to like.
569. Like master, like man.
570. Like mother, like
daughter.
571. Like parents, like
children.
572. Like priest, like
people.
573. Like teacher, like
pupil.
574. Little chips light
great fires.
575. Little knowledge is a
dangerous thing.
576. Little pigeons can
carry great messages.
577. Little pitchers have
long ears.
578. Little strokes fell
great oaks.
579. Little thieves are
hanged, but great ones escape.
580. Little things amuse
little minds.
581. Live and learn.
582. Live and let live.
583. Live not to eat, but
eat to live.
584. Long absent, soon
forgotten.
585. Look before you leap.
586. Look before you leap,
but having leapt never look back.
587. Lookers-on see more
than players.
588. Lord (God, Heaven)
helps those (them) who help themselves.
589. Lost time is never
found again.
590. Love cannot be forced.
591. Love in a cottage.
592. Love is blind, as well
as hatred.
593. Love me, love my dog.
594. Love will creep where
it may not go.
595. Make haste slowly.
596. Make hay while the sun
shines.
597. Make or mar.
598. Man proposes but God
disposes.
599. Many a fine dish has
nothing on it.
600. Many a good cow has a
bad calf.
601. Many a good father has
but a bad son.
602. Many a little makes a
mickle.
603. Many a true word is
spoken in jest.
604. Many hands make light
work.
605. Many men, many minds.
606. Many words hurt more
than swords.
607. Many words will not
fill a bushel.
608. Marriages are made in
heaven.
609. Measure for measure.
610. Measure thrice and cut
once.
611. Men may meet but mountains
never.
612. Mend or end (end or
mend).
613. Might goes before
right.
614. Misfortunes never come
alone (singly).
615. Misfortunes tell us
what fortune is.
616. Money begets money.
617. Money has no smell.
618. Money is a good
servant but a bad master.
619. Money often unmakes
the men who make it.
620. Money spent on the
brain is never spent in vain.
621. More haste, less
speed.
622. Much ado about
nothing.
623. Much will have more.
624. Muck and money go together.
625. Murder will out.
626. My house is my castle.
627. Name not a rope in his
house that was hanged.
628. Necessity is the
mother of invention.
629. Necessity knows no
law.
630. Neck or nothing.
631. Need makes the old
wife trot.
632. Needs must when the
devil drives.
633. Neither fish nor
flesh.
634. Neither here nor
there.
635. Neither rhyme nor
reason.
636. Never cackle till your
egg is laid.
637. Never cast dirt into
that fountain of which you have sometime drunk.
638. Never do things by
halves.
639. Never fry a fish till
it's caught.
640. Never offer to teach
fish to swim.
641. Never put off till
tomorrow what you can do (can be done) today.
642. Never quit certainty
for hope.
643. Never too much of a
good thing.
644. Never try to prove
what nobody doubts.
645. Never write what you
dare not sign.
646. New brooms sweep
clean.
647. New lords, new laws.
648. Nightingales will not
sing in a cage.
649. No flying from fate.
650. No garden without its
weeds.
651. No great loss without
some small gain.
652. No herb will cure
love.
653. No joy without alloy.
654. No living man all
things can.
655. No longer pipe, no
longer dance.
656. No man is wise at all
times.
657. No man loves his
fetters, be they made of gold.
658. No news (is) good
news.
659. No pains, no gains.
660. No song, no supper.
661. No sweet without
(some) sweat.
662. No wisdom like
silence.
663. None but the brave
deserve the fair.
664. None so blind as those
who won't see.
665. None so deaf as those
that won't hear.
666. Nothing comes out of
the sack but what was in it.
667. Nothing is impossible
to a willing heart.
668. Nothing must be done
hastily but killing of fleas.
669. Nothing so bad, as not
to be good for something.
670. Nothing succeeds like
success.
671. Nothing venture,
nothing have.
672. Oaks may fall when
reeds stand the storm.
673. Of two evils choose
the least.
674. Old birds are not
caught with chaff.
675. Old friends and old
wine are best.
676. On Shank's mare.
677. Once bitten, twice
shy.
678. Once is no rule
(custom).
679. One beats the bush,
and another catches the bird.
680. One chick keeps a hen
busy.
681. One drop of poison
infects the whole ton of wine.
682. One fire drives out
another.
683. One good turn deserves
another.
684. One law for the rich,
and another for the poor.
685. One lie makes many.
686. One link broken, the
whole chain is broken.
687. One man, no man.
688. One man's meat is
another man's poison.
689. One scabby sheep will
mar a whole flock.
690. One swallow does not
make a summer.
691. One today is worth two
tomorrow.
692. Open not your door
when the devil knocks.
693. Opinions differ.
694. Opportunity makes
the thief.
695. Out of sight, out of
mind.
696. Out of the frying-pan
into the fire.
697. Packed like herrings.
698. Patience is a plaster
for all sores.
699. Penny-wise and
pound-foolish.
700. Pleasure has a sting
in its tail.
701. Plenty is no plague.
702. Politeness costs
little (nothing), but yields much.
703. Poverty is no sin.
704. Poverty is not a
shame, but the being ashamed of it is.
705. Practice what you preach.
706. Praise is not pudding.
707. Pride goes before a
fall.
708. Procrastination is the
thief of time.
709. Promise is debt.
710. Promise little, but do
much.
711. Prosperity makes
friends, and adversity tries them.
712. Put not your hand
between the bark and the tree.
713. Rain at seven, fine at
eleven.
714. Rats desert a sinking
ship.
715. Repentance is good,
but innocence is better.
716. Respect yourself, or
no one else will respect you.
717. Roll my log and I will
roll yours.
718. Rome was not built in
a day.
719. Salt water and absence
wash away love.
720. Saying and doing are
two things.
721. Score twice before you
cut once.
722. Scornful dogs will eat
dirty puddings.
723. Scratch my back and
I'll scratch yours.
724. Self done is soon
done.
725. Self done is well
done.
726. Self is a bad
counsellor.
727. Self-praise is no
recommendation.
728. Set a beggar on
horseback and he'll ride to the devil.
729. Set a thief to catch a
thief.
730. Shallow streams make
most din.
731. Short debts (accounts)
make long friends.
732. Silence gives consent.
733. Since Adam was a boy.
734. Sink or swim!
735. Six of one and half a
dozen of the other.
736. Slow and steady wins
the race.
737. Slow but sure.
738. Small rain lays great
dust.
739. So many countries, so
many customs.
740. So many men, so many
minds.
741. Soft fire makes sweet
malt.
742. Something is rotten in
the state of Denmark .
743. Soon learnt, soon
forgotten.
744. Soon ripe, soon
rotten.
745. Speak (talk) of the
devil and he will appear (is sure to appear).
746. Speech is silver but
silence is gold.
747. Standers-by see more
than gamesters.
748. Still waters run deep.
749. Stolen pleasures are
sweetest.
750. Stretch your arm no
further than your sleeve will reach.
751. Stretch your legs
according to the coverlet.
752. Strike while the iron
is hot.
753. Stuff today and starve
tomorrow.
754. Success is never
blamed.
755. Such carpenters, such
chips.
756. Sweep before your own
door.
757. Take care of the pence
and the pounds will take care of themselves.
758. Take us as you find
us.
759. Tarred with the same
brush.
760. Tastes differ.
761. Tell that to the
marines.
762. That cock won't fight.
763. That which one least
anticipates soonest comes to pass.
764. That's a horse of
another colour.
765. That's where the shoe
pinches!
766. The beggar may sing
before the thief (before a footpad).
767. The best fish smell
when they are three days old.
768. The best fish swim
near the bottom.
769. The best is oftentimes
the enemy of the good.
770. The busiest man finds
the most leisure.
771. The camel going to
seek horns lost his ears.
772. The cap fits.
773. The cask savours of
the first fill.
774. The cat shuts its eyes
when stealing cream.
775. The cat would eat fish
and would not wet her paws.
776. The chain is no
stronger than its weakest link.
777. The cobbler should
stick to his last.
778. The cobbler's wife is
the worst shod.
779. The darkest hour is
that before the dawn.
780. The darkest place is
under the candlestick.
781. The devil is not so
black as he is painted.
782. The devil knows many
things because he is old.
783. The devil lurks behind
the cross.
784. The devil rebuking
sin.
785. The dogs bark, but the
caravan goes on.
786. The Dutch have taken
Holland !
787. The early bird catches
the worm.
788. The end crowns the
work.
789. The end justifies the
means.
790. The evils we bring on
ourselves are hardest to bear.
791. The exception proves
the rule.
792. The face is the index
of the mind.
793. The falling out of
lovers is the renewing of love.
794. The fat is in the
fire.
795. The first blow is half
the battle.
796. The furthest way about
is the nearest way home.
797. The game is not worth
the candle.
798. The heart that once
truly loves never forgets.
799. The higher the ape
goes, the more he shows his tail.
800. The last drop makes
the cup run over.
801. The last straw breaks
the camel's back.
802. The leopard cannot
change its spots.
803. The longest day has an
end.
804. The mill cannot grind
with the water that is past.
805. The moon does not heed
the barking of dogs.
806. The more haste, the
less speed.
807. The more the merrier.
808. The morning sun never
lasts a day.
809. The mountain has
brought forth a mouse.
810. The nearer the bone,
the sweeter the flesh.
811. The pitcher goes often
to the well but is broken at last.
812. The pot calls the
kettle black.
813. The proof of the
pudding is in the eating.
814. The receiver is as bad
as the thief.
815. The remedy is worse
than the disease.
816. The rotten apple
injures its neighbours.
817. The scalded dog fears
cold water.
818. The tailor makes the
man.
819. The tongue of idle
persons is never idle.
820. The voice of one man
is the voice of no one.
821. The way (the road) to
hell is paved with good intentions.
822. The wind cannot be
caught in a net.
823. The work shows the
workman.
824. There are lees to
every wine.
825. There are more ways to
the wood than one.
826. There is a place for
everything, and everything in its place.
827. There is more than one
way to kill a cat.
828. There is no fire
without smoke.
829. There is no place like
home.
830. There is no rose
without a thorn.
831. There is no rule
without an exception.
832. There is no smoke without
fire.
833. There's many a slip
'tween (== between) the cup and the lip.
834. There's no use crying
over spilt milk.
835. They are hand and
glove.
836. They must hunger in
winter that will not work in summer.
837. Things past cannot be
recalled.
838. Think today and speak
tomorrow.
839. Those who live in
glass houses should not throw stones.
840. Time and tide wait for
no man.
841. Time cures all things.
842. Time is money.
843. Time is the great
healer.
844. Time works wonders.
845. To add fuel (oil) to
the fire (flames).
846. To angle with a silver
hook.
847. To be born with a
silver spoon in one's mouth.
848. To be head over ears
in debt.
849. To be in one's
birthday suit.
850. To be up to the ears
in love.
851. To be wise behind the
hand.
852. To beat about the
bush.
853. To beat the air.
854. To bring grist to
somebody's mill.
855. To build a fire under
oneself.
856. To buy a pig in a poke.
857. To call a spade a
spade.
858. To call off the dogs.
859. To carry coals to
Newcastle.
860. To cast pearls before
swine.
861. To cast prudence to
the winds.
862. To come away none the
wiser.
863. To come off cheap.
864. To come off with a
whole skin.
865. To come off with
flying colours.
866. To come out dry.
867. To come out with clean
hands.
868. To cook a hare before
catching him.
869. To cry with one eye
and laugh with the other.
870. To cut one's throat
with a feather.
871. To draw (pull) in
one's horns.
872. To drop a bucket into
an empty well.
873. To draw water in a
sieve.
874. To eat the calf in the
cow's belly.
875. To err is human.
876. To fiddle while Rome
is burning.
877. To fight with one's
own shadow.
878. To find a mare's nest.
879. To fish in troubled
waters.
880. To fit like a glove.
881. To flog a dead horse.
882. To get out of bed on
the wrong side.
883. To give a lark to
catch a kite.
884. To go for wool and
come home shorn.
885. To go through fire and
water (through thick and thin).
886. To have a finger in
the pie.
887. To have rats in the
attic.
888. To hit the nail on the
head.
889. To kick against the
pricks.
890. To kill two birds with
one stone.
891. To know everything is
to know nothing.
892. To know on which side
one's bread is buttered.
893. To know what's what.
894. To lay by for a rainy
day.
895. To live from hand to
mouth.
896. To lock the
stable-door after the horse is stolen.
897. To look for a needle
in a haystack.
898. To love somebody
(something) as the devil loves holy water.
899. To make a mountain out
of a molehill.
900. To make both ends
meet.
901. To make the cup run
over.
902. To make (to turn) the
air blue.
903. To measure another
man's foot by one's own last.
904. To measure other
people's corn by one's own bushel.
905. To pay one back in
one's own coin.
906. To plough the sand.
907. To pour water into a
sieve.
908. To pull the chestnuts
out of the fire for somebody.
909. To pull the devil by
the tail.
910. To put a spoke in
somebody's wheel.
911. To put off till
Doomsday.
912. To put (set) the cart
before the horse.
913. To rob one's belly to
cover one's back.
914. To roll in money.
915. To run with the hare
and hunt with the hounds.
916. To save one's bacon.
917. To send (carry) owls
to Athens .
918. To set the wolf to
keep the sheep.
919. To stick to somebody
like a leech.
920. To strain at a gnat
and swallow a camel.
921. To take counsel of
one's pillow.
922. To take the bull by
the horns.
923. To teach the dog to
bark.
924. To tell tales out of
school.
925. To throw a stone in
one's own garden.
926. To throw dust in
somebody's eyes.
927. To throw straws
against the wind.
928. To treat somebody with
a dose of his own medicine.
929. To use a steam-hammer
to crack nuts.
930. To wash one's dirty
linen in public.
931. To wear one's heart
upon one's sleeve.
932. To weep over an onion.
933. To work with the left
hand.
934. Tomorrow come never.
935. Too many cooks spoil
the broth.
936. Too much knowledge
makes the head bald.
937. Too much of a good thing
is good for nothing.
938. Too much water drowned
the miller .
939. Too swift arrives as
tardy as too slow.
940. True blue will never
stain.
941. True coral needs no
painter's brush.
942. Truth comes out of the
mouths of babes and sucklings.
943. Truth is stranger than
fiction.
944. Truth lies at the
bottom of a well.
945. Two blacks do not make
a white.
946. Two heads are better
than one.
947. Two is company, but
three is none.
948. Velvet paws hide sharp
claws.
949. Virtue is its own
reward.
950. Wait for the cat to
jump.
951. Walls have ears.
952. Wash your dirty linen
at home.
953. Waste not, want not.
954. We know not what is
good until we have lost it.
955. We never know the
value of water till the well is dry.
956. We shall see what we
shall see.
957. We soon believe what
we desire.
958. Wealth is nothing
without health.
959. Well begun is half
done.
960. What can't be cured,
must be endured.
961. What is bred in the
bone will not go out of the flesh.
962. What is done by night
appears by day.
963. What is done cannot be
undone.
964. What is got over the
devil's back is spent under his belly.
965. What is lost is lost.
966. What is sauce for the
goose is sauce for the gander.
967. What is worth doing at
alt is worth doing well.
968. What must be, must be.
969. What the heart thinks
the tongue speaks.
970. What we do willingly
is easy.
971. When angry, count a
hundred.
972. When at Rome, do as
the Romans do.
973. When children stand
quiet, they have done some harm.
974. When flatterers meet,
the devil goes to dinner.
975. When guns speak it is
too late to argue.
976. When pigs fly.
977. When Queen Anne was
alive.
978. When the cat is away,
the mice will play.
979. When the devil is
blind.
980. When the fox preaches,
take care of your geese.
981. When the pinch comes,
you remember the old shoe.
982. When three know it,
alt know it.
983. When wine is in wit is
out.
984. Where there's a will,
there's a way.
985. While the grass grows
the horse starves.
986. While there is life
there is hope.
987. Who breaks, pays.
988. Who has never tasted
bitter, knows not what is sweet.
989. Who keeps company with
the wolf, will learn to howl.
990. Wise after the event.
991. With time and patience
the leaf of the mulberry becomes satin.
992. Words pay no debts.
993. You can take a horse
to the water but you cannot make him drink.
994. You cannot eat your
cake and have it.
995. You cannot flay the
same ox twice.
996. You cannot judge a
tree by it bark.
997. You cannot teach old
dogs new tricks.
998. You cannot wash
charcoal white.
999. You made your bed, now
lie in it.
1000.
Zeal without knowledge is a runaway horse.
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