Ponniyin Selvan Varalaatru Peravai

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>01. A bad beginning makes a bad ending.
>02. A bad corn promise is better than a good lawsuit.
>03. A bad workman quarrels with his tools.
>04. A bargain is a bargain.
>05. A beggar can never be bankrupt.
>06. A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
>07. A bird may be known by its song.
>08. A black hen lays a white egg.
>09. A blind leader of the blind.
>10. A blind man would be glad to see.
>11. A broken friendship may be soldered, but will never be sound.
>12. A burden of one's own choice is not felt.
>13. A burnt child dreads the fire.
>14. A cat in gloves catches no mice.
>15. A city that parleys is half gotten.
>16. A civil denial is better than a rude grant.
>17. A clean fast is better than a dirty breakfast.
>18. A clean hand wants no washing..
>19. A clear conscience laughs at false accusations.
>20. A close mouth catches no flies.
>21. A cock is valiant on his own dunghill.
>22. A cracked bell can never sound well.
>23. A creaking door hangs long on its hinges.
>24. A curst cow has short horns.
>25. A danger foreseen is half avoided.
>26. A drop in the bucket.
>27. A drowning man will catch at a straw.
>28. A fair face may hide a foul heart.
>29. A fault confessed is half redressed.
>30. A fly in the ointment.
>31. A fool always rushes to the fore.
>32. A fool and his money are soon parted.
>33. A fool at forty is a fool indeed.
>34. A fool may ask more questions in an hour than a wise man can answer in seven years.
>35. A fool may throw a stone into a well which a hundred wise men cannot pull out.
>36. A 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 twopence.
>87. A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder.
>88. A rolling stone gathers no moss.
>89. A round peg in a square hole.
>90. A shy cat makes a proud mouse.
>91. A silent fool is counted wise.
>92. A small leak will sink a great ship.
>93. A soft answer turns away wrath.
>94. A sound mind in a sound body.
>95. A stitch in time saves nine.
>96. A storm in a teacup.
>97. A tattler is worse than a thief.
>98. A thief knows a thief as a wolf knows a wolf.
>99. A thief passes for a gentleman when stealing has made him rich.
>100. A threatened blow is seldom given.
>101. A tree is known by its fruit.
>102. A wager is a fool's argument.
>103. A watched pot never boils.
>104. A wise man changes his mind, a fool never will.
>105. A wolf in sheep's clothing.
>106. A wonder lasts but nine days.
>107. A word is enough to the wise.
>108. A word spoken is past recalling.
>109. Actions speak louder than words.
>110. Adversity is a great schoolmaster.
>111. Adversity makes strange bedfellows.
>112. After a storm comes a calm.
>113. After dinner comes the reckoning.
>114. After dinner sit (sleep) a while, after supper walk a mile.
>115. After rain comes fair weather.
>116. After us the deluge.
>117. Agues come on horseback, but go away on foot.
>118. All are good lasses, but whence come the bad wives?
>119. All are not friends that speak us fair.
>120. All are not hunters that blow the horn.
>121. All are not merry that dance lightly.
>122. All are not saints that go to church.
>123. All asses wag their ears.
>124. All bread is not baked in one oven.
>125. All 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 hole in a lion's skin.
>145. An hole is but an hole, though laden with gold.
>146. An hole 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 hole 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 acquittance.
>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.
>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 does you an i!i turn will never forgive you.
>434. He that fears every bush must never go a-birding.
>435. He that fears you present wiil 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 hole'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 hole (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 hoids 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 hole 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 tun 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. Practise 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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