> > >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. > >