Proverbs and Quotes about Wisdom

A bad custom is like a good cake, better broken than kept

A baited cat may grow as fierce as a lion.

A bird in hand is worth two in a bush.

A black plum is as sweet as a white

A blind hen can sometimes find a grain of wheat.

A bully is always a coward.

A burden of one's own choice is not felt.

A burnt child dreads the fire.

A cat has nine lives.

A danger foreseen is half avoided

A diamond in the dunghill.

A dog who attends a flea circus most likely will steal the whole show

A drop of ink may make a million think

A fly will not get into a closed mouth

A fox smells its own lair first.

A good beginning makes a good ending

A good conscience is a soft pillow.

A little body doth often harbour a great soul.

A maiden with many wooers often chooses the worst.

A miss is as good as a mile

A monkey in silk is a monkey no less.

A nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse

A picture is worth a thousand words

A place for everything and everything in its place

A point is the beginning of magnitude.

A reed before the wind lives on, while might oaks do fall

A rising tide lifts all boats.

A short cut is often a wrong cut.

A sly rabbit will have three openings to its den

A soft answer turneth away wrath

A spark can start a great fire.

A sprat to catch a mackerel

A spy with flatulence will always blow his cover

A squirrel is just a rat with good PR

A stumble may prevent a fall.

A throne is only a bench covered in purple velvet.

A tree is known by its fruit.

A volunteer is worth twenty pressed men

A watched pot never boils

A wise head keeps a still tongue

A wonder lasts but nine days

Abundance, like want, ruins many

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance

Adversity doesnt build character, it reveals it

Adversity Makes Strange Bedfellows

After a famine in the stall comes a famine in the hall

After a storm comes a calm.

After all is said and done, more is said than done

After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box

After the storm comes the calm.

After us the deluge.

All are not cooks that walk with long knives

All cats are grey in the dark.

All flowers are not in one garland.

All good things come to an end.

All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds

All is grist that comes to the mill

All is well that ends well

All lay loads on a willing horse!

All roads lead to Rome

All sunshine makes a desert

All things thrive on thrice.

Always the bridesmaid,never the bride

An ant may well destroy a whole dam

An innocent bystander often gets beaten up.

Any port in a storm

Any publicity is good publicity

Art has no enemy but ignorance

Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity

As busy as a bee

As delicate as a baby's eye lashes

As dry as chapped lips

As like as chalk and cheese.

As soft as velvet

As useful as a chocolate fireguard (or teapot)

As wrinkled as an elephant's hide

Ask a silly question and you will get a silly answer

Ask my companion if I be a thief

Attack is the best form of defence

Barking dogs seldom bite

Be a good sport - wherever you go

Be first at the feast, and last at the fight

Be just before you are generous

Be kind to people on the way up, you may need them when you are on your way down

Beer before wine is fine Wine before beer makes you feel queer!

Bees that have honey in their mouths have stings in their tails

Before enlightenment, I chopped wood and carried water; after enlightenment, I chopped wood and carried water.

Begin with a big bang and end with a bust.

Better to be envied than pitied

Better to go back than go wrong.

Better to remain silent and appear a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt

Better wed over the mixen than over the moor

Between two stools, one falls to the ground. To straddle the fence.

Big fish eat little fish.

Big mouthfuls often choke.

Birth is much, breeding is more.

Bitter pills may have blessed effects

Blessings Are Not Valued Until They Are Gone

Blethers say nought

Blood is thicker than water

Blue are the hills that are far away

Borrowed Garments Never Fit Well

Box of tricks

Boxed in

Brain is better than brawn.

Bread never falls but on its buttered side.

Brevity is the soul of wit (Shakespeare),

Bring up a raven and he will peck out your eyes.

Broken bones well set become stronger.Storm Makes oaks take deeper root.

Broken in two

Call a spade a spade.

Cast ne’er a clout till May is out.

cat may look at a king

Catch not at the shadow and lose the substance

Charity covers a multitude of sins

Cheats never prosper

Children are to be seen, not heard.

Children Have Wide Ears and Long Tongues

Cider on beer, never fear; beer upon cider, makes a bad rider.

Civility costs nothing

Clothes make a man

Coin a phrase.

Common fame is seldom to blame

Comparisons are odorous.

Count you blessings.

Crime does not pay

Cross the stream where it is the shallowest.

Crows are black all over the world.

Curiosity killed the cat.

Cut your coat according to your cloth

Damage suffered makes you knowing, but seldom rich.

Danger can never be overcome without taking risks

Danger is next neighbor to security.

Danger passed, God forgotten.

Dead men tell no tales

Death is the great leveller

Death pays all debts

Deeds are fruits, words are but leaves.

Desperate diseases must have desperate remedies.

Different sores must have different salves.

Different strokes for different folk

Discretion is the better part of valour

Discretion is the better part of valour

Distance lends enchantment to the view

Divide and rule

Do as I say, and not as I do

Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom

Draw a line under

Draw Not Your Bow Till the Arrow is Fixed

Draw the snake from its hole by another man’s hand Draw the snake from its hole by another man’s hand.

Early bird gets the worm.

East is east, and west is west

Easy peasy

Empty barrels make the most sound.

Empty sacks will never stand upright

Empty vessels make the most noise

Enough is as good as a feast.

Enough is enough

Even a broken clock is right twice a day.

Even a flea can bite.

Even a worm will turn

Every blade of grass has its share of the dews.

Every body wants to go to heaven but nobody wants to die

Every cloud has a silver lining

Every Cook Praises His Own Broth

Every cross has its inscriptions

Every dark cloud has a silver lining.

Every disease will have its course Every dog has his day.

Every dog has its day.

Every family has a skeleton in the cupboard

Every flow hath its ebb

Every Jack has his Jill

Every little helps

Every man diverts water to his own mill.

Every man has a price.

Every picture tells a story

Every potter praises his own pot.

Every rose has its thorn.

Every rule has its exception.

Every sluggard has his excuses.

Every stick has two ends.

Every wench has her sweetheart, and the dirtiest the most. Every Jack has his Jill.

Every why has a wherefore.

Everybody wants to go to heaven but nobody wants to die.

Everyday is a fresh slate

Everyone stretches his legs according to the length of his coverlet

Everything has an end.

Everything is good in its season.

Everything must have a beginning

Everything under the sun

Excess of ceremony shows want of breeding

Fact is stranger than fiction

Failing to plan is planning to fail

Fair exchange is no robbery

Fair without , false within

Fairest gems lie deepest. Last but not least.

Faith will move mountains.

Falling star

Familiarity breeds contempt

Familiarity breeds contempt.

Fate leads the willing but drives the stubborn

Fear lends wings

Fight fire with fire

Fine feathers make fine birds.

First come, first served

First deserve than desire.

First Impressions are the Most Lasting

First in best dressed.

First in the queue

First things first

Fish always stinks from the head downwards

Fish and guests stink after three days.

Fish are no respectors of human boredom, so why go angling

Flattery will get you nowhere

Flies Come to Feasts Unasked

Flies never visit an egg that has no crack

Fogiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the foot that crushed it

Folly grows without watering

Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.

Football is a game of two halves

For better, for worse

For sale

Forbidden fruit is the sweetest.

Forbidden fruits create many jams

Forewarned is forearmed

Forgive and forget

Fortune favours the brave.

Four eyes are better than two.

Four poster bed

Fretting cares make grey hairs.

From clogs to clogs in only three generations

From the sweetest wine the tartest vinegar

From trivial things, great contests often arise.

Frosting the cake.

Fruit out of season, sorrow out of reason

Full of hope

Gentle is that gentle does

Get up and go

Gie yer tongue mair holidays nor yer heid

Give a clown a finger and he will take your hand

Give a dog a bad name and hang him.

Give and spend and God will send

Give credit where credit is due

Give him an inch and he will take a mile

Give Neither Counsel Nor Salt till You Are Asked For It

Give the hog a finger and he will take the whole hand.

Give them an inch and they'll take a mile.

Gluttony kills more than the sword

Go along for the ride

Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company

God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers

God helps those who help themselves

God is Always on the Side of the Big Battalions

God made the country and man made the town!

Good and quickly seldom meet

Good eating deserves good drinking.

Good fences make good neighbors.

Good looking

Good people are scarce

Good things come in small packages.

Great men show greatness in youth.

Great minds think alike

Great oaks from little acorns grow

Greediness burst the bag.

Greedy folks have long arms

Grumbling makes the loaf no larger.

Gut No Fish Till You Get Them

Handsome is as handsome does.

Happiness is not a state of mind, but a manner of travelling

Happiness is wanting what you have - not having what you want

Happy is the bride the sun shines on

Haste makes waste

Hasty judgements are generally faulty.

Have you ever noticed? anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac

He is always right who suspects that he makes mistakes

He is an ill companion that has a good memory

He is at Ease Who Has Enough

He Is Rich Enough That Wants Nothing

He That Brings Good News Knocks Hard

He that digs a pit for others falls himself.

He that goes a-borrowing, goes a-sorrowing

He that is master of himself, will soon be master of others

He that plants a tree plants for posterity

He that stays in the valley shall never get over the hill!

He that steals an egg will steal an ox.

He that touches pitch shall be defiled.

He that will steal an egg will steal an ox.

He who comes with a story to you will bring two away from you

He who dares wins

He who drinks Australian Thinks Australian

He who flies high is a short step from a big fall

He who gathers crops in summer is a wise son, but he who sleeps during harvest is a disgraceful son

He who has once burnt his mouth always blows his soup

He who is ABSENT is always in the Wrong

He who is in hell knows not what heaven is.

He who knows better has never tried it

He who plays with fire will get burnt

He who rides a tiger is afraid to dismount

He who rides a tiger is afraid to dismount.

He who sings drives away sorrow.

He who would the daughter win, with the mother must begin.

He wouldn’t give you the paring of his nails.

Head for cover

Head over heels

Help a lame dog over a stile.

Here today, gone tomorrow.

Hindsight is 20/20.

Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.

His bark is louder than his bite.

His eyes are bigger than his belly.

History repeats itself

Hole in one

Honesty is the best policy

Honesty is the best policy.

Hope springs eternal

Hope springs eternal

I had no shoes and complained, until I met a man who had no feet

I pointed out to you the stars and all you saw was the tip of my finger

Idle people lack no excuses

If a camel gets his nose in a tent, his body will soon follow.

If a son is uneducated, his dad is to blame

If a thing is worth doing, it’s worth doing well.

If anything can go wrong, it will

If Fortune calls, offer him a seat

If God had meant us to fly he’d have given us wings.

If ifs and ands were pots and pans there’d be no work for tinkers.

If in doubt, mumble

If mama ain’t happy, ain’t nobody happy.

If the Blind Lead the Blind, Both Shall Fall Into the Ditch

If the cap fits, wear it.

If the shoe fits, wear it.

If the wind will not serve, take to the oars

If there were no lossers there could be no winners

If we're not back by dawn, call the President.

If wishes were horses beggars would ride.

If you believe everything you read, you better not read

If you can’t be good, be careful..

If you can’t beat them, join them.

If you can’t take the heat, get out of the kitchen.

If you chase two rabbits, you will not catch either.

If you get it overnight, you can lose it just as quick

If you give a mouse a cookie, he'll always ask for a glass of milk

If you keep your mouth shut, you won’t put your foot in it.

If you lie down with dogs you will come up with fleas

If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys

If you see something you like, take it and make it better.

If you steal from one author, it is plagiarism; if you steal from many, it is research. Wilson Mizner (1876–1933)

If you think that you know everything, then you're a Jack ass

If you want a place in the sun, you must leave the shade of the family tree

If you would enjoy the fruit, pluck not the flower

Ignorance is bliss

Ignorance is bliss.

Ill-gotten gains never prosper

I'm going to have to give you the pink slip

Imagination is the highest kite you can fly

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

In a battle between elephants, the ants get squashed

In black and white

In the kingdom of the blind the one eyed man is king.

In the land of hope there is never any winter

In the Land of the Blind the One Eyed Man is King

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

In vino veritas

Innocent as a new born babe.

Inverted comma

It is a long lane that has no turning

It is a silly fish that is caught twice with the same bait

It is all grist to the mill

It is an ill wind that blows no one any good

It is better to give than to receive

It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive

It is better to wear out than to rust out

It is easier to destroy than to build.

It is easier to get forgiveness than permission

It is easy to be wise after the event

It is good to have company in misery

It is in vain to cast your net where there is no fish

It is nice to be important but it is more important to be nice

It is no use crying over spilt milk

It is the early bird that gets the worm

It is the first step that is difficult.

It is the squeaky wheel that gets the grease

It is what is in the mind when sober, that comes out of the mouth when drunk

It takes a thief to catch a thief

It takes a thief to catch a thief.

It takes all sorts to make a world

It takes one bad apple to spoil the barrel!

It takes one to know one

It will all come out in the wash

It’s a good horse that never stumbles.

It’s a long lane that has no turning.

It’s all grist to the mill.

It’s an ill wind that blows no one good.

It’s better to travel hopefully than to arrive.

It’s easy to be wise after the event.

It’s never too late to mend.

It’s no use crying over spilt milk.

It’s not over till it’s over.

It’s not worth crying over spilt milk.

It’s the early bird that gets the worm.

It’s the empty can that makes the most noise.

It’s the squeaky wheel that gets the grease.

It’s too late to cover the well when the child is drowned.

Its a wise child that knows its own father

It's an ill bird that fouls its own nest.

It's an ill wind that blows no-one some good.

It's either all or nothing.

It's no use crying over spilt milk.

Its only rock n roll but I like it

It's the thought that counts

Judge not that you be not judged

Judge not, that ye be not judged. St. Matthew 7:1, King James Bible

Just between you and me

Justice delayed is justice denied.

Keep It Simple (The KISS principal).

Keep your chin up

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground

Keep your mouth shut and your eyes open.

Keep your powder dry

Kill one to warn a hundred.

Kill two birds with one stone

Kindness begets kindness.

Kiss and make up

Kiss and tell

Know which side your bread is buttered

Knowing is not enough; We must Apply Willing is not enough; We must Do

Late fruit keeps well.

Lean liberty is better than fat slavery

Least said soonest mended

Let bygones be bygones

Let not the sun go down on your wrath.

Let the buyer beware

Let the camel put his nose in the tent, his whole body will soon follow.

Let the dead bury the dead (N.T.)

Let the punishment fit the crime

Let the punishment fit the crime.

Let well alone

Let your hair down.

Liars need good memories.

Lie down with dogs, wake up with fleas.

Lightning never strikes in the same place twice

Like a fish out of water.

Like a roaring lion or a charging bear is a wicked man ruling over a helpless people

Like father, like son

Like flogging a dead horse

Like looking for a needle in a haystack.

Like music to my ears

Line up in alphabetical order

Listen to advice and accept instruction, and in the end you will be wise

Listen to the pot calling the kettle black.

Little and large

Little enemies and little wounds must not be despised.

Little pitchers have big ears.

Little strokes fell great oaks.

Little things please little minds

Long absent, soon forgotten.

Look after number one

Look before you leap

Look both ways

Look good, feel good

Look on the bright side

Look the other way

Lookers-on see most of the game.

Loose lips sink ships.

Losers weepers, finders keepers.

Lost in the post

Lots of people confuse bad management with destiny

Make a silk purse out of a sow's ear

Make hay while the sun shines

Man proposes, God disposes.

Man proposes, God disposes.

Manners maketh man

Many a mickle makes a muckle

Many are called but few are chosen

Many people know how to say nothing; few know when

Many things are lost for want of asking

March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb

March winds and April showers bring forth May flowers

Melt the icy fingers of fear with the sunshine of hope

Men are from earth Women are from earth Deal with it

Men get spoiled by staying, Women get spoiled by wandering

Merry Nights Make Sorry Days

Might as well be hanged for a sheep as (for) a lamb

Might is right

Mighty oaks from little acorns grow.

Mind your own business

Misfortunes never come singly. Adding insult to injury.

Moderation in all things

More haste less speed

Mother knows best

Motivation is what gets you started habit is what keeps you going

Much too much

Murder will out

Music has charms to soothe the savage breast.

Nature abhors a vacuum.

Necessity is a hard nurse, but she raises strong children.

Necessity is the mother of invention

Neibor's sour curry is tasty

Never be afraid to sit awhile and think

Never cackle unless you lay.

Never cast a clout until May be out

Never eat an oyster unless there is an R in the month

Never give a sucker an even break

Never go to bed on an argument

Never judge by appearences

Never judge someone until you have travelled a mile in their shoes

Never let the sun go down on your anger

Never make a mountain out of a molehill - The mountain will arrive soon enough

Never murder a man who is committing suicide

Never play leapfrog with a unicorn

Never put off til tomorrow what you can do today

Never put your tongue on an iceberg

Never stand on the tail of a hedgehog after midnight

Never tell tales out of school

Never the twain shall meet

Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you

New broom sweeps clean.

Night is the Mother of Counsel

Nine tailors make a man,

No cows, no cares.

No fathers or mothers think their children ugly.

No Good Building Without a Good Foundation

No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness

No man can serve two masters.

No man is an island

No names, no pack-drill

No news is good news

No one can be caught in places he does not visit.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

No one is expected to achieve the impossible

No piper can please all ears.

No rest for the wicked

No rest for the wicked.

No smoke without fire.

No wind, no waves.

None but the brave deserve the fair

None but the wearer knows where the shoe pinches

None so blind as those who won’t see.

None so deaf as those who will not hear

Not in a month of Sundays.

Not to break is better than to mend.

Not to know is bad; not to wish to know is worse

Nothing falls into the mouth of a sleeping fox.

Nothing is certain but death and taxes.

Nothing is ill said if it is not ill taken.

Nothing is interesting if you are not interested

Nothing succeeds like success

Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught

Nothing to worry about

Nothing ventured, nothing gained

Nowt so queer as folk!

Oaks may fall when reeds take the storm.

Oil and water don’t mix.

On cloud nine

On second thoughts

On the crest of a wave

On the Turf all men are equal, and under it

Once a thief, always a thief

Once bitten twice shy

Once in a blue moon

Once seen never forgotten

One beats the bush, another takes the bird

One can lead a horse to the water but can not make him drink.

One does not wash one’s dirty linen in public.

One false move may lose the game.

One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.

One good action excuses a dozen bad ones.

One good turn deserves another

One hand washes the other

One hour’s sleep before midnight is worth two hours after.

One in a million

One mans junk is another man's treasure.

One mans loss is another mans gain

One man's trash is another man's treasure.

One might as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb

One of these days is none of these days

One rotten apple spoils the barrel.

One swallow doesn't make a summer.

One thing after another

One today is worth two tomorrow.

One volunteer is worth ten pressed men

One who believes in Sword, dies by the Sword

One who has the reputation of an early riser may safely lie in bed until noon

One years seeding means seven years weeding

Only mad dogs and englishmen go out in the midday sun

Only when all contribute their firewood can they build up a strong fire

Opportunities always look bigger going than coming

Opportunity makes a thief

Opportunity only knocks once.

Opportunity seldom knocks twice.

Opposites attract.

Out of sight, out of mind

Out of the blue

Out of the frying pan into the fire.

Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings

Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings

Over the moon

Paddle your own canoe.

Pardon all but theyself

Peace begins just where ambition ends.

Pearls of wisdom.

People who think the world revolves around them have no sense of direction

Perfection is inperfect

Plant the crab tree where you will, it will never bear pippins

Play with fire

Practise what you preach

Pretty as a picture

Pride comes before a fall

Promise is debt.

Promises are like babies Easy to make, hard to deliver

Put the cat out

Put your best foot forward.

Quality is an excuse for lack of quantity

Quickly come, quickly go

Rats desert a sinking ship

Reading between the lines

Red sky at night shepherds delight; red sky in the morning, shepherds warning

Revenge is sweet

Right between the eyes

Right or wrong, my country

Righteousness exalts a nation but sin is a disgrace to any people

Rob Peter to pay Paul.

Rome is not built in one day.

Rules are made to be broken.

Sadness and gladness succeed each other.

Sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.

Say what you mean and mean what you say.

Second place is first loser

See a pin and pick it up, all the day you will have good luck; see a pin and let it lay, bad luck you will have all day

See Naples and die

Seeing is believing

Seek and ye shall find.

Seize the day

Seldom seen, soon forgotten

Self praise is no recomendation.

Set a thief to catch a thief

Set a wolf to watch the sheep. Set a fox to watch the geese.

Set your sail according to the wind.

Shake the hand before you plough the field.

Share and share alike!

Shedding crocodile tears.

Shiny are the distant hills

Shoemakers’ children go barefooted.

Shopping is a therapy

Show a clean pair of heels.

Shrouds have no pockets

Shut up and sit down

Sickness in the body brings sadness to the mind.

Sign on the dotted line

Silence gives consent.

Silence is an excellent remedy against slander.

Silence is less injurious than a bad reply.

Silence is the fence around wisdom

Since before cocky was an egg.

Six of one and half a dozen of the other. Two of a kind.

Size matters

Sleep is better than medicine

Small faults indulged let in greater.

Smile and the world smiles with you, snore and you sleep alone

Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep

Snug as a bug in a rug.

Softly, softly, catchee monkey

Some are wise and some are otherwise

Sound as a bell.

Spare the rod and spoil the child

Split second timing

Spots before the eyes

Star turn

Sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me

Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me.

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me

Sticks and stones will break my bones but names

Still waters are the deepest.

Still waters run deep

Stir With a Knife, Stir Up Strife

Stolen fruit is the sweetest.

Stop beating around the bush.

Strike while the iron is hot

Strong men of arms become like soft putty in the arms of women.

Stupid is as stupid does.

Success has many fathers, while failure is an orphan

Sunlight penetrates even the thinnest crack

Suspicion breeds phantoms.Suspicion has double eyes.

Sympathy without relief is like mustard without beef

Tailors and writers must mind the fashion

Take a hair of the dog that bit you

Take heed of reconciled enemies and of meat twice boiled

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

The Absent are Always Wrong

The accomplice is as bad as the thief.

The apple doesn't fall far from the tree.

The apprentice outperforms the master.

The best advice is found on the pillow

The best defence is a good offence.

The Best Fish Swim Near the Bottom

The best ground bears weeds as well as flowers.

The best is yet to come

The best things come in small packages

The best throw of the dice is to throw them away

The best-laid schemes of mice and men often go awry

The bigger they are, the harder they fall

The bigger they are, the harder they fall

The birds and the bees

The bread never falls but on its buttered side

The butcher looked for his knife and it was in his mouth.

The cat is honest when the meat is out of her reach.

The coat makes the man.

The cobbler always wears the worst shoes

The cobbler always wears the worst shoes.

The cobra will bite you whether you call it cobra or Mr Cobra

The company makes the feast

The customer is always right

The customer is always right.

The darkest hour is before the dawn.

The die is cast.

The dog that trots about finds a bone. Seek and ye shall find.

The early bird catches the worm

The end justifies the means.

The exception which proves the rule.

The eyes are the window of the soul

The Fairest Rose at Last is Withered

The first faults are theirs that commit them, the second theirs that permit them

The first step is the hardest.

The fish will soon be caught, that nibbles at every bait

The fox knows much, but more he who catches him.

The gods help them that help themselves.

The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence.

The hand that gives, gathers. He benefits himself that does good to others.

The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world

The head and feet keep warm, the rest will take no harm.

The higer you climb, the harder you fall. Grasp all, loose all.

The higher the monkey climbs, the more he shows his tail

The higher the tree, the sweeter the plum

The higher you climb up the ladder, the more people can see your arse

The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow. William Cowper, English poet (1731–1800)

The labourer is worthy of his hire

The last drop makes the cup run over

The longest day must have an end

The longest rope has an end

The man born to misfortune will fall on his back and fracture his nose.

The Moon does not heed the barking of dogs

The more haste, the less speed.

The more one knows, the less one believes

The more the merrier

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

The more you get, the more you want

The mountain labored and gave birth to a mouse. Great cry and little wool.

The mouse that has but one hole is quickly taken.

The nail that sticks out gets banged down.

The nearer the bone the sweeter the meat

The One who tells the stories rules the world

The pen is mightier than sword.

The phisician of others himself overruns with ulcers.

The pot calls the kettle black.

The price of greatness is responsibility

The price of liberty is eternal vigilance

The proof of the pudding is in the eating

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

The road to Hell is paved with good intentions

The rotten apple injures its neighbours

The shoemaker's son always goes barefoot

The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak.

The squeaking wheel gets the grease

The squeaky wheel gets the grease.

The stick is the surest peacemaker

The straw that broke the camel's back

The sun shines on both sides of the hedge.

The tide never goes out so far but it always comes in again

The tongue ever turns to the aching tooth

The tongue wounds more than a lance.

The wise shall understand.

The wish is father to the thought.

The worst wheel always creaks most.

There are always ears on the other side of the wall

There are always more fish in the sea

There are more ways of killing a cat than choking it with cream

There Are No Atheists in Foxholes

There are none so blind as those that will not see

There are none so blind as those, that will not see.

There are three classes of people one must not provoke: officials, customers and widows.

There are two sides to every question

There but for the grace of God go I

There is a black sheep in every flock.

There is a skeleton in every cupboard

There is a trick in every trade.

There is always somebody worst of then yourself no matter how bad things seem

There is an exception to every rule

There is an exception to every rule

There is honour among thieves

There is many a slip 'twixt cup and lip

There is more than one way to skin a cat

There is no jollity but hath a smack of folly

There is no smoke without fire

There is no such thing as a free lunch

There is no such thing as bad publicity

There is none so blind as those who will not see

There is nowt so queer as folk

There will be rubs in the smoothest road

There’s always a calm before a storm.

There’s always more fish in the sea.

There’s many a slip twixt cup and lip.

There’s more than one way to skin a cat.

There’s no accounting for taste.

There’s no smoke without fire.

There’s no such thing as a free lunch.

There’s no such thing as bad publicity.

There’s none so deaf as they that will not hear.

There’s one born every minute.

There's many a slip, twixt cup and the lip.

There's no use in flogging a dead horse.

There's none so deaf as those who will not hear

They Brag Most That Can Do the Least

They that dance must pay the fiddler

They that sow the wind shall reap the whirlwind

They that walk much in the sun will be tanned at last

Things can only get better

Those who cast the votes decide nothing Those who count the votes decide everything

Those who sleep with dogs will rise with fleas

Those who sleep with dogs will rise with fleas.

Though the wound be healed, a scar remains

Throw a sprat to catch a whale.

To add insult to injury.

To be worn out is to be renewed. Lao Tzu, Chinese philosopher (604 BC – 531 BC)

To beard a lion in his den.

To bring coal to Newcastle.

To deceive oneself is very easy

To each his own.

To err is human, to forgive divine.

To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart

To kill two birds with one stone.

To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.

To look as if butter will not melt in his mouth.

To many people in a dustbin means there not much room in side

To search for a needle in the hay stack.

To the jaundiced eye all things look yellow.

To the victor the spoils.

To the world you may be one person but to one person you may be the world

To thine own self be true

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

Tomorrow is a new day.

Tomorrow is another day

Tomorrow is another day. Take things as they come.

Tomorrow never comes.

Too many cooks spoil the broth.

Too many Eskimos, too few seals.

Too many irons in the fire.

Too much bed makes a dull head.

Towards evening the lazy man begins to be busy.

True blue will never stain.

Trust is the mother of deceit.

Trust not a horse's heel nor a dog's tooth.

Trying to drive a square peg into a round hole.

Two Dogs Fight for a Bone, and a Third Runs Away With it

Two heads are better then one.

Two peas in a pod.

Two wrongs may not make a right but three rights make a left

Two’s company, three’s a crowd.

Under the thorn grow the roses.

Union is strength. There is strength in numbers.

United we stand, divided we fall.

Unwillingness easily finds an excuse.

Use it or lose it.

Using a cannon to shoot a mouse.

Virtue is its own reward

Virtues all agree, but vices fight one another

Visit your aunt, but not every day of the year

Wake not a sleeping lion.

Walk before you can run

Walls have ears.

Waste not want not.

We can always bear other people’s misfortunes.

We must take the bad with the good.

We’ve arrived, and to prove it we’re here.

What a man says drunk, he thinks sober.

What do you expect from a pig, but a grunt?

What goes around, comes around.

What soberness conceals, drunkenness reveals.

What we acquire without sweat, we give away without regret. Ill gotten, ill spent.

What you lose on the swings you gain on the roundabouts

What’s sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.

When a fox hears a rabbit screaming it comes running, but not to help.

When in Rome, do as the Romans do.

When the going gets tough, the tough get going.

When the oak is before the ash, then you will only get a splash; when the ash is before the oak, then you may expect a soak

When you drink from a stream, remember its source.

Where observation is concerned, chance favors only the prepared mind.

Where there is muck there is brass.

Where there is smoke, there is fire.

Where there's a will there's a way.

Where there's smoke there's fire.

While the cat is away, the mice will play.

Who makes himself a sheep will be eaten by the wolves.

who never gives Wage when asked

Why keep a dog and bark yourself?

Wide ears and short tongue are the best.

Wisdom is better than strength.

Wisdom is neither inheritance nor a legacy.

Wisdom is the wealth of the wise.

Wise it is to comprehend the whole.

Won the battle and lost the war.

Wonders will never cease!

Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.

Worrying never did anyone any good.

You are what you eat.

You can eat an elephant if you do it one mouthful at a time.

You can have too much of a good thing.

You can not have your cake and eat it too.

You can not make something out of nothing.

You can’t get blood out of a stone.

You can’t have it both ways.

You can’t run with the hare and hunt with the hounds.

You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.

You must loose a fly to catch a trout.

You never know what you’ve got till it’s gone.

You scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours.