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.
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
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
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 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 favours 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.

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