A bad carpenter quarrels with his tools.
A bad penny always comes back.
A black hen lays a white egg.
A burnt child dreads the fire.
A clear conscience fears not false accusation.
A constant guest is never welcome.
A creaking door hangs longest.
A creaking gate (or door) hangs longest.
A disease known is half cured.
A dwarf on a giant's shoulder sees the farther of the two.
A fair face cannot have a crabbed heart.
A fault confessed is half redressed.
A fence between makes love more keen.
A fool and wealth cannot possess each other.
A fool at forty is a fool indeed.
A fool's tongue is long enough to cut his own throat.
A friend in need is a friend indeed.
A friend to everybody is a friend to nobody.
A friend who shares is a friend who cares.
A golden key opens every door.
A good beginning makes a good ending.
A good husband makes a good wife.
A good man is hard to find.
A good name is rather to be chosen.
A good name is sooner lost than won.
A good neighbor is better than a brother far off.
A good time was had by all.
A good wife and health is a man's best wealth.
A good wife is a good prize.
A good wife makes a good husband.
A guilty conscience feels continual fear.
A guilty conscience is a self-accuser.
A heavy purse makes a light heart.
A house divided against itself cannot stand.
A hungry man is an angry man.
A just war is better than an unjust peace.
A liar is not believed when he speaks the truth.
A little help is worth a deal of pity.
A little leak will sink a great ship.
A little learning is a dangerous thing.
A little pot is soon hot.
A little stone in the way overturns a great wain.
A little wind kindles, much puts out the fire.
A man at five may be a fool at fifteen.
A man is known by the company he keeps.
A man may lead (or take) a horse to the water but he cannot make him drink.
A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds.
A man's studies pass into his character.
A miss is as good as a mile.
A nod is as good as a wink.
A penny saved is a penny earned (or gained).
A picture is worth a thousand words.
A place for everything, and everything in its place.
A prophet is not without honor, save in his own country and in his own house.
A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder.
A rich man's joke is always funny.
A rising tide lifts all boats.
A rolling stone gathers no moss.
A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
A soft answer turns away wrath.
A sound mind in a sound body.
A stitch in time saves nine.
A storm in a teacup.
A straw shows which way the wind blows.
A tale never loses in the telling.
A thing of beauty is a joy for ever.
A watched pan never boils.
A willing burden is no burden.
A wise head makes a close mouth.
A wise man changes his mind, a fool never.
A wise man commonly has foolish children.
A wise man never wants a weapon.
A wonder lasts but nine days.
A word is enough to the wise.
Abandon hope, all ye who enter here.
Absence is the mother of disillusion.
Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Accidents will happen in the best-regulated families.
Actions speak louder than words.
Adversity makes a man wise.
After a calm comes a storm.
After a storm comes a calm.
After death, the doctor.
After us the deluge.
All are not thieves that dogs bark at.
All cats are gray in the dark.
All good things come to an end.
All is fair in love and war.
All is not gold that glitters.
All is well that ends well.
All lay loads on a willing horse.
All roads lead to Rome.
All they that take the sword shall perish with the sword.
All things are difficult before they are easy.
All things are easy, that are done willingly.
All truths are not good to be told.
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
Ambition makes people diligent.
An army marches on its stomach.
An early bird catches the worm.
An empty sack cannot stand upright.
An enemy to beauty is a foe to nature.
An Englishman's house is his castle.
An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth.
An hour in the morning is worth two in the evening.
An idle brain is the devil's workshop.
An idle youth, a needy age.
An ill payer never wants an excuse.
An ill-marriage is a spring of ill fortune.
An inch in a miss is as good as an ell.
An oak is not felled at one stroke.
An obedient wife commands her husband.
An open door may tempt a saint.
An ounce of common sense is worth a pound of theory.
An ounce of practice is worth a pound of precept.
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
Anger punishes itself.
Any port in a storm.
Anyone can start a rumor, but none can stop one.
Art is long, life is short.
As well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb.
As you make your bed, so you must lie in it.
As you sow, so shall you reap.
Ask a silly question and you'll get a silly answer.
Ask me no questions and I'll tell you no lies.
Ask, and it shall be given you.
At the need the friend is known.
Bad money drives out good.
Bad news travels fast.
Barking dogs seldom bite.
Be just before you are generous.
Beauty and folly go often in company.
Beauty and honesty (or wisdom) seldom agree.
Beauty fades like a flower.
Beauty is but (or only) skin deep.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Beggars cannot be choosers.
Believe nothing of what you hear, and only half of what you see.
Best to bend while it is a twig.
Better an egg today than a hen tomorrow.
Better be an open enemy than a false friend.
Better be first in the village than second at Rome.
Better be safe than sorry.
Better be still single than ill married.
Better be the head of a dog than the tail of a horse.
Better be the head of a dog than the tail of a lion.
Better be the tail of a horse than the head of an ass.
Better be the tail of lions than the head of foxes.
Better bend than break.
Better late than never.
Better the devil you know than the devil you don't know.
Better to have than wish.
Beware of a silent dog and still water.
Birds of a feather flock together.
Birth is much but breeding is more.
Black cows give white milk.
Blood will have blood.
Blood will tell.
Blue are the faraway hills.
Books and friends should be few but good.
Born with a silver spoon in one's mouth.
Boys, be ambitious.
Bread is the staff of life.
Call a spade a spade.
Call no man happy till he dies.
Catch your bear before you sell its skin.
Cheats never prosper.
Children should be seen and not heard.
Circumstances alter cases.
Clothes do not make the man.
Coming events cast their shadows before.
Company in distress makes sorrow light.
Conscience makes cowards of us all.
Constant dropping wears away the stone.
Conversation makes one what he is.
Count not your chicken before they are hatched.
Cross the stream where it is shallowest.
Curiosity is endless, restless, and useless.
Curiosity killed the cat.
Curses, like chickens, come home to roost.
Danger past, God forgotten.
Death is the great leveller.
Deeds, not words.
Desires are nourished by delays.
Diligence is the mother of good luck.
Discontent is the first step in progress.
Discretion is the better part of valor.
Distance lends enchantment to the view.
Divide and conquer.
Divide and rule.
Do as I say, not as I do.
Do as most men do, then most men will speak well of you.
Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
Do to others as you would be done by.
Do to others what you would be done by.
Doing nothing is doing ill.
Don't beat about the bush.
Don't bite the hand that feeds you.
Don't change horses in mid-stream.
Don't cry before you are hurt.
Don't cut the bough you are standing on.
Don't halloo till you are out of the wood.
Don't judge a book by its cover.
Don't make a mountain out of a molehill.
Don't make the same mistakes twice.
Don't make yourself a mouse, or the cat will eat you.
Don't meet trouble half-way.
Don't pour out the dirty water before you have clean.
Don't put all your eggs in one basket.
Don't put new wine into old bottles.
Don't put the cart before the horse.
Don't quarrel with your bread and butter.
Don't speak to the man at the wheel.
Don't teach your grandmother to suck eggs.
Dumb dogs are dangerous.
Eagles do not breed doves.
Eagles don't catch flies.
Early to bed and early to rise, make a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
Easier said than done.
Easy come, easy go.
Eat to live; do not live to eat.
Eavesdroppers never hear any good of themselves.
Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him.
Empty vessels make the most sound.
Enough is as good as a feast.
Even a worm will turn.
Even Homer sometimes nods.
Every cloud has a silver lining.
Every extremity is a vice.
Every Jack has his Jill.
Every law has a loophole.
Every little helps.
Every man for himself, and the devil take the hindmost.
Every man has his faults.
Every man has his price.
Every man has the defects of his own virtues.
Every man is his own worst enemy.
Every man is the architect of his own fortune.
Every tub must stand on its own bottom.
Every why has a wherefore.
Everybody loves a lord.
Everybody's business is nobody's business.
Everything comes to him who waits.
Everything is good in its season.
Everything is in a state of flux.
Example is better than precept.
Experience is the best teacher, but the tuition is high.
Experience is the best teacher.
Experience is the father of wisdom and memory the mother.
Experience is the teacher of fools.
Experience without learning is better than learning without experience.
Failure teaches success.
Fair face is half a portion.
Fair face, foul heart.
Faith will move mountains.
Familiarity breeds contempt.
Far from Jupiter, far from thunder.
Few words are best.
Fields have eyes, and woods have ears.
Fight fire with fire.
Fine clothes make the man.
Fine feathers make fine birds.
Fire is a good servant but a bad master.
First come, first served.
First impressions are most lasting.
First thrive and then wive.
Flow of words is not always flow of wisdom.
Flowers leave fragrance in the hand that bestows them.
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.
For the busy man time passes quickly.
For want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost.
Forbidden fruit is sweetest.
Forgive and forget.
Fortune favors the bold.
Fortune knocks at least once at every man's gate.
Four eyes see more than two.
Friends agree best at a distance.
Full of courtesy, full of craft.
Garbage in, garbage out.
Gather ye rosebud while you may.
Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.
Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
Give a lie twenty-four hours' start, and you can never overtake it.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; show him how to catch fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
Give a man an inch, and he will take a mile.
Give a thief enough rope and he'll hang himself.
Give knaves an inch and they will take a yard.
Give neither counsel nor salt till you are asked for it.
Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.
God comes with leaden feet, but strikes with iron hands.
God is always on the side of the big battalions.
God's in his heaven; all's right with the world.
Good blood cannot lie.
Good medicine tastes bitter.
Good seed makes a good crop.
Good things come in small packages.
Good wine needs no bush.
Grasp all, lose all.
Great happiness, great danger.
Great men are great idols.
Great men have great faults.
Great oaks from little acorns grow.
Habit is a second nature.
Half a loaf is better than no bread.
Half the truth is often a whole lie.
Half the world knows not how the other half lives.
Handsome is that handsome does.
Hard words break no bones.
Harm set, harm get.
Haste makes waste.
He gives twice who gives quickly.
He is not fit to command others that cannot command himself.
He is rich that has few wants.
He lives long who lives well.
He sees no farther than the end of his nose.
He that cannot obey cannot command.
He that corrects not small faults, will not control great ones.
He that falls today may rise tomorrow.
He that hath a full purse never wanted a friend.
He that hath not silver in his purse should have silk in (or on) his tongue.
He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune.
He that is a master must serve another.
He that is down need fear no fall.
He that is master of himself, will soon be master of others.
He that mischief hatches mischief catches.
He that once deceives, is ever suspected.
He that sows thistles shall reap prickles.
He that sows virtue, reaps fame.
He that stays in the valley, shall never get over the hill.
He that talks much of his happiness, summons grief.
He that touches pitch shall be defiled.
He that travels far knows much. �� He travels much, knows much.
He that will steal an egg will steal an ox.
He that would know what shall be, must consider what has been.
He travels fastest who travels alone.
He who begins many things, finishes but few.
He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.
He who chooses, takes the worst.
He who denies all confesses all.
He who fights and runs away may live to fight another day.
He who gives fair words feeds you with an empty spoon.
He who gives to another bestows on himself.
He who hesitates is lost.
He who pays the piper calls the tune.
He who rides a tiger is afraid to dismount.
He who runs after two hares will catch neither.
He who says what he likes shall hear what he does not like.
He who shoots often, hits at last.
He who wills the end, wills the means.
Health and gaiety foster beauty.
Health is better than wealth.
Heaven helps those who help themselves.
Help others as you would hope to be helped.
Here today, and gone tomorrow.
Hew not too high lest the chips fall in thine eye.
Hide not your talents, they for use were made.
History repeats itself.
Hitch your wagon to a star.
Hoist your sail when the wind is fair.
Honesty is the best policy.
Hope for the best and prepare for the worst.
Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.
Hope is the poor man's bread.
Hope often deludes the foolish man.
Hunger is the best sauce.
Hypocrisy is a homage that vice pays to virtue.
I was not born yesterday.
Idle people have the least leisure.
Idleness is the root of all evil.
If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again.
If each would sweep before the door, we should have a clean city.
If one sheep leaps over the ditch, all the rest will follow.
If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
If there were no cloud, we should not enjoy the sun.
If two men ride on a horse, one must ride behind.
If winter comes, can spring be far behind?
If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.
If you cannot bite, never show your teeth.
If you do not like it you may lump it.
If you gently touch a nettle it'll sting you for your pains.
If you lie upon roses when young, you will lie upon thorns when old.
If you sing before breakfast, you will cry before night.
If you wish good advice, consult an old man.
If you would be well served, serve yourself.
Ignorance is bliss.
Ignorance of the law is no excuse for breaking it.
Ill counsel mars all.
Ill got, ill spent.
Ill weeds grow apace.
In a calm sea every man is a pilot.
In for a penny, in for a pound.
In peace prepare for war.
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word with God, and the Word was God.
In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
In time of prosperity, friends will be plenty; in time of adversity, not one amongst twenty.
It is a foolish bird that soils its own nest.
It is a foolish sheep that makes the wolf his confessor.
It is a long lane that has no turning.
It is a wise father that knows his own child.
It is as hard to follow good advice as to give it.
It is better to be stung by a nettle than pricked by a rose.
It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
It is easier to pull down than to build.
It is harder to change human nature than to change rivers and mountains.
It is never too late to mend.
It is no use crying over spilt milk.
It is not the beard that makes the philosopher.
It is not work that kills, but worry.
It is the bridle and spur that makes a good horse.
It is too late to lock the stable when the horse has been stolen.
It never rains but it pours.
It takes all sorts to make the world.
It takes money to make money.
It takes three generations to make a gentleman.
It's always darkest before the dawn.
It's dogged that does it.
It's never too late to learn.
Jack of all trades and master of none.
Judge not, that ye be not judged.
Keep a thing seven years and you'll find a use for it.
Keep no more cats than will catch mice.
Keep something for a rainy day.
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
Kill not the goose that lays the golden eggs.
Knowledge has bitter roots but sweet fruits.
Knowledge is power.
Laugh and the world laughs with you, weep and you weep alone.
Learn wisdom by the follies of others.
Lend your money and lose your friend.
Let bygones be bygones.
Let every peddler carry his own burden.
Liars should have good memories.
Life begins at forty.
Life is but an empty dream.
Life is not all beer and skittles.
Life is short and time is swift.
Life is sweet.
Like attracts like.
Like father, like son.
Like master, like man.
Like mother, like daughter.
Little pitchers have long ears.
Little strokes fell great oaks.
Little thieves are hanged, but great ones escape.
Live and learn.
Live every day as though it were last.
Long absence alters affection.
Long life has long misery.
Look before you leap.
Lookers-on see most of the game.
Love and knowledge live not together.
Love begets love.
Love conquers all.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction.
Love is a flower which turns into fruit at marriage.
Love is blind.
Love is sweet in the beginning but sour in the ending.
Love laughs at locksmiths.
Love makes the world go round.
Love me little, love me long.
Love sees no faults.
Love speaks, even when the lips are closed.
Love your friend, but look to yourself.
Love your neighbor as yourself.
Love your neighbor, yet pull not down your fence.
Make haste slowly.
Make hay while the sun shines.
Man proposes; God disposes.
Manners make the man.
Many a good cow has an evil calf.
Many a little makes a mickle.
Many a true word is spoken in jest.
Many hands make light work.
Many kiss the hand they wish to cut off.
Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.
March winds and April showers bring forth May flowers.
Marriage is the tomb of love.
Marriages are made in heaven.
Marry in haste, and repent at leisure.
Men are blind in their own cause.
Misery (or Misfortune, or Adversity, or Poverty) makes strange bedfellows.
Misery loves company.
Misfortunes never come singly.
Misfortunes tell us what fortune is.
Money begets money.
Money burns a hole in the pocket.
Money is round, and rolls away.
Money is the root of all evil.
Money makes the mare to go.
More have repented speech than silence.
More than enough is too much.
Much ado about nothing.
Much meat, much malady.
Muck and money go together.
Nature abhors a vacuum.
Nature hates all sudden changes.
Nature is conquered by obeying her.
Naughty boys sometimes make good men.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
Necessity knows no law.
Needs must when the devil drives.
Neither a borrower nor a lender be.
Never ask pardon before you are accused.
Never do things by halves.
Never judge by appearances.
Never make threats you cannot carry out.
Never speak ill of the dead.
Never spend your money before you have it.
Never spur a willing horse.
Never take a stone to break an egg, when you can do it with the back of your knife.
Never tell tales out of school.
Never tell your enemy that your foot aches.
Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you.
No answer is also an answer.
No cross, no crown.
No gain (or gains) without pain (or pains)
No man better knows what good is than he who has endured evil.
No man can serve two masters.
No names, no pack drill.
No news is good news.
No sweet without sweat.
None so blind as those who won't see.
None so deaf as those who won't hear.
Nothing comes of nothing.
Nothing hurts like the truth.
Nothing is certain but death and taxes.
Nothing succeeds like success.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
Nurture and good manners maketh man.
Nurture is above nature.
Of a thorn springs not a fig.
Of thy sorrow be not too sad, of thy joy be not too glad.
Of two evils choose the lesser.
Offense is the best defense.
Old friends and old wine are best.
Old habits die hard.
Once a beggar, always a beggar.
Once a knave, always a knave.
Once a thief, always a thief.
One cannot be in two places at once.
One cannot love and be wise.
One foot is better than two crutches.
One hair of a woman draws more than a hundred yoke of oxen.
One is never too old to learn.
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
One law for the rich and another for the poor.
One lie makes many.
One man's meat is another man's poison.
One murder makes a villain. Millions a hero.
One must draw the line somewhere.
One of these days is none of these days.
One reason is as good as fifty.
One shrewd turn follows another.
One swallow does not make a summer.
One thing at a time.
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
One volunteer is worth two pressed men.
Only the wearer knows where the shoe pinches.
Open confession is good for the soul.
Opportunity makes a thief.
Opportunity seldom knocks twice.
Other times, other manners.
Other wise, the bottles break and the wine runs out, and the bottles are destroyed.
Out of debt, out of danger.
Out of sight, out of mind.
Pardon all but thyself.
Pardoning the bad is injuring the good.
Penny wise and pound foolish.
Physician, heal thyself.
Pity is akin to love.
Playful kittens make sober cats.
Pleasant hours fly fast.
Politics makes strange bedfellows.
Pouring oil on the fire is not the way to quench it.
Poverty is no disgrace, but it is a great inconvenience.
Poverty is no sin.
Poverty parts friendship.
Practice makes perfect.
Practice what you preach.
Praises fill not the belly.
Prevention is better than cure.
Pride goes before destruction.
Pride will have a fall.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
Promises are like pie-crust, made to be broken.
Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.
Rats desert a sinking ship.
Reckless youth makes rueful age.
Religion is the rule of life.
Repentance comes too late.
Revenge is a dish best served cold.
Revenge is sweet.
Rome was not built in a day.
Safety lies in the middle course.
Saying is one thing and doing another.
See Naples and die.
See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil.
Seeing is believing.
Self-praise is no recommendation.
Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
Send a fool to France, and he'll come back a fool.
Set a beggar on horseback and he'll ride to the devil.
Set a thief to catch a thief.
Shame take him that shame thinks.
Short reckonings make long friends.
Silence gives consent.
Silent men, like still water, are deep and dangerous.
Slow and steady wins the race.
Small is beautiful.
So many countries, so many customs.
So many men, so many minds.
Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.
Someone is not out of the woods yet.
Something is better than nothing.
Soon ripe, soon rotten.
Sooner begun, sooner done.
Sow the wind and reap the whirlwind.
Spare the rod and spoil the child.
Speak fair and think what you like.
Speak well of the dead.
Speech is silver, silence is golden.
Speech is the picture of the mind.
Spread the table, and contention will cease.
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.
Still waters run deep.
Stolen pleasures are sweetest.
Stretch your legs according to your coverlet.
Strike while the iron is hot.
Success has many friends.
Sweet are the uses of adversity.
Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves.
Take the bitter with the sweet.
Take the bull by the horns.
Take things as you find them.
Talk is cheap.
Talk of angel and you will hear the fluttering of its wings.
Talk of the devil and he is sure to appear.
Tell the truth and shame the devil.
Temperance is the best physic.
That's the way the ball bounces.
That's the way the cookie crumbles.
The apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
The arrow shot upright falls on the shooter's head.
The balance distinguishes not between gold and lead.
The beaten road is the safest.
The best advice is found on the pillow.
The bigger the man, the better the mark.
The borrower is a slave to the lender.
The boughs that bear most hang lowest.
The bread always falls on the buttered side.
The Busiest men find the most time.
The child is father of the man.
The course of true love never did run smooth.
The cow that's first up, gets the first of the dew.
The cowl (or hood) does not make the monk.
The crow thinks her own bird fairest.
The customer is always right.
The dependent is timid.
The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
The devil finds work for idle hands to do.
The devil's children have the devil's luck.
The dog that fetches, will carry.
The end crowns all.
The end crowns the work.
The end justifies the means.
The face is the index of the heart.
The fairest flowers soonest fade.
The family that prays together stays together.
The first step is always the hardest.
The gods send nuts to those who have no teeth.
The golden mean is best.
The good you do for others is good you do yourself.
The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence.
The greater the truth, the greater the libel.
The greatest talkers are the least doers.
The higher the tree, the greater is its fall.
The highest branch is not the safest roost.
The hole calls the thief.
The joy of the heart makes the face fair.
The language of truth is simple.
The last drop makes the cup run over.
The left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing.
The leopard cannot change his spots.
The longest (or farthest) way round is the nearest way home.
The longest day (or night) will have an end.
The love of money is the root of all evil.
The mill cannot grind with the water that is past.
The mills of God grind slowly.
The more danger, the more honor.
The more you have, the more you want.
The mountains have brought forth a mouse.
The mouse that has but one hole is quickly taken.
The night is mother of counsel.
The noblest vengeance is to forgive.
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
The pen is mightier than the sword.
The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
The remedy may be worse than the disease.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
The rotten apple injures its neighbor.
The same man never crossed the same river twice.
The sea refuses no river.
The shoemaker's son always goes barefoot.
The smell of garlic takes away the smell of onions.
The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.
The squeaking wheel gets the grease.
The strength of the chain is in the weakest link.
The style is the man.
The sun shines upon all alike.
The tailor makes the man.
The thief thinks all people like himself.
The tongue is not steel, yet it cuts.
The voice of the people is the voice of God.
The wish is father to the thought.
The wolf knows what the ill heart thinks.
The words of eyes are universal.
The worst wheel of the cart creaks most.
The young will sow their wild oats.
There are as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it.
There are more ways to the wood than one.
There is a black sheep in every flock.
There is a great difference between word and deed.
There is a remedy for everything except death.
There is a sin of omission as well as of commission.
There is a tide in the affairs of men.
There is a time and place for everything.
There is a time to speak and a time to be silent.
There is falsehood in fellowship.
There is great force hidden in a sweet command.
There is honor among thieves.
There is no honor among thieves.
There is no pleasure without pain.
There is no royal road to learning.
There is no rule without exceptions.
There is no time like the present.
There is nothing new under the sun.
There is nothing permanent except change.
There is safety in numbers.
There was three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded.
There's many a slip between the cup and the lip.
There's no fool like an old fool.
There's no place like home.
They are rich who have true friends.
They brag most who can do least.
They that live longest see most.
Things are seldom what they seem.
Things past cannot be recalled but may be repented.
Things present are judged by things past.
Think not on what you lack as much as on what you have.
Think today and speak tomorrow.
Threatened men live long.
Through hardship to the stars.
Throw dirt enough and some will stick.
Time and tide wait for no man.
Time flies.
Time has wings.
Time is money.
Time lost cannot be recalled.
To err is human, to forgive divine.
To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wild flower.
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
Tomorrow is another day.
Too many cooks spoil the broth.
Too much curiosity lost Paradise.
Train up a child in the way he should go.
Travel broadens mind.
Trouble brings experience and experience brings wisdom.
True love never grows old.
Trust is the mother of deceit.
Truth (or Fact) is stranger than fiction.
Truth breeds hatred.
Truth has no need of rhetoric.
Truth is mighty and will prevail.
Truth lies at the bottom of a well.
Two heads are better than one.
Two is company, three is a crowd.
Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
Union is strength.
United we stand, divided we fall.
Variety is the spice of life.
Virtue is its own reward.
Wake not a sleeping lion.
Walls have ears.
Want is the mother of industry.
Want of money, want of comfort.
War is the sport of kings.
Waste not, want not.
Water is a boon in the desert, but the drowning man curses it.
Water seeks its own level.
We are all Adam's children.
We are all slaves of opinion.
We may not expect a good whelp from an ill dog.
We soon believe what we desire.
Wedlock is a padlock.
Well begun is half done.
What can you expect from a pig but a grunt?
What can't be cured must be endured.
What everybody says must be true.
What goes aroud comes aroud.
What happens twice will happen thrice.
What is a workman without his tools?
What is learned in the cradle is carried to the grave.
What is the good of a sundial in the shade?
What soberness conceals, drunkenness reveals.
What the heart thinks, the tongue speaks.
What will Mrs Grundy say?
What you don't know won't hurt you.
Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well.
Whatever man has done, man can do.
When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
When children stand quiet they have done some ill.
When fortune smiles, embrace her.
When Greek meets Greek, then comes the tug of war.
When I lent I had a friend; when I asked he was unkind.
When one door shuts another opens.
When shared, joy is doubled and sorrow halved.
When the cat is away, the mice will play.
When the face is fair, the heart must be gentle.
When the word is out it belongs to another.
When things are at the worst they begin to mend.
When you tread on nine daisies at once, spring has come.
Where ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise.
Where there is a will, there is a way.
Where there's smoke, there's fire.
While there is life there is hope.
Who chatters to you, will chatter of you.
Who keeps company with the wolf will learn to howl.
Who knows most, speaks least.
Who spits against heaven, it falls in his face.
Whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.
Why buy a cow when milk is so cheap?
Why keep a dog and bark yourself?
Will is the cause of woe.
Win at first and lose at last.
Wine in, truth out.
Wise men learn by other men's mistakes; fools by their own.
With what measures ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.
Words cut more than swords.
Words have wings, and cannot be called.
Years know more than books.
You can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.
You can see a mote in another's eye but cannot see a beam in your own.
You can't eat your cake and have it.
You can't teach an old dog new tricks.
You can't win 'em all.
You cannot get water (or blood) out of stone.
You cannot know the wine by the barrel.
You cannot make a crab walk straight.
You cannot make bricks without straw.
You cannot sell the cow and drink the milk.
You cannot serve God and mammon.
You have to eat a peck of dirt before you die.
You may know by a handful the whole sack.
You may see by a bit what the bread is.
You must go into the country to hear what news at London.
You must go into the country to hear what news in town.
You must grin and bear it.
You never know what you can do till you try.
You scratch my back and I'll scratch yours.
Young men may die, but old men must die.
Young saint, old devil.
Youth and age will never agree.
Youth must have its fling.
Zeal without knowledge is a runaway horse.