1 A bad carpenter quarrels with his tools.
2 A bad penny always comes back.
2 A black hen lays a white egg.
1 A burnt child dreads the fire.
2 A clear conscience fears not false accusation.
3 A constant guest is never welcome.
2 A creaking door hangs longest.
2 A creaking gate (or door) hangs longest.
2 A disease known is half cured.
2 A dwarf on a giant's shoulder sees the farther of the two.
4 A fair face cannot have a crabbed heart.
2 A fault confessed is half redressed.
3 A fence between makes love more keen.
3 A fool and wealth cannot possess each other.
5 A fool at forty is a fool indeed.
2 A fool's tongue is long enough to cut his own throat.
5 A friend in need is a friend indeed.
5 A friend to everybody is a friend to nobody.
5 A friend who shares is a friend who cares.
2 A golden key opens every door.
5 A good beginning makes a good ending.
5 A good husband makes a good wife.
4 A good man is hard to find.
3 A good name is rather to be chosen.
4 A good name is sooner lost than won.
7 A good neighbor is better than a brother far off.
2 A good time was had by all.
6 A good wife and health is a man's best wealth.
5 A good wife is a good prize.
5 A good wife makes a good husband.
1 A guilty conscience feels continual fear.
3 A guilty conscience is a self-accuser.
3 A heavy purse makes a light heart.
2 A house divided against itself cannot stand.
4 A hungry man is an angry man.
4 A just war is better than an unjust peace.
4 A liar is not believed when he speaks the truth.
4 A little help is worth a deal of pity.
4 A little leak will sink a great ship.
3 A little learning is a dangerous thing.
2 A little pot is soon hot.
3 A little stone in the way overturns a great wain.
1 A little wind kindles, much puts out the fire.
4 A man at five may be a fool at fifteen.
3 A man is known by the company he keeps.
6 A man may lead (or take) a horse to the water but he cannot make him drink.
6 A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds.
2 A man's studies pass into his character.
4 A miss is as good as a mile.
4 A nod is as good as a wink.
3 A penny saved is a penny earned (or gained).
5 A picture is worth a thousand words.
1 A place for everything, and everything in its place.
4 A prophet is not without honor, save in his own country and in his own house.
1 A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder.
3 A rich man's joke is always funny.
1 A rising tide lifts all boats.
2 A rolling stone gathers no moss.
2 A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
1 A soft answer turns away wrath.
2 A sound mind in a sound body.
1 A stitch in time saves nine.
2 A storm in a teacup.
1 A straw shows which way the wind blows.
2 A tale never loses in the telling.
4 A thing of beauty is a joy for ever.
2 A watched pan never boils.
3 A willing burden is no burden.
4 A wise head makes a close mouth.
6 A wise man changes his mind, a fool never.
3 A wise man commonly has foolish children.
5 A wise man never wants a weapon.
1 A wonder lasts but nine days.
3 A word is enough to the wise.
0 Abandon hope, all ye who enter here.
1 Absence is the mother of disillusion.
0 Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
1 Accidents will happen in the best-regulated families.
3 Actions speak louder than words.
5 Adversity makes a man wise.
3 After a calm comes a storm.
3 After a storm comes a calm.
0 After death, the doctor.
0 After us the deluge.
1 All are not thieves that dogs bark at.
0 All cats are gray in the dark.
1 All good things come to an end.
3 All is fair in love and war.
2 All is not gold that glitters.
1 All is well that ends well.
2 All lay loads on a willing horse.
0 All roads lead to Rome.
1 All they that take the sword shall perish with the sword.
0 All things are difficult before they are easy.
0 All things are easy, that are done willingly.
2 All truths are not good to be told.
3 All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
1 Ambition makes people diligent.
0 An army marches on its stomach.
0 An early bird catches the worm.
1 An empty sack cannot stand upright.
3 An enemy to beauty is a foe to nature.
1 An Englishman's house is his castle.
2 An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth.
2 An hour in the morning is worth two in the evening.
1 An idle brain is the devil's workshop.
1 An idle youth, a needy age.
2 An ill payer never wants an excuse.
4 An ill-marriage is a spring of ill fortune.
3 An inch in a miss is as good as an ell.
2 An oak is not felled at one stroke.
0 An obedient wife commands her husband.
1 An open door may tempt a saint.
3 An ounce of common sense is worth a pound of theory.
3 An ounce of practice is worth a pound of precept.
3 An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
0 Anger punishes itself.
1 Any port in a storm.
1 Anyone can start a rumor, but none can stop one.
2 Art is long, life is short.
2 As well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb.
3 As you make your bed, so you must lie in it.
3 As you sow, so shall you reap.
2 Ask a silly question and you'll get a silly answer.
3 Ask me no questions and I'll tell you no lies.
2 Ask, and it shall be given you.
2 At the need the friend is known.
2 Bad money drives out good.
1 Bad news travels fast.
0 Barking dogs seldom bite.
1 Be just before you are generous.
1 Beauty and folly go often in company.
1 Beauty and honesty (or wisdom) seldom agree.
2 Beauty fades like a flower.
2 Beauty is but (or only) skin deep.
2 Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
1 Beggars cannot be choosers.
2 Believe nothing of what you hear, and only half of what you see.
3 Best to bend while it is a twig.
3 Better an egg today than a hen tomorrow.
4 Better be an open enemy than a false friend.
2 Better be first in the village than second at Rome.
2 Better be safe than sorry.
3 Better be still single than ill married.
6 Better be the head of a dog than the tail of a horse.
5 Better be the head of a dog than the tail of a lion.
4 Better be the tail of a horse than the head of an ass.
2 Better be the tail of lions than the head of foxes.
2 Better bend than break.
3 Better late than never.
7 Better the devil you know than the devil you don't know.
2 Better to have than wish.
2 Beware of a silent dog and still water.
1 Birds of a feather flock together.
2 Birth is much but breeding is more.
0 Black cows give white milk.
1 Blood will have blood.
1 Blood will tell.
0 Blue are the faraway hills.
1 Books and friends should be few but good.
1 Born with a silver spoon in one's mouth.
0 Boys, be ambitious.
2 Bread is the staff of life.
2 Call a spade a spade.
2 Call no man happy till he dies.
1 Catch your bear before you sell its skin.
1 Cheats never prosper.
1 Children should be seen and not heard.
0 Circumstances alter cases.
3 Clothes do not make the man.
0 Coming events cast their shadows before.
1 Company in distress makes sorrow light.
1 Conscience makes cowards of us all.
0 Constant dropping wears away the stone.
2 Conversation makes one what he is.
1 Count not your chicken before they are hatched.
1 Cross the stream where it is shallowest.
1 Curiosity is endless, restless, and useless.
0 Curiosity killed the cat.
0 Curses, like chickens, come home to roost.
0 Danger past, God forgotten.
2 Death is the great leveller.
2 Deeds, not words.
0 Desires are nourished by delays.
2 Diligence is the mother of good luck.
1 Discontent is the first step in progress.
2 Discretion is the better part of valor.
0 Distance lends enchantment to the view.
0 Divide and conquer.
0 Divide and rule.
1 Do as I say, not as I do.
3 Do as most men do, then most men will speak well of you.
4 Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
1 Do to others as you would be done by.
1 Do to others what you would be done by.
2 Doing nothing is doing ill.
1 Don't beat about the bush.
2 Don't bite the hand that feeds you.
1 Don't change horses in mid-stream.
2 Don't cry before you are hurt.
2 Don't cut the bough you are standing on.
2 Don't halloo till you are out of the wood.
2 Don't judge a book by its cover.
4 Don't make a mountain out of a molehill.
2 Don't make the same mistakes twice.
5 Don't make yourself a mouse, or the cat will eat you.
1 Don't meet trouble half-way.
2 Don't pour out the dirty water before you have clean.
1 Don't put all your eggs in one basket.
1 Don't put new wine into old bottles.
2 Don't put the cart before the horse.
2 Don't quarrel with your bread and butter.
3 Don't speak to the man at the wheel.
1 Don't teach your grandmother to suck eggs.
0 Dumb dogs are dangerous.
1 Eagles do not breed doves.
1 Eagles don't catch flies.
4 Early to bed and early to rise, make a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
1 Easier said than done.
0 Easy come, easy go.
1 Eat to live; do not live to eat.
2 Eavesdroppers never hear any good of themselves.
1 Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him.
1 Empty vessels make the most sound.
3 Enough is as good as a feast.
2 Even a worm will turn.
0 Even Homer sometimes nods.
2 Every cloud has a silver lining.
3 Every extremity is a vice.
1 Every Jack has his Jill.
2 Every law has a loophole.
1 Every little helps.
3 Every man for himself, and the devil take the hindmost.
2 Every man has his faults.
2 Every man has his price.
2 Every man has the defects of his own virtues.
3 Every man is his own worst enemy.
4 Every man is the architect of his own fortune.
1 Every tub must stand on its own bottom.
2 Every why has a wherefore.
1 Everybody loves a lord.
1 Everybody's business is nobody's business.
1 Everything comes to him who waits.
2 Everything is good in its season.
2 Everything is in a state of flux.
3 Example is better than precept.
3 Experience is the best teacher, but the tuition is high.
2 Experience is the best teacher.
1 Experience is the father of wisdom and memory the mother.
1 Experience is the teacher of fools.
3 Experience without learning is better than learning without experience.
0 Failure teaches success.
3 Fair face is half a portion.
1 Fair face, foul heart.
1 Faith will move mountains.
0 Familiarity breeds contempt.
0 Far from Jupiter, far from thunder.
2 Few words are best.
0 Fields have eyes, and woods have ears.
0 Fight fire with fire.
2 Fine clothes make the man.
1 Fine feathers make fine birds.
4 Fire is a good servant but a bad master.
0 First come, first served.
0 First impressions are most lasting.
0 First thrive and then wive.
3 Flow of words is not always flow of wisdom.
0 Flowers leave fragrance in the hand that bestows them.
0 Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
1 Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.
1 For the busy man time passes quickly.
3 For want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost.
1 Forbidden fruit is sweetest.
0 Forgive and forget.
1 Fortune favors the bold.
3 Fortune knocks at least once at every man's gate.
1 Four eyes see more than two.
2 Friends agree best at a distance.
0 Full of courtesy, full of craft.
0 Garbage in, garbage out.
1 Gather ye rosebud while you may.
1 Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.
1 Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
3 Give a lie twenty-four hours' start, and you can never overtake it.
7 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.
4 Give a man an inch, and he will take a mile.
2 Give a thief enough rope and he'll hang himself.
2 Give knaves an inch and they will take a yard.
1 Give neither counsel nor salt till you are asked for it.
1 Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.
1 God comes with leaden feet, but strikes with iron hands.
1 God is always on the side of the big battalions.
0 God's in his heaven; all's right with the world.
2 Good blood cannot lie.
1 Good medicine tastes bitter.
4 Good seed makes a good crop.
1 Good things come in small packages.
2 Good wine needs no bush.
0 Grasp all, lose all.
2 Great happiness, great danger.
2 Great men are great idols.
2 Great men have great faults.
1 Great oaks from little acorns grow.
2 Habit is a second nature.
6 Half a loaf is better than no bread.
3 Half the truth is often a whole lie.
2 Half the world knows not how the other half lives.
1 Handsome is that handsome does.
2 Hard words break no bones.
0 Harm set, harm get.
1 Haste makes waste.
0 He gives twice who gives quickly.
3 He is not fit to command others that cannot command himself.
1 He is rich that has few wants.
0 He lives long who lives well.
2 He sees no farther than the end of his nose.
2 He that cannot obey cannot command.
4 He that corrects not small faults, will not control great ones.
0 He that falls today may rise tomorrow.
5 He that hath a full purse never wanted a friend.
2 He that hath not silver in his purse should have silk in (or on) his tongue.
3 He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune.
2 He that is a master must serve another.
2 He that is down need fear no fall.
2 He that is master of himself, will soon be master of others.
0 He that mischief hatches mischief catches.
2 He that once deceives, is ever suspected.
1 He that sows thistles shall reap prickles.
0 He that sows virtue, reaps fame.
2 He that stays in the valley, shall never get over the hill.
0 He that talks much of his happiness, summons grief.
1 He that touches pitch shall be defiled.
4 He that travels far knows much. He travels much, knows much.
2 He that will steal an egg will steal an ox.
1 He that would know what shall be, must consider what has been.
2 He travels fastest who travels alone.
0 He who begins many things, finishes but few.
1 He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.
0 He who chooses, takes the worst.
0 He who denies all confesses all.
0 He who fights and runs away may live to fight another day.
3 He who gives fair words feeds you with an empty spoon.
0 He who gives to another bestows on himself.
1 He who hesitates is lost.
0 He who pays the piper calls the tune.
2 He who rides a tiger is afraid to dismount.
1 He who runs after two hares will catch neither.
2 He who says what he likes shall hear what he does not like.
0 He who shoots often, hits at last.
0 He who wills the end, wills the means.
1 Health and gaiety foster beauty.
3 Health is better than wealth.
0 Heaven helps those who help themselves.
1 Help others as you would hope to be helped.
0 Here today, and gone tomorrow.
1 Hew not too high lest the chips fall in thine eye.
1 Hide not your talents, they for use were made.
0 History repeats itself.
1 Hitch your wagon to a star.
2 Hoist your sail when the wind is fair.
2 Honesty is the best policy.
1 Hope for the best and prepare for the worst.
4 Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.
3 Hope is the poor man's bread.
1 Hope often deludes the foolish man.
2 Hunger is the best sauce.
2 Hypocrisy is a homage that vice pays to virtue.
1 I was not born yesterday.
0 Idle people have the least leisure.
2 Idleness is the root of all evil.
4 If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me.
2 If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again.
1 If each would sweep before the door, we should have a clean city.
1 If one sheep leaps over the ditch, all the rest will follow.
3 If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
2 If there were no cloud, we should not enjoy the sun.
2 If two men ride on a horse, one must ride behind.
1 If winter comes, can spring be far behind?
0 If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.
3 If you cannot bite, never show your teeth.
3 If you do not like it you may lump it.
3 If you gently touch a nettle it'll sting you for your pains.
3 If you lie upon roses when young, you will lie upon thorns when old.
3 If you sing before breakfast, you will cry before night.
3 If you wish good advice, consult an old man.
1 If you would be well served, serve yourself.
1 Ignorance is bliss.
2 Ignorance of the law is no excuse for breaking it.
1 Ill counsel mars all.
2 Ill got, ill spent.
1 Ill weeds grow apace.
5 In a calm sea every man is a pilot.
2 In for a penny, in for a pound.
0 In peace prepare for war.
0 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word with God, and the Word was God.
3 In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
3 In time of prosperity, friends will be plenty; in time of adversity, not one amongst twenty.
2 It is a foolish bird that soils its own nest.
3 It is a foolish sheep that makes the wolf his confessor.
3 It is a long lane that has no turning.
4 It is a wise father that knows his own child.
2 It is as hard to follow good advice as to give it.
5 It is better to be stung by a nettle than pricked by a rose.
6 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.
2 It is easier to pull down than to build.
2 It is harder to change human nature than to change rivers and mountains.
2 It is never too late to mend.
2 It is no use crying over spilt milk.
3 It is not the beard that makes the philosopher.
2 It is not work that kills, but worry.
5 It is the bridle and spur that makes a good horse.
2 It is too late to lock the stable when the horse has been stolen.
1 It never rains but it pours.
1 It takes all sorts to make the world.
3 It takes money to make money.
2 It takes three generations to make a gentleman.
0 It's always darkest before the dawn.
0 It's dogged that does it.
1 It's never too late to learn.
0 Jack of all trades and master of none.
2 Judge not, that ye be not judged.
2 Keep a thing seven years and you'll find a use for it.
3 Keep no more cats than will catch mice.
1 Keep something for a rainy day.
0 Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
1 Kill not the goose that lays the golden eggs.
1 Knowledge has bitter roots but sweet fruits.
1 Knowledge is power.
2 Laugh and the world laughs with you, weep and you weep alone.
0 Learn wisdom by the follies of others.
2 Lend your money and lose your friend.
0 Let bygones be bygones.
1 Let every peddler carry his own burden.
1 Liars should have good memories.
0 Life begins at forty.
1 Life is but an empty dream.
2 Life is not all beer and skittles.
2 Life is short and time is swift.
2 Life is sweet.
0 Like attracts like.
0 Like father, like son.
1 Like master, like man.
0 Like mother, like daughter.
0 Little pitchers have long ears.
1 Little strokes fell great oaks.
1 Little thieves are hanged, but great ones escape.
0 Live and learn.
1 Live every day as though it were last.
0 Long absence alters affection.
0 Long life has long misery.
1 Look before you leap.
0 Lookers-on see most of the game.
2 Love and knowledge live not together.
2 Love begets love.
1 Love conquers all.
2 Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction.
3 Love is a flower which turns into fruit at marriage.
3 Love is blind.
3 Love is sweet in the beginning but sour in the ending.
1 Love laughs at locksmiths.
2 Love makes the world go round.
2 Love me little, love me long.
2 Love sees no faults.
1 Love speaks, even when the lips are closed.
2 Love your friend, but look to yourself.
2 Love your neighbor as yourself.
3 Love your neighbor, yet pull not down your fence.
1 Make haste slowly.
1 Make hay while the sun shines.
1 Man proposes; God disposes.
2 Manners make the man.
3 Many a good cow has an evil calf.
3 Many a little makes a mickle.
2 Many a true word is spoken in jest.
1 Many hands make light work.
0 Many kiss the hand they wish to cut off.
0 Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.
0 March winds and April showers bring forth May flowers.
2 Marriage is the tomb of love.
0 Marriages are made in heaven.
0 Marry in haste, and repent at leisure.
1 Men are blind in their own cause.
2 Misery (or Misfortune, or Adversity, or Poverty) makes strange bedfellows.
0 Misery loves company.
1 Misfortunes never come singly.
2 Misfortunes tell us what fortune is.
2 Money begets money.
2 Money burns a hole in the pocket.
2 Money is round, and rolls away.
3 Money is the root of all evil.
2 Money makes the mare to go.
1 More have repented speech than silence.
2 More than enough is too much.
0 Much ado about nothing.
0 Much meat, much malady.
1 Muck and money go together.
1 Nature abhors a vacuum.
0 Nature hates all sudden changes.
1 Nature is conquered by obeying her.
2 Naughty boys sometimes make good men.
1 Necessity is the mother of invention.
2 Necessity knows no law.
1 Needs must when the devil drives.
2 Neither a borrower nor a lender be.
2 Never ask pardon before you are accused.
1 Never do things by halves.
1 Never judge by appearances.
4 Never make threats you cannot carry out.
3 Never speak ill of the dead.
3 Never spend your money before you have it.
3 Never spur a willing horse.
3 Never take a stone to break an egg, when you can do it with the back of your knife.
1 Never tell tales out of school.
1 Never tell your enemy that your foot aches.
2 Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you.
2 No answer is also an answer.
2 No cross, no crown.
1 No gain (or gains) without pain (or pains)
8 No man better knows what good is than he who has endured evil.
2 No man can serve two masters.
2 No names, no pack drill.
3 No news is good news.
2 No sweet without sweat.
1 None so blind as those who won't see.
0 None so deaf as those who won't hear.
1 Nothing comes of nothing.
1 Nothing hurts like the truth.
1 Nothing is certain but death and taxes.
0 Nothing succeeds like success.
0 Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
2 Nurture and good manners maketh man.
1 Nurture is above nature.
3 Of a thorn springs not a fig.
2 Of thy sorrow be not too sad, of thy joy be not too glad.
0 Of two evils choose the lesser.
2 Offense is the best defense.
1 Old friends and old wine are best.
0 Old habits die hard.
2 Once a beggar, always a beggar.
2 Once a knave, always a knave.
4 Once a thief, always a thief.
1 One cannot be in two places at once.
3 One cannot love and be wise.
3 One foot is better than two crutches.
3 One hair of a woman draws more than a hundred yoke of oxen.
2 One is never too old to learn.
3 One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
0 One law for the rich and another for the poor.
1 One lie makes many.
3 One man's meat is another man's poison.
3 One murder makes a villain. Millions a hero.
0 One must draw the line somewhere.
1 One of these days is none of these days.
2 One reason is as good as fifty.
0 One shrewd turn follows another.
3 One swallow does not make a summer.
1 One thing at a time.
1 One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
2 One volunteer is worth two pressed men.
1 Only the wearer knows where the shoe pinches.
2 Open confession is good for the soul.
3 Opportunity makes a thief.
0 Opportunity seldom knocks twice.
0 Other times, other manners.
1 Other wise, the bottles break and the wine runs out, and the bottles are destroyed.
0 Out of debt, out of danger.
0 Out of sight, out of mind.
0 Pardon all but thyself.
2 Pardoning the bad is injuring the good.
1 Penny wise and pound foolish.
0 Physician, heal thyself.
2 Pity is akin to love.
1 Playful kittens make sober cats.
0 Pleasant hours fly fast.
1 Politics makes strange bedfellows.
2 Pouring oil on the fire is not the way to quench it.
5 Poverty is no disgrace, but it is a great inconvenience.
2 Poverty is no sin.
0 Poverty parts friendship.
1 Practice makes perfect.
1 Practice what you preach.
1 Praises fill not the belly.
3 Prevention is better than cure.
0 Pride goes before destruction.
2 Pride will have a fall.
2 Procrastination is the thief of time.
0 Promises are like pie-crust, made to be broken.
2 Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.
1 Rats desert a sinking ship.
1 Reckless youth makes rueful age.
1 Religion is the rule of life.
1 Repentance comes too late.
3 Revenge is a dish best served cold.
2 Revenge is sweet.
2 Rome was not built in a day.
0 Safety lies in the middle course.
1 Saying is one thing and doing another.
0 See Naples and die.
7 See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil.
1 Seeing is believing.
2 Self-praise is no recommendation.
1 Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
4 Send a fool to France, and he'll come back a fool.
2 Set a beggar on horseback and he'll ride to the devil.
4 Set a thief to catch a thief.
0 Shame take him that shame thinks.
1 Short reckonings make long friends.
0 Silence gives consent.
0 Silent men, like still water, are deep and dangerous.
0 Slow and steady wins the race.
1 Small is beautiful.
0 So many countries, so many customs.
0 So many men, so many minds.
0 Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.
2 Someone is not out of the woods yet.
3 Something is better than nothing.
0 Soon ripe, soon rotten.
0 Sooner begun, sooner done.
0 Sow the wind and reap the whirlwind.
0 Spare the rod and spoil the child.
3 Speak fair and think what you like.
1 Speak well of the dead.
2 Speech is silver, silence is golden.
1 Speech is the picture of the mind.
1 Spread the table, and contention will cease.
3 Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.
0 Still waters run deep.
0 Stolen pleasures are sweetest.
0 Stretch your legs according to your coverlet.
1 Strike while the iron is hot.
0 Success has many friends.
2 Sweet are the uses of adversity.
1 Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves.
1 Take the bitter with the sweet.
0 Take the bull by the horns.
1 Take things as you find them.
1 Talk is cheap.
2 Talk of angel and you will hear the fluttering of its wings.
2 Talk of the devil and he is sure to appear.
2 Tell the truth and shame the devil.
2 Temperance is the best physic.
0 That's the way the ball bounces.
0 That's the way the cookie crumbles.
0 The apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
0 The arrow shot upright falls on the shooter's head.
1 The balance distinguishes not between gold and lead.
1 The beaten road is the safest.
2 The best advice is found on the pillow.
2 The bigger the man, the better the mark.
2 The borrower is a slave to the lender.
0 The boughs that bear most hang lowest.
1 The bread always falls on the buttered side.
0 The Busiest men find the most time.
2 The child is father of the man.
2 The course of true love never did run smooth.
0 The cow that's first up, gets the first of the dew.
2 The cowl (or hood) does not make the monk.
0 The crow thinks her own bird fairest.
1 The customer is always right.
1 The dependent is timid.
1 The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
1 The devil finds work for idle hands to do.
0 The devil's children have the devil's luck.
2 The dog that fetches, will carry.
0 The end crowns all.
0 The end crowns the work.
0 The end justifies the means.
1 The face is the index of the heart.
0 The fairest flowers soonest fade.
0 The family that prays together stays together.
1 The first step is always the hardest.
1 The gods send nuts to those who have no teeth.
2 The golden mean is best.
5 The good you do for others is good you do yourself.
1 The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence.
1 The greater the truth, the greater the libel.
0 The greatest talkers are the least doers.
1 The higher the tree, the greater is its fall.
2 The highest branch is not the safest roost.
1 The hole calls the thief.
2 The joy of the heart makes the face fair.
2 The language of truth is simple.
1 The last drop makes the cup run over.
1 The left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing.
1 The leopard cannot change his spots.
2 The longest (or farthest) way round is the nearest way home.
2 The longest day (or night) will have an end.
4 The love of money is the root of all evil.
2 The mill cannot grind with the water that is past.
0 The mills of God grind slowly.
1 The more danger, the more honor.
2 The more you have, the more you want.
1 The mountains have brought forth a mouse.
1 The mouse that has but one hole is quickly taken.
1 The night is mother of counsel.
1 The noblest vengeance is to forgive.
3 The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
2 The pen is mightier than the sword.
1 The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
1 The remedy may be worse than the disease.
2 The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
1 The rotten apple injures its neighbor.
2 The same man never crossed the same river twice.
1 The sea refuses no river.
0 The shoemaker's son always goes barefoot.
0 The smell of garlic takes away the smell of onions.
2 The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.
0 The squeaking wheel gets the grease.
1 The strength of the chain is in the weakest link.
2 The style is the man.
0 The sun shines upon all alike.
2 The tailor makes the man.
1 The thief thinks all people like himself.
2 The tongue is not steel, yet it cuts.
1 The voice of the people is the voice of God.
1 The wish is father to the thought.
2 The wolf knows what the ill heart thinks.
1 The words of eyes are universal.
0 The worst wheel of the cart creaks most.
1 The young will sow their wild oats.
1 There are as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it.
1 There are more ways to the wood than one.
3 There is a black sheep in every flock.
3 There is a great difference between word and deed.
2 There is a remedy for everything except death.
2 There is a sin of omission as well as of commission.
2 There is a tide in the affairs of men.
2 There is a time and place for everything.
4 There is a time to speak and a time to be silent.
1 There is falsehood in fellowship.
4 There is great force hidden in a sweet command.
2 There is honor among thieves.
3 There is no honor among thieves.
2 There is no pleasure without pain.
2 There is no royal road to learning.
2 There is no rule without exceptions.
2 There is no time like the present.
1 There is nothing new under the sun.
1 There is nothing permanent except change.
1 There is safety in numbers.
1 There was three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded.
1 There's many a slip between the cup and the lip.
3 There's no fool like an old fool.
1 There's no place like home.
0 They are rich who have true friends.
0 They brag most who can do least.
1 They that live longest see most.
0 Things are seldom what they seem.
1 Things past cannot be recalled but may be repented.
0 Things present are judged by things past.
3 Think not on what you lack as much as on what you have.
1 Think today and speak tomorrow.
0 Threatened men live long.
0 Through hardship to the stars.
1 Throw dirt enough and some will stick.
2 Time and tide wait for no man.
0 Time flies.
0 Time has wings.
2 Time is money.
1 Time lost cannot be recalled.
1 To err is human, to forgive divine.
4 To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wild flower.
1 Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
1 Tomorrow is another day.
0 Too many cooks spoil the broth.
0 Too much curiosity lost Paradise.
1 Train up a child in the way he should go.
0 Travel broadens mind.
0 Trouble brings experience and experience brings wisdom.
2 True love never grows old.
1 Trust is the mother of deceit.
3 Truth (or Fact) is stranger than fiction.
1 Truth breeds hatred.
2 Truth has no need of rhetoric.
3 Truth is mighty and will prevail.
2 Truth lies at the bottom of a well.
2 Two heads are better than one.
3 Two is company, three is a crowd.
1 Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
1 Union is strength.
0 United we stand, divided we fall.
1 Variety is the spice of life.
1 Virtue is its own reward.
2 Wake not a sleeping lion.
0 Walls have ears.
1 Want is the mother of industry.
1 Want of money, want of comfort.
1 War is the sport of kings.
2 Waste not, want not.
3 Water is a boon in the desert, but the drowning man curses it.
0 Water seeks its own level.
0 We are all Adam's children.
0 We are all slaves of opinion.
5 We may not expect a good whelp from an ill dog.
0 We soon believe what we desire.
2 Wedlock is a padlock.
1 Well begun is half done.
3 What can you expect from a pig but a grunt?
0 What can't be cured must be endured.
0 What everybody says must be true.
1 What goes aroud comes aroud.
1 What happens twice will happen thrice.
2 What is a workman without his tools?
2 What is learned in the cradle is carried to the grave.
3 What is the good of a sundial in the shade?
0 What soberness conceals, drunkenness reveals.
0 What the heart thinks, the tongue speaks.
1 What will Mrs Grundy say?
3 What you don't know won't hurt you.
4 Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well.
2 Whatever man has done, man can do.
4 When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
1 When children stand quiet they have done some ill.
1 When fortune smiles, embrace her.
1 When Greek meets Greek, then comes the tug of war.
2 When I lent I had a friend; when I asked he was unkind.
0 When one door shuts another opens.
1 When shared, joy is doubled and sorrow halved.
2 When the cat is away, the mice will play.
2 When the face is fair, the heart must be gentle.
1 When the word is out it belongs to another.
0 When things are at the worst they begin to mend.
1 When you tread on nine daisies at once, spring has come.
2 Where ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise.
5 Where there is a will, there is a way.
0 Where there's smoke, there's fire.
2 While there is life there is hope.
3 Who chatters to you, will chatter of you.
1 Who keeps company with the wolf will learn to howl.
1 Who knows most, speaks least.
0 Who spits against heaven, it falls in his face.
1 Whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.
2 Why buy a cow when milk is so cheap?
2 Why keep a dog and bark yourself?
2 Will is the cause of woe.
0 Win at first and lose at last.
1 Wine in, truth out.
1 Wise men learn by other men's mistakes; fools by their own.
2 With what measures ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.
2 Words cut more than swords.
2 Words have wings, and cannot be called.
1 Years know more than books.
2 You can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.
4 You can see a mote in another's eye but cannot see a beam in your own.
1 You can't eat your cake and have it.
2 You can't teach an old dog new tricks.
1 You can't win 'em all.
2 You cannot get water (or blood) out of stone.
2 You cannot know the wine by the barrel.
4 You cannot make a crab walk straight.
3 You cannot make bricks without straw.
2 You cannot sell the cow and drink the milk.
2 You cannot serve God and mammon.
3 You have to eat a peck of dirt before you die.
2 You may know by a handful the whole sack.
4 You may see by a bit what the bread is.
1 You must go into the country to hear what news at London.
1 You must go into the country to hear what news in town.
1 You must grin and bear it.
4 You never know what you can do till you try.
1 You scratch my back and I'll scratch yours.
0 Young men may die, but old men must die.
1 Young saint, old devil.
2 Youth and age will never agree.
0 Youth must have its fling.
3 Zeal without knowledge is a runaway horse.