Compendium
Proverbs And Sayings
A
- A Short Horse Is Soon Curried
- A Shut Mouth Catches No Flies
- A Slice Off A Cut Loaf Isn't Missed
- A Soft Answer Turneth Away Wrath
- A Sow May Whistle, Though It Has An Ill Mouth For It
- A Stern Chase Is A Long Chase
- A Still Tongue Makes A Wise Head
- A Stitch In Time Saves Nine
- A Stream Cannot Rise Above Its Source
- A Swarm In May Is Worth A Load Of Hay; A Swarm In June Is Worth A Silver Spoon; But A Swarm In July Is Not Worth A Fly
- A Tale Never Loses In The Telling
- A Trouble Shared Is A Trouble Halved
- A Watched Pot Never Boils
- A Whistling Woman And A Crowing Hen Are Neither Fit For God Nor Men
- A Wilful Man Must Have His Way
- A Woman And A Ship Ever Want Mending
- A Woman, A Dog, And A Walnut Tree, The More You Beat Them The Better They Be
- A Woman's Place Is In The Home
- A Woman's Work Is Never Done
- A Word To The Wise Is Enough
- A Young Man Married Is A Young Man Marred
- All Work And No Play Makes Jack A Dull Boy
- As A Tree Falls, So Shall It Lie
- As The Twig Is Bent, So Is The Tree Inclined
- As You Sow, So You Reap
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- Happy's The Wooing That Is Not Long A-doing
- He That Touches Pitch Shall Be Defiled
- He That Will Not When He May, When He Will He Shall Have Nay
- He That Will Thrive Must First Ask His Wife
- He That Would Go To Sea For Pleasure, Would Go To Hell For A Pastime
- He Travels Fastest Who Travels Alone
- He Who Sups With The Devil Should Have A Long Spoon
- He Who Wills The End, Wills The Means
I
- If A Thing's Worth Doing, It's Worth Doing Well
- If At First You Don't Succeed, Try, Try, Try Again
- If Every Man Would Sweep His Own Doorstep The City Would Soon Be Clean
- If Something Sounds Too Good To Be True, It Probably Is
- If The Sky Falls We Shall Catch Larks
- If Two Ride On A Horse, One Must Ride Behind
- If Wishes Were Horses, Beggars Would Ride
- If You Don't Speculate, You Can't Accumulate
- If You Want A Thing Done Well, Do It Yourself
- If You Want Something Done, Ask A Busy Person
- If You Won't Work You Shan't Eat
- If You Would Be Well Served, Serve Yourself
- If You're Not Part Of The Solution, You're Part Of The Problem
- It Is A Wise Child That Knows Its Own Father
- It Is Easy To Be Wise After The Event
- It Is Easy To Find A Stick To Beat A Dog
- It Is Idle To Swallow The Cow And Choke On The Tail
- It Is Ill Sitting At Rome And Striving With The Pope
- It Is Not Spring Until You Can Plant Your Foot Upon Twelve Daisies
- It Is Not Work That Kills, But Worry
- It Is Too Late To Shut The Stable-door After The Horse Has Bolted
- It Takes Two To Make A Bargain
- It Takes Two To Make A Quarrel
- It's A Sin To Steal A Pin
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- One Does Not Wash One's Dirty Linen In Public
- One Man May Steal A Horse, While Another May Not Look Over A Hedge
- One Step At A Time
- One Story Is Good Till Another Is Told
- One Swallow Does Not Make A Summer
- One Volunteer Is Worth Two Pressed Men
- One Wedding Brings Another
- One White Foot, Buy Him; Two White Feet, Try Him; Three White Feet, Look Well About Him; Four White Feet, Go Without Him
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S
- Scratch A Russian And You Find A Tartar
- Second Thoughts Are Best
- See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil
- Seek And Ye Shall Find
- Self-praise Is No Recommendation
- Self-preservation Is The First Law Of Nature
- September Blow Soft, Till The Fruit's In The Loft
- Set A Thief To Catch A Thief
- Short Reckonings Make Long Friends
- Shrouds Have No Pockets
- Silence Is A Woman's Best Garment
- Silence Means Consent
- Sing Before Breakfast, Cry Before Night
- Six Hours' Sleep For A Man, Seven For A Woman, And Eight For A Fool
- Small Choice In Rotten Apples
- Small Is Beautiful
- Softly, Softly, Catchee Monkey
- Something Is Better Than Nothing
- Soon Ripe, Soon Rotten
- Sow Dry And Set Wet
- Spare At The Spigot, And Let Out At The Bunghole
- Spare Well And Have To Spend
- Speak Not Of My Debts Unless You Mean To Pay Them
- Speech Is Silver, But Silence Is Golden
- Sticks And Stones May Break My Bones, But Words Will Never Hurt Me
- Stolen Fruit Is Sweet
- Stolen Waters Are Sweet
- Stone-dead Hath No Fellow
- Straws Tell Which Way The Wind Blows
- Stretch Your Arm No Further Than Your Sleeve Will Reach
- Success Has Many Fathers, While Failure Is An Orphan
- Sue A Beggar And Catch A Louse
- Sufficient Unto The Day Is The Evil Thereof
- Sussex Won't Be Druv
- Sweep The House With Broom In May, You Sweep The Head Of The House Away
T
- Take The Goods The Gods Provide
- Talk Is Cheap
- Talk Of The Devil, And He Is Bound To Appear
- Tastes Differ
- Tell The Truth And Shame The Devil
- The More You Stir It The Worse It Stinks
- The Sea Refuses No River
- The Sharper The Storm, The Sooner It's Over
- The Shoemaker's Son Always Goes Barefoot
- The Sooner Begun, The Sooner Done
- The Squeaking Wheel Gets The Grease
- The Style Is The Man
- The Sun Loses Nothing By Shining Into A Puddle
- The Third Time Pays For All
- The Tongue Always Returns To The Sore Tooth
- The Tree Is Known By Its Fruit
- The Unexpected Always Happens
- The Voice Of The People Is The Voice Of God
- The Way To A Man's Heart Is Through His Stomach
- The Weakest Go To The Wall
- The Wish Is Father To The Thought
- The Worth Of A Thing Is What It Will Bring
- There Are More Ways Of Killing A Cat Than Choking It With Cream
- There Are More Ways Of Killing A Dog Than Choking It With Butter
- There Are More Ways Of Killing A Dog Than Hanging It
- There Are Tricks In Every Trade
- There Are Two Sides To Every Question
- There Is A Time And Place For Everything
- There Is A Time For Everything
- There Is Truth In Wine
- They That Sow The Wind Shall Reap The Whirlwind
- Think First And Speak Afterwards
- Third Time Lucky
- Thought Is Free
- Threatened Men Live Long
- Three May Keep A Secret, If Two Of Them Are Dead
- Three Removals Are As Bad As A Fire
- Three Things Are Not To Be Trusted: A Cow's Horn, A Dog's Tooth, And A Horse's Hoof
- Thrift Is A Great Revenue
- Time Is A Great Healer
- Time Works Wonders
- Times Change And We With Time
- Today You; Tomorrow Me
- Tomorrow Never Comes
- Trade Follows The Flag
- Travel Broadens The Mind
- Truth Lies At The Bottom Of A Well
- Turkey, Heresy, Hops, And Beer Came Into England All In One Year
- Turn About Is Fair Play
- Two Blacks Don't Make A White
- Two Is Company, But Three Is None
- Two Of A Trade Never Agree
- Two Wrongs Don't Make A Right
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W
- Walls Have Ears
- Walnuts And Pears You Plant For Your Heirs
- Wanton Kittens Make Sober Cats
- We Must Learn To Walk Before We Can Run
- Wedlock Is A Padlock
- Well Begun Is Half Done
- What Goes Up Must Come Down
- What The Soldier Said Isn't Evidence
- What You See Is What You Get
- What You Spend, You Have
- When The Wind Is In The East, 'tis Neither Good For Man Nor Beast
- When The Wine Is In, The Wit Is Out
- When Thieves Fall Out, Honest Men Come By Their Own
- When Things Are At The Worst They Begin To Mend
- While Two Dogs Are Fighting For A Bone, A Third Runs Away With It
- Who Says A Must Say B
- Wilful Waste Makes Woeful Want
- Winter Never Rots In The Sky
- Work Expands So As To Fill The Time Available
Y
- Yorkshire Born And Yorkshire Bred, Strong In The Arm And Weak In The Head
- You Can Have Too Much Of A Good Thing
- You Can't Make A Silk Purse Out Of A Sow's Ear
- You Can't Teach An Old Dog New Tricks
- You Can't Win Them All
- You Cannot Shift An Old Tree Without It Dying
- You Don't Get Something For Nothing
- You Scratch My Back, I'll Scratch Yours
- You Win A Few, You Lose A Few
- Young Folks Think Old Folks To Be Fools, But Old Folks Know Young Folks To Be Fools
- Young Men May Die, But Old Men Must Die
- Young Saint, Old Devil
- Youth Must Be Served