- A bad beginning makes a bad ending.
- A bad corn promise is better than a good lawsuit.
- A bad workman quarrels with his tools.
- A bargain is a bargain.
- A beggar can never be bankrupt.
- A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
- A bird may be known by its song.
- A black hen lays a white egg.
- A blind leader of the blind.
- A blind man would be glad to see.
- A broken friendship may be soldered, but will never be sound.
- A burden of one's own choice is not felt.
- A burnt child dreads the fire.
- A cat in gloves catches no mice.
- A city that parleys is half gotten.
- A civil denial is better than a rude grant.
- A clean fast is better than a dirty breakfast.
- A clean hand wants no washing.
- A clear conscience laughs at false accusations.
- A close mouth catches no flies.
- A cock is valiant on his own dunghill.
- A cracked bell can never sound well.
- A creaking door hangs long on its hinges.
- A curst cow has short horns.
- A danger foreseen is half avoided.
- A drop in the bucket.
- A drowning man will catch at a straw.
- A fair face may hide a foul heart.
- A fault confessed is half redressed.
- A fly in the ointment.
- A fool always rushes to the fore.
- A fool and his money are soon parted.
- A fool at forty is a fool indeed.
- A fool may ask more questions in an hour than a wise man can answer in seven years.
- A fool may throw a stone into a well which a hundred wise men cannot pull out.
- A fool's tongue runs before his wit.
- A forced kindness deserves no thanks.
- A foul morn may turn to a fair day.
- A fox is not taken twice in the same snare.
- A friend in need is a friend indeed.
- A friend is never known till needed.
- A friend to all is a friend to none.
- A friend's frown is better than a foe's smile.
- A good anvil does not fear the hammer.
- A good beginning is half the battle.
- A good beginning makes a good ending.
- A good deed is never lost.
- A good dog deserves a good bone.
- A good example is the best sermon.
- A good face is a letter of recommendation.
- A good Jack makes a good Jill.
- A good marksman may miss.
- A good name is better than riches.
- A good name is sooner lost than won.
- A good name keeps its lustre in the dark.
- A good wife makes a good husband.
- A great dowry is a bed full of brambles.
- A great fortune is a great slavery.
- A great ship asks deep waters.
- A guilty conscience needs no accuser.
- A hard nut to crack.
- A heavy purse makes a light heart.
- A hedge between keeps friendship green.
- A honey tongue, a heart of gall.
- A hungry belly has no ears.
- A hungry man is an angry man.
- A Jack of all trades is master of none.
- A Joke never gains an enemy but often loses a friend.
- A lawyer never goes to law himself.
- A lazy sheep thinks its wool heavy.
- A liar is not believed when he speaks the truth.
- A lie begets a lie.
- A light purse is a heavy curse.
- A light purse makes a heavy heart.
- A little body often harbours a great soul.
- A little fire is quickly trodden out.
- A man can die but once.
- A man can do no more than he can.
- A man is known by the company he keeps.
- A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds.
- A miserly father makes a prodigal son.
- A miss is as good as a mile.
- A new broom sweeps clean.
- A nod from a lord is a breakfast for a fool.
- A penny saved is a penny gained.
- A penny soul never came to twopence.
- A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder.
- A rolling stone gathers no moss.
- A round peg in a square hole.
- A shy cat makes a proud mouse.
- A silent fool is counted wise.
- A small leak will sink a great ship.
- 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 tattler is worse than a thief.
- A thief knows a thief as a wolf knows a wolf.
- A thief passes for a gentleman when stealing has made him rich.
- A threatened blow is seldom given.
- A tree is known by its fruit.
- A wager is a fool's argument.
- A watched pot never boils.
- A wise man changes his mind, a fool never will.
- A wolf in sheep's clothing.
- A wonder lasts but nine days.
- A word is enough to the wise.
- A word spoken is past recalling.
- Actions speak louder than words.
- Adversity is a great schoolmaster.
- Adversity makes strange bedfellows.
- After a storm comes a calm.
- After dinner comes the reckoning.
- After dinner sit (sleep) a while, after supper walk a mile.
- After rain comes fair weather.
- After us the deluge.
- Agues come on horseback, but go away on foot.
- All are good lasses, but whence come the bad wives?
- All are not friends that speak us fair.
- All are not hunters that blow the horn.
- All are not merry that dance lightly.
- All are not saints that go to church.
- All asses wag their ears.
- All bread is not baked in one oven.
- All cats are grey in the dark (in the night).
- All covet, all lose.
- All doors open to courtesy.
- All is fish that comes to his net.
- All is not lost that is in peril.
- All is well that ends well.
- All lay load on the willing horse.
- All men can't be first.
- All men can't be masters.
- All promises are either broken or kept.
- All roads lead to Rome.
- All sugar and honey.
- All that glitters is not gold.
- All things are difficult before they are easy.
- All truths are not to be told.
- All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
- "Almost" never killed a fly (was never hanged).
- Among the blind the one-eyed man is king.
- An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
- An ass in a lion's skin.
- An ass is but an ass, though laden with gold.
- An ass loaded with gold climbs to the top of the castle.
- An empty hand is no lure for a hawk.
- An empty sack cannot stand upright.
- An empty vessel gives a greater sound than a full barrel.
- An evil chance seldom comes alone.
- An honest tale speeds best, being plainly told.
- An hour in the morning is worth two in the evening.
- An idle brain is the devil's workshop.
- An ill wound is cured, not an ill name.
- An oak is not felled at one stroke.
- An old dog barks not in vain.
- An open door may tempt a saint.
- An ounce of discretion is worth a pound of learning.
- An ox is taken by the horns, and a man by the tongue.
- An unfortunate man would be drowned in a teacup.
- Anger and haste hinder good counsel.
- Any port in a storm.
- Appearances are deceitful.
- Appetite comes with eating.
- As drunk as a lord.
- As innocent as a babe unborn.
- As like as an apple to an oyster.
- As like as two peas.
- As old as the hills.
- As plain as the nose on a man's face.
- As plain as two and two make four.
- As snug as a bug in a rug .
- As sure as eggs is eggs.
- As the call, so the echo.
- As the fool thinks, so the bell clinks.
- As the old cock crows, so does the young.
- As the tree falls, so shall it lie.
- As the tree, so the fruit.
- As welcome as flowers in May.
- As welcome as water in one's shoes.
- As well be hanged for a sheep as for a lamb.
- As you brew, so must you drink.
- As you make your bed, so must you lie on it.
- As you sow, so shall you reap.
- Ask no questions and you will be told no lies.
- At the ends of the earth.
- Bacchus has drowned more men than Neptune .
- Bad news has wings.
- Barking does seldom bite.
- Be slow to promise and quick to perform.
- Be swift to hear, slow to speak.
- Beauty is but skin-deep.
- Beauty lies in lover's eyes.
- Before one can say Jack Robinson.
- Before you make a friend eat a bushel of salt with him.
- Beggars cannot be choosers.
- Believe not all that you see nor half what you hear.
- Best defence is offence.
- Better a glorious death than a shameful life.
- Better a lean peace than a fat victory.
"Four things support the world: the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the good, and the valor of the brave."