60,000 QUOTES SPIDER
Dictionary of
English World Proverbs and Sayings
QUOTES, APHORISMS AND PROVERBS 6
One picture is worth
ten thousand words.
Frederick R. Barnard,
Printer's Ink
What mare's nest hast
thou found?
Francis Beaumont and
John Fletcher, Bonduca (IV, 2)
Absence makes the
heart grow fonder; Isle of Beauty, fare thee well!
Thomas Haynes Bayly
(Bayley)
He went away with a
flea in 's ear.
Francis Beaumont and
John Fletcher
There is a method in man's wickedness: It grows up by degrees.
Francis Beaumont and
John Fletcher
There is no jesting with edge tools.
Francis Beaumont and
John Fletcher
'Tis godlike to have
power, but not to kill.
Francis Beaumont and
John Fletcher
To measure another
man's foot by one's own last.
To measure other
people's corn by one's own bushel.
To pay one back in
one's own coin.
To plough the sand.
To pour water into a
sieve.
To pull the chestnuts
out of the fire for somebody.
To pull the devil by
the tail.
To put a spoke in
somebody's wheel.
To put off till
Doomsday.
To put (set) the cart
before the horse.
To rob one's belly to
cover one's back.
To roll in money.
To run with the hare
and hunt with the hounds.
To save one's bacon.
To send (carry) owls
to Athens .
To set the wolf to
keep the sheep.
To stick to somebody
like a leech.
To strain at a gnat
and swallow a camel.
To take counsel of
one's pillow.
To take the bull by
the horns.
To teach the dog to
bark.
To tell tales out of
school.
To throw a stone in
one's own garden.
To throw dust in
somebody's eyes.
To throw straws
against the wind.
To treat somebody
with a dose of his own medicine.
To use a steam-hammer
to crack nuts.
To wash one's dirty
linen in public.
To wear one's heart
upon one's sleeve.
To weep over an
onion.
To work with the left
hand.
Tomorrow come never.
Too many cooks spoil
the broth.
Too much knowledge
makes the head bald.
Too much of a good
thing is good for nothing.
Too much water
drowned the miller .
Too swift arrives as
tardy as too slow.
True blue will never
stain.
True coral needs no
painter's brush.
Truth comes out of
the mouths of babes and sucklings.
Truth is stranger
than fiction.
Truth lies at the
bottom of a well.
Two blacks do not
make a white.
Two heads are better
than one.
Two is company, but
three is none.
Velvet paws hide
sharp claws.
Virtue is its own
reward.
Wait for the cat to
jump.
Walls have ears.
Wash your dirty linen
at home.
Waste not, want not.
We know not what is
good until we have lost it.
We never know the
value of water till the well is dry.
We shall see what we
shall see.
We soon believe what
we desire.
Wealth is nothing
without health.
Well begun is half
done.
What can't be cured,
must be endured.
What is bred in the
bone will not go out of the flesh.
What is done by night
appears by day.
What is done cannot
be undone.
What is got over the
devil's back is spent under his belly.
What is lost is lost.
What is sauce for the
goose is sauce for the gander.
What is worth doing
at alt is worth doing well.
What must be, must
be.
What the heart thinks
the tongue speaks.
What we do willingly
is easy.
When angry, count a
hundred.
When at Rome, do as
the Romans do.
When children stand
quiet, they have done some harm.
Remember, amateurs
built the ark. Professionals built the Titanic.
Conscience is what
hurts when everything else feels so good.
Talk is cheap because supply exceeds demand.
Stupidity got us into this mess - why can't it get us out?
Love is grand; divorce is a hundred grand.
Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just
sit there.
Politicians and diapers have one thing in common. They should both
be changed regularly and for the same reason.
An optimist thinks that this is the best possible world. A pessimist
fears that this is true.
There is always death and taxes; however death doesn't get worse
every year.
People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them
that Benjamin Franklin said it first.
It's easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
I don't mind going anywhere as long as it's an interesting path.
Anything free is worth what you pay for it.
Indecision is the key to flexibility.
It hurts to be on the cutting edge.
If it ain't broke, fix it till it is.
I don't get even, I get odder.
In just two days, tomorrow will be yesterday.
A barking stomach.
Proverb, (Latin)
A candle under a bushel. (Unrevealed merit or skill.)
Proverb, (Latin)
A chip of the old block.
Proverb
A chip off the old block.
Proverb
A cold hand and a warm heart.
Proverb
A dancing pig.
Proverb, (Latin)
A deity or a devil. (Either greater or less than man.)
Proverb, (Latin)
A divining rod.
Proverb, (Latin)
A dog returned to his vomit. (Going back to bad habits.)
Proverb, (Latin)
A foxy tongue. (Cunning speech. Crafty arguments.)
Proverb, (Latin)
A frog in a well-shaft seeing the sky.
Proverb, (Chinese)
A greater chatterbox than a raven.
Proverb, (Latin)
A grove (so called because you cannot see into it.)
Proverb, (Latin)
A hair of the dog that bit you.
Proverb
A head without a tongue.
Proverb, (Latin)
A king or a donkey.
Proverb, (Latin)
A magpie aping a Syren!
Proverb, (Latin)
A man of three letters.
(Lat., Homo trium literarum.)
Proverb, (Latin)
A mere voice, and nothing more.
Proverb, (Latin)
A necessary evil. (e.g., a wife.)
Proverb, (Latin)
A Nero at home, a Cato abroad.
Proverb, (Latin)
A noisy useless fellow.
Proverb, (Latin)
A partnership with a lion. (The lion takes all.)
Proverb, (Latin)
A passing remark.
Proverb, (Latin)
A pretty kettle of fish.
Proverb
A proud man who will not bend the knee.
Proverb, (Latin)
A reproach to the doctors. (An incurable malady.)
Proverb, (Latin)
A Roland for an
Oliver.
Proverb
A rope of sand.
Proverb
A sardonic laugh. (An unnatural laugh.)
Proverb, (Latin)
A scraped writing tablet.
(Lat., Tabula rasa.)
Proverb, (Latin)
A self-conceited fellow.
Proverb, (Latin)
A snail's gallop.
Proverb
A storm in a teacup.
Proverb
A three-halfpenny fellow.
Proverb, (Latin)
A triton among minnows.
Proverb
A white elephant.
Proverb
A wolf in his belly.
Proverb, (Latin)
Admiring himself like a peacock.
Proverb, (Latin)
After the fashion of a mouse. (i.e., living off others.)
Proverb, (Latin)
After this; therefore on account of this.
(Lat., Post hoc; ergo propter hoc.)
Proverb, (Latin)
All leaf and no fruit.
Proverb, (Spanish)
Always ready.
Proverb, (Latin)
An ambassador without authority.
Proverb, (Latin)
An amen clerk.
Proverb, (Spanish)
An ass in a lion's hide.
Proverb
An ass in the skin of a lion.
Proverb, (Latin)
An ill-assorted couple.
Proverb, (Latin)
An ox (eating his head off) in the stall.
Proverb, (Latin)
As bald as a coot.
Proverb
As calm as a clock.
Proverb
As clean as a whistle.
Proverb
As close as wax.
Proverb
As cold as charity.
Proverb
As cross as a bear with a sore head.
Proverb
As cross as nine highways.
Proverb
As cross as two sticks.
Proverb
As dead as a door-nail.
Proverb
As dead as mutton.
Proverb
As drunk as a lord.
Proverb
As drunk as a mouse.
Proverb
As drunk as a wheelbarrow.
Proverb
As dry as a bone.
Proverb
As dull as ditchwater.
Proverb
As fine as fivepence.
Proverb
As fit as a fiddle.
Proverb
As flat as a pancake.
Proverb
As full as an egg is of meat.
Proverb
As good be hanged for a sheep as a lamb.
Proverb
As good lost as found.
Proverb
As good play for nought as work for nought.
Proverb
As in a mirror.
Proverb, (Latin)
As in a picture.
Proverb, (Latin)
As jolly as a sandboy.
Proverb
As large as life.
Proverb
As lazy as Ludlam's dog, that leaned his head against a wall to
bark.
Proverb
As lean as a rake.
Proverb
As like as bees.
Proverb, (Latin)
As like as two peas.
Proverb
As mad as a hatter.
Proverb
As mad as a March hare.
Proverb
As melancholy as a sick monkey.
Proverb
As merry as a cricket.
Proverb
As merry as a grig.
Proverb
As merry as mice in malt.
Proverb
As mild as a lamb.
Proverb
As much by strength as by skill. (Brute force.)
Proverb, (Latin)
As neat as a new pin.
Proverb
As nimble as an eel in a sandbag.
Proverb
As old as Paul's steeple.
Proverb
As old as the hills.
Proverb
As old as the itch.
Proverb, (Spanish)
As plain as a packstaff.
Proverb
As plain as a pikestaff.
Proverb
As plain as the nose on a man's face.
Proverb
As poor as a church mouse.
Proverb, (Italian)
As poor as Job.
Proverb
As proud as a peacock.
Proverb
As quick as thought.
Proverb
As quiet as a mouse.
Proverb
As red as a turkey-cock.
Proverb
As right as a trivet.
Proverb
As right as ninepence.
Proverb
As right as rain.
Proverb
As seasonable as snow in harvest.
Proverb
As seasonable as snow in summer.
Proverb
As sick as a dog.
Proverb
As slender in the middle as a cow in the waist.
Proverb
As slippery as an eel.
Proverb
As soft as butter.
Proverb
As soft as silk.
Proverb
As sore fight wrens as cranes.
Proverb
As sound as a bell.
Proverb
As sound as a trout.
Proverb
As sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal.
Proverb
As sure as a gun.
Proverb
As sure as death.
Proverb
As sure as eggs is
eggs.
Proverb
As sure as God made little apples.
Proverb
As sure as God's in Gloucestershire.
Proverb
As sweet as a nut.
Proverb
As the cat loves mustard.
Proverb
As the devil loves holy-water.
Proverb
As the wolf loves the lamb.
Proverb, (Latin)
As thick as hail.
Proverb, (Latin)
As true as God's in heaven.
Proverb
As true as Gospel.
Proverb
As true as steel.
Proverb
As true as the dial to the sun.
Proverb
As true as turtle to her mate.
Proverb
As ugly as sin.
Proverb
As useless as monkey's fat.
Proverb, (Spanish)
As warm as toast.
Proverb
As weak as water.
Proverb
As welcome as flowers in May.
Proverb
As welcome as water in one's shoes.
Proverb
As well as the beggar knows his dish.
Proverb
As wise as a man of Gotham.
Proverb
Balder than a pestle.
Proverb, (Latin)
Before one can say Jack Robinson.
Proverb
Better luck next time.
Proverb
Between Scylla and Charybdis.
Proverb, (Greek)
Between the beetle and the block.
Proverb
Between the devil and the deep sea.
Proverb
Between the hammer and the anvil.
(Between two difficulties.)
Proverb, (Latin, Dutch, German)
Between the hand and the chin.
Proverb, (Latin)
Between you and me and the bedpost.
Proverb
Between you and me and the post.
Proverb
Biter bit.
Proverb
Blinder than a
beetle.
Proverb, (Latin)
Blind man's holiday.
Proverb
Born of a white hen. (A lucky fellow.)
Proverb, (Latin)
Born with a silver spoon in his mouth.
Proverb
By fair means or foul.
Proverb
By hook or by crook.
Proverb
By main force.
Proverb, (Latin)
By the whole heavens. (As wide asunder as the poles.)
Proverb, (Latin)
Cabbage repeated.
(Lat., Crambe repetita.)
Proverb, (Latin)
Cauld kail het again.
(Cold cabbage warmed up.)
Proverb
Choose a Brabant sheep, a Guelder ox, a Flemish capon, and a
Friezeland cow.
Proverb, (Dutch)
Club law.
Proverb, (Latin)
Coals to Newcastle.
Proverb
Companions in misfortune.
Proverb
Consenting against his inclination.
Proverb, (Latin)
Cousin-germans--quite removed.
Proverb
Coyly resisting.
Proverb, (Latin)
Crocodile's tears. (Hypocrisy.)
Proverb, (Latin)
Deaf to the voice of conscience.
Proverb, (Latin)
Dignity in retirement. (Ease and dignity combined.)
Proverb, (Latin)
Dressed like a windmill.
Proverb, (French)
Enchantments to Egypt.
Proverb
Enough and to spare.
Proverb, (Latin)
Explaining what is unknown by what is still more unknown.
(Lat., Ignotam per ignotius.)
Proverb, (Latin)
Fair words and rotten apples.
Proverb, (Italian)
Fearing his own shadow.
Proverb, (Latin)
Fetters of gold.
Proverb, (Latin)
Fir trees to Norway.
Proverb
From excess of caution.
Proverb, (Latin)
From home itself.
Proverb, (Latin)
From repose to tumult.
Proverb, (Latin)
From smoke to flame.
Proverb, (Latin)
From the beginning to the end of a feast.
Proverb
