60,000 QUOTES SPIDER
Dictionary of
English World Proverbs and Sayings
QUOTES, APHORISMS AND PROVERBS 7
What is bred in the
bone will never come out of the flesh.
Bidpai (Pilpay), The
Two Fishermen (fable xiv)
What loss feels he
that wots not what he loses?
William Broome
The king never dies.
Sir William
Blackstone
Of joys departed Not to return, how painful the remembrance.
Robert Blair
Silence gives consent. (Lat., Qui tacet, consentire videtur.)
Pope Boniface VIII
What is sauce for the
goose is sauce for a gander.
Tom Brown
To rise with the
lark, and go to bed with the lamb.
Nicholas Breton
First come, first served.
Henry Brinklow
Praise undeserved is satire in disguise.
Henry Broadhurst
From the egg to the
apple.
Proverb, (Latin)
From the egg to the apples.
(Lat., Ab ovo usque ad mala.)
Proverb, (Latin)
Give and take.
Proverb
Giving gold coins to a cat.
Proverb, (Japanese)
Hand and foot (with all our strength and resolution.)
Proverb, (Latin)
Happy as a clam at high tide.
Proverb
Happy as a lark.
Proverb
Harder than adamant.
Proverb, (Latin)
Harmless lightning. (Impotent threats.)
Proverb, (Latin)
Hasten gently.
Proverb, (Latin)
He lives the life of a hare. (Ever in fear.)
Proverb, (Latin)
He struts as valiantly as an English cock.
Proverb, (Dutch)
He throws a cloud over happiness. (A kill-joy; a mar-feast.)
Proverb, (Latin)
Ill-yoked.
Proverb
Indulgencies to Rome.
Proverb
Inquisitive and prone to gossip. (A Paul Pry.)
Proverb, (Latin)
Let it be unsaid. (Let the observation be withdrawn.)
Proverb
Like a bull in a china shop.
Proverb
Like a dying duck in a thunderstorm.
Proverb
Like a hen on a hot griddle.
Proverb
Like a house on fire.
Proverb
Like a red rag to a bull.
Proverb
Like a toad under a harrow.
Proverb
Like as waves make towards the pebbled shore,
So do our minutes hasten to their end.
Proverb
Like bees at geometry.
(Lat., Ut apes geometriam.)
Proverb
Like herrings in a barrel.
Proverb
Like King Petaud's court, where every one is a master.
Proverb, (French)
Like water off a duck's back.
Proverb
Lions at home.
Proverb, (Latin)
Longer than a day without bread.
Proverb, (Italian)
More ancient than chaos and the reign of Saturn.
Proverb, (Latin)
More changeable than Proteus.
Proverb, (Latin)
More changeable than the chameleon.
Proverb, (Latin)
More chaste than vestal's couch.
Proverb, (Latin)
More have repented of speech than of silence.
Proverb
More naked than a post.
Proverb, (Latin)
More naked than an egg.
Proverb, (Latin)
More noise than wool.
Proverb
More noisy than laurel when burning.
Proverb, (Latin)
More persuasive than the Syrens.
Proverb, (Latin)
More prickly than a sea urchin.
Proverb, (Latin)
More silent than a statue.
Proverb, (Latin)
My better half.
Proverb, (Latin)
Needlessly alarmed.
Proverb, (Latin)
Neither a dumb barber nor a deaf singer.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
Not even a trace is left.
Proverb, (Latin)
Not from Cupid's quiver.
Proverb
Not to be fit to hold a candle to him.
Proverb
Not to be sneezed at.
Proverb
Not worthy the snap of a finger.
Proverb, (Latin)
Nothing to the point.
Proverb, (Latin)
Now or never.
(Lat., Nunc aut nunquam.)
Proverb
Old young, and old long.
Proverb
Out of danger.
Proverb, (Latin)
Out of the frying-pan into the fire.
Proverb, (Spanish)
Out of the mire and into the brook.
Proverb, (Spanish)
Out of the mouths of babes.
Proverb
Owls to Athens.
Proverb
Pepper to Hindostan.
Proverb
Philosophers as far as the beard.
Proverb, (Latin)
Prayers, but no pay.
Proverb, (Spanish)
Praying to God and hitting with the hammer.
Proverb, (Spanish)
Punic faith. (Treachery.)
Proverb, (Latin)
Slow and sure.
Proverb, (German)
Smoother than oil.
Proverb, (Latin)
So ends all earthly glory.
Proverb, (Latin)
Stark naked.
Proverb, (Latin)
Stubborn as a mule.
Proverb
Suddenly as a storm.
Proverb, (Latin)
Swifter than a hawk.
Proverb, (Latin)
Tell that to the Marines!
Proverb
That's as much as a bean in a brewing copper.
Proverb, (Dutch)
The agreeable and the useful combined.
Proverb, (Latin)
The baubles of children.
Proverb, (Latin)
The cobbler to his last.
Proverb, (Latin)
The crow has seized a scorpion. (The soldier caught a Tartar.)
Proverb, (Latin)
The die is cast. (The Rubicon is crossed.)
(Lat., Alea iacta est.)
Proverb, (Latin)
The last argument of kings. (The sword.)
Proverb, (Latin)
The matter is under consideration.
Proverb, (Latin)
The rabble.
Proverb, (Latin)
The traces of the old flame. (Second love.)
Proverb, (Latin)
Till you are hoarse with bawling.
Proverb, (Latin)
To act with closed eyes.
Proverb, (Latin)
To add a farthing to the riches of Croesus.
Proverb, (Latin)
To add a farthing to the wealth of Croesus.
Proverb, (Latin)
To add fuel to fire.
Proverb
To add insult to injury.
Proverb
To add light to the sun.
Proverb, (Latin)
To add malady to malady.
Proverb, (Latin)
To add stars to the firmament.
Proverb, (Latin)
To add water to the ocean.
Proverb, (Latin)
To ask wool of an ass.
Proverb, (French)
To be aground on the same rock. (To be in the same dilemma. )
Proverb, (Latin)
To be blind even in the light of the sun.
Proverb, (Latin)
To be born with a silver spoon in one's mouth.
Proverb
To be content to let twelve pennies pass for a shilling.
Proverb, (Italian)
To be dragged by the scruff of the neck.
Proverb, (Latin)
To be in a person's bad books.
Proverb
To be in the same hospital. (To be in the same dilemma.)
Proverb, (Latin)
To be in the wrong box.
Proverb
To be led by the nose.
Proverb, (Dutch)
To be like a bunch of nettles.
Proverb, (Spanish)
To be like a fish in the water.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
To be like a leek, have a grey head and the rest green.
Proverb, (Spanish)
To be like a tailor's pattern-book.
Proverb, (Spanish)
To be on one's last legs.
Proverb
To be too busy gets contempt.
Proverb
To be under a cloud.
Proverb
To be wise beyond the scrip. (Have a care for the morrow.)
Proverb, (Latin)
To bear away the bell.
Proverb
To bear two faces in one hood.
Proverb
To beat about the bush.
Proverb
To beat the dog already punished.
Proverb, (Latin)
To beat the dog in presence of this lion.
Proverb, (French)
To begin at home.
Proverb
To begin skinning the eel at the tail.
Proverb, (French)
To bend the bow of Ulysses.
Proverb
To bind a dog with the gut of a lamb.
Proverb, (Latin)
To bite the lip. (To manifest indignation.)
Proverb, (Latin)
To blow hot and cold in the same breath.
Proverb, (Latin)
To blow hot and cold.
Proverb, (French)
To blow one's own trumpet.
Proverb
To break my head and then give me a plaster.
Proverb
To break Priscian's head.
Proverb
To break the constable's head, and take refuge with the sheriff.
Proverb, (Spanish)
To break the ice.
Proverb, (Latin)
To break the rope by overstraining.
Proverb, (Latin)
To bring a noble to ninepence.
Proverb
To bring down two apples with one stick.
Proverb, (Dutch)
To bring haddock to paddock.
Proverb
To bring out the implements of war, when the battle is over.
Proverb, (Latin)
To bruise the head of the serpent.
Proverb, (Latin)
