60,000 QUOTES SPIDER
Dictionary of
English World Proverbs and Sayings
QUOTES, APHORISMS AND PROVERBS 8
I'll put a spoke
among your wheels.
Francis Beaumont and
John Fletcher
After supper walk a mile.
Francis Beaumont and
John Fletcher
He comes not in my books.
Francis Beaumont and
John Fletcher
Whistle, and she'll come to you.
Francis Beaumont and
John Fletcher
Let the world slide.
Francis Beaumont and
John Fletcher
Oil on troubled waters.
Bede "The Venerable"
God's in His Heaven, All's right with the world!
Robert Browning,
Pippa Passes (pt. I)
The style is the man.
(Fr., Le style c'est l'homme.)
George-Louis Leclerc
de Buffon
If it is not true it
is very well invented. (It., Se non e vero, e molto ben trovato.)
Giordano Bruno, Degli
Eroici Furori, (Italian)
To build castles in
the air.
Proverb, (Dutch, French)
To burn one's boats.
Proverb
To burn out a candle in search of a pin.
Proverb, (French)
To burn the candle at both ends.
Proverb
To bury the hatchet.
Proverb
To buy a cat in a poke.
Proverb, (French)
To buy a pig in a poke.
Proverb
To buy and sell and live by the loss.
Proverb
To cackle and lay no egg.
Proverb, (Portuguese, Spanish)
To call a spade a spade.
Proverb, (Latin)
To carry a lantern in mid-day.
Proverb, (French)
To carry coals to Newcastle.
Proverb, (Dutch)
To carry fir-trees to Norway.
Proverb, (Dutch)
To carry on the head. (i.e., To love dearly.)
Proverb, (Latin)
To carry two faces under one hood.
Proverb
To carry water in a sieve.
Proverb, (Latin)
To carry water to the river.
Proverb, (French)
To carry water to the sea.
Proverb,
(Dutch, German, Portuguese)
To carry wood to the forest.
Proverb, (Latin)
To cast a dart without any fixed mark or aim. (To have no settled
purpose.)
Proverb, (Latin)
To cast in a smelt to catch a codfish.
Proverb, (Dutch)
To cast out the mote from the eye of another.
Proverb, (Latin)
To cast pearls before swine.
Proverb, (Dutch, Italian)
To cast water into the sea.
Proverb
To catch a hare with a cart.
Proverb, (Italian)
To catch a hare with a tabret.
Proverb
To catch a Tartar.
Proverb
To catch a weasel asleep.
Proverb
To catch the shower in a sieve. (To lose one's time and pains.)
Proverb, (Latin)
To catch two pigeons with one bean.
Proverb, (Italian)
To change the course we have begun for the better.
Proverb
To checkmate your adversary. To leave him not a leg to stand on.
Proverb, (Latin)
To clip his wings.
Proverb
To comb one's head with a stool.
Proverb
To come from little good to stark nought.
Proverb
To come up to the scratch.
Proverb
To commit the sheep to the care of the wolf.
Proverb, (Spanish)
To condemn the error, but not to descend to personalities.
Proverb, (Latin)
To confuse matters.
Proverb, (Latin)
To count one's chickens before they are hatched.
Proverb
To cover the well after the child has been drowned in it.
Proverb, (German)
To cram on every stitch of canvas.
Proverb, (Latin)
To create a tempest in a teapot.
Proverb
To cry famine on a heap of corn.
Proverb, (French)
To cry out before one is hurt.
Proverb
To cry up wine, and sell vinegar.
Proverb, (Spanish)
To cry with one eye and laugh with the other.
Proverb
To cure every one with the same ointment.
Proverb, (Latin)
To cure evil by evil.
Proverb, (Latin)
To cut a man with a sword of lead.
Proverb, (Latin)
To cut broad thongs from another man's leather.
Proverb, (French)
To cut his comb off.
Proverb
To cut his throat with a feather.
Proverb
To cut off one's nose to spite one's face.
Proverb, (French)
To cut the coat according to the cloth.
Proverb
To cut the grass from under a person's feet.
Proverb
To cut the thread. (To open a letter; to break a seal.)
Proverb, (Latin)
To dance out of time. (To say an irrelevant thing: a thing out of
place.)
Proverb, (Latin)
To deceive oneself is very easy.
Proverb
To deserve the whetstone.
Proverb
To die of laughing.
Proverb, (Latin)
To dig one's grave with one's teeth.
Proverb, (French)
To dig with golden spades. (To waste means.)
Proverb, (Latin)
To discover truth by telling a falsehood.
Proverb, (Spanish)
To dispute about a donkey's shadow.
Proverb, (Latin)
To dispute about smoke.
Proverb, (Latin)
To draw blood from a stone.
Proverb
To draw the foot out of the mire.
Proverb, (Spanish)
To draw the long bow.
Proverb
To draw the snake out of the hole with another's hand.
Proverb, (Spanish)
To draw water in a sieve. (To waste time.)
Proverb, (Latin)
To drink from a colander.
Proverb, (Latin)
To drink from the same cup.
Proverb, (Latin)
To drink like frogs.
Proverb, (Latin)
To err again on the same string.
Proverb, (Latin)
To exact an offering from the dead.
Proverb, (Latin)
To exchange a one-eyed horse for a blind one.
Proverb, (French)
To fall from the wall into the ditch.
Proverb, (Dutch)
To fare hard.
Proverb, (Latin)
To fawn with the tail, and bite with the mouth.
Proverb, (Spanish)
To fetch water after the house is burned.
Proverb, (Spanish)
To fiddle while Rome is burning.
Proverb
To fight with every kind of weapon.
Proverb, (Latin)
To fight with ghosts. (To speak against the dead.)
Proverb, (Latin)
To fight with windmills.
Proverb
To find a mare's nest.
Proverb
To fire the first shot. (To throw down the gauntlet.)
Proverb, (Latin)
To fish for a herring and catch a sprat.
Proverb
To fish in the air. To hunt in the sea.
Proverb, (Latin)
To fish with a golden hook.
Proverb, (Latin)
To flay the flayed dog.
Proverb, (Italian)
To flog a dead horse.
Proverb
To flog a stone.
Proverb, (Latin)
To fly, when no one pursues us. (Great timidity.)
Proverb, (Latin)
To follow a man like his shadow.
Proverb, (Latin)
To forget a kindness.
Proverb, (Latin)
To fry in one's own grease.
Proverb
To get out of one muck into another.
Proverb, (Spanish)
To get out of the mire and fall into the river.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
To get out of the rain under the spout.
Proverb, (German)
To get out of the smoke and fall into the fire.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
To give a cap and get a cloak.
(Lat., Pilleum dat ut pallium recipiat.)
Proverb, (Latin)
To give a duck to get a goose.
Proverb, (English)
To give a pea for a bean.
Proverb, (French)
To give a thing and take a thing
Is to wear the devil's gold ring.
Proverb
To give an egg to get an ox.
Proverb, (Dutch, French)
To give change out for his coin.
Proverb, (French)
To give court holy-water.
Proverb, (French)
To give instruction in the form of praise.
Proverb, (Latin)
To give one the sack.
Proverb, (Dutch)
To go beyond the bounds. (To digress from the subject of
discussion.)
Proverb, (Latin)
To go for wool and come back shorn.
Proverb, (Spanish)
To go mulberry gathering without a crook.
Proverb, (French)
To go rabbit catching with a dead ferret.
Proverb, (Spanish)
To go rabbit hunting with a dead ferret.
Proverb
To go to the vintage without baskets.
Proverb, (French)
To grease the fat pig's tail.
Proverb, (Spanish)
To harness the horses behind the cart.
Proverb, (Dutch)
To harness unwilling oxen.
Proverb, (Latin)
To haul over the coals.
Proverb
To have a bee in one's bonnet.
Proverb
To have a bone in one's leg.
Proverb
To have a crow to pluck with one.
Proverb
To have a finger in the pie.
Proverb
To have a good opinion of himself.
Proverb, (Latin)
To have a rod in pickle for someone.
Proverb
To have a wolf by the ears.
Proverb, (Greek)
To have bats in the belfry.
Proverb
To have friends both in heaven and hell.
Proverb, (French)
To have hairs on his heart. (Hard-hearted.)
Proverb, (Spanish)
To have it written on his forehead.
Proverb, (Spanish)
To have many irons in the fire.
Proverb
To have one foot in the grave.
Proverb
To have one's brains in one's heels.
Proverb, (Spanish)
To have one's labour for one's pains.
Proverb
To have the belly up to one's mouth.
Proverb, (Spanish)
To have the foot in two shoes.
Proverb, (Spanish)
To help a lame dog over a stile.
Proverb
To help the sun by torches.
Proverb, (Latin)
To hide under a cloak.
Proverb, (Latin)
To hit the nail on the head.
Proverb, (Spanish)
To hold a candle to the devil.
Proverb
To hold a wolf by the ears. (To be between two difficulties.)
Proverb, (Latin)
To hold the wolf by the ears.
(Lat., Tenere lupum auribus.)
Proverb, (French, Latin)
To hunt for a knot in a rush which has no knots. (To raise
unnecessary scruples.)
Proverb, (Latin)
To hunt the hare with the ox.
Proverb, (Latin)
To hunt with unwilling hounds.
Proverb, (Latin)
To indulge in a joke when surrounded by mourners. (To jest out of
season.)
Proverb, (Latin)
To indulge in jest on sacred matters.
Proverb, (Latin)
