A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

• A bad penny always turns up Click to comment
• A bad settlement is better than a good lawsuit Click to comment
• A bad workman blames his tools Click to comment
• A bean in liberty is better than a comfit in prison Click to comment
• A bellyful is one of meat, drink, or sorrow Click to comment
• A bellyful of food is a good one Click to comment
• A big tree attracts the woodsman's axe Click to comment
• A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush Click to comment
• A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush Click to comment
• A blithe heart makes a bloomy visage Click to comment
• A book borrowed is sooner read then a book bought Click to comment
• A burnt child dreads the fire Click to comment
• A camel is a horse designed by committee Click to comment
• A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle Click to comment
• A cat may look at a king Click to comment
• A chain is no stronger than its weakest link Click to comment
• A closed mouth catches no flies Click to comment
• A coin of gold is delighting in a bag of silver coins Click to comment
• A constant guest is never welcome Click to comment
• A coward dies a thousand times before his death The valiant never taste of death but once Click to comment
• A drop of knowledge is greater than an ocean of strength Click to comment
• A dry cough it, the trumpeter of death Click to comment
• A dull pencil is greater than the sharpest memory Click to comment
• A faint heart never won a fair lady Click to comment
• A fat belly, A lean brain Click to comment
• A fool and his money are soon parted Click to comment
• A fox smells its own lair first Or: A fox smells its own stink first Click to comment
• A friend in need is a friend indeed Click to comment
• A friend is not so soon gotten as lost Click to comment
• A good bargain is a pick-purse Click to comment
• A good beginning makes (for) a good ending Click to comment
• A good enemy is a better person than a false friend Click to comment
• A good face needs to band, And a bad one deserves none Click to comment
• A good man in an evil society seems the greatest villain of all Click to comment
• A good shot is worth many bad ones, Click to comment
• A good surgeon has an eagle's eye, a lion's heart, and a lady's hand Click to comment
• A guilty conscience needs no accuser Click to comment
• A half truth is a whole lie Click to comment
• A hungry man is an angry man Click to comment
• A jack of all trades is master of none Click to comment
• A journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step Click to comment
• A kingdom is lost for want of a shoe Click to comment
• A lie can be halfway around the world before the truth gets its boots on Click to comment
• A little knowledge is a dangerous thing Click to comment
• A little Learning is a dangerous Thing; Click to comment
• A little pot is easily hot Click to comment
• A loaded wagon makes no noise Click to comment
• A man is known by the company he keeps Click to comment
• A man's home is his castle Click to comment
• A miss by an inch is a miss by a mile Click to comment
• A new besom sweps clean Click to comment
• A night with Venus and a life with mercury Click to comment
• A paragraph should be like a lady's skirt: long enough to cover the essentials but short enough to keep it interesting Click to comment
• A Pasoly in the eye is worth several in the shins Click to comment
• A penny earned is a penny lost; a penny shared is a penny well-spent Click to comment
• A penny spent is a penny earned Click to comment
• A picture is worth a thousand words Click to comment
• A pint of plain is yer only man Click to comment
• A proud mind and a beggar's purse, Agree ill together Click to comment
• A ragged colt may make a good horse Click to comment
• A rising tide lifts all boats Click to comment
• A rolling stone gathers no moss Click to comment
• A snap of sight may describe much more than a thousand words Click to comment
• A son is a son 'till he gets him a wife; a daughter's a daughter all her life Click to comment
• A still tongue makes a wise head Click to comment
• A stitch in time saves nine Click to comment
• A thief thinks everyone steals Click to comment
• A watched pot never boils Click to comment
• A woman is like a cup of tea; you'll never know how strong she is until she boils Click to comment
• A woman's work is never done Click to comment
• A word spoken is past recalling Click to comment
• A word to the wise is sufficient Click to comment
• Ability can take you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there Click to comment
• Absence makes the heart grow fonder Click to comment
• Absence makes the heart grow fonder but makes the mind forget Click to comment
• Act today only, tomorrow is too late, Click to comment
• Action is the proper fruit of knowledge Click to comment
• Actions speak louder than words Click to comment
• Advice most needed is least heeded Click to comment
• After dinner sit a while, after supper walk a mile Click to comment
• All cats love fish but hate to get their paws wet Click to comment
• All covet, All lose Click to comment
• All flowers are not in one garden Click to comment
• All for one and one for all Click to comment
• All frills and no knickers Click to comment
• All fur coat and no knickers Click to comment
• All good things come to an end Click to comment
• All hat and no cattle Click to comment
• All is fair in love and war Click to comment
• All is not lost that is delayed Click to comment
• All is well, that ends well Click to comment
• All roads lead to Rome Click to comment
• All sizzle and no steak Click to comment
• All that glisters is not gold Click to comment
• All the world is your country, to do good is your religion Click to comment
• All things come to him who waits Click to comment
• All things come to those who wait Click to comment
• All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy Click to comment
• All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy All play and no work makes Jack a mere toy Click to comment
• All's fair in love and war Click to comment
• All's well that ends well Click to comment
• Almost and hard by, save many a lie Click to comment
• Always care about your flowers and your friends Otherwise they'll fade, and soon your house will be empty Click to comment
• An apple a day keeps the doctor away Click to comment
• An apple, an egg, and a nut, You may eat after a slut Click to comment
• An early bird catches worms Click to comment
• An empty brain Is the devil's shop Click to comment
• An empty vessel makes the most noise Click to comment
• An Englishman's home is his castle Click to comment
• An Englishman's home is his castle Click to comment
• An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth Click to comment
• An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind Click to comment
• An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth Click to comment
• An ill labourer quarrels with his tools Click to comment
• An instant sight may save a thousand words Click to comment
• An old dog will learn no tricks Click to comment
• An ounce of discretion is worth a pound of wit Click to comment
• An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure Click to comment
• An unbidden guest must bring his stool with him Click to comment
• And drinking largely sobers us again ~ Alexander Pope, Click to comment
• And the law of England has so particular and tender a regard to the immunity of a man's house, that it stiles it his castle, and will never suffer it to be violated with immunity: agreeing herein with the sentiments of ancient Rome, as expressed in the works of Tully; quid enim sanctius, quid omni religione munitius, quam domus unusquisque civium? Click to comment
• Anti-promiscuity adage, alluding to a 18th-century mercury-based folk treatment for syphilis Click to comment
• April showers bring May flowers Click to comment
• As fit as a fiddle Click to comment
• As good eat the devil, As the broth he is boil'd in Click to comment
• As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another, Click to comment
• As soon as a man is born, he begins to die Click to comment
• As they say on my own Cape Cod, a rising tide lifts all the boats Click to comment
• As you make your bed, so you must lie in it Click to comment
• Ask me no questions, I'll tell you no lies Click to comment
• Assiduity makes all things easy Click to comment
• Attributed to Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac, Click to comment
• Aught for naught, and a penny change Click to comment