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- If there were no clouds, we should not enjoy the sun.
- If things were to be done twice all would be wise.
- If we can't as we would, we must do as we can.
- If wishes were horses, beggars might ride.
- If you agree to carry the calf, they'll make you carry the cow.
- If you cannot bite, never show your teeth.
- If you cannot have the best, make the best of what you have.
- If you dance you must pay the fiddler.
- If you laugh before breakfast you'll cry before supper.
- If you run after two hares, you will catch neither.
- If you sell the cow, you sell her milk too.
- If you throw mud enough, some of it will stick.
- If you try to please all you will please none.
- If you want a thing well done, do it yourself.
- Ill-gotten gains never prosper.
- Ill-gotten, ill-spent.
- In every beginning think of the end.
- In for a penny, in for a pound.
- In the country of the blind one-eyed man is a king.
- In the end things will mend.
- In the evening one may praise the day.
- Iron hand (fist) in a velvet glove.
- It is a good horse that never stumbles.
- It is a long lane that has no turning.
- It is a poor mouse that has only one hole.
- It is an ill bird that fouls its own nest.
- It is an ill wind that blows nobody good.
- It is a silly fish, that is caught twice with the same bait.
- It is easy to swim if another hoids up your chin (head).
- It is enough to make a cat laugh.
- It is good fishing in troubled waters.
- It is never too late to learn.
- It is no use crying over spilt milk.
- It is the first step that costs.
- It never rains but it pours.
- It's as broad as it's long.
- It's no use pumping a dry well.
- It's one thing to flourish and another to fight.
- It takes all sorts to make a world.
- Jackdaw in peacock's feathers.
- Jest with an ass and he will flap you in the face with his tail.
- Judge not of men and things at first sight.
- Just as the twig is bent, the tree is inclined.
- Keep a thing seven years and you will find a use for it.
- Keep your mouth shut and your ears open.
- Keep your mouth shut and your eyes open.
- Last, but not least.
- Laws catch flies, but let hornets go free.
- Learn to creep before you leap.
- Learn to say before you sing.
- Learn wisdom by the follies of others.
- Least said, soonest mended.
- Leaves without figs.
- Let bygones be bygones.
- Let every man praise the bridge he goes over.
- Let sleeping dogs lie.
- Let well (enough) alone.
- Liars need good memories.
- Lies have short legs.
- Life is but a span.
- Life is not a bed of roses.
- Life is not all cakes and ale (beer and skittles).
- Like a cat on hot bricks.
- Like a needle in a haystack.
- Like begets like.
- Like cures like.
- Like father, like son.
- Like draws to like.
- Like master, like man.
- Like mother, like daughter.
- Like parents, like children.
- Like priest, like people.
- Like teacher, like pupil.
- Little chips light great fires.
- Little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
- Little pigeons can carry great messages.
- Little pitchers have long ears.
- Little strokes fell great oaks.
- Little thieves are hanged, but great ones escape.
- Little things amuse little minds.
- Live and learn.
- Live and let live.
- Live not to eat, but eat to live.
- Long absent, soon forgotten.
- Look before you leap.
- Look before you leap, but having leapt never look back.
- Lookers-on see more than players.
- Lord (God, Heaven) helps those (them) who help themselves.
- Lost time is never found again.
- Love cannot be forced.
- Love in a cottage.
- Love is blind, as well as hatred.
- Love me, love my dog.
- Love will creep where it may not go.
- Make haste slowly.
- Make hay while the sun shines.
- Make or mar.
- Man proposes but God disposes.
- Many a fine dish has nothing on it.
- Many a good cow has a bad calf.
- Many a good father has but a bad son.
- Many a little makes a mickle.
- Many a true word is spoken in jest.
- Many hands make light work.
- Many men, many minds.
- Many words hurt more than swords.
- Many words will not fill a bushel.
- Marriages are made in heaven.
- Measure for measure.
- Measure thrice and cut once.
- Men may meet but mountains never.
- Mend or end (end or mend).
- Might goes before right.
- Misfortunes never come alone (singly).
- Misfortunes tell us what fortune is.
- Money begets money.
- Money has no smell.
- Money is a good servant but a bad master.
- Money often unmakes the men who make it.
- Money spent on the brain is never spent in vain.
- More haste, less speed.
- Much ado about nothing.
- Much will have more.
- Muck and money go together.
- Murder will out.
- My house is my castle.
- Name not a rope in his house that was hanged.
- Necessity is the mother of invention.
- Necessity knows no law.
- Neck or nothing.
- Need makes the old wife trot.
- Needs must when the devil drives.
- Neither fish nor flesh.
- Neither here nor there.
- Neither rhyme nor reason.
- Never cackle till your egg is laid.
- Never cast dirt into that fountain of which you have sometime drunk.
- Never do things by halves.
- Never fry a fish till it's caught.
- Never offer to teach fish to swim.
- Never put off till tomorrow what you can do (can be done) today.
- Never quit certainty for hope.
- Never too much of a good thing.
- Never try to prove what nobody doubts.
- Never write what you dare not sign.
- New brooms sweep clean.
- New lords, new laws.
- Nightingales will not sing in a cage.
- No flying from fate.
- No garden without its weeds.
- No great loss without some small gain.
- No herb will cure love.
- No joy without alloy.
- No living man all things can.
- No longer pipe, no longer dance.
- No man is wise at all times.
- No man loves his fetters, be they made of gold.
- No news (is) good news.
- No pains, no gains.
- No song, no supper.
- No sweet without (some) sweat.
- No wisdom like silence.
- None but the brave deserve the fair.
- None so blind as those who won't see.
- None so deaf as those that won't hear.
- Nothing comes out of the sack but what was in it.
- Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
- Nothing must be done hastily but killing of fleas.
- Nothing so bad, as not to be good for something.
- Nothing succeeds like success.
- Nothing venture, nothing have.
- Oaks may fall when reeds stand the storm.
- Of two evils choose the least.
- Old birds are not caught with chaff.
- Old friends and old wine are best.
- On Shank's mare.
- Once bitten, twice shy.
- Once is no rule (custom).
- One beats the bush, and another catches the bird.
- One chick keeps a hen busy.
- One drop of poison infects the whole tun of wine.
- One fire drives out another.
- One good turn deserves another.
- One law for the rich, and another for the poor.
- One lie makes many.
- One link broken, the whole chain is broken.
- One man, no man.
- One man's meat is another man's poison.
- One scabby sheep will mar a whole flock.
- One swallow does not make a summer.
- One today is worth two tomorrow.
- Open not your door when the devil knocks.
- Opinions differ.
- Opportunity makes the thief.
- Out of sight, out of mind.
- Out of the frying-pan into the fire.
- Packed like herrings.
- Patience is a plaster for all sores.
- Penny-wise and pound-foolish.
- Pleasure has a sting in its tail.
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