English Proverbs & Sayings part-13

• The last straw breaks the camel's back.
• The leopard cannot change its spots.
• The longest day has an end.
• The mill cannot grind with the water that is past.
• The moon does not heed the barking of dogs.
• The more haste, the less speed.
• The more the merrier.
• The morning sun never lasts a day.
• The mountain has brought forth a mouse.
• The nearer the bone, the sweeter the flesh.
• The pitcher goes often to the well but is broken at last.
• The pot calls the kettle black.
• The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
• The receiver is as bad as the thief.
• The remedy is worse than the disease.
• The rotten apple injures its neighbours.
• The scalded dog fears cold water.
• The tailor makes the man.
• The tongue of idle persons is never idle.
• The voice of one man is the voice of no one.
• The way (the road) to hell is paved with good intentions.
• The wind cannot be caught in a net.
• The work shows the workman.
• There are lees to every wine.
• There are more ways to the wood than one.
• There is a place for everything, and everything in its place.
• There is more than one way to kill a cat.
• There is no fire without smoke.
• There is no place like home.
• There is no rose without a thorn.
• There is no rule without an exception.
• There is no smoke without fire.
• There's many a slip 'tween (== between) the cup and the lip.
• There's no use crying over spilt milk.
• They are hand and glove.
• They must hunger in winter that will not work in summer.
• Things past cannot be recalled.
• Think today and speak tomorrow.
• Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones.
• Time and tide wait for no man.
• Time cures all things.
• Time is money.
• Time is the great healer.
• Time works wonders.
• To add fuel (oil) to the fire (flames).
• To angle with a silver hook.
• To be born with a silver spoon in one's mouth.
• To be head over ears in debt.
• To be in one's birthday suit.
• To be up to the ears in love.
• To be wise behind the hand.
• To beat about the bush.
• To beat the air.
• To bring grist to somebody's mill.
• To build a fire under oneself.
• To buy a pig in a poke.
• To call a spade a spade.
• To call off the dogs.
• To carry coals to Newcastle.
• To cast pearls before swine.
• To cast prudence to the winds.
• To come away none the wiser.
• To come off cheap.
• To come off with a whole skin.
• To come off with flying colours.
• To come out dry.
• To come out with clean hands.
• To cook a hare before catching him.
• To cry with one eye and laugh with the other.
• To cut one's throat with a feather.
• To draw (pull) in one's horns.
• To drop a bucket into an empty well.
• To draw water in a sieve.
• To eat the calf in the cow's belly.
• To err is human.
• To fiddle while Rome is burning.
• To fight with one's own shadow.
• To find a mare's nest.
• To fish in troubled waters.
• To fit like a glove.
• To flog a dead horse.
• To get out of bed on the wrong side.
• To give a lark to catch a kite.
• To go for wool and come home shorn.
• To go through fire and water (through thick and thin).
• To have a finger in the pie.
• To have rats in the attic.
• To hit the nail on the head.
• To kick against the pricks.
• To kill two birds with one stone.
• To know everything is to know nothing.
• To know on which side one's bread is buttered.
• To know what's what.
• To lay by for a rainy day.
• To live from hand to mouth.
• To lock the stable-door after the horse is stolen.
• To look for a needle in a haystack.
• To love somebody (something) as the devil loves holy water.
• To make a mountain out of a molehill.
• To make both ends meet.