English Proverbs & Sayings part-14

• To make the cup run over.
• To make (to turn) the air blue.
• To measure another man's foot by one's own last.
• To measure other people's corn by one's own bushel.
• To pay one back in one's own coin.
• To plough the sand.
• To pour water into a sieve.
• To pull the chestnuts out of the fire for somebody.
• To pull the devil by the tail.
• To put a spoke in somebody's wheel.
• To put off till Doomsday.
• To put (set) the cart before the horse.
• To rob one's belly to cover one's back.
• To roll in money.
• To run with the hare and hunt with the hounds.
• To save one's bacon.
• To send (carry) owls to Athens.
• To set the wolf to keep the sheep.
• To stick to somebody like a leech.
• To strain at a gnat and swallow a camel.
• To take counsel of one's pillow.
• To take the bull by the horns.
• To teach the dog to bark.
• To tell tales out of school.
• To throw a stone in one's own garden.
• To throw dust in somebody's eyes.
• To throw straws against the wind.
• To treat somebody with a dose of his own medicine.
• To use a steam-hammer to crack nuts.
• To wash one's dirty linen in public.
• To wear one's heart upon one's sleeve.
• To weep over an onion.
• To work with the left hand.
• Tomorrow come never.
• Too many cooks spoil the broth.
• Too much knowledge makes the head bald.
• Too much of a good thing is good for nothing.
• Too much water drowned the miller .
• Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.
• True blue will never stain.
• True coral needs no painter's brush.
• Truth comes out of the mouths of babes and sucklings.
• Truth is stranger than fiction.
• Truth lies at the bottom of a well.
• Two blacks do not make a white.
• Two heads are better than one.
• Two is company, but three is none.
• Velvet paws hide sharp claws.
• Virtue is its own reward.
• Wait for the cat to jump.
• Walls have ears.
• Wash your dirty linen at home.
• Waste not, want not.
• We know not what is good until we have lost it.
• We never know the value of water till the well is dry.
• We shall see what we shall see.
• We soon believe what we desire.
• Wealth is nothing without health.
• Well begun is half done.
• What can't be cured, must be endured.
• What is bred in the bone will not go out of the flesh.
• What is done by night appears by day.
• What is done cannot be undone.
• What is got over the devil's back is spent under his belly.
• What is lost is lost.
• What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
• What is worth doing at alt is worth doing well.
• What must be, must be.
• What the heart thinks the tongue speaks.
• What we do willingly is easy.
• When angry, count a hundred.
• When at Rome, do as the Romans do.
• When children stand quiet, they have done some harm.
• When flatterers meet, the devil goes to dinner.
• When guns speak it is too late to argue.
• When pigs fly.
• When Queen Anne was alive.
• When the cat is away, the mice will play.
• When the devil is blind.
• When the fox preaches, take care of your geese.
• When the pinch comes, you remember the old shoe.
• When three know it, alt know it.
• When wine is in wit is out.
• Where there's a will, there's a way.
• While the grass grows the horse starves.
• While there is life there is hope.
• Who breaks, pays.
• Who has never tasted bitter, knows not what is sweet.
• Who keeps company with the wolf, will learn to howl.
• Wise after the event.
• With time and patience the leaf of the mulberry becomes satin.
• Words pay no debts.
• You can take a horse to the water but you cannot make him drink.
• You cannot eat your cake and have it.
• You cannot flay the same ox twice.
• You cannot judge a tree by it bark.
• You cannot teach old dogs new tricks.
• You cannot wash charcoal white.
• You made your bed, now lie in it.
• Zeal without knowledge is a runaway horse.