Like music to my ears
Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life
Line up in alphabetical order
Listen to advice and accept instruction, and in the end you will be wise
Little and large
Little Strokes Fell Great Oaks
Little things please little minds
Little white lie
Live and learn
Live and let live
Live to the point of tears
Long time no see
Look after number one
Look before you leap
Look both ways
Look good, feel good
Look on the bright side
Look the other way
Lookers on see most of the game
Lost in the post
Lots of people confuse bad management with destiny
Love conquers all
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing
Love is blind
Love is like a fire, it can either warm your heart or burn your house down
Love is the strangest thing
Love laughs at the locksmiths
Love makes the world go round
Love many, trust few, but always paddle your own canoe
Love nature , live lightly
Love starts with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a tear
Love thy neighbour as thy self
Love will find a way
Loving life is living life to the fullest
Lucky at cards, unlucky in love
Make hay while the sun shines
Make love not war
Man cannot live on bread alone
Man in the moon
Man who wants pretty nurse, must be patient
Manners maketh man
Many a mickle makes a muckle
Many a true word is spoken in jest
Many are called but few are chosen
Many hands make light work
Many people know how to say nothing; few know when
Many things are lost for want of asking
March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb
March winds and April showers bring forth May flowers
Marry in haste, and repent at leisure
Melt the icy fingers of fear with the sunshine of hope
Men are from earth Women are from earth Deal with it
Merry Nights Make Sorry Days
Middle age is when broadness of the mind and narrowness of the waist change places
Might is right
Mind your own business
Mini-skirt
Misery loves company
Money is the root of all evil
Money makes the world go around
More haste less speed
Mother knows best
Motivation is what gets you started habit is what keeps you going
Much too much
Murder will out
Necessity is the mother of invention
Needs must when the devil drives
Never be afraid to sit awhile and think
Never choose bedlinen or a wife by candlelight
Never eat an oyster unless there is an R in the month
Never go to bed on an argument
Never judge a book by its cover
Never judge by appearences
Never judge someone until you have travelled a mile in their shoes
Never look a gift horse in the mouth
Never make a mountain out of a molehill - The mountain will arrive soon enough
Never murder a man who is committing suicide
Never play leapfrog with a unicorn
Never put off til tomorrow what you can do today
Never put your tongue on an iceberg
Never say die
Never speak ill of the dead
Never stand on the tail of a hedgehog after midnight
Never the twain shall meet
Never too old to learn
Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you
Night is the Mother of Counsel
No Good Building Without a Good Foundation
No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness
No man is a hero to his valet
No man is an island
No man is wise at all times
No matter how long a log stays in the water it does not become a crocodile
No news is good news
No one grows old by living; only by losing interest in living
No one is expected to achieve the impossible
No pain, no gain
No wind, no waves
None but the brave deserve the fair
None but the wearer knows where the shoe pinches
None so deaf as those who will not hear
Not to know is bad; not to wish to know is worse
Nothing is certain but death and taxes
Nothing is interesting if you are not interested
Nothing seems expensive on credit
Nothing succeeds like success
Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught
Nothing to worry about
Nothing ventured, nothing gained
Nowt so queer as folk!
Old fish and young flesh feed men best
Old friends and wine are best
Old habits die hard
Old sins cast long shadows
On cloud nine
On second thoughts
On the crest of a wave
On the Turf all men are equal, and under it
Once a word leaves your mouth, you cannot chase it back even with the swiftest horse
Once bitten twice shy
Once in a blue moon
Once in a while, right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale
Once seen never forgotten
One beats the bush, another takes the bird
One cannot quarrel without an opponent
One foolish sheep will lead the flock
One for sorrow, two for joy, three for a girl, four for a boy, five for silver, six for gold seven for a secret not to be sold Eight for heaven nine for hell and ten for the devils own cell
One good turn deserves another
One good turn deserves half the blankets
One in a million
One mans loss is another mans gain
One mans meat is another mans poison!
One of these days is none of these days
One thing after another
One volunteer is worth ten pressed men
One who has the reputation of an early riser may safely lie in bed until noon
One years seeding means seven years weeding
Only fools and horses work
Only mad dogs and englishmen go out in the midday sun
Only time will tell
Only when all contribute their firewood can they build up a strong fire
Opportunities always look bigger going than coming
Opportunity makes a thief
Opportunity seldom knocks twice
Out of sight, out of mind
Out of the blue
Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings
Over the moon
Pain in the neck
Pain is so close to pleasure
Pain is temporary, victory is forever
Pardon all but theyself
Past cure, past care
Patience is a virtue
Patience is bitter, but it bears sweet fruit
Penny wise, pound foolish
People who think the world revolves around them have no sense of direction
Perfection is inperfect
Pick your friends like you pick your fruit
Plant the crab tree where you will, it will never bear pippins
Play with fire
Poor men seek meat for their stomach; rich men stomach for their meat
Possessions dwindle; I mourn their loss But I mourn the loss of time much more, for anyone can save his purse, but none can win back lost time
Possessions dwindle; I mourn their loss But I mourn the loss of time much more, for anyone can save his purse, but none can win back lost time
Practice makes perfect
Practice what you preach
Pretty as a picture
Prevention is better than cure
Pride comes before a fall
Procrastination is the thief of time
Promises are like babies Easy to make, hard to deliver
Put the cat out
Quality is an excuse for lack of quantity
Quality is better than quantity
Quickly come, quickly go
Rain before seven, fine before eleven
Rain, Rain, go away, come back another day
Rained on ground hardens (Japanese Proverb)
Rats desert a sinking ship
Reading between the lines
Red in the face
Red sky at night
Red sky at night shepherds delight,red sky in the morning,shepherds warning
Red, white and blue
Revenge is a dish best served cold
Revenge is sweet
Right between the eyes
Righteousness exalts a nation but sin is a disgrace to any people
Robbing Peter to pay Paul
Saying is one thing; doing another
Second place is first loser
See Naples and die
Seeing is believing
Seldom seen, soon forgotten
Seven-fifths of all people do not understand fractions
Sex takes up the least amount of time and causes the most amount of trouble
Share and share alike!
Shopping is a therapy
Shut up and sit down
Sign on the dotted line
Silence is golden
Silence is the fence around wisdom
Sinking ship
Size matters
Sleep is better than medicine
Small talk
Small time crook
Smile and the world smiles with you, snore and you sleep alone
Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep
Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors
So long as you do your best in life, whatever happens will be for the best
Softly, softly, catchee monkey
Some are Wise and Some are Otherwise
Some are wise and some are otherwise
Sometimes the majority only means all the fools are on the same side
Spare the rod and spoil the child
Speak when you are spoken to
Split second timing
Spots before the eyes
St Swithins Day, if thou does rain, for forty days it will remain, St Swithins day if thou be fair for forty days twill rain no more
Star turn
Sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me
Still waters run deep
Stir With a Knife, Stir Up Strife
Stone is heavy and sand a burden, but provocation by a fool is heavier than both
Strangers are just friends you have not met yet
Strike while the iron is hot
Success has many fathers, while failure is an orphan
Sugar cube
Sunlight penetrates even the thinnest crack
Sweetheart
Swim in the sea
Sympathy without relief is like mustard without beef
Tailors and writers must mind the fashion
Take a hair of the dog that bit you
Take care of the pennies and the pounds will take care of themselves
Take heed of reconciled enemies and of meat twice boiled
Take your time and time will take you
Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice inside the ceiling laugh
Talk is cheap
Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself
Teaching of others teacheth the teacher
The Absent are Always Wrong
The Ass Loaded With Gold Still Eats Thistles
The best advice is found on the pillow
The best doctors are Dr Diet, Dr Quiet and Dr Merryman
The Best Fish Swim Near the Bottom
The best is yet to come
The best of men are but men at best
The best things come in small packages
The best things in life are free
The best throw of the dice is to throw them away
The Best Wine Comes Out of an Old Vessel
The bigger they are, the harder they fall
The birds and the bees
The cobra will bite you whether you call it cobra or Mr Cobra
The company makes the feast
The country is in ruins, and there are still mountains and rivers - japanese proverb
The course of true love never did run smooth
The darkest hour is just before dawn
The devil find work for idle hands to do
The Devil goes shares in gaming
The Devil rides upon a fiddlestick
The devil tempts all, but the idle man tempts the devil
The difficult we do at once, the impossible takes a little longer
The early bird catches the worm
The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese
The early worm enjoys a leisurely breakfast
The end justifies the means
The eyes are the window of the soul
The eyes speak as much as the mouth
The faintest ink is more powerful than the strongest memory
The Fairest Rose at Last is Withered
The Family That Prays Together Stays Together
The female of the species is more deadly than the male
The first faults are theirs that commit them, the second theirs that permit them
The first step is the hardest
The fish will soon be caught, that nibbles at every bait
The fruit does not fall far from the tree.
The Gods Send Nuts to those who have no Teeth
The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence
The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world
The higher the monkey climbs, the more he shows his tail
The higher the tree, the sweeter the plum
The higher you climb up the ladder, the more people can see your arse
The horses of hope gallop, but the asses of experience go slowly
The King can make a knight, but not a gentleman
The last drop makes the cup run over
The longest day must have an end
The longest rope has an end
The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones
The Mills of God Grind Slowly, Yet They Grind Exceedingly Small
The Moon does not heed the barking of dogs
The more one knows, the less one believes
The more the merrier
The more you get, the more you want
The most beautiful women are made for lovers who lack imagination
The nearer the bone the sweeter the meat
The nearer to the church, the farther from God
The old believe everything, the middle aged suspect everything, the young know everything
The One who tells the stories rules the world
The pen is mightier than the sword
The pot calls the kettle black
The price of greatness is responsibility
The price of liberty is eternal vigilance
The proof of the pudding is in the eating
The righteous man leads a blameless life; blessed are his children after him
The road to hell is paved with good intentions
The rotten apple injures its neighbours
The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak
The stick is the surest peacemaker
The tide never goes out so far but it always comes in again
The tongue ever turns to the aching tooth
The tongue that brings healing is a tree of life, but a deceitful tongue crushes the spirit
The trouble with experience is that by the time you have it, you are too old to take advantage of it
The truth will out
The West Wind Always Brings Wet Weather, The East Wind Wet and Cold Together, the South Wind Surely Brings Us Rain, the North Wind Blows It Back Again
The world is full of willing people: some willing to work and some willing to let them
The young man thinks the old mans stupid but the old man KNOWS the young man is
There are always ears on the other side of the wall
There Are No Atheists in Foxholes
There are none so blind as those that will not see
There are two sides to every question
There but for the grace of God go I
There is a skeleton in every cupboard
There is a time and a place for everything
There is a time to speak and a time to be silent
There is always some madness in love But there is also always some reason in madness
There is always somebody worst of then yourself no matter how bad things seem
There is an exception to every rule
There is more than one way to skin a cat
There is no accounting for taste
There is no difference between a wise man and a fool when they fall in love
There is no jollity but hath a smack of folly
There is no physician like a true friend
There is no such thing as a free lunch
There is no time like the present
There is safety in numbers
There will be rubs in the smoothest road
They Brag Most That Can Do the Least
They that dance must pay the fiddler
They that walk much in the sun will be tanned at last
Things can only get better
Things that come to those who wait may be things left by those who got there first
Think before you speak
Think Much, Speak Little and Write Less
Third time lucky
Those who cast the votes decide nothing Those who count the votes decide everything
Those who play the game do not see it as clearly as those who watch
Though the wound be healed, a scar remains
Three wise men
Time and tide wait for no man
Time is a great healer
Time to spare
Time waits for nobody
Tis better to get things for free, than to work up a sweat
To deceive oneself is very easy
To err is human, to forgive divine
To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart
To have is to hold and to hold is to have
To know the road ahead, ask those coming back
To many people in a dustbin means there not much room in side
To say that a man cannot love one woman at a time is ridiculous It is like saying a musician needs more than one violin to play the same piece of music
To the jaundiced eye all things look yellow
To the victor the spoils
To the world you may be one person but to one person you may be the world
To thine own self be true
To whom God gives, to him also the people give
Tomorrow never comes
Too funny for words
Too many chiefs and not enough indians
Too many clicks spoil the browse
Too many cooks spoil the broth
Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it
True blue will never stain
True love is like a teardrop in Niagra falls
True love never grows old
Trust is the mother of deceit
Try praying Nothing pleses God more than to hear a strange voice
Turn the other cheek
Two Dogs Fight for a Bone, and a Third Runs Away With it
Two fools in a house are too many
Two heads are better than one
Two peas in a pod
Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help and what he cannot help
Two wrongs do not make a right
Two wrongs may not make a right but three rights make a left
Under the thorn grow the roses
United we stand, divided we fall
Unkissed, unkind
Up to a point
Use it or lose it
Use soft words and hard arguments
Variety is the spice of life
Virtue is its own reward
Virtues all agree, but vices fight one another
Visit your aunt, but not every day of the year
Wait and see
Walk before you can run
Walls have ears