Rome was not built in a day.

Rule the appetite, and temper the tongue.

Safe bind, safe find.

Sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
Saving at the spigot and spending at the bung.

Say no ill of the year till it be past.

Saying and doing are two things.

Search others for their virtues, thyself for their faults.
Seeing is believing.

Seek till you find, and you'll not lose your labour.
Seldom seen, soon forgotten.

Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
Set a thief to take a thief.

Shameless craving must have shameless way.
Sharp stomachs make short graces.

She shows many more airs than graces.
Short reckonings make long friends.

Show me a liar, and I will show you a thief.
Silence doth seldom any harm.

Silks and satins put out the fire in the kitchen.
Sit in your place, and none will make you rise.
Sleep without supper, and wake without owing.
Sloth is the mother of poverty.

Soldiers in peace are like chimneys in summer.
Soon ripe, soon rotten.

Soon well, long ill.

Sooner said than done.

Sorrow will pay no debt.

Sour grapes, as the fox said when he could not reach them.

Spare well, and spend well.

Spare when you are young, and spend when you are old.

Speak the truth, and shame the devil.

Speech is the gift of all, but thought of few.

Stars are not seen by sunshine.

Stick your opinions on no person's sleeve.

Stretch your legs according to your coverlet.

Strike while the iron is hot.

Study to be worthy of your parents.

Such a welcome, such a farewell.

Such as the tree is, such is the fruit.

Sue a beggar, and catch a louse.

Take care of the pence, and the pounds will take care of themselves.

Take heed of an ox before, an ass behind, and a knave on

all sides.

Take heed will surely speed.

Take the will for the deed.

Take time by the forelock.

Talk of the devil and he'll appear.

Talking pays no toll.

Tell me the company you keep, and I'll tell

are.

Temperance is the best physic.

That is well spoken that is well taken.
That penny is well spent that saves a groat.

That's placing the cart before the horse.
That was laid on with a trowel.

The absent party is still faulty.

The ass that brays most eats least.

you what you

The best physicians are Dr Diet, Dr Quiet, and Dr Merry

man.

The better day the better deed.

The blind man's wife needs no painting.

The cobbler's wife is the worst shod.

The comforter's head never aches.

The covetous man is his own tormentor.
The crow thinks her own bird the fairest.
The devil is not as black as he is painted.

The devil was sick, the devil a monk would be;
The devil grew well, the devil a monk was he.

The end of a feast is better than the beginning of a fray.
The eye of the master does more work than both his hands.
The farthest way about is often the nearest way home.
The faulty stands on his guard.

The foremost dog catches the hare.

The galled jade will wince.

The goodness of a pudding is known in the eating.
The gray mare is the better horse.

The greatest burdens are not the gainfullest.
The greatest strokes make not the best music.
The greatest wealth is contentment with little.
The groat is ill saved that shames the master.
The guilty mind needs no accuser.

The handsomest flower is not the sweetest.

The hasty hand catches frogs for fish.

The hastiest man that is must wait while his drink is drawing.

The highest branch is not the safest roost.

The highway is never about.

The hotter war, the sooner peace.

The last drop makes the cup run over.

The last suitor wins the maid.

The lion's skin is never cheap.

The longest day must have an end.

The market is the best garden.

The married man must turn his staff into a stake.

The mill cannot grind with the water that is past.

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The mob has many heads, but no brains.
The more noble, the more humble.

The more the merrier, the fewer the better cheer.
The more you heap, the worse you cheap.

The nearer the church, the farther from God.
The offender never pardons.

The path of virtue is the path of peace.

The rat which has but one hole is soon caught.
The receiver is as bad as the thief.

The still sow sucks the most wash.

The sweetest wine makes the sharpest vinegar.

There is a tide in the affairs of men, which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.

There is luck in leisure.

There is reason in roasting eggs.

There's a lion in the path. [Excuse for not doing anything.]

There's a salve for every sore.

There's no compassion like the penny.

There's no fool like an old fool.

There's no general rule without an exception.

There's no joy without alloy.

The table robs more than the thief.

The truest jests sound worst in guilty ears.
The truth may be blamed, but not shamed.
The weakest must go to the wall.

The wearer best knows where the shoe pinches him.
There would be no ill language if it were not ill taken.
There would not be great ones if there were no little.
They love too much who die for love.

They must hunger in frost who will not work in heat.
They need much whom nothing will content.

Think of ease, but work on.

Those who live longest will see most.

Those who play with edge tools must expect to be cut.

Threatened folks live long.

Time and tide stay for no man.

Time is a file that wears, and makes no noise.

Timely blossom, timely fruit.

"Tis the second blow that makes the fray.

To a child all weather is cold.

To a crazy ship all winds are contrary.

To be hail fellow well met with one. [In good fellowship.]

To be in a merry pin.

To dine with Duke Humphry. [To go without dinner.]
To err, is human; to forgive, divine.

To find a mare's nest. [To discover something already well known.]

To give and keep, there is need of wit.

To go through thick and thin. [Stick at nothing.]
To have nothing but one's labour for one's pains.
To have the law in one's own hand.

To have two strings to one's bow.

To kill two birds with one stone.
To laugh in one's sleeve.

To leave a morsel for the Duke of Rutland. [That is-to leave it for the sake of manners, Manners being the family surname of the Duke of Rutland.]

Too many cooks spoil the broth.

Too much familiarity breeds contempt.

To play the dog in the manger. [Not to eat yourself, nor let anybody else.]

To put one's nose out of joint.

To rob Peter to pay Paul.

To seek a needle in a bottle of hay.

To send one away with a flea in his ear [in a state of trepidation and astonishment].

To stand in one's own light.

To strain at a gnat and swallow a camel.

To take a wrong sow by the ear.

To throw the helve after the hatchet. [Giving up a thing

in despair.]

Trade is the mother of money.

Tread on a worm and it will turn.

Truth hath always a fast bottom.

Two heads are better than one.

Two of a trade seldom agree.

Unknown, unmissed.

Use the means, and God will give the blessing.

Valour is worth little without discretion.

Valour that parleys is near yielding.

Venture a small fish to catch a great one.

War is death's feast.

Waste not, want not.

Wealth makes worship.

Welcome is the best cheer.

We must eat a peck of salt with a man before we know him.

We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.

What cannot be cured must be endured.

What is bred in the bone will not come out of the flesh.
What is got over the devil's back is spent under his belly.
What the eye sees not the heart rues not.

What the goodwife spares, the cat eats.

When all is consumed, repentance comes too late.

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When poverty comes in at the door, love flies out at the window.

When rogues fall out, honest men get their own.

When sorrow is asleep, wake it not.

When the cat's away, the mice will play.

When the goodman's from home, the goodwife's table is soon spread.

When we have gold we are in fear, when we have none we are in danger.

When wine's in, wit's out.

When you are at Rome, do as they do at Rome.

Where much smoke is, there must be some fire.

Where the carcase is, there the ravens will gather together.

Where the king is, there is the court.

Where the will is ready, the feet are light.

Where there is a will there is always a way.
While the grass grows the cow starves.

While there's life there's hope.

Who dainties love shall beggars prove.

Who spits against the wind spits in his own face.
Wilful waste makes woful want.

Wisely and slow: they stumble who run fast.
Wool sellers know wool buyers.

Words may pass, but blows fall heavy.

Wranglers never want words.

Write injuries in dust, but kindnesses in marble.

York-every man pay his share.

You are as busy as a hen with one chick.

You can't see green cheese but your teeth must water.

You cannot catch old birds with chaff.

You cannot eat your cake, and have it also.

You cannot hide an eel in a sack.

You cannot kill a dog with a bone.

You cannot make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.

SCOTCH PROVERBS.

A BEGUN turn is half ended.

A bit is often better gi'en than eaten.

A blate cat maks a proud mouse.

A borrowed len' should gae laughing hame.

Affront your friend in daffin', and tine him in earnest.
A fidging mare should be weel girded.

A fou man and a hungry horse aye mak haste hame.
A friend's dinner's soon dished.