Proverbs By Language

"Wind puffs up empty bladders; opinion, fools."

"Whistle, and I'll come to you, my lad."

"Whether the pitcher hits the stone or the stone hits the pitcher, it goes ill with the pitcher."

"Where McGregor sits, there is the head of the table."

"When a dog is drowning, every one offers him drink."

"What you would not have done to yourselves, never do unto others."

"What is the matter with Kansas?"

"What is sauce for the goose is sauce for a gander."

"What is not in a man cannot come out of him surely."

"What is bred in the bone will never come out of the flesh."

"Westward-ho!"

"Walls have tongues, and hedges ears."

"Turn over a new leaf."

"To take the nuts from the fire with the dog's foot."

"To rise with the lark, and go to bed with the lamb."

"'Tis neither here nor there."

"'Tis in grain, sir, 'twill endure wind and weather."

"'Tis a stinger."

"Thursday come, and the week is gone."

"Though last, not least in love."

"Through thick and thin."

"Through thick and thin, both over bank and bush."

"Three things are men most likely to be cheated in, a horse, a wig, and a wife."

"Though this may be play to you, 'Tis death to us."

"The total depravity of inanimate things."

"The short and the long of it."

"The man that heweth over high, Some chip falleth in his eye."

"The foule Toade hath a faire stone in his head."

"The fat's all in the fire."

"That was laid on with a trowel."

"Strike the iron whilst it is hot."

"So was hir jolly whistel wel y-wette."

"Sop to Cerebus."

"So obliging that he ne'er oblig'd."

"Smell a rat."

"Safe bind, safe find."

"Quo vadis?"

"Put your toong in your purse."

"Put himself upon his good behaviour."

"Push on—keep moving."

"Present company excepted."

"Pons Asinorum."

"Performed to a T."

"Passing the Rubicon. When he arrived at the banks of the Rubicon, which divides Cisalpine Gaul from the rest of Italy … he stopped to deliberate…. At last he cried out: "The die is cast" and immediately passed the river."

"Originality provokes originality."

"Old Lady of Threadneedle Street."

"No better than you should be."

"Neither fish, flesh nor good red herring."

"Needle in a bottle of hay."

"Moche Crye and no Wull."