~ English Proverb ~

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601. Many a good father has but a bad son.

602. Many a little makes a mickle.

603. Many a true word is spoken in jest.

604. Many hands make light work.

605. Many men, many minds.

606. Many words hurt more than swords.

607. Many words will not fill a bushel.

608. Marriages are made in heaven.

609. Measure for measure.

610. Measure thrice and cut once.

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611. Men may meet but mountains never.

612. Mend or end (end or mend).

613. Might goes before right.

614. Misfortunes never come alone (singly).

615. Misfortunes tell us what fortune is.

616. Money begets money.

617. Money has no smell.

618. Money is a good servant but a bad master.

619. Money often unmakes the men who make it.

620. Money spent on the brain is never spent in vain.

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621. More haste, less speed.

622. Much ado about nothing.

623. Much will have more.

624. Muck and money go together.

625. Murder will out.

626. My house is my castle.

627. Name not a rope in his house that was hanged.

628. Necessity is the mother of invention.

629. Necessity knows no law.

630. Neck or nothing.

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631. Need makes the old wife trot.

632. Needs must when the devil drives.

633. Neither fish nor flesh.

634. Neither here nor there.

635. Neither rhyme nor reason.

636. Never cackle till your egg is laid.

637. Never cast dirt into that fountain of which you have sometime drunk.

638. Never do things by halves.

639. Never fry a fish till it's caught.

640. Never offer to teach fish to swim.

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641. Never put off till tomorrow what you can do (can be done) today.

642. Never quit certainty for hope.

643. Never too much of a good thing.

644. Never try to prove what nobody doubts.

645. Never write what you dare not sign.

646. New brooms sweep clean.

647. New lords, new laws.

648. Nightingales will not sing in a cage.

649. No flying from fate.

650. No garden without its weeds.

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651. No great loss without some small gain.

652. No herb will cure love.

653. No joy without alloy.

654. No living man all things can.

655. No longer pipe, no longer dance.

656. No man is wise at all times.

657. No man loves his fetters, be they made of gold.

658. No news (is) good news.

659. No pains, no gains.

660. No song, no supper.

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661. No sweet without (some) sweat.

662. No wisdom like silence.

663. None but the brave deserve the fair.

664. None so blind as those who won't see.

665. None so deaf as those that won't hear.

666. Nothing comes out of the sack but what was in it.

667. Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.

668. Nothing must be done hastily but killing of fleas.

669. Nothing so bad, as not to be good for something.

670. Nothing succeeds like success.

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671. Nothing venture, nothing have.

672. Oaks may fall when reeds stand the storm.

673. Of two evils choose the least.

674. Old birds are not caught with chaff.

675. Old friends and old wine are best.

676. On Shank's mare.

677. Once bitten, twice shy.

678. Once is no rule (custom).

679. One beats the bush, and another catches the bird.

680. One chick keeps a hen busy.

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681. One drop of poison infects the whole tun of wine.

682. One fire drives out another.

683. One good turn deserves another.

684. One law for the rich, and another for the poor.

685. One lie makes many.

686. One link broken, the whole chain is broken.

687. One man, no man.

688. One man's meat is another man's poison.

689. One scabby sheep will mar a whole flock.

690. One swallow does not make a summer.

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691. One today is worth two tomorrow.

692. Open not your door when the devil knocks.

693. Opinions differ.

694. Opportunity makes the thief.

695. Out of sight, out of mind.

696. Out of the frying-pan into the fire.

697. Packed like herrings.

698. Patience is a plaster for all sores.

699. Penny-wise and pound-foolish.

700. Pleasure has a sting in its tail.

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701. Plenty is no plague.

702. Politeness costs little (nothing), but yields much.

703. Poverty is no sin.

704. Poverty is not a shame, but the being ashamed of it is.

705. Practise what you preach.

706. Praise is not pudding.

707. Pride goes before a fall.

708. Procrastination is the thief of time.

709. Promise is debt.

710. Promise little, but do much.

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711. Prosperity makes friends, and adversity tries them.

712. Put not your hand between the bark and the tree.

713. Rain at seven, fine at eleven.

714. Rats desert a sinking ship.

715. Repentance is good, but innocence is better.

716. Respect yourself, or no one else will respect you.

717. Roll my log and I will roll yours.

718. Rome was not built in a day.

719. Salt water and absence wash away love.

720. Saying and doing are two things.

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721. Score twice before you cut once.

722. Scornful dogs will eat dirty puddings.

723. Scratch my back and I'll scratch yours.

724. Self done is soon done.

725. Self done is well done.

726. Self is a bad counsellor.

727. Self-praise is no recommendation.

728. Set a beggar on horseback and he'll ride to the devil.

729. Set a thief to catch a thief.

730. Shallow streams make most din.

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731. Short debts (accounts) make long friends.

732. Silence gives consent.

733. Since Adam was a boy.

734. Sink or swim!

735. Six of one and half a dozen of the other.

736. Slow and steady wins the race.

737. Slow but sure.

738. Small rain lays great dust.

739. So many countries, so many customs.

740. So many men, so many minds.

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741. Soft fire makes sweet malt.

742. Something is rotten in the state of Denmark .

743. Soon learnt, soon forgotten.

744. Soon ripe, soon rotten.

745. Speak (talk) of the devil and he will appear (is sure to appear).

746. Speech is silver but silence is gold.

747. Standers-by see more than gamesters.

748. Still waters run deep.

749. Stolen pleasures are sweetest.

750. Stretch your arm no further than your sleeve will reach.