Children are the parents’ riches. （272）
Children are what the mothers are. （261）
Children have the qualities of the parents. （262）
Children learn to creep ere they can go. （281）
Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye. （215）
Christmas comes but once a year. （6）
Circumstances are the rulers of the weak, instruments of the wise. （905）
Clothes don’t make the man. （1422）
Clothes make the man. （1426）
Clumsy birds have to start flying early. （1664）
Common sense is not common. （558）
Community of purpose makes friendship. （1932）
Companions are odious. （1988）
Company in distress makes trouble [the sorrow] less. （1210）
Confidence in yourself is the first step on the road to success. （391）
Confidence is a plant of slow growth. （955）
Congenial minds are disposed to associate. （1989）
Constant dropping wears away a stone. （805）
Constant dropping wears the stone. （804）
Content is happiness. （415）
Courage and resolution are the spirit and soul of virtue. （778）
Cover your head by day as much as you will, by night as much as you can. （1046）
Cowards die often [many times] before their deaths. （1990）
Creditors have better memories than debtors. （1991）
Crows do not pick crow’s eyes. （1677）
Cry up wine and sell vinegar. （1992）
Custom is another nature. （566）
Custom is a second nature. （565）
Custom makes all the things easy. （567）
Custom reconciles us to everything. （568）
Custom rules the law. （569）
Custom without reason is but ancient error. （571）
Cut your coat according to your cloth. （450）
Danger is next neighbour to security. （1993）
Dangers foreseen are the sooner prevented. （1994）
Daughters and dead fish are no keeping wares. （306）
Dead men tell no tales. （1159）
Death defies the doctor. （1156）
Death frees us from ills. （1146）
Death is common [sure] to all. （1135）
Death is the grand [great] leveller. （1147）
Death levels all men. （1148）
Death meets us everywhere. （1175）
Death pays all debts [scores]. （1142）
Death quits (all) scores. （1143）
Death spares neither small nor great. （1149）
Death squares all accounts. （1144）
Deeds are fruits, words are but leaves. （654）
Deeds, not words. （593）
Delays are dangerous.（87）
Deliberate slowly, execute promptly. （336）
Despair gives courage to a coward. （1995）
Desperate diseases must have desperate cures. （1088）
Destroy the lion while he is yet but a whelp. （1835）
Dexterity comes by experience. （1315）
Diet cures more than doctors [pills]. （1099）
Digging your grave with your own teeth. （1100）
Diligence is the mother of good fortune. （344）
Diligence is the mother of success. （343）
Dirty linen should be washed at home. （248）
Disappointment is the nurse of wisdom. （1376）
Discretion is the better part of valour. （1996）
Diseases are the price of ill pleasures. （1086）
Diseases come on horseback, but go away on foot. （1092）
Diseases enter by the mouth. （1093）
Diseases of the soul are more dangerous than those of the body. （1112）
Do as most men do and men will speak well of thee. （323）
Do as the Romans do. （575）
Do as you would be done by. （696）
Do business, but be not a slave to it. （378）
Doing is better than saying. （590）
Do in Rome as Rome does. （577）
Do in Rome as the Romans do. （576）
Dog does not eat dog. （1768）
Dogs that bark at a distance bite not at hand. （1783）
Dogs wag their tails not so much in love to you as your bread. （1773）
Do not count your chickens before they are hatched. （1679）
Do not despise your enemy. （1942）
Do not give a dog bread every time he wags his tail. （1774）
Do not halloo till [until] you are out of the wood(s). （1997）
Do not hold a candle to the devil. （1527）
Don’t judge by appearance. （1405）
Don’t judge men or things at first sight. （1411）
Don’t let the grass grow under your feet. （95）
Don’t look upon the vessel, but upon that which it contains. （1413）
Don’t make any noise while you work, but use your brain. （594）
Don’t put off till tomorrow what should be done today. （49）
Don’t put off what you can do today till tomorrow. （50）
Don’t put the cart before the horse. （1998）
Do not run too fast after gain. （1242）
Do not sell the bear’s skin before you have caught the bear. （1845）
Don’t swap horses when crossing a stream. （1738）
Don’t trifle away your time. （97）
Do not through fear of poverty surrender liberty. （1184）
Don’t throw away the apple because of the core. （1051）
Don’t throw out the baby with the bath water. （1999）
Do not wash your dirty linen in public. （247）
Doubt is the key of knowledge. （542）
Drawn wells are seldom dry. （318）
Drunken days have all their tomorrows. （100）
Dry bread at home is better than roast meat abroad. （245）
Dying is as natural as living. （1136）
Each bird likes to hear himself sing. （1654）
Each man has his limitations. （1251）
Eagles fly alone, but sheep flock together. （1671）
Early wed, early dead. （204）
Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise. （1041）
Easier said than done. （595）
Easy come, easy go. （1025）
East or west, home is best. （237）
Eat a peck of salt with a man before you trust him. （956）
Eat to live, but not live to eat. （1114）
Economy is itself a great income. （859）
Economy is the easy chair of old age. （861）
Economy the poor man’s mints; extravagance the rich man’s pitfall. （868）
Either win the horse or lose the saddle. （1233）
Empty hands no hawk allure. （1672）
Empty vessels make the greatest sound. （1442）
Enough is as good as a feast. （1050）
Even Homer sometimes nods. （1271）
Envy assails the noblest, the winds howl around the highest peak. （1459）
Envy ceaseth after death. （1455）
Envy never dies. （1456）
Envy never enriched any man. （1457）
Envy shoots at others and wounds herself. （1458）
Equivocation is first cousin to a lie. （1616）
Even Homer sometimes nods. （1271）
Even reckoning makes long friends. （1864）
Every advantage has its disadvantage. （472）
Every bean has its black. （1260）
Every bird likes its own nest (best). （241）
Everybody has his merits and faults. （1254）
Everybody has some weak spot. （1255）
Everybody’s business is nobody’s business. （382）
Every brave man is a man of his word. （626）
Every cloud has a silver lining. （471）
Every cook praises his own broth. （1550）
Every country has its customs. （574）
Every couple is not a pair. （187）
Every dog has his day. （1793）
Every dog is a lion at home. （1769）
Every dog is allowed his first bite. （1275）
Every dog is valiant at his own door. （1770）
Every failure one meets with adds to one’s experience. （1325）
Every family has a skeleton in the cupboard. （250）
Every heart knows its own bitterness. （1207）
Every horse thinks his sack heaviest. （1739）
Every Jack has his Jill. （184）
Every Jack must [shall] have his Jill [Gill]. （185）
Every law has a loophole. （723）
Every little makes (a mickle). （866）
Every man has a fool in his sleeve. （1572）
Every man has his humour. （2000）
Every man has his own habit. （576）
Every man has his liking. （465）
Every man has his weak side. （1256）
Every man has the defects of his own virtues [his qualities]. （1253）
Every man hath [has] his faults. （1252）
Every man is a fool sometimes, and none at all times. （1573）
Every man is the architect of his own fortune. （402）
Every man thinks his own things best. （1551）
Every mechanism has its reverse. （2001）
Every miller draws water to his own mill. （2002）
Every mother breeds not sons alike. （279）
Every mother thinks her child beautiful. （274）
Every mother’s child is handsome. （273）
Every one’s faults are not written in their foreheads. （1283）
Every rose has its thorn. （1641）
Every shoe fits not every foot. （467）
Everything comes to him who waits. （824）
Everything has its time. （66）
Everything has its time and that time must be watched. （67）
Everything hath an end. （469）
Everything is good for something. （458）
Everything is good when new, but friends when old. （1896）
Everything must have a beginning. （468）
Every tide hath ebb.（82）
Every time the sheep bleats it loses a mouthful. （1702）
Every why has a wherefore. （476）
Every wise man dreadeth his enemy. （889）
Evil (be) to him who evil thinks. （1504）
Evil comes to us by ells and goes away by inches. （1510）
Evil communications corrupt good manners. （1516）
Evil weed is soon grown. （1498）
Evil [Ill] will never said well. （1529）
Example is better than precept. （2003）
Experience does it. （1309）
Experience is a long way. （1311）
Experience is a school from which you can never graduate. （1323）
Experience is sometimes dangerous. （1329）
Experience is the best teacher. （1308）
Experience is the father of wisdom and memory the mother. （1314）
Experience is the fruit of the tree of errors. （1328）
Experience is the mistress of fools. （1318）
Experience is the mother [father] of knowledge. （1312）
Experience is the mother [father] of wisdom. （1313）
Experience is the teacher of fools. （1319）
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools learn in no other. （1322）
Experience keeps no school, she teaches her pupils singly. （1324）
Experience must be bought. （1327）
Experience teaches. （1310）
Experience teaches fools. （1320）
Experience teaches fools, and he is a great one that will not learn by it. （1321）
Experience without learning is better than learning without experience. （1317）
Extremes meet. （2004）
Facts are stubborn (things). （432）
Facts speak louder than words.（653）
Failure in a great enterprise is at least a noble fault. （1248）
Failure is the mother of success. （1244）
Failure is the only high-road to success. （1247）
Failure teaches success. （1245）
Faint heart never won fair lady. （791）
Fair without but foul within. （1419）
Fair words and foul deeds cheat wise men as well as fools. （695）
Fair words butter no parsnips. （650）
Fair words fill not the belly. （664）
Fair words will not fill the belly. （665）
Fair words will not make the pot play. （667）
Falling out of lovers is the renewing of love. （174）
False friends are worse than bitter enemies. （1912）
False friends are worse than open enemies. （1910）
Falsehood like a nettle stings those who meddle with it. （1615）
False with one can be false with two. （1444）
Fame is a magnifying glass. （932）
Fame like a river is narrowest at its source and broadest afar off. （933）
Familiarity breeds contempt. （2005）
Fanned fires and forced love never did well yet. （191）
Far from eye far from heart. （2006）
Fasting is the best medicine. （1098）
Fat hens lay few eggs. （1682）
Faults are thick while love is thin. （167）
Feed a cold and starve a fever. （1111）
Feed sparingly [by measure] and defy the physician. （1096）
Few words to the wise suffice. （910）
Few words are best. （605）
Few words, many deeds. （586）
Fine clothes make the man. （1427）
Fine feathers do not make fine birds. （1423）
Fine feathers make fair fowls. （1429）
Fine feathers make fine birds. （1430）
Fine words dress ill deeds. （697）
Finished labours are pleasant. （315）
Fire and water are [may be] good servants, but bad masters. （483）
Fire and water have no mercy. （480）
Fire is the test of gold, adversity of friendship. （1933）
First catch your hare then cook him. （1802）
First come, first served. （2007）
First impressions are half the battle. （2008）
First think, and then speak. （598）
Fish begins to stink at the head. （2009）
Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee. （156）
Follow pleasure and it will flee thee; flee pleasure and it will follow thee. （416）
Folly is an incurable disease. （1597）
Fool’s haste is no speed. （1585）
Fools have the best luck. （1571）
Fools have fortune. （1570）
Fools learn nothing from wise men; but wise men learn much from fools. （897）
Fools look to tomorrow, and wise men use tonight. （896）
Fools never know when they are well. （1589）
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. （1591）
Fools will be meddling. （1592）
For a lost thing care nothing. （1221）
Forbidden fruit is sweet. （2010）
Force can never destroy right. （729）
Forced love does not last. （192）
Fortune favours fools. （1568）
Fortune favours the bold. （1351）
Fortune is easily found, but hard to be kept. （403）
Fortune is variant. （1356）
Fortune knocks once at least at every man’s door. （1352）
Fortune often rewards with interest those that have patience to wait for her. （826）
Four eyes see more than two. （915）
Friends agree best at a distance. （1926）
Friends are like fiddle-strings, they must not be screwed too tight. （1888）
Friends are thieves of time. （1927）
Friends [The best of friends] must part. （1921）
Friendless is the dead. （1902）
Friendship cannot stand always on one side. （1930）
Friendship should not be all on one side. （1931）
Friendship is like wine—the older the better. （1934）
From hearing comes wisdom; from speaking repentance. （619）
From saving comes having. （845）
From words to deeds is a great space. （596）
Frugality is an estate alone. （858）
Frugality when all is spent comes too late. （877）
Gain got by a lie will burn one’s fingers. （1636）
Gifts from the enemies are dangerous. （1941）
Give a dog a bad name and hang him. （1795）
Give a fool enough rope [rope enough] and he will hang himself. （1598）
Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice. （1396）
Give him an inch and he’ll take a yard. （2011）
Give never the wolf the wether. （1821）
