~ English Proverb ~

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301. Empty vessels make the greatest (the most) sound.

302. Enough is as good as a feast.

303. Envy shoots at others and wounds herself.

304. Even reckoning makes long friends.

305. Every ass loves to hear himself bray.

306. Every barber knows that.

307. Every bean has its black.

308. Every bird likes its own nest.

309. Every bullet has its billet.

310. Every country has its customs.

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311. Every dark cloud has a silver lining.

312. Every day is not Sunday.

313. Every dog has his day.

314. Every dog is a lion at home.

315. Every dog is valiant at his own door.

316. Every Jack has his Jill.

317. Every man has a fool in his sleeve.

318. Every man has his faults.

319. Every man has his hobby-horse.

320. Every man is the architect of his own fortunes.

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321. Every man to his taste.

322. Every miller draws water to his own mill.

323. Every mother thinks her own gosling a swan.

324. Every one's faults are not written in their foreheads.

325. Every tub must stand on its own bottom.

326. Every white has its black, and every sweet its sour.

327. Every why has a wherefore.

328. Everybody's business is nobody's business.

329. Everything comes to him who waits.

330. Everything is good in its season.

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331. Evil communications corrupt good manners.

332. Experience is the mother of wisdom.

333. Experience keeps a dear school, but fools learn in no other.

334. Experience keeps no school, she teaches her pupils singly.

335. Extremes meet.

336. Facts are stubborn things.

337. Faint heart never won fair lady.

338. Fair without, foul (false) within.

339. Fair words break no bones.

340. False friends are worse than open enemies.

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341. Familiarity breeds contempt.

342. Far from eye, far from heart.

343. Fasting comes after feasting.

344. Faults are thick where love is thin.

345. Feast today and fast tomorrow.

346. Fine feathers make fine birds.

347. Fine words butter no parsnips.

348. First catch your hare.

349. First come, first served.

350. First deserve and then desire.

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351. First think, then speak.

352. Fish and company stink in three days.

353. Fish begins to stink at the head.

354. Follow the river and you'll get to the sea.

355. Fool's haste is no speed.

356. Fools and madmen speak the truth.

357. Fools grow without watering.

358. Fools may sometimes speak to the purpose.

359. Fools never know when they are well.

360. Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

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361. For the love of the game.

362. Forbearance is no acquittance.

363. Forbidden fruit is sweet.

364. Forewarned is forearmed.

365. Fortune favours the brave (the bold).

366. Fortune is easily found, but hard to be kept.

367. Four eyes see more (better) than two.

368. Friends are thieves of time.

369. From bad to worse.

370. From pillar to post.

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371. Gentility without ability is worse than plain beggary.

372. Get a name to rise early, and you may lie all day.

373. Gifts from enemies are dangerous.

374. Give a fool rope enough, and he will hang himself.

375. Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.

376. Give him an inch and he'll take an ell.

377. Give never the wolf the wether to keep.

378. Gluttony kills more men than the sword.

379. Go to bed with the lamb and rise with the lark.

380. Good clothes open all doors.

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381. Good counsel does no harm.

382. Good health is above wealth.

383. Good masters make good servants.

384. Good words and no deeds.

385. Good words without deeds are rushes and reeds.

386. Gossiping and lying go hand in hand.

387. Grasp all, lose all.

388. Great barkers are no biters.

389. Great boast, small roast.

390. Great cry and little wool.

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391. Great spenders are bad lenders.

392. Great talkers are great liars.

393. Great talkers are little doers.

394. Greedy folk have long arms.

395. Habit cures habit.

396. Half a loaf is better than no bread.

397. "Hamlet" without the Prince of Denmark .

398. Handsome is that handsome does.

399. Happiness takes no account of time.

400. Happy is he that is happy in his children.

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401. Hard words break no bones.

402. Hares may pull dead lions by the beard.

403. Harm watch, harm catch.

404. Haste makes waste.

405. Hasty climbers have sudden falls.

406. Hate not at the first harm.

407. Hatred is blind, as well as love.

408. Hawks will not pick hawks' eyes.

409. He begins to die that quits his desires.

410. He cannot speak well that cannot hold his tongue.

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411. He carries fire in one hand and water in the other.

412. He dances well to whom fortune pipes.

413. He gives twice who gives in a trice.

414. He goes long barefoot that waits for dead man's shoes.

415. He is a fool that forgets himself.

416. He is a good friend that speaks well of us behind our backs.

417. He is happy that thinks himself so.

418. He is lifeless that is faultless.

419. He is not fit to command others that cannot command himself.

420. He is not laughed at that laughs at himself first.

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421. He is not poor that has little, but he that desires much.

422. He jests at scars that never felt a wound.

423. He knows best what good is that has endured evil.

424. He knows how many beans make five.

425. He knows much who knows how to hold his tongue.

426. He laughs best who laughs last.

427. He lives long that lives well.

428. He must needs swim that is held up by the chin.

429. He should have a long spoon that sups with the devil.

430. He smells best that smells of nothing.

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431. He that comes first to the hill may sit where he will.

432. He that commits a fault thinks everyone speaks of it.

433. He that does you an i!i turn will never forgive you.

434. He that fears every bush must never go a-birding.

435. He that fears you present wiil hate you absent.

436. He that goes a borrowing, goes a sorrowing.

437. He that goes barefoot must not plant thorns.

438. He that has a full purse never wanted a friend.

439. He that has a great nose thinks everybody is speaking of it.

440. He that has an ill name is half hanged.

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441. He that has no children knows not what love is.

442. He that has He head needs no hat.

443. He that has no money needs no purse.

444. He that is born to be hanged shall never be drowned.

445. He that is full of himself is very empty.

446. He that is ill to himself will be good to nobody.

447. He that is warm thinks all so.

448. He that knows nothing doubts nothing.

449. He that lies down with dogs must rise up with fleas.

450. He that lives with cripples learns to limp.