Complete List of Proverbs
This is A List of Proverbs beginning with T. Use a proverb from This List wisely in your writings and speech and make yourself brief.
• Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves.
• Talk of the devil and he’ll appear.
• That which is evil is soon learnt.
• That which proves too much proves nothing.
• The best of friends must part.
• The biter bit.
• The cat is fain the fish to eat, but hath no will to wet her feet.
• The child is father of the man.
• The company makes the feast.
• The darkest hour is nearest the dawn.
• The devil lurks behind the cross.
• The early bird catches the worm.
• The end justifies the means.
• The exception proves the rule.
• The fountain is clearest at its source.
• The game is not worth the candle.
• The goat must browse where she is tied.
• The habit does not make the monk.
• The heart sees further than the head.
• The last straw breaks the camel’s back.
• The less people think, the more they talk.
• The love of a woman and a bottle of wine are sweet for a season but last for a time.
• The master’s eye fattens the horse.
• The morning sun never lasts the day.
• The nearer the church the further from God.
• The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
• The public pays with ingratitude.
• The receiver is as bad as the thief.
• The stone that lieth not in your way need not offend you.
• The strength of a chain is its weakest link.
• The tongue ever turns to the aching tooth.
• The unexpected always happens.
• The wise make jests and the fool repeats them.
• The wish is father to the thought.
• The world is a staircase; some are going up, some are coming down.
• There are as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it.
• There are more foolish buyers than foolish sellers.
• There are more ways to kill a dog than by hanging him.
• There are two sides to every question.
• There could be no great ones if there were no little.
• There is a But in everything.
• There is no true love without jealousy.
• There is no venom like that of the tongue.
• There is a salve for every sore.
• There’s many a slip twixt the cup and the lip.
• There’s safety in numbers.
• They who only seek for faults find nothing else.
• Those who do nothing generally take to shouting.
• Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones.
• Those who make the best use of their time have none to spare.
• Time and tide wait for no man.
• Time cures more than the doctor.
• Time flies.
• Time is money.
• Time is the best counselor.
• Tit for tat is fair play
• To be born with a silver spoon in the mouth.
• To err is human; to forgive divine.
• To forget a wrong is the best revenge.
• To kill two birds with one stone.
• To know the disease is half the cure.
• To look for a needle in a haystack.
• To make one hole to stop another.
• To make two bites at one cherry.
• To put the cart before the horse.
• To scare a bird is not the best way to catch it.
• To stir up a hornet’s nest.
• To take the chestnut out of the fire with the cat’s paw.
• Too many cooks spoil the broth.
• Too much of one thing is good for nothing.
• Train a tree when it is young.
• Tread on a worm and it will turn.
• True love never grows old.
• Trust but not too much.
• Trust dies because bad pay poisons him.
• Turn over a new leaf.
• Two eyes see more than one.
• Two heads are better than one.
• Two is company, three is none.
• Two is company, three is a crowd.
• Two wrongs do not make a right.
• Throw a sprat to catch a whale.
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