• Take care of the pennies, and the pounds will take care of themselves •
Talk is cheap • Talk of Angels, and hear the flutter of their wings • Tell me who your friends are, and I'll tell you who you are • Tell the truth and shame the Devil (Shakespeare,
Henry IV) • The age of miracles is past •
The apple does not fall/never falls far from the tree • The best condiments are authentic flavors •
The best defense is a good offense •
The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry •
The best things in life are free •
The bigger they are, the harder they fall • The boy is the father of the man • The bread never falls but on its buttered side • The cobbler always wears the worst shoes • The comeback is greater than the setback • The course of true love never did run smooth •
The customer is always right • The darkest hour is just before the dawn •
The Devil finds work for idle hands to do • The Devil looks after his own •
The die is cast •
The early bird catches the worm •
The end justifies the means •
The enemy of my enemy is my friend • The exception which proves the rule • The female of the species is more deadly than the male • The good die young •
The grass is always greener (on the other side) (of the fence) •
The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world • The husband is always the last to know • The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow –
William Cowper, English poet (1731–1800) • The labourer is worthy of his hire • It is the last
straw that breaks the camel's back • The law is an ass (from English writer
Charles Dickens' novel
Oliver Twist) • The leopard does not change his spots • The left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing • The light is on but nobody is home • The longest day must have an end • The longest journey starts with a single step •
The Moon is made of green cheese • The more the merrier • The more things change, the more they stay the same •
The nail that sticks out gets hammered down • The only way to understand a woman is to love her • The old wooden spoon beats me down • The only way to find a friend is to be one •
The pen is mightier than the sword •
The pot calling the kettle black •
The proof of the pudding is in the eating •
The rich get richer and the poor get poorer •
The road to Hell is paved with good intentions • The shoemaker's son always goes barefoot •
The squeaky wheel gets the grease •
The squeaky wheel gets the oil •
The streets are paved with gold •
The truth will set you free • The way to a man's heart is through his stomach • The work praises the man. •
There ain't no such thing as a free lunch • There are more ways of killing a cat than choking it with cream • There are none so blind as those who will not see attributed variously to
Edmund Burke or
George Santayana • There are two sides to every question • There but for the grace of God go I • There is an exception to every rule • There are always more fish in the sea • There is honour among thieves • There is many a good tune played on an old fiddle •
There's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip •
There's more than one way to skin a cat •
There is no accounting for tastes • There is no fool like an old fool • There is no I in team • There's no need to wear a hair shirt • There is no place like home • There is no shame in not knowing; the shame lies in not finding out. • There is no smoke without fire/Where there is smoke, there is fire •
There is no such thing as a free lunch • There is no such thing as bad publicity • There is no time like the present •
There are none so deaf as those who will not hear • There's nowt so queer as folk • There is one born every minute •
There is safety in numbers (
Proverbs 11:14) • They that sow the wind shall reap the whirlwind • Third time is a charm • Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it
George Santayana •
Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones • Those who know many languages live as many lives as the languages they know (Czech proverb) • Those who sleep with dogs will rise with fleas (
James Sandford, The Garden of Pleasure) • Time and tide wait for no man • Time flies • Time goes by slowly when you are living intensely • Time is a great healer •
Time is money • Time is wasted without purpose • (Only) time will tell • 'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all • To be worn out is to be renewed –
Laozi, Chinese philosopher (604 BC – c. 531 BC) • To each his own •
To err is human; to forgive, divine • To learn a language is to have one more window from which to look at the world (Chinese proverb) • To the victor go the spoils • To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive • Tomorrow is another day • Tomorrow never comes • Too many cooks spoil the broth • Too little, too late • Too much rain makes a flood •
Trust, but verify •
Truth is stranger than fiction • Truth is more valuable if it takes you a few years to find it – often attributed to French author
Jules Renard (1864–1910) • (The) truth will out • Turn your face toward the sun and the shadows fall behind you • Two birds with one stone • Two can play at that game • Two heads are better than one • Two is company, but three is a crowd •
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