Proverbs with Keyword: "WORD"
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- W758 After WORD comes weird
- W759 Every WORD requires not an answer
- W760 A good WORD is as soon said as an ill (a bad)
- W761 He has his saying WORD and his denaying word
- W762 He has not a WORD to cast at a dog
- W763 He is but a WORD and a blow
- W764 He will have the last WORD though he talk bilk for it
- W765 If a WORD be worth one shekel silence is worth two
- W766 An ill WORD is always ready (never to seek)
- W767 No WORD but mum
- W768 Not a WORD of Penzance
- W769 Not a WORD of the pudding
- W770 One ill WORD asks another
- W771 One ill WORD meets another and it were at the Bridge of London
- W772 There is many a true WORD spoken in jest
- W773 There was never a fair WORD in flyting¹
- W774 To speak a cold (cool) WORD with one
- W775 To speak a good WORD for one
- W776 While the WORD is in your mouth it is your own, when it is once spoken it is another's
- W777 A WORD and a stone let go (A word spoken) cannot be called back
- W778 A WORD before (in time) is worth two behind (afterwards)
- W779 A WORD is the shade (shadow) of an action
- W780 A WORD spoken is an arrow let fly
- W781 A WORD to a wise man is enough (Few words to the wise suffice)
- W782 He is (is not) his WORD's master
- W783 At three WORDS he is at the top of the house
- W784 Bad WORDS find bad acceptance
- W785 Bad WORDS make a woman worse
- W786 Bare WORDS are no lawful (good) bargain
- W787 Evening WORDS are not like to morning
- W788 Fair WORDS and ill deeds deceive both wise and fools
- W789 Fair (Soft, Good) WORDS break no bones
- W790 Fair WORDs broke never bone, foul words break many one
- W791 Fair WORDS butter no parsnips
- W792 Fair WORDS did fet gromwell seed plenty
- W793 Fair WORDS hurt not the mouth (tongue)
- W794 Fair WORDS (promises) make fools fain
- W795 Fair WORDS make me look to my purse
- W796 Few WORDS among friends are best
- W797 Few WORDS and many deeds
- W798 Few WORDS are best
- W799 Few WORDS show men wise
- W800 Fine WORDS dress ill deeds
- W801 Foul (High) WORDS break no bones
- W802 From WORDS to deeds is a great space (distance)
- W803 Good WORDS anoint us and ill do unjoint us
- W804 Good WORDS are good cheap
- W805 Good WORDS are worth much and cost little
- W806 Good WORDS cool (quench) more than cold (a bucket of, a cauldron of) water
- W807 Good WORDS cost no more than bad
- W808 Good WORDS cost nought (nothing)
- W809 Good WORDS fill not a sack
- W810 Good WORDS help sick minds
- W811 Good WORDS make some amends for ill deeds
- W812 Good WORDS without deeds are rushes and reeds
- W813 He spares no WORDS that brings good news
- W814 It is good to find modest WORDS to express immodest things
- W815 Many WORDS breed a brawl
- W816 Many WORDS many buffets
- W817 Many WORDS will not fill a bushel (fill not the firlot¹)
- W818 Many WORDS would have mickle drink
- W819 More WORDS than one go to a bargain
- W820 Not WORDS but deeds
- W821 Soft WORDS and hard arguments
- W822 Soft (Fair, Gentle) WORDS pacify (appease) wrath
- W823 There are many fair WORDS in the marriage making but few in the tochergood1 paying
- W824 To come from WORDS to blows
- W825 To eat one's WORDS
- W826 To speak nine WORDS at once
- W827 Two WORDS to a bargain
- W828 Where many WORDS are, the truth goes by
- W829 Who gives good WORDS feeds with an empty spoon
- W830 Wise WORDS and great seldom agree
- W831 WORDS and feathers the wind carries away
- W832 WORDS are but sands (words), it is money buys lands
- W833 WORDS are but wind
- W834 WORDS are but wind, but blows are unkind (but dunts¹ are the devil)
- W835 WORDS are wise men's counters but the money of fools
- W836 The WORDS ending in -ic do mock the physician, as hectic, paralytic, apoplectic, lethargic
- W837 WORDS have long tails and have no tails
- W838 WORDS have wings and cannot be recalled
- W839 WORDS hurt (cut) more than swords
- W840 WORDS may pass but blows fall heavy