Proverbs starting with "I"

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• I1 As chaste as ICE (snow)
• I2 As cold as ICE (snow)
• I3 To break the ICE
• I4 Sick of the IDLES
• I5 You'll soon learn to shape IDLE a coat
• I6 Be not IDLE and you shall not be longing
• I7 Better to be IDLE than not well occupied
• I8 Neither IDLE nor well occupied
• I9 IDLENESS begets lust
• I10 IDLENESS is the devil's cushion
• I11 IDLENESS is the greatest prodigality in the world
• I12 IDLENESS is the key of beggary
• I13 IDLENESS is the mother (nurse, root) of all evil (vice, sin)
• I14 IDLENESS turns the edge of wit (makes the wit rust)
• I15 Of IDLENESS comes no goodness
• I16 IF's and and's
• I17 IGNORANCE is the mother of devotion
• I18 IGNORANCE is the mother of impudence
• I19 IGNORANCE of the law excuses no man
• I20 The IGNORANT have an eagle's wings and an owl's eyes
• I21 All ILCHESTER is jail
• I22 ILIADS of woe
• I23 Better suffer ILL (wrong) than do ill (wrong)
• I24 For ILL do well, then fear not hell
• I25 He may do much ILL ere he can do worse
• I26 He that does ILL (evil) hates the light
• I27 He that speaks ILL of another let him first think of himself
• I28 He that will none ILL (evil) do must do nothing that belongs thereto
• I29 If you do no ILL do no ill like
• I30 ILL comes in by ells and goes out by inches
• I31 The ILL (evil) that comes out of our mouth falls into our bosom
• I32 It is a good ILL that comes alone
• I33 Say no ILL of the year till it be past
• I34 There came never ILL of good advisement
• I35 There is no ILL but may turn to one's good
• I36 To speak ILL of others is the fifth element
• I37 Who would do ILL never wants occasion
• I38 Three ILLS (evils) come from the North, a cold wind, a shrinking cloth, and a dissembling man
• I39 He that is ILL to himself will be good to nobody
• I40 ILL today and worse tomorrow
• I41 ILL WILL (Evil will) never speaks (said) well
• I42 She looks like an IMAGE of rye dough
• I43 All IMMODERATIONS are enemies to health
• I44 No one (No man) is tied to IMPOSSIBILITIES
• I45 The first IMPRESSION is hard to cancel
• I46 We IN diversely but end alike
• I47 As good is an INCH as an ell
• I48 Drive out the INCH as you have done the span
• I49 Give an INCH and he will take an ell
• I50 He prefers an INCH of his pleasure (will) before an ell of his profit
• I51 He sees an INCH before his nose
• I52 He will not yield (budge) an INCH
• I53 An INCH an hour, a foot a day
• I54 An INCH breaks no square
• I55 An INCH in a man's nose is much
• I56 An INCH in a miss is as good as an ell
• I57 An INCH of a nag is worth a span of an aver¹
• I58 Ready (Waiting) at an INCH
• I59 She does not (cannot) leap an INCH from a shrew (slut)
• I60 You shall ride an INCH behind the tail
• I61 He will swear (look) through an INCH BOARD
• I62 Better an INCONVENIENCE than a mischief
• I63 He makes INDENTURES with his legs
• I64 INDUSTRY is fortune's right hand and frugality her left
• I65 INFANTS' manners are molded more by the example of parents than by stars at their nativity
• I66 INGRATITUDE comprehends (is the worst of) all faults (vices)
• I67 INGRATITUDE is the daughter of pride
• I68 He invites a new INJURY who bears the old patiently
• I69 An INJURY which thou dost intend to revenge never divulge
• I70 To pocket up an INJURY (wrong)
• I71 INJURIES are written in brass
• I72 INJURIES slighted become none at all
• I73 As black as INK
• I74 Black INK is ill meat
• I75 He has no INK in his pen
• I76 You wash out INK with ink
• I77 To smell of the INKHORN
• I78 As great as INKLE-WEAVERS¹ (beggars)
• I79 To get an INKLING of a thing
• I80 As white as INNOCENCE
• I81 INNOCENCE bears its defense with it
• I82 INNOCENCE is bold
• I83 Wear the INSIDE of thy stockings outward to scare the witches
• I84 To be high in the INSTEP
• I85 INTEMPERANCE is a cutthroat
• I86 INTEREST will not lie
• I87 Little INTERMEDDLING makes good friends (fair parting)
• I88 You are IPSE (he, the man)
• I89 The IRISHMAN for his hand, Welshman for a leg, the Englishman for a face, and the Dutchman for beard
• I90 The IRON entered into his soul
• I91 IRON not used soon rusts
• I91a IRON whets iron
• I92 IRON (Gold) with often handling is worn to nothing
• I93 IRON (Brass) with use grows bright
• I94 It is good to strike while the IRON is hot
• I95 Laden with IRON laden with fear
• I96 The more you beat IRON (the stone of Sicilia) the harder it grows
• I97 To digest IRON (To have a stomach), like an ostrich
• I98 To hammer on cold IRON
• I99 He has many (other) IRONS in the fire
• I100 He that has many IRONS in the fire, some will cool (burn)
• I101 As poor as IRUS
• I102 The ISLE OF WIGHT has no monks, lawyers, or foxes
• I103 The ITALIANS are wise before the deed (fact), the Germans in the deed (fact), the French after the deed (fact)
• I104 When ITALY shall be without poison, France without treason, England without war, the world shall be without earth
• I105 He that will not bear the ITCH must endure the smart
• I106 ITCH and ease can no man please
• I107 An ITCH is worse than a smart
• I108 The ITCH of disputing is the scab of the church
• I109 As white as IVORY
• I110 He may go pipe in an IVY LEAF