Proverbs starting with "J"

Displaying 107 proverbs. Click on any proverb below to view the full analysis and original text.

• J1 A good JACK makes a good Jill
• J2 JACK (Jackanapes) will never make a gentleman
• J3 JACK would be a gentleman
• J4 JACK would be a gentleman if he could speak French
• J5 JACK would be a gentleman if he had money
• J6 There is not so bad a JACK (Jill) but there is as bad a Jill (Jack)
• J7 To be common JACK to all
• J8 To play the JACK with one
• J9 A JACK-A-LENT
• J10 Can JACKANAPES (an ape) be merry when his clog is at his heel?
• J11 JACK-AT-A-PINCH
• J12 JACK DRUM's entertainment
• J13 To baste (curry, dust, pay, thrash) one's JACKET
• J14 No more like than JACK FLETCHER and his bolt
• J15 JACK-HOLD-MY-STAFF (John-hold-my-staff)
• J16 JACK-IN-A-BOX
• J17 To be JACK-IN-AN-OFFICE
• J18 JACK-IN-THE-CELLAR
• J19 JACK-OF-ALL-TRADES (John-of-all-trades)
• J20 JACK OF DOVER
• J21 To be JACK-ON-BOTH-SIDES
• J22 Not JACK-OUT-OF-DOORS nor yet gentleman
• J23 He is JACK-OUT-OF-OFFICE
• J24 To fly up with JACKSON's hens
• J25 JACK SPRAT he loved no fat and his wife she loved no lean, and yet betwixt them both they licked the platters clean
• J26 JACK SPRAT would teach his grandame
• J27 As full as a JADE, quoth the bride
• J28 Better a lean JADE than an empty halter
• J29 A JADE eats as much as a good horse
• J30 To have a JAG (load)
• J31 Look to him, JAILER, there is a frog in the stocks
• J32 A JAILER's conscience and his fetters made both of one metal
• J33 In JANUARY though sun appear March and February pay home full dear
• J34 JANUARY freezes the pot by the fire
• J35 Who in JANUARY sows oats gets gold and groats, who sows in May gets little that way
• J36 If JANUARY's calends be summerly gay it will be winterly weather till the calends of May
• J37 Like JANUS, two-faced
• J38 The JAY is unmeet for a fiddle
• J39 To JERICHO with him
• J40 Better lose a JEST than a friend
• J41 He will not lose his JEST for his guest, if he be a Jew
• J42 Who is nettled at a JEST seems to be touched in earnest
• J43 True JESTS are the worst
• J44 The truest JESTS sound worst in guilty ears
• J45 It is ill (no, not good) JESTING (meddling) with edged tools
• J46 Leave JESTING while it pleases lest it turn to earnest
• J47 Long JESTING was never good
• J48 No JESTING with bell ropes
• J49 As black as JET
• J50 Invite not a JEW either to pig or pork
• J51 To look like a JEW
• J52 To use one like a JEW
• J53 To be worth a JEW's eye
• J54 The JEWS spend at Easter, the Moors at marriages, and the Christians in suits of law
• J55 None can guess the JEWEL by the casket (cabinet)
• J56 To dance the Tyburn JIG
• J57 JOAN is as good as my lady in the dark
• J58 JOAN's ale is new
• J59 As patient as JOB
• J60 As poor (bare) as JOB
• J61 Out of JOB
• J62 A JOB's comforter
• J63 JOHN (Jack, Nick) would wipe his nose if he had one (it)
• J64 JOHN-A-DREAMS (John-a-nods)
• J65 JOHN-A-DROYNES
• J66 JOHN-A-NOKES and John-a-Stiles
• J67 JOHN BARLEYCORN
• J68 JOHN DRAWLATCH
• J69 Like JOHN GRAY's bird
• J70 He is JOHN Herb in the pottage, that will do neither good nor harm
• J71 To send (To come) by JOHN LONG (Tom Long) the carrier
• J72 I will venture it as JOHNSON did his wife and she did well
• J73 He is JOHN THOMSON's man
• J74 I will jeopard (venture) a JOINT (limb)
• J75 To be out of JOINT
• J76 There is no JOLLITY but has a smack of folly
• J77 In a long JOURNEY straw weighs
• J78 It is a great JOURNEY to the world's (to life's) end
• J79 One JOURNEY and two errands
• J80 Little JOURNEYS and good cost bring safe home
• J81 Far from JOVE (Jupiter) far from thunder (lightning)
• J82 JOVE laughs at lovers' perjuries
• J83 All JOY has sad effects in a troubled heart
• J84 The JOY of the heart makes the face fair (a fair color)
• J85 No JOY without annoy
• J86 Sudden JOY kills sooner than excessive grief
• J87 To weep for JOY is a kind of manna
• J88 When shared, JOY is doubled and sorrow halved
• J89 Your JOY is that of the Pyrausta (Pyralis)
• J90 The JOYS of the world dure but little
• J91 JUDAS might have repented before he could have found a tree to have hanged himself upon had he betrayed Christ in Scotland
• J92 To give one a JUDAS KISS
• J93 As sober (grave) as a JUDGE
• J94 From a foolish JUDGE a quick sentence
• J95 A good JUDGE conceives quickly, judges slowly
• J96 He has a good JUDGMENT that relies not wholly on his own
• J97 He that passes a JUDGMENT as he runs overtakes repentance
• J98 To know how JUDICARE came into the creed
• J99 As plum as a JUGGLEMEAR
• J100 As sure as a JUGGLER's box
• J101 To drink the JUICE of mandrake (mandragora)
• J102 JUNE, July, and August, wife, I know thee not
• J103 JUPITER himself cannot please all
• J104 A London (Kentish, Middlesex) JURY, hang half and save half
• J105 JUSTICE comprises all other (is the most commendable of all) virtues
• J106 JUSTICE is the best keeper of kings
• J107 JUSTICE pleases few in their own house