Proverbs starting with "K"

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• K1 KA¹ me ka thee
• K2 Good KALE¹ is half a meal (half meat)
• K3 He plaints¹ early that plaints on his KALE²
• K4 If thou steal not my KALE¹ break not my dike
• K5 KALE¹ spares bread
• K6 Keek¹ in the KALE-POT² and glower³ in the ambry⁴
• K7 KAMESTERS¹ are aye creeshie²
• K8 Well guessed, KATE, here is neither to lack nor to leave
• K9 Better KEEP now than seek anon (than ask)
• K10 He is wise enough that can KEEP himself warm
• K11 KEEP some till furthermore come
• K12 A wary KEEPER is better than a careful getter
• K13 Who shall keep the KEEPERS?
• K14 A KENNEL is lodging good enough for a dog
• K15 In KENT is found health and no wealth, wealth and no health, and health and wealth
• K16 Neither in KENT nor Christendome
• K17 KENTISH LONGTAILS
• K18 He has lost the KERNEL and leaps at the shell
• K19 He that will eat the KERNEL let him crack the nut
• K20 But when, quoth KETTLE to his mare
• K21 The KETTLE calls the pot black ass
• K22 As dry (hollow) as a KEX¹
• K23 As cold as a KEY
• K24 A silver KEY can open an iron lock
• K25 To lay the KEY under the door and be gone
• K26 The used KEY is always bright
• K27 Your KEY fits not that (fits every) lock
• K28 He tries all the KEYS in the bunch
• K29 The KEYS hang not all at one man's girdle
• K30 The KICK of the dam (mare) hurts not the colt
• K31 He is of the same (a strange) KIDNEY
• K32 It is ill KILLING a crow with an empty sling
• K33 Ill may the KILN call the oven burnt-house (burnt-tail)
• K34 My KILN of malt is on fire
• K35 KIM-KAM
• K36 It is a good KIN that none do amiss in
• K37 It is good to be near of KIN to an estate
• K38 The nearer in KIN the less in kindness
• K39 The nearer the KIN the further in
• K40 Of KIN to the owl, who thinks herself fairest
• K41 He is come of the right KIND
• K42 It comes by KIND,¹ it cost him nothing
• K43 KIND today cross tomorrow
• K44 Hertfordshire KINDNESS
• K45 KINDNESS cannot be bought for gear¹
• K46 KINDNESS comes of will
• K47 KINDNESS is lost that is done to an old man and young child
• K48 KINDNESS lies not aye in one side of the house
• K49 KINDNESS (Love, Kind) will creep where it cannot go
• K50 One KINDNESS is the price of another
• K51 To kill with KINDNESS
• K52 He has KINDRED enough that has a good wife
• K53 Wheresoever you see your KINDRED make much of your friends
• K54 As merry (happy) as a KING
• K55 Better to be KING of a molehill than a kaiser's slave
• K56 He fears nor KING nor kaiser
• K57 He that is drunk is as great as a KING
• K58 It belongs to a KING to do well and hear ill
• K59 It shall be done when the KING comes to Wogan
• K60 The KING and the pope, the lion and the wolf
• K61 The KING can do no wrong
• K62 The KING knew not his friends from his foes
• K63 The KING knew not his friends from his foes
• K64 A KING (prince) loves the treason but hates the traitor
• K65 The KING must be subject to (must do nothing against) the law
• K66 The KING of good fellows is appointed for the queen of beggars
• K67 A KING or a beggar
• K68 The KING wills, the bishop preaches
• K69 A KING without learning is but a crowned ass
• K70 Like KING (prince) like people
• K71 Nearest the KING (Highest in court) nearest the widdy¹
• K72 What the KING wills, that the law wills
• K73 Whosoever is KING you will be his man
• K74 You should be a KING of your word
• K75 He clips the KING's English
• K76 He shall have the KING's horse
• K77 He that eats the KING's goose shall be choked with the feathers
• K78 KING's chaff is worth other men's corn
• K79 The KING's cheese goes half away in parings
• K80 The KING's English
• K81 A KING's favor is no inheritance
• K82 The KING's word is more than another man's oath
• K83 A KING's word must stand
• K84 Ill KINGS make many good laws
• K85 KINGS and bears often worry their keepers
• K86 Kings are out of play
• K87 KINGS have long arms (ears, hands)
• K88 KING ARTHUR did never violate the refuge of a woman
• K89 Every KINGDOM divided soon falls
• K90 For a KINGDOM any law may be broken
• K91 In the KINGDOM of a cheater the wallet is carried before
• K92 KING HARRY loved a man
• K93 KING HARRY¹ robbed the church and died a beggar
• K94 A KING HARRY's face
• K95 The KING OF ENGLAND is the king of devils
• K96 Like KING PETAUD's court, where everyone is master
• K97 Many KINSFOLK few friends
• K98 KINSMAN with kinsman, woe be to him that has nothing
• K99 The KINSMAN's ear will hear it
• K100 KIRBIE's castle and Megse's glory, Spinola's pleasure and Fisher's folly
• K101 He rives¹ the KIRK to theek² the quire³
• K102 The KIRK is aye greedy
• K103 I'll make one, quoth KIRKHAM when he danced in his clogs
• K104 Wanton KISSES are keys of sin
• K105 She had rather KISS than spin
• K106 You must not KISS and tell
• K107 After KISSING comes more kindness
• K108 KISSING goes by favor
• K109 KIT¹ has lost her key
• K110 A fat KITCHEN a lean will (testament)
• K111 A little KITCHEN makes a large house
• K112 Who frequents the KITCHEN will smell of smoke
• K113 As kind as a KITE
• K114 A carrion KITE (bittern) will never be a good hawk
• K115 As yellow as a KITE's foot (claw)
• K116 KITES of Cressid's kind
• K117 Neither KITH (kiff) nor kin
• K118 He has many KNACKS in his budget
• K119 As good a KNAVE I know as a knave I know not
• K120 As very a KNAVE as ever pissed
• K121 Better kiss a KNAVE than be troubled with him
• K122 A crafty KNAVE needs no broker
• K123 Gall a KNAVE and he will grease you
• K124 He that sends a KNAVE to sea is sure to lose his venture
• K125 If you would know a KNAVE give him a staff
• K126 It is as hard to please a KNAVE as a knight
• K127 A KNAVE and a fool never take thought
• K128 A KNAVE in grain
• K129 More KNAVE than fool
• K130 The more KNAVE the better luck
• K131 No KNAVE to¹ the learned (old) knave
• K132 An old KNAVE is no babe (child)
• K133 Once a KNAVE and ever a knave
• K134 One false KNAVE accuses (disdains) another
• K135 One KNAVE seeks out (will favor) another
• K136 Peep, I see a KNAVE
• K137 Set a KNAVE on horseback and you shall see him shoulder a knight
• K138 There I caught a KNAVE in a purse net
• K139 There is no KNAVE like an abbot that was a monk
• K140 Walk, KNAVE, walk
• K141 When a KNAVE is in a plum tree he has neither friend nor kin
• K142 You fray¹ an old KNAVE with a bugbear
• K143 It is merry when KNAVES meet
• K144 KNAVES and fools divide the world
• K145 KNAVES (Thieves) and whores go by the clock
• K146 The more KNAVES the worse company
• K147 Two false KNAVES need no broker
• K148 Two KNAVES well met
• K149 As full of KNAVERY (As full) as an egg is full of meat
• K150 KNAVERY may serve a turn but honesty never fails
• K151 Their own KNAVERY will pay them home at length
• K152 There is KNAVERY in all trades
• K153 There is more KNAVERY by sea and land than all the world beside
• K154 He may whet his KNIFE on the threshold of the Fleet
• K155 It is a good KNIFE, it will cut butter when it is melted (it was made at Dull-edge, it was made five miles beyond Cutwell)
• K156 One KNIFE whets another
• K157 The same KNIFE cuts both bread and the finger
• K158 You say true, will you swallow my KNIFE?
• K159 Oxford KNIVES and London wives
• K160 A KNIGHT or a knitter of caps
• K161 It does me KNIGHT's service
• K162 As KNIGHTS grow poor, ladies grow proud
• K163 A KNIGHT OF CALES,¹ a gentleman of Wales, and a laird of the North Country, a yeoman of Kent with his yearly rent will buy them out all three
• K164 A KNIGHT OF THE POST
• K165 It is better to KNIT¹ (knot¹) than to blossom
• K166 He got a KNOCK in the cradle
• K167 He has tied a KNOT with his tongue that he can't untie with all his teeth
• K168 To seek a KNOT in a rush (bulrush)
• K169 Where the KNOT is loose the string slips
• K170 He that would KNOW what shall be must consider what has been
• K171 I KNOW him well (as well as if I had gone through him with a lighted link)
• K172 I KNOW what I do when I drink
• K173 I KNOW (wot) what I know (wot)
• K174 If you KNOW not me you know nobody
• K175 KNOW thyself
• K176 KNOW when to spend and when to spare and you need not be busy, you'll ne'er be bare
• K177 They that KNOW one another salute afar off
• K178 To KNOW what is what
• K179 We KNOW not who lives or dies
• K180 You KNOW not what may happen to you
• K181 He cannot be good that KNOWS not why he is good
• K182 He is not happy that KNOWS not himself happy
• K183 He KNOWS (knows not) when he is well
• K184 He that KNOWS himself well despises himself
• K185 He that KNOWS thee will never buy thee
• K186 One KNOWS not where to have you
• K187 Better KNOWN than trusted
• K188 In KNOWING nothing is the sweetest life
• K189 KNOWLEDGE is folly except grace guide it
• K190 KNOWLEDGE makes one laugh but wealth makes one dance
• K191 KNOWLEDGE without practice is nothing