Proverbs starting with "N"

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• N1 NAB me, I'll nab thee
• N2 If you bleed your NAG on St. Stephen's Day he will work your work for ever and aye
• N3 A NAG with a weamb¹ and a mare with nean²
• N4 As naked (bare) as my NAIL
• N5 As white (clear) as my NAIL
• N6 He has not a whole NAIL to claw him with
• N7 Not to stir a NAIL's breadth
• N8 From their tender NAILS
• N9 He must have iron NAILS that scratches a bear
• N10 It is unlucky to pare one's NAILS on Sunday (Friday)
• N11 To have long NAILS with which to dig one's grandmother out of her grave
• N12 To pare one's (the devil's) NAILS
• N13 You had as good eat your NAILS
• N14 Drive the NAIL that will go
• N15 Drive the NAIL to the head
• N16 He has hit the NAIL on the head
• N17 One NAIL drives out another
• N18 To pay down upon the NAIL
• N19 Hungry enough to eat NAILS (horse nails)
• N20 To have more NAILS to drive than one
• N21 Do not take my NAME in vain
• N22 A good NAME is better than riches (gold)
• N23 A good NAME keeps its luster in the dark
• N24 He has not his NAME for nought (nothing)
• N25 He that has an ill (evil) NAME is half hanged
• N26 He that has the NAME (fame¹) to be an early riser may sleep till noon
• N27 He who but once a good NAME gets may piss abed and say he sweats
• N28 If one's NAME be up he may lie in bed
• N29 My NAME is Twyford, I know nothing of the matter
• N30 They seek to get them a NAME by pissing against the holy waterstock
• N31 I name no NAMES (nobody)
• N32 NAMES and natures do often agree
• N33 Sooner NAMED sooner come
• N34 Not worth the NAMING
• N35 You take a NAP of a night long
• N36 To take one NAPPING
• N37 To take one NAPPING
• N38 It is the NATURE of the beast
• N39 Ill NATURES, the more you ask them the more they stick
• N40 Kind NATURES win most
• N41 He that follows NATURE is never out of his way
• N42 NATURE abhors a vacuum
• N43 NATURE does nothing in vain
• N44 NATURE has given us two ears (eyes) and but one tongue
• N45 NATURE is content with a little
• N46 NATURE is the true law
• N47 NATURE passes nurture
• N48 NATURE will have her course
• N49 That which NATURE gives no man can take away
• N50 Though you cast out NATURE with a fork it will still return
• N51 To go against NATURE (Invita Minerva)
• N52 Proo,¹ NAUNT,² your mare puts
• N53 He goes early to steal that cannot say NAY
• N54 He that will not when he may, when he would he shall have NAY (shall not when he will)
• N55 You may mend three NAYS with one yea
• N56 O thou NAZARITE, go about, go about, and do not come near the vineyard
• N57 I am NEAREST to myself
• N58 NECESSITY is a hard weapon
• N59 NECESSITY is coal-black
• N60 NECESSITY is the best schoolmistress
• N61 NECESSITY is the mother of invention
• N62 NECESSITY makes the coward grow courageous
• N63 NECESSITY never made a good bargain
• N64 I will first see thy NECK as long as my arm
• N65 NECK and heels
• N66 NECK or nothing, for the king loves no cripples
• N67 One may as soon break his NECK as his fast there
• N68 To break one's NECK going upstairs
• N69 To slip one's NECK out of the collar
• N70 He is a great NECROMANCER, for he asks counsel of the dead
• N71 He has as much NEED of it as I have of the cough
• N72 He has great NEED of a fool that plays the fool himself
• N73 He stands in great NEED that borrows the cat dish
• N74 He that has NEED of nobody is a king in himself
• N75 NEED and night make the lame to trot
• N76 NEED (Necessity) has no law
• N77 NEED makes the naked man run and sorrow makes websters spin
• N78 NEED makes the naked quean spin
• N79 NEED makes the old wife trot
• N80 NEED makes virtue
• N81 NEED will have its course
• N82 They have NEED of a besom that sweep the house with a turf
• N83 They have NEED of a blessing that kneel to a thistle
• N84 To give and keep there is NEED of wit
• N85 Who buys has NEED of a hundred eyes, who sells has enough of one
• N86 He had NEED rise betimes that would please everybody
• N87 It had NEED be dainty, it cost him so dear
• N88 You NEED not be so crusty, you are not so hard-baked
• N89 He may well be contented who NEEDS neither borrow nor flatter
• N90 He NEEDS to be beholden to nobody
• N91 It comes from NEEDINGWORTH
• N92 By the NEEDLE you shall draw the thread and by that which is past see how that which is to come will be drawn on
• N93 Here I left a NEEDLE and here I will find it
• N94 Naked as a NEEDLE
• N95 Sharp as a NEEDLE
• N96 To break the NEEDLE in one's knee
• N97 To seek a NEEDLE in a bottle¹ of hay
• N98 You put it together with a hot NEEDLE and burnt thread
• N99 Begin with NEEDLES and pins and leave off with horse and horned nowt¹
• N100 To walk (stand) on NEEDLES' points
• N101 Two NEGATIVES make an affirmative
• N102 NEGLECT will kill an injury sooner than revenge
• N103 One stiff NEGO is one good point of law
• N104 He is an ill NEIGHBOR that is not missed
• N105 He is my NEIGHBOR who grinds at my mill
• N106 He that has a good NEIGHBOR has a good morrow
• N107 He that has an ill NEIGHBOR has oftentimes an ill morning
• N108 An ill NEIGHBOR is an ill thing
• N109 Love your NEIGHBOR, yet pull not down your hedge
• N110 A near NEIGHBOR is better than a far friend (kinsman)
• N111 NEIGHBOR, we are sure of fair weather, each has beheld this morn Abergainy Hill
• N112 Who more ready to call her NEIGHBOR scold than the arrantest scold in the parish?
• N113 You must ask your NEIGHBOR if you shall live in peace
• N114 Better learn from your NEIGHBOR's scathe¹ than your own
• N115 Our NEIGHBOR's ground yields better corn than our own
• N116 When thy NEIGHBOR's house does burn be careful of thine own
• N117 He dwells far from NEIGHBORS (has ill neighbors) that is fain to praise himself
• N118 He that does as his NEIGHBORS do shall be beloved
• N119 One may need one's NEIGHBORS sometime
• N120 Think not better of yourself than all your NEIGHBORS do
• N121 NEIGHBOR QUART is good quart
• N122 Fast and welcome, NELLA Booth's medicine
• N123 Dead in the NEST
• N124 Destroy the NEST and the rooks will flee away
• N125 To feather one's NEST
• N126 To feather one's NEST
• N127 He that fishes afore the NET, long ere he fish get
• N128 The NET of the sleeper catches fish
• N129 The rough NET is not the best catcher of birds
• N130 You dance in a NET and think nobody sees you
• N131 As angry (surly) as if he had pissed on a NETTLE
• N132 He has pissed on a NETTLE
• N133 He that handles a NETTLE tenderly is soonest stung
• N134 It is better to be stung by a NETTLE than pricked by a rose
• N135 The NETTLE grows where the rose was expected
• N136 At NEVERMASS
• N137 NEWER is truer
• N138 A NEWGATE BIRD¹
• N139 Good NEWS may be told at any time, but ill, in the morning
• N140 He that brings good NEWS knocks boldly
• N141 He that has told good NEWS needs tell no more
• N142 He was scarce of NEWS that told his father was hanged
• N143 If you will learn NEWS you must go to the oven or the mill
• N144 Ill NEWS are commonly true
• N145 Ill NEWS comes too soon
• N146 Ill NEWS comes unsent for
• N147 Ill NEWS flies faster than good
• N148 Ill NEWS has wings (comes apace)
• N149 NEWS are like fish
• N150 NEWS, like a snowball, is more by telling
• N151 NEWS, news, the skin of your ass will make a new pair of shoes
• N152 No NEWS is good (the best) news
• N153 Simondsall NEWS
• N154 Tell me NEWS (what I know not)
• N155 This is NEWS, quoth the fox when he let a fart in the morning
• N156 This NEWS is too good to be true
• N157 I will thank you for the NEXT, for this I am sure of
• N158 More NICE (precise) than wise
• N159 NICHILS (Nifles) in nine pokes (in a bag)
• N160 In the NICK (nick of time)
• N161 Old NICK
• N162 NICK AND FROTH
• N163 The NIGGARD has never enough (is never rich)
• N164 After NIGHT comes the day
• N165 As secret (silent) as the NIGHT
• N166 A blustering NIGHT a fair day
• N167 Dark NIGHT is Cupid's day
• N168 A drunken NIGHT makes a cloudy (misty) morning
• N169 A fine (fit) NIGHT to run away with another man's wife (to steal away a fair lady)
• N170 Good NIGHT, Nicholas, the moon is in the flock bed¹
• N171 He that runs in the NIGHT stumbles
• N172 He that will be rich before NIGHT may be hanged before noon
• N173 He thinks that it will never be NIGHT with him
• N174 NIGHT is the mother of counsels
• N175 The NIGHT is the time of rest for all creatures
• N176 This grew by NIGHT
• N177 To a great NIGHT a great lantern
• N178 To make a NIGHT of it
• N179 What is done by NIGHT appears by day
• N180 Trust not one NIGHT's ice
• N181 The NIGHTINGALE and the cuckoo sing both in one month
• N182 The NIGHTINGALE sings clear
• N183 To sit (sing) like a NIGHTINGALE, with a thorn against one's breast
• N184 NIGHTWORK
• N185 NIMROD was a hunter, even to a proverb
• N186 As like as NINEPENCE to nothing
• N187 As neat as NINEPENCE
• N188 NINEPENCE, no pence, half a groat¹ wanting two pence
• N189 To give him a privy NIP
• N190 As small as a NIT
• N191 NITS will be lice
• N192 NOBILITY is the spear's point
• N193 As yellow as the golden NOBLE
• N194 To bring a NOBLE (shilling) to ninepence
• N195 The more NOBLE the more humble
• N196 He is NOBODY
• N197 Beyond the NOCK
• N198 A NOD for a wise man and a rod for a fool
• N199 To play at NODDY
• N200 The NOISE is greater than the nuts
• N201 Would NO I THANK YOU had never been made
• N202 NOLI ME TANGERE
• N203 NO MAN's LAND
• N204 NON EST INVENTUS
• N205 NON PLACET
• N206 He is put to a NONPLUS
• N207 He is a very NONSUCH
• N208 He rises over soon who is hanged ere NOON
• N209 To have run beyond NOON
• N210 To ring NOON on one's head
• N211 The NORTH for greatness, the East for health, the South for neatness, the West for wealth
• N212 The NORTH of England for an ox, the South for a sheep, and the middle part for a man
• N213 Out of the NORTH all ill comes forth
• N214 NORTHAMPTON stands on other men's legs
• N215 As plain as the NOSE on a man's face
• N216 He cannot tell where to turn his NOSE
• N217 He has a good NOSE to make a poor man's sow
• N218 He holds his NOSE to the grindstone
• N219 He puts his NOSE out of joint
• N220 He sees no farther than his NOSE
• N221 He that wipes his NOSE and has it not forfeits his face to the king
• N222 He would wipe his NOSE if he had one
• N223 His NOSE will abide no jests
• N224 If your NOSE itches you will kiss a fool
• N225 My NOSE runs like a soap wife's arse
• N226 A NOSE of wax
• N227 One may know by his NOSE (looks, face) what pottage (porridge) he loves
• N228 They may wipe their NOSE that have it
• N229 To bore one's NOSE
• N230 To follow one's NOSE
• N231 To hang a NOSE
• N232 To hold up one's NOSE at anything
• N233 To lead one by the NOSE
• N234 To make one pay through the NOSE
• N235 To make one's NOSE swell
• N236 To play with the NOSE
• N237 To pull oneself by the NOSE
• N238 To put one's NOSE into everything
• N239 To run him through the NOSE with a cushion
• N240 To slit one's NOSE
• N241 To snap (bite) off one's NOSE
• N242 To speak in the NOSE
• N243 To wipe one's NOSE on one's sleeve
• N244 To wipe the NOSE of someone
• N245 You make his NOSE warp
• N246 It will be a NOSEGAY to him as long as he lives
• N247 To cry one NOTCHEL
• N248 To change one's NOTE
• N249 Who can sing so merry a NOTE as he that cannot change a groat?¹
• N250 Better say NOTHING than nothing to the purpose (To speak to no purpose)
• N251 Do NOTHING hastily but catching of fleas
• N252 Fear NOTHING but sin
• N253 A fine new NOTHING
• N254 Happy is he that owes NOTHING
• N255 He can say NOTHING that cannot speak well of his own trade
• N256 He cares for NOTHING
• N257 He has NOTHING that is not content
• N258 He is good for NOTHING
• N259 He is not full that has NOTHING to eat
• N260 He is NOTHING but skin and bone
• N261 He is poor that can promise NOTHING
• N262 He is rich enough who wants NOTHING
• N263 He loses NOTHING that keeps God for his friend (loses not God)
• N264 He need not borrow nor NOTHING will lend
• N265 He that does NOTHING does not (does ever) amiss
• N266 He that has NOTHING is not contented
• N267 He that is always unfortunate must enterprise NOTHING
• N268 He that knows NOTHING doubts nothing
• N269 He that knows NOTHING is nothing worth
• N270 He that NOTHING has nothing shall be set by
• N271 He that owes NOTHING, if he makes not mouths at us, is courteous
• N272 He that promises too much (all) means NOTHING
• N273 He that sleeps much gets NOTHING
• N274 He who still keeps home knows NOTHING
• N275 Hear and see and say NOTHING (little, the best)
• N276 I know NOTHING except that I know not
• N277 I thank you for NOTHING
• N278 I will foreheet¹ NOTHING but building churches and louping² over them
• N279 I will say NOTHING (nought) but mum
• N280 If you put NOTHING into your purse you can take nothing out
• N281 It is better to be idle than to work for NOTHING
• N282 It is NOTHING to me what others do
• N283 NOTHING but money is money worth
• N284 NOTHING but up and ride?
• N284a NOTHING can be said that has not been said before
• N285 NOTHING can come of nothing
• N286 NOTHING comes sooner to light than that which is long hid
• N287 NOTHING down nothing up
• N288 NOTHING dries sooner than tears
• N289 NOTHING enters in a close hand
• N290 NOTHING has no savor
• N291 NOTHING have nothing crave
• N292 NOTHING hurts the stomach more than surfeiting
• N293 NOTHING ill in Spain but that which speaks
• N294 NOTHING is better than a contented mind
• N295 NOTHING is easier than to deceive oneself
• N296 NOTHING is given us in this life without much labor
• N297 NOTHING is good but what is gainful
• N298 NOTHING is good or bad but by comparison
• N299 NOTHING is impossible (hard, difficult) to a willing heart (mind)
• N300 NOTHING is impossible to God
• N301 NOTHING is more easily blotted out than a good turn
• N302 NOTHING is more precious (dearer) than time
• N303 NOTHING is our own but time only
• N304 NOTHING is stolen without hands
• N305 NOTHING is to be gotten without pains (labor)
• N306 NOTHING is to be presumed on or despaired of
• N307 NOTHING is well said or done in a passion (in anger)
• N308 NOTHING kindles sooner than fire
• N309 NOTHING lasts but the Church
• N310 NOTHING like leather
• N311 NOTHING more certain than death and nothing more uncertain than the time of its coming
• N312 NOTHING more proud than basest blood when it does rise aloft
• N313 NOTHING proves well unless it be plied
• N314 NOTHING secure unless suspected
• N315 NOTHING seek nothing find
• N316 NOTHING so certain (sure) as death
• N317 NOTHING so good but it (The best things, Everything) may be abused
• N318 NOTHING so necessary for travelers as languages
• N319 NOTHING (Nought) venture nothing (nought) have
• N320 NOTHING venture nothing win
• N321 NOTHING violent can be permanent
• N322 NOTHING was too hot or too heavy for him
• N323 Say NOTHING when you are dead
• N324 So good that he is good for NOTHING
• N325 Tell NOTHING to a woman and a pie¹ unless thou wouldst have all the world to know it
• N326 There came NOTHING (nought) out of the sack but what was in it (there)
• N327 There is NOTHING but is good for something
• N328 There is NOTHING so bad in which there is not something of good
• N329 There is NOTHING so crouse¹ as a new-washen louse
• N330 There is NOTHING so secret but it may be discovered
• N331 They that have NOTHING need fear to lose nothing
• N332 To lose NOTHING by telling
• N333 To promise and give NOTHING (nought) is a comfort to (is to comfort) a fool
• N334 Too much of NOTHING but of fools and asses
• N335 Well fare NOTHING (nought) once a (by the) year
• N336 Where NOTHING is, a little does ease
• N337 Where NOTHING is, nothing can be had
• N338 Where NOTHING (nought) is (is to be had) the king must lose his right¹
• N339 Who practices NOTHING shall have nothing
• N340 As good play for NOUGHT (nothing) as work for nought (nothing)
• N341 As good seek NOUGHT as seek and find nought
• N342 NOUGHT is never in danger
• N343 NOUGHT lay down nought take up (Nothing stake nothing draw)
• N344 NOUGHT will be nought
• N345 NOUGHT won by the one, nought won by the other
• N346 An old NOUGHT will never be aught
• N347 Where NOUGHT is to wed with, wise men flee the clog
• N348 NOVEMBER take flail, let ships no more sail
• N349 A doltish NOVICE proves a professed fool
• N350 NOW is now and Yule's in winter
• N351 NOW or never
• N352 The NUN of Sion¹ with the friar of Shean¹ went under the water to play the quean
• N353 As nice as a NUN's hen¹
• N354 A NURSE spoils a housewife
• N355 A NURSE's tongue is privileged to talk
• N356 NURSES put one bit in the child's mouth and two in their own
• N357 NURTURE is above (passes) nature
• N358 As sweet as a NUT
• N359 Crack me that NUT, quoth Bumstead
• N360 Sweet is the NUT but bitter (hard) is the shell
• N361 To have a NUT to crack
• N362 You are a sweet NUT, the devil crack you (if you were well cracked)
• N363 It is NUTS to him
• N364 She goes as if she cracked NUTS with her tail
• N365 To be fed on (live upon) deaf NUTS¹
• N366 Not worth a NUTSHELL (a couple of nuts)
• N367 The foolish NYAS¹ will never away