Proverbs with and sayings with those that have ears let them hear (2024)

Little pitchers have long ears.

Walls have ears.

Wider ears and a shorter tongue.

See a pin and let it lie, Want a pin before you die.

More have been drowned in wine than water.

He that would learn to pray let him go to sea.

If the co*ck moult before the hen, We shall have weather thick and thin; But if the hen moult before the co*ck, We shall have weather hard as a block.

Till St. James's day be come and gone, You may have hops, or you may have none.

Who would keep a cow when he may have a bottle of milk for a penny!

I have other fish to fry.

Much would have more, and lost all.

Who will not save a penny, shall never have many.

Desperate cuts must have desperate cures.

Self do, self have.

There are none so deaf as those who will not hear.

I have a bone in my arm.

Laws catch flies, but let hornets go free.

Who more busy than they that have least to do.

A liar should have a good memory.

You cannot eat your cake and have it.

Let well alone.

Live and let live.

A whet is no let [hindrance].

Whom we love best to them we can say least.

The devil's children have the devil's luck.

If you must have an evil, choose a little one.

Have not the cloak to make when it begins to rain.

Pride will have a fall.

Bachelors, before you marry, Have a house wherein to tarry.

Discreet women have neither eyes nor ears.

Women must have their wills while they live, because they make none when they die.

Let your purse be your master.

They have need of a besom that sweep the house with a turf.

Words are like weights, gravity gives them effect.

Men hold the reins, but the women tell them which way to drive.

They who have money are troubled about it, And they who have none are troubled without it.

Youth will have its swing.

He that hath many irons in the fire, some of them will cool.

Sweet meat must have some sauce.

Set trees poor, and they will grow rich; set them rich, and they will grow poor.

Even small birds must have meat.

Fools tie knots and wise men loose them.

If you would fruit have, You must bring the leaf to the grave.

Shear your sheep in May, And shear them all away.

Let them laugh that win.

They laugh the loudest who have least to lose.

Do what thou ought, let come what may.

Liars have short wings.

Let the buyer look out for himself.

A man may lose his goods for want of demanding them.

A penny in my purse will bid me drink when all my friends I have will not.

A child may have too much of his mother's blessing.

So we have the chink, we'll bear the stink.

Where God hath His church the devil will have his chapel.

Hedges have eyes, and walls have ears.

He that will too soon be his own master, will have a fool for his scholar.

They that can cobble and clout, Shall have work when others go without.

Fools make feasts, and wise men eat them.

If we do not hear reason she will one day make herself be heard.

Fields have eyes, and woods have ears.

He wants to have a finger in every pie.

Wounds may heal, but not those made by ill words.

Roses, mind you, have thorns.

Courts have no almanacks.

The tongue breaketh bone, Though itself have none.

Who has not a good tongue, ought to have good hands.

Salmon and sermon have their season in Lent.

Let every pedlar carry his own pack.

He who more than his worth doth spend, Makes a rope his life to end; He who spends more than he should, Shall not have to spend when he would.

If you would have a good cheese, and have'n old, You must turn'n seven times before he is cold.

Let not the cobbler go beyond his last.

A good surgeon must have an eagle's eye, a lion's heart, and a lady's hand.

It's good to have company in trouble.

Let not the fiddler play the fife, Nor fifer play the fiddle.

You must go into the country to hear what news at London.

A crooked tree will have a crooked shadow.

Believe well and have well.

Do well, and have well.

Let the weakest go to the wall.

Those are wise who learn caution from their own experience; but those are wiser who learn it from the experience of others.

Pater-noster built churches, and Our Father pulls them down.

Proportion your expenses to what you have, not to what you expect.

Hasty climbers have sudden falls.

Wise men care not for what they cannot have.

When I have thatched his house he would throw me down.

When ill luck falls asleep, let nobody wake her.

If the mountain will not go to Mahomet, let Mahomet go to the mountain.

Let the best dog leap the stile first.

November take flail, Let ships no more sail.

Discreet women have neither eyes nor ears.

"Care not," would have.

Children and fools have merry lives.

Children should hear, see, and say nothing.

When children stand quiet they have done some harm.

Idle folk have the least leisure.

Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Whether you boil snow or pound it, you will have but water from it.

He who would have a hare for breakfast must hunt over night.

On Candlemas day you must have half your straw and half your hay.

If Candlemas day be fair and bright, Winter will have another flight; If on Candlemas day it be shower and rain, Winter is gone, and will not come again.

The wife that expects to have a good name Is always at home as if she were lame, And the maid that is honest her chiefest delight Is still to be doing from morning to night.

Listeners never hear good of themselves.

Sell not the hare's skin before you have caught him.

Poor folk have few kindred.

Let every tub stand on its own bottom.

Prosperity gains friends, adversity tries them.

Let not thy right hand know what thy left hand doeth.

When the child is christened, you may have godfathers enough.

One can never have too much of a good thing.

High places have their precipices.

Have but few friends, though many acquaintances.

Fools build houses, and wise men buy them.

Dainty dogs may have to eat dirty puddings.

"Sour grapes," as the fox said when he could not reach them.

The longest day must have an end.

Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones.

Little bodies have large souls.

Straight trees have crooked roots.

They that have no other meat, Bread and butter are glad to eat.