It is better to be clothed in rags, than to be clothed with shame.
1502
It is better to be safe than sorry.
1503
It is better to do well than to say well.
1504
It is better to fight for good than to rail at the ill.
1505
It is better to please a fool than to anger him.
1506
It is better to wear out than to rust out.
1507
It is dogged (that) does it.
1508
It is easier to descend than to ascend.
1509
It is easier to give good counsel than to follow it.
1510
It is easier to pull down than build.
1511
It is easier to raise the devil than to lay him.
1512
It is easy to be wise after the event.
1513
It is easy to learn something about everything, but difficult to learn everything about anything.
1514
It is easy to open a shop but hard to keep it always open.
1515
It is easy to prophesy after the event.
1516
It is good fishing in troubled waters.
1517
It is good to be merry at meal.
1518
It is good to have friends in trouble.
1519
It is good to learn at another man's cost.
1520
It is harder to marry a daughter well than to bring her up well.
1521
It is hard to please all parties.
1522
It is impossible that a man who is false to his friends should be true to his country.
1523
It is more blessed to give than to receive.
1524
It is more pain to do nothing than something.
1525
It is my own fault if I am deceived by the same man twice.
1526
It is no honour for an eagle to vanquish a dove.
1527
It is not every couple that is a pair.
1528
It is not good to make a sleeping lion.
1529
It is not helps, but obstaceles, not facilities but difficulties, that make men.
1530
It is not how long but how well we live.
1531
It is not shame for a man to learn that which he knows not, whatever be his age.
1532
It is not the gay coat that makes the gentleman.
1533
It is not work that kills, but worry.
1534
It is no use crying over spilt milk.
1535
It is one thing to speak much and another to speak pertinently.
1536
It is right to put everything in its proper use.
1537
It is the first step that costs.
1538
It is the general rule, that all superior men inherit the elements ofsuperiority from their mother.
1539
It is the nature of every man to err, but only the fool perseveres in the error.
1540
It is the nature of folly to see the faults of others and forget his own.
1541
It is the peculiarity of knowledge that those who really thirst for it always get it.
1542
It is too late to cast anchor when the ship is on the rock.
1543
It is too late to come with the water when the house is burnt down.
1544
It is too late to lock the stable door when the steed is stolen.
1545
It is wisdom sometimes to seem a fool.
1546
It matters not how long we live but how.
1547
It never rains but it pours.
1548
It's a good horse that never stumbles, A good wife that never grumbles.
1549
It's a poor heart that never rejoices.
1550
It's a poor mouse that has only on hole.
1551
It's earier to run down the hill than go up.
1552
It's easy to fall into a trap, but hard to get out again.
1553
It's hard sailing when there is no wind.
1554
It's no sin to sell dear, but a sin to give ill measure.
1555
It's not the gay coat that makes the gentleman.
1556
It's no use pumping a dry well.
1557
It takes all sorts to make a world.
1558
It takes two to make a quarrel.
1559
I was born anAmerican; I live an American; I shall die an American.
1560
I wept when I was born,, and every day shows why.
1561
I would rather be a poor man in a garret with plenty of good books to read than a king who did not love reading.
1562
I would rather have the affectionate regard of my fellow men than I would have heaps and mines of gold.
1563
Jack of all trades and master of none.
1564
Jack of all trades is of no trade.
1565
Jest with an ass and he will flap you in the face with his tail.
1566
Joy and sorrow are next-door neighbours.
1567
Joy often comes after sorrow, like morning after night.
1568
Joy put heart into a man.
1569
Joy shared with others are more enjoyed.
1570
Judge not a book by its cover.
1571
Judge not according to the appearance.
1572
Judge not of men and things at first sight.
1573
Justice has long arms.
1574
Keep thing seven years and you will find a use for it.
1575
Keep good men company, and you shall be of the number.
1576
Keeping is harder than winning.
1577
Keep some till more come.
1578
Keep your breath to cool your porridge.
1579
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
1580
Keep your mouth shut and your eyes open.
1581
Kill the goose that laid the golden egg.
1582
Kind hearts are more than coronets.
1583
Kindness always begets kindness.
1584
Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together.
1585
Kindness is the language that the deaf can hear and the dumb understand.
1586
Kindness is the sunshine of social life.
1587
Kindness will creep where it may not go.
1588
Kind words are the music of the world.
1589
Kind words are worth much and cost little.
1590
Kind words butter no parsnips.
1591
Kinsman helps kinsman, but woe to him that hath nothing.
1592
Knavery may serve, but honestyis best.
1593
Knowledge advances by steps not by leaps.
1594
Knowledge comes from experience alone.
1595
Knowledge is a comfortable and necessary retreat and shelter for us in an advanced age; and if we do not plant it when young, it will give us no shade when we grow old.
1596
Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.
1597
Knowledge is long, life is short.
1598
Knowledge is of two kinds, we know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
