English Proverbs · Alphabetical Index

Proverbs Beginning with N

72 entries beginning with the letter N.

N — Proverbs and Sayings

72 total
1
near is my shirt, but nearer is my skin.
interests
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2
Necessity is the mother of invention.
necessity
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3
Necessity knows no law.
necessity
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4
Neck or nothing.
risk
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5
Need makes the old wife trot.
necessity
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6
Need teaches a plan.
necessity
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7
Needs must when the devil drives.
necessity
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8
Neither fish nor flesh.
diversity
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9
Neither here nor there.
irrelevant
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10
Neither rhyme nor reason.
reason
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11
Never bid the devil morrow until you meet him.
problem
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12
Never cackle till your egg is laid.
anxiety
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13
Never choose your women or your linen by candlelight.
choose
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14
Never do things by halves.
doing
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15
Never fry a fish till it’s caught.
haste
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16
Never is a long time.
certainty
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17
Never look a gift horse in the mouth
gift
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18
Never marry for money, but marry where money is.
marriage
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19
Never mention rope in the house of a man who has been hanged
discretion
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20
Never offer to teach fish to swim.
teach
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21
Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
procrastination
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22
Never quit certainty for hope.
certainty
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23
Never say die.
quit
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24
Never say never
outright
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25
Never too much of a good thing.
good
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26
Never try to prove what nobody doubts.
prove
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27
Never write what you dare not sign.
support
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28
New brooms sweep clean.
rule
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29
New lords, new laws.
rule
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30
Night brings counsel
problem
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31
Nine tailors make a man
death
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32
No cross no crown
effort
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33
No cure no pay.
payment
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34
No flying from fate.
destiny
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35
No garden without its weeds.
perfection
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36
No good deed goes unpunished
deed
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37
No great loss without some small gain.
losing
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38
No harm, no foul.
punishment
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39
No herb will cure love.
love
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40
No joy without alloy.
joy
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41
No living man all things can.
doing
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42
No longer pipe, no longer dance.
result
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43
No losers, no winners.
winner
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44
No man can serve two masters.
commitment
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45
No man is a hero to his valet
hero
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46
No man loves his fetters, be they made of gold.
prison
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47
No matter how long a log stays in the water, it doesn't become a crocodile
self
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48
No names, no pack drill
punishment
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49
No news is good news.
news
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50
No pains, no gains.
gain
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51
No penny, no paternoster.
money
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52
No smoke without fire
evidence
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53
No song, no supper.
obtain
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54
No sweet without sweat.
effort
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55
No wisdom like silence.
silence
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56
None but the brave deserve the fair.
success
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57
None so blind as those who won’t see.
understanding
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58
None so deaf as those that won’t hear.
hear
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59
North winds doth blow, we shall have snow
weather
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60
Nothing comes of nothing
nothing
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