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This resource includes the best-known proverbs in the English language from around the world with quotations that provide a history of each proverb. Discover the story behind "Never say never," "It takes one to know one," and "Once bitten, twice shy."
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had: What you've never had you never miss

half: Half a loaf is better than no bread

half: Half the truth is often a whole lie

half: One half of the world does not know how the other half lives

half: The half is better than the whole

halloo: Don't halloo till you are out of the wood

hammer: When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail

hand: One hand for yourself and one for the ship

hand: One hand washes the other

hand: The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world

handsome: Handsome is as handsome does

hang: Hang a thief when he's young, and he'll no' steal when he's old

hanged: One might as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb

hanging: Hanging and wiving go by destiny

happy: Call no man happy till he dies

happy: If you would be happy for a week take a wife; if you would be happy for a month kill a pig; but if you would be happy all your life plant a gar

hard: Hard cases make bad law

hard: Hard words break no bones

haste: Haste is from the Devil

haste: Haste makes waste

haste: Make haste slowly

haste: More haste, less speed

have: What you have, hold

have: You cannot have your cake and eat it

hawks: Hawks will not pick out hawks' eyes

hear: Hear all, see all, say nowt, tak' all, keep all, gie nowt, and if tha ever does owt for nowt do it for thysen

heat: If you don't like the heat, get out of the kitchen

heaven: Heaven protects children, sailors, and drunken men

hell: Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned

herring: Every herring must hang by its own gill

hesitates: He who hesitates is lost

hide: Those who hide can find

higher: The higher the monkey climbs the more he shows his tail

history: History repeats itself

hole: When you are in a hole, stop digging

home: Home is home though it's never so homely

home: Home is home, as the Devil said when he found himself in the Court of Session

home: Home is where the heart is

homer: Homer sometimes nods

honesty: Honesty is the best policy

honey: Honey catches more flies than vinegar

honour: The post of honour is the post of danger

honour: There is honour among thieves

hope: Hope deferred makes the heart sick

hope: Hope for the best and prepare for the worst

hope: Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper

hope: Hope springs eternal

hope: If it were not for hope, the heart would break

horse: You can take a horse to the water, but you can't make him drink

horses: Horses for courses

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