4. Proverbs and Expressions 301-400

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301. The best of both worlds.
302. The best of friends must part.
303. The better the day the better the deed.
304. The blind leading the blind.
305. The boot is on the other foot.
306. The burnt child dreads the fire.
307. The cowl does not make the monk.
308. The early bird catches the worm.
309. The end justifies the means.
310. The exception proves the rule. (Test its validity.)
311. The face is the index of the mind.
312. The first step is the hard one.
313. The grapes are sour. Because unattainable.
314. The grass is greener on the other side of the fence.
315. The greater the truth, the greater the libel.
316. The king can do no wrong.
317. The longest day must have an end.
318. The more the merrier.
319. The nearer the bone, the sweeter the meat.
320. The pot calling the kettle black.
321. The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
322. The remedy is worse than the disease.
323. The stream cannot rise above its source.
324. The unexpected always happens.
325. There are more ways to kill a cat than by choking it with cream.
326. There are two sides to every question.
327. There is a remedy for everything but death.
328. There is a time for all things.
329. There's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip.
330. There's no arguing about tastes.
331. There's no smoke without fire.
332. There's safety in numbers.
333. They who live longest will see most.
334. Throw the baby out with the bath water.
335. Tied to one's mother's/wife's apron strings.
336. Time and tide waits for no man.
337. Times change, and we change with them.
338. To cut off your nose to spite your face.
339. To err is human; to forgive divine.
340. To kill two birds with one stone.
341. To look for a needle in a haystack.
342. To put the cart before the horse.
343. To turn over a new leaf.
344. Tomorrow is another day.
345. Tomorrow never comes.
346. Too many cooks spoil the broth.
347. Truth is stranger than fiction.
348. Two blacks don't make a white.
349. Two heads are better than one.
350. Two negatives make an affirmative.
351. Two wrongs don't make a right.
352. Two's company, three's none.
353. Unbidden guests are welcomest when they are gone.
354. Unity is strength.
355. Use soft words and hard arguments.
356. Use your wit as a buckler, not as a sword.
357. Venture a small fish to catch a great one.
358. Virtue is its own reward.
359. Wake not a sleeping lion.
360. Walls have ears.
361. Waste not, want not.
362. We never miss the water till the well runs dry.
363. We shall see what we shall see.
364. Well begun is half done.
365. What can't be cured must be endured.
366. What is to be, will be.
367. What man has done, man can do.
368. What the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve over.
369. What's done can't be undone.
370. What's yours is mine, and what's mine's my own.
371. Whatever's worth doing at all is worth doing well.
372. When in doubt, leave out. (A maxim for authors.)
373. When in Rome, do as the Romans do.
374. When one door shuts another opens.
375. When the cat's away, the mice will play.
376. Where ignorance is bliss, it is folly to be wise.
377. Where there is smoke there is fire.
378. Where there's a will there's a way.
379. Where there's life there's hope.
380. While the grass grows the steed starves.
381. Who goes a-borrowing goes a-sorrowing.
382. Who knows most says least.
383. Whom God wishes to destroy He first makes mad.
384. Wilful waste makes woeful want.
385. Wise men learn by other men's mistakes; fools, by their own.
386. Women must have the last word.
387. You can't eat your cake and have it.
388. You can't get blood out of a stone.
389. You can't lose what you never had.
390. You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs.
391. You can't make people honest (or sober) by Act of Parliament.
392. You can't teach an old dog new trick.
393. You may take a horse to the water, but you can't make him drink.
394. You must take the fat with the lean.
395. You never know what you can do till you try.
396. You scratch my back and I'll scratch yours.
397. Young men think old men fools; old men know young men are.
398. Young saint, old devil. (Bad to be virtuous too early.)
399. Youth and age will never agree.
400. Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.