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List of English Proverbs

English proverbs and sayings beginning with the letters K, L, and M.

  • Keep some till more come.
  • Keep your mouth shut and your eyes open.
  • Kindness, like a boomerang, always returns.
  • Kindness, like grain, increases by sowing.
  • Knaves and fools divide the world.
  • Knowledge creates mysteries.
  • Knowledge is power.
  • Laugh when you're happy, cry when you're sad, and do both when you're the happiest you've ever been.
  • Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.
  • Learn to walk before you run.
  • Least said sooner mended.
  • Leave it alone and it will grow on its own.
  • Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.
  • Let sleeping dogs lie.
  • Let us go hand in hand, not one before another.
  • Lie down with dogs, wake up with fleas.
  • Life begins at forty.
  • Life does not come with any guarantees.
  • Life is a perception of your own reality.
  • Life is like a box of chocolates; you never know what you're gonna get.
  • Life is too short to drink bad wine.
  • Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
  • Life is what you do while you're waiting to die.
  • Life is what you make of it.
  • Lightning never strikes twice in the same place.
  • Like cures like.
  • Like father, like son.
  • Like water off a duck's back.
  • Little by little and bit by bit.
  • Little enemies and little wounds must not be despised.
  • Live simply to let others simply live.
  • Long absent, soon forgotten.
  • Look after the pennies and the pounds will look after themselves.
  • Look before you leap.
  • Look on the sunny side of life.
  • Loose lips sink ships.
  • Love is a bridge between two hearts.
  • Love is anger disappointed.
  • Love is blind.
  • Love is like war, easy to start, hard to end, impossible to forget.
  • Love is not finding someone to live with; it's finding someone whom you can't live without.
  • Love of Money is the root of all evil.
  • Luck favors the prepared.
  • Make a Friend when you don't need One.
  • Make hay while the sun shines.
  • Make the best of a bad bargain.
  • Man is truly himself when he's alone.
  • Man wasn't born to suffer but to carry on.
  • Manners maketh the man.
  • Many hands make light work.
  • Measure twice, cut once.
  • Mind your P's and Q's.
  • Mirrors do everything we do, but they cannot think for themselves.
  • Misery loves company.
  • Misfortunes never come singly.
  • Money can't buy everything, but everything needs money
  • Money cannot buy happiness.
  • Money is the means, not the end.
  • Money makes the mare go.
  • Money makes the world go around.
  • Monkey see, monkey do.
  • More haste, less speed.