Example of English Proverbs Starting with the Letter 'N'
Name not a rope in his house that was hanged.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
Necessity knows no law.
Neck or nothing.
Need makes the old wife trot.
Needs must when the devil drives.
Neither fish nor flesh.
Neither here nor there.
Neither rhyme nor reason.
Never cackle till your egg is laid.
Never cast dirt into that fountain of which you have sometime drunk.
Never do things by halves.
Never fry a fish till it's caught.
Never offer to teach fish to swim.
Never put off till tomorrow what you can do (can be done) today.
Never quit certainty for hope.
Never too much of a good thing.
Never try to prove what nobody doubts.
Never write what you dare not sign.
New brooms sweep clean.
Nightingales will not sing in a cage.
No flying from fate.
No garden without its weeds.
No great loss without some small gain.
No herb will cure love.
No joy without alloy.
No living man all things can.
No longer pipe, no longer dance.
No man is wise at all times.
No man loves his fetters, be they made of gold.
No news (is) good news.
No pains, no gains.
No song, no supper.
No sweet without (some) sweat.
No wisdom like silence.
None but the brave deserve the fair.
None so blind as those who won't see.
None so deaf as those that won't hear.
Nothing comes out of the sack but what was in it.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
Nothing must be done hastily but killing of fleas.
Nothing so bad, as not to be good for something.
Nothing succeeds like success.
Nothing venture, nothing have.
Necessity is the mother of all invention.
Never cast a clout till May be out.
Never judge the book by it's cover.
Never put off till until tomorrow what you can do today.
New broom sweeps clean.
Noblesse oblige.
No gain without pain.
No man can serve two masters.
No man is content with his lot.
No man is an island
No news is good news.
No pain, no gain.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
Nothing succeeds like success.