All sizzle and no steak

One woe doth tread upon another’s heels

Money is the root of all evil

Names and natures do often agree

The frying-pan said to the kettle, «Avaunt, black brows!»

The further fetch’d, the more things pleases

The further we go, the further behind

Names are debts

Money isn’t everything

Our neighbour’s ground yields better corn than ours

Nature and the sin of Adam can ill be concealed by fig-leaves

One year’s seeding makes seven years weeding

Naughty boys sometimes make good men

One’s own fire is pleasant

Nature does nothing in vain

Nature draws more than ten teams

Nature has given us two ears, two eyes, and but one tongue; to the end we should hear and see more than we speak

One’s word is one’s bond

Nature is content with a little

Money makes a man free everywhere

Opposites are cured by opposites

Over jolly dow not

Our own opinion is never wrong

Nature is stronger than rearing

Out of breath to no purpose, and very busy about nothing

Money makes the man

The better natured, the sooner undone

Nature is the true law

Out of debt, out of danger

Money makes the pot boil

Necessity is a powerful weapon

Near is my shirt, but nearer is my skin

The hunchback does not see his own hump, but sees his companion’s

Out of office, out of danger

Out of the frying

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