885. KEY. The wife is the key of the house.
886. KEYS. All the keys hang not at one man's girdle.
Still stand by kin Through thick and thin.
888. KINDLED. Wood half burnt is easily kindled.
889. KINDNESS. Kindness will always conquer.
890. KINDNESSES. Kindnesses, like grain, increase by sowing.
891. KINSFOLK. Many kinsfolk, few friends.
893. KISS. Many kiss the child for the nurse's sake.
895. KITCHEN. A fat kitchen, a lean will.
896. KITCHEN. The taste of the kitchen is better than the smell.
897. KITCHEN. Silks and satins put out the fire in the kitchen.
898. KNAVERY. Knavery may serve for a turn, but honesty is best in the long run.
899. KNAVES. Knaves and fools divide the world.
900. KNAVES. When knaves fall out, true men come by their goods.
901. KNOT. He tied a knot with his tongue he couldn't undo with his teeth.
902. KNOTS. Fools tie knots and wise men loose them.
903. KNOTTY TIMBER. To split knotty timber use smooth wedges.
905. KNOWLEDGE. Knowledge in youth is wisdom in age.
906. KNOWLEDGE. The knowledge of the disease is half the cure.
907. KNOWLEDGE. Knowledge, like physic, is more plague than profit, if it arrives too late.
908. KNOWLEDGE. An ounce of knowledge may be worth a pound of comfort.
909. LABOURS. He that labours and thrives, spins gold.
912. LADDER. Step after step the ladder is ascended.
913. LAMB'S TAIL. A woman's tongue wags like a lamb's tail.
914. LAME. The lame goeth as far as the staggerer.
915. LAMMAS. After Lammas corn ripens as much by night as by day.
916. LAND. Land was never lost for want of an heir.
Many a one for land, Takes a fool by the hand.
918. LANTERN. On a dark night an owl would be glad of a lantern.
919. LAST STRAW. It is the last straw that breaks the camel's back.
922. LAUGH. That's where the laugh comes in.
923. LAUGH. They laugh the loudest who have least to lose.
924. LAW. In a thousand pounds of law there's not an ounce of love.
925. LAW. The law is not the same at morning and night.
926. LAW. He that loves law will get his fill.
927. LAW MAKERS. Law makers should not be law breakers.
928. LAWS. Laws catch flies, but let hornets go free.
Laws, like spiders' webs, are wrought, Large flies break through, the small are caught.
931. LAWYER. A good lawyer, an evil neighbour.