Better knot straws than do nothing. [ Gaelic Proverb ]

It is better to knot than to blossom. [ Proverb ]

Turn him to any cause of policy,
The Gordian knot of it he will unloose,
Familiar as his garter. [ Henry V ]

Where the knot is loose, the string slips. [ Proverb ]

The tailor that makes not a knot, loses a stitch. [ Proverb ]

Money is a sword that can cut even the Gordian knot. [ Proverb ]

You ought to untie that knot which you knit yourself. [ Proverb ]

He that does not knot his thread will lose his first stitch. [ Gaelic ]

You look for a knot in a bulrush, (i.e. are too scrupulous). [ Proverb ]

He hath tied a knot with his tongue that he cannot untie with all his teeth. [ Proverb ]

Ridicule often cuts the Gordian knot more effectively than the severity of satire. [ Horace ]

The matrimonial knot is sometimes tied so tightly that it wounds those whom it unites. [ De Varennes ]

A similitude of nature and manners in such a degree as we are capable of, must tie the holy knot, and rivet the friendship between us. [ F. Atterbury ]

Her head was bare, but for her native ornament of hair, which in a simple knot was tied above - sweet negligence, unheeded bait of love! [ Dryden ]

How many a knot of mystery and misunderstanding would be untied by one word spoken in simple and confiding truth of heart! How many a solitary place would be made glad if love were there, and how many a dark dwelling would be filled with light! [ Dewey ]