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Well-known Sayings and Expressions. As Love and I late harbour'd in one inn, With proverbs thus each other entertain: 66 In love there is no lack," thus I begin ; "Fair words make fools," replieth he again; "Who spares to speak doth spare to speed," quoth I; "As well," saith he, "too forward as too slow;" "Fortune assists the boldest," I reply; A hasty man," quoth he, "ne'er wanted woe;" "Labour is light where love," quoth I, "doth pay;" Saith he, "Light burden's heavy, if far borne;" Quoth I, "The main lost, cast the by away;" "Y'have spun a fair thread," he replies in scorn. And having thus awhile each other thwarted Fools as we met, so fools again we parted.— MICHAEL DRAYTON — Proverbs.
There is a history in all men's lives, Figuring the nature of the times deceas'd, The which observed, a man may prophesy With a near aim, of the main chance of things As yet not come to life, which in their seeds And weak beginnings lie intreasured.— Shakespeare — Henry IV. Pt. II. Act III. Sc. 1. L. 80.
A fishmonger's wife may feed of a conger; but a serving-man's wife may starve for hunger. A Health to the Gentlemanly Profession of Serving-men. 1598. A flea in one's ear.— SIMON FORMAN — Notes to Marriage of
Wit and Wisdom. A god out of a machine.— SOCRATES — See PLATO'S Cratylus. 425.
A great ship asks deep waters.— HERBERT — Jacula Prudentum.
Agreed to differ.— SOUTHEY — Life of Wesley.
A happy accident.— MADAME DE STAËL — L'Allemagne. Ch. XVI.
A heavy heart bears not a humble tongue.— Shakespeare — Love's Labour's Lost. Act V. Sc. 2. L. 747.
A knock-down argument.— DRYDEN — Amphytrion. Act I. Sc. 1.
A little house well fill'd, a little field well till'd, and a little wife well will'd, are great riches. bb. Written in a copy of the Grete Herbell, 1561. A little more than kin, and less than kind.— Shakespeare — Hamlet. Act I. Sc. 2. L. 65.
A little snow, tumbled about, anon becomes a mountain. dd.— Shakespeare — King John. Act III. Sc. 4. L. 176.
A little too wise they say do ne'er live long. ee.— THOS. MIDDLETON — The Phenix. Act I. Sc. 1.
A little wind kindles, much puts out the fire. ff.— HERBERT — Jacula Prudentum.
All concord's born of contraries.— BEN JONSON — Cynthia's Revels. Act V. Sc. 2.
All flesh is grass, and all its glory fades.— COWPER — Task. Bk. III. L. 259.
hh. All hoods make not monks. ii.— Shakespeare — Henry VIII. Act III. Sc. 1. L. 23.
All is not gold that glistereth in bed.— FREIRE DENISE CORDELIER — Sayings.
jj. Act V. Sc. 1. All our geese are swans. kk.— BURTON — Anatomy of Melancholy. Pt. I. Sec. II. Memb. 3. Subsec. 14.
All places are distant from heaven alike.— BURTON — Anatomy of Melancholy. Pt. II. Sec. III. Memb. 4.
All quiet along the Potomac. Proverbial in 1861-62. Supposed to have originated with GEN. MCCLELLAN.— See ETHEL LYNN BEERS — The
Picket Guard. All's not offence that indiscretion finds. C.— Shakespeare — King Lear. Act II. Sc. 4. L. 198.
All's well that ends well.— Shakespeare — All's Well That Ends Well. Act V. Sc. 1. L. 28.
All that glisters is not gold.— CERVANTES — Don Quixote. Pt. II. Ch. XXXIII.
HERBERT-Jacula Prudentum.— ALANUS DE INSULIS — Parabolæ. Merchant of Venice. Act II. Sc. 7. L. 67.
UDALL-Ralph Royster Doyster. 1566. All the fatt's in the fire.— MARSTON — What You Will. 1607.
All this for a song.— BURLEIGH — To Queen Elizabeth (when
ordered to give £100 to Spenser). All truths are not to be told.— HERBERT — Jacula Prudentum.
A lover's soul lives in the body of his mistress.— PLUTARCH
Although the last, not least.— Shakespeare — King Lear. Act I. Sc. 1. L. 85.
A morning Sun, and a Wine-bred child, and a Latin-bred woman seldom end well.— HERBERT — Jacula Prudentum.
An animal without feathers and walking on two legs.— PLATO — Definition of a Man.
And all labor without any play, boys, Makes Jack a dull boy in the end.— H. A. PAGE — Vers de Société.
And he that stands upon a slippery place Makes nice of no vile hold to stay him up.— Shakespeare — King John. Act III. Sc. 4. L. 138.
An undutiful Daughter will prove an unmanageable Wife.— BENJ. FRANKLIN — Poor Richard. 1752.
A penny for your thought.— SWIFT — Polite Conversation.
Introduction. A piece of a Churchyard fits everybody.— HERBERT — Jacula Prudentum.
Arm'd at point exactly, cap-à-pie. T.— Shakespeare — Hamlet. Act I. Sc. 2. L. 200.
A rolling stone gathers no moss. S.— PUBLIUS SYRUS — Maxims. No. 524.
Art may err, but nature cannot miss.— DRYDEN — The Cock and Fox. L. 452.
As busie as a Bee.— LYLY — Euphues and his England.
P. 252 As clear and as manifest as the nose in a man's face.— BURTON — Anatomy of Melancholy. Pt. III. Sec. III. Memb. 4.
Subsec. I. As clear as a whistle.— JOHN BYROM — Epistle to Lloyd. I.
As cold as cucumbers.— BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER — Cupid's Revenge. Act I. Sc. 1.
As high as Heaven, as deep as Hell.— BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER — The Honest Man's Fortune. Act IV. Sc. 1.
As sure as a gun.— DRYDEN — The Spanish Friar. Act III. Sc. 2.
As the case stands.— THOS. MIDDLETON — The Old Law. Act II. Sc. 1.
As you sow, y' are like to reap.— BUTLER — Hudibras. Pt. II. Canto II. L. 504.
At our wittes end.— HEYWOOD — Proverbs. Pt. I. Ch VIII.
A weak Invention of the Enemy. dd.— COLLEY CIBBER — Richard III. (altered). Act V. Sc. 3.
Barkis is willin'! ee.— DICKENS — David Copperfield. Ch. I.
Beat all your feathers as flat down as pancakes. ff.— THOS MIDDLETON — The Roaring Girl. Act II. Sc. 1.
Beauty draws more than oxen. gg.— HERBERT — Jacula Prudentum.
Before you could say Jack Robinson. hh.— HUDSON — Song.
Before you make a friend eat a bushel of salt with him. ii.— HERBERT — Jacula Prudentum.
Bells call others, but themselves enter not into the Church. jj.— HERBERT — Jacula Prudentum.
Best safety lies in fear.— Shakespeare — Hamlet. Act I. Sc. 3. L. 43.
Be sure you are right, then go ahead しい。— DAVID CROCKETT — Motto.
Better a bad excuse, than none at all.— CAMDEN — Remaines. Proverbs. P. 293.
Better a barefoot than none.— HERBERT — Jacula Prudentum.
Better a witty fool than a foolish wit. C.— Shakespeare — Twelfth Night. Act I. Sc. 5. L. 40.
(Quoted.) Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay.— TENNYSON — Locksley Hall. St. 92.
Better halfe a loafe than no bread.— CAMDEN — Remaines. Proverbs. P. 293.
Better is to bow than breake.— HEYWOOD — Proverbs. Pt. I. Ch. IX.
Better late than never.— DIONYSIUS — Halicarnassus. IX. 9.
Better one byrde in hand than ten in the wood.— HEYWOOD — Proverbs. Pt. I. Ch. XI.
Better the feet slip than the tongue.— HERBERT — Jacula Prudentum.
Better your room than your company.— SIMON FORMAN — Marriage of Wit and
Wisdom. About 1570. Be wisely worldly, but not worldly wise.— QUARLES — Emblems. Bk. II. Em. 2.
Birds of a feather will gather together.— BURTON — Anatomy of Melancholy. Pt. III. Sec. I. Memb. 1.
Subsec. II. Blood is thicker than water.— SCOTT — Guy Mannering. Ch. XXXVIII.
Bread is the staff of life.— SWIFT — Tale of a Tub.
Brevity is the soul of wit.— Shakespeare — Hamlet. Act II. Sc. 2. L. 90.
Build castles in Spain.— HERBERT — Jacula Prudentum.
Build castles in the air.— BURTON — Anatomy of Melancholy. Pt. I. Sec. II. Memb. 1.
Subsec. III. But me no buts.— HENRY FIELDING — Rape upon Rape. Act II. Sc. 2. AARON HILL-Snake in the Grass. Sc. 1.
But ne'er the rose without the thorn. S.— HERRICK — The Rose.
But when the fox hath once got in his nose, He'll soon find means to make the body follow.— Shakespeare — Henry VI. Pt. III. Act IV. Sc. 7. L. 25.
By all that's good and glorious. น. BYRON-Sardanapalus. Act I. Sc. 2. By hooke or crooke.— HEYWOOD — Proverbs. Pt. I. Ch. XI.
Can one desire too much of a good thing?— CERVANTES — Don Quixote. Pt. I. Bk. I. Ch. VI. As You Like It. Act IV. Sc. 1. L. 123.
Clean your Finger before you point at my Spots.— BENJ. FRANKLIN — Poor Richard. 1750.
Come home to men's business and bosoms.— BACON — Essays. Dedication. Ed. 1625.
Comparisons are odious.— BURTON — Anatomy of Melancholy. Pt. III. Sec. III. Memb. 1. Ch. I.
FORTESCUE-De Laudibus Leg. Angliæ. Ch.— HERBERT — Jacula Prudentum.
HEYWOOD-A Woman Killed with— Shakespeare — Kindness. Act I. Sc. 2.
LE ROUX DE LINCY-Le Livre des Proverbes Français.— Shakespeare — Much Ado About Nothing. Act III. Sc. 5. L. 19.
Corne, which is the staffe of life. aa.— WINSLOW — Good News from New
England. Couldst thou both eat thy cake and have it? bb.— HERBERT — The Church. The Size.
Curses are like young chickens, And still come home to roost! Arabian Proverb quoted by BULWERcc.— LYTTON — The Lady of Lyons. Act V. Sc. 2.
Cut and come again. dd.— CRABBE — Tales VII. L. 26.
Dark as pitch. ee.— BUNYAN — Pilgrim's Progress. Pt. I.
Deceive not thy Physician, Confessor, nor Lawyer. ff.— HERBERT — Jacula Prudentum.
Deed are males, words females are. gg.— DAVIES — Scene of Folly. P. 147.
Deeds, not words. hh.— BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER — The Lover's Progress. Act III. Sc. 6.
Delay always heeds danger.— CERVANTES — Don Quixote. Bk. IV. Ch. III.
Delays have dangerous ends. jj.— Shakespeare — Henry VI. Pt. I. Act III. Sc. 2. L. 33.
Diamonds cut diamonds.— JOHN FORD — The Lover's Melancholy. Act I. Sc. 3.
Don't cross the bridge till you come to it, Is a proverb old, and of excellent wit.— LONGFELLOW — Christus.
The Golden Legend. Pt. VI. Doubtless the pleasure is as great Of being cheated as to cheat. C.— BUTLER — Hudibras. Pt. II. Canto 3. L. 1.
Do you think I was born in a wood to be afraid of an owl?— SWIFT — Polite Conversation. Dialogue I.
England is a paradise for women, and hell for horses: Italy is a paradise for horses, hell for women.— BURTON — Anatomy of Melancholy. Pt. III. Sec. III. Memb. 1.
Subsec. II. Enough is as good as a feast.— GEORGE CHAPMAN — Eastward Ho! Act III. Sc. 2.
Eureka! Eureka!
Faint heart ne'er won fair lady.— PHINEAS FLETCHER — Brittain's Ida. Canto V I. St. 1. Ballad of
W. ELDERTON. 1569. Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds. S. SOCRATES. Familiarity breeds contempt.— PUBLIUS SYRUS — Maxims. 640.
Fast bind, fast find; A proverb never stale in thrifty mind.— Shakespeare — Merchant of Venice. Act II. Sc. 5. L. 54. HEYWOOD-Proverb. Pt. I. Ch. III.
Fat, fair, and forty.— SCOTT — St. Ronan's Well. Ch. VII.
Fer from eye, fer from herte.— HENDYING — Proverbs. MSS. About
1320. Fingers were made before forks and hands before knives.— SWIFT — Polite Conversation.
Dialogue II. Fitted him to a T.— SAM'L JOHNSON — Boswell's Life of
Johnson. 1784. Follow pleasure, and then will pleasure flee; Flee pleasure, and pleasure will follow thee.— HEYWOOD — Proverbs. Pt. I. Ch. XI.
Fools make feasts, and wise men eat them.— BENJ. FRANKLIN — Poor Richard. 1733.
Forgiveness is better than revenge. bb.— PITTACUS — Quoted by Heraclitus.
For Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do. CC.— WATTS — Divine Songs. Song XX.
Fortune befriends the bold.— CICERO — De Finibus. Bk. III. Div. 4.
For want of a nail the shoe is lost, for want of a shoe the horse is lost, for want of a horse the rider is lost. ee.— HERBERT — Jacula Prudentum.
For where God built a church, there the devil would also build a chapel. ff.— MARTIN LUTHER — Table Talk. LXVII.
For young hot colts being rag'd, do rage the more.— Shakespeare — Richard II. Act II. Sc. I. L. 70.
gg. Frieth in her own grease. hh.— HEYWOOD — Proverbs. Pt. I. Ch. XI.
From the crown of our head to the sole of our foot.— BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER — The Honest Man's Fortune. Act II. Sc. 2.
THOS. MIDDLETON-A Mad World, My— Shakespeare — Masters. Act I. Sc. 3.
Give an inch, he'll take an ell.— HOBBES — Liberty and Necessity. No.111.
JOHN WEBSTER-Sir Thomas Wyatt. Give not Saint Peter so much, to leave Saint Paul nothing.— HERBERT — Jacula Prudentum.
Give the devil his due.— DRYDEN — Epilogue to the Duke of Guise.
Glass, China, and Reputation, are easily crack'd and never well mended.— BENJ. FRANKLIN — Poor Richard. 1750.
Gluttony kills more than the sword.— HERBERT — Jacula Prudentum.
God defend the right.— Shakespeare — Richard II. Act I. Sc. 3. L. 101.
God made the country, and man made the town.— COWPER — The Task. Bk. I. L. 749.
God never sendeth mouth but he sendeth meat.— HEYWOOD — Proverbs. Pt. I. Ch. IV.
God save the mark!— Shakespeare — Henry IV. Pt. I. Act I. Sc. 3. L. 57.
God sends cold according to clothes.— HERBERT — Jacula Prudentum.
God's Mills grind slow but sure.— HERBERT — Jacula Prudentum.
God's mills grind slow, But they grind woe.— WM. R. ALGER — Oriental Poetry.
Delayed Retribution. Going as if he trod upon eggs.— BURTON — Anatomy of Melancholy. Pt. III. Sect. II. Memb. 3.
Gold all is not that doth golden seem.— SPENSER — Faerie Queene. Bk. II. Canto VIII. St. 14.
Good company in a journey makes the way to seem the shorter.— IZAAK WALTON — The Compleat Angler. Pt. I. Ch. I.
Go West, young man! Go West.— JOHN L. B. SOULE — In the Terre Haute
Express. 1851. Great Estates may venture more. Little Boats must keep near Shore.— BENJ. FRANKLIN — Poor Richard. 1751.
Greatest happiness of the greatest number.— HUTCHESON — Moral Good and Evil. Sec. III.
Hail, fellow, well met.— SWIFT — My Lady's Lamentation.
Half as sober as a judge.— CHARLES LAMB — Letter to Mr. and Mrs.
Moxon. August, 1833. Half the world knows not how the other half lies.— HERBERT — Jacula Prudentum.
Handsome is that handsome does.— GOLDSMITH — The Vicar of Wakefield. Ch. I.
Hanging and wiving goes by destiny.— Shakespeare — Merchant of Venice. Act II. Sc. 9. L. 83.
Hanging was the worst use a man could be put to.— SIR HENRY WOTTON — The Disparity
between Buckingham and Essex. Harp not on that string.— Shakespeare — Richard III. Act IV. Sc. 4. L. 366.
Have yee him on the hip? aa.— HEYWOOD — Proverbs. Pt. II. Ch. V.
Have you summoned your wits from wool gathering? bb.— THOS. MIDDLETON — The Family of Love. Act V. Sc. 3.
He always looked a given horse in the mouth.— RABELAIS — Works. Bk. I. Ch. XI.
He can give little to his servant that licks his knife. dd.— HERBERT — Jacula Prudentum.
He comes not in my books. ee.— BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER — The Widow, Act I. Sc. 1.
He did not care a button for it. ff.— RABELAIS — Works. Bk. II. Ch. XVI.
He is a fool who lets slip a bird in the hand for a bird in the bush. gg.— PLUTARCH — Of Garrulity.
He jests at scars that never felt a wound. hh.— Shakespeare — Romeo and Juliet. Act II. Sc. 2. L. 1.
He knew what is what. ii.— SKELTON — Why Come Ye nat to Courte? L. 1,106.
He must have a long spoon that must eat must eat with the devil. jj.— Shakespeare — Comedy of Errors. Act IV. Sc. 3. Sc. 3. L. 64.
He must needes go that the dyvell dryveth. In "Johan the Husbande, Tyb His Wyfe and Syr Jhan the Priest"-printed by Rastall. 1533.— Shakespeare — All's Well That Ends Well. Act I. Sc. 3. L. 31.
He pares his apple that will cleanly feed.— HERBERT — Church Porch. St. 2.
Here is the devil-and-all to pay.— CERVANTES — Don Quixote. Bk. IV. Ch. X.
Here's metal more attractive.— Shakespeare — Hamlet. Act III. Sc. 2. L. 115.
He rolls it under his tongue as a sweet morsel.— MATHEW HENRY — Commentaries.
Psalm XXXVI. Her that ruled the rost in the kitchen.— THOS. HEYWOOD — History of Women.
(Ed. 1624.) P. 286. He ruleth all the roste.— SKELTON — Why Come Yenat to Courte? L. 198.
He's a sure card.— DRYDEN — The Spanish Friar. Act II. Sc. 2.
He that can't live upon love deserves to die in a ditch.— CONGREVE
He that goes to bed thirsty rises healthy.— HERBERT — Jacula Prudentum.
He that has two strings t' his bow.— BUTLER — Hudibras. Pt. III. Canto I. L. 3.
He that is down can fall no lower. Canto III.— BUTLER — Hudibras. Pt. I. L. 878.
He that is down needs fear no fall.— BUNYAN — Pilgrim's Progress. Pt. II.
He that keeps nor crust nor crum, Weary of all, shall want some.— Shakespeare — King Lear. Act I. Sc. 4. L. 216.
He that runs may read.— COWPER — Tirocinium. L. 80.
He was born within the sound of Bow-bell.— FULLER — Gnomologia.
He went away with a flea in 's ear.— BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER — Love's Cure. Act III. Sc. 3.
He who lives after nature, shall never be poor; after opinion, shall never be rich.— SENECA
He who moves not forward goes backward! A capital saying!— GOETHE — Herman and Dorothea.
S. Canto III. L.
He will give the devil his due.— Shakespeare — Henry IV. Pt. I. Act I. Sc. 2. L. 132.
Hide their diminished heads.— MILTON — Paradise Lost. Bk. IV. L. 35.
Hier lies that should fetch a perfect woman over the coles.— SIR GYLES GOOSECAPPE. 1606
Him that makes shoes go barefoot himself.— BURTON — Anatomy of Melancholy.
Democritus to the Reader. P. 34. Ed. 1887. His bark is worse than his bite.— HERBERT — Country Parson. Ch. XXIX.
*** his master was in a manner always in a wrong Boxe and building castels in the ayre or catching Hares with Tabers. Letter by F. A. to L. B. 1575-76. Repr. in Miscell. Antiq. Anglic. His time is forever, everywhere his place.— ABRAHAM COWLEY — Friendship in
Absence. Hit the nail on the head. aa.— BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER — Love's Cure. Act II. Sc. 1.
Hold one another's noses to the grindstone hard. bb.— BURTON — Anatomy of Melancholy. Pt. III. Sect. 1. Memb. 3.
Hold their noses to the grindstone. cc.— THOS. MIDDLETON — Blurt, Master Constable. Act III. Sc. 3.
Home is where the heart is. dd. dd. PLINY. Homo proponit et Deus disponit And governeth alle goode virtues. ee. Piers Ploughman. L. 13,994. How we apples swim. ff.— SWIFT — Brother Protestants.
How well I feathered my nest.— RABELAIS — Works. Bk. II. Ch. XVII.
gg. Huzzaed out of my seven senses. hh. Spectator. No. 616. 'Nov. 5, 1774. I am almost frightened out of my seven senses. ii.— CERVANTES — Don Quixote. Pt. I. Bk. III. Ch. 9.
I am glad that my Adonis hath a sweete tooth in his head. jj.— LYLY — Euphues and his England.
P. 308. I am just going to leap into the dark.— RABELAIS — From Motteux's Life.
I can tell where my own shoe pinches me.— CERVANTES — Don Quixote. Pt. I. Ch. IV.
If a man could half his wishes he would double his Troubles.— BENJ. FRANKLIN — Poor Richard. 1752.
I find the medicine worse than the malady.— BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER — Love's Cure. u. Act III. Sc. 2.
If your Riches are yours, why don't you take them with you to the t'other world?— BENJ. FRANKLIN — Poor Richard. 1751.
If you would be loved, love and be lovable.— BENJ. FRANKLIN — Poor Richard. 1755.
I have other fish to fry.— CERVANTES — Don Quixote. Pt. II. Ch. XXXV.
I have you on the hip.— Shakespeare — Merchant of Venice. Act IV. Sc. 1. L. 334.
I'll be with you in the squeezing of a lemon.— GOLDSMITH — She Stoops to Conquer. Act I. Sc. 2.
Ill blows the wind that profits nobody.— Shakespeare — Henry VI. Pt. III. Act II. Sc. 5. L. 55.
I'll make the fur Fly 'bout the ears of the old cur.— BUTLER — Hudibras. Pt. I. Canto III. Canto III. L. 278.
Ill news is wing'd with fate, and flies apace.— DRYDEN — Threnodia Augustalis. L. 49.
Illustrious Predecessor.— BURKE — Thoughts on the Cause of the
Present Discontents. Edition 1775. P. 26. Ill ware is never cheap.— HERBERT — Jacula Prudentum.
Ill wind which blows no man to good.— Shakespeare — Henry IV. Pt. II. Act V. Sc. 3. L. 90.
I look upon you as a gem of the old rock.— SIR THOMAS BROWNE — Dedication to
Urn Burial. Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.— C. C. COLTON — Lacon. P. 127.
In hope her to attain by hook or crook.— SPENSER — Faerie Queene. Bk. III. Canto I. St. 17.
In the great right of an excessive wrong.— ROBERT BROWNING — The Ring and the
Book. The other Half-Rome. L. 1,055. In the name of the Prophet-figs.— HORACE SMITH — Johnson's Ghost.
In the spyght of his tethe.— SKELTON — Why Come Ye nat to Courte. L. 939.
I owe you one. GEORGE COLMAN (the Younger)-The— Shakespeare — Poor Gentleman. Act I. Sc. 2.
I shall tread in the footsteps of my illustrious predecessor.— MARTIN VAN BUREN — Inaugural
Address. March 4, 1837. I smell a device.— Shakespeare — Twelfth Night. Act II. Sc. 3. L. 176.
It had need to bee A wylie mouse that should breed in the cat's eare.— HEYWOOD — Proverbs. Pt. II. Ch. V.
It is always good When a man has two irons in the fire.— BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER — The Faithful Friends. Act I. Sc. 2.
It is a poor sport that is not worth the candle.— HERBERT — Jacula Prudentum.
It is a wise father that knows his own child. aa.— Shakespeare — Merchant of Venice. Act II. Sc. 2. L. 80.
It is better to wear out than to rust out. bb.— BISHOP CUMBERLAND
See BISHOP HORNE'S Sermon on the Duty of Contending for the Truth. It is good to have a hatch before the durre. cc.— HEYWOOD — Proverbs. Pt. I. Ch. XI.
It is no jesting with edge tools. dd. The True Tragedy of Richard III. 1594. It is the lot of man but once to die. ee.— QUARLES — Emblems. Bk. V. Em. 7.
It is well to moor your bark with two anchors. ff.— PUBLIUS SYRUS — Maxims. 119.
I will die in the last ditch. gg.— WILLIAM OF ORANGE — Hume's England. Ch. LXV.
I won't quarrel with my bread and butter. hh.— SWIFT — Polite Conversation.
Dialogue I. Jack shall pipe, and Jill shall dance. ii.— GEORGE WITHER — Poem on Christmas.
Keep what goods the Gods provide you. jj.— PLAUTUS — Rudens. Act IV. Sc. 8.
Riley's trans. Laugh and be fat. kk.— JOHN TAYLOR — Title of a Tract. 1615.
Leap out of the frying pan into the fire.— CERVANTES — Don Quixote. Pt. I. Bk. III. Ch. IV.
Let all live as they would die.— HERBERT — Jacula Prudentum.
Let pride go afore, shame will follow after.— GEORGE CHAPMAN — Eastward Ho. Act IV. Sc. 1.
Lette mee stande to thee maine chaunce.— LYLY — Euphues. Arbor's Reprint.
1579. P. 104. Let the world slide.— BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER — Wit Without Money. Act V. Sc. 2.
C. Taming of the Shrew. Induction. Sc. 1. L. 5. Let the world slip. Taming of the Shrew. Induction. Sc. 2. L. 146. Let the worst come to the worst.— CERVANTES- — Don Quixote. Bk. III. Ch. V.
Let us do or die.— BURNS — Bannockburn.
Life is short, yet sweet.— EURIPIDES
Light burdens, long borne, grow heavy.— HERBERT — Jacula Prudentum.
Light cares speak, great ones are dumb.— SENECA
Like sending owls to Athens, as the proverb is.— DIOGENES LAERTIUS — Lives of Eminent
Philosophers. Plato. XXXII. Like to like.— GASCOIGNE — Complaynt of Philomene.
Little pitchers have wide ears.— HERBERT — Jacula Prudentum.
Little said is soonest mended.— GEORGE WITHER — The Shepherd's
Hunting. Live and think.— SAMUEL LOVER — Father Roach.
Living from hand to mouth.— DU BARTAS — Divine Weekes and Workes. Second Week. First Day. Pt. IV.
Long ailments wear out pain, and long hopes joy. STANISLAUS (King of Poland)-Maxims and Moral Sentences. No. 8. Look before you ere you leap.— BUTLER — Hudibras. Pt. II. Canto II. L. 503.
Looked unutterable things.— THOMSON — Seasons. Summer. L. 1,188.
Look ere thou leap.— HEYWOOD — Proverbs. Pt. I. Ch. II.
Look not for musk in a dog's kennel.— HERBERT — Jacula Prudentum.
Lord, what fools these mortals be! Midsummer-Night's Dream. Act III. Sc. 2. L. 115. Love all, trust a few, Do wrong to none.— Shakespeare — All's Well That Ends Well. Act I. Sc. I. L. 73.
Love, and a Cough, cannot be hid.— HERBERT — Jacula Prudentum.
Love your neighbor, yet pull not down your hedge.— HERBERT — Jacula Prudentum.
Mad as a March hare.— HALLIWELL — Archaic Diet. Vol. II.
Art. "March Hare."— HEYWOOD — Proverbs. Pt. II. Ch. V.
Y. Madde March hare.— SKELTON — Replycacion Agaynst Certayne Yong Scolers, etc. L. 35.
Made no more bones.— DU BARTAS — The Maiden Blush.
aa. Make a virtue of necessity. bb.— BURTON — Anatomy of Melancholy. Pt. III. Sec. III. Memb. 4.
Subsec. I. Make ducks and drakes with shillings. cc.— GEORGE CHAPMAN — Eastward Ho. Sc. 1. Act I.
Make three bites of a cherry. dd.— RABELAIS — Works. Bk. V. Ch. XXVIII.
Man proposes, but God disposes. ee.— THOS. À KEMPIS — Imitation of Christ. Bk. I. Ch. XIX. Thos. Dibdin's
trans. Many a smale maketh a grate. ff.— CHAUCER — Persones Tale.
Many go out for wool, and come home shorn themselves. gg.— CERVANTES — Don Quixote. Pt. II. Ch. XXXVII.
Many-headed multitude.— SIR PHILIP SIDNEY — Arcadia. Bk. II.
Matches are made in heaven. ii.— BURTON — Anatomy of Melancholy. Pt. III. Sec. II. Memb. 5.
Subsec. V. Men are but children of a larger growth.— DRYDEN — All for Love. Act IV. Sc. I.
Men are neither suddenly rich nor suddenly good. kk.
Nothing is certain but death and taxes.— BENJ. FRANKLIN — Letter to M. Leroy.
Not if I know myself at all.— CHARLES LAMB — Essays of Elia. The
Old and the New Schoolmaster. Not lost, but gone before.— MATHEW HENRY — Commentaries.
Not to know me argues yourselves unknown, The lowest of your throng.— MILTON — Paradise Lost. Bk. IV. L. 830.
Nought venter nought have.— HEYWOOD — Proverbs. Pt. I. Ch. XI.
THOS. TUSSER-Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry. October's Extract. Now for good lucke, cast an old shooe after mee.— HEYWOOD — Proverbs. Pt. I. Ch. IX.
Of harmes two the lesse is for to chese.— CHAUCER — Troilus and Criseyde. Bk. II. L. 470.
Oft times many things fall out between the cup and the lip.— GREENE — Perimedes. 1588.
aa. Of two evils I have chose the least.— PRIOR — Imitation of Horace. Bk. I. Bk. I.
Ep. IX. Of two evils the least should be chosen. cc.— ERASMUS — Cicero de Officiis. III. 1.
Of two Evils we take the less. dd.— HOOKER — Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity. Bk. V. Ch. LXXXI.
Oil on troubled waters.— BEDE — Ecclesiastical History. Bk. III. Ch. XV. Written about 716-731,
describes the use of oil for calming the sea. ee.— See DAVID M. STONE — Journal of
Commerce, March 31, 1882. One foot in the grave. ff.— BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER — The Little French Lawyer. Act I. Sc. 1.
One hour's sleep before midnight is worth three after. gg.— HERBERT — Jacula Prudentum.
On his last legs. hh.— THOS. MIDDLETON — The Old Law. Act V. Sc. 1.
Originality provokes originality.— GOETHE
Or shear swine, all cry and no wool. jj.— BUTLER — Hudibras. Pt. I. Canto I. L. 852.
Ossa on Pelion.— OVID — Metamorphosis I.
Others set carts before the horses.— RABELAIS — Works. Bk. V. Ch. XXII.
Out of mind as soon as out of sight. C.— LORD BROOKE — Sonnet. 56.
Out of syght, out of mynd.— GOOGE — Title of Eclog.
Penny wise, pound foolish.— BURTON — Anatomy of Melancholy.
Democritus to the Reader. P. 35. Ed. 1887. Performed to a T.— RABELAIS — Works. Bk. IV. Ch. LI.
Pigmies placed on the shoulders of giants see more than the giants themselves.— DIDACUS STELLA — Lucan 10. Tome II.
Pity's akin to love.— THOS. SOUTHERNE — Oroonoko. Act II. Sc. 2.
Plain as a nose in a man's face.— RABELAIS — Works. The Author's
Prologue to the Fifth Book. Pleasing ware is half sold.— HERBERT — Jacula Prudentum.
Poverty is no sin.— HERBERT — Jacula Prudentum.
Poverty is the mother of health.— HERBERT — Jacula Prudentum.
Praise the bridge that carried you over. GEO. COLMAN (the Younger)-Heir-at-— Shakespeare — Law. Act I. Sc. 1.
Praise the sea, but keep on land.— HERBERT — Jacula Prudentum.
Prosperity engenders sloth. 0. LIVY. Prosperity lets go the bridle.— HERBERT — Jacula Prudentum.
Prosperity makes friends and adversity tries them.
Rather to bowe than breke is profitable.— CHRISTYNE — Morale Proverbs. Translated from the French by Earl
Rivers. Right as a trivet.— R. H. BARHAM — The Ingoldsby Legends.
Auto-da-fé. Rise with the lark and with the lark to bed.— JAMES HURDIS — The Village Curate.
Robbe Peter and pay Paule.— HEYWOOD — Proverbs. Pt. I. Ch. XI.
Rome was not built in one day.— HEYWOOD — Proverbs. Pt. I. Ch. XI.
Rouse the lion from his lair.— SCOTT — The Talisman. Ch. VI.
Safe bind, safe find.— TUSSER — Five Hundred Points of Good
aa. Husbandry. Washing. Scared out of his seven senses.— SCOTT — Rob Roy. Ch. XXIV.
bb. Scoundrel maxim. cc.— THOMSON — The Castle of Indolence. Canto I. St. 50.
See and to be seen.— BEN JONSON — Epithalamion. St. 3. L. 4.
Letter 71. Seize time by the forelock. PITTACUS, of Mytilene. ee. Set a beggar on horseback, and he will ride a gallop. ff.— BURTON — Anatomy of Melancholy. Pt. II. Sect. III. Memb. 2.
Set all at sixe and seven.— HEYWOOD — Proverbs. Pt. I. Ch. XI.
Set the cart before the horse. hh.— HEYWOOD — Proverbs. Pt. II. Ch. VII.
Sharp's the word with her. ii.— SWIFT — Polite Conversation. Dialogue
Take Time by the forelock. THALES (of Miletus). Tall oaks from little acorns grow. S.— DAVID EVERETT — Lines for a School
Declamation. Tell me thy company and I will tell thee what thou art.— CERVANTES — Quoted in Don Quixote. Vol. III. Pt. II. Ch. XXIII.
Tell tales out of schoole.— HEYWOOD — Proverbs. Pt. I. Ch. X.
Thank you for nothing.— CERVANTES — Don Quixote. Pt. I. Bk. III. Ch. VIII.
That byrd ys nat honest That fylythe hys owne nest.— SKELTON — Poems against Garnesche.
The more thou stir it the worse it will be.— CERVANTES — Don Quixote. Bk. III. Ch. VIII.
The most delightful pleasures cloy without variety.— PUBLIUS SYRUS
The mouse that hath but one hole is quickly taken. V.— HERBERT — Jacula Prudentum.
The next way home's the farthest way about.— QUARLES — Emblems. Bk. IV.
Em. 2. Ep. 2. The palpable obscure.— X. MILTON — Paradise Lost. Bk. II. L. 406.
The point is plain as a pike staff.— JOHN BYROM — Epistle to a Friend.
There are some remedies worse than the disease.— PUBLIUS SYRUS — Maxims. 301.
There can be no affinity nearer than our country. aa. PLATO. There can no great smoke arise, but there must be some fire. bb.— LYLY — Euphues and his Emphœbus.
P. 153. Therefore it behooveth hire a ful long spoon That shal ete with a feend. cc.— CHAUCER — The Squire's Tale. L. 15,378.
There is no gathering the rose without being pricked by the thorns.— PILPAY — The Two Travellers. Ch. II.
dd. Fable VI. There is no jesting with edge tools. ee.— BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER — The Little French Lawyer. Act IV. Sc. 7.
The remedy is worse than the disease.— BACON — Of Seditions.
There's a time for all things.— Shakespeare — Comedy of Errors. Act II. Sc. 2.
gg. L. 66. There shall be no love lost. hh.— BEN JONSON — Every Man out of his Humour. Act II. Sc. 1.
There's luck in odd numbers. ii.— SAMUEL LOVER — Rory O' More. St. 3.
There's no hate lost between us. jj.— THOS. MIDDLETON — The Witch. Act IV. Sc. 3.
There's small choice in rotten apples. kk.— Shakespeare — Taming of the Shrew. Act I. Sc. 1. L. 138.
There's two words to that bargain.— SWIFT — Polite Conversation.
Dialogue III. and every man a brick.— PLUTARCH
There, though last, not least.— SPENSER — Colin Clout. L. 444.
The Royal Crown cures not the headache.— HERBERT — Jacula Prudentum.
The scalded dog fears cold water.— HERBERT — Jacula Prudentum.
The short and the long of it. Merry Wives of Windsor. Act II. Sc. 2. L. 60. The shortest answer is doing.— HERBERT — Jacula Prudentum.
The sight of you is good for sore eyes.— SWIFT — Polite Conversation.
Dialogue I.. The sign brings customers.— LA FONTAINE — Fables. The Fortune- Tellers. Bk. VII. Fable 15.
The smith and his penny both are black.— HERBERT — Jacula Prudentum.
The stone that is rolling, can gather no moss.— TUSSER — Five Hundred Points of Good
Husbandry. Huswifely Admonitions. The sum of earthly bliss.— MILTON — Paradise Lost. Bk. VIII. L. 522.
The time is out of joint.— Shakespeare — Hamlet. Act I. Sc. 5. L. 189.
The total depravity of inanimate things.— KATHERINE K. C. WALKER — Title of
Sept., 1864. The true Amphitryon.— DRYDEN — Amphitryon. Act IV. Sc. 1.
The true beginning of our end. Midsummer-Night's Dream. Act V. Sc. 1. L. 111. The very pink of perfection.— GOLDSMITH — She Stoops to Conquer. Act I. Sc. 1.
The wearer knows where the shoe wrings.— HERBERT — Jacula Prudentum.
The will for the deed.— COLLEY CIBBER — The Rival Fools. Act III.
The wine in the bottle does not quench thirst. S.— HERBERT — Jacula Prudentum.
The wolf must die in his own skin.— HERBERT — Jacula Prudentum.
The word impossible is not in my dictionary. и. u. NAPOLEON I.
There thou beholdest the walls of Sparta They do not love that do not show their love.— HEYWOOD — Proverbs. Pt. II. Ch. IX.
They're only truly great who are truly good.— GEO. CHAPMAN — Revenge for Honour. Act V. Sc. 2.
They that touch pitch will be defiled.— Shakespeare — Much Ado About Nothing. Act III. Sc. 3. L. 60.
Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill.— Shakespeare — Macbeth. Act III. Sc. 2. L. 56.
Things past redress are now with me past care.— Shakespeare — Richard II. Act II. Sc. 3. L. 171.
Things sweet to taste prove in digestion sour. aa.— Shakespeare — Richard II. Act I. Sc. 3. L. 237.
Things that are not at all, are never lost. bb.— MARLOWE — Hero and Leander. First Sestiad. L. 276.
This flea which I have in my ear. CC.— RABELAIS — Works. Bk. III. Ch. XXXI.
This many-headed monster. dd.— MASSINGER — The Roman Actor. Act III. Sc. 2.
This peck of troubles. ee.— CERVANTES — Don Quixote. Pt. II. Ch. LIII.
This whole universe is one city. ff.— EPICTETUS
Those that God loves, do not live long. gg.— HERBERT — Jacula Prudentum.
an Essay in the Atlantic Monthly. Though I say 't that should not say 't. hh.— BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER — Wit at Several Weapons. Act II. Sc. 2.
Though men determine, the gods do dispose. ii.— GREENE — Perimedes. 1588.
Though this may be play to you, 'Tis death to us. jj.— ROGER L'ESTRANGE — Fables. 398.
Thou will scarce be a man before thy mother. kk.— BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER — Love's Cure. Act II. Sc. 2.
Three can hold their peace if two be away.— HERBERT — Jacula Prudentum.
Three may keep a secret if two of them are dead.— BENJ. FRANKLIN — Poor Richard. 1735.
Three things are men most likely to be cheated in, a horse, a wig, and a wife. nn,— BENJ. FRANKLIN — Poor Richard. 1736.
Through thick and thin, both over bank and bush.— SPENSER — Faerie Queene. Bk. III. Canto I. St. 17.
Through thick and thin, both over Hill and Plain.— DU BARTAS — Divine Weekes and Workes. Second Week. Fourth Day. Bk. IV.
Thursday come, and the week is gone. C.— HERBERT — Jacula Prudentum.
Thy Will for Deed I do accept.— DU BARTAS — Divine Weekes and Workes. Second Week. Third Day. Pt. II.
Time is money.— BULWER-LYTTON — Money. Act III. Sc. 3.
Times change and we change with them. Altered from a poem of MATTHIAS
To blow and swallow at the same moment isn't easy to be done.— PLAUTUS — Mostellaria. Act III. Sc. 2.
S. Riley's trans. To make a mountain of a mole-hill.— HENRY ELLIS — Original Letters.
Second Series. P. 312. To make a virtue of necessity.— Shakespeare — Two Gentlemen of Verona. Act IV. Sc. 1. L. 62.
To put a girdle round about the world.— GEO. CHAPMAN — Bussy D' Ambois. Act I. Sc. 1.
To rise with the lark, and go to bed with the lamb.— BRETON — Court and Country. 1618.
To take the nuts from the fire with the dog's foot.— HERBERT — Jacula Prudentum.
X. Turn over a new leaf.— THOS. DEKKER — The Honest Whore. Pt. II. Act II. Sc. 1
Also A Health to the Gentlemanly Profession of Serving-Men. 1598, Two heads are better then one.— HEYWOOD — Proverbs. Pt. I. Ch. IX.
Two of a trade can ne'er agree.— GAY — The Ratcatcher and Cats. L. 44.
aa. Unquiet meals make ill digestions. bb.— Shakespeare — Comedy of Errors. Act V. Sc. I. L. 75
Virtue is her own reward.— DRYDEN — Tyrannic Love. Act II. Sc. III. Ode 2. L. 146,
Virtue is its own reward.— GAY — Epistle to Methuen. L. 42. L. 294
Virtue is to herself the best reward. ee.— HENRY MOORE — Cupid's Conflict.
Walls have tongues, and hedges ears. ff.— SWIFT — Pastoral Dialogue. L. 7.
Waste brings woe, and sorrow hates despair. gg.— ROBERT GREENE — Sonnet.
Weakness of mind is the only fault inca hh.— LA ROCHEFOUCAULD — Maxims. No. 133.
We are never so happy, or so unhappy, as we imagine.— LA ROCHEFOUCAULD — Maxims. No. 50,
We cannot all be masters, nor all masters cannot be truly followed. jj.— Shakespeare — Othello. Act I. Sc. 1. L. 43.
We have here other fish to fry.— RABELAIS — Works. Bk. V. Ch. XII.
We have scotch'd the snake, not killed it.— Shakespeare — Macbeth. Act III. Sc. 2. L. 14.
Well may he smell fire, whose gown burns.— HERBERT — Jacula Prudentum.
C. We'll take the good-will for the deed.— RABELAIS — Works. Bk. IV. Ch. XLIX.
Went in at the one eare and out at the other.— HEYWOOD — Proverbs. Pt. II. Ch. IX.
We should never remember the benefits we have conferred, nor forget the favours received.
What you would not have done to yourselves, never do unto others.
Whistle, and I'll come to you, my lad.— BURNS — Whistle, and I'll Come to You,
My Lad. Whistle, and she'll come to you.— BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER — Wit Without Money. Act IV. Sc. 4.
Who are a little wise, the best fools be. C.— DONNE — The Triple Fool.
Who can refute a sneer?— WILLIAM PALEY — Moral Philosophy. Vol. II. Bk. V. Ch. IX.
Who digs hills because they do aspire, Throws down one mountain to cast up a higher.— Shakespeare — Pericles. Act I. Sc. 4. L. 6.
Who does not love wine, women, and song Remains a fool his whole life long. Attributed to LUTHER, probably a saying of J. H. Voss. Who drives fat oxen should himself be fat.— SAM'L JOHNSON — Boswell's Life of
Johnson. 1784. Who is so deaf as he that will not hear?— HERBERT — Jacula Prudentum.
Whose house is of glass, must not throw stones at another.— HERBERT — Jacula Prudentum.
Why, then, do you walk as if you had swallowed a ramrod?— EPICTETUS — Discourses. Ch. XXI.
Wind puffs up empty bladders; opinion, fools.— SOCRATES
Wine makes all sorts of creatures at table.— HERBERT — Jacula Prudentum.
Wisdom provides things necessary, not superfluous.