  French 1-64. Italian 65-132. German 133-192. Spanish 193-262. A. A bad beginning may make a good ending, 167 A bad heart and a good stomach, 38 A bad horse eats as much as a good one, 366 A bad knife cuts one’s finger instead of the stick, 273 A bad labour, and a daughter after all, 239 A bad man’s gift is like his master, 210 A bad penny always comes back, 136 A bad thing never dies, 209 A bad tree does not yield good apples, 394 A bad wife wishes her husband’s heel turned homewards, and not his toe, 394 A bad workman never finds a good tool, 38 A bad wound may be cured, bad repute kills, 227 A baptised Jew is a circumcised Christian, 149 A bargain is a bargain, 150 A barking cur does not bite, 76 A barking dog was never a good biter, 240—see Barking dogs A barking dog was never a good hunter, 291 A barren sow is never kind to pigs, 371 A bashful dog never fattens, 147 A beard lathered is half shaved, 74, 268 A beard well lathered is half shaved, 204 A beautiful woman smiling, bespeaks a purse weeping, 74 A beggar is never out of his road, 35 A beggar’s estate lies in all lands, 300 A beggar’s hand is a bottomless basket, 306 A beggar’s wallet is never full, 277 A bellyful is a bellyful, 59 A bespattered hog tries to bespatter another, 261 A better seldom comes after, 168 A big (long) nose never spoiled a handsome face, 27 A bird in the cage is worth a hundred at large, 97 A bird may be ever so small, it always seeks a nest of its own, 346 A black hen lays a white egg, 40 A blind hen can sometimes find her corn, 61 A blind horse goes straightforward, 136 A blind man is no judge of colours, 101 A blind man may sometimes shoot a crow, 312 A blind man swallows many a fly, 142 A blind man’s stroke, which raises a dust from beneath water, 239 A blind pigeon may sometimes find a grain of wheat, 351 A blow from a frying-pan, if it does not hurt, smuts, 217 A bold attempt is half success, 369 A bold man has luck in his train, 363 A bold onset is half the battle, 170 A bolt does not always fall when it thunders (There are more threatened than struck), 147 A boor remains a boor, though he sleep on silken bolsters, 365 A borrowed horse and your own spurs make short miles, 383 A boy’s love is water in a sieve, 199 A brain is worth little without a tongue, 61 A braying ass eats little hay, 72 A brilliant daughter makes a brittle wife, 312 Abroad one has a hundred eyes, at home not one, 141 A buffeting threatened is never well given, 205 A burnt child dreads the fire, 149, 313 A burnt child dreads the fire, and a bitten child dreads a dog, 351 A bustling mother makes a slothful daughter, 280 A buxom widow must be married, buried, or cloistered, 262 A cake and a bad custom ought to be broken, 19 A calm portends a storm, 105 A capon eight months old is fit for a king’s table, 208, 272 A cat has nine lives, as the onion seven skins, 143 A cat may look at a king, 169, 314 A cat pent up becomes a lion, 99 A cat that licks the spit is not to be trusted with roast meat, 68 A cat that meweth much catcheth but few mice, 314 A child must creep until it learns to walk, 348 A child of a year old sucks milk from the heel, 210 A child’s back must be bent early, 348 A child’s sorrow is short-lived, 348 A church stone drops gold—(Galician), 239 A churl knows not the worth of spurs (i.e. honour), 64 A clean hand moves freely through the land, 395 A clean mouth and an honest hand, will take a man through any land, 166 A clear bargain, a dear friend, 118 A clear conscience is a good pillow, 61 A clever man’s inheritance is found in every country, 354 A cloak is not made for a single shower of rain, 114 A close mouth and open eyes never did any one harm, 172 A clown enriched knows neither relation nor friend, 64 A cock is valiant on his own dunghill, 314 A colt is good for nothing if it does not break its halter, 55 A contented ass enjoys a long life, 267 A courtier should be without feeling and without honour, 61 A covetous abbot for one offering loses a hundred, 193 A covetous woman deserves a swindling gallant, 2 A cow does not know what her tail is worth until she has lost it, 63 A cow from afar gives plenty of milk, 63 A cow is not called dappled unless she has a spot, 381 A cow-year, a sad year; a bull-year, a glad year, 314 A coward often deals a mortal blow to the brave, 14 A cracked bell will never be sound, 207 A cracked pot never fell off the hook, 120 A crazy vessel never falls from the hand, 261 A crooked log makes a good fire, 9 A cross-grained woman and a snappish dog take care of the house, 347 A crow is never the whiter for often washing, 383 A crown is no cure for the headache, 93, 146, 318 A cur’s tail grows fast, 69 A curse will not strike out an eye unless the fist go with it, 348 A daily guest is a great thief in the kitchen, 312 A dainty stomach beggars the purse (Much taste, much waste), 190 A dead man does not make war, 131 A dead man does not speak (Dead men tell no tales), 279 A dead man has neither relations nor friends, 62 A deaf auditor makes a crazy answerer, 365 A deaf husband and a blind wife are always a happy couple, 38 A dealer in onions is a good judge of scallions, 38 A determined heart will not be counselled, 209 A devotee’s face and a cat’s claws, 208 A doctor and a boor know more than a doctor alone, 142 A dog in the manger, that neither eats nor lets others eat, 271 A dog is a dog whatever his colour, 380 A dog is never offended at being pelted with bones, 114 A dog may look at a bishop, 61 A dog never bit me but I had some of his hair, 97 A dog with a bone knows no friend, 314 A door must either be open or shut, 22 A dram of discretion is worth a pound of wisdom, 144 A drop of honey catches more flies than a hogshead of vinegar, 162 A drop of water breaks a stone, 124 A drowning man clings to a blade of grass, 62 A drowning man would catch at razors, 86 A drunken man may soon be made to dance, 363 A dull ass near home trots without the stick, 267 A fair exchange bring no quarrel, 384 A fair face will get its praise, though the owner keep silent, 367 A fair promise binds a fool, 8 A fair skin often covers a crooked mind, 400 A fair-weather friend changes with the wind, 198, 265 A farthing saved is twice earned, 123 A fast day is the eve of a feast day, 217 A fast horse does not want the spur, 272 A fat kitchen, a lean testament, 100 A fat kitchen is next door to poverty, 69 A fat kitchen makes a lean will, 19, 148 A father’s love, for all other is air, 199 A father maintains ten children better than ten children one father, 145 A fault confessed is half forgiven, 291 A fault denied is twice committed, 61 A fence between makes love more keen, 145 A fence lasts three years, a dog lasts three fences, a horse three dogs, and a man three horses, 145 A fifth wheel to a cart is but an incumbrance, 228 A fine cage won’t feed the bird, 28 A fine girl and a tattered gown always find something to hook them, 8 A fine shot never killed a bird, 74 A finger’s length in a sword, and a palm in a lance, are a great advantage, 274 A fish should swim three times: in water, in sauce, and in wine, 138 A flying crow always catches something, 316 A fool and his money are soon parted, 313 A fool can ask more questions than seven wise men can answer, 130 A fool, if he holds his tongue, passes for wise, 216 A fool is always beginning, 62 A fool is like other men as long as he is silent, 393 A fool knows his own business better than a wise man knows that of others, 124 A fool laughs when others laugh, 347 A fool may chance to say a wise thing, 313 A fool only wins the first game, 365 A fool sometimes gives good counsel, 213 A fool throws a stone into a well, and it requires a hundred wise men to get it out again, 130 A fool, unless he know Latin, is never a great fool, 259 A foolish judge passes a brief sentence (A fool’s bolt is soon shot), 14 A foolish woman is known by her finery, 18 A fool’s bolt is soon shot, 144, 163 A fool’s head never whitens, 58 A fortress on its guard is not surprised, 208 A foul mouth must be provided with a strong back, 366 A friend, and look to thyself, 71 A friend at one’s back is a safe bridge, 316 A friend in need is a friend indeed, 316 A friend is known in time of need, 6, 41 A friend is better than money in the purse (Better a friend than money to spend), 316 A friend is not known till he is lost, 106 A friend is to be taken with his faults, 287 A friend to my table and wine, is no good neighbour, 60 A friend’s dinner is soon dressed, 341 A friend’s fault should be known but not abhorred, 264 A friend’s faults may be noticed, but not blamed, 403 A friend’s meat is soon ready, 63 A full belly counsels well, 63 A full belly dances better than a fine coat, 397 A full belly is neither good for flight nor fighting, 260 A full belly sets a man jigging, 15 A full man is no eater, 279 A full sack pricks up its ear, 124 A full stomach praises Lent, 390 A full vessel must be carried carefully, 369 A galled horse does not want to be curried, 13 A gaunt brute bites sore, 15 A gentleman of Beauce who stays in bed till his breeches are mended, 19 A gift delayed, and long expected, is not given, but sold dear, 93 A gilt bridle for an old mule, 7 A girl, a vineyard, an orchard, and a bean-field, are hard to watch, 283 A girl draws more than a rope, 231 A girl unemployed is thinking of mischief, 18 A glad heart seldom sighs, but a sorrowful mouth often laughs, 397 A glaring sunny morning, a woman that talks Latin, and a child reared on wine, never come to a good end, 57 A glutton young, a beggar old, 156 A goaded ass must needs trot, 4, 72 A golden bit makes none the better horse, 99, 150 A golden hammer breaks an iron gate (Gold goes in at any gate), 150 A golden key opens every door, 78 A golden key opens every door save that of heaven, 372 A good advice is as good as an eye in the hand, 61 A good anvil does not fear the hammer, 75 A good appetite does not want sauce, 75 A good beast heats with eating, 9 A good beginning makes a good ending, 76 A good cause needs help, 8 A good cavalier never lacks a lance, 65 A good cock was never fat, 278 A good conscience is a soft pillow, 151 A good dog hunts by instinct, 8 A good dog never barks at fault, 27 A good dog never gets a good bone, 1 A good driver turns in a small space, 8 A good fire makes a quick cook, 320 A good fox does not eat his neighbour’s fowls, 61 A good friend is better than silver and gold, 314 A good gaper makes two gapers, 61 A good handicraft has a golden foundation, 371 A good head does not want for hats, 48 A good heart breaks bad fortune, 206 A good horse and a bad horse need the spur; a good woman and a bad woman need the stick, 76 A good horse is worth his fodder, 313 A good horse never lacks a saddle, 65 A good king is better than an old law, 371 A good lawyer, a bad neighbour, 8, 205 A good life defers wrinkles, 206 A good man is a man of goods, 9 A good meal is worth hanging for, 143 A good name covers theft, 205 A good name is a rich inheritance, 143 A good name is better than oil (i. e. riches), 313 A good neighbour is better than a brother far off, 371 A good paymaster does not hesitate to give good security, 76 A good paymaster is keeper of other men’s purses, 216 A good paymaster needs no security, 196 A good pilot is not known when the sea is calm and the weather fair, 371 A good repast ought to begin with hunger, 61 A good swimmer is not safe against drowning, 8 A good swordsman is never quarrelsome, 9 A good thing is known when it is lost, 269 A good thing lost is a good thing valued, 205 A good thing lost is valued, 75 A good trade will carry farther than a thousand florins, 161 A good word extinguishes more than a pailful of water, 231 A good word quenches more than a caldron of water, 281 A goose, a woman, and a goat, are bad things lean, 263 A goose drinks as much as a gander, 365 A gosling flew over the Rhine, and came home a goose, 145 A gossiping woman talks of everybody, and everybody of her, 283 A grain does not fill a sieve, but it helps its fellow, 223 A greased mouth cannot say no, 75 A great book is a great evil, 314 A great church and little devotion, 100 A great estate is not gotten in a few hours, 19 A great lance-thrust to a dead Moor, 199, 260 A great leap gives a great shake, 195 A great liar has need of a good memory, 74 A great man’s entreaty is a command, 254 A great talker is a great liar, 19 Agree between yourselves (as to the time), quoth Arlotto, and I will make it rain, 66 A greedy mill grinds all kinds of corn, 370 A green Christmas makes a fat churchyard, 365 A guest and a fish after three days are poison, 37 A guest and a fish stink in three days, 109, 218, 288, 313 A hair casts its shadow on the ground, 260 A hair of the dog cures the bite, 91 A handful of good life is better than seven bushels of learning, 39 A handful of might is better than a sack full of right, 143 A handful of motherwit is worth a bushel of learning, 231 A handsome hostess is bad for the purse, 8, 224, 279 A handsome woman is either silly or vain, 227 A handsome shoe often pinches the foot, 31 A handsome man is not quite poor, 205 A happy heart is better than a full purse, 96 A hard bit does not make the better horse, 372 A hawk’s marriage: the hen is the better bird, 38 A head is not to be cut off because it is scabby, 387 A headless army fights badly, 380 A hearth of your own is worth gold, 365 A heavy shower is soon over, 104 A hired horse and one’s own spurs make short miles, 149, 313 A honeyed tongue with a heart of gall, 30 A horse grown fat kicks, 77 A horse may stumble, though he have four legs, 76, 315 A house filled with guests is eaten up and ill spoken of, 208 A house full of daughters is a cellar full of sour beer, 314 A house ready built and a vineyard ready planted, 208 A house ready made and a wife to make, 37 A huckster who cannot pass off mouseturd for pepper, has not learned his trade, 144 A hundred bakers, a hundred millers, and a hundred tailors are three hundred thieves, 328 A hundred tailors, a hundred millers, and a hundred weavers are three hundred thieves, 208 A hundred waggonsful of sorrow will not pay a handful of debt, 380 A hundred years a banner, a hundred years a barrow—A very old proverb, signifying the changeful fortunes of great feudal families], 10 A hundred years cannot repair a moment’s loss of honour, 70 A hundred years hence we shall all be bald, 193 A hundred years is not much, but never is a long while, 10 A hundred years of regret pay not a farthing of debt, 10, 153 A hundred years of wrong do not make an hour of right, 153 A hungry ass eats any straw, 72 A hungry belly has no ears, 63, 131, 143, 220, 290, 314 A hungry clown is half mad, 64 A hungry dog and a thirsty horse take no heed of blows, 380 A hungry dog does not fear the stick, 13, 76 A hungry man discovers more than a hundred lawyers, 231 A hungry wolf is not at rest, 280 A husband with one eye rather than with one son, 218 A jackfish does more than a letter of recommendation, 61 A jade eats as much as a good horse, 110 A joyous evening often leads to a sorrowful morning, 371 A kick from a mare never hurt a horse, 27 A kitchen-dog is never a good rabbit-hunter, 240 A kitchen dog never was good for the chase, 76 A lame goat will not sleep by day, 206 A lame man won’t walk with one who is lamer, 60 A landmark is well placed between two brothers’ fields, 28 A large fire often comes from a small spark, 346 A lawsuit for a maravedi consumes a real’s worth of paper, 198 A lawyer and a cart-wheel must be greased, 142 A lazy boy and a warm bed are difficult to part, 354 A lazy ox is little the better for the goad, 193 A lean calf forgets to skip, 386 A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit (Agree, for the law is costly), 144, 314—see also A bad compromise, &c. A lean horse does not kick, 77 A liar is sooner caught than a cripple, 121, 126, 281 A liar must have a good memory, 74, 314 A lie has short legs, 273 A light belly, a heavy heart, 158 A litigious man, a liar, 20 A little absence does much good, 62 A little dinner, long expected and cold, is by no means given, but dearly sold, 45 A little dog, a cow without horns, and a short man, are generally proud, 399 A little gall spoils (or embitters) a great deal of honey, 62, 121, 240, 242 A little help does a great deal, 62 A little injury dismays, and a great one stills, 292 A little leaven leavens (sours) a great mass, 45 A little loss frightens, a great one tames, 240 A little makes a debtor and much an enemy, 290 A little man fells a great oak, 45 A little man often casts a long shadow, 92 A little man sometimes casts a long shadow, 62 A little pack serves a little pedlar, 4 A little pot is soon hot, 314 A little rain stills a great wind, 45 A little sheep always seems young, 45 A little spark kindles a great fire, 120, 173, 212 A little spark shines in the dark, 45 A little stone may upset a large cart, 120, 384 A little thing often helps, 45 A little too late, much too late, 144, 316 A little truth makes the whole lie pass, 130 A living ass is better than a dead doctor, 131 A load of March dust is worth a ducat, 144 A long tongue betokens a short hand, 226, 265 A lord of straw devours a vassal of steel, 62 A lord without land, is like a cask without wine, 374 A lordly taste makes a beggar’s purse, 151 A lovelorn cook oversalts the porridge, 172 A lover’s anger is short-lived, 125 A loving man, a jealous man, 131 A mad dog cannot live long, 13 A mad parish, a mad priest, 68 A man cannot carry all his kin on his back, 388 A man assailed is half overcome, 20 A man, a word; a word, a man, 144 A man conducts himself abroad as he has been taught at home, 375 A man dances all the same, though he may dance against his will, 373 A man does not always aim at what he means to hit, 400 A man does not look behind the door unless he has stood there himself, 354 A man forewarned is as good as two—(Forewarned is forearmed), 224—see A man warned, &c. A man is bound by his word, an ox with a hempen cord, 395 A man is not a lord because he feeds off fine dishes, 386 A man is not known till he cometh to honour, 333 A man is valued according to his own estimate of himself, 7 A man may hap to bring home with him what makes him weep, 196 A man may threaten yet be afraid, 58 A man must eat, though every tree were a gallows, 333 A man must keep his mouth open a long while before a roast pigeon flies into it, 389 A man of straw is worth a woman of gold, 62, 279 A man of straw needs a woman of gold, 130 A man often kisses the hand he would fain see cut off, 386 A man overboard, a mouth the less, 315 A man’s character reaches town before his person, 396 A man’s face is a lion’s, 140 A man’s own opinion is never wrong, 103 A man’s will is his heaven, 386 A man’s word is his honour, 386 A man takes his own wherever he finds it, 43 A man that has had his fill is no eater, 224 A man that is lean, not from hunger, is harder than brass, 256 A man travels as far in a day as a snail in a hundred years, 6 A man warned is half saved, 149 A man well mounted is always proud, 62 A man who has but one eye must take good care of it, 50 A man who is not spoken of is not abused, 396 A man who wants bread is ready for anything, 15 A man who wants to drown his dog says he is mad, 54 A man without money is like a ship without sails, 315 A meagre (or lean) compromise is better than a fat lawsuit, 350 A measly hog infects the whole sty, 219 A melon and a woman are hard to know (or choose), 18, 219 A merry host makes merry guests, 316 A merry life forgets father and mother, 28 A mewing cat is never a good mouser, 223 A mild sheep is sucked by every lamb, 119 A modest dog seldom grows fat, 397 A monkey remains a monkey, though dressed in silk, 203 A Montgomery division: all on one side, nothing on the other, 44 A morsel eaten gains no friend, 269 A morsel eaten selfishly does not gain a friend, 205 A muffled cat never caught a mouse, 27, 99 A mule and a woman do what is expected of them, 227 A nail secures the horse-shoe, the shoe the horse, the horse the man, the man the castle, and the castle the whole land, 144 A naughty child must be roughly rocked, 394 A near neighbour is better than a distant cousin, 97 A necessary lie is harmless, 143 A neighbour’s eye is full of jealousy, 393 A new broom is good for three days, 100 A new net won’t catch an old bird, 124 A noble prince or king never has a coin to bless himself, 62 A north wind has no corn, and a poor man no friend, 259 A pack of cards is the devil’s prayer-book, 156 A pair of light shoes is not all that is wanted for dancing, 357 A peasant between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats—(Catalan), 202 A peg for every hole, 7 A penny in time is as good as a dollar, 366 A penny saved is a penny gained, 145 A penny saved is twopence got, 142 A penny spared is a penny saved, 247 A penny spared is better than a florin gained, 316 A pet child has many names, 381 A pig bought on credit grunts all the year, 242 A pig on credit makes a good winter and a bad spring, 268 A pig’s life, short and sweet, 63 A pig’s tail will never make a good arrow, 212 A plaster house, a horse at grass, and a friend in words, are all mere glass, 314 A pleasant companion on a journey is as good as a postchaise, 14 A pleasant thing never comes too soon, 362 A plough that worketh, shines; but still water stinks, 315 A poor man has few acquaintances, 368 A poor man is all schemes, 224 A poor man is hungry after eating, 279 A poor man’s joy has much alloy, 368 A Portuguese apprentice who can’t sew, yet would be cutting out, 200 A priest’s pocket is not easily filled, 395 A promise is a debt, 172 A proud pauper and a rich miser are contemptible beings, 75 A ragged coat finds little credit, 74 A ragged colt may make a handsome horse, 38, 272 A ragged sack holds no grain, a poor man is not taken into counsel, 124 A rash man, a skin of good wine, and a glass vessel, do not last long, 279 A reconciled friend is a twofold enemy, 199 A resolute heart endures no counsel, 273 A restive morsel needs a spur of wine, 3 A rich child often sits in a poor mother’s lap, 394 A rich man is never ugly in the eyes of a girl, 62 A rich widow weeps with one eye and laughs with the other, 268 A rich wife is a source of quarrel, 396 A rickety chair will not long serve as a seat, 392 A rod is better than a fox’s brush, 396 A rolling stone gathers no moss, 45, 120, 174, 240, 291, 315 A royal heart is often hid under a tattered cloak, 393 A runaway horse punishes himself, 77 A runaway monk never speaks well of his convent, 316 A sack full of fleas is easier to watch than a woman, 143 A sack is best tied before it is full, 42 A sack was never so full but it could hold another grain, 33, 113 A sad bride makes a glad wife, 313 A saddle fits more backs than one, 130 A scabby colt may make a good horse, 212 A scabby head fears the comb, 315 A scald head needs strong lye, 357 A scalded cat dreads cold water, 13, 278 A scalded dog thinks cold water hot, 65 A scorpion never stung me but I cured myself with its grease, 113 A seat in the council is honour without profit, 288 A secret between two is God’s secret, a secret between three is everybody’s, 242 A secret imparted is no longer a secret, 125 A servant and a cock must be kept but one year, 289 A sharp tooth for hard bread, 200, 266 A sheep’s bite is never more than skin deep, 110 A shock dog is starved and nobody believes it, 240 A short cut is often a wrong cut, 370 A short halter for a greedy horse, 194 A short mass and a long dinner, 14 A short rest is always good, 384 A short sword for a brave man, 7 A short tail won’t keep off flies, 89 A shut mouth keeps me out of strife, 269 A sick man sleeps, but not a debtor, 215 A silent man’s words are not brought into court, 400 A silly song may be sung in many ways, 368 A silver hammer breaks an iron door, 62 A sin concealed is half pardoned (meaning when care is taken to conceal the scandal), 45, 119 A sin confessed is half forgiven, 119, 130 A single day grants what a whole year denies, 312 A single penny fairly got, is worth a thousand that are not, 144 A single stroke don’t fell the oak, 173 A slight suspicion may destroy a good repute, 396 A slothful man never has time, 131 A small bolt to the house is better than none at all, 350 A small cloud may hide both sun and moon, 367 A small fire that warms you, is better than a large one that burns you, 366 A small hatchet fells a great oak, 291 A smart coat is a good letter of introduction, 317 A smooth tongue is better than smooth locks, 350 A soft answer turneth away wrath, 316 A solitary man is either a brute or an angel, 131 A son-in-law’s friendship is a winter’s sun, 199 A sow is always dreaming of bran, 59 A sow may find an acorn as well as a hog, 366 A sow prefers bran to roses, 60 A sparrow in the hand is better than a bustard on the wing, 231 A sparrow in the hand is better than a crane on the wing, 62 A sparrow in the hand is better than a pigeon on the roof, 144 A sparrow in the hand is better than a pigeon on the wing, 39 A sparrow suffers as much when it breaks its leg as does a Flanders horse, 366 A spot shows most on the finest cloth, 221 A starved town is soon forced to surrender, 88 A stepmother has a hard hand, 356 A stick is a peacemaker, 7 A stick is soon found to beat a dog, 128 A still sow eats up all the draff, 307 A stingy man is always poor, 20 A stout heart tempers adversity, 89, 270, 320 A Sunday’s child never dies of the plague, 50 A table friend is changeable, 3 A tender-hearted mother makes a scabby daughter, 38, 106 A thankless man never does a thankful deed, 400 A thief makes opportunity, 312 A thief seldom grows rich by thieving, 142 A thief thinks every man steals, 402 A thing done has a head (The exultation of an ancient sculptor on his satisfactorily completing the head of his statue), 89 A thing is never much talked of but there is some truth in it, 114 A thing is not bad if well understood, 142 A thing lost is a thing known, 13 A thing too much seen is little prized, 13 A thorn comes into the world point foremost, 33 A thousand probabilities do not make one truth, 110 A threatened buffet is never well given, 125 A threatened man lives long, if he can get bread, 383 A threatened man lives longer than one that is hanged, 132 A threatened man lives seven years, 312 A timid man has little chance, 395 A tottering man must lean upon a staff, 399 A tree often transplanted is never loaded with fruit, 69 A tree often transplanted neither grows nor thrives, 240 A true gentleman would rather have his clothes torn than mended, 224 A truth-teller finds the doors closed against him, 363 A truth-telling woman has few friends, 397 A turn of the key is better than the conscience of a friar, 232 A used plough shines, standing water stinks, 149 A usurer, a miller, a banker, and a publican, are the four evangelists of Lucifer, 316 A vagabond monk never spoke well of his convent, 110 A vicious colt may make a good horse, 38 A vicious dog must be tied short, 3 A voluntary burthen is no burthen, 77 A well-formed figure needs no cloak, 273 A well-wisher sees from afar, 246 A white wall is the fool’s paper, 39, 110 A wicked dog must be tied short, 38 A willing helper does not wait until he is asked, 366 A wise man, a strong man, 176 A wise man and a fool together, know more than a wise man alone, 125 A wise man does at first what a fool must do at last, 123 A wise man may learn of a fool, 62 A wolf hankers after sheep even at his last gasp (The ruling passion strong in death), 316 A woman and a glass are always in danger, 144, 227 A woman and a hen are soon lost through gadding, 265 A woman and a melon are hard to choose, 18, 219 A woman conceals only what she does not know, 61, 144 A woman laughs when she can, and weeps when she pleases, 18 A woman may be ever so old, if she take fire she will jump, 346 A woman strong in flounces is weak in the head, 145 A woman’s first counsel is the best, 362 A woman’s in pain, a woman’s in woe, a woman is ill when she likes to be so, 93 A woman’s tears and a dog’s limping are not real, 235 A woman’s tongue is her sword and she does not let it rust, 29 A woman’s vengeance knows no bounds, 176 A woman who accepts, sells herself; a woman who gives, surrenders, 18 A woman who looks much in the glass spins but little, 18 A woman who loves to be at the window is like a bunch of grapes on the wayside, 93 A word and a stone once let go cannot be recalled, 239, 267 A word from the mouth, a stone from the hand (A word and a blow), 239, 291 A word once out flies everywhere, 44 A word is enough to the wise, 149, 270 A wound foreseen pains the less, 120 A wound never heals so well that the scar cannot be seen, 346 A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea, 316 A young angel, an old devil, 15 A young ewe and an old ram, every year bring forth a lamb, 314 A young foal and an old horse draw not well together, 402 A young wife is an old man’s post-horse to the grave, 156 Abbot of CarÇuela, you eat up the pot and ask for the pipkin, 193 About the King and the Inquisition, hush!, 209 Absence is a foe to love; away from the eyes, away from the heart, 204 Absence is a foe to love; out of sight out of mind, 73 Absent, none without blame; present, none without excuse, 1, 233 Abstinence and fasting cure many a complaint, 369 According to his pinions the bird flies, 396 According to the arm be the bleeding, 56 According to the custom of Aragon, good service, bad guerdon, 194 According to the worth of the man is the worth of his land, 58 Act honestly, and answer boldly, 370 Act so in the valley, that you need not fear those who stand on the hill, 370 Adam got a hoe, and Eve got a spinning-wheel, and thence came all our nobles, 346 Adam must have an Eve to blame for his own faults, 133 Adversity makes a man wise, 63 Advice after the mischief is like medicine after death, 395 Advice is not compulsion, 166 Advice should precede the act, 166 Advice to a fool goes in at one ear and out at the other, 351 Advisers are not givers, 337 Advisers are not the payers, 34 Advising is easier than helping, 166 Advising is often better than fighting, 166 After a feast a man scratches his head, 4 After a thrifty father, a prodigal son, 200 After breaking my head you bring plaister, 213 After Christmas comes Lent, 163 After death the doctor, 4 After dinner stand a while, or walk nearly half a mile, 163 After ebb comes flood, and friends with good, 334 After great droughts come great rains, 335 After high floods come low ebbs, 335 After honour and state follow envy and hate, 334 After meat comes mustard, 168, 334 After me the deluge, 4 After mischance every one is wise, 4 After one loss come many, 4 After one pope another is made, 93 After one that earns comes one that wastes, 365 After one vice a greater follows, 259 After pleasant scratching comes unpleasant smarting, 365 After rain comes sunshine, 4, 134, 163, 334, 335 After shaving there’s nothing to shear, 4, 93, 275 After stuffing pears within, drink old wine till they swim, 258 After the act wishing is in vain, 4 After the daughter is married, then come sons-in-law in plenty, 47 After the house is finished, he deserts it, 213 After the sour comes the sweet, 335 After the vintage, baskets, 213 Age is a sorry travelling companion, 346 Age makes many a man whiter, but not better, 346 Alas! father, another daughter is born to you, 223 Alas for the son whose father went to heaven, 278 All are brave when the enemy flies, 129 All are not asleep who have their eyes shut, 147 All are not cooks who carry long knives, 147, 325, 352 All are not free who mock their chains, 147 All are not hunters that blow the horn, 40, 147, 352 All are not friends who smile on you, 325 All are not princes who ride with the emperor, 345 All are not saints who go to church, 115 All are not soldiers who go to the wars, 237, 286 All are not thieves whom the dogs bark at, 163 All beginnings are hard, said the thief, and began by stealing an anvil, 296 All bite the bitten dog, 263 All but saves many a man, 393 All cats are not to be set down for witches, 23 All clouds do not rain, 297 All cocks must have a comb, 297 All do not beg for one saint, 237 All do not bite that show their teeth, 345 All flesh is not venison, 59 All freight lightens, said the skipper, when he threw his wife overboard, 133 All hairy skins must not be singed, 389 All heads are not sense-boxes, 59 All in the way of joke the wolf goes to the ass, 206 All is luck or ill luck in this world, 26 All is not butter that comes from the cow, 112 All is not gold that glitters, 59, 118, 146, 286, 322, 324 All is not lost that is delayed, 11 All is not lost that is in danger, 237 All is well: for if the bride has not fair hair, she has a fair skin, 297 All’s well that ends well, 120, 145, 322, 391 All keys hang not at one woman’s girdle, 347—see All the keys, &c. All leaf and no fruit, 256 All my goods are of silver and gold, even my copper kettles, says the boaster, 329 All offices are greasy (i.e. open to receive what the Dutch call smear-money, a term derived from the fee paid for greasing wheels), 296 All roads lead to Rome (There are more ways to the wood than one), 129 All saints do not work miracles, 129 All ships leak: some midships, some in the bows, some in the hold, 116 All state, and nothing on the plate, 59 All tastes are tastes (There’s no disputing about tastes), 129 All that’s fair must fade, 74 All the brains are not in one head, 129 All the fingers are not alike, 129 All the sheep are not for the wolf, 115 All things of this world are nothing, unless they have reference to the next, 259 All threateners don’t fight, 312 All too good is every man’s fool (He that makes himself a sheep will be eaten by the wolf), 299 All truths are not fit to be uttered, 59 All water runs to the sea, 116 All who snore are not asleep, 357 All wish to live long, but not to be called old, 347 All women are good Lutherans, they would rather preach than hear mass, 347 All wooers are rich, and all captives poor, 133 All wool is hair, more or less, 292 Almost kills no man, 393 Almost never killed a fly, 135 Alms do not empty the purse, and a mass does not exhaust the day’s duty, 347 Alone in counsel, alone in sorrow, 365 Always in love, never married, 59 Always say no, and you will never be married, 16 Always something new, seldom something good, 153 Always taking out, and never putting in, soon reaches the bottom, 194 Always talk big and you will never be forgotten, 16 Always to be sparing is always to be in want, 347 Among men of honour a word is a bond, 99 Among thorns grow roses, 72 An ambassador beareth no blame, 70 An amen clerk, 255 An angry man heeds no counsel, 279 An ape, a priest, and a louse, are three devils in one house, 312 An ape’s an ape, though he wear a gold ring, 312 An apothecary need not be long a cuckold, 60 An art requires a whole man, 61 An ass does not hit himself twice against the same stone, 313 An ass does not stumble twice over the same stone, 60 An ass let him be who brays at an ass, 203 An ass’s tail will not make a sieve, 88 An ass’s trot does not last long, 128 An ass with her colt goes not straight to the mill, 202 An easy shepherd makes the wolf void wood, 3 An eel escapes from a good fisherman, 1 An egg is an egg, said the boor, and took the goose’s egg, 142, 313 An empty purse, and a finished house, make a man wise, but too late, 269 An empty sack won’t stand upright, 124, 144 An enemy does not sleep, 7 An ennobled peasant does not know his own father, 313 An estate inherited is the less valued, 277 An evil deed has a witness in the bosom, 394 An evil eye can see no good, 395 An honest man does not make himself a dog for the sake of a bone, 370 An honest man is not the worse because a dog barks at him, 348 An honest man’s word is as good as the king’s, 279 An honest man’s word is his bond, 313 An hour of play discovers more than a year of conversation, 281 An idle brain is the devil’s workshop, 162 An idle man is the devil’s bolster, 131, 314 An ill-tempered dog has a scarred nose, 380 An ill-tempered woman is the devil’s door-nail, 394 An inch in a sword, or a palm in a lance, is a great advantage, 211 An inch too short is as bad as an ell, 313 An indulgent mother makes a sluttish daughter, 313 An innocent heart suspects no guile, 273 An oak is not felled at one blow, 213, 261 An old ape never made a pretty grimace, 41 An old coachman loves the crack of the whip, 138, 315 An old dog does not bark for nothing, 63, 76 An old dog does not grow used to the collar, 77 An old flag is an honour to its captain, 74 An old fool is worse than a young simpleton, 370 An old fox doesn’t go twice into the trap, 142, 315 An old horse for a young soldier, 68 An old man’s sayings are seldom untrue, 370 An old mule with a golden bridle (we say, An old ewe dressed lamb-fashion), 315 An old oven is easier to heat than a new one, 63 An old ox makes a straight furrow, 63, 75, 206, 270 An old quarrel is easily renewed, 89 An old rat easily finds a hole, 315 An old rat won’t go into the trap, 315 An old wolf is not scared by loud cries, 370 An old wolf is used to be shouted at, 315 An open box tempts an honest man, 284 An open door tempts a saint, 242 Another man’s burden is always light, 384 Another man’s horse and your own spurs outrun the wind, 148 Another man’s horse and your own whip can do a great deal, 365 Another man’s trade costs money, 288 Another year will bring another Christmas, 367 Another’s bread costs dear, 239, 291 Another’s care hangs by a hair, 210 Another’s misfortune does not cure my pain, 282 Another’s misfortune is only a dream, 37 An ounce of discretion is better than a pound of knowledge, 131 An ounce of favour goes further (or is worth more) than a pound of justice, 61 An ounce of luck is worth a pound of wisdom, 39 An ounce of mother-wit is worth a pound of school-wit, 143 An ounce of patience is worth a pound of brains, 315 An ounce of state to a pound of gold, 238 An ox and an ass don’t yoke well to the same plough, 315 An unasked excuse infers transgression, 107 An unpleasant guest is as welcome as salt to a sore eye, 394 Anger hears no counsel, 191 Anger increases love, 125 Anger is a short madness, 320 Anger without power is folly (Anger can’t stand, without a strong hand), 191 Anoint a villain and he will prick you, prick a villain and he will anoint you, 41 Any excuse is good if it hold good, 117 Anything for a quiet life, 69 Any water will put out fire, 59, 116 Apes remain apes, though you clothe them in velvet, 133 Appearances are deceitful, 167 Appetite comes with eating, 30, 110 Are there not spots on the sun? 35 Argus at home, a mole abroad, 104 Arms and money require good hands, 202 Arms carry peace, 107 Arms, women, and books should be looked at daily, 342 Arrange your cloak as the wind blows, 38 Art and knowledge bring bread and honour, 383 Art holds fast when all else is lost, 157 Art is art, even though unsuccessful, 383 As a man dresses so is he esteemed, 396 As a man eats, so he works (Quick at meat, quick at work), 187 As a thing is used, so it brightens, 187 As are the times, so are the manners, 243 As fast as laws are devised, their evasion is contrived, 169 As for friars, live with them, eat with them, and walk with them; then sell them as they do themselves, 223 As fortune is sought, so it is found (Good luck, with good looking after! or, As you make your bed, so you must lie on it), 188 As is the king, so are his people, 243 As is the lover, so is the beloved, 122 As is the master so are his men (Like master, like man), 398 As is the master, so is his dog, 243 As long as I was a daughter-in-law I never had a good mother-in-law, and as long as I was a mother-in-law I never had a good daughter-in-law, 221 As old as the itch, 261 As poor as a church mouse, 121 As princes fiddle, subjects must dance, 175 As soon as man is born he begins to die, 154 As soon dies the calf as the cow, 6 As the abbot sings, the sacristan responds, 209 As the field, so the crops; as the father, so the sons, 187 As the labour, so the pay (No pains, no gains), 187 As the man is, so is his speech, 398 As the man is worth, his land is worth, 58 As the master, so the work, 187 As the mistress, so the maid (Hackney mistress, Hackney maid), 187 As the old birds sing, the young ones twitter, 187, 398 As the tree, so the fruit, 187 As the tree, so the fruit; as the mistress; so the maid, 187 As the virtue in the tree, such is the fruit, 352 As the wind so the sail (Set your sail to the wind), 56 As they pipe to me, I will dance, 273 As useless as monkey’s fat, 212 As water runs towards the shore, so does money towards the rich man’s hand, 347 As won, so spent (Lightly come, lightly go), 187 As you began the dance you may pay the piper, 319 As you make your bed so you must lie on it, 13, 187, 250, 398 As you sow, you shall reap, 187, 345 As you would have a daughter so choose a wife, 122 Ask advice of your equals, help of your superiors, 398 Ask my chum if I am a thief, 93 Ask my comrade, who is as great a liar as myself, 15 Ask not after a good man’s pedigree, 196 Ask too much to get enough, 239 Ask which was born first, the hen or the egg, 93 Asking costs little, 102 Assertion is no proof, 135 Asses carry the oats and horses eat them, 304 Asses must not be tied up with horses, 23 Asses sing badly because they pitch their voices too high, 147 Associate with the good and you will be one of them, 66, 197 At a bridge, a plank, or a river, the servant foremost, the master behind, 63 At a dangerous passage yield precedence, 76 At a great river be the last to pass, 68 At a good bargain pause and ponder, 65 At a little fountain one drinks at one’s ease, 4 At an ambuscade of villains a man does better with his feet than his hands, 194 At an auction keep your mouth shut, 221 At an open chest the righteous sins, 68 At borrowing cousin german, at repaying son of a whore, 6 At court there are many hands, but few hearts, 191 At court they sell a good deal of smoke without fire, 401 At evening the sluggard is busy, 133 At last the foxes all meet at the furrier’s, 129 At night all cats are grey, 191, 212, 274 At Rome do as Rome does, 5 At Shrovetide every one has need of his frying-pan, 1 At table bashfulness is out of place, 73 At the end of the game we see who wins, 69 At the end the Gloria is chanted, 196 At the king’s court every one for himself, 17 At the wars do as they do at the wars, 3 At the wedding-feast the least eater is the bride, 221 Avarice bursts the bag, 31 Avoid a friend who covers you with his wings and destroys you with his beak, 254 Away from the battle all are soldiers (Of war all can tattle, away from the battle), 176 Away with thee, sickness, to where they make a good pillow for thee, 197 “Away with you, be a pedlar, a knave,” says the hangman to his man, 149 B. Bachelor, a peacock; betrothed, a lion; married, an ass, 258 Bad bird, bad egg, 136 “Bad company,” said the thief, as he went to the gallows between the hangman and a monk, 331 Bad egg, bad chick, 331 Bad eyes never see any good, 136 Bad grass does not make good hay, 92 Bad is never good until worse happens, 394 Bad is the sack that will not bear patching, 77 Bad is the wool that cannot be died, 77 Bad money always comes back, 167 Bad news always comes too soon, 171 Bad news has wings, 35 Bad news is always true, 228 Bad news is the first to come, 108 Bad ware is never cheap, 42 Bad ware must be cried up, 136 Bad watch often feeds the wolf, 29 Bashfulness is of no use to the needy, 306 Baskets after the vintage, 275 Be a custom good or bad, a peasant will have it continue in force, 210 Be a horse ever so well shod, he may slip, 25 Be merry, Shrovetide, for to-morrow thou wilt be ashes, 196 Be my enemy and go to my mill, 256 Be not a baker if your head is butter, 237 Be not an esquire where you were a page, 214 Be not ashamed of your craft, 167 Be silent, or say something better than silence, 168 Be the horse good or bad always wear your spurs, 66 Be the thing you would be called (Be as you would seem to be), 169 Be truly what thou wouldst be thought to be, 57 Bear and bull catch no fox, 135 Bear patiently that which thou sufferest by thine own fault, 341 Beat the churl and he will be your friend, 74 Beauty and folly are often companions, 7, 75 Beauty carries its dower in its face, 352 Beauty is a good letter of introduction, 141 Beauty is but dross if honesty be lost, 337 Beauty without virtue is like a rose without scent, 367 Bees do not become hornets, 33 Before a man learns to hang he is half dead, 368 Before the time great courage; when at the point, great fear, 200 Before you make a friend, eat a peck of salt with him, 296 Before you marry, beware, for it is a knot difficult to untie, 200 Before you marry consider what you do, 292 Before you marry, have a house to live in, fields to till, and vines to cut, 200 Before you marry reflect, for it is a knot you cannot untie, 266 Before you mount, look to the girth, 317 Beggars must not be choosers, 201 Beginning and ending shake hands, 134 Begun is half done, 135 Behind every mountain lies a vale, 296 Believe a boaster as you would a liar, 89 Believe that, and drink some water (to wash it down), 14 Belles are not for the beaux, 34 Bells call to church but do not enter, 34 Bend the willow while it is young, 120, 390 Better a bird in the hand than ten in the air, 301 Better a blind horse than an empty halter, 300 Better a distant good than a near evil, 281 Better a good dinner than a fine coat, 38 Better a friendly denial than an unwilling compliance, 135 Better a friend’s bite than an enemy’s caress, 350 Better a lean agreement than a fat lawsuit, 97, 135—see A bad or a lean, &c. Better a leg broken than the neck, 300 Better a little in peace and with right, than much with anxiety and strife, 351 Better a living dog than a dead lion, 135 Better a near neighbour than a distant cousin, 110 Better a patch than a hole, 135 Better a poor horse than an empty stall. Better half a loaf than none at all. Better a little furniture than an empty house, 350 Better a red face than a black heart, 283 Better a ruined than a lost land, 39, 300 Better a salt herring on your own table, than a fresh pike on another’s, 349 Better a slip of the foot than the tongue, 39 Better a sparrow in the hand than two flying, 283 Better afield with the birds than hanging on lords, 301 Better alone than in bad company, 96, 135, 232, 282, 300 Better an ass that carries me than a horse that throws me, 281 Better an open enemy than a false friend, 349 Better an unjust peace than a just war (Better a lean peace than a fat victory), 171 Better anticipate than be anticipated, 283 Better ask than go astray, 96 Better ask twice than lose your way once, 358 Better aught than nought, 110, 147 Better badly mounted than proud on foot, 167 Better be a bird of the wood than a bird in the cage, 96 Better be a coward than foolhardy, 38 Better be a free bird than a captive king, 349 Better be carried by an ass than thrown by a horse, 300 Better be convinced by words than by blows, 358 Better be envied than pitied, 27, 38, 96, 300 Better be killed by robbers than by the kick of an ass, 266 Better be mad with all the world than wise alone, 26 Better be one-eyed than quite blind, 283 Better be silent than talk ill, 281 Better be the head of a cat than the tail of a lion, 96 Better be the head of a dog than the tail of a lion, 38 Better be the head of a lizard than the tail of a dragon, 96 Better be the head of a rat than the tail of a lion (Better rule in hell, than serve in heaven), 231 Better be wrong with the many than right with the few, 283 Better beg than steal, 322 Better belly burst than good victuals spoil, 300 Better bend than break, 97, 159, 232, 283 Better blow hard than burn yourself, 349 Better coarse cloth than naked thighs, 350 Better come late to church than never, 349 Better cross an angry man than a fasting man, 358 Better deny at once than promise long, 350 Better deserve honour and not have it, than have it and not deserve it, 282 Better envy than pity, 159 Better fall from the window than the roof, 96 Better fed than taught, 38 Better free in a foreign land than a serf at home, 135 Better gain in mud than lose in gold, 121, 281 Better give nothing than stolen alms, 136 Better give than have to give, 96 Better give the wool than the sheep, 96 Better go about than be drowned, 231, 281 Better go to bed supperless than run in debt, 136 Better half an egg than empty shells, 135, 301 Better have a bad ass than be your own ass, 232, 282 Better have a dog for your friend than your enemy (Better a dog fawn on you than bite you), 301 Better have an egg to-day than a hen to-morrow, 96 Better have a friend on the road than gold or silver in your purse, 38 Better have friends in the market-place than money in your coffer, 281 Better have one bee than a host of flies, 96 Better have something yourself than beg of your sister, 350 Better have to give than have to beg, 283 Better in an old carriage than in a new ship, 350 Better is a leap over the ditch than the entreaties of good men, 282 Better is an enemy to good, 102, 136 Better is better, 135 Better is my neighbour’s hen than mine, 283 Better is rule than rent, 231 Better is the branch that bends, than the branch that breaks, 350 Better is the smoke of my own house than the fire of another’s, 231 Better keep peace than make peace, 301 Better keep than have to beg, 281 Better late than never, 39, 97, 110, 232, 282, 301, 351 Better lose than lose more, 282 Better lose the anchor than the whole ship, 301 Better lose the saddle than the horse, 97 Better lose the wool than the sheep, 39 Better lose your labour than your time in idleness, 335 Better make a short circuit than wet your hose, 343 Better mine than ours, 283 Better no law, than law not enforced, 350 Better on the heath with an old cart than at sea in a new ship, 301 Better once in heaven than ten times at the gate, 301 Better once than never, 97 Better one-eyed than stone blind, 135, 232 Better one eye-witness than ten hearsay witnesses, 300 Better one living word than a hundred dead ones, 135 Better one “Take this,” than two “I will give you,” 232, 281 Better poor on land than rich at sea, 300 Better poor with honour than rich with shame, 300 Better reap two days too soon than one too late, 332 Better repair the gutter than the whole house, 283 Better return half way than lose yourself, 301 Better ride a good horse for a year, than an ass all your life, 301 Better slip with the foot than with the tongue, 97 Better something on the arm than all in the stomach, 351 Better something than nothing at all, 136 Better spare at the brim than at the bottom, 349 Better squinting than blind, 301 Better straw, than nothing, 283 Better stretch your hand than your neck (Better beg than steal), 300 Better stumble once than be always tottering, 27 Better suffer a known evil than change for uncertain good, 231 Better suffer for truth, than prosper by falsehood, 349 Better the child cry, than the mother sigh, 349 Better the child cry than the old man, 349 Better the world should know you as a sinner than God know you as a hypocrite, 349 Better, There he goes, than There he hangs, 135 Better there should be too much than too little, 231 Better they should say, “There he ran away,” than “There he died,” 231 Better to be a free bird than a captive king, 349 Better twice measured than once wrong, 350 Better twice remembered than once forgotten, 324 Better walk before a hen than behind an ox, 39 Better walk on wooden legs than be carried on a wooden bier, 351 Better walk unshackled in a green meadow than be bound to a thornbush, 349 Better weak beer than an empty cask, 350 Better where birds sing than where irons ring, 301 Better whole than patched with gold, 350 Between a woman’s “Yes” and “No” there is no room for the point of a needle, 192 Between evil tongues and evil ears, there is nothing to choose, 394 Between neighbours’ gardens a hedge is not amiss, 192 Between promising and giving a man should marry his daughter, 17 Between saying and doing many a pair of shoes is worn out, 99 Between saying and doing there is a long road, 211, 390 Between smith and smith no money passes, 211, 274 Between the hammer and the anvil, 192, 339 Between the hand and the mouth the soup is often spilt (’Twixt the cup and the lip there’s many a slip), 15, 90, 173, 211, 274 Between two cowards, he has the advantage who first detects the other, 128 Between two friends, a notary and two witnesses, 222 Between two sharpers, the sharpest, 211 Between two stools the breech comes to the ground, 17, 339 Between wording and working is a long road, 173 Between wrangling and disputing truth is lost, 190 Beware, froth is not beer, 397 Beware of a bad woman, and put no trust in a good one, 211, 273 Beware of a door that has many keys, 285 Beware of a man that does not talk, and of a dog that does not bark, 279 Beware of a pledge that eats, 291 Beware of a poor alchemist, 100 Beware of a reconciled friend as of the devil, 210 Beware of a reconciled enemy (Take heed of an enemy reconciled), 22 Beware of a white Spaniard and a black Englishman, 336 Beware of “Had I but known,” 100 Beware of him who makes you presents, 90 Beware of laughing hosts and weeping priests, 174 Beware of one who has nothing to lose, 100 Beware of the dog himself, his shadow does not bite, 402 Beware of the dog that does not bark, 272 Beware of the man of two faces, 342 Beware of the vinegar of sweet wine, 100 Biding makes thriving, 301 Big churches, little saints, 151 Big fish devour the little ones, 321 Big fish spring out of the kettle, 320 Big flies break the spider’s web, 104 Big mouthfuls often choke, 100 Big words seldom go with good deeds, 399 Bird never flew so high but it had to come to the ground for food, 302 Birds of a feather flock together, 173, 341 Birds of prey do not flock together, 276 Birds of prey do not sing, 166 Bite me not, my name is little grizzle; had I a little tail I should be a little lion, 301 Bite not the dog that bites, 388 Bite the biter, 283 Bitter pills are gilded, 136 Black cows give white milk, 168 Black hens lay white eggs, 313 Blacksmith’s children are not afraid of sparks, 398 Blame is the lazy man’s wages, 354 Bleed him, purge him, and if he dies, bury him, 256, 299 Blessed is the misfortune that comes alone, 75 Blessings on him that said, Face about, 206 Blood boils without fire, 228 Blood is thicker than water, 136 Blossoms are not fruits, 301 Blow, smith, and you’ll get money, 258 Blows are not given upon conditions, 101 Boldly ventured is half won, 148 Borderers are either thieves or murderers, 99 Borrowers must not be choosers, 23 Borrowing brings care (He that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing), 302 Borrowing does well only once, 136 Both legs in the stocks or only one, ’tis all the same, 161 Brackish water is sweet in a drought, 264 Bread in one hand, a stone in the other, 154 Bread is better than the song of birds, 349 Bring up a raven and he will peck out your eyes, 16, 145 Broad thongs may be cut from other men’s leather, 91 Broken friendship may be soldered but can never be made sound, 265 Build golden bridges for the flying foe, 137 But for all that the honest man has not got his purse, 10 Butter spoils no meat, and moderation injures no cause, 398 Buy the bed of a great debtor, 88 Buy when it is market time, 160 Buy your greyhound, don’t rear him, 278 Buy your neighbour’s ox, and woo your neighbour’s daughter, 156 Buyers want a hundred eyes, sellers only one, 156 Buying is cheaper than asking, 156 By beating love decays, 6 By candlelight a goat looks like a lady, 2 By dint of going wrong all will come right, 2 By falling we learn to go safely, 334 By gnawing skin a dog learns to eat leather, 346 By going gains the mill, and not by standing still, 266 By labour fire is got out of a stone, 334 By lamplight every country wench seems handsome, 70 By night all cats are grey, 30, 92, 135, 301 By slow degrees the bird builds his nest, 331 By telling our woes we often assuage them, 5 By the living we bury the dead, 334 By the street of “By-and-by” one arrives at the house of “Never,” 241241 By the thread we unwind the skein, 241 By their marks the bales are known, 72 By working in the smithy one becomes a smith, 17 C. Cabbage for cabbage, 13 Call me not fortunate till you see me buried, 236 Call me not olive till you see me gathered, 113, 236 Call not the devil, he will come fast enough unbidden, 382 Cap in hand never did any harm, 75 Care, and not fine stables, makes a good horse, 374 Care brings on grey hairs, and age without years, 169 Caress your dog, and he’ll spoil your clothes, 338 Carry bread in your hood to Don Garcia’s wedding, 195 Caution is the mother of tender beer-glasses, 341 Cent-wisdom and dollar-folly (Penny wise and pound foolish), 302 Chairs sink and stools rise, 263 Change yourself, and fortune will change with you, 284 Charity begins at home, 306 Charity gives (or bestows) itself rich, covetousness hoards itself poor, 138 Charity well regulated begins at home, 226 Chastise a good child, that it may not grow bad, and a bad one, that it may not grow worse, 389 Chastise one that is worthless, and he will presently hate you, 208 Chastise the good and he will mend, chastise the bad and he will grow worse, 74, 272 Cheat me in the price and not in the goods, 221, 277 Cheating is more honourable than stealing, 136 Cheating is the chapman’s cart and plough, 136 Cheerful company shortens the miles, 149 Cheerfulness and good-will make labour light, 385 Cheese and bread make the cheeks red, 156 Cheese from the ewe, milk from the goat, butter from the cow, 245 Cheese is gold in the morning, silver at noon, and lead at night, 156 Cherries are bitter to the glutted blackbird, 3 Children and drunken men speak the truth, 397 Children and fools are prophets, 16 Children and fools speak the truth, 157, 230 Children are certain sorrow, but uncertain joy, 351 Children are the riches of the poor, 351 Children are what they are made, 34 Children married, cares increased, 278 Children tell in the highway what they hear by the fireside, 275 Choose a Brabant sheep, a Guelder ox, a Flemish capon, and a Friezeland cow, 335 Choose neither a woman nor linen by candlelight, 227 Chop, and you will have splinters, 379 Christians have no neighbours, 136 Christmas comes but once a year, 111 Christmas is talked of so long that it comes at last, 41 Claw me, and I’ll claw thee, 157, 167, 187, 331 Clay and lime conceal much evil, 204 Clothes make the man, 305 Coffee has two virtues, it is wet and warm, 330 Cold hand, a warm heart, 156 Colts by falling, and lads by losing, grow prudent, 242 Come fish, come frog, all goes into the basket (All’s fish that comes to the net), 255 Common fame is seldom to blame, 149 Common fame seldom lies (An English proverb says, Common fame is a common liar), 319 Common goods, no goods, 319 Communities begin by building their kitchen, 13 Company in distress makes trouble less, 51 Comparison is not proof, 14 Comparisons are odious, 14, 59, 104 Conceal not your secret from your friend, or you deserve to lose him, 263 Confidence begets confidence, 173 Conscience is as good as a thousand witnesses, 105 Constant dropping wears the stone, 169 Contrivance is better than force, 38 Copper begets copper, and not (the labour of) men’s bones (We say, Money gets money), 208 Correction bringeth fruit, 339 Correction is good when administered in time, 348 Corsair against corsair, nothing to win but empty casks, 128, 210 Could a man foresee events he would never be poor, 52 Could everything be done twice, everything would be done better, 157 Counsel after action is like rain after harvest, 395 Counsel before action, 337 Counsel is nothing against love, 89 Counted sheep are eaten by the wolf, 9 Counterfeit coin passes current at night, 283 Coupled sheep drown one another, 319 Courtesy that is all on one side cannot last long, 14 Cover up the pot, there’s an eel in it, 306 Covetousness bursts the bag, 226 Covetousness is never satisfied till its mouth is filled with earth, 319 Coward against coward, the assailant conquers, 212 Cowards have no luck, 190 Cowards’ weapons neither cut nor pierce, 107 Crazy wheels run longest, 166 Creaking carts last the longest, 331 Credit is better than ready money, 150 Credit is dead, bad pay killed it, 89 Crooked iron may be straightened with a hammer, 383 Crooked wood burns quite as well as straight, 157 Crows do not peck out crows’ eyes, 273 Cunning has little honour, 384 Cunning men’s cloaks sometimes fall, 72 Cunning surpasses strength, 159 Curses are like processions: they return to whence they came, 108 Curses on accounts with relations, 254 Custom becomes law, 210 Custom is second nature, 105, 150, 226, 305, 319 Cut off the dog’s tail, he remains a dog, 127 Cut your coat according to your cloth, 337 D. Damage suffered makes you wise (or knowing), but seldom rich, 346 Darkness and night are mothers of thought, 322 Daughter-in-law hates mother-in-law, 169 Daughters are easy to rear, but hard to marry, 170 Daughters are brittle ware, 311 Daughters may be seen but not heard, 311 Daylight will come, though the cock do not crow, 358 Dead dogs don’t bite, 170, 312 Dear is cheap, and cheap is dear, 288 Dear physic always does good, if not to the patient, at least to the apothecary, 170 Dearness gluts, 13 Dearth foreseen never came, 77 Death does not blow a trumpet, 363 Death is in the pot, 322 Death keeps no almanack, 304 Death spares neither Pope nor beggar, 294 Deceit and treachery make no man rich, 346 Deceive not thy physician, confessor, or lawyer, 197 Deeds are love, and not sweet words (or fine phrases), 238, 287 Deep draughts, and long morning slumbers, soon make a man poor, 399 Deep swimmers and high climbers seldom die in their beds, 310 Deferred is not annulled (Forbearance is no acquittance), 172 Delays are dangerous, 109 Desire beautifies what is ugly, 217 Desperate ills require desperate remedies, 7 Despise not a small wound, a poor kinsman, or an humble enemy, 381 Despise your enemy and you will soon be beaten, 275 Devils must be driven out with devils, 170 Diamond cut diamond, 18 Different times different manners, 70 Diligent work makes a skilful workman, 380 Dirty water does not wash clean, 67 Discover not your silent money (i.e. your hoarded money) to anybody, 260 Disputing and borrowing cause grief and sorrowing, 166 Distrust is poison to friendship, 390 Do as others do, and few will mock you, 368 Do good, and care not to whom, 98, 277 Do good to a knave, and pray God he may not do the same to thee, 370 Do ill, and expect the like, 277 Do not abstain from sowing for fear of the pigeons, 23 Do not buy a carrier’s ass, or marry an innkeeper’s daughter, 230 Do not divide the spoil till the victory is won, 140 Do not fret for news, it will grow old and you will know it, 241 Do not give a dog bread every time he wags his tail, 112 Do not hang all on one nail, 152 Do not judge of the ship from the land, 113 Do not judge the dog by his hairs, 389 Do not lend your money to a great man, 40 Do not lose honour through fear, 242 Do not make two devils of one, 23 Do not put in more warp than you can weave, 403 Do not rear a bird of a bad breed, 274 Do not rejoice at my grief, for when mine is old yours will be new, 237 Do not ship all in one bottom, 158 Do not spread your corn to dry at an enemy’s door (Asturian), 230 Do not steal a loaf from him that kneads and bakes, 197 Do not strip before bedtime, 24 Do not stuff your servant with bread, and he won’t ask for cheese, 203 Do not talk Arabic in the house of a Moor, 221 Do not tell your secrets behind a wall or a hedge, 259 Do not wade where you see no bottom, 402 Don’t be a baker if your head is made of butter, 285 (See He that and He who) Don’t believe in the saint unless he works miracles, 112 Don’t believe what you see, husband, but only what I tell you, 230 Don’t bite till you know whether it is bread or a stone, 113 Don’t budge, if you sit at ease, 166 Don’t buy a cat in a bag (Don’t buy a pig in a poke), 160, 331 Don’t carry your head too high, the door is low, 159 Don’t cross the water unless you see the bottom, 84 Don’t cry fried fish before they are caught, 113 Don’t cry herrings till they are in the net, 337 Don’t cry holloa! till you’re out of the bush, 337 Don’t cry hurra! till you’re over the bridge (or ditch, or hedge), 167, 168, 337 Don’t divide the spoil before the victory is won, 160 Don’t find fault with what you don’t understand, 40 Don’t fly till your wings are feathered, 148 Don’t go a-fishing to a famous stream, 68 Don’t kill the man at the count’s desire, 222 Don’t learn too much, Jack, else you must do a great deal, 151 Don’t leave the high road for a short cut, 284 Don’t make an oven of your cap or a garden of your belly, 40 Don’t make yourself poor to one who won’t make you rich, 286 Don’t mention the cross to the devil, 114 Don’t play with the bear if you don’t want to be bit, 113 Don’t pull hard enough to break the rope, 286 Don’t put your finger into too tight a ring, 40, 115 Don’t reckon your eggs before they are laid, 98 Don’t reckon without your host, 160 Don’t rely on the label of the bag, 24 Don’t scuffle with the potter, for he makes money by the damage, 237 Don’t sell the bearskin before the bear is dead, 333 Don’t sell the bearskin before you have caught (or killed) the bear, 115, 140, 341 Don’t sell the skin till you have caught the fox, 397 Don’t send away your cat for being a thief, 196 Don’t show your teeth if you can’t bite, 51 Don’t snap your fingers at the dogs before you are out of the village, 24 Don’t stop the way of a bull or of a current of air, 198 Don’t talk Latin before the Franciscans, 23 Don’t teach fishes to swim, 23 Don’t throw away your dirty water till you have got clean, 160 Don’t throw away your old shoes till you have got new ones, 318 Don’t throw the handle after the bill, 333 Don’t yoke the plough before the horses, 333 Do what I say well, and not what I do ill, 224 Do what the friar says, and not what he does, 224 Do what thou doest (Age quod agis), 170 Do what you ought, come what may, 18, 98 Do you carry the trough, husband, and I will carry the sieve, which is as heavy as the devil, 228 Do you speak English? (Meaning, Have you got any money? We used to say in England, Have you got any Spanish?), 338 Do you want better bread than wheaten? 63 Do you want to buy cheap? Buy of a needy fool, 253 Do you want to see a wolf with young (i.e. an insatiable plunderer)? Marry your daughter, 254 Doctor Luther’s shoes do not fit every parish priest, 141 Does your neighbour bore you? Lend him a sequin, 127 Dogs bark at those they don’t know, 101 Dogs have teeth in all countries, 328 Dogs that bark much don’t bite, 153 Doing nothing teaches doing ill, 164 Dominies come for your wine, and officers for your daughters, 312 Dread the anger of the dove, 14 Dreams are froth (or lies), 57, 171 Dress slowly when you are in a hurry, 19 Dressed like a windmill, 19 Drink nothing without seeing it, sign nothing without reading it, 284 Drink upon salad costs the doctor a ducat; drink upon eggs costs him two, 144 Drink wine and let water go to the mill, 75 Drink wine upon figs, 258 Drive not away what never came near you, 370 Drop by drop fills the tub, 19 Drop by drop wears away the stone, 19, 68 Drop the jest when it is most amusing, 107 Dry wood makes a quick fire, 401 Ducats are clipped, pence are not, 141 Dull scissors make crooked-mouthed tailors, 365 Dumb dogs and still water are dangerous, 170 Dung is no saint, but where it falls it works miracles, 217 E. Eagles catch no fleas, 299 Eagles do not breed doves, 133, 299 Early marriage, long love, 148 Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise, 148 Early to rise and late to bed, lifts again the debtor’s head, 148 Earnestness and sport go well together, 347 East or west, home is best, 165, 336 Easy to say is hard to do, 2 Eat bread at pleasure, drink wine by measure, 44 Eat bread that’s light, and cheese by weight, 302 Eat of your own, and call yourself mine (i. e. Be my servant and find yourself), 272 Eat with him, and beware of him, 272 Eaten bread is soon forgotten, 103 Eating sets the head to rights, 195 Eating teaches drinking, 102 Economy is a great revenue, 345 Eggs and oaths are easily broken, 364 Eggs are put to hatch on chance, 3 Either fight not with priests or beat them to death, 160 Either rich or hanged, 238 Either the ass will die, or he that goads it, 238 Empty casks (or vessels) make the most noise, 36, 158, 331, 401 Empty rooms make giddy housewives, 63 Empty waggons make most noise, 401 Enjoy your little whilst the fool is seeking for more, 223 Enough is as good as a feast, 319 Enough is better than a sackful, 149 Enough is better than too much, 38, 319 Enough is enough, and too much spoils, 73 Enough is great riches, 393 Entreat him in jackass fashion; if he won’t carry the sack, give him a whack, 188 Entreat the churl and the bargain is broken off, 121 Entreaties to get him to sing, and entreaties to leave off, 254 Entreaty and right do the deed, 254 Envy crieth of spite where honour rideth, 335 Envy does not enter an empty house, 348 Envy envies itself, 163 Envy goes beyond avarice, 17 Envy is its own torturer, 348 Envy was never a good spokesman, 348 Erring is not cheating (A mistake is no fraud), 154 Error is no payment, 97 Escaping from the smoke he falls into the fire, 306 Even a frog would bite if it had teeth, 71 Even among the apostles there was a Judas, 72 Even clever hens sometimes lay their eggs among nettles, 383 Even counted sheep are eaten by the wolf, 9, 71, 140 Even crumbs are bread, 398 Even foxes are caught, 71 Even he gets on who is drawn by oxen, 373 Even old foxes are caught in the snare, 72 Even that fish may be caught that strives the hardest against it, 388 Even the best hack stumbles once, 134 (See Even a horse) Even the dog gets bread by wagging his tail, 72 Even the fool says a wise word sometimes, 71 Even the just has need of help, 71 Even the lion must defend himself against the flies, 134 Even the sea, great as it is, grows calm, 71 Even woods have ears, 71 Ever one hair, only one, and the man is bald at last, 154 Every ant has its ire, 270 (See Even a fly) Every beginning is hard, said the thief, when he began by stealing an anvil, 133, 296 Every bird needs its own feathers, 366 Every bird sings as it is beaked, 317 Every bird thinks its own nest beautiful, 68 Everybody is wise after the thing has happened, 59 Everybody knows best where his own shoe pinches (Also Scotch), 156 (See Every one) Everybody knows good counsel except him that has need of it, 133 Everybody must live, 22 Everybody must wear out one pair of fool’s shoes, if he wear no more, 156 Everybody says it, nobody does it, 156, 375 Everybody thinks his own cuckoo sings better than another’s nightingale, 155 Everybody’s business is nobody’s business, 175 Everybody’s companion is nobody’s friend, 156 Everybody’s friend and nobody’s friend is all one, 199, 265 Everybody’s friend is everybody’s fool, 156, 297, 375 Everybody’s friend, nobody’s friend, 71 Every cask smells of the wine it contains, 207, 270 Every clown can find fault, though it would puzzle him to do better, 170 Every cock crows on his own dunghill, 207 Every cock is valiant on his own dunghill, 284, 314 Every country has its custom, 221 Every day a thread makes a skein in the year, 297 Every day has its night, 116, 366 Every day is not a holiday, 113, 116, 324 Every ditch is full of after-wit, 91 Every dog is not a lion at home, 116 Every dog is valiant in his own kennel, 13 Every flood hath its ebb, 297 Every fly has its shadow, 271 Every foal is not like its sire, 368 Every fool is pleased with his bauble, 193 Every fool is wise when he holds his tongue, 116 Every fool thinks he is clever enough, 366 Every fool wants to give advice, 116 Every fox likes a henroost, 68 Every fox looks after his own skin, 375 Every glowworm is not fire (Every light is not the sun), 116, 163 Every hare may pluck the dead lion’s mane, 137 (See Even hares) Every hill has its valley, 116 Every hooked beak is maintained by prey, 59 Every house has its cross, 317 Every labourer is worthy of his hire, 155 Every land its own custom, every wheel its own spindle, 271 Every law is broken to become a king, 241 Every life has its joy, every joy its law, 376 Every little fish expects to become a whale, 356 Every little helps, 296 Every little helps, said the sow, when she snapped at a gnat, 347 Every little helps to lighten the freight, said the captain, as he threw his wife overboard, 296 Every man carries an enemy in his own bosom, 365 Every man for himself, and God for us all, 155 (See Every one) Every man has a fool in his sleeve, 12, 88 Every man has a good wife and a bad trade, 117 Every man has his liking, 375 Every man has his lot, and a wide world before him, 368 Every man has his value, 12 Every man his own is not too much, 317 Every man is dearest to himself, 155 Every man is master in his own house, 314 Every man is the architect of his own fortune, 155, 366 Every man is the best interpreter of his own words, 155 Every man is the son of his own works, 207 Every man likes his own praise best, 375 Every man must carry his own sack to the mill, 118, 375 Every man rides his own hobby, 147 Every man thinks his own copper gold, 155, 366 Every man thinks his own owl a falcon, 317 Every man to his taste, 12 Every man to his trade, 271 Every medal has its reverse, 13, 116 Every mother’s child is handsome, 156 Every one bears his cross, 12 Every one can navigate in fine weather, 117 Every one counts for as much as he has, 155 Every one feels his own burden heavy, 1 Every one feels the cold according as he is clad, 207 Every one finds fault with his own trade, 117 Every one finds sin sweet and repentance bitter, 375 Every one gives himself credit for more brains than he has, and less money, 117 Every one goes with his own sack to the mill, 118, 375 Every one has his master, 145 Every one his own is but fair, 12 Every one in his own house, and God in all men’s, 207 Every one is a king in his own house, 270 Every one is a preacher under the gallows, 314 Every one is a thief in his own craft, 317 Every one is emperor on his own ground, 143 Every one is wise after the event (or when the mischief is done), 163, 213 Every one is wise for his own profit, 271 Every one knows best where the shoe pinches him, 12, 117, 156, 207, 271 Every one likes justice in another’s house, none in his own, 117 Every one likes to wipe his shoes on poverty, 134 Every one must pay his debt to nature, 155 Every one must row with the oars he has, 317 Every one praises his own saint, 117 Every one preaches for his own saint, 12 Every one rakes the fire under his own pot, 366 Every one reaps as he sows, 270 Every one says: My right is good, 12 Every one sees his smart coat, no one sees his shrunken belly, 347 Every one should sweep before his own door, 12 Every one sings as he has the gift, and marries as he has the luck, 270 Every one sneezes as God pleases, 207 Every one speaks as he is, 271 Every one speaks of the feast (or fair) as he finds it, 207, 271 Every one stretches his legs according to the length of his coverlet (Cut your coat according to your cloth), 207, 271 Every one takes his flogging in his own way, 12 Every one takes his pleasure where he finds it, 12 Every one thinks he has more than his own share of brains, 91 Every one thinks himself without sin because he has not that of others, 117 Every one thinks his owl a falcon, 155 Every one thinks his own cross the heaviest, 68 Every one thinks that all the bells echo his own thoughts, 155 Every one to his equal, 271 Every one to his own calling, and the Ox to the plough, 117 Every one tries to cross the fence where it is lowest, 366 Every one wishes to bring water to his own mill, and leave his neighbour’s dry, 207 (See Every one draws) Every pedlar praises his own needles, 206, 270 Every pig has its Martinmas, 271 Every potter praises his pot, and the more if it is cracked, 116, 207 Every potter vaunts his own pot, 13 Every priestling conceals a popeling, 154 Every promise is a debt, 117 Every road leads to Rome, 59, 259 Every rose has its thorn, 117 Every saint has his festival, 68 Every shop has its trick (There are tricks in all trades), 116 Every shot does not bring down a bird, 317 Every ten years one man has need of another, 116 Everything comes in time to him who can wait, 59 Everything does not fall that totters, 59 Everything goes by favour and cousinship, 59 Everything goes to him who does not want it, 59 Everything has an end—except a sausage, which has two, 347 Everything has an end excepting God, 297 Everything has its time, 270 Everything has two handles (or two sides), 297 Everything in its season, and turnips in Advent, 207 Everything is good for something, 116 Everything is good in its season, 90 Everything is of every year, 116 Everything may be borne except good fortune, 116 Everything may be bought except day and night, 41 Everything may be repaired except the neckbone, 129 Everything must have a beginning, 6, 116, 292 Everything new is beautiful, 92 Everything passes, everything breaks, everything wearies, 59 Everything would be well were there not a “but,” 133 Every to-morrow brings its bread, 13 Every truth is not to be told, 117 Every tub must stand on its own bottom, 367 Every vine must have its stake, 117 Every why has its wherefore, 297 Every wind does not shake down the nut, 117 Every wind is against a leaky ship, 366 Every woman would rather be handsome than good, 156 Evil be to him who evil thinks, 82 Evil is soon done, but slowly mended, 395 Evil must be driven out by evil, 390 Evil wastes itself, 395 Evil words corrupt good manners, 302 Exchange is no robbery, 170 Expect not at another’s hand what you can do by your own, 197 Experience is the best teacher, 145 Extravagant offers are a kind of denial, 116 Extremes meet, 34 Eye-service is the courtier’s art, 394 F. Faint heart is always in danger, 273 Faint heart never won fair lady, 27, 136, 173, 348 Faint praise is akin to abuse, 372 Fair and softly goes far, 45, 283 Fair flowers do not remain long by the wayside, 168 Fair, good, rich, and wise, is a woman four stories high, 8 Fair is he that comes, but fairer he that brings, 54 Fair money can cover much that’s foul, 337 Fair promises bind fools, 74 Fair things are soon snatched away, 8 Fair words and rotten apples, 74 Fair words, but look to your purse, 74 Fair words don’t butter the cabbage, 168 Fair words don’t fill the pocket, 168 Fair words please the fool, and sometimes the wise, 367 Fair words won’t feed a cat, 74 Fair words won’t fill the sack, 337, 398 Fall sick, and you will see who is your friend and who not, 215 Falsehood is the Devil’s daughter, and speaks her father’s tongue, 385 Falsehood never tires of going round about, 385 Falsehood travels and grows, 385 Falseness often lurks beneath fair hair, 367 Fame and repute follow a man to the door, 396 Fancy requires much, necessity but little, 174 Far fetched and dear bought is meat for ladies, 340 Far from the eyes, far from the heart, 109 Farewell baskets, the vintage is ended, 2 Fast as the hare runs, the greyhound outruns her, since he catches her, 241 Fat broth cannot be made of nothing, 42 Fat head, lean brains, 77 Fat hens lay few eggs, 148 Fat pastures make fat venison, 8 Father and mother are kind, but God is kinder, 367 Favour and gifts disturb justice, 372 Fear guards the vineyard, 107, 232 Fear is a great inventor, 30 Feather by feather the goose is plucked, 72 Feet accustomed to go cannot be still, 291 Feet that are used to move cannot remain quiet, 240 Feign death and the bull will leave you, 278 Few have luck, all have death, 367 Few women turn grey because their husbands die, 367 Fie upon a cloak in fair weather, 18 “Fie upon thee, how black thou art!” said the kettle to the sauce pan, 369 Fine and fine make but a slender doublet, 18 Fine birds are commonly plucked, 19 Fine feathers make fine birds, 28, 307 Fine linen often conceals a foul skin, 402 Fine words don’t fill the belly, 277, 336 Fine words without deeds go not far, 367 Fire and love do not say, “Go to your work,” 217 Fire and straw soon make a flame, 380 Fire and water are good servants but bad masters, 148, 380 Fire drives the wasp out of its nest, 102 Fire is not quenched with fire, 102 Fire in the heart sends smoke into the head, 148 First a turnip, then a sheep; next a cow, and then the gallows, 318 First come, first served, 36 First look at home, then censure me, 169 First weigh, then venture, 145 Fish and guests smell at three days old, 365 Fish begin to stink at the head, 138 Fit the foot to the shoe, not the shoe to the foot, 264 Five fingers hold more than two forks, 148 Flatterers are cats that lick before and scratch behind, 168 Flattery is sweet food for those who can swallow it, 398 Flies are easier caught with honey than with vinegar, 43 Flies don’t light on a boiling pot, 3, 69 Flies flock to the lean horse, 66 Flowers are the pledges of fruit, 351 Flying from the bull he fell into the river, 225 Folks say there is a lack of four sorts of people on earth: of priests, else one would not have six or seven benefices; of gentlemen, else every boor would not want to be a squire; of whores, else married women and nuns would not carry on the trade; of Jews, else Christians would not practise usury (Trench quotes this as the longest Proverb known), 160 Follow the customs, or fly the country, 389 Follow the river and you will reach the sea, 57 Follow the road and you will reach an inn, 271 Folly hath eagle’s wings, but the eyes of an owl, 304 Folly is the most incurable of maladies, 218 Fond of lawsuits, little wealth; fond of doctors, little health; fond of friars, little honour, 198 Fools and the perverse fill the lawyer’s purse, 233 Fools are free all the world over, 312 Fools ask what’s o’clock, but wise men know their time, 305 Fools build houses, wise men buy them, 163 Fools go in throngs, 3 Fools grow without watering, 104 Fools invent fashions and wise men follow them, 34 Fools make feasts, and wise men eat them, 104 Fools must not be set on eggs, 163 Fools sometimes give wise men counsel, 279 Foot firm till death, 268 For a bad tongue, scissors, 265 For a good companion good company, 193 For a good dinner and a gentle wife you can afford to wait, 365 For a stubborn ass a hard goad, 2 For a stubborn ass a stubborn driver, 5 For a voracious beast pebbles in his feed, 263 For a web begun God sends thread, 6, 73 For a wife and a horse go to your neighbour, 106 For all one’s early rising, it dawns none the sooner, 241 For an honest man half his wits are enough; the whole is too little for a knave, 68 For better for worse they have married me, 205 For evil tongues, scissors, 195 For extreme ills extreme remedies, 69 For great evils strong remedies, 341 For lack of men (or good men) they made my father a justice, 241, 292 For love of the ox the wolf licks the yoke (Catalan), 240 For love the wolf eats the sheep, 174 For one pleasure a thousand pains, 46 For overbuying there’s no help but selling again, 6 For poor people small coin, 264 For sake of the knight the lady kisses the squire, 46 For the buyer a hundred eyes are too few, for the seller one is enough, 66 For the flying enemy a golden bridge, 70 For the last comer, the bones, 6 For the upright there are no laws, 148 For want of a nail the shoe is lost, 242 For whom does the blind man’s wife adorn herself? 227 For whom sword and courage are not enough, corslet and lance will not be enough, 201 Forbear a quarrel with a friend to move: anger breeds hatred, concord sweetens love, 334 Forbearance is no acquittance, 134 Forbidden fruit is sweet (or the sweetest), 101, 172 Forced love does not last, 318 Fore-talk spares after-talk, 174 Forewarned, forearmed, 49 Forgive and forget, 172 Forgive thyself nothing and others much, 173 Forgiven is not forgotten, 172 Fortune aids the bold, 197 Fortune and glass soon break, alas! 319 Fortune and misfortune are two buckets in a well, 150 Fortune and women are partial to fools, 150 Fortune can take from us only what she has given us, 29 Fortune comes to him who seeks her, 132 Fortune does not stand waiting at any one’s door, 322 Fortune gives many too much, but no one enough, 137 Fortune helps fools, 106 Fortune is a woman; if you neglect her to-day, expect not to regain her to-morrow, 29 Fortune is like women: loves youth and is fickle, 137 Fortune is round; it makes one a king, another a dunghill, 322 Fortune lost, nothing lost; courage lost, much lost; honour lost, more lost; soul lost, all lost, 320 Fortune often knocks at the door, but the fool does not invite her in, 385 Foster a raven and it will peck out your eyes, 210 Foul linen should be washed at home, 22 Four eyes see more than two, 131, 173, 232, 282 Four things put a man beside himself—women, tobacco, cards, and wine, 245 Foxes come at last to the furrier’s, 17 Fox’s broth, cold and scalding, 207 Free man, free goods (So: Free ships, free goods—American), 148 Fresh pork and new wine kill a man before his time, 242 Friar Modest never was prior (A modest friar never was prior), 99 Friends and mules fail us at hard passes (Galician), 199, 265 Friends are known in adversity, 287 Friends are known in time of need (Friends in need are friends indeed), 65, 329 Friendship broken may be soldered, but never made whole, 199 Friendship should be unpicked, not rent, 106 Friendships are cheap when they can be bought by doffing the hat, 108 From a bad paymaster take straw (i.e. any trifle), 90 From a closed door the devil turns away, 275 From a praying young man, and a fasting old one, God preserve my cloak, 212 From a silent man, and a dog that does not bark, deliver us, 211 From a silent person remove your dwelling, 212 From a spark the house is burnt, 340 From bishop to turn miller, 56 From children expect childish acts, 362 From confessors, doctors, and lawyers, do not conceal the truth of your case, 2 From great rivers come great fish, 274 From little things men go on to great, 340 From long journeys, long lies, 212 From my gossip’s bread a large piece for my godson, 212 From saying to doing is a long way, 90 From short pleasure long repentance, 14 From small beginnings come great things, 340 From smooth (or still) water God preserve me, from rough (or running) I will preserve myself, 90, 211 From snow, whether baked or boiled, you will get nothing but water, 90, 211 From that dust comes this mud, 210 From the boat we get to the ship, 340 From the father comes honour, from the mother comfort, 340 From the same flower the bee extracts honey and the wasp gall, 90 From the soldier who has no cloak, keep your own in your chest, 276 From those I trust God guard me, from those I mistrust I will guard myself, 90 From to-morrow till to-morrow time goes a long journey, 14 From trivial things great contests oft arise, 340 Froth is not beer, 337 Full bottles and glasses make swearers and asses, 341 Full vessels give the least sound, 174 Funeral sermon, lying sermon, 158 G. Gain has a pleasant odour, come whence it will, 269 Geese are plucked as long as they have any feathers, 333 Gentleness does more than violence, 45 Get a good name, and go to sleep, 67, 208, 272 Get out of that place and let me take it, 43 Gifts are according to the giver, 140 Gifts are often losses, 127 Gifts break (or dissolve) rocks, 210, 273 Gifts make friendship lasting, 390 Give a clown your finger, and he’ll grasp your fist, 70, 299 Give a clown your foot, and he’ll take your hand, 198 Give a grateful man more than he asks, 266 Give a hint to the man of sense, and consider the thing done (A word to the wise is enough), 264 Give a rogue an inch, and he will take an ell, 371 Give a traitor good words and you make him loyal, 213 Give an ass oats and he runs after thistles, 318 Give at first asking what you safely can; ’tis certain gain to help an honest man, 322 Give him a foot and he’ll take four, 57 Give him an inch and he’ll take an ell, 318 Give him your finger and he will seize your hand, 70, 299 Give me a seat, and I will make myself room to lie down, 210 Give me the rhubarb and you may take the senna, 45 Give me money, not advice, 273 Give me the ass that carries me in preference to the horse that throws me, 240 Give orders, and do it yourself, and you will be rid of anxiety, 282 Give orders, and do no more, and nothing will be done, 230, 282 Give out that you have many friends, and believe that you have but few, 22 Give the priest drink, for the clerk is thirsty, 90 Give the wise man a hint and leave him to act, 66 Give time time, 90 Give to a pig when it grunts, and to a child when it cries, and you will have a fine pig, and a bad child, 371 Give to him that has, 90 Give unto the king what is the king’s, and unto God what is God’s, 149 Give your wife the short knife, and keep the long one yourself, 384 Giving alms never lessens the purse, 217 Giving is fishing, 93 Glowworms are not lanterns, 108 Gluttony kills more than the sword, 29, 111 Go in God’s name, for he takes a loaf of mine, 261 Go not every evening to your brother’s house, 194 Go not with every ailment to the doctor, with every plaint to the lawyer, or with every thirst to the can, 230, 286 Go not with every hunger to the cupboard, nor with every thirst to the pitcher, 286 Go softly and look afar, 344 Go softly over bad bits of road, 67 Go to bed late, rise early, you will see your own harm and that of others, 274 Go to bed without supper, and you will rise without debt, 194, 274 Go to the sea if you would fish well, 131 Go to your aunt’s house, but not every day, 194 Go to your rich friend’s house when invited; to your poor friend’s without invitation, 264 God alone understands fools, 15 God comes at last, when we think he is farthest off, 372 God deliver me from a man of one book, 214, 319 God deliver us from a gentleman by day and a friar by night, 214 God does not pay weekly, but pays at the end, 319 God does not smite with both hands, 236 God give you luck, my son, for little wit must serve your turn, 261, 295 God gives a curst cow short horns, 65 God gives almonds to some who have no teeth, 210 God gives birds their food, but they must fly for it, 319 God gives clothes according to the cold, 273 (See God sends cold) God gives every bird its food, but does not throw it into the nest, 372 God gives little folks small gifts, 372 God gives the will, necessity gives the law, 372 God gives wings to the ant that she may perish the sooner, 210 God grant, dear wife, that this son be ours, 253 God grant me to argue (or dispute) with those who understand me, 214, 275 God grant you fortune, my son, for knowledge avails you little, 214 God has given nuts to some who have no teeth, 273 God heals and the doctor has the thanks, 92 (See God cures) God help the sheep when the wolf is judge, 371 God helps the early riser, 201 God helps the strongest, 150, 319 God helps him who helps himself (or them that help themselves), 53, 85, 152, 191, 252, 274 God helps three sorts of people: fools, children, and drunkards, 15 God is everywhere, except where he has his delegate (ironical), 150 God keep me from my friends, from my enemies I will keep myself, 99 God keep you from “It is too late,” 233 God knows who is a good pilgrim, 15 God made us, and we admire ourselves, 224 God never sends mouths but he sends meat, 371 God permits, but not for ever, 274 God puts a good root in the little pig’s way, 6 God save me from one who does not drink, 92 God save me from the man of one book, 92 God save me from the man of one occupation, 92 God save me from those I trust in (or in whom I confide), 15 God save you from a bad neighbour, and from a beginner on the fiddle, 92 God save you from a man who has but one business, 16 God saves the moon from the wolves, 15 God sells knowledge for labour, honour for risk, 320 God sends meat and the devil sends cooks, 92 God sends nothing but what can be borne, 92 God sent him meat, but the devil cooked it, 320 God take you, pound (of flax), drunk out and not yet spun, 194 God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb, 1 God will provide, but a good bundle of straw will not be amiss, 214 God’s friend, the priest’s foe, 150 God’s mill goes slowly, but it grinds well, 150 God’s work is soon done, 17 Gold does not buy everything, 109 Gold is gold, though it be in a rogue’s purse, 372 Gold is proved in the fire, friendship in need, 380 Gold lies deep in the mountain, dirt on the highway, 150 Golden bishop, wooden crosier; wooden bishop, golden crosier, 17 Gone is gone; no Jew will lend upon it, 152 Good and bad make up a city, 270 Good bargains are ruinous, 34 Good bargains empty the purse, 108, 151 Good blood will never lie, 9 Good comes to better, and better to bad, 8 Good company makes short miles, 320 Good corn is not reaped from a bad field, 397 Good counsel comes overnight, 151 Good counsel is no better than bad counsel, if it be not taken in time, 395 Good counsel never comes too late, 151 Good counsel will not rot, if it be got in dry, 371 Good day to you all! said the fox, when he got into the goose-pen, 320 Good drink drives out bad thoughts, 320 Good faith is a seldom guest, when you have him, hold him fast, 171 Good faith stole the cow, 170 Good fruit never comes from a bad tree, 287 Good, good, good, but God keep my ass out of his rye, 206 Good hunters track narrowly, 320 Good is good, but better beats it, 101 Good is the delay which makes sure, 269 Good is the fowl which another rears, 205 Good land should not be quitted for a bad landlord, 42 Good leading makes good following, 343 Good luck makes its way by elbowing, 201 Good management is better than good income, 281 Good manners and plenty of money will make my son a gentleman, 270 Good morrow spectacles, farewell lasses, 8 Good never comes too often, 371 Good news is rumoured, bad news flies, 216, 287 Good or bad we must all live, 115 Good people live far asunder, 148 Good repute is better than a golden belt, 9 Good repute is like the cypress: once cut, it never puts forth leaf again, 105 Good right needs good help, 320 Good swimmers are drowned at last, 9, 100 Good table, bad will, 269 Good things require time, 320 Good thongs may be cut out of other people’s hides, 134 Good tree, good fruit, 320 Good ware was never dear, 105 Good watching drives away ill-luck, 8 Good wine is milk for the aged, 151 Good wine makes good blood, 76 Good wine makes the horse go, 4 Good wine needs no crier, 65, 151, 221, 261, 287, 320 Good wine needs no sign, 1 Good wine praises itself, 320 Good wine ruins the purse, and bad the stomach, 151 Good wine sells itself, 151, 216 Good words and bad deeds deceive both wise and simple, 206, 269 Got with the fife, spent with the drum, 161 Govern a horse with a bit, and a shrew with a stick, 399 Grain by grain the hen fills her crop, 223, 278 Grass grows not upon the highway, 336 Grease a churl’s boots and he’ll say you are burning them, 19 Grease the wheels, 130 Great boast, little roast, 321 Great boaster, little doer, 19 Great cry and little wool, 340 Great cry and little wool, as the man said who shaved the sow, 73 Great cry and little wool, said the fool, when he sheared his hogs, 173, 340 Great disputing repels truth, 19 Great fish are caught in great waters, 150 Great fishes break the net, 321 Great fools must have great bells, 320 Great griefs are mute, 101 Great lords have long hands, but they do not reach to heaven, 399 Great lords will have much, and poor folk can give but little, 399 Great men may jest with saints, 150 Great men’s requests are commands, 151, 374 Great men’s servants don’t think little of themselves, 151 Great promisers, bad paymasters, 151, 320 Great scholars are not the shrewdest men, 34 Great smoke, little roast, 100 Great talkers are commonly liars, 151 Great talkers are not great doers, 34, 321 Great thieves always have their sleeves full of gags, 34 Great thieves hang little ones, 34, 150 Great trees give more shade than fruit, 150 Great wealth, great care, 321 Great wits meet, 33 Greater fools than they of Zago, who dunged the steeple to make it grow, 120 Greatness alone is not enough, or the cow would outrun the hare, 150 Green Christmas, a white Easter, 151 Grey hairs are death’s blossoms, 371 Grief for a dead wife lasts to the door, 93, 276 Guessing is missing, 319 H. “Had I known” is a poor man, 151 Had it not been for an if, the old woman would have bitten a wolf, 374 Hair by hair, and the head gets bald, 364 Half a brain is enough for him who says little, 66 Half a house is half a hell, 151 Half a word to the wise is enough, 314 Half figs, half raisins, 39 Handsome apples are sometimes sour, 168, 337 Handsome is not what is handsome, but what pleases, 112 Handsome is that handsome does, 168 Handsome women generally fall to the lot of ugly men, 69 Handsomely asked, handsomely refused, 1 Hang the young thief, and the old one will not steal, 373 Hannibal is at the gate, 321 Happy he who can take warning from the mishaps of others, 397 Happy is she who is in love with an old dotard, 74 Happy is the man who has a handsome wife close to an abbey, 37 Happy the child whose father goes to the devil, 20 Happy the house in which there is no shaven crown, 205 Hard against hard never was good, 151 Hard is a new law imposed on old licence, 95 Hard upon hard never made a good wall, 95, 276 Hares are caught with hounds, fools with praise, and women with gold, 162 Hares are not caught with drums, 42, 333 Haste makes waste, 321 Hastiness is the beginning of wrath, and its end repentance, 321 Hasty questions require slow answers, 336 Hasty speed don’t oft succeed, 321 Hat in hand goes through the land, 153 Hatred renewed is worse than at first, 116 Have a bill to pay at Easter, and your Lent will be short, 213 Have luck and sleep, 126 (See Fortune and go to sleep) Having is having, come whence it may, 151 He asks advice in vain who will not follow it, 46 He avoided the fly and swallowed the spider, 278 He beat the bushes and another caught the birds, 20 He begins to grow bad who believes himself good, 88 He burns the candle at both ends, 325 He buys honey dear who has to lick it off thorns, 327 He buys very dear who begs, 268 He buys well who is not called a donkey, 205 He came time enough who was hung by candlelight, 373 He can do but little who cannot threaten another, 203 He cannot find water in the sea, 235 He cannot lead a good life who serves without wages, 75 He cannot lay eggs, but he can cackle, 327 He carries fire and water, 26 He counts his chickens before they are hatched, 327 He cries out before he is hurt, 96 He dances well to whom fortune pipes, 73, 177 He did not invent gunpowder, 236 He does a good day’s work who rids himself of a fool, 9 He does not a little who burns his house: he frightens the rats and warms himself, 235 He does not guard himself well who is not always on his guard, 24 He does not live in this world that can skin a grindstone, 354 He doubts nothing who knows nothing, 284 He drives a good waggonful into his farm who gets a good wife, 372 He earns a farthing and has a penn’orth of thirst, 327 He expects that larks will fall ready roasted into his mouth, 20 He expects to find water at the first stroke of the spade, 195 He falls into the pit who leads another into it, 207 He falls on his back and breaks his nose, 26 He fears the sack who has been in it, 355 He fishes on who catches one, 59 He forgot nothing except to say farewell, 23 He flays enough who holds the foot, 5 He gains enough who loses sorrow, 5 He gains much who loses a vain hope, 73 He gapes like a clown at a fair, 326 He gathers up ashes and scatters flour, 197 He gives twice who gives in a trice, 53, 79, 179, 247 He goes about it like a cat round hot milk, 145 He goes as willingly as a thief to the gallows, 145 He goes safely to trial whose father is a judge, 251 He goes safely who has nothing, 57 He got out of the mud and fell into the river, 131 He had need rise betimes who who would please everybody, 54, 355 He hangs the May-branch at every door. (Alluding to the Italian custom of young men hanging out May-branches overnight before the door of their mistress), 73 He has a good pledge of the cat who has her skin, 9 He has a head, and so has a pin, 276 He has a ton of knowledge, but the bottom is out, 326 He has a wolf-conscience, 326 He has beans in his ears. (Who so deaf as he that will not hear?) 145 He has command of the sack who is seated on it, 373 He has done like the Perugian who, when his head was broken, ran home for his helmet, 95 He has eaten his corn in the blade, 20 He has enough to do who holds the handle of the frying-pan, 8 He has enough who is content, 5 He has given the hen for the egg, 145 He has great need of a fool who makes himself one, 19 He has him under his thumb, 326 He has lost the nest-egg, 326 He has much to do who would please everybody, 233 He has not done who who is beginning, 40 He has nothing, for whom nothing is enough, 55, 286 He has put all his eggs into one basket, 20 He has seen the wolf, 326 He has the Bible on his lips, but not in his heart, 326 He hauls at a long rope who expects another’s death, 70 He howls with the wolves, and bleats with the sheep, 326 He is a bad shot who cannot find an excuse, 143 He is a bad smith who cannot bear smoke, 143 He is a bad workman who cannot talk of work, 146 He is a fool that praises himself, and a madman that speaks ill of himself, 353 He is a fool who boasts of four things: that he has good wine, a good horse, a handsome wife, and plenty of money, 118 He is a fool who does not know from what quarter the wind blows, 118 He is a fool who loses the flight for the leap, 118 He is a fool who makes his physician his heir, 11 He is a fool who makes a mallet of his fist, 11 He is a fool who thinks that another does not think, 125, 233, 286 He is a great fool who forgets himself, 21 He is a great simpleton who starves himself to feed another, 224 He is a horse with four white feet (i. e. he is unlucky), 12 He is a man like a book, 303 He is a man who acts like a man, 353 He is a poor smith who is afraid of sparks, 359 He is a sorry barber who has but one comb, 128 He is a thief indeed who robs a thief, 8 He is a very bad manager of honey who leaves nothing to lick off his fingers, 9 He is an essence of scoundrels, 326 He is an aristocrat in folio, 323 He is an old saint, and may leave it in the hands of God, 274 He is as easily caught as a hare with drums, 326 (See Hares are not caught, &c.) He is as good a Catholic as Duke Alva’s dog, who ate flesh in Lent, 327 He is as good a divine as Judas was an apostle, 323 He is as poor as Job, 326 He is as sharp as a leaden dagger, 326 He is as welcome as the first day in Lent (alluding to fast-day), 327 He is blind enough who cannot see through a sieve, 224 He is called clever who cheats and plunders his friend, 21 He is easy to lure, who is ready to follow, 353 He is nowhere who is everywhere, 112 He is in safety who rings the tocsin, 202, 222 He is in search of a ram with five feet, 77 He is like a cat, he always falls on his feet, 21 He is like a singed cat, better than he looks, 26 He is like Jean de Nivelle’s dog, that runs away when he is called, 11 He is like the anchor that is always in the sea, yet does not learn to swim, 95 He is like the gardener’s dog, who don’t eat cabbages and will let no one else eat them, 21 He is lucky who forgets what cannot be mended, 150 He is master of another man’s life who is indifferent to his own, 97 He is most likely to spill who holds the vessel in his hand, 354 He is most cheated who cheats himself, 356 He is my friend who grinds at my mill, 222, 277 He is nearest to God who has the fewest wants, 353 He is nearest a thing who has it in his hands, 353 He is no friend that eats his own by himself, and mine with me, 285 He is no merchant who always gains, 323 He is no small knave who knows a great one, 361 He is noble who performs noble deeds, 326 He is not a bad driver who knows how to turn, 373 He is not a good mason who refuses any stone, 112 He is not a man who cannot say no, 112 He is not a thorough wise man who cannot play the fool on occasion, 90 He is not fit to be a baker whose head is made of butter, 353 He is not free who drags his chain after him, 24, 112 He is not happy who knows it not, 98 He is not so much of a devil as he is black, 24 He is not yet born who can please everybody, 355 He is of the race of Johnny Van Cleeve, who would always much rather have than give, 326 He is out of danger who rings the alarm-bell, 202, 222 He is past preaching to who does not care to do well, 21 He is rich enough who is contented, 166 He is rich enough who owes nothing, 17, 97 He is rich enough who does not want, 73 He is so wise, that he goes upon the ice three days before it freezes, 327 He is the devil’s valet, he does more than he is ordered, 11 He is the wisest man who does not think himself so, 33 He is the world’s master who despises it, its slave who prizes it, 97 He is too idle to fetch his breath, 326 He is too stupid to be trusted alone by the fire, 326 He is very blind who cannot see the sun, 75 He is wise who learns at another’s cost, 125 He is worthy of sweets who has tasted bitters, 353 He is young enough who has health, and he rich enough who has no debts, 353 He is your friend who gets you out of a scrape, 201, 267 He keeps his word, as the sun keeps butter, 325 He knocks boldly at the door who brings good news, 19, 72, 373 He knows best where the shoe pinches who wears it, 356, 373 He knows enough who knows how to live and keep his own counsel, 5 He knows it as well as his Pater-noster, 255 He knows the water best who has waded through it, 374 He knows well where the thorn pricks him, 95 He knows where the devil carries his tail, 96, 124 He laughs at scars who never felt a wound, 139 He laughs well (or best) who laughs longest, 55, 124 (See He who laughs) He lays his eggs beside his nest, 327 He lies like a tooth-drawer, 23 He lives in the land of promise, 327 He looks for his ass and sits on its back, 20 He lords it (or swaggers) like an eel in a tub, 325 He loses his market who has nothing to sell, 201 He loses least in a quarrel who keeps his tongue in check, 356 He loves well who never forgets, 75, 205, 268 He may lie boldly who comes from afar, 1, 95 He may swim boldly who is held up by the chin, 9 He means well, but has a bad way of showing it, 326 He measures others by his own standard, 95, 325 He must be a clever host that would take the devil into his hostelry, 355 He must be ill-favoured who scares the devil, 355 He must be pure who would blame another, 373 He must cry loud who would scare the devil, 373 He must gape wide who would gape against an oven, 327 He must have clean fingers who would blow another’s nose, 355 He must have crept out of hell while the devil was asleep, 326 He must have iron fingers who would flay the devil, 373 He must have keen eyes that would know a maid at sight, 145 He must have plenty of butter who would stop everybody’s mouth, 373 He must indeed be a good master who never errs, 325 He must keep a sharp look-out who would speak the truth, 373 He must rise betimes who would please everybody, 327 He must shoot well who always hits the mark, 323 He must stand high that would see the end of his own destiny, 355 He must stoop that has a low door, 94 He need have plenty of meal who would stop every man’s mouth (Scotch: He behoves to have meal enou that sal stop ilka man’s mou’), 98, 322, 355 He needs say nothing about the score who pays nothing, 20 He needs a long spoon that would eat out of the same dish with the devil, 355 He never was a friend who ceased to be so for a slight cause, 287 He never was a friend who has ceased to be one, 48 He ought not to complain of the sea who returns to it a second time, 73 He pays for the glasses who breaks them, 48 He plays best who wins, 49,182 He preaches well who lives well, 78, 205 He pulls at a long rope who desires another’s death, 3 He puts his sickle into another man’s harvest, 23 He ruins himself in promises, and clears himself by giving nothing, 26 He runs as fast as if he had eggs in his shoes, 327 He runs far who never turns, 89 He runs heavily who is forced to run, 354 He’s a friend at sneezing-time,—the most that can be got from him is a “God bless you,” 334 He said devil, but meant you, 327 He scolds most that can hurt the least, 374 He sells the bird on the branch, 96 He sets the wolf to guard the sheep, 95 He should not complain of being cheated who buys cloth by the sample, 287 He sins as much who holds the bag as he who puts into it, 7 He sits well who can rise without help, 355 He sleeps securely who has nothing to lose, 17 He slumbers enough who does nothing, 5 He sticks his nose in everything (He has his finger in every pie), 145 He struts as valiantly as an English cock, 327 He studies the Bible of fifty-two leaves (a pack of cards), 326 He sups ill who eats up all at dinner, 37 He swims on his own bulrush, 328 He takes out a nail and puts in a pin, 77 He that abideth low cannot fall hard, 310 He that at twenty is not, at thirty knows not, and at forty has not, will never be, nor ever know, nor ever have, 79 He that bears the cross, blesses himself first, 354 He that buildeth upon the highway hath many advisers, 179, 308 (See He who builds) He that buys the office of magistrate must of necessity sell justice, 79 He that can be patient finds his foe at his feet, 309 He that chases another does not sit still himself, 308 He that climbs high falls heavily, 182 He that comes unbidden goes unthanked, 310 He that corrects not youth controls not age, 50 He that courts injury will obtain it, 373 He that creepeth falleth not, 310 He that cuts above himself will get splinters in his eye, 376 He that despises the little is not worthy of the great, 310 He that does ill never wants for excuses, 266 He that does not lie, does not come of good blood, 251 He that does not save pennies will never have pounds, 352 He that eats his fowl alone may saddle his horse alone, 252, 292 He that examines every bush will hardly get into the wood, 185 He that exceeds his commission must answer for it at his own cost, 80 He that finds fault wants to buy, 186, 248 (See He who) He that finds something before it is lost, will die before he is sick, 309 He that has a choice has trouble, 309 He that has an hour’s start will not be hanged, 253 He that has but one pig easily fattens it, 82 He that has good legs has often bad boots, 182 He that has lost his credit is dead to the world, 180 He that has no head needs no hat, 183 He that has no ill luck grows weary of good luck, 250 He that has no money in his purse should have fair words on his lips, 376 He that has not money in his purse should have honey in his mouth, 50 He that has swallowed the devil may swallow his horns, 82 He that has the devil on his neck must find him work, 308 He that has the luck leads the bride to church, 309 He that hath a wife is sure of strife, 49 He that hath an ill name is half hanged, 309 He that hears much, hears many lies, 311 He that hides can find, 48 He that hides is no better than he that steals, 373 He that holds is no better than he that scourges, 373 He that holds the handle of the frying-pan runs the risk of burning himself, 10 He that hunts others must run himself, 179 He that hunts two hares at once will catch neither, 49, 343 He that inquires much, learns much, 378 He that is afraid of the devil does not grow rich, 82 He that is ashamed to eat is ashamed to live, 48 He that is at sea has not the wind in his hands, 310 (See He who is at sea) He that is bitten by a dog must apply some of its hair, 311 He that is born to be hanged will never be drowned, 80, 182, 309 He that is drowning shouts though he be not heard, 78 He that is embarked with the devil must sail with him, 80, 310 He that is good for something is the ass of the public, 101 He that is in fault is in suspicion, 80 He that is more civil than usual, either wants to cozen you or has need of you, 253 He that is not gallant at twenty, strong at thirty, rich at forty, or experienced at fifty, will never be gallant, strong, rich or prudent, 246 He that is out at sea, must either sail or sink, 377 He that is thrown would still wrestle, 28 He that is too much in haste, may stumble on a good road, 53 He that is unkind to his own will not be kind to others (Galician) 245 He that jokes, confesses, 78 He that keeps out of harm’s way will gather goodly riches, 355 He that laughs on Friday may cry on Sunday, 58 He that lies down with dogs will get up with fleas, 52, 79, 247, 376 He that lives with cripples learns to limp, 308 He that loves his child chastises him, 311 He that makes himself dirt is trod on by the swine, 86 He that makes one basket can make a hundred, 249 He that marries for love has good nights, but sorry days, 179 He that minds his business at home, will not be accused of taking part in the fray, 248 He that never fails never grows rich, 83 He that paints a flower does not give it perfume, 85 He that pelts every barking dog must pick up a great many stones, 183 He that performs his own errand saves the messenger’s hire, 392 He that picks up all sorts of wood soon gets an armful, 179 He that plays at racket must watch the ball, 309 He that reckons without his host must reckon again, 49, 80, 111 He that says A, must also say B, 179 He that says what he should not, will hear what he would not, 374 He that seeks, finds, and sometimes what he would rather not, 78 He that seeks to have many friends never has any, 87 He that shows his money shows his judgment, 82 He that sings himself is the best pleased, 354 He that sits among reeds cuts pipes when he pleases, 182 He that spares something to-day will have something to-morrow, 309 He that spends more than he is worth spins a rope for his own neck, 51 He that stands may fall, 80 He that stays in the valley will not get over the hill, 52 He that stirs honey will have some of it stick to him, 249 He that stumbles and falls not, mends his pace, 53, 248 He that ties well, unties well (Safe bind, safe find), 246 He that tickles himself, may laugh when he will, 185, 309, 379 He that trusts a faithless friend, has a good witness against him, 252 He that ventures not, fails not, 51 He that wants should not be bashful, 78 He that wants the kernel must crack the nut, 22, 180, 308 He that wants to beat a dog can easily find a stick, 87 (See Who wants) He that wants to hang a dog, is sure to find a rope, 378 He that wants to hang a dog, says that it bites the sheep, 352 He that well considers the world, must own he has never seen a better, 308 He that will does more than he that can, 281 He that will have eggs, must bear with cackling, 309 He that will have fire must bear with smoke, 311 He that will not be saved needs no preacher, 184 He that will not when he can, cannot when he will, 83, 251 (See Who will not) He that will not when he may, when he will shall have nay, 50 He that will not strive in this world should not have come into it, 84 He that won’t listen, must feel, 184 He that would be healthy, must eat temperately, and sup early, 252 He that would be healthy must wear his winter clothes in summer, 252 He that would be ill served should keep plenty of servants, 87 He that would be old long must begin betimes, 292 He that would cheat a Jew, must be a Jew, 188 He that would have a beautiful wife should choose her on a Saturday, 252 He that would have a thing done quickly and well must do it himself, 87 He that would heal a wound must not handle it, 88 He that would jest must take a jest, else to let it alone were best, 309 He that would keep his eye sound must tie up his hand, 292 He that would keep his house clean must not let priest or pigeon enter it, 54 He that would stop everybody’s mouth needs plenty of flour, 183 He that you seat upon your shoulder will often try to get upon your head, 400 He thinks to catch shell-fish in the trees, 327 He threatens many who affronts one, 265 He to whom God gives no sons, the devil gives nephews, 251 He waits long that waits for another man’s death, 327 He wants to fly before he has wings, 327 He was born on a Sunday, he likes work ready done, 21 He was born upon St. Galtpert’s night, three days before luck, 326 He was bom with a caul, 21 He wastes his tears who weeps before the judge, 119 He wears the mourning of his washerwoman, 26 He who abuses others must not be particular about the answer he gets, 355 He who always tells me a lie never cheats me, 252 He who always thinks it is too soon, is sure to come too late, 177 He who asks the fewest favours is the best received, 250 He who at thirty has no brains, will never purchase an estate, 246 He who at twenty understands nothing, at thirty knows nothing, and at forty has nothing, will lead a wretched old age, 246 He who avoids the temptation avoids the sin, 252 He who begins and does not finish loses his labour, 49 He who begins badly, ends badly, 250 He who begins ill finishes worse, 82 He who begins many things finishes few, 82 He who begins much finishes little, 186 He who bestirs himself sucks up, he who lies still dries up, 54 He who blows in the fire will get sparks in his eyes, 182 He who blows upon dust fills his eyes with it, 86 He who brings bad tidings comes soon enough, 185 He who brings is welcome, 179 He who builds a house in the market-place, builds either too high or too low, 81 He who builds a house, or marries, is left with a lank purse, 201 He who builds according to every man’s advice will have a crooked house, 379 He who builds by the roadside has many masters (or surveyors), 179, 308 He who builds on another’s ground loses his stone and mortar, 80 He who builds on the public way must let the people have their say, 179 He who burns his posteriors must sit on blisters, 311 He who buys a horse buys care, 247 He who buys a house gets many a plank and nail for nothing, 181 He who buys and sells does not feel what he spends, 247 He who buys betimes buys cheaply, 79 He who buys by the pennyworth keeps his own house and other men’s too, 87 He who buys the broom can also buy the handle, 79 He who buys what he don’t want, will soon sell what he does want, 79, 183 He who can give has many a good neighbour, 49 He who can lick can bite, 51 He who can sit upon a stone and feed himself should not move, 377 He who can wait obtains what he wishes, 78 He who cannot help may hinder, 184 He who cannot paint must grind the colours, 184 He who cannot pay with his purse must pay with his hide, 184 He who cannot revenge himself is weak, he who will not is contemptible, 84 He who cannot speak well of his trade does not understand it, 51 He who can’t get bacon must be content with cabbage, 376 He who carries nothing loses nothing, 52 He who carries one burden will soon carry a hundred, 52 He who catches one fish is a fisherman, 251 He who chastises one threatens a hundred, 86 He who cheats a cheat and robs a thief, earns a dispensation for 100 years, 181 He who chooses takes the worst (Pick and choose and take the worst), 49 He who climbs too high is near a fall, 65 He who comes first grinds first, 251 He who comes first to the mill is first served, 378 He who conceits himself wise, has an ass near at hand, 183 He who dances well goes from wedding to wedding, 246 He who decries (or finds fault, or disparages) wants to buy, 49, 78, 186, 248 He who delays, gathers, 220 He who demands does not command, 79 He who denies all confesses all, 86, 253 He who despises small things seldom grows rich, 398 He who dies not in his twenty-third year, drowns not in his twenty-fourth, and is not slain in his twenty-fifth, may boast of good days, 343 He who digs a pit for others falls into it himself, 179 He who divides gets the worst share, 248 He who does as he likes has no headache, 80 He who does good to you either dies or goes away, 247 He who does no more than another is no better than another, 251 He who does not bait his hook catches nothing (or fishes in vain), 50, 184 He who does not gain, loses, 50 He who does not go (or look) forward, stays behind, 184, 245 He who does not honour his wife, dishonours himself, 246 He who does not improve to-day will grow worse to-morrow, 185 He who does not look before him, must take misfortune for his earnings, 375 He who does not mix with the crowd knows nothing, 251 He who does not open his eyes must open his purse, 180 He who does not pick up a pin cares nothing for his wife, 250 He who does not repair his gutter has a whole house to repair, 250 He who does not show himself, is overlooked, 251 He who does not speak, God does not hear, 251 He who does not tire, achieves, 196 He who does not tire, tires adversity, 51 He who does not (or will not) when he can, cannot when he will, 50, 83, 251 He who does not whip the child does not mend the youth, 250 He who does nothing, does ill, 50 He who does the wrong forgets it, but not he who receives it, 82 He who does what he likes, does not what he ought, 249 He who doth his own business defileth not his fingers, 81 He who doubts nothing knows nothing, 220 He who dresses in others’ clothes will be undressed on the highway, 248 He who eats of the king’s goose will void a feather forty years after, 50 He who eats pears with his master should not choose the best, 82 He who eats the king’s cow lean, pays for it fat, 50, 249 He who eats the meat let him pick the bone, 247 He who eats and puts by, has sufficient for two meals, 247 He who envies, suffers, 184 He who esteems none but himself is as happy as a king, 84 He who excuses himself accuses himself, 53, 86, 310 He who fain would marry, in choice should not tarry, 182 He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear, 49 He who feeds a wolf, strengthens his enemy, 376 He who feeds the hen ought to have the egg, 355 He who finds fault wants to buy, 186, 248 (See He who decries, &c.) He who finds what has not been lost, will chance to die before he is ill, 181 He who flees, proves himself guilty, 376 He who follows the crowd has many companions, 180 He who forces love where none is found, remains a fool the whole year round, 183 He who gets out of debt enriches himself, 52 He who gives to the public, gives to no one, 249 He who gives bread to others’ dogs is often barked at by his own, 79 He who gives, must take (meaning a joke), 179 He who gives quickly, gives doubly, 179 (See He gives twice) He who gives to the poor, lends to the Lord, 180, 343 He who goes abroad by day has no need of a lantern, 51 He who goes everywhere gains everywhere, 51 He who goes far from home to marry, goes either to deceive or be deceived, 249 He who goes to bed with dogs, will wake up with fleas, 183, 310 He who goes to collect wool may come back shorn, 54 He who goes to the mill gets befloured, 86 He who goes with wolves learns to howl, 247 He who grasps at all, holds nothing fast (or loses all), 179, 253 He who grasps too much holds little (or nothing) fast, 53, 86, 250 He who grasps too much lets much fall, 186 He who greases his cart-wheels helps his oxen, 252 He who guesses well prophesies well, 78 He who handles pitch, besmears himself, 184 He who hangs out a branch wants to sell his wine, 252 He who has a bad name is half hanged, 81 He who has a bad tongue should have good loins, 82 He who has a bad wife can expect no happiness, 201 He who has a companion has a master, 48 He who has a glass roof should not (or must not) throw stones at his neighbour’s (or others’), 82, 181, 253, 299, 352 He who has a good horse in his stable may go on foot, 81 He who has a good neighbour has a good morning, 81, 182, 379 He who has a good nest, finds good friends, 293 He who has a good wife can bear any evil, 201 He who has a handsome wife, a castle on the frontier, or a vineyard on the roadside, is never without war, 197 He who has a head won’t want for a hat, 66 He who has a mate has a master, 81 He who has a son grown up should not call another a thief, 253 He who has a straw tail is always in fear of its catching fire, 81 He who has a tongue, may go to Rome, 82, 250 He who has a trade may travel through the world, 253 He who has a white horse and a fair wife is seldom without trouble, 376 He who has bad neighbours is fain to praise himself, 355 He who has been bitten by a snake is afraid of an eel, 355 He who has been first a novice and then an abbot, knows what the boys do behind the altar, 220 He who has been stung by a scorpion is afraid of its shadow, 248 He who has been stung by a serpent is afraid of a lizard, 79 He who has both money and bread may choose with whom his daughter to wed, 248 He who has but one coat cannot lend it, 251 He who has crossed the ford knows how deep it is, 82 He who has daughters is always a shepherd, 47 He who has daughters to marry, let him give them silk to spin, 253 He who has drunk will drink, 48 He who has enemies, let him not sleep, 253 He who has four and spends five, has no need of a purse, 253, 299 He who has his purse full preaches to the poor man, 48 He who has land has war, 82 He who has left a rogue behind him has made a good day’s journey, 180 He who has loaves has dogs, 81 He who has lost his oxen is always hearing bells, 247 He who has lost his reputation is a dead man among the living, 249 He who has many irons in the fire will let some of them burn, 376 He who has money has capers, 48 He who has money to throw away, let him employ workmen, and not stand by, 81 He who has no falcon must hunt with owls, 377 He who has no head wants no hat, 224 He who has no house of his own is everywhere at home, 220 He who has no voice in the valley will have none in the council, 250 He who has no wife, is for thrashing her daily; but he that has one, takes care of her, 220 He who has not health has nothing, 50 He who has not tasted bitter knows not what sweet is, 184 He who has nothing fears nothing, 50 He who has once burnt his mouth always blows his soup, 185 He who has once invited the devil into his house will never be rid of him, 180 He who has one foot in a brothel has the other in an hospital, 180 He who has plenty of butter may put some in his cabbage, 378 He who has scalded himself once blows the next time, 86 He who has servants has unavoidable enemies, 249 He who has sheep has fleeces, 220 He who has teeth has no bread, and he who has bread has no teeth, 81 He who has the luck brings home the bride, 186 He who has the Pope for his cousin may soon be a Cardinal, 180 He who has three enemies must agree with two, 180 He who has to deal with a blockhead has need of much brains, 247 He who has to do with foxes must look after his hen-roost, 183 He who has two masters to serve must lie to one of them, 245 He who has victory has right, 180 He who hath an ill name is half hanged (Give a dog an ill name, and you may as well hang him), 80 He who hath ears to hear, let him hear, 184 He who heeds not the lost shoe-nail will soon lose the horse, 180 He who helps everybody helps nobody, 252 He who herds with wolves learns to howl, 87, 183, 377 (See He who kennels) He who holds his tongue does not commit himself, 50 He who holds the handle of the frying-pan turns it as he pleases, 53 He who holds the ladder is as bad as the thief, 180 He who holds the thread holds the ball, 53 He who hunts after bargains will scratch his head (Catalan), 245 He who hunts two hares at once catches neither, 49, 186, 343 He who hunts two hares from one bush is not likely to catch either, 352 He who hunts two hares does not catch the one, and lets the other escape, 80 He who hunts with cats will catch mice, 377 He who inherits a farthing is expected to disburse a dollar, 181 He who is afraid of doing too much always does too little, 181 He who is afraid of leaves must not go into the wood, 82, 311 He who is always drinking and stuffing will in time become a ragamuffin, 179 He who is an ass and thinks himself a stag, finds his mistake when he comes to leap the ditch, 78 He who is ashamed of asking is ashamed of learning, 375 He who is at sea does not direct the winds, 49, 310 He who is born to misfortune stumbles as he goes, and though he fall on his back will fracture his nose, 186 He who is embarked with the devil must make the passage with him, 80, 310 He who is everybody’s friend is either very poor or very rich, 248 He who is everywhere is nowhere, 373 He who is far from home is near to harm, 376 He who is feared by many fears many, 177 He who is feared gets more than his own, 201 He who is fed by another’s hand seldom gets enough, 356 He who is guilty believes that all men speak ill of him, 80 He who is his own teacher has a fool for his pupil, 185 He who is in hell knows not what heaven is, 80 He who is in the mud likes to pull another into it, 219 He who is judge between two friends loses one of them, 49, 186 He who is meant to be a basket-carrier is born with the handle in his hand, 81 He who is not for me is against me, 184 He who is of no use to himself is of no use to any one, 185, 353 He who is of the craft can discourse about it, 80 He who is quick at borrowing is slow in paying, 182 He who is scared by words has no heart for deeds, 379 He who is silent gains store, 247 He who is surety for another pays for him, 311 He who is the cause of his own misfortune may bewail it himself, 80 He who is unable is always willing, 84 He who is under cover when it rains is a great fool if he stirs, 80 He who is well prepared has half won the battle, 279 He who is without debt is without credit, 83 He who keeps his own secret avoids much mischief, 249 He who kennels with wolves must howl, 49 (See He who herds) He who knows a knave makes no bid for him, 379 He who knows but little tells it quickly (or soon), 85, 251, 292 He who knows how to beg may leave his money at home, 356 He who knows nothing knows enough, if he knows when to be silent, 73 He who knows nothing never doubts, 83 He who knows the road can ride full trot, 85 He who laid a snare for me has fallen into it, 249 He who laughs last laughs best, 55, 124, 186, 354 He who laughs overmuch may have an aching heart, 67 He who lends to the poor, gets his interest from God, 180 He who lets the goat be laid on his shoulders is soon after forced to carry the cow, 86 He who lies down in (or mixes himself with) the wash will be eaten by swine, 344, 379 He who lies in the grave is well lodged, 182 He who lies on the ground must expect to be trodden on, 179 He who likes drinking is always talking of wine, 67 He who listens at doors hears more than he desires, 49 He who lives among wolves learns to howl, 87 (See He who herds) He who lives by the church should serve the church, 181 He who lives in hopes, breakfasts ill and sups worse, 246 He who lives long knows what pain is, 54 He who lives on hope dies of hunger, 186 He who lives without restraint, will die without honour, 376 He who looks demurely trust not with your money, 251 He who looks not before finds himself behind, 51 He who looks on has two-thirds of the game, 86 He who looks on knows more of the game than he who plays, 180 He who loses his temper is in the wrong, 52 He who loses is always in fault, 85 He who loses, sins, 51 He who loves Bertrand loves his dog (Love me, love my dog), 246 He who loves Peter won’t harm his dog, 246 He who loves sorrow, will always find something to mourn over, 379 He who loves well is slow to forget, 246 He who loves well, obeys well, 246 He who made fun of the old man, laughed at first and cried afterwards, 247 He who makes a law should keep it, 220 He who makes a mouse of himself, will be eaten by the cats (This is a pun; sich mausig machen means to swagger or assume undue importance), 185 He who makes himself a dove is eaten by the hawk, 79 He who makes himself a servant is expected to remain a servant, 85 He who makes himself honey will be eaten by the bees (or the flies), 185, 311 He who makes himself nothing, is nothing, 184 He who makes light of his enemy dies by his hand, 246 He who makes more of you than he is wont, either means to cheat you or wants you, 299 He who makes one basket can make a hundred, 272 He who marries a widow with three children, marries four thieves, 352 He who marries does well, but who remains single does better, 182 He who marries for love has good nights and bad days, 52 He who marries ill, is long in becoming widowed, 250 He who measures oil greases his hands, 248 He who mixes himself with the draff will be eaten by the swine, 344, 379 He who never budges from Paris will never be Pope, 53 He who passes a winter’s day passes one of his mortal enemies, 51 He who pays his debts, betters his condition, 185 He who pays is fairly entitled to speak his mind, 51 He who pays well is master of another man’s purse, 76, 101, 305 He who pays well is well served, 51 He who pays well may borrow again, 182 He who peeps through a hole will discover his dole (Harm watch, harm catch), 245 He who pitches too high won’t get through his song, 182 He who plants fruit-trees must not count upon the fruit, 342 He who plays with a sword plays with the devil (Galician), 245 He who pledges or promises runs in debt, 249 He who ploughs with young oxen makes crooked furrows, 183 He who pours water hastily into a bottle spills more than goes in, 248 He who praises himself befouls himself, 86 He who praises himself must have bad neighbours, 185 He who praises in prÆsentia, and abuses in absentia, have with him pestilentia, 181 He who prates much, lies much, 186 He who prizes little things, is worthy of great ones, 179 He who promises incurs a debt, 251 He who puts by for the night, puts by for the cat, 354 He who quits his place loses it, 52 He who receives the offerings let him ring the bells, 250 He who recovers but the tail of his cow does not lose all, 51 He who reforms, God assists, 252 He who remains in the mill grinds, not he who goes to and fro, 220 He who rides behind another does not saddle when he will, 253 He who rides on the giant’s shoulders sees further than he who carries him, 10 He who rides the horse is his master, 354 He who rides the mule shoes her, 50 He who rises early will gather wisdom, 376 He who risks nothing can gain nothing (Nothing venture, nothing have), 84 He who saves, finds, 247 He who saves in little things, can be liberal in great ones, 182 He who says nothing never lies, 83 He who says what he likes, must hear what he does not like, 185, 248, 356 He who seeks, finds, 247 He who sees leather cut asks for a thong, 49 He who serves is not free, 252 He who serves many masters must neglect some, 246 He who serves two masters must lie to one of them, 80 He who serves the people has a bad master, 180 He who serves the public has a sorry (or fickle) master, 85, 308 He who shoots often, hits at last, 184 He who sings drives away sorrow, 78 He who slanders his neighbour makes a rod for himself, 344 He who sleeps alone keeps long cold, two soon warm each other, 185 He who sleeps catches no fish, 79 He who sleeps much, learns little, 250 He who sleeps well does not feel the fleas, 78 He who sows brambles must not go barefoot, 252 He who sows brambles (or thistles) reaps thorns (As you sow, so you shall reap), 53, 245 He who sows hatred shall gather rue, 377 He who sows iniquity shall reap shame, 379 He who sows little, reaps little, 378 He who sows money, will reap poverty, 375 He who sows peas on the highway does not get all the pods into his barn, 377 He who sows well, reaps well, 247 He who spares vice wrongs virtue, 49, 180 He who speaks ill of himself is praised by no one, 379 He who spits above himself will have it fall on his face, 246 (See Who spits) He who stands godfather to a wolf should have a dog under his cloak, 179 He who stands high is seen from afar, 377 He who stands near the woodcutter is likely to be hit by a splinter, 377 He who steals once is never trusty, 253 He who stops at every stone never gets to his journey’s end, 52 He who stops half way is only half in error, 179 He who strikes another on the neck, does not strike far from the head, 377 He who strives to do, does more than he who has the power, 231 He who succeeds is reputed wise, 66 He who suspects is seldom at fault, 82 He who swears is a liar, 81 He who takes a wife takes a master, 52 He who takes the child by the hand, takes the mother by the heart, 377 He who takes no care of little things, will not have the care of great ones, 187 He who takes the wrong road must make his journey again, 246 He who talks much is sometimes right, 250 He who tastes every man’s broth often burns his mouth, 378 He who tells his own secret will hardly keep another’s, 79, 248 He who threatens is afraid, 50 He who threatens to strike, and does not, is afraid, 246 He who throws away money with his hands will seek it with his feet, 78 He who throws himself under the bench will be left to lie there, 356 He who tickles himself, laughs when he likes, 185, 309, 379 He who torments others does not sleep well, 53 He who touches pitch defiles himself, 86, 379 He who travels with hope, has poverty for his coachman, 183 He who treads on eggs, must tread lightly, 181 He who trifles with his enemy dies by his hand, 219 He who trusts a woman and leads an ass will never be free from plague, 49 He who turns aside avoids danger, 52 He who waits for a dead man’s shoes is in danger of going barefoot, 48, 352 He who waits for another man’s trencher often dines in imagination (or with Duke Humphrey), 52 He who waits for another’s platter has a cold meal (Catalan), 254 He who wants a good deal must not ask for a little, 87 He who wants a mule without fault must walk on foot, 252 He who wants his dog killed has only to say he’s mad, 87, 246 He who wants to be rich in a year comes to the gallows in half a year, 54, 87, 248 He who wants to catch fish must not mind a wetting, 251 He who wants to travel far takes care of his beast, 54 He who was born to be hanged will not be drowned, unless the water go over the gallows, 373 He who was born to pennies, will never be master of dollars, 376 He who whispers, lies, 375 He who will have eggs must bear with the cackling, 181 He who will not obey father, will have to obey stepfather, 355 He who will not serve one master must needs serve many, 84 He who will not take cheap advice, will have to buy dear repentance, 377 He who wipes the child’s nose, means to kiss the mother’s cheek, 180 He who won’t be advised, can’t be helped, 177 He who works on the highway will have many advisers, 248 (See He that builds) He who would be everywhere will be nowhere, 353 He who would be long an old man must begin betimes, 87 He who would buy a sausage of a dog must give him bacon in exchange, 378 He who would catch a rogue must watch behind the door, 343 He who would catch fish must not mind wetting himself, 292 He who would cheat a peasant, must take one with him, 181, 308 He who would cheat the fox must rise early, 249 He who would climb the ladder must begin at the bottom, 180 He who would close another man’s mouth, should first tie up his own, 377 He who would drive another over three dikes must climb over two himself, 356 He who would eat the kernel, must crack the shell (or nut), 377, 378 He who would enjoy the feast should fast on the eve, 87 He who would enjoy the fire must bear the smoke, 378 He who would gather honey must brave the sting of bees, 308 He who would gather roses, must not fear thorns, 343 He who would go further than his horse, must alight and go on foot, 186 He who would hang himself is sure to find a rope, 375 He who would have clear water should go to the fountain head, 87 He who would have good cabbage must pay its price, 377 He who would leap high must take a long run, 379 He who would live at Rome must not quarrel with the Pope, 54 He who would make a fool of himself will find many to help him, 377 He who would make a golden door (or gate) must add a nail to it daily, 54, 308 He who would not go to hell, must not go to court, 376 He who would prosper in peace, must suffer in silence, 183 He who would relish his food must not see it cooked, 87 He who would rest must work, 88 He who would rule, must hear and be deaf, see and be blind, 185 He who would save should begin with the mouth, 378 He who would seek revenge must be on his own guard, 379 He who would serve everybody gets thanks from nobody, 376 He who would steal honey, must not be afraid of bees, 378 He who would stop every man’s mouth must have a great deal of meal, 98 (See He need have) He who would succeed at court, must lie sometimes low, sometimes high, 186 He who would take, must give, 252 He who would the daughter win, with the mother must begin, 180 He who would thrive must follow the church, the sea, or the king’s service, 251 He who would travel through the land, must go with open purse in hand, 311 He whose house is tiled with glass should not throw stones at his neighbour’s, 220 (See He who lives) He whose mistress squints, says she ogles, 187 He will never get into the wood who starts at every bush, 373 (See He that examines) He will not lose his oats for want of braying, 24 He would be a good one to send for death, 95 He would be wise who knew all things beforehand, 327 He would bite a cent in two, 328 He would break his neck against a straw, 126 He would drown in a spoonful of water, 125 He would not give the devil a knife to cut his throat, 112 He would rather have a bumper in hand than a Bible, 326 He would sell even his share of the sun, 96 He would slaughter a bug to drink its blood, 96 He wriggles like an eel, 327 Health and cheerfulness make beauty; finery and cosmetics cost money and lie, 255 Health without money is a half-malady, 125 Hear first, and speak afterwards, 222 Hear one man before you answer; hear several before you decide, 375 Hear, see, and say nothing if you would live in peace, 44, 116, 290 Hear the other side, and believe little, 116 Hearsay is half lies, 153, 329 Heavy purses and light hearts can sustain much, 345 Hedgehogs are not to be killed with the fist, 287 Hedges have no eyes, but they have ears, 109 Hell is paved with (or full of) good intentions, 91, 218, 274 Help is good everywhere, except in the porridge-bowl, 374 Help yourself and God will help you, 321, 374 Hens like to lay where they see an egg, 305 Herod and Pilate are good friends, 152 Herring in the land, the doctor at a stand, 321 Hide not the truth from your confessor, your doctor, or your lawyer, 69 Hide not your light under a bushel, 160 High birth is a poor dish on the table, 106 High houses are mostly empty in the upper story, 152 High trees give more shadow than fruit, 328 Him who errs, forgive once, but never twice, 197 Hired horses make short miles, 319 His bread fell into the honey, 208 His hens lay eggs with two yolks, 168 His horse’s head is too big, it cannot get out of the stable, 57 His money takes the place of wisdom, 345 Hobby horses are dearer than Arabians, 170 Hold your dog in readiness before you start the hare, 305 Home, dear home, small as thou art, to me thou art a palace, 77 Honest Nobody is to blame for all, 139 Honest poverty is thinly sown, 20 Honesty lasts longest (Honesty is the best policy), 142 Honey is not for asses (or the ass’s mouth), 32, 237, 285 Honey is sweet, but the bee stings, 32, 305 Honeyed speech often conceals poison and gall, 400 Honour a good man that he may honour you, and a bad man that he may not dishonour you, 279 Honour and profit will not keep in one sack, 279 Honour blossoms on the grave, 20 Honour once lost never returns, 341 Honour the old, teach the young, 354 Honour the tree that gives you shelter, 389 Honours change manners, 35, 99, 304 Hope and expectation are a fool’s income, 372 Hope is an egg of which one man gets the yolk, another the white, and a third the shell, 372 Hope is the dream of the waking, 372 Horse, don’t die yet, grass is coming, 40 Horses run after benefices, and asses get them, 34 Hour by hour time departs, 68 How can the cat help it if the maid be a fool?, 77 How did you rear so many children? By being fondest of the little ones, 272 How easily a hair gets into the butter!, 187 How many daily read the Word, and yet from vice are not deterred (How many daily read the Bible, and yet pursue their course of evil), 188 How shall the enemy of the bride speak well of the wedding?, 219 How we apples swim! said the horse-t—d, 344 However bright the sun may shine, leave not your cloak at home, 242 However foul it be, never say, Of this water I will not drink, 242 However high a bird may soar, it seeks its food on earth, 369 Hunger and cold surrender a man to his enemy, 224, 278 Hunger changes beans into almonds, 106 Hunger drives the wolf out of the wood, 28, 106, 138, 329 Hunger eats through stone walls, 329 Hunger is the best cook, 153 Hunger is the best sauce, 1, 106, 329, 380 Hunger looks in at the industrious man’s door but dares not enter, 28 Hungry flies bite sore, 153, 332 Husband, don’t see; wife, be blind, 231 Husband, you are a cuckold: wife, who told you so?, 209 Hush, brideswoman, I knew all that before, 198 Hussars pray for war, and the doctor for fever, 153 I. I a lazy lout, you a lazy lout, marry me, Antonia, 262 “I am a judge of cresses,” said the peasant, as he was eating hemlock, 382 I am like you and you like me, the devil united us, 262 I am neither at the ford nor the bridge, 230 I am not here to catch flies, 329 I am on good terms with the friend who eats his bread with me, 269 I being satisfied, the world is satisfied, 89 I broke my leg, perhaps for my good, 245 I can see as far into a mill-stone as another man, 153 I do not tell thee what thou art, thou wilt tell it thyself, 235 I don’t count them to you, wife, but a hog makes twelve puddings, 233 I don’t want it, I don’t want it, but put it into my hood, 236 I hate fetters though they be of gold, 267 I have a good jacket in France, 206 I have a mouth which I feed, it must speak what I please, 329 “I have had” is a poor man, 151 “I have” is a better bird than “If I had,” 151 I have nothing for dinner, sit down to table, 286 I kiss thee, hide, because thou art to be a wine-bag, 268 I know by my own pot how the others boil, 28 I know well what I say when I ask for bread, 205 I know what I know, but will say nothing about it, 262 I left what I knew for what I heard praised, and repented, 241 “I’ll go myself,” and “I’ll see to it,” are two good servants on a farm, 369 I’ll marry, and eat the prime of the pot, and sit down first, 208 I’ll sleep on it, 329 I may go over my reckoning, but not over my time, 329 I meant to cross (or bless) myself and put out one of my eyes, 239, 278 I mistress and you miss, who is to sweep the house?, 262 I neither give nor take, like a Jew on the Sabbath, 230 I never saw a silent rich man, 28 I never was satisfied with “I will, I will.” One “take this” is better than two “I will give you,” 211 I renounce the friend who eats what is mine with me, and what is his own by himself, 267 I renounce the golden basin in which I have to spit blood, 267 I saw a man, who saw another man, who saw the sea, 295 I saw you at Lucca, I knew you at Pisa, 70 I say it to you, daughter; hear it, daughter-in-law, 91, 203 I see by my daughter’s face when the devil lays hold of my son-in-law, 287 I see by my mother-in-law’s eyes when the devil takes hold of her (Galician), 237 I stubborn and you stubborn, who is to carry the load?, 262 I thought I had no husband, and I eat up the stew, 240 I thought to cross (or bless) myself, and put out my eye, 239, 278 I too can lead the geese to water when it rains, 72 I want more for my teeth than for my relations, 281 I want no drones in my beehive (So Shakspeare, “Drones hive not with me.”—Shylock), 153 I will do what I can, and a little less, to be able to continue at it, 98 “I will not bite any dog,” says the shepherd’s dog, “for I must save my teeth for the wolf,” 153 I will win the horse or lose the saddle, 153 I would rather have a dog my friend than enemy, 153 I would rather see smoke from my own chimney than the fire on another’s hearth, 374 Idleness is hunger’s mother, and of theft it is full brother, 331 Idleness is the devil’s bolster, 384 Idleness is the root of all evil, 162 If a beard were all, the goat would be the winner, 402 If a man has folly in his sleeve, it will be sure to peep out, 376 If a man would know what he is, let him anger his neighbours, 186 If a man would learn to pray let him go often to sea, 54 If a poor man gives to you, he expects more in return, 294 If envy were a fever, all the world would be ill, 402 If every one were wise, a fool would be the prize, 174 If folly were a pain, there would be groaning in every house, 257 If fools ate no bread, corn would be cheap, 178, 345 If God bids thee draw, he will find thee a rope; if he bids thee ride, he will find thee a horse, 349 If God gives not bushelfuls, he gives spoonfuls, 371 If he waits long enough, the world will be his own, 299 If I am a fool, put your finger in my mouth, 258 If I am seen, I am joking; if I am not seen, I steal, 169 If I am to be drowned, it shall be in clean water, 169 If I have lost the ring I still have the fingers, 125, 258 “If I rest, I rust,” says the key, 166 If I sleep, I sleep for myself; if I work, I know not for whom, 126 If I went to sea I should find it dry, 125 If it is to be luck, the bull may as well calve as the cow, 391 If it only depends on swearing, the cow is ours, 56 If it rained maccaroni, what a fine time for gluttons!, 126 If lies are to find belief, they must be patched with truth, 397 If lies were Latin, there would be many learned men, 403 If one, two, three say you are an ass, put on a tail, 258 If one won’t another will, 330 If pride were an art, how many doctors we should have, 125 If some men know who some men were, then some would pay the more honour there, 178 If the beard were all, the goat might preach, 357 If the bitch were not in such haste, she would not litter blind puppies, 142 If the child cries, let the mother hush it, and if it will not be hushed, let it cry, 257 If the eyes don’t see, the heart won’t break, 238 If the hen did not cackle, no one would know what she had been about, 357 If the hen had not cackled we should not know she had laid an egg, 126 If the landlady is fair, the wind is fair, 154 If the mountain will not go to Mahomet, Mahomet must go to the mountain, 257 If the pitcher knocks against a stone, woe to the pitcher; and if the stone knocks against the pitcher, woe to the pitcher, 257 If the prince wants an apple, his servants take the tree, 177 If the rings are lost, here are the fingers still, 125, 258 If the servant grows rich and the master poor, they are both good for nothing, 177 If the sky falls, hold up your hands, 256 If the sky falls there will be pots broken, 256 If the sky were to fall we should catch plenty of larks, 56 If the sun shines on me I care not for the moon, 125 If the weather is fine, put on your cloak; if it rains, do as you please, 56 If the wife sins, the husband is not innocent, 125 If the wolf had stayed in the wood there would have been no hue and cry after him, 136 If the wolf would cease his running, the people would cease their shouting, 159 If the young man knew, if the old man could, there is nothing but would be done, 125 If there be a hell, Rome is built over it, 178 If there were no receiver there would be no thief, 236 If this ball does not stick to the wall, it will at least leave a mark, 257 If thou touchest pitch thou shalt be defiled, 321 (See He who touches) If thoughts were legal witnesses, many an honest man would be proved a rogue, 402 If we pay for the music we will join in the dance, 56, 136 If wishes were true, shepherds would be kings (If wishes would bide, beggars would ride), 57 If wood-hewing were an order, there would be fewer monks, 174 If you are a mouse don’t follow frogs, 126 If you are an anvil, be patient; if you are a hammer, strike hard, 136 If you cannot get the bird, get one of its feathers, 367 If you cannot heal the wound, do not tear it open, 363 If you cannot say it, point to it with your finger, 57 If you can’t bite, don’t show your teeth, 126 If you can’t get it in bushels, take it in spoonfuls, 152 If you eat it up at supper, you cannot have it at breakfast, 257 If you have a friend who is a doctor, make your bow and send him to the house of your enemy, 258 If you have a friend who is a physician, send him to the house of your enemy, 294 If you have a loitering servant, set his dinner before him and send him on an errand, 197 If you have a sore eye wipe it with your elbow (Elbow-grease is a great preventive of disease), 32 If you have learnt to wait, you may be Queen of Sweden, 374 If you have no arrows in your quiver, go not with archers, 152 “If you have no money, turn placeman!” as the court fool said to his prince, 152 If you let them put the calf on your shoulders, it will not be long before they clap on the cow, 126 If you listen at a hole, you will hear ill of yourself as well as others, 222 If you love me, John, your acts will tell me so, 256 If you pay what you owe, what you’re worth you’ll know, 238 If you pull one pig by the tail all the rest squeak, 339 If you want clear water, draw it from the spring, 294 If you want fire, look for it in the ashes, 181 If you want to be dead, wash your head and go to bed, 257 If you want to be revenged, hold your tongue, 256 If you want to beat a dog, say he eat your iron, 239 If you want to know secrets, seek for them in trouble or in pleasure, 257 If you want to know what a ducat (or dollar) is worth, try to borrow one, 257, 294 If you want to thrash your wife, ask her for a drink of water in the sun, 257 (i.e. to find fault with its impurity) If you will stir up the mire, you must bear the smell, 379 If you wish to be well served, serve yourself, 257, 294 If you would be a good judge, hear what every one says, 294 If you would be healthy, be wise betimes, 294 If you would catch a fox you must hunt with geese, 392 If you would earn (or deserve) fame, let not the sun shine on you (or find you) in bed, 257 If you would grow poor without perceiving it, employ workmen and go to sleep, 294 If you would have the dog follow you, give him bread, 253, 299 If you would have the lamp burn, you must pour oil into it, 169 If you would have your work ill done, pay beforehand, 87 If you would make a thief honest, trust him, 253 If you’ve money, take a seat; if you’ve none, take to your feet, 152 If your head is made of butter, don’t be a baker, 57 (See He who has a head) If youth knew! if age could!, 56 (See If the young man, &c.) Ill befal the belly that forgets eaten bread, 282 Ill begun, ill done, 331 Ill fares the young bird in the urchin’s hand, 282 Ill got, ill spent, 171 Ill-gotten goods never prosper, 172 Ill in kine and worse in beeves, 109 Ill luck comes by pounds and goes away by ounces, 102 Ill luck enters by fathoms and departs by inches, 218 Ill luck is good for something, 5 Ill luck upon ill luck, and a stone for a pillow, 230 Ill-matched horses draw badly, 336 Ill news comes apace (or travels fast), 77, 115 Ill tidings come soon enough, 331 Ill weeds are not hurt by frost, 262, 277 Ill weeds grow apace, 38, 106, 331, 336 Ill weeds grow the fastest and last the longest, 394 In a calm sea every man is a pilot, 177 In a golden sheath a leaden knife, 104 In a smith’s house the knife is wooden, 221 In a wood don’t walk behind another, 242 In at one ear and out at the other, 91, 120, 277 In borrowing an angel, in repaying a devil, 6 In default of bread, meal cakes are good, 265 In eating ’tis good to begin, one morsel helps the other in, 318 In frosty weather a nail is worth a horse, 222 In hawks, hounds, arms, and love, for one pleasure a thousand pains, 16 In hunting and in love you begin when you like, and leave off when you can, 221 In less than a thousand years we shall all be bald, 200 In marriage cheat who can, 17 In men every mortal sin is venial, in women every venial sin is mortal, 68 In my own house I am a king, 232 In old houses many mice, in old furs many lice, 154 In prosperity caution, in adversity patience, 329 In prosperity no altars smoke, 111 In prosperity think of adversity, 330 In small woods may be caught large hares, 329 In still water are the largest fish, 381 In still water the worms are worst, 381 In the division of inheritance friendship standeth still, 329 In the end it will be known who ate the bacon, 2 In the evening one may praise the day, 134 In the fiddler’s (or bagpiper’s) house every one is a dancer, 17, 221 In the fray the weak are strong, 111 In the garden more grows than the gardener sows, 233 In the land of promise a man may die of hunger, 329 In the land of the blind blessed is he that hath one eye, 104 In the land of the blind the one-eyed is a king, 329 In the long run the greyhound kills the hare, 195, 288 In the looking-glass we see the form, in wine the heart, 153 In the report of riches and goodness always bate one half, 211 In the rich woman’s house she always commands; he never, 221 In the tail lies the venom, 3 In the war of love who flies conquers, 111 In time a mouse will gnaw through a cable, 334 In time of war the devil makes more room in hell, 150 In too much disputing truth is lost, 44 In war, hunting, and love, for one pleasure a hundred pains, 279 In war it is best to tie your horse to a strange manger, 380 In war time there is pay for every horse, 104 Incense intoxicates, and every one wishes for it, 33 Industry is the parent of fortune, 148 Ingratitude is the world’s reward, 171 Ingratitude sickens benevolence, 171 Injurious is the gift that takes away freedom, 90 Intemperance is the doctor’s wet-nurse, 172 Invite your son-in-law to a fowl, and he will take away the lemon, 209 Iron may be rubbed so long that it gets heated, 42 Iron not used soon rusts, 278 It befits the king to be liberal, for he is sure of never falling into poverty, 266 It dawns none the sooner for all one’s early rising, 286 It does not become the sparrow to mix in the dance of the cranes, 363 It does not depend upon the dog when the horse shall die, 363 It fares ill with the house when the distaff commands the sword, 209, 282 It flows like a fountain from a broomstick, 325 It goes ill in the house where the hen sings and the cock is silent, 260 It grieveth one dog that the other goeth into the kitchen, 323 It hangs upon a silken thread, 322 It has been blowing hard—the dirt has been blown into high places, 362 It is a bad game where nobody wins, 98 It is a bad hand that refuses to guard the head, 359 It is a bad hen that eats at your house and lays at another’s, 235 It is a bad hen that lays her eggs away from the farm, 359 It is a bad hen that lays in neighbours’ houses, 171 It is a bad horse that does not earn his fodder, 143 It is a bad sheep that is too lazy to carry its own fleece, 361 It is a bad thing to be a knave, but worse to be known for one, 96 It is a bad well into which one must put water, 136, 323, 359 It is a bold mouse that makes her nest in the cat’s ear, 359 It is a good file that cuts iron without making a noise, 75 It is a good horse that never stumbles, 25 It is a great art to laugh at your own misfortunes, 361 It is a grief to one beggar that another stands at the door, 323 It is a hard morsel that chokes, 323 It is a lazy bird that will not build its own nest, 359 It is a long lane that has no turning, 323 It is a loss of soap to wash the ass’s head, 228 It is a poor fox that has but one hole, 145 It is a poor horse that is not worth its oats, 359 It is a poor mouse that has but one hole, 323, 347 It is a poor roast that gives no dripping, 359 It is a sorry house in which the cock is silent and the hen crows, 60, 128 (See It fares ill and It goes ill) It is a wise child that knows its own father, 146, 217, 359 It is all one whether you are bit by a dog or a bitch, 7 It is all one whether you die of sickness or love, 128 It is always good to have two strings to your bow, 97 It is always well to keep hold of your horse’s bridle, 21 It is an ill bird that fouls its own nest, 146, 201, 267 It is an ill turn that does no good to any one, 359 It is approved alchemy to have an income and spend nothing, 198, 265 It is as bad to spit out the fire and be shamed, as it is to swallow it and be burnt, 362 It is as well to be naked as to have no covering, 361 It is bad baking without flour and water, 165 It is bad for puppies to play with bear-cubs, 380 It is bad iron in which there is no steel, 361 It is bad marketing with empty pockets, 334 It is bad preaching to deaf ears, 170 It is bad to be between two fires, 361 It is bad to have a servant, but worse to have a master, 282 It is bad to lean against a falling wall, 394 It is best to play with equals, 384 It is better the child should cry than the father, 146 It is better to be the first of one’s race than the last (meanest), 27 It is better to be the hammer than the anvil, 27 It is better to bend than break, 27 It is better to blow than burn your mouth, 322 It is better to buy dearly than to hunger direly, 350 It is better to deal with a whole fool than half a fool, 146 It is better to have a husband without love than jealous, 110 It is better to have to do with God than with his saints, 26 It is better to hear the nightingale sing than the mouse gnaw, 97 It is better to irritate a dog than an old woman, 97 It is better to leap over the ditch than trust to the pleadings of good men, 232 It is better to leave than to lack, 96 It is better to leave the child’s nose dirty than wring it off, 22 It is better to lose than lose more (The first loss is the best), 232 It is better to make conditions in the bush than in prison, 349 It is better to scrape the cheese than to peel it, 363 It is better to strive with a stubborn ass than to carry the wood on one’s back, 231 It is better to turn back than go astray, 171 It is bitter fare to eat one’s own words, 360 It is courage that vanquishes in war, and not good weapons, 199 It is cowardly to fly from a living enemy, or to abuse a dead one, 384 It is dangerous to eat cherries with the great, they throw the stones at your head, 359 It is dear-bought butter that is licked off a woolcomb, 358 It is dear honey that must be licked off thorns, 170 It is difficult to get many heads under one hat, 361 It is difficult to hide what everybody knows, 361 It is difficult to spit honey out of a mouth full of gall, 361 It is difficult to tie an unborn horse to the manger, 372 It is difficult to trap an old fox, 394 It is easier to blame than do better, 170 It is easier to build two hearths than always to keep a fire on one, 146 It is easier to fill a rogue’s belly than his eyes, 386 It is easier to get away from the bank than the bottom, 21 It is easier to guard against a bushel of fleas than a woman, 146 It is easier to make a lady of a peasant-girl than a peasant-girl of a lady, 332 It is easier to stem the brook than the river, 349 It is easy robbing when the dog is quieted, 121 It is easy to be generous out of another man’s purse, 323, 360 It is easy to bid the devil be your guest, but difficult to get rid of him, 361 It is easy to cut thongs from other men’s leather, 324 (See Good thongs) It is easy to find a stick to beat a dog, 98, 332 It is easy to find the rod when another finds the bottom, 361 It is easy to give advice when all goes well, 122 It is easy to help him who is willing to be helped, 185 It is easy to manage when fortune favours, 360 It is easy to poke another man’s fire, 360 It is easy to preach fasting with a full belly, 95 It is easy to sit at the helm in fine weather, 371 It is easy to stride a tree when it is down, 361 It is easy to swim, when another holds up your head, 360 It is easy to threaten a bull from a window, 95 “It is easy to work with a good comb,” said the devil, when he combed his mother’s hair with a pitchfork, 360 It is fair and just to cheat the cheater, 225 It is folly to drown on dry land, 358 It is folly to fear what one cannot avoid, 351 It is folly to gape against an oven, 11, 361 It is folly to sing twice to a deaf man, 358 It is folly to take a thorn out of another’s foot and put it into your own, 358 It is good fishing in troubled waters, 43, 202, 329 It is good living under the shadow of the belfry, 126 It is good rowing with set sail, 336 It is good sailing with wind and tide, 341 It is good speaking that improves good silence, 323 It is good spinning from another’s yarn, 324 It is good to be a priest at Easter, child in Lent, peasant at Christmas, and foal in harvest-time, 360 It is good to beat a proud man when he is alone, 21 It is good to buy when another wants to sell, 95 It is good to go afoot when one is tired of riding, 324 It is good to have friends everywhere, 21, 95 It is good to hold the clothes of one who is swimming, 95 It is good to lend to God and to the soil—they pay good interest, 360 It is good to sleep in a whole skin, 134, 323, 360 It is good to warm oneself by another’s fire, 324 It is hard to blow with a full mouth, 334 It is hard to catch birds with an empty hand, 162 It is hard to catch hares with unwilling hounds, 334 It is hard to find a pin in the dark, 324 It is hard to glean after a niggardly husbandman, 394 It is hard to labour with an empty belly, 362 It is hard to lure hawks with empty hands, 361 It is hard to make a fire on a cold hearth, 361 It is hard to pay for bread that has been eaten, 395 It is hard to please every one, 317 It is hard to sail without wind, and to grind without water, 394 It is hard to steal where the host himself is a thief, 146, 324 (See It is not easy) It is hard to swim against the stream, 338 It is hard to teach an old dog tricks, 361 It is hard to teach old dogs to bark, 137, 336 It is hard to track the path the ship follows in the ocean, 356 It is harder work getting to hell than to heaven, 154 It is ill catching hares with drums, 324 It is ill sailing against wind and tide, 338 It is in putting it into the oven that the loaf is made crooked, 196 It is in vain for a man to rise early who has the repute of lying in bed all the morning, 20 It is in vain to cast nets in a river where there are no fish, 221 It is in vain to lay a net in sight of the birds, 104 It is in vain to lead the ox to the water if he is not thirsty, 41 It is just that the priest should live by the altar, 21 It is loving too much to die of love, 12 It is more necessary to guard the mouth than the chest, 146 It is no child’s play when an old woman dances, 146, 358 It is no honour for an eagle to vanquish a dove, 112 It is no time to play chess when the house is on fire, 112 It is no use hiding from a friend what is known to an enemy, 362 It is not all gold that glitters, 358 It is not all who turn their backs that flee, 352 It is not always good to be wise, 176 It is not easy to guard the hen that lays her eggs abroad, 361 It is not easy to know your butter in another man’s cabbage, 360 It is not easy to pluck hairs from a bald pate, 361 It is not easy to show the way to a blind man, 68 It is not easy to steal in thieves’ houses, 96 (See It is hard to steal) It is not easy to sting a bear with a straw, 360 It is not easy to walk upon the devil’s ice, 360 It is not enough to aim, you must hit, 91 It is not enough to have cabbage, one must have something to grease it, 10 It is not enough to know how to steal, one must know also how to conceal, 111 It is not enough to run; one must start in time, 11 It is not every flower that smells sweet, 113 It is not every hog that the crow will ride, 359 It is not every man that can carry a falcon on his hand, 360 It is not every one who takes the right sow by the ear, 360 “It is not for my own sake,” said the fox, “that I say there is a good goose-green in the wood,” 382 It is not for nothing that the devil lays himself down in the ditch, 360 It is not for the good of the cow when she is driven in a carriage, 358 It is not for the swan to teach eaglets to sing, 358 It is not good to be the poet of a village, 146 It is not in the pilot’s power to prevent the wind from blowing, 235 It is not necessary to fish up every bucket that falls into the well, 112 It is not the big oxen that do the best day’s work, 34 It is not the cowl that makes the friar, 305 It is not the fine, but the coarse and ill-spun that breaks, 237 It is not the greatest beauties that inspire the most profound passion, 10 It is not the hen which cackles most that lays most eggs, 322 It is not the load but the overload that kills, 236 It is not the long day, but the heart that does the work, 102 It is not the surplice that makes parson or clerk, 382 It is not till the cow has lost her tail that she discovers its value, 178 It is nothing at all, only a woman drowning, 10 It is nothing, they are only thrashing (or killing) my husband, 235, 285 It is of no use making shoes for geese, 358 It is only at the tree loaded with fruit that people throw stones, 42 It is only good bargains that ruin, 26 It is only the bashful that lose, 26 It is only the blind who ask why they are loved who are fair, 363 It is only the first bottle that is dear, 25 It is pleasant driving where there is no danger of upsetting, 363 It is pleasant enough going afoot when you lead your horse by the bridle, 21 It is pleasant to cut thongs of another man’s leather, 340 (See Good thongs) It’s pleasant to look on the rain, when one stands dry, 323 It is poor comfort for one who has broken his leg, that another has broken his neck, 362 It is prophet-drink (i.e. water), 324 It is safe to lend barley to him who has oats, 353 It is safest sailing within reach of the shore, 301 It is the bait that lures, not the fisherman or the rod, 206, 230 It is the master-wheel that makes the mill go round, 11 It is the nature of the greyhound to carry a long tail, 274 It is the old cow’s notion that she never was a calf, 21 It is the petty expenses that empty the purse, 108 It is the raised stick that makes the dog obey, 375 It is the tone that makes the music, 11 It is time enough to take off your hat when you see the man, 362 It is too late for the bird to scream when it is caught, 60 It is too late to come with water when the house is burnt down, 128 It is too late to cover the well when the child is drowned, 359 It is too late to cry “Hold hard!” when the arrow has left the bow, 324 It is too late to lock the stable door when the steed is stolen, 21, 324 It is too late to throw water on the cinders when the house is burnt down, 359 It is too much to expect of a cat that she should sit by the milk and not lap it, 146 It is truth that makes a man angry, 91 It is useless to gape against an oven, 11, 361 It is vain to fish if the hook is not baited, 104 It is vain to fish without a hook, or learn to read without a book, 368 It is very savoury to eat scot free, 223 It is well to fly low on account of the branches, 8 It is well to have clean bread in one’s wallet, 371 It is well to know how to be silent till it is time to speak, 270 It is well to leave off playing when the game is at its best, 22 It little avails the unfortunate to be brave, 196 It must be a hard winter when one wolf devours another, 363 It needs a cunning hand to shave a fool’s head, 325 It needs a high wall to keep out fear, 357 It needs a light spirit to bear a heavy fate, 357 It needs but slight provocation to make the wolf devour the lamb, 359 It never thunders but it rains, 115 It sticks to his fingers, like the charity-money to the matron, 321 It takes a good many mice to kill a cat, 357 It takes four living men to carry one dead man out of a house, 66 It takes many words to fill a sack, 356 It will all come out in the soap-suds, 259 “It will come back,” said the man, when he gave his sow pork, 362 It will not do to keep holidays before they come, 23 It won’t do to trifle with fire, 23 It would be a very big book that contained all the maybes uttered in a day, 42 Italian devotion and German fasting have no meaning, 403 It’s a bad mouthful that chokes, 98 It’s a very proud horse that will not carry his oats, 127 It’s bad combing where there is no hair, 324 It’s good dancing on another man’s floor, 324 It’s good feasting in another’s hall, 324 It’s good steering with wind and tide, 312 It’s hard to catch hawks with empty hands (With emptie hands men may no haukes lure—Chaucer), 334 It’s ill jesting with edged tools, 324 J. Jack gets on by his stupidity, 151 Jack is as good as his master, 295 Jacob’s voice, Esau’s hands, 154 Jealousy is a pain which eagerly seeks what causes pain, 142 Jest not in earnest (Motto of the Margrave of Brandenburg), 167 Jest so that it may not turn to earnest, 195 Jest with your equals, 389 Jesting costs money, 225 John has been to school to learn to be a fool, 28 Joy and sorrow are next-door neighbours (Joy and sorrow are to-day and to-morrow), 148 Joy is like the ague; one good day between two bad ones, 371 Judges should have two ears, both alike, 166 Justice, but not in my own house, 225 Justice has a waxen nose, 137 Justice oft leans to the side where the purse pulls, 400 K. Keep good company and you shall be of the number, 264 Keep not two tongues in one mouth, 389 Keep to the little ones, and the big ones will not bite you, 374 Keep well with your neighbours, whether right or wrong, 151 Keep your mouth, and keep your friend, 370 Keep your nose out of another’s mess, 375 Keep yourself from opportunities and God will keep you from sins, 100 Kill and thou wilt be killed, and he will be killed who kills thee, 232 Kill no more than you can salt, or you will have tainted meat, 398 Kin or no kin, woe to him who has nothing, 118 Kind words and few are a woman’s ornament, 403 Kind words don’t wear out the tongue, 401 Kind words heal friendship’s wounds, 371 Kindness breaks no bones, 151 Kindred without friends, friends without power, power without will, will without effect, effect without profit, profit without virtue, are not worth a rush, 44 Kings’ entreaties are commands, 299 Kings have long hands, 36 Kisses are the messengers of love, 383 Know, cabbages, that there is spinach in the stew, 255 Knowing hens lay even in nettles, 157 L. Labour has a bitter root, but a sweet taste, 347 Labour warms, sloth harms, 299 “Ladies have ladies’ whims,” said crazy Ann, when she draggled her cloak in the gutter, 369 Lambs don’t run into the mouth of the sleeping wolf, 384 Large thongs of another man’s leather (See Good thongs), 211 Large trees give more shade than fruit, 99, 120 Lasses and glasses are always in danger, 99 Late fruit keeps well, 169 Late repentance is seldom worth much, 397 Laughter makes good blood, 103 Law helps the waking, luck may come to the sleeping, 385 Laws go the way kings direct, 196 Laws go where dollars please, 280 Laws have wax noses, 35 Laws were made for rogues, 108 Lawyers and painters can soon change white to black, 385 Lawyers are bad Christians, 156 Lawyers’ houses are built of fools’ heads, 35 Lawyers’ robes are lined with the obstinacy of suitors, 109 Lay your hand on your bosom and you will not speak ill of another, 283 Lean meat from a fat pig, 272 Learn thou of learned men, th’ unlearned of thee; for thus must knowledge propagated be, 332 Learned fools are the greatest of all fools, 140, 149 Leave no nail unclenched, 113 Leave the jest at its best, 195 Leave the minster where it is, 29 Lend to your friend, and ask payment of your enemy, 383 Lent, which seems so long, is short at other men’s tables, 107 Less advice and more hands, 177 Let a child have its will and it will not cry, 383 Let a dog get at a dish of honey, and he will jump in with both legs, 384 Let a saint be ever so humble, he will have his wax taper, 381 Let every bird sing its own note, 366 Let every fox take care of his own tail, 117 Let every man carry his own sack to the mill, 170, 366 (See Every man must carry) Let every man look to the bread upon which he must depend, 271 Let every man mind his own business, and leave others to theirs, 271 Let every man mind his own business, and the cows will be well tended, 12 Let every one be content with what God has given him, 271 Let every one keep off the flies with his own tail, 117 Let every one look to himself, and no one will be lost, 317 Let every one sweep before his own door, 155 Let every sheep hang by its own leg (Every man should support himself, and not hang upon another), 207, 270 Let God’s waters run over God’s acres, 319 Let him eat the tough morsel who eat the tender, 272 Let him not be a lover who has no courage, 70 Let him not complain of being cheated who buys cloth by the pattern, 237 Let him play the instrument who knows how, 249 Let him stay at the oar who has learnt to row, 383 Let him that has a mouth not say to another, Blow, 233 Let him that itches scratch himself, 53, 177 Let him who does not know you buy you, 251 Let him who feels he has a dirty nose wipe it, 53 Let him who is cold blow the fire, 48 Let him who is well off hold his tongue, 177 Let him who is well off stay where he is, 86 Let him who would reach another a brand, beware that he do not burn his own hand, 378 Let it be a husband, though it be but a log, 256 Let lie what is too heavy to lift, 303 Let me get over the lake, and I have no fear of the brook, 330 Let me go warm, and folks may laugh, 199, 266 Let no one say, “Of this water I will not drink,” 235 Let no one take a pawn that eats, 242 Let no shovel-beaked bird ever enter your yard, 204 Let not him who has a mouth ask another to blow, 299 Let not the tongue utter what the head must pay for, 235, 284 Let not thy right hand know what thy left hand doeth, 158 Let not your shirt know all your thoughts (or your secret), 48, 117, 129 Let people talk and dogs bark, 158 Let the blood be ever so thin, it is always thicker than water, 351 Let the dead rest, 158 Let the devil get into the church, and he will mount the altar, 158 Let the dog bark so he don’t bite me, 226, 280 Let the giver be silent and the receiver speak, 271 Let the guest go before the storm bursts, 158 Let the guts be full, for it is they that carry the legs, 228, 268 Let the injurer not forget, 84 Let the miracle be wrought, though it be by the devil, 223 Let the sun shine on me, for I care not for the moon, 220 Let them talk of me, and beg of me, 212 Let them whip me in the market-place, provided it be not known at home, 204 Let there be food in the pigeon-house, and the pigeons will come to it, 204, 235 Let there be writing before you pay, and receipt before you write, 222 Let those pater-nosters be for your own soul (Ironical against swearing), 242 Let us first catch the bear and then sell its skin, 120 Let us have florins and we shall find cousins, 65 Let what is lost go for God’s sake, 229 Liars should have good memories, 101, 159 Liberal hands make many friends, 396 Lies and gossip have a wretched offspring, 385 Lies and Latin go round the world, 385 Lies melt like snow, 159 Life at court is often a short cut to hell, 374 Life is half spent before one knows what life is, 31 Light burdens borne far become heavy, 6, 158 Light gains make a heavy purse, 332 Light is bad for sore eyes, 3 Light is light, though the blind man see it not, 158 Lightly come, lightly go, 332 Like a collier’s sack, bad without and worse within, 209 Like blood, like means, and like age, make the happiest marriage, 150 Like box-makers, more noise than work, 55 Like father, like son, 292 Like king, like law; like law, like people, 292 Like King Petaud’s court, where every one is master, 11 Like lips, like lettuce, 73, 187 Like master, like man, 58, 127, 187, 345 Like plays best with like, 384 Like pot, like cover, 345 Like saint, like incense (or offering), 56, 73 Like to like, Jack to Gill, a penny a pair, 319 Like well like bucket, 73 Like will to like—a scabbed horse and a sandy dike, 397 “Like will to like,” as the devil said to the coal-burner, 150 Like will to like, be they poor or rich, 317 Link by link the coat of mail is made, 37 Lion-skins were never had cheap, 26 Lip courtesy avails (or pleases) much and costs little, 118, 209 Listeners hear no good of themselves, 248 Little and often makes a heap in time, 177 Little beard, little modesty, 200, 240 Little bird, little nest, 194 Little brooks make great rivers, 35 Little by little one goes far, 240 Little by little the bird builds its nest, 45 Little children and headaches, great children and heartaches, 98 Little children, little sorrows; big children, great sorrows, 398 Little chips kindle the fire, and big logs sustain it, 291 Little enemies and little wounds are not to be despised, 157 Little fish are sweet (All is fish that comes to the net), 330 Little folks are fond of talking about what great folks do, 141 Little is done where many command, 296 Little pitchers have long ears, 45 Little pots soon run (or boil) over, 157, 330 Little presents maintain friendship, 35 Little saints also perform miracles, 398 Little sorrows are loud, great ones silent, 398 Little strokes fell great oaks, 330 Little thieves are hanged by the neck, great ones by the purse, 105, 330 Little thieves have iron chains, and great thieves gold ones, 330 Little wood, much fruit, 343 Live according to your means, 389 Live and learn, 132 Live and let live, 132, 158, 333 Loaves put awry into the oven come out awry, 3 Locks and keys are not made for honest fingers, 167 Long absence changes friends, 37 Long borrowed is not given, 158 Long choosing and cheapening ends in buying nothing, or bad wares, 183 Long fasting is no bread sparing, 158, 331 Long is not for ever, 158 Long life to the conqueror, 262 Long talk makes short days, 37 Long-talked-of (or looked-for) comes at last, 159 Long tongue, short hand, 37, 109 Longer than a day without bread, 120 Look before you leap, 100, 145 Look for the hog at the oak, 72 Look not a gift horse in the mouth, 2, 66, 149, 194, 313, 389 Look with suspicion on the flight of an enemy, 106 Lords and fools speak freely, 374 Lose no rights and commit no extortions, 230 Love, a cough, smoke, and money, cannot long be hid (or are hard to hide), 4, 4, 71, 159 Love and faith are seen in works, 216, 287 Love and lordship like no fellowship, 4, 71, 265 Love and poverty are hard to conceal, 347 Love begins at home, 158 Love Bertrand love his dog, 48 Love demands faith, and faith firmness, 71 Love does much, money everything, 4, 158, 199 Love does wonders, but money makes marriage, 30 Love expels jealousy, 30 Love, fire, a cough, the itch, and gout, are hard to conceal, 158 Love, grief, and money cannot be kept secret, 199 Love grows with obstacles (A wall between increases love), 158 Love has no law, 265 Love is an excuse for its own faults, 91 Love is blind, but sees afar, 71 Love is master of all arts, 93 Love is the true price at which love is bought, 71 Love knows hidden paths, 158 Love knows no law, 287 Love knows not labour, 71 Love levels all inequalities, 116 Love makes labour light, 332 Love makes time pass away, and time makes love pass away, 30 Love me little and love me long, 2, 70, 365 Love me, love my dog, 78 (See Love Bertrand) Love one that does not love you, answer one that does not call you, and you will run a fruitless race, 198 Love others well, but love thyself the most; give good for good, but not to thine own cost, 300 Love rules his kingdom without a sword, 71 Love rules without law, 71 Love subdues everything except the felon heart, 4 Love teaches asses to dance, 30 Love, thieves, and fear, make ghosts, 158 Love without return is like a question without an answer, 158 Love your friend with his faults, 70 Love your neighbour, but don’t pull down the fence, 158 Lovers’ purses are tied with cobwebs, 105 Lovers’ quarrels are love redoubled, 267 Lovers think others are blind (or have no eyes), 119, 240 Love’s anger is fuel to love, 159 Love’s merchandise is jealousy and broken faith, 71 Love’s plant must be watered with tears and tendered with care, 383 Loving and singing are not to be forced, 159 Luck comes to those who look after it, 261 Luck has but a slender anchorage, 385 Luck has much for many, but enough for no one, 385 Luck is better than a hundred marks, 350 Luck (or Fortune) taps at the door and inquires whether prudence is within, 385 (See Fortune) Luck will carry a man across a brook if he is not too lazy to leap, 385 Lying and gossiping go hand in hand, 219 Lying is the first step to the gallows, 159 Lying pays no tax, 289 M. Mad dogs get their coats torn, 369 Mad love—I for you, and you for another, 199, 265 Maidens say no, and mean yes (Maids say nay, and take), 159 Make a silver bridge for a flying enemy, 196, 266 Make good flour and you need no trumpet (So: Good wine needs no bush), 224, 277 Make hay while the sun shines, 160, 174 Make me a prophet, and I will make you rich, 98 Make the night night, and the day day, and you will live pleasantly, 277 Make use of the sun while it shines, 388 Make way for a madman and a bull, 197 Make your son your heir and not your steward, 277 Make yourself a sheep and the wolves will eat you, 52, 86, 186 Make yourself an ass and every one will lay his sack on you, 186 Make yourself honey and the flies will eat you, 98, 277, 294 Man is fire, woman is tow, and the devil comes and blows (or with a bellows), 37, 217, 288 Man loves but once, 139 Man proposes and God disposes, 37, 139, 217, 226, 230, 279, 306, 390 Man without woman is head without body; woman without man is body without head, 161 Manual jokes are clowns’ jokes, 28, 206, 225 Many a cow stands in the meadow and looks wistfully at the common, 387 Many a good cow has a bad calf, 161 Many a man is a good friend but a bad neighbour, 387 Many a man labours for the day he will never live to see, 387 Many a one is good because he can do no mischief, 37 Many a one leaves the roast who afterwards longs for the smoke ofit, 127 Many a one suffers for what he can’t help, 58 Many a one threatens while he quakes for fear, 127, 161 Many a one would like to lay his own shame on another man’s back, 387 Many a sheep goes out woolly and comes home shorn, 387 Many a thing whispered into one ear is heard over the whole town, 387 Many a true word is spoken in jest, 123 Many are brave when the enemy flies, 110 Many can help one, 173 Many cooks spoil the broth, 173 Many desire the tree who pretend to refuse the fruit, 110 Many dogs are the death of the hare, 387 Many friends, and few helpers in need, 173 Many go out for wool and come home shorn, 161 Many grains of sand will sink a ship, 387 Many hands make quick work, 173, 340 Many have good intentions, but something comes across them, 161 Many have too much, but none have enough, 386 Many heads, many minds, 341 Many heirs make small portions, 173 Many hounds are the death of the hare, 173, 341 Many kiss the child for the nurse’s sake, 387 (See He who kisses) Many kiss the hand they would fain see chopped off, 233, 284 Many little rivulets make a great river, 386 Many littles make a mickle, 341 Many love to praise right and do wrong, 387 Many open a door to shut a window, 341 Many return from the war who cannot give an account of the battle, 124 Many scruple to spit in church, and afterwards defile the altar, 110 Many see more with one eye than others with two, 161 Many seek good nights and lose good days, 332 Many shun the brook and fall into the river, 161 Many shun the sword and come to the gallows, 161 Many stop their noses at ambergris, 71 Many take by the bushel and give with the spoon, 161 Many trades, begging the best, 173 Many words don’t fill the sack (ScoticÉ: Meikle crack fills nae sack), 340 Many words go to a sackful (Many words will not fill a bushel), 302 Marriage is heaven and hell, 140 Marriages are not as they are made, but as they turn out, 104 Marriages are written in heaven, 35 Married to-day, marred to-morrow, 6 Marry in haste and repent at leisure, 52, 86, 152, 321 Marry, marry, and what about the housekeeping, 272 Marry, marry, sounds well but tastes ill, 272 Marry me without delay, mother, for my face is growing wrinkled, 280 Marry your son when you please, your daughter when you can, 38, 77, 208, 272, 370 Marrying in the blood is never good, 152 Marrying is easy, but housekeeping is hard, 152 Martha sings well when she has had her fill, 268, 271 Mary Busybody never wants a bad day, and Mary Drone has God to give and bring to her, 198 Master’s hints are commands, 101 Mastiff never liked greyhound (A churl never liked a gentleman), 41 May God not so prosper our friends that they forget us, 235 Measure thrice before you cut once, 110, 332 Meddle not with what you don’t understand, 286 Meddle with dirt and some of it will stick to you, 386 (See He who touches pitch) Men after the modern fashion, and asses after the ancient, 100 Men are as old as they feel, and women as they look, 100 Men are rare, 35 Men can bear all things except good days, 297 Men go not laughing to heaven, 333 Men make wealth, and women preserve it, 100 Men must sail while the wind serveth, 333 Men’s ignorance makes the pot boil for priests, 37 Merchant to-day, beggar to-morrow, 152 Merchants’ goods are ebb and flood, 331 Michael is quits; he lost a ducat and gained a rabbit, 213 Michael, Michael, you have no bees, and yet you sell honey!, 232, 283 Might and courage require wit in their suite, 386 Milk the cow, but don’t pull off the udder, 333 Millers and bakers do not steal, people bring to them, 162 Millers, tailors, and weavers are not hanged, or the trade would soon be extinct, 162 Mischief comes soon enough, 402 Misers’ money goes twice to market, 214, 288 Misfortune comes on horseback and goes away on foot, 32 Misfortune seldom comes alone to the house, 397 Misfortune upon misfortune is not wholesome, 37 Misfortune, wood, and hair, grow throughout the year, 172 Misfortunes never come single, 62, 108, 315 Misreckoning is no payment, 161 Money advances meacocks, 15 Money and friendship break the arms of justice, 123 Money borrowed is soon sorrowed, 5 Money burns many, 5 Money gets money, 214 Money in the purse dispels melancholy, 149 Money is a good servant but a bad master, 31 Money is an epitome of human power, 101 Money is lost only for want of money, 31 Money is money’s brother, 101 Money is more eloquent than a dozen members of parliament, 395 Money is not gained by losing time, 291 Money is power, 319 Money is round, and rolls, 5,101 Money is the measure of all things, 275 Money is the sinew of war, 322 Money lent, an enemy made, 275 Money makes dogs dance, 46 Money makes the man, 149 Money rules the world, 319 Money saved is money got (or as good as money gained), 354 Money soothes more than the words of a cavalier (or a gentleman’s words), 231, 281 Money taken, freedom forsaken, 149 Money turns bad into good, 217 Money wins the battle, not the long arm, 275 Monks, mice, rats, and vermin, seldom sunder without harming, 162 More are drowned in the bowl than in the sea, 153 More belongs to dancing than a pair of dancing-shoes, 302 More belongs to riding than a pair of boots, 191 More flies are caught with a spoonful of syrup (or drop of honey) than with a cask of vinegar, 333, 386 More grows in a garden than the gardener sows there, 286 More is done with words than with hands, 162 More luck than wit, 332 More people are slain by suppers than by the sword, 368 More unlucky than a dog in church, 121 Moses (i.e. a Jew) does not play because he has not the means, 236 Mother, I must have a husband, or I shall set fire to the house, 162 Mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, storm and hail, 127 Mother, marry me, marry me, or the gull will fly away with me, 230 Mother, what is marrying? Spinning, bearing children, and crying, daughter, 230 Mother’s love is ever in its spring, 58 Mother’s truth keeps constant youth, 162 Mouth and heart are wide apart, 162 Mouth of honey, heart of gall, 269 Month shut and eyes open, 75 Much broth is sometimes made with little meat, 387 Much caution does no harm, 266 Much chatter, little wit, 284 Much kindred, much trouble, 5 Much laughter, little wit, 289 Much memory and little judgment, 7 Much money, many friends (Where money, there friends), 173 Much never cost little, 237, 287 Much noise and little wool, said the devil, when he was shearing the sow, 364 (See Great cry and little wool) Much smoke and little roast, 110 Much straw and little corn, 284 Much talk little work, 341 Much talking, much erring, 199 Much water passes by the mill that the miller perceives not, 73 Much water runs by while the miller sleeps, 357 Much wisdom is lost in poor men’s mouths, 154 Much wisdom is smothered in a poor man’s head, 329 Much wit is lost in a poor man’s purse, 147 Much worship, much cost, 35 Muddy water won’t do for a mirror, 67 Mules make a great fuss about their ancestors having been horses, 161 Must is a hard nut, 162 My chest locked, my soul safe, 283 My daughter-in-law tucked up her sleeves and upset the kettle into the fire, 202 My friend’s enemy is often my best friend, 161 My gossips don’t like me because I tell them truths, 230, 282 My life and soul at your service, but not the pack-saddle, 228, 274 My money your money, let us go to the tavern, 283 My neighbour’s goat gives more milk than mine, 225, 263 My neighbour’s hen lays more eggs than mine, 226 My No is as good as your Yes, 128 My shirt is nearer than my cloak, 322 My sister’s son is a kinsman beyond dispute, 239 My teeth are nearer than my kindred, 231, 242 N. National customs are national honours, 384 Nature and love cannot be hid, 163 (See Love) Nature draws stronger than seven oxen, 163 Nature requires little, fancy much, 163 Near is my petticoat, but nearer is my smock, 120 Near the church far from God, 132 Necessity becomes will, 106 Necessity breaks iron, 164 Necessity is the mother of invention (or teaches arts), 40, 164, 303 Necessity knows (or has) no law, 40, 111, 164, 335, 393 Necessity seeks bread where it is to be found, 164 Necessity teaches the lame to dance, 164 Necessity unites hearts, 164 Need makes the old wife trot, 8, 227, 306, 393 Needle and thread are half clothing, 224 Neighbour once over the hedge, neighbour over it again, 163 Neither a dumb barber nor a deaf singer, 286 Neither a good friar for friend, nor a bad one for enemy, 233 Neither handsome enough to kill, nor ugly enough to frighten, 230, 286 Neither reprove nor flatter thy wife, where any one heareth or seeth it, 317 Neither serve one who has been a servant, nor beg of one who has been a beggar, 230 Neither sign a paper without reading it, nor drink water without seeing it, 230 Neither trust or contend, nor lay wagers or lend, and you’ll have peace to your end, 285 Neither women nor linen by candlelight, 111 Neutrals are soused from above, and singed from below, 139 Neutrals think to tread on eggs and break none, 163 Never advise a man to go to the wars, or to marry, 225 Never ask of him who has, but of him you know wishes you well, 238 Never challenge a fool to do wrong, 23 Never did capon love a hen, 27 Never do evil that good may come of it, 114 Never fell oak at the very first stroke, 145 (See An oak) Never give advice unasked, 166 Never give the skin when you can pay with the wool, 150 Never heed the colour of a gift horse, 66 Never let fools see half-finished work, 388 Never let the bottom of your purse or of your mind be seen, 113 Never limp before the lame, 23 Never put your finger between the tree and the bark, 23 Never put your thumbs between two grinders, 222 Never refuse a good offer, 123 Never repent a good action, 403 Never say, Fountain, I will not drink of thy water, 23 Never say, of this water I will not drink, of this bread I will not eat, 285 Never seemed a prison fair, or mistress foul, 24, 157 Never sell the bearskin till you have killed the bear, 24 Never speak of a rope in the house of a thief, 276 Never speak of a rope in the house of one who was hanged, 24, 114, 153, 221 Never spread your corn to dry before the door of a saintly man, 200 Never spur a willing horse, 76 Never was a mewing eat a good mouser, 113 Never was hood so holy but the devil could get his head into it, 302 New brooms sweep clean, 100, 163, 335, 393 New churches and new taverns are seldom empty, 163 New doctor, new churchyard, 163 New laws, new roguery, 163 New loves drive out the old, 199 New songs are eagerly sung (or are liked the best), 163, 393 New trappings to an old mule, 199 Night has no friend, 30 No and yes cause long disputes, 393 No answer is also an answer, 381 No ape but swears he has the handsomest children, 156 No armour is proof against the gallows, 157 No better masters than poverty and want, 318 Nobody so wise but has a little folly to spare, 157 Nobody sows a thing that will not sell, 209 Nobody’s sweetheart is ugly, 335 No comforter’s head ever aches, 72 No corn without chaff, 318 No day but has its evening, 26, 115 No feast like a miser’s, 24 No fire without smoke, 40 No flies get into a shut mouth, 9, 104, 221, 276 No flies light on a boiling pot, 200 No good doctor ever takes physic, 111 No good lawyer ever goes to law himself, 111 No grass grows on a beaten road, 2, 104 No greater promisers than those who have nothing to give, 319 No house without a mouse, no barn without corn, no rose without a thorn, 157 No house without its cross, 318 No is a good answer when given in time, 393 No jealousy, no love, 163 No jesting with edged tools, 53 No Jew a fool, no hare lazy, 230 No king was ever a traitor, or pope excommunicated, 230 No living man all things can, 62 No lock avails against a hatchet, 14 No mad dog runs seven years, 318 No man can serve two masters, 164 No man is a hero in the eyes of his valet, 25 No man is a prophet in his own country, 40 No man is so tall that he need never stretch, and none so small that he need never stoop, 381 No man knoweth fortune till he dies, 335 No man learneth but by pain or shame, 335 No man limps because another is hurt, 381 No man looks for another in a sack, unless he has been there himself, 381 No man understands knavery better than the abbot who has been a monk, 20 No man’s master, no master’s man, 157 No meat ever remains in the shambles however bad it may be, 114 No need to say “trot” to a good horse, 65 No need to seek shelter for an old ox, 193 No office so humble but is better than nothing, 335 No one betrays himself by silence, 162 No one can be caught in places he does not visit, 381 No one can blow and swallow at the same time, 164 No one can complain of the sea who twice suffers shipwreck, 164 No one can do nothing, and no one can do everything, 157 No one can guard against treachery, 172 No one can have peace longer than his neighbour pleases, 335 No one can see into another further than his teeth, 388 No one ever became poor through giving alms, 111 No one ever repented of having held his tongue, 111 No one ever saw a goat dead of hunger, 42, 113 No one falls low unless he attempt to climb high, 381 No one gets into trouble without his own help, 381 No one has seen to-morrow, 288 No one is a good judge in his own cause, 286 No one is always right, 287 No one is bound to do impossibilities, 3, 69 No one is content with his lot, 286 No one is poor but he who thinks himself so, 285 No one is rich enough to do without his neighbour, 381 No one is so liberal as he who has nothing to give, 41 No one is too old to learn, 191 No one is wise enough to advise himself, 164 No one is wise in his own affairs, 335 No one knows better where the shoe pinches than he who wears it, 111, 147 No one knows the parson better than the clerk, 381 No one knows where another’s shoe pinches, 335 No one likes justice brought home to his own door, 72 No one likes to bell the cat, 147 No one sees his own faults, 164 No one should take in an eating pawn (or pledge), 119 No one so hard upon the poor as the pauper who has got into power, 399 No one so sure but he may miss, 335 No one will get a bargain he does not ask for, 40 No one would be an innkeeper but for money, 233 No pear falls into a shut mouth, 104 No penny, no pater-noster, 164 No purchase like a gift, 26 No relation is poor, 236 No rose without a thorn, 46, 115, 318 No sauce like appetite, 26 No sheep runs into the mouth of a sleeping wolf, 306 No smoke without fire, 157, 189 No sooner is the law made than its evasion is discovered, 98 No tree falls at the first stroke, 156 No wind can do him good who steers for no port, 41 No woman is ugly if she is well dressed, 209, 269 No woman marries an old man for God’s sake, 147 No wonder if he breaks his head who stumbles twice over one stone, 248 No wonder lasts more than three days, 111 No word is ill spoken that is not ill taken, 285 None so busy as those who do nothing, 25 None so deaf as he (or those) that won’t hear, 24, 112, 236, 381 Not all are asleep who have their eyes shut, 115 Not all flowers are fit for nosegays, 163 Not all that is true is to be spoken, 286 (See Every truth) Not all that shakes (or trembles) falls, 129 Not all words require an answer, 129 Not every ball hits, 163 Not every dog that barks bites, 12 Not every land has all at hand, 163 Not every one may pluck roses, 166 Not every one that dances is glad, 12 Not every sort of wood is fit to make an arrow, 59 Not every wood will make wooden shoes, 358 Not every word requires an answer, 113 Not he gives who likes, but who has, 230 Not to wish to recover is a mortal symptom, 256 Not too little, not too much, 163 Nothing bolder than the miller’s shirt, that every morning collars a thief, 26, 164 Nothing can come out of a sack but what is in it, 114 Nothing dries sooner than tears, 164 Nothing falls into the mouth of a sleeping fox, 2, 196, 267, 299 Nothing grows old sooner than a kindness, 55 Nothing happens for nothing, 55 Nothing in haste but catching fleas, 318 Nothing is difficult to a willing mind, 67 Nothing is done while something remains undone, 26 Nothing is ever well done in a hurry, except flying from the plague or from quarrels, and catching fleas, 109 Nothing is had for nothing, 42 Nothing is ill said if it is not ill taken, 106 Nothing is impossible to a willing mind, 5 Nothing is lost on a journey by stopping to pray or to feed your horse, 241 Nothing is more like an honest man than a rogue, 55 Nothing is so burdensome as a secret, 55 Nothing is so liberally given as advice, 55 Nothing is so new as what has long been forgotten, 164 Nothing is so new but it has happened before (There is nothing new under the sun), 381 Nothing looks more like a man of sense than a fool who holds his tongue, 164 Nothing passes between asses but kicks, 128 Nothing should be done in a hurry except catching fleas, 164 Nothing so bad but it finds its master, 318 Nothing so good as forbidden fruit, 55 Nothing venture, nothing have, 50 Nothing weighs lighter than a promise, 164 Now that I have an ewe and a lamb, every one says to me: Good morrow, Peter, 194 Nurenberg wit and a skilful hand will find their way through any land, 164 Nurse, you are mistress whilst the child sucks, and after that nothing, 198 O. “O what we must suffer for the sake of God’s church!” said the abbot, when the roast fowl burned his fingers, 165 Of bad debtors you may take spoilt herrings, 388 Of big words and feathers many go to the pound, 151 Of brothers-in-law and red dogs few are good, 210 Of evils, choose the least, 211, 276 Of hasty counsel take good heed, for haste is very rarely speed, 321 Of judgment every one has a stock on hand for sale, 91 Of listening children have your fears, for little pitchers have great ears, 331 Of little cloth but a short cloak, 15 Of oil, wine, and friends, the oldest, 268 Of other men’s leather large thongs, 212 (See Good thongs) Of soup and love, the first is the best, 228, 268 Of the good man a good pledge, and of the bad neither pledge nor surety, 275 Of the great and of the dead either speak well or say nothing, 90 Of the malady a man fears, he dies, 211 Of this world each man has as much as he takes, 92 Of three things the devil makes a salad: lawyers’ tongues, notaries’ fingers, and a third that shall be nameless, 92 Of two cowards, the one who attacks conquers the other, 275 Of two evils choose the least, 14, 172, 340, 346 Of two lookers-on one is sure to become a player, 14 Of what does not concern you say nothing, good or bad, 91 Of what use is it that the cow gives plenty of milk, if she upsets the pail, 175 Of your wife and your tried friend believe nothing but what you know for certain, 213 Offend one monk, and the lappets of all cowls will flutter as far as Rome, 135 Offer a clown your finger, and he’ll take your fist, 345 (See Give a clown) Office without pay makes thieves, 134 Often shooting hits the mark, 165 Oil is best at the beginning, honey at the end, and wine in the middle, 306 Old as is the boat it may cross the ferry once, 242 Old birds are hard to pluck, 134 Old birds are not caught with cats, 336 Old birds are not caught with chaff, 370 Old birds are not caught with new nets, 115 Old churches have dark windows, 133 Old crows are hard to catch, 133 Old foxes are hard to catch, 336 Old friends and new reckonings, 63 Old friends and old ways ought not to be disdained, 389 Old love and old brands kindle at all seasons, 63 Old love does not rust, 134 Old oxen have stiff horns, 352, 370 Old oxen tread hard, 134 Old people see best in the distance, 134 Old pigs have hard snouts, 134, 370 Old reckonings breed new disputes, 7, 67, 194 Old signs do not deceive, 370 Old thanks are not for new gifts, 68 Old trees are not to be bent, 133 Old wounds easily bleed, 134 On a fool’s beard all learn to shave, 193, 284 On a fool’s beard the barber learns to shave, 1, 69 On a hot day muffle yourself the more, 217 On a long journey even a straw is heavy, 104 On a small pretence the wolf devours the sheep, 119, 336 On dry land even brackish water is good, 222 On poor people’s beards the young barber learns his trade, 134 Once a thief always a thief, 181, 309 Once in people’s mouths, ’tis hard to get out of them, 144 Once resolved, the trouble is over, 121 Once upon a time, no time (or Some day, no day), 144 One always returns to one’s first love, 43 One always knocks oneself in the sore place, 43 One ass among monkeys is grinned at by all, 260 One ass nicknames another “Long-ears,” 142 One bad eye spoils the other, 142 One barber shaves another, 60 One basket of grapes does not make a vintage, 130 One beats the bush and another catches the bird, 138, 304 One bee is better than a thousand (or a handful of) flies, 142, 232 One beggar likes not that another has two wallets, 353 One bell serves a parish, 129 One bird in the dish is better than a hundred in the air, 145 (See a bird) One bird in the hand is worth two flying (or on the roof), 281, 316, 343 (See A bird) One bite brings another, 351 One blind man leads another into the ditch, 60 One briar does not make a hedge, 130 One can speak and seven can sing, 142 One candle for St. Michael, and another for his devil, 61 One cannot be and have been, 42 One cannot be at the oven and the mill at the same time (One cannot be in two places at once), 42 One cannot blow and swallow at the same time, 258 One cannot drink and whistle at the same time, 114 (See No one) One cannot (no man can) keep peace longer than his neighbour will let him, 160 One cannot please everybody and one’s father, 42 One cannot ring the bells and walk in the procession, 42 One cannot wash a blackamoor white, 143 One can’t enter Paradise in spite of the saints, 114 One can’t hinder the wind from blowing, 42 One can’t shoe a running horse, 332 One catches the hare and another eats it, 138 One crow does not make a winter, 143, 313 One day is as good as two for him who does everything in its place, 62 One daughter helps to marry the other, 129 One deceit brings on another, 61 One devil does not make hell, 130 One devil drives out another, 130 One devil knows another, 130 One does it for love, another for honour, a third for money, 304 One does not always hit what one aims at, 59 One dog growls to see another go into the kitchen, 137 One door never shuts but another opens, 109, 114 One enemy is too many (or too much), and a hundred friends are too few (or not enough), 98, 130, 142, 364 One eye of the master sees more than four eyes of his servants, 121 One eye on the frying-pan and the other on the cat, 260 One flea does not hinder sleep, 129 One flower does not make a garland, 61, 130, 142 One fool always finds a greater to admire him, 63 One fool is enough in a house, 74 One fool makes a hundred (or many), 260, 280, 313, 364 One fool may ask more questions than seven wise men can answer, 144, 366 One fool praises another, 144 One foot is better than two stilts, 39 One God, one wife, but many friends, 313 One good morsel and a hundred vexations, 130 One good turn deserves another, 1, 142, 304 One good word quenches more heat than a bucket of water, 121 One grain does not fill the granary, but it helps its companion, 280 One grievance borne, another follows, 260 One grows used to love and to fire, 3 One hair of a maiden’s head pulls harder than ten yoke of oxen, 365 One hair of a woman draws more than a bell-rope, 143 One half the world knows not how the other half lives, 29 One half the world laughs at the other, 30, 143 One hand full of money is stronger than two hands full of truth, 364 One hand must wash the other, or both will be dirty, 372 One hand washes the other, 143 One hand washes the other, and both the face, 129, 228, 260, 280, 304 One has always strength enough to bear the misfortunes of one’s friends, 41 One has only to die to be praised, 159 One hour’s sleep before midnight is better than two (or three) after it, 16, 143 One hunts the hare, and another eats it, 353 One is never so rich as when one removes (from one house to another), 43 One is never soiled but by filth, 43 One kisses the child for the mother’s sake, and the mother for the child’s sake, 159 One kisses the nurse for the sake of the child, 171 One knavery is met by another, 260 One knife keeps another in its sheath, 130 One knife whets another, 130, 144 One knows not for whom he gathers, 43 One learns by failing, 41 One lie draws ten after it, 129 One link broken, the whole chain is broken, 136 One living pope is better than ten dead, 97 One log does not burn long by itself, 142 One lost, two found, 316 One love drives out another, 260 One man is another’s devil, 144 One man is born to the money, and another to the purse, 364 One man is not bad because another is good, 364 One man knocks in the nail, and another hangs his hat on it, 138 One man, no man, 62 One man often talks another off his bench, and seats himself upon it, 364 One mangy sheep spoils a whole flock, 365 One man’s story is no story; hear both sides. (One story is good till another is told), 143 One marriage is never celebrated but another grows out of it, 147 One may as well be well beaten as badly beaten, 7 One may buy gold too dear, 43, 126, 159 One may go a long way after one is tired, 43 One may have good eyes and see nothing, 127 One may see through a wall, if there’s a hole in it, 159 One may steal nothing save a lawyer’s purse, 24 One may tire of eating tarts, 43 One misfortune brings on another, 280, 322 One must be either anvil or hammer, 22 One must glean at harvest time, 161 One must howl with the wolves (See He who herds), 22 One must lose a minnow to catch a salmon, 22 One must needs like what one cannot hinder, 23 One must pass through the door or the window, 22 One must plough with the horses one has, 160 One must sometimes hold a candle to the devil, 333 One must step back to make the better leap, 22 One must talk soothingly to the dog until one has passed him, 58 One nail drives in another, 304 One nail drives out another, 61, 84, 130 One never gets more than the money’s worth of anything, 42 One never goes so far as when one don’t know whither one is going, 43 One never wept but another laughed, 113 One often has need of a lesser than oneself, 41 One pair of ears would exhaust a hundred tongues, 130 One penny in the pot (money-box) makes more noise than when it is full, 315 One penny is better on land than ten on the sea, 364 One piece of good advice is better than a bag full, 364 One ploughs, another sows, who will reap no one knows, 364 One quill is better in the hand than seven geese upon the strand, 315 One raven does not peck out another’s eyes, 353 One rotten apple in the basket infects the whole quantity, 315 One rotten egg spoils the whole pudding, 142 One scabbed sheep will mar (or infect, or spoil) a whole flock, 24, 36, 129, 347 One shoe will not fit every foot, 144 One should be born either a king or a fool, 160 One starts the game and another bags it, 260 One starts the hare, another catches it, 130 One stroke on the nail and a hundred on the horseshoe, 260 One swallow does not make a spring, 61, 143 One swallow don’t make a summer, 129, 260, 315, 364 One sword keeps another in the scabbard, 144, 358 One “Take this” is better than ten “God help you!”, 144 One “Take this” is better than two “You-shall-haves!”, 39, 63, 314 One to-day is better than ten to-morrows, 143 One to one, and two to the devil, 364 One trick is met by another, 209 One voice, no voice, 132 One wedge drives another, 147 (See One nail) One wolf does not kill another, 260, 287 One word beforehand is better than ten afterwards, 350 One word brings on another, 129 One would not be alone even in Paradise, 114 One would rather be bitten by wolves than by sheep, 388 One wrong submitted to, another follows, 280 One’s own hearth is worth gold (The Scotch say: Ane’s ain hearth is goud’s worth), 317 One’s own spurs and another’s horse make the miles short, 127 One’s prog does not clog (Store is no sore), 226 Onions, smoke, and a shrew, make a good man’s eyes water, 385 Only one can be emperor, 164 Open hand makes open hand, 165 Open thy mouth that I may know thee, 72 Open your purse, and I will open my mouth, 263 Opportunity makes desire, 319 Opportunity makes the thief, 37, 105, 149, 227, 305, 384 Order and do it, and you will be rid of anxiety, 230 Other folks’ cares kill the ass, 210 Other times, other counsels, 283 Other times, other folk, 347 Other times, other manners, 7 Other towns, other lasses, 134 Others’ bread has seven crusts, 103 Others’ bread is too salt, 103 Our last garment is made without pockets, 109 Our neighbour’s children are always the worst, 172 Our time runs on like a stream; first fall the leaves and then the tree, 336 Out before day, in before night, 341 Out of a great evil often comes a great good, 127 Out of a little grass comes a great ass, 173 Out of a white egg often comes a black chick, 93 Out of sight, out of mind, 37, 134, 245, 280, 339, 384 Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh, 339 Out of the frying-pan into the fire, 270 Out of the mire and into the brook, 255 Out of yes and no comes all dispute, 15 “Own kin are the worst friends,” said the fox, when he saw the foxy dogs after him, 369 Ox, keep to your grass, 165 P. Painted flowers have no scent, 49, 319 Paper and ink and little justice, 239 Paper bears anything (or is patient), 33, 137 Paper does not blush, 105 Paris was not built in a day, 44 Patience is the virtue of asses, 30 Patience! said the wolf to the ass, 118 Patience surpasses learning, 318 Pay-day comes every day, 190 Pay what you owe, and be cured of your complaint, 238, 290 Peace and a well-built house cannot be bought too dearly, 369 Peace and patience, and death with penitence, 239 Peace feeds, war wastes; peace breeds, war consumes, 369 Peace must be bought even at a high price, 369 Peace with a cudgel in hand is war, 291 Peacock, look at your legs, 165 Peel a fig for your friend, a peach for your enemy, 69 Penny is penny’s brother, 165 Penny wise and pound foolish, 161 People count up the faults of those who keep them waiting, 41 People lend only to the rich, 43 People make the bells say what they please, 41 People must eat, even were every tree a gallows, 333, 357 (See A man must eat) People often change, and seldom for the better, 160 People take more pains to be damned than to be saved, 41 Peralvillo justice: hang a man first and try him afterwards, 226 Perseverance brings success, 296 Perseverance kills the game, 241, 292 “Peter, I am taking a ride,” said the goose, when the fox was running into the wood with her, 395 Peter is so godly that God does not improve his condition, 258 Peter pinches me, and I like it, 240 Physician, heal thyself, 110, 134 Piety, prudence, wit, and civility, are the elements of true nobility, 148 Pigs in the cold and men in drink make a great noise, 291 Pilgrims seldom come home saints, 174 Pills must be bolted, not chewed, 21, 65 Places are God’s; placemen are the devil’s, 140 Plants oft removed never thrive, 165 Play with an ass and he will whisk his tail in your face, 206, 270 Play with the fool at home and he will play with you abroad, 206 Pleasures steal away the mind, 325 Plenty makes daintiness, 65 Plenty of words when the cause is lost, 66 Plough deep and you will have plenty of corn, 202 Plough or not plough, you must pay your rent, 202 Plough wet or dry, and you will not have to kiss your neighbour’s breech, 202 Pluck it from among the thistles, and we will take it off your hands, 255 Pluck the magpie and don’t make her scream, 119 Pluck the rose and leave the thorns, 88 Poison quells poison, 104 Policy goes beyond strength, 28 Poor folk’s wisdom goes for little, 300 Poor men do penance for rich men’s sins, 91 Poor men’s money and cowards’ weapons are often flourished, 90 Poor people’s words go many to a sackful, 134 Poor relations have little honour, 367 Possession and good right, with lance in hand, 242 Possession is as good as a title, 46 Pound the garlic, Pedro, whilst I grate the cheese, 230 Poverty and hunger have many learned disciples, 134 Poverty does not destroy virtue, nor does wealth bestow it, 228 Poverty has no kin, 121 Poverty is a sort of leprosy, 45 Poverty is cunning; it catches even a fox, 134 Poverty is no sin, but it is a branch of roguery, 240 Poverty is the reward of idleness, 300 Poverty is the sixth sense, 134 Poverty never sped well in love, 291 Power often goes before talent, 386 Practice makes perfect, 171, 220, 261 Practice makes the master, 171 Practise not your art and ’twill soon depart, 180 Praise a fine day at night, 168, 365 Praise a fool, and you may make him useful, 396 Praise borrowed from ancestors is but sorry praise, 359 Praise paves the way to friendship, 385 Praise the sea, and keep on land, 22, 109 Praise yourself, basket, for I want to sell you, 195 Praising is not loving, 159 Pray to the saint until you have passed the slough, 299 Praying to God, and hitting with the hammer, 194 Precaution said, Good friend, this counsel keep: strip not yourself until you’re laid to sleep, 336 Precious ointments are put in small boxes, 17 Precious things are mostly in small compass (In small boxes the best spice), 331 Precipitate counsel—perilous deed, 375 Prepare a nest for the hen and she will lay eggs for you, 264 Presents keep friendship warm, 149 Pretty children sing pretty songs, 367 Pride went out on horseback and returned on foot, 107 Pride will have a fall, 152, 375 Priestly knaves sweat hard at their meat, but never at work get into a heat, 165 Priests and women never forget, 165 Priests bless themselves first, 165 Priests even smile pleasantly on young women, 165 Priests, friars, nuns, and chickens, never have enough, 121 Priests pay each other no tithes, 165 Priests should not prate out of the confessional, 165 Princes have long arms, 105 Princes have long hands and many ears, 148 Princes keep good reckoning, they never lose anything, 36 Princes will not be served on conditions, 36 Princes use men as the husbandman uses bees, 36 Prison and Lent were made for the poor, 226 Proffered service is little valued (Proffered service stinks), 296 Profit is better than fame, 370 Promises and undressed cloth are apt to shrink, 384 Promises don’t fill the belly, 172 Promises make debts, 191 Promises make debts, and debts make promises, 300 Promising and performing are two things, 47, 300 Promising is one thing, performing another, 172, 300 Promising is not giving, but serves to content fools, 292 Prosperity forgets father and mother, 225 Proverbs are the daughters of daily experience, 338 Prudent men choose frugal wives, 157 Public money is like holy water, every one helps himself to it, 101 Pull gently at a weak rope, 296 Pulling the devil by the tail does not lead far young or old, 58 Put a beggar into your barn and he will make himself your heir, 232 Put not all your eggs into one basket, 333 Put out the fire betimes, ere it reach the roof, 159 Put the belfry in the middle of the village, 22 Put the light out, and all women are alike, 159 Put your hand in your conscience and see if it don’t come out as black as pitch, 338 Put your hand quickly to your hat, and slowly to your purse, and you will take no harm, 380 Q. Quick at meat, quick at work, 153 Quick and well don’t agree (or seldom go together), 121, 398 Quick enough, if good enough, 168 R. Rage avails less than courage, 39 Ragged colts make the handsomest stallions, 135 Rain comes oft after sunshine, and after a dark cloud a clear sky, 394 Raise no more devils than you can lay, 160 Rather a husband with one eye than with one son, 289 Rather a single grape for me than a brace of figs for thee, 27 Rather an ass that carries than a horse that throws, 121 Rather go rob with good men than pray with bad, 266 Rather hat in hand than hand in purse, 121 Rather have a little one for your friend, than a great one for your enemy, 65 Rather lose the wool than the sheep, 266 Rather mulberry than almond (the almond-tree is in blossom earlier than the mulberry), 200 Rather the egg to-day than the hen to-morrow, 349 Rats do not play tricks with kittens, 209 Ravens do not peck out ravens’ eyes, 34, 89 Ready money works great cures, 5 Reason does not come before years, 172 Reason lies between bridle and spur, 128 Reason not with the great, ’tis a perilous gate, 55 Reasonings banish reason, 36 Reconciled friendship is a wound ill salved, 70, 368 “Red is Love’s colour,” said the woer to his foxy charmer, 166 Rejoice in little, shun what is extreme; the ship rides safest in a little stream, 338 Render unto CÆsar the things that are CÆsar’s, 333 Renounce the devil and thou shalt wear a shabby cloak, 193 Rent and taxes never sleep, 191 Repentance costs dear, 33, 208 Repentance is the heart’s medicine, 166 Report makes the wolf bigger than he is, 149 Repute hangs a man, 31 Rest comes from unrest, and unrest from rest, 167 Rest is good after the work is done, 371 Rest makes rusty, 337 Revenge a hundred years old has still its milk-teeth, 131 Revenge converts a little right into a great wrong, 166 Revenge is new wrong, 165 Revenge remains not unrevenged, 165 Reward sweetens labour, 332 Rich gamblers and old trumpeters are rare, 166 Rich garments weep on unworthy shoulders, 34 Rich people are everywhere at home, 166 Riches and favour go before wisdom and art, 396 Riches are often abused, but never refused, 396 Riches breed care, poverty is safe, 396 Riches cause arrogance; poverty, meekness, 151 Ride on, but look before you, 337 Right is with the strongest, 139 Right or wrong, God aid our purpose, 203 Right or wrong, ’tis our house up to the roof, 203, 268 Right overstrained turns to wrong, 212 Rise early and watch, labour and catch, 230, 280 Roast geese don’t come flying into the mouth, 305 Roast pigeons don’t fly through the air, 318 Rome was not built in a day, 55, 104, 166 Rosary in hand, the devil at heart, 273 Roses and maidens soon lose their bloom, 166 Roses fall, but the thorns remain, 307 Royal favour, April weather, woman’s love, rose-leaves, dice, and card-luck, change every moment, 148 Running water carries no poison, 67 Rust consumes iron, and envy consumes itself, 396 Rust wastes more than use, 31 S. Safe bind, safe find, 174 Safe over the bridge, one laughs at St. Nepomuck, 150 Said in sport, meant in earnest, 153 Said the frying-pan to the kettle, Stand off, black bottom, 213 Sail while the breeze blows, wind and tide wait for no man, 397 Saint cannot if God will not, 55 Saint Francis shaved himself first, and then he shaved his brethren, 124 Saint Martin was an easy man, he loved to drink Cerevisiam; and when he’d no Pecuniam, he left in pledge his Tunicam, 167 Saints appear to fools, 266 Saint’s words, cat’s claws, 291 Salt and bread make the cheeks red, 167 Salt spilt is never all gathered, 255, 299 Samson was a strong man, but he could not pay money before he had it, 167 Satiety causes disgust (Abundance begets indifference), 171 Saving is a greater art than gaining, 169 Saving is getting, 49 Savings are the first gain, 109 Say before they say (Tell your own story first), 200 Say what we will, do what we will, the boat goes but sorrily without oars, 75 Saying and doing are two things, 98, 167 Saying is one thing, doing another, 70 Saying well causes a laugh; doing well produces silence, 8 Scratch people where they itch, 22 Scratching and borrowing do well enough, but not for long, 156 Seat yourself in your place and you will not be made to quit it, 257, 294 Second thoughts are best, 103 Secret fire is discovered by its smoke (Catalan), 222 Secret gifts are openly rewarded, 374 Security is nowhere safe, 169 Security is the first cause of misfortune, 169 See a pin and let it lie, you’ll want a pin before you die, 54 See, hear, and hold your tongue, 261 See how he has risen from a mayor to a hangman, 211 See Naples and then die, 131 See that you tie so that you can untie, 233 Seeing is believing, 79 Self-done, is soon done (Never trust to another what you should do yourself), 168 Self is the man, 168 Self-love is bad, and makes the eyes sad, 142 Self-love is blind, 317 Self-love nobody else’s love, 344 Self-praise stinks, friend’s praise hinks, the stranger’s is sincere, and may last for a year, 142 Sell me dear, and measure me fair, 77 Sell publicly and buy privately, 261 Send a man of sense on the embassy, and you need not instruct him, 282 Sense comes with age, 259 Seven brothers in a council make wrong right, 257 Seven is company, and nine confusion (Alluding to a dinner party), 257 Serve a lord and you’ll know what is grief, 257, 294 Serve as a serf or fly like a deer, 56 Service is no inheritance, 56, 126 Services unrequired go unrequited, 171 Set a beggar on horseback, and he don’t trot, but gallops, 321 Set a beggar on horseback, and he’ll outride the devil, 178 Set a peasant on horseback, and he forgets both God and man, 244 Set a fox to catch a fox, 390 Set a thief to catch a thief, 167, 334, 364 Set thy expense according to thy trade, 345 Set your sail according to the wind, 22 Shame comes to no man unless he himself help it on the way, 381 Shame lasts longer than poverty, 337 She hangs out the broom (wants a husband), 345 She is fond of greens who kisses the gardener, 223 She is fond of him—on the side where the pocket hangs, 169 She is good and honoured who is dead and buried, 222 She is good who is close to the fire and does not burn, 222 She is well married who has neither mother-in-law nor sister-in-law, 201, 267 She who is born a beauty is born betrothed, 83 She who loves an ugly man thinks him handsome, 249 Shear the sheep but don’t flay them, 23, 333 Shoemaker stick to your last, 168, 262, 337 Shoemakers are always the worst shod, 34 Shoemakers go to mass and pray that sheep may die, 261 Short flax makes long thread, 399 Short hair is soon brushed, 157 Short hose must have long points, 193 Short pleasure often brings long repentance, 399 Short reckonings make long friends, 34, 157, 273, 317 Should the heavens fall, many pipkins will be broken, 367 Show me a liar and I’ll show you a thief, 39, 190, 344 Show me a poor man, I will show you a flatterer, 273 Shut your door, and you will make your neighbour good (or a good woman), 208, 272 Sickly body, sickly mind, 157 Sickness comes in haste, and goes at leisure, 399 Sickness comes on horseback and departs on foot, 308 Sickness comes uninvited—no need to bespeak it, 399 Sickness is every man’s master, 399 Sight goes before hearsay, 399 Silence and look out, we shall catch both hen and chicks, 207 Silence and reflection cause no dejection, 168 Silence answers much, 345 Silence gives consent, 50, 86, 185, 247, 311 Silk and velvet put out the kitchen fire, 167 Silken tongue and hempen heart often go together, 397 Silly sheep, where one goes, all go, 238 Silver and gold are all men’s dears, 398 Since I wronged you, I have never liked you, 212 Since the house is on fire, let us warm ourselves, 121, 242 Since the wine is drawn it must be drunk, 47 Since we have loaves let us not look for cakes, 242 Since you have been scolding me, I have counted a hundred and twenty holes in that nutmeg grater, 213 Singed eats live long, 172 Singers, lovers, and poets, are privileged liars, 167 Six things have no business in the world: a fighting priest, a coward knight, a covetous judge, a stinking barber, a soft-hearted mother, and an itchy baker, 57 Skill or fortune will efface the spots, 72 Skilled hands eat trouts, 230 Slander expires at a good woman’s door, 399 Slander! slander! some of it always sticks, 9 Slaughter (or kill) no more than you can well salt, 167 Sleep over it, and you will come to a resolution, 215 Sloth is the beginning of vice, 332 Sloth is the key to poverty, 148, 240, 292 Slow and sure, 158 Small beer comes the last, 348 Small gains bring great wealth, 330 Small profits and often, are better than large profits and seldom, 157 Small profits are sweet, 384 Small rain lays a great wind, 120 Small saints, too, work miracles, 157 Small undertakings give great comfort, 177 Smoke, floods (or stench), and a scolding wife, are enough to drive a man out of his life, 19, 224, 337 Smoke, rain, and a scolding wife, are three bad things in a house, 401 Smooth words do not flay the tongue, 114 Snarling curs never want sore ears, 13 Snivelling folks always want to wipe other folks’ noses, 35 So begun, so done, 345 So good that he is good for nothing, 127 So got, so gone, 345 So it goes in the world: one has the purse, the other has the gold, 169 So many countries, so many customs, 127, 158, 169 So many heads, so many minds, 127, 397 So many men, so many minds, 7, 173, 345 So you tell me there are wolves on the mountain, and foxes in the valley, 202 Soft and fair goeth far, 344 Soft water constantly striking the hard stone, wears it at last, 264 Soft words don’t scotch the tongue, 16 Softly, barber, the water scalds, 120 Softly, don’t raise a dust, 120 Soldiers must be well paid, and well hanged, 169 Some day Peter will command as much as his master, 196 Some have bread who have no teeth left, 58 Some have fine eyes and can’t see a jot, 58 Some have the fame, and others card the wool, 260 Some sell and don’t deliver, 58 Some sing who are not merry, 127 Some think they have done when they are only beginning, 58 Some thinking to avenge their shame increase it, 58 Some who jest tell tales of themselves, 127 Some who mean only to warm, burn themselves, 58 Something to every one is good division, 155 Sometimes an egg is given for an ox, 69 Sometimes the lees are better than the wine, 69 Soon enough if well enough, 5 Soon fire, soon ashes, 341 Soon gained, soon squandered, 58 Soon grass, soon hay, 341 Soon ripe, soon rotten, 154 Soon ripe, soon rotten; soon wise, soon foolish, 341 Sooner or later the truth comes to light, 341 Sorrow seldom comes alone, 397 Sour wine, old bacon, and rye bread, keep a house rich, 261 Sow corn in clay, and plant vines in sand, 257 Sow not money on the sea, lest it sink, 344 Spare to speak and spare to speed, 51 Sparrows should not dance with cranes, their legs are too short, 375 Speak little and well, they will think you somebody, 277 Speak little of your ill luck, and boast not of your good luck, 400 Speak little, speak truth. Spend little, pay cash, 166 Speak not ill of the year until it is past, 112, 235, 285 Speak, that I may see thee, 166 Speak well of your friend; of your enemy neither well nor ill, 91 Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding, 166 Speaking is silver, silence is gold, 338 Speaking silence is better than senseless speech, 350 Speech is oft repented, silence seldom, 386 Speedy rise, speedy fall (Sudden glory soon goes out), 168 Spending your money with many a guest, empties the kitchen, the cellar, and chest, 190 Spilt salt is never well collected, 255, 299 Spinner, spin softly, you disturb me; I am praying, 278 Spit not in the well, you may have to drink its water, 40 Spur not a willing horse, 1, 77, 188 Stagnant water grows stinking, 170 Stand up, farthing, let the florin sit down (Stand up, cent, let the dollar sit down), 152 Starlings are lean because they go in flocks, 100 Starved lice bite the hardest, 332 Stay a while, and lose a mile, 338 Stealing would be a nice thing, if thieves were hanged by the girdle, 218 Step by step one goes far (or to Rome), 118, 297, 341 Still water breeds vermin, 67 Still waters run deep, 170, 338, 363 Stock-fish are made tender by much beating, 334 Stolen bread stirs the appetite, 44 Stones or bread, one must have something in hand for the dogs, 118 Stoop, and let it pass; the storm will have its way, 364 Strain not your bow beyond its bent, lest it break, 338 Strangers’ meat is the greatest treat, 369 Straying shepherd, straying sheep, 154 Strength avails not a coward, 67 Stretch your legs, according to your coverlet, 160 170, 338 (See Every one stretches) Strew no roses before swine, 338 Strike while the iron is hot, 22, 74, 160, 282, 337, 390 Strong folks have strong maladies, 170 Strong is the vinegar of sweet wine, 99 “Success to you! God speed the craft!” as the hangman said to the judge, 150 Such awkward things will happen as going into the great square and coming back without ears, 202 Suffering and patience, obedience and application, help the lowly born to honour, 384 Sufficient for the day is the evil thereof, 2 Sugared words generally prove bitter, 239 Suit yourself to the times, 167 Summer-sown corn and women’s advice turn out well once in every seven years, 169 Supper is soon served in a plentiful house, 284 Supple as a glove, 318 Suspicion is the poison of friendship, 57 Sweat makes good mortar, 168 Sweep before your own door before you look after your neighbour’s, 340 Sweet meat requires sour sauce, 93 Sweet song has betrayed many, 170 Sweet wine makes sour vinegar, 170 Swim on and don’t trust, 40 T. Take a horse by his bridle and a man by his word, 333 Take a woman’s first advice and not her second, 46 Take advice of a red-bearded man, and be gone, 400 Take an ox by his horn, a man by his word, 31 Take care of your geese when the fox preaches, 400 Take care of your plough, and your plough will take care of you, 180 Take care you don’t let your tail be caught in the door, 100 Take counsel before it goes ill, lest it go worse, 312 Take down a thief from the gallows and he will hang you up, 15, 92 Take help of many, advice of few, 400 Take not your sickle to another man’s corn, 388 Take nothing in hand that may bring repentance, 335 Take the horse to the knacker, and throw in bridle and saddle, 190 Take the middle of the way and thou wilt not fall, 225 Take the world as it is, not as it ought to be, 164 Taking out without putting in soon comes to the bottom, 211, 276 Talk as you go, husband, to the gallows, 199 Talk little and well, and you will be looked upon as somebody, 223 Talk of sporting, and buy game in the market, 223 Talk of the devil and his imp appears, 178 Talk of the devil and you hear his bones rattle, 299 Talk of the wolf and behold his skin, 277 Talk of the wolf and his tail appears, 48, 299 Talking is easier than doing, and promising than performing, 166 Talking is silver, silence is gold, 166 Tall trees catch much wind, 328 Tell a lie and you’ll hear the truth, 167, 214 Tell everybody your business and the devil will do it for you, 92 Tell her she is handsome, and you will turn her head (or brain), 214, 275 Tell it her once, and the devil will tell it her ten times, 214 Tell, me the company you keep, and I’ll tell you what (or who) you are, 16, 92, 214, 344 Tell me with whom thou goest, and I’ll tell thee what thou doest, 275 Tell no one what you would have known only to yourself, 303 Tell no tales out of school, 160 Tell not all you, know believe not all you hear, do not all you are able, 67 Tell not all you know, nor judge of all you see, if you would live in peace, 245 Tell your affairs in the market-place, and one will call them black and another white, 255 Tell your friend a lie, and if he keeps it secret tell him the truth, 203, 268 Tell your friend your secret, and he will set his foot on your neck, 91, 213, 275 Ten noes are better than one lie, 401 Tender surgeons make foul wounds, 344 Thank you, pretty pussy, was the death of my cat, 119 That beer’s of your own brewing, and you must drink it, 303 That bench is well adorned that is filled with virtuous women, 352 That brings water to the mill, 9 That costs dear which is bought with begging, 77 That happens in a moment (or a day) which may not happen in a hundred years, 20, 66 That is beggar’s fare, said the dame, when she fried eggs with the sausages, 303 That is done soon enough which is well done, 5, 73 That is gold which is worth gold, 43, 118, 238, 290 That is good wisdom which is wisdom in the end, 324 That is not in the looking-glass which is seen in the looking-glass, 147 That is pleasant to remember which was hard to endure, 124 That is poor help that helps you from the feather-bed to the straw, 359 That may be soon done which brings long repentance, 362 That miller is honest who has hair on his teeth, 139 That mouse will have a tail (i. e. The thing will have a long train of consequences), 303 That priest is a fool who decries his relics, 119 That usury is a sin some hold, but take for granted they’ve no gold, 185 That which burns thee not, cool not, 343 That which comes with sin, goes with sorrow, 375 That which covers thee discovers thee, 252 That which has been eaten out of the pot cannot be put into the dish, 362 That which has been thrown away has often to be begged for again, 393 That which is customary requires no excuse, 88 That which is stamped a penny will never be a pound, 352 That which is unsaid, may be said; that which is said, cannot be unsaid, 363 That which must be, will be, 362 That’s all well and good, but gold is better, 303 That’s as much as a bean in a brewing copper, 325 That’s but an empty purse which is full of other men’s money, 354 That’s quickly done which is long repented, 324 Thaw reveals what has been hidden by snow, 362 The abbey does not fail for want of one monk, 46 The absent are always in the wrong, 33, 303 The absent were never in the right, 237 The accomplice is as bad as the thief, 294 The account is correct, but not a sixpence appears, 224 The act of treachery is liked, but not he that does it, 228 The aged in council—the young in action, 352 The ant gets wings that she may perish the sooner, 233 (See God gives wings) The anvil is not afraid of the hammer, 138, 365 The anvil is used to noise, 138 The anvil lasts longer than the hammer, 95, 120 The archer that shoots badly has a lie ready, 261, 269 The arguments of the strongest have always the most weight, 31 The arms of Bruges: an ass in an arm-chair, 325 The art is not in making money, but in keeping it, 323 The ass and his driver do not think alike, 138, 304 The ass carries corn to the mill and gets thistles, 138 The ass dead, the barley at his tail, 195, 267 The ass does not know the worth of his tail till he has lost it, 107 The ass embraced the thistle, and they found themselves relations, 263 The ass of many owners is eaten by wolves, 202, 267 The ass that is common property is always the worst saddled, 30 The ass that is hungry eats thistles, 268 The ass that trespasses on a stranger’s premises will leave them laden with wood (i.e. cudgelled), 268 The ass well knows in whose house he brays, 205, 269 The ass’s hide is used to the stick, 107 The ass’s son brays one hour daily, 288 The back door is the one that robs the house, 107 The bacon of paradise for the married man that does not repent, 220 The bad barber leaves neither hair nor skin, 220 The bad man always suspects knavery, 218 The bad neighbour gives a needle without thread (Galician), 198, 265 The bagpipe never utters a word till its belly is full, 27 The bailiff’s cow and another’s cow are two different cows, 140 The balance in doing its office knows neither gold nor lead, 18 The bath has sworn not to whiten the blackamoor, 225 The beadle’s cow may graze in the churchyard, 157, 331 The beadle of the parish is always of the vicar’s opinion, 31 The beard does not make the philosopher, 105 The beast dead, the venom dead, 39, 110 The beast that goes well is never without some one to try his paces, 225, 263 The beaten pay the fine, 33 The beggar’s wallet has no bottom, 103, 136 The beginning hot, the middle lukewarm, the end cold, 134 The bell does not go to mass, and yet calls every one to it, 112, 235 The belly does not accept bail, 263 The belly gives no credit, 351 The belly is a bad adviser, 138 The belly overrules the head, 36 The belly warm, the foot at rest, 268 The benefice must be taken with its liabilities, 22 The best always goes first, 125 The best cast at dice is not to play, 218 The best cause requires a good pleader, 303 The best cloth has uneven threads, 221 The best company must part, as King Dagobert said to his hounds, 26 The best driver will sometimes upset, 25 The best feed of a horse is his master’s eye, 218, 303 The best friends are in one’s purse, 140 The best goods are the cheapest, 321 The best horse stumbles sometimes, 321 (See Even a horse) The best is the cheapest, 102, 137 The best is what one has in his hand, 137 The best manure is under the farmer’s shoe, 357 The best of the mill is that the sacks can’t speak, 154 The best pears fall into the pigs’ mouths, 76 The best pilots are ashore, 303 The best spices are in small bags, 111 (See Precious ointments) The best swimmer is the first to drown himself, 85 The best trees are the most beaten, 104 The best wine has its lees, 32 The better day the better deed, 8, 221, 276 The better lawyer, the worse Christian, 328 The big fish eat the little ones, 34, 103 The bird once out of hand is hard to recover, 367 The bird ought not to soil its own nest, 37 The biter is sometimes bit, 57, 78 The bites of priests and wolves are hard to heal, 176 The blade wears out the sheath, 29 The blind man has picked up a coin, 264 The blunders of physicians are covered by the earth, 290 The boor looks after a cent as the devil after a soul, 303 The bow may be bent until it breaks, 396 The bow must not be always bent, 303 The bow that is always bent slackens or breaks, 202 The bowels support the heart, and not the heart the bowels, 260 The branch is seldom better than the stem, 397 The branch must be bent early that is to make a good crook, 363 The braying of an ass does not reach heaven, 124 The bread eaten, the company departed, 219, 291 The bucket goes so often to the well that it leaves its handle there, 128 The buckets take to fighting with the well, and get their heads broken, 109 The bud becomes a rose, and the rose a hip, 31 The busy fly is in every man’s dish, 219 The candle that goes before gives the best light, 305 The candle that goes before is better than that which comes after, 28 The cask always smells of the herring, 28 The cask can give no other wine than what it contains, 105 The cask full, the mother-in-law drunk, 226 The cask smells of the wine it contains, 226 The cat always leaves her mark upon her friend, 203 The cat is a good friend, but scratches, 206, 269 The cat loves fish, but is loth to wet her feet, 106, 141 The cat well knows whose beard she licks, 269 The cats that drive away mice are as good as those that catch them, 147 The chamber-bell (chamber-clapper, or curtain lecture) is the worst sound a man can have in his ears, 101 The chamois climbs high and yet is caught, 149 The child who gets a stepmother also gets a stepfather, 357 The church, the sea, or the royal household, for those who would thrive, 225 The churl knows not the worth of spurs, 36 The coalheaver is master at home, 13 The cock is a lord (or king, or valiant) on his own dunghill, 95, 134, 138 The cock often crows without a victory, 400 The cook shuts his eyes when he crows, because he knows it by heart, 138 The concealer is as bad as the thief, 152 The corn falls out of a shaken sheaf, 15 The corn that is taken to a bad mill will be badly ground, 362 The counterfeit image of a pot with two ears, 305 The court of Rome likes not sheep without wool, 89 The cow does not know the value of her tail till she has lost it, 305, 383 The cow gives milk through her mouth, 141 The cow is milked, not the ox; the sheep is shorn, not the horse, 383 The cow licks no strange calf, 141 The cow that does not eat with the oxen, either eats before or after them (Galician), 204 The cows that low most give the least milk, 141 The cross on his breast, and the devil in his acts, 226 The crow will find its mate (Like will to like), 383 The curse on the hearth wounds the deepest, 347 The danger past, the saint cheated, 118 The day I did not make my toilette, there came to my house one I did not expect, 217 The day I did not sweep the house, there came to it one I did not expect, 217 The day is never so holy that the pot refuses to boil, 352 The day is sure to come when the cow will want her tail, 352 The day you marry ’tis either kill or cure, 217 The days follow each other and are not alike, 35 The dead and the absent have no friends, 199, 265 The dead are soon forgotten, 35 The dead open the eyes of the living, 290 The dearer the child, the sharper must be the rod, 382 The debts go to the next heir, 141 The deceived sheep that went for wool and came back shorn, 216 The devil gets into the belfry by the vicar’s skirts, 241 The devil has his martyrs among men, 304 The devil is bad because he is old, 102 The devil is civil when he is flattered, 139 The devil is fond of his own (Galician), 238 The devil is not always at a poor man’s door, 32 The devil is not so black (or ugly) as he is painted, 102, 139, 285, 304 The devil is so fond of his son that he put out his eye, 258 The devil leads him by the nose, who the dice too often throws, 10 The devil likes to souse what is already wet, 139 The devil lurks (or sits) behind the cross, 15, 152, 213, 304 The devil may die without my inheriting his horns, 32 The devil tempts all, but the idle man tempts the devil, 102 The devil turns away from a closed door, 69, 212 The devil was handsome when he was young, 32 The devil will tempt Lucifer, 102 The devil’s in the cards, said Sam, four aces and not a single trump, 302 The devil’s meal turns half to bran, 28 The difficult thing is to get foot in the stirrup, 103 The doctor is often more to be feared than the disease, 32 The doctor seldom takes physio, 92 The dog barks and the ox feeds, 76 The dog does not get bread every time he wags his tail, 159 The dog gets into the mill under cover of the ass, 57 The dog rages at the stone, not at him who throws it, 138 The dog that barks much, bites little, 272 (See Dogs that bark) The dog that barks much is never good for hunting, 271 The dog that bites does not bark in vain, 76 The dog that has been beaten with a stick is afraid of its shadow, 101 The dog that has its bitch in town never barks well, 208 The dog that is forced into the woods will not hunt many deer, 354 The dog that is quarrelsome and not strong, woe to his hide, 77 The dog that kills wolves, is killed by wolves, 240, 271 The dog that licks ashes is not to be trusted with flour, 65 The dog that means to bite don’t bark, 101 The dog that starts the hare is as good as the one that catches it, 138 The dog wags his tail, not for you but your bread, 110, 232, 269 The dog will not get free by biting his chain, 379 The dogs bite the hindermost, 137 The dog’s kennel is not the place to keep a sausage, 380 The dress does not make the friar, 217 The drunken man’s joy is often the sober man’s sorrow, 363 The drunken mouth reveals the heart’s secrets, 171 The eagle does not catch (or hunt) flies, 29, 138 (See Eagles) The eagle does not war against frogs, 107 The early riser is healthy, cheerful, and industrious, 20 The earth covers the errors of the physician, 99 The earth hides, as it takes, the physician’s mistakes, 230 The earth is always frozen to lazy swine, 382 The earthen pan gains nothing by contact with the copper pot, 384 The egg will be more knowing than the hen, 137 The election of the abbot is not stopped for want of a monk, 119 The elephant does not feel a flea-bite, 108 The Emperor of Germany is the king of kings, the King of Spain king of men, the King of France king of asses, the King of England king of devils, 33 The empty waggon must make room for the full one, 139 The end crowns the work, 29, 102, 288, 322 The end of all things is death, 322 The end of mirth is the beginning of sorrow, 322 The end of the corsair is to drown, 102 The end of wrath is the beginning of repentance, 191 The envious man’s face grows sharp and his eyes big, 196, 266 The envious will die, but envy never, 34 The evil which issues from thy mouth falls into thy bosom, 218 The executioner is a keen shaver, 138 The eye is bigger than the belly, 140 The eye is blind if the mind is absent, 88 The eye is never satiated with seeing, 136 The eye of the master fattens the steed, 37, 109, 219, 380 The eye of the master makes the horse fat, and that of the mistress the chambers neat, 325 The eyes are bigger than the belly, 306 The eyes believe themselves, the ears other people, 140 The fairer the hostess, the heavier the reckoning, 155 The false friend is like the shadow of a sun-dial, 32 The farther from Rome the nearer to God, 328 The farthest way about is the nearest way home, 143 The fat sow knows not what the hungry sow suffers, 353 The father a saint, the son a sinner (or devil), 92, 212, 275 The fatter the flea the leaner the dog, 154 The fault is as great as he that commits it, 28, 258 The fear of war is worse than war itself, 119 The feast passes and the fool remains, 118, 239 The fertile field becomes sterile without rest, 216 The fewer the words the better the prayer, 155 The fierce ox becomes tame on strange ground, 216 The fingers of the same hand are not alike, 290 The fire burns brightest on one’s own hearth, 351 The fire heeds little whose cloak it burns, 380 The fire is welcome within when icicles hang without, 351 The fire well knows whose cloak burns, 205 The first at the mill grinds first, 85 The first bird gets the first grain, 353 The first blow is as good as two, 33, 103 The first comer grinds first (First come, first served), 33 The first dish pleases every one, 107 The first in the boat has the choice of oars, 317 The first occasion offered quickly take, lest thou repine at what thou didst forsake, 320 The first step binds one to the second, 33 The first step is all the difficulty, 26 (See The difficult thing) The first wife is a broom, and the second a lady, 228 The fish lead a pleasant life, they drink when they like, 140 The fisherman fishes in troubled water, 284 The flame is not far from the smoke, 385 The flatterer’s throat is an open sepulchre, 100 The flawed pot lasts longest, 36 The flitch hangs never so high but a dog will look out for the bone, 368 The fly flutters about the candle till at last it gets burnt, 306 The fly that bites the tortoise breaks its beak, 106 The fool cuts himself with his own knife, 32 The fool hunts for misfortune, 32 The fool knows more in his own house than the sage in other men’s, 120 The fool who is silent passes for wise, 19, 289 The foot of the farmer manures the field, 351 The forest has ears, and the field has eyes, 398 The fortress that parleys soon surrenders, 77 The fox advised the others to cut off their tails, because he had left his own in the trap, 107 The fox changes his skin, but keeps the rogue, 138 The fox does not do as much mischief in a year as it pays for in an hour, 235 The fox does not go twice into the same trap, 395 The fox does not prey near his hole, 188 The fox goes through the corn and does not eat, but brushes it down with his tail (Galician), 204 The fox is knowing, but more knowing he who catches him, 233, 284 The fox knows well with whom he plays tricks, 205 The fox may lose his hair, but not his cunning, 316 The fox said the grapes were sour, 107 The fox says of the mulberries when he cannot get at them, they are good for nothing, 2 The fox that sleeps in the morning has not his tongue feathered, 55 The fox that tarries long is on the watch for prey, 254 The fox thinks everybody eats poultry like himself, 20 The Frenchman sings well when his throat is moistened, 269 The friar (or monk) who begs for God begs for two, 222 The friendship of great men is like the shadow of a bush, soon gone, 4 The friendship of the great is fraternity with lions, 70 The frog does not bite, because it cannot, 107 The frog will jump back into the pool, although it sits on a golden stool, 307 The fruit falls not far from the stem, 307 The fugitive finds everything impede him, 66 The full belly does not believe in hunger, 89 The full cask makes no noise, 105 (See Full vessels) The full-fed cow makes company of her tail, 228 The full-fed sheep is frightened at her own tail, 238, 290 The fuller the cask, the duller its sound, 155 The gallows takes its own, 226 The gallows was made for the unlucky, 106, 239 The game is not worth the candle, 32 The gardener’s dog neither eats greens (or lettuce) nor lets any one else eat them, 76, 219, 290 The gardener’s dog, neither full nor hungry, 219 The gardener’s feet do no harm to the garden, 230 The generous man enriches himself by giving, the miser hoards himself poor, 310, 354 The gentle calf sucks all the cows, 269 The gentle hawk mans herself, 41 The gentle lamb sucks any ewe as well as its mother, the surly lamb sucks neither its own nor another, 216 The Germans carry their wit in their fingers, 33 The girl as she is taught, the flax as it is wrought, 227 The glass-dealer’s horses fell out, and he looked on to see which kicked hardest, 254 The goat can’t well cover herself with her tail, 230 The golden ass passes everywhere, 202 The golden key opens every door, 88, 105 The good seaman is known in bad weather, 101 The good shepherd shears, not flays, 101 The good time comes but once, 103 The goose goes so often into the kitchen, till at last she sticks to the spit, 369 The goose hisses, but does not bite, 305 The goose that has a good gander cackles loudly, 353 The goose that has lost its head no longer cackles, 353 The goslings would lead the geese out to grass, 35 The gossips fall out and tell each other truths, 254 The gown does not make the friar (or monk), 36, 105 The grapes are sour, said the fox when he could not reach them, 202, 304 (See The fox said) The greater the fear, the nearer the danger, 382 The greatest burdens are not the gainfullest, 17 The greatest conqueror is he who conquers himself, 185 The greatest cunning is to have none at all, 30 The greatest step is out of doors, 138 The green burns for the dry, and the righteous pay for sinners, 202 The greyhound that starts many hares kills none, 223, 278 The guests will go away, and we will eat the pasty, 279 The gutter by dropping wears the stone, 226 The handsomest snuffs the candle, 141 The handsomest woman can only give what she has, 30 The hardest step is over the threshold, 103 The hare always returns to her form, 32 The hare starts from where it is least expected, 91, 214, 241 The hasty man was never a traitor, 152 The headache is mine, and the cows are ours, 264 The heart does not lie, 322 The heart does not think all the mouth says, 113 The heart is no traitor, 216 The heart leads whither it goes, 32 The hen flies not far unless the cock flies with her, 399 The hen is ill off when the egg teaches her how to cackle, 360 The hen lays upon an egg, 258 The hen likes to lay in a nest where there are eggs already, 137 The hen lives by pickings, as the lion by prey, 396 The hen ought not to cackle in presence of the cock, 30 The hen that stays at home picks up the crumbs, 278 The hen’s eyes are with her chickens, 30 The hen’s eyes follow her eggs (Galician), 204, 289 The herb patience does not grow in every man’s garden, 400 The heron blames the water because he cannot swim, 374 The higher the ape climbs the more he shows his rump, 45, 154 The higher the bell is hung, the shriller it sounds, 154 The higher the mountain the lower the vale, the taller the tree the harder the fall, 328 The higher the rise the greater the fall, 15, 69, 211 The hole invites the thief, 215 The honest man enjoys the theft, 216 The horse is not judged of by the saddle, 137 The horse must go to the manger, and not the manger to the horse, 374 The horse that draws best is the most whipped, 43, 137 The horse thinks one thing, and his rider another, 260 The horse’s best allowance is his master’s eye, 280 (See The eye of the master) The horseshoe that clatters wants a nail, 224 The house completed, possession defeated, 77 The hunchback does not see his own hump, but sees his companion’s, 31, 216 The husband’s mother is the wife’s devil, 140 The ill year comes in swimming, 32 The injurer never forgives, 84 The interested friend is a swallow on the roof (Prepared to leave at the approach of winter), 29 The Italianised Englishman is a devil incarnate, 109 The Italians are wise before the act, the Germans in the act, the French after the act, 99 The Italians cry, the Germans bawl, and the French sing, 35 The Jew ruins himself with passovers, the Moor with wedding feasts, and the Christian with lawsuits, 218 The kettle smuts the frying-pan, 31 The key at the girdle keeps me good and my neighbour too, 264 The key that is used grows bright, 139 The keys at the girdle, the dog in the larder, 228 The king cannot always rule as he wishes, 139 The king goes as far as he can, not so far as he would, 220 The king likes the treachery, but not the traitor, 239 The king of the bees has no sting, 290 The king’s chaff is better than other folk’s corn, 140 The kite’s malady, its wings broken and its beak sound, 218 The laggard cow gets the sour grass, 355 The lame goat does not take a siesta, 270 The land a man knows is his mother, 228 The last come is the best liked, 32 The last comers are often the masters, 34 The last shuts the door, 87, 139 The last stole the sack, 139 The late comer is ill lodged, 86 The later the evening the fairer the company, 155 The law devised, its evasion contrived, 278 The law says what the king pleases, 29 The lawyer’s pouch is a mouth of hell, 29 The lazy pig does not eat ripe pears, 121 The lazy servant takes eight steps to avoid one, 219, 289 The lean dog is all fleas, 197 The less said the sooner mended, 343 The letter enters with blood, 226 The liar is not believed when he speaks the truth, 69 The liar is sooner caught than the cripple, 200 The light is painful to sore eyes, 68 The lion had need of the mouse, 102 The lion is known by his claws, 90 The lion is not so fierce as he is painted, 235 The list is worse than the cloth, 29 The listener makes the backbiter, 32 The little alms are the good alms, 30 The lives of doctors, the souls of priests, and the property of lawyers, are in great danger, 107 The longest way round is the shortest way home, 107 The Lord will not fail to come, though he may not come on horseback, 403 The loss which your neighbour does not know is no real loss, 267 The loyal man lives no longer than the traitor pleases, 237 The lucky man has a daughter for his first-born, 196, 264 The mad dog bites its master, 289 The magistrate’s son gets out of every scrape, 224 The magpie cannot leave her hopping, 304 The malady that is most incurable is folly, 289 The man has neither sense nor reason who leaves a young wife at home, 37 The man in the moon stole the wood, 139 The man of sense does not hang up his knowledge, 290 The man of your own trade is your enemy, 279 The mare’s kick does not harm the colt, 76, 226, 288 The mare’s kicks are caresses to the horse, 208, 273 The master derives honour from his art, 368 The master orders the man, the man orders the cat, and the cat orders her tail, 282 The master’s eye and foot are the best manure for the field, 303 The master’s eye does more than both his hands, 136 The master’s eye makes the horse fat, 289 (See The eye of the master) The master’s foot is manure for the estate, 219 The maw costs much, 305 The meaning is best known to the speaker, 33 The merchant that loses cannot laugh, 38 The middle path is the safe path, 162 The mill does not grind with water that is past (or without water), 33, 102, 209, 272 The mill gains by going, and not by standing still, 199 The miller is never so drunk that he forgets to take his dues, 390 The miller’s hen and widower’s maid, of want need never be afraid, 162 The millstone that lies undermost also helps to grind, 354 The miser and the pig are of no use till dead, 31 The miser’s bag is never full, 370 The money paid, the workman’s arm is broken, 5 The monk preached against stealing, and had the goose in his larder (The friar preached against stealing, and had a pudding in his sleeve), 306 The monk responds as the abbot chants, 32, 139 The monk (or friar) that begs for God’s sake begs for two, 39, 222 The month loses its own, but not the year, 240 The moon does not heed the baying of dogs, 106 The more a man exposes his nakedness the colder he is, 46 The more a woman admires her face, the more she ruins her house, 227 The more by law, the less by right, 382 The more cooks the worse broth, 382 The more fools the more laughter, 46 The more haste, the less (or worse) speed, 46, 154, 250, 328 The more knave, the better luck, 382 The more law, the less justice, 155 The more one has the more one wants, 250 The more servants the worse service, 328 The more shepherds the less care, 382 The more the fox is cursed, the more prey he catches, 123 The more the well is used the more water it yields, 155 The more you court a clown the statelier he grows, 261 The more you stir a t—d (or filth, or mire) the more it stinks, 46, 155, 328, 357 The more you stroke the cat’s back the more she sets up her tail, 123 The morning hour has gold in its mouth, 162, 306, 390 The mortar always smells of the garlic, 32, 103 The most cautious passes for the most chaste, 227 The most covered fire is always the most glowing, 32 The most cunning are the first caught, 36 The most difficult mountain to cross is the threshold, 362 (See The hardest step) The most disorderly students make the most pious preachers, 140 The most friendly fortune trips up your heels, 29 The most learned are not the wisest, 305 The most prudent yields to the strongest, 70 The moth does most mischief to the finest garment, 111 The Mother of God appears to fools, 197 The mother reckons well, but the child reckons better, 205 The mother-in-law does not remember that she was once a daughter-in-law, 237, 285 The mother-in-law must be entreated, and the pot must be let stand, 228 The mountain is in labour, and brings forth a mouse, 118 The mountaineer’s ass carries wine and drinks water, 30 The mouse does not leave the cat’s house with a bellyful, 91, 210 The mouse is knowing, but the cat more knowing, 390 The mouse may find a hole, be the room ever so full of cats, 394 The mouse that has but one hole is soon caught, 57, 219, 315 The mouth and the purse, shut, 225 The month often utters what the head must answer for, 390 The mouth that says yes, says no, 205, 269 The mule long keeps a kick in reserve for its master, 33 The myrtle is always a myrtle, though it be among nettles, 102 The nearer the bone the sweeter the flesh, 155, 328 The nearer the church the farther from God, 46, 155 The nearer the inn, the longer the road, 155 The nearer the minster the later to mass, 46 The nearest boor is the nearest kinsman when the calf lies in the ditch, 334 The nearest the dearest, 137 The nest made, the bird dead, 287 The new is always liked, though the old is often better, 393 The niggard spends as much as he who is liberal, and in the end more, 7 The night brings counsel, 30 The nobler the blood the less the pride, 382 The nobler the tree the more pliant the twig, 328 The noise is so great one cannot hear God thunder, 31 The oaths of one who loves a woman are not to be believed, 225 The office teaches the man, 136 The official who can’t lie may as well be out of the world, 219 The oft-moved (or rolling) stone gathers no moss, 356 The old branch breaks if bent, 370 The old for want of ability, and the young for want of knowledge, let things be lost, 220 The old man at home, and the young abroad, lie after the same fashion, 220 The old monkey gets the apple, 30 The old ones sing, the young ones pipe (or, As the old cock crows, the young cook learns), 342 The old saints are forgotten in the new, 291 The old wife, if she does not serve for a pot, serves for a cover, 227 The older a fool the worse he is (There is no fool like an old fool), 154 The older one grows the more one learns, 328 The older, the colder; the more avaricious, the more vicious, 154 The one-eyed is a king in the land of the blind, 6, 172, 222, 286 The only victory over love is flight, 31 The only way to keep a secret is to say nothing, 25 The open door invites the thief, 306 (See The hole; also Opportunity) The owl does not praise the light, nor the wolf the dog, 402 The owl thinks her children the fairest, 402 The ox comes to the yoke at the call of his feeder, 197 The ox spoke and said “Moo,” 223 The ox that tossed me threw me into a good place, 216, 270 The ox without a bell is soon lost, 216 The pan says to the pot, Keep off, or you’ll smutch me, 106 The paunch warm, the foot sleepy, 204 The people’s voice, God’s voice, 64, 132, 140, 174 The pike grows big on small fry, 370 The pitcher goes so often to the well that it gets broken at last, 58, 139, 305, 383 The pitcher goes so often to the well that it leaves its handle or its mouth, 131, 208, 258, 271 The point of the thorn is small, but he who has felt it does not forget it, 97 The poor man eats at double cost, 288 The poor man has his crop destroyed by hail every year, 217 The poor man seeks for food, the rich man for appetite, 368 The poor man wants much, the miser everything, 353 The poor man’s corn always grows thin, 368 The poor must dance as the rich pipe, 140 The poor-houses are filled with the honestest people, 211 The pope and a peasant know more than the pope alone, 125 The pope eats peasants, gulps gentlemen, and voids monks, 139 The pot boils best on your own hearth, 365 The pot that boils too much loses its flavour, 291 The pot upbraids the kettle that it is black, 306 The pride of the poor does not endure, 368 The priest errs at the altar, 97 The priest loves his flock, but the lambs more than the wethers, 139 The priest to his book, the peasant to his plough, 395 The proof of the pudding is in the eating, 307 The rat does not leave the cat’s house with a bellyful, 274 The rat that has but one hole is soon caught, 198, 354, 299 (See The mouse) The raven always thinks that her young ones are the whitest, 395 The raven is fair when the rook is not by, 395 The repeated stroke will fell the oak, 173 The rich devour the poor, and the devil devours the rich, and so both are devoured, 306 The rich have many friends, 337 The rich man has more relations than he knows, 33 The rich man transgresses the law, and the poor man is punished, 259 The rich widow’s tears soon dry, 396 The richest man carries nothing away with him but a shroud, 33 The richest man, whatever his lot, is he who’s content with what he has got, 318 The right hand is slave to the left, 105 The righteous man sins before an open chest, 221 The righteous pays for the sinner, 290 The river does not swell with clear water, 102 The river passed the saint forgotten, 118 The road to heaven is equally short, where’er we die, 361 The road to ruin is paved with good intentions, 139 The roses fall, and the thorns remain, 108 The rotten apple spoils its companion, 227 The saint has no believers unless he works miracles, 114 The saint who works no cures has few pilgrims to his shrine, 55 The saint’s-day over, farewell the saint, 29 The same fire purifies gold and consumes straw, 126 The same shoe does not fit every foot, 74 The scabbier the sheep the harder it bleats, 328 The scalded cat (or dog) dreads cold water, 101, 223 The scoffer’s own house is often on fire, 357 The secret in swimming is to know how to take care of your clothes, 226 The secret of two is God’s secret, the secret of three is everybody’s secret, 56 The servant wench that has a mother in town swoons seven times a day, 250 The shadow of a lord is a cap for a fool, 118 The sharper soon (or easily) cheats the covetous man, 220, 290 The she-bear thinks her cubs pretty, 70 The sheep on the mountain is higher than the bull on the plain, 28 The sheep that bleat most give the least milk, 367 The sheep that bleats loses a mouthful, 9, 119, 238, 290 The sheep that is too tame is sucked by too many lambs, 9 The ship does not go without the boat, 106 The shirt is nearer than the doublet, 66, 231, 398 The shortest follies are the best, 35 The shovel scouts the poker, 30 The sick man is free to say all, 109 The sick man is vexed with the flies on the wall, 137 The sick man sleeps when the debtor cannot, 106 The silent dog is the first to bite, 168 The silent man is most trusted, 400 The skin is nearer than the shirt, 30 The sky is not the less blue because the blind man does not see it, 374 The smith’s dog sleeps at the noise of the hammer, and wakes at the grinding of teeth, 219 The smoke of my own house is better than another man’s fire, 121 The snail, to be rid of annoyances, bartered its eyes for horns, 216 The soldier is well paid for doing mischief, 103 The soldier’s blood exalts the captain, 103 The son of an ass brays twice a day, 217 The son-in-law’s sack is never full, 290 The sound of the bell does not drive away rooks, 127 The sow prefers the mire, 398 The spider’s web lets the rat escape and catches the fly, 228 The spot will come out in the washing, 197 The steps at court are slippery, 401 The stew mixed by many is ill-seasoned and worse cooked (Too many cooks spoil the broth), 238 The stew that boils much loses flavour, 238 The still swine eat the mash, the wild ones run past it, 352 The stone is hard and the drop is small, but a hole is made by the constant fall, 228 The stone that everybody spits upon will be wet at last, 356 The strong man’s sport is the weak man’s death, 170 The stronger the seam the worse the rent, 14 The strongest is always in the right, 103 The sun passes over filth and is not defiled, 71 The sun shines for all the world, 35 The sun will bring to light what lay under the snow, 141 The sun-dial counts only the bright hours, 141 The sweetest grapes hang highest, 141 The sword and the ring according to the hand that bears them, 226, 264 The sword keeps the peace of the land, 403 The tail is the hardest to scourge, 30, 105 The tailor ill-dressed, the shoemaker ill-shod, 265 The talker sows, the listener reaps, 85 The teeth of the puppy are growing while the old dog is gnawing bones, 347 The tender surgeon makes a foul wound, 102 The thief becomes the gallows well, 269 The thief cannot find any tree that suits him for a gallows, 147 The thief is frightened even by a mouse, 69 The thief proceeds from a needle to gold, and from gold to the gallows, 288 The thief thinks that all men are like himself, 240, 288 The thief’s wife does not always laugh, 114 The third person makes good company, 304 The thirteenth man brings death, 304 The thorn comes into the world point foremost, 226 The thread breaks where it is thinnest, 217 The threatener loses the opportunity of vengeance, 215 The threatener sometimes gets a drubbing, 58 The threshold says nothing but what it hears of the hinge, 235 The tired mare goes willingly to grass, 276 The tired ox plants his foot firmly, 216 The tongue goes where the tooth aches (or to the aching tooth), 29, 94, 196, 280 The tongue of a bad friend cuts more than a knife, 226 The tongue wounds more than a lance, 61 The tooth often bites the tongue, and yet they keep together, 400 The town that parleys is half surrendered, 64 The trade of thick-headed Michael: eating, drinking, and idling, 303 The treason approved, the traitor abhorred, 172, 265 The tree does not fall at the first stroke, 6, 31, 70, 304 The tree is not felled at one blow, 68 The tree is not to be judged of by its bark, 91 The tree is sure to be pruned before it reaches the skies, 401 The tree must be bent while it is young, 137 The Trojans were wise too late, 128 The two make a pair, 34 The unbidden guest is ever a pest, 171 The unfortunate know who are their real friends, 89 The unrighteous penny consumes the righteous dollar, 172 The upright never grow rich in a hurry, 396 The venom is in the tail, 111 The virtue of silence is a great piece of knowledge, 132 The voice of the people is the voice of God, 262 (See Vox Populi, vox Dei, in Dict. of Quotations) The waggon must go whither the horses draw it, 403 The watch-dog does not get sweet milk unless there be drowned mice in it, 398 The water breaks out where it is not expected, 94 The water runs while the miller sleeps, 402 The weakest goes to the wall, 125 The weakest must hold the candle, 6 The wedding feast is not made with mushrooms only, 237 The weeping bride makes a laughing wife, 176 The well-bred hound, if he does not hunt to-day will hunt to-morrow, 216 The well-dressed woman draws her husband away from another woman’s door, 227 The well-fed man does not believe in hunger, 103 The well-fed sheep makes a cloak of its tail, 227 The wet branch burns better than the dry stone, 349 The white coat does not make the miller, 107 The wicked shun the light as the devil shuns the cross, 306 The will gives the work its name, 140 The will is everything, 107 The will is taken for the deed, 37 The will is the soul of the work, 140 The wind does not always blow from the same quarter, 147 The wine given to your workmen is that for which you get the best paid, 36 The wine is not known by the hoops, 42 The wine-skin has its reasons for smelling of pitch, 264 The winter is gone, the spring is come, a fig for those who us good have done, 218 The wise drunkard is a sober fool, 171 The wise hand does not all that the tongue says, 227 The wise knows that he does not know, the ignoramus thinks he knows, 205 The wise man does not hang his knowledge on a hook, 217 The wise man has long ears and a short tongue, 139 The wit one wants spoils what one has, 36 The wolf and the fox are both in one story, 218 The wolf bemoans the sheep, and then eats it, 102 The wolf does that in the course of the week which hinders him from going to mass on Sunday, 218 The wolf eats of what is counted, 211, 275 (See Counted sheep) The wolf is always left out of the reckoning, 90 The wolf is not always a wolf, 102 The wolf is not so big as people make him (or The wolf is always said to be bigger than he is), 42, 126 The wolf loses his teeth, but not his inclinations, 218, 233, 288 The wolf picks the ass’s fleas by moonlight, 195 The wolf preys not in his own field (or commits no mischief at home), 218, 402 The wolf will die in his skin, 32 The woman in finery, the house in filth, but the doorway swept, 227 The woman who gives is seldom good; the woman who accepts is in the power of the giver, 93 The wood has ears, the field has eyes, 139 The word of honour of a gentleman—another pledge would be better, 18 The words are fair, said the wolf, but I will not come into the village, 307 The work praises the workman, 137 The workman is known by his work, 3, 70, 296 The workman is worthy of his hire, 312 The world belongs to the phlegmatic, 103 The world is for him who has patience, 103 The world is governed with little brains, 89 The world is like a staircase; some go up, others go down, 103 The world likes to be cheated, 307 The world likes to have night-owls, that it may have matter for wonder, 141 The world wags on with three things: doing, undoing, and pretending, 103 The world’s a stage; each plays his part, and takes his share, 307 The worse service, the better luck, 328 The worse the carpenter, the more the chips, 328 The worse the dun, the worse the paymaster, 154 The worst clothed go to windward, 35 The worst ewe dungs in the milking-pail, 227 The worst jests are those that are true, 11 The worst of a lawsuit is that out of one there grow a hundred, 229 The worst pig eats the best acorn (or pear), 70, 197, 289 The worst wheel creaks most (or makes the most noise), 12, 96, 137, 325, 328 The worth of a thing is what it will bring, 295 The wrath of brothers is the wrath of devils, 225, 280 The wrong-doer never lacks a pretext, 66, 197 The year has a wide mouth and a big belly, 346 The young may die, the old must die, 138, 330 The young pig must often suffer for what the old sow did, 394 The young ravens are beaked like the old, 305 Their dogs don’t hunt in couples, 36 There are calumnies against which even innocence loses courage, 27 There are eyes that fall in love with bleared ones (Fancy surpasses beauty), 238 There are fagots and fagots (all are not alike), 27 There are good and bad everywhere, 119 There are good dogs of all sizes, 15 There are ills that happen for good, 279 There are many days in the year, and still more meals, 356 There are many preachers who don’t hear themselves, 173 There are many roads to Rome, 119 There are more asses than carry sacks, 126 There are more foolish buyers than foolish sellers, 27 There are more old drunkards than old doctors, 43, 145 There are more thieves than are hanged, 302 There are more thieves than gibbets, 126 There are more threatened than hurt, 121, 231 There are no children now-a-days, 25 There are no foolish trades, there are only foolish people, 25 There are only two good women in the world: the one is dead, the other not to be found, 146 There are some who despise pride with greater pride, 127 There are some who see ill, and would like to see worse, 88 There are three bad neighbours: great rivers, great lords, and great roads, 356 There are three things from which no good can be got without a beating: a walnut-tree, a donkey, and a shrew, 401 There are toys for all ages, 27 There come just as many calf-skins to market as cow-skins, 146, 302 There die as many lambs as wethers, 294 There goes more than one ass to market, 98 There is a cause for all things, 116 There is a fool at every feast, 301 There is a remedy for everything but death, 27, 43, 203, 317, 356 There is always a Pharaoh who does not know Joseph, 146 There is little peace in that house where the hen crows and the cock is mute, 104 There is little use in watching a bad woman, 199 There is more disputing about the shell than the kernel, 159 There is never a cry of “Wolf!” but the wolf is in the district, 97 There is never a great dunghill at a sportsman’s door, 200 There is never enmity between the cook and the butler, 128 There is never enough where nought is left, 115 There is never wanting a dog to bark at you, 287 There is no answer for Get out of my house, and What have you to do with my wife?, 195 There is no appeal from time past, 91 There is no beard so well shaven but another barber will find something more to shave from it, 115 There is no beast so savage but sports with its mate, 236 There is no better patch than one off the same cloth, 236 There is no bush so small but casts its shadow, 26 There is no chapel so small but has its saint, 25 There is no choicer morsel than that which is stolen, 236 There is no cure against a slanderer’s bite, 356 There is no day without its night, 285 There is no disputing about taste, 258 There is no dog, be he ever so wicked, but wags his tail, 115 There is no fire without smoke, 356 There is no flavour in a swallowed morsel, 39 There is no fool like a learned fool, 105 There is no getting blood from a turnip, 90 There is no good in preaching to the hungry, 137 There is no helping him who will not be advised, 66 There is no house without its hush! hush!, 236 There is no hunting but with old hounds, 24 There is no joy without alloy, 318 There is no law but has a hole in it, for those who can find it out, 146 There is no lock if the pick is of gold, 236 There is no love without jealousy, 25, 112 There is no making pancakes without breaking the eggs, 84 There is no mother like the mother that bore us, 236 There is no need to bind up one’s head before it is broken, 111 There is no need to blow what does not burn you, 358 There is no need to fasten a bell to a fool, he is sure to tell his own tale, 390 There is no occasion for priests to marry while peasants have wives, 146 There is no pleasure but palls, and the more so if it costs nothing, 236, 285 There is no pot so bad (or ugly) but finds its cover, 26, 236 There is no pride like that of a beggar grown rich, 24 There is no saint so petty but claims his own candle, 146 There is no spite like that of a proud beggar, 25 There is no stripping a naked man, 142 There is no such thing as an insignificant enemy, 25 There is no such witness as a good measure of wine, 236 There is no tax upon lying, 219 There is no thief without a receiver, 230 There is no use in blowing a fire that burns well, 362 There is no use in saying, I will not go such a way, nor drink of such a water, 113 There is no virtue in a promise unless it be kept, 380 There is no worse fruit than that which never ripens, 112 There is no worse joke than a true one, 112, 115, 236 There is no worse thief than a bad book, 115 There is no worse water than that which sleeps, 24 There is not a pair of ears for every Jew, 239 There is nothing for which the boors pray so much to God as that the horses of the squirearchy may not die, for otherwise they would ride the boors with spurs, 140 There is nothing so bad but may be of some use, 156 There is nothing so secret but it transpires, 317 There is nothing so well done but may be mended, 25 There is plenty of corn in Castile, but he who has none starves, 284 There is some distance between Peter and Peter, 196 There never was a banquet so sumptuous but some one dined ill at it, 25 There never was a looking-glass that told a woman she was ugly, 25 There never was a shoe, however handsome, that did not become an ugly slipper, 113 There were never fewer nobles than when all would be so, 346 There would be no ill word if it were not ill taken, 235 There’s cunning in—a pointed chin, 169 There’s many a knave concealed under a surplice, 366 There’s neither rhyme nor reason in him, 25 There’s no argument like that of the stick, 236 There’s no catching trouts with dry breeches, 286 There’s no disputing about tastes, 91 There’s no getting to heaven in a coach, 114 There’s no guarding against the privy thief, 16 There’s no handsome woman on the wedding-day, except the bride, 285 There’s no living without friends, 285 There’s no making a donkey drink against his will, 112, 332 There’s no making a good cloak of bad cloth, 212 There’s no making a silk purse of a sow’s ear, 332 There’s no making apples of plums, 165 There’s no need to grease the fat pig’s rump, 42 There’s no putting off a lie upon the belly, 138 There’s no showing the wolf to a bad dog, 3 There’s no smoke without fire, 112 There’s no turning a windmill with a pair of bellows, 114 There’s not enough if there’s not too much, 5 There’s nothing like being bespattered for making a man defy the gutter, 25 There’s nothing like having the key of the fields, 25 There’s nothing new under the sun, 145 There’s virtue in a man’s face (i. e. presence carries weight), 17 They agree like cats and dogs, 345 They are all honest men, but my cloak is not to be found, 259 They are rich who have friends, 201, 267 They may whip me in the market-place, so it be not known at home, 259 They must be strong legs that can support prosperous days, 147 They must hunger in frost who spring-time have lost, 182 “They say” is a fool (or a liar), 41, 126 They took away the mirror from me because I was ugly, and gave it to the blind woman, 254 They understand one another like thieves in a fair, 345 They whip the cat if our mistress does not spin, 204 They who are often at the looking-glass seldom spin, 344 They who come from afar have leave to lie, 173, 311 They who deserve honour fail of it, and they who obtain it do not deserve it, 181 They who do not wash well do not bleach well, 378 They who don’t keep goats and yet sell kids, where do they get them?, 230 They who don’t kill pigs must not expect black-puddings, 201 They who eat cherries with the great are like to have the stones and stalks flung in their face, 162 They who fight with golden weapons are pretty sure to prove their right, 310 They who shun the smoke often fall into the fire, 126 They wrangle about an egg and let the hens fly away, 169 Thick wine is better than clear water, 97 Things are not as they are, but as they are regarded, 108 Things promised are things due, 13 (See Promises make debts) Think much, say little, write less, 45, 119 Think of many things, do one, 273 Thinking is not knowing, 273 Thinking of where you are going, you forget whence you came, 273 Thirst comes from drinking, 75 Thirteen nuns, fourteen children!, 141 Thistles and thorns prick sore, but evil tongues prick more, 311 Those besoms can be sold cheapest which are stolen ready made, 140 Those who climb high often have a fall, 378 Though a lie be swift, truth overtakes it, 75 Though my father-in-law is a good man, I do not like a dog with a bell, 203 Though the ass may carry a sack of gold, it feeds on thistles, 348 Though the bird may fly over your head, let it not make its nest in your hair, 368 Though the fool waits, the day does not, 54 Though the fox runs, the pullets have wings, 75 Though the heron flies high the falcon kills it, 264 Though the speaker be a fool, let the hearer be wise, 203 Though we are negroes, we are men, and have souls, 264 Though you are a prudent old man, do not despise counsel, 204 Though you seat the frog on a golden stool, he’ll soon jump off and into the pool, 168 Though you see me with this coat, I have another up the mountain, 203 Though you teach a wolf the pater-noster, he will say, “Lamb! lamb!”, 383 Though your bloodhound (or mastiff) be gentle, don’t bite him on the lip, 203, 264 Thought when sober, said when drunk, 164 Thoughts are toll-free, but not hell-free, 149 Thousands drink themselves to death before one dies of thirst, 147 Threads do not break for being fine, but for being gouty and ill-spun, 285 Threatened folks eat bread, 229, 294 Threats are arms for the threatened, 108 Threats don’t kill (Men don’t die of threats), 340 Three brothers, three castles, 60, 128, 295 Three daughters and a mother, four devils for the father, 260 Three know it, all know it, 128 Three or four daily will bring you to the bottom of the sack, 270 Three removals are as bad as a fire, 60, 141 Three things drive a man out of doors: smoke, dropping water (or a leaky roof), and a shrew, 128 Three things kill a man: a scorching sun, suppers, and cares, 260 Three who help each other are as good as six, 204 Three women and a goose make a market, 128, 312, 401 Three women, three geese, and three frogs, make a fair, 141 Thrift is better than an annuity, 39 Through being too knowing the fox lost his tail, 119 Through not spending enough, we spend too much, 241 Throw no stones at a sleeping dog, 389 Throw not the child out with the bath, 382 Throw not thy hatchet at the Lord, He will turn the sharp edge against thee, 382 Throw that bone to another dog, 200, 266 Thrust not thy finger into a fool’s mouth, 338 Thunder-showers and great men’s favour are always partial, 401 Tie me hand and foot and throw me among my own people, 108 Time and opportunity are in no man’s sleeve, 191 Time and place make the thief, 170, 338 Time and straw make medlars ripe, 334 Time and the hour are not to be tied with a rope, 295 Time and the hour run through the roughest day, 191 Time and tide wait for no man, 190 Time betrays and hangs the thief, 191 Time brings everything, to those who can wait for it, 190 Time covers and discovers everything, 191 Time destroys all things, 307 Time gained, much gained, 339 Time goes, death comes, 307 Time is anger’s medicine, 190 Time is an inaudible file, 104 Time is God’s and ours, 307 Time is money, 339 Time is not tied to a post, like a horse to the manger, 400 Time is the best counsellor (or preacher), 138, 190 Time is the herald of truth, 190 Time makes hay, 190 Time passes like the wind, 295 Time past never returns, 307 Time waits for no man, 400 Time, wind, women, and fortune, are ever changing, 191 Timid dogs bark most, 173 Tired folks are quarrelsome, 34 Tired oxen tread hard, 162 ’Tis a fat bird that bastes itself, 323 ’Tis a good farthing that saves a penny, 9 ’Tis a good horse that has no fault, 24 ’Tis a long day, a day without bread, 12 ’Tis a silly sheep that makes the wolf her confessor, 18, 110 ’Tis a wise child that knows its own father, 323 ’Tis as necessary to him as gold weights are to a beggar, 303 ’Tis best to woo where you can see the smoke, 322 ’Tis easier to hurt than heal, 172 ’Tis everywhere the same as here, 11 ’Tis good feasting in other men’s houses, 108 ’Tis hard to swim against the stream, 187 ’Tis possible if true, 56 ’Tis the mind ennobles, not the blood, 141 ’Tis too late to spare when the pocket (or cask) is bare, 191, 324 ’Tis well that wicked cows have short horns, 323 ’Tis written, “What’s not your own, that let alone,” 146 To a bold man fortune holds out her hand, 2 To a crazy ship every wind is contrary, 71 To a depraved taste sweet is bitter, 196 To a friend’s house the road is never long, 360 To a good cat a good rat, 1 To a hard knot a hard wedge, 198 To a hasty demand a leisure reply, 200, 263 To a quick ear half a word, 190 To a rogue a rogue and a half, 2 To a son-in-law and a hog you need show the way but once, 198 To a woman and a magpie tell your secrets in the market-place, 195 To a young heart everything is sport, 68 To ask wool of an ass, 15 To bait and to grease does not retard a journey, 348 To be a merchant, the art consists more in getting paid than in making sales, 256 To be content to let twelve pennies pass for a shilling, 132 To be led by the nose, 345 To be like a bunch of nettles, 256 To be like a fish in the water, 277 To be like a leek, a grey head and the rest green, 256 To be like a louse in a seam, 256 To be like a tailor’s pattern-book, 256 To be like the esquire of Guadalaxara, who knew nothing in the morning of what he said at night, 256 To be like the tailor of Campillo, who worked for nothing and found thread, 256 To be slow to give, and to refuse, are the same thing, 58, 295 To beards with money cavaliers pay respect, 195 To beat the dog in presence of the lion, 7 To become rich in this world, it needs only to turn one’s back on God, 119 To begin skinning the eel at the tail, 16 To blow hot and cold, 57 To break the constable’s head, and take refuge with the sheriff, 212 To bring down two apples with one stick, 339 To build castles in the air, 18, 330 To burn out a candle in search of a pin, 19 To buy a cat in a poke, 2 To cackle and lay no egg, 206, 270 To carry a lantern in mid-day, 46 To carry fir-trees to Norway (To carry coals to Newcastle), 338 To carry water to the sea (or river), 46, 176, 280, 343 To cast pearls before swine, 99, 336 To catch a hare with a cart, 120 To catch two pigeons with one bean, 12 To change and to better are two different things, 133 To change one’s habits smacks of death, 284 To circumstances and custom the law must yield, 368 To commit the sheep to the care of the wolf, 221 To cover the well after the child has been drowned in it, 137 To cry famine on a heap of corn, 14 To cry up wine, and sell vinegar, 242 To cut broad thongs from another man’s leather, 18 (See Broad thongs) To cut into another man’s ear is like cutting into a felt hat, 348 To-day for money, to-morrow for nothing, 152, 339 To-day in finery, to-morrow in filth, 152 To-day in gold, to-morrow in the mould, 380 To-day must borrow nothing of to-morrow, 152 To-day red, to-morrow dead, 152, 321 To-day stately and brave, to-morrow in the grave, 321 To-day’s sorrow brings nought to-morrow (Sorrow will pay no debts), 325 To discover truth by telling a falsehood, 255 To do like the monkey, get the chesnuts out of the fire with the cat’s paw, 17 To do nothing teacheth to do evil, 335 To do, one must be doing, 42 To draw the foot out of the mire, 255 To draw the snake out of the hole with another’s hand, 209 To eat and to scratch, one has but to begin, 209 To eat, drink, and sleep together, is marriage, methinks, 8 To err is human (to forgive, divine), 154, 312 To every bird its nest seems fair, 6 To every evil-doer his evil day, 193 To every fool his cap, 329 To every lord every honour, 6 To every one his own is not too much, 155 To every saint his candle, 2, 68 To exchange a one-eyed horse for a blind one, 12 To expect what never comes, to lie in bed and not sleep, to serve well and not be advanced, are three things to die of, 73 To fall from the wall into the ditch (Out of the frying-pan into the fire), 340 To fall out of the frying-pan into the fire, 76, 340 To fawn with the tail and bite with the mouth, 223 To fetch water after the house is burned, 226 To find oneself in tight breeches (Ill at ease—we say, In tight boots), 261 To flay the flayed dog, 125 To flee and to run are not all one, 224 To get out of one muck into another, 255 To get out of the mire and fall into the river, 278 To get out of the rain under the spout, 134 To get out of the smoke and fall into the fire, 278 To get the chicks one must coax the hen, 21 To give a pea for a bean (A Rowland for an Oliver), 55 To give an egg to get an ox, 16, 313 To give change out for his coin, 55 To give counsel to a fool is like throwing water on a goose, 348 To give court holy-water, 16 To give is honour, to beg is dishonour, 274 To give is honour, to lose is grief, 217 To give one the sack, 329 To give quickly is to give doubly, 135 To give tardily is to refuse, 58, 295 To go for wool and come back shorn, 225 To go mulberry-gathering without a crook, 3 To go rabbit-catching with a dead ferret, 199 To go safely through the world you must have the eye of a falcon, the ear of an ass, the face of an ape, the mouth of a pig, the shoulders of a camel, and the legs of a deer, 87 To go to the vintage without baskets, 3 To God’s council-chamber there is no key, 372 To good eating belongs good drinking, 134 To grease the fat pig’s tail, 197 To grow rich one has only to turn his back on God, 24 To hang your sickle on another man’s corn, 307 To harness the horses behind the cart (To put the cart before the horse), 306 To have a belly up to one’s mouth, 259 To have friends both in heaven and hell, 7 To have hairs on his heart (Hard-hearted), 259 To have “heard say” is half a lie, 74 To have it written on his forehead, 259 To have luck needs little wit, 132 To have one eye on the cat and another on the frying-pan, 74 To have one’s brains in one’s heels, 259 To have the foot in two shoes, 259 To him who can take all you have, give what he asks, 67 To him who gives you a capon you may spare a leg and a wing, 197, 252 To him who gives you a pig you may well give a rasher, 67 To him who is determined it remains only to act, 67 To him who watches, everything is revealed, 67, 201 To hold the wolf by the ears, 58 To jump into the water for fear of the rain, 56 To jump out of the frying-pan into the fire, 55, 255 To keep one upon hot coals, 258 To kick against the pricks, 259 To kill a mercer for a comb, 60 To kill the hen by way of getting the egg, 60 To kill two birds with one stone, 282, 339 To know a man well one must have eaten a bushel of salt with him, 46 To know everything is to know nothing, 129 To know the law and do the right are two things, 348 To lather an ass’s head is only wasting soap, 262, 277 To laugh in one’s sleeve, 330 To live from hand to mouth, 64 To live long is to suffer long, 383 To lock the stable after the horses are stolen, 93 To look for a needle in a bundle (or bottle) of hay, 13, 143 To look for five feet in a cat, 206 To look for noon at fourteen o’clock, 13 To lose one eye that you may deprive another of two, 245 To love and to be wise are two different things (or impossible), 2, 198, 265 To mad words deaf ears, 200 To make a happy couple, the husband must be deaf and the wife blind, 46 To make a virtue of necessity, 18, 340 To make an elephant of a fly (To make a mountain of a molehill), 98 To make coqs-À-l’Âne, 340 To make of a flea a knight cap-À-pie, 277 To make one hole by way of stopping another, 18 To make the cart go you must grease the wheels, 119 To make two hits with one stone, 18 To make two nails at one heat, 98 To marry once is a duty; twice a folly; thrice is madness, 316 To-morrow will be another day, 230 To-morrow’s remedy will not ward off the evil of to-day, 239 To offer one candle to God and another to the devil, 16 To one who has a pie in the oven you may give a bit of your cake, 1 To parade the gallows before the town, 233 To pay one in his own coin, 118, 291, 329 To piece the lion’s skin with that of the fox, 325 To pluck the goose without making it cry out, 45 To pray to the saint until the danger is past, 254 To preserve friendship one must build walls, 119 To promise is easy, to keep is troublesome, 385 To promise more butter than bread, 47 To promise more carts than oxen, 121 To promise much means giving little, 284 To protest and knock one’s head against the wall is what everybody can do, 122 To pull down the house for the sake of the mortar, 124 To put a good face on a bad game, 17 To put in a needle and take out a bar, 232 To put on one’s doublet before one’s shirt, 110 To put out the fire with tow, 126 To put the plough before the oxen (or cart before the horse), 38 To put water into a basket (To pour water into a sieve), 342 To quarrel over a straw, 336 To quench fire with fire, 255 To rain upon the wet, 272 To reckon without the hostess, 223, 277 To rise at five, dine at nine, sup at five, go to bed at nine, makes a man live to ninety-nine, 36 To rise at six, eat at ten, sup at six, go to bed at ten, makes a man live years ten times ten, 36 To rob a robber is not robbing, 64 To rude words deaf ears, 4 To save at the spiggot, and let it run out at the bung-hole (Also Scotch), 160 To save for old age, earning one maravedi and drinking three, 195 To scare a bird is not the way to catch it, 54 To see the sky through a funnel, 261 To see the mote in another’s eye and not the beam in your own, 307 To sell a cat for a hare, 261, 295 To sell honey to a bee-keeper, 131, 261, 295 To sell the bird in the bush, 131 To sell the skin of the bear before it is caught, 131 To send one arrow after another, 215 To sew the fox’s skin to the lion’s, 14 To shave an egg, 313 To shiver at work, and sweat at meals, 196 To show the sun with a torch, 39 To sign for both parties, 56 To sing out of tune and persist in it, 208 To sink a well by the river side, 163 To spend much and gain little is the sure road to ruin, 173 To spur a horse on level ground, 122 To squeeze an eel too hard is the way to lose it, 44 To start the hare for another’s profit, 280 To steal the leather, and give away the shoes for God’s sake, 137 To steal the pig, and give away the pettitoes for God’s sake, 124, 225, 278 To stop the hole after the mischief is done, 254 To strip one altar to cover another, 125 To strip Peter to clothe Paul, 14, 127 (To rob Peter to pay Paul) To swallow a camel, and strain at a gnat, 259 To swallow both sea and fish, 307 To swim and swim more, and be drowned on shore, 233 To swim between two waters, 40 To take one foot out of the mire and put the other into it, 255 To take opportunity by the forelock, 46, 259 To take out a burning coal with another’s hand (To make a cat’s-paw of one), 255 To take the chesnuts out of the fire with the cat’s paw, 58 To take Villadiego’s boots (To take to your heels), 259 To the bold man fortune gives her hand, 196, 266 To the devil with so many masters, said the toad to the harrow, 6 To the fallen tree, hatchets! hatchets!, 67 To the grateful man give more than he asks, 195 To the jaundiced all things seem yellow, 59 To the lean pig a fat acorn (See The worst pig), 265 To the looker-on no work is too hard, 137 To thrash one’s jacket, 262 To throw oil on the fire, 336 To throw in a smelt to catch a codfish, 316 To throw the halter after the ass, 128 To throw the helve after the hatchet, 28, 215 To throw the rope after the bucket, 99 To throw the stone and conceal the hand, 259 To throw up a feather in the air, and see where it falls, 215 To turn fishmonger on Easter-eve, 56 To undo crosses in a straw-loft (i. e. to part all the straws that they may not lie crosswise; to be over nice), 213 To wait and be patient soothes many a pang, 348 To wash a blackamoor white, 323 To wash an ass’s head is but loss of time and soap (To reprove a fool is but lost labour), 3 To whom do you offer your shells for sale? To people who come from Saint Michel (where shells abound), 5 To whom you tell your secret you surrender your freedom, 66 To wipe up the sea with a sponge, 308 To withhold truth is to bury gold, 348 To wolf’s flesh dog’s teeth, 193, 264 To work for the bishop (Prayers, but no pay), 259 To your son give a good name and a trade, 203 Too keen an edge does not cut, too fine a point does not pierce, 60 Too late the bird cries out when it is caught, 6 Too little and too much spoils everything, 368 Too many cooks oversalt the porridge, 341 Too many sacks are the death of the ass, 173 Too much bursts the bag, 133 Too much familiarity breeds contempt, 266 Too much humility is pride, 191 Too much is not enough, 133 Too much of one thing is good for nothing, 338 Too much scratching smarts, too much talking harms, 60 Too much wax burns the church, 266 Too much will soon break, 191 Too much wisdom is folly, 191 Too much zeal spoils all, 60 Touch a galled horse and he’ll wince, 337 Touch not another man’s money, for the most honest never added to it, 40 Translators, traitors, 128 Travel east or travel west, a man’s own house is still the best, 339 Treachery and slander are long lived, 399 Treachery lurks in honeyed words, 402 Tread on a worm and it will turn, 63 Trees often transplanted seldom prosper, 302 Trick against trick, 159 Trickery comes back to its master, 60 Trim my beard and I will trim your topknot, 18 Tripe broth, you make much of yourself, 207 Trouts are not caught with dry breeches, 237 True jokes never please, 9 True love never grows old, 71 True love suffers no concealment, 215 True nobility is invulnerable, 64 Trueman’s house stands the longest, 174 Trust, beware whom!, 171 Trust, but not too much, 171 Trust everybody, but thyself most, 401 Trust in God upon good security, 40, 222 Trust no one till you have eaten a bushel of salt with him, 171 Trust not a dog that limps, 285 Trust not a skittish horse, nor a great lord, when they shake their heads, 389 Trust not still water nor a silent man, 401 Trust not tow with firebrands, nor a woman with men, 286 Trust not your gossip to a priest who has been a friar, 194 Trust not your money to one whose eyes are bent on the ground, 212 Trust was a good man, Trust-not was a better, 98 Trust-well rides away with the horse, 170 Truth and folly dwell in the wine-cask, 397 Truth and oil always come to the surface, 228, 268 Truth creeps not into corners, 174 Truth finds no asylum, 174 Truth gives a short answer, lies go round about, 174 Truth ill-timed is as bad as a lie (Truth should not always be revealed), 172 Truth is bitter food, 397 Truth is lost with too much debating, 333 Truth is the club that knocks down and kills everybody, 31 Truth is the daughter of time, 174, 307 Truth makes the tongue smart, 174 Truth may be suppressed, but not strangled, 174 Truth must be seasoned to make it palatable, 357 Truth’s cloak is often lined with lies, 400 Turn your tongue seven times before speaking, 23 ’Twixt the spoon and the lip the morsel may slip, 339 (See Between, &c.) ’Twixt the word and the deed there’s a long step, 16 Two are the masters of one, 401 Two birds of prey do not keep each other company, 215 Two cannot fall out if one does not choose, 245 Two cats and one mouse, two women in one house, two dogs to one bone, will not agree long, 192 Two cocks in one house, a eat and a mouse, an old man and a young wife, are always in strife, 339 Two cocks in one yard do not agree, 113 Two dogs over one bone seldom agree, 191, 339 Two eyes see more than one, 282 Two eyes, two ears, only one mouth, 191 Two false men to one traitor, 204 Two hard flints never grind well, 191 Two heads are better than one, 95 Two may lie so as to hang a third, 401 Two men may meet, but never two mountains, 15 Two of a trade never agree, 249 Two sparrows on one ear of corn never agree, 15, 194 Two women and a goose make a market, 94 U. Unbending the bow does not heal the wound, 14, 72, 120 Under a gold sheath a leaden knife, 258 Under a good cloak may be a bad man, 210 Under a shabby cloak may be a smart drinker, 210, 274 Under fair words beware of fraud, 274 Under my cloak I command (or kill) the king, 210, 258 Under the sackcloth there is something else, 258, 274 Under white ashes are often glowing embers, 126, 402 Union is strength, 317 Unlaid eggs are uncertain chickens, 135, 171, 336 Unlooked-for, often comes, 172 Until death there is no knowing what may befal, 99 Until hell is full no lawyer will ever be saved, 56 Unwilling service earns no thanks, 402 Unworthy offspring brag the most of their worthy descent, 394 Upbraiding makes a benefit an injury, 60 Upon a slight pretext the wolf takes the sheep, 4 Upon an egg the hen lays an egg, 57 V. Vainglory bears no grain, 29 Vainglory blossoms, and bears no fruit, 223 Vanity has no greater foe than vanity, 31 Various are the roads to fame, 69 Very good corn grows in little fields, 17 Very hard times in the wood when the wolves eat each other, 21 Vetches seem bitter to the full-cropped pigeon, 67 Vice is learnt without a schoolmaster, 401 Vile let him be who thinks himself vile (or base), 293 Vipers breed vipers, 346 Virtue consists in action, 307 Virtue flourishes in misfortune, 171 Virtue in the middle, said the devil, when seated between two lawyers, 364 Virtue is its own reward, 304 Virtue never dies, 171 Virtue subdues power, 171 W. Wait is a hard word to the hungry, 137 Wait time and place to take your revenge, for it is never well done in a hurry, 73 Wake not a sleeping cat (or dog), 40, 115, 167, 337 Walls have ears, 35, 141, 268, 306 Walls sink and dunghills rise, 193, 263 Want and necessity break faith and oaths, 401 War begun, hell unchained, 100 War is pleasant to him who does not go to it (or who has not tried it), 139, 275 War makes robbers, and peace hangs them, 29, 106 War with all the world, and peace with England, 209 Wash a dog, comb a dog, still a dog remains a dog, 31, 401 Wasting is a bad habit, sparing a sure income, 338 Watching a woman is labour in vain, 176 Water afar does not quench a fire at hand, 67 Water is the strongest drink; it drives mills, 176 Water past will not turn the mill, 67, 195 Water, smoke, and a vicious woman, drive men out of the house, 67 (See Smoke, &c.) Water washes everything, 263 Wax, flax, and tin; much out and little in, 342 We are all well placed, said the cat, when she was seated on the bacon, 403 We are both carriers, and shall meet on the road, 202 We are not yet roasting, and already we are basting (or make sops in the pan), 203, 230 We beat the sack and mean the miller, 160 We cannot all be Pope of Rome, 188 We do in haste what we repent at leisure (Marry in haste and repent at leisure), 161 We give to the rich and take from the poor, 166 We hang little thieves and let great ones escape, 305 (See Great thieves hang, &c.) We hang little thieves and take off our hats to great ones, 157 We have no son, and yet are giving him a name, 224 We have not yet saddled, and are already mounted (or riding), 203, 264 We knock in jest and it is opened in earnest, 153 We know what we have, but not what we shall get, 161 We learn by teaching, 104 We must bear our cross with patience, said the man when he took his wife on his back, 388 We must eat and drink though every tree were a gallows, 147, 333 (See A man must eat) We must sow even after a bad harvest, 389 We must suffer much or die young, 389 We shall see, as the blind man said, 40 Wealth is not his who makes it, but his who enjoys it, 107 Weather, wind, women, and fortune, change like the moon, 58 Wedlock rides in the saddle and repentance on the crupper, 18 Weight and measures save a man toil, 240 Weighty work must be done with few words, 403 Welcome, misfortune, if thou comest alone, 205, 221 Well begun is half done, 20, 76, 78, 151, 190, 206, 270, 287, 313, 403 Well-done outlives death, 190 Well fed but ill taught, 8 Well-regulated charity begins with one’s self (or at home), 13 Were all adulterers to wear grey coats the cloth would be dear, 169 Were every one to sweep before his own house, every street would be clean, 298 Were fools silent they would pass for wise, 345 Were he to throw a groat on the roof it would come down a dollar, 188 Were I a hatter, men would come into the world without heads, 174 Were it a wolf it would spring at your throat, 56 Were it not for “if” and “but,” we should all be rich for ever, 56 Were the devil to come from hell to fight, there would forthwith be a Frenchman to accept the challenge, 56 Were the sky to fall, not an earthen pot would be left whole, 341 (See If the sky, &c.) Were there no fools there would be no wise men, 149 Were you at the wedding, Molly? No, mother, but the bride was very fine, 230 What a monk thinks, he dares, 10 What a woman wills, God wills, 10, 229 What belongs to the ravens is never drowned, 175 What can’t be cured must be endured, 175, 290 What children hear their parents say by the fireside they repeat in the highway, 213 What Christ (or the Church) does not take the Exchequer takes, 176, 229 What comes from the fife goes back to the drum (Lightly come, lightly go; or, what is got over the devil’s back is spent under his belly), 11 What comes from the heart, goes to the heart, 176 What comes seldom, comes sharp, 176 What costs little is little esteemed, 123 What costs nothing is worth nothing, 343 What cures Sancho makes Martha sick, 209 What does not happen in a year may happen in a moment, 229 What does not poison, fattens, 123 What does the moon care if the dogs bark at her?, 175 What force cannot do ingenuity may, 229 What God hath joined together let no man put asunder, 175 What harm is there in a good word? It costs nothing, 176 What has horns will gore, 343 What has not been, may be, 123 What I see with my eyes I can guess with my fingers, 229 What is another’s always pines for its master, 229, 294 What is bad for one is good for another, 11 What is bought is cheaper than a gift, 89, 281 What is bred in the bone won’t out of the flesh, 343 What is done cannot be undone, 102, 123, 370 What is done, is done for this time, 229 What is enough was never little, 11 What is got by begging is dearly bought, 351 What is in use, wants no excuse, 229 What is learned in the cradle lasts till the grave, 11 What is long spoken of happens at last (Long looked for comes at last), 333 What is lost in the fire must be sought in the ashes, 309 What is marriage, mother? Daughter, it is spinning, bearing children, and weeping, 281 What is mine is my own; my brother Juan’s is his and mine, 229 What is much desired is not believed when it comes, 229 What is new is always fine, 6 What is no sin, is no shame, 175 What is not taken by the Church is taken by the Exchequer, 176 What is play to the strong is death to the weak, 399 What is right for the one is reasonable for the other, 175 What is said is said, and no sponge can wipe it out, 149 What is sport (or play) to the cat is death to the mouse, 141, 382 What is sweet in the mouth is not always good in the stomach, 358 What is the use of running, when we are not on the right road?, 175 What is too high, that let fly, 175 What is true is not always probable, 36 What is whispered in your ear tell not to your husband, 229 What is worth receiving is worth returning (Give and take), 59 What is wrong to-day won’t be right to-morrow, 343 What! keep a dog and bark myself? 175 What keeps out the cold keeps out the heat, 123 What lay hidden under the snow cometh to light at last, 325 What man has made, man can destroy, 175 What Master Jacky does not learn, Mr. John never knows, 175 What much is worth comes from the earth, 229 What my neighbour eats does my stomach no good, 229 What one does not bake, another brews, 175 What ripens fast does not last, 174 What smarts, teaches, 176 What the abbot of Bamba cannot eat he gives away for the good of his soul, 215 What the child hears at the fireside is soon known at the parish church, 10 What the colt learns in youth he continues in old age, 11 (See What youth learns) What the eye sees not, the heart craves not, 343 What the eye sees not, the heart rues not, 10, 115, 174 What the eyes see, the heart believes, 175 What the fool does at last the wise man does at first, 229, 290 What the gauntlet wins the gorget consumes, 10 What the lion cannot, the fox can, 175 What the peacock has too little on his head, he has too much on his tail, 175 What the she-wolf does (or brings forth) pleases the he-wolf, 10, 229 What the sober man has in his heart, the drunken man has on his lips, 358 What the sober man thinks, the drunkard tells, 10, 342 What three know everybody knows, 229 What three know will soon be known to thirty, 175 What was hard to bear is sweet to remember, 290 What water gives, water takes away, 263 What we want in hay we make up in straw, 175 What will be, will be, 77 What you can’t have, abuse, 123 What you dislike for yourself do not like for me, 229 What you do, do quickly, 175 What you do, do thoroughly (Age quod agis), 22 What you do yourself is well done, 397 What you give, is written in sand; what you take, with an iron hand, 177 What you learn to your cost you remember long, 362 What you lend to a friend an enemy sues for, 175 What youth learns age does not forget, 363 Whatever way you take there is a league of bad road, 241 What’s everybody’s business is nobody’s business, 238, 287 What’s of no use is too dear at a gift, 176 What’s the use of putting honey in an ass’s mouth, 176 When a cow is lost it is something to recover its tail, were it only to make a handle for one’s door, 16 When a dog runs away, hit him! hit him!, 65 When a fox is in his hole smoke fetches him out, 262 When a good offer comes for your daughter, don’t wait till her father returns from market, 243 When a man has fallen into the mire, the more he flounders the more he fouls himself, 83 When a man is down everybody runs over him, 179 When a man is in a sack, he must get out at the mouth or at the bottom, 392 When a man is not used to breeches the seams gall him, 250 When a man is rich he begins to save, 178 When a mouse has fallen into a meal sack, he thinks he is the miller himself, 298 When a peasant gets rich, he knows neither relations nor friends, 244 When a thing is done advice comes too late, 2 When a thing is done, make the best of it (Make the best of a bad bargain), 191 When a tree is falling, every one cries, Down with it, 67 When Adam delved and Eve span, who was then the gentleman, 133, 339 When all other sins are old avarice is still young, 48 When an old dog barks, look out (When the old dog barks, he giveth counsel), 135, 298 When an old man cannot drink, prepare his grave, 244 When anger blinds the eyes truth disappears, 379 When apes climb high they show their naked rumps, 297 (See The higher) When blind leads blind both fall into the ditch, 178 When bulls fight, woe to the frogs, 291 When cat and mouse agree the farmer has no chance, 391 When eats are mousing they don’t mew, 297 When Christ was alone the devil tempted him, 133 When David grew old he sang pious psalms, 133 When dirt comes to honour it knows not what to be, 392 When drink enters, wisdom departs, 214 When every man gets his own the devil gets nothing, 391 When every one minds his own business the work is done, 391 When every one says you are an ass, bray, 244 When every one sees that you are a pig, why don’t you go into the sty?, 297 When everybody says you are drunk, go to sleep, 123 When flies swarm in March sheep come to their death, 298 When fools go to market, pedlars (or hucksters) make money, 298, 391 When fortune’s chariot rolls easily, envy and shame cling to the wheels, 369 When fortune knocks, open the door, 123, 177 When glory comes, memory departs, 48 When gnats swarm in January the peasant becomes a beggar, 298 When God gives light he gives it for all, 243 When God means to punish a nation, He deprives its rulers of wisdom, 178, 298 When God pleases it rains in fair weather, 243 When God pleases it rains with every wind, 243, 299 When God says To-day, the devil says To-morrow, 178 When God sends flour the devil carries off the sack, 47 When God will not the saints cannot, 122, 243, 298 When gold speaks every tongue is silent, 94 When goods increase the body decreases, 47 When had comes, have is too late, 299 When he was born, Solomon passed by his door, and would not go in, 255 When his head is broken he puts on his helmet, 124 When I have money in my purse, I have food in my mouth, 391 When I was born I wept, and every day brings a reason why, 213 When I’m dead, everybody’s dead, and the pig too, 110 When ill-luck sleeps, let no one wake her, 244 When industry goes out of the door, poverty comes in at the window, 342 When it is God’s will to plague a man, a mouse can bite him to death, 298 When it pours upon the parson, it drops upon the clerk, 391 When it rains in August, it rains honey and wine, 244 When it rains in February, it will be temperate all the year, 244 When it rains porridge the beggar has no spoon, 391 When it thunders, the thief becomes honest, 123 When joy is in the parlour, sorrow is in the passage, 391 When lazy horses begin to start, old women to dance, and white clouds to rain, there is no stopping them, 392 When many shepherds tend the sheep, they but so much the longer sleep, 340 When mistrust enters, love departs, 379 When need is greatest, help is nearest, 178 When neighbours quarrel, lookers-on are more apt to add fuel than water, 401 When nought comes to aught, it does not know itself, 299 When old horses get warm, they are not easily held in, 177 When one door shuts, a hundred open, 244 When one foot stumbles, the other is near falling, 391 When one goose drinks, all drink, 171 When one has not what one likes, one must like what one has, 48 When one is dead, it is for a long while, 48 When one sheep is over the dam, the rest follow, 298 When one wolf eats another, there is nothing to eat in the wood, 245 When (or after) our daughter is married, sons-in-law are plenty, 47, 195 When poor, liberal; when rich, penurious, 244 When poverty (or misfortune) comes in at the door, love flies out at the window, 171, 178 When prosperity smiles, beware of its guiles, 299 When rogues go in procession the devil carries the cross, 122 When shepherds quarrel, the wolf has a winning game, 178 When the ass is too happy he begins dancing on the ice, 297 When the bee sucks, it makes honey, when the spider, poison, 245 When the beer (or wine) goes in the wit goes out, 298, 392 When the blind man carries the banner, woe to those who follow, 47 When the cage is ready the bird is flown, 47 When the calf is drowned they cover the well, 332 When the calf is stolen, the peasant mends the stall, 178 When the cat sleeps, the mice play, 297 When the cat’s away, it is jubilee with the mice, 298 When the cat’s away the mice (or rats) dance, 122 When the cat’s away the mice will play, 1, 178, 261, 292, 391 When the child cuts its teeth, death is on the watch, 244 When the child is christened come godfathers enough, 11 When the cook and the steward fall out we hear who stole the butter, 298 When the cook is roasting for the butler, woe to the master’s wine-cask, 391 When the cord is tightest it is nearest snapping, 392 When the corsair promises masses and candles, it goes ill with the galley, 243 When the crane attempts to dance with the horse she gets broken bones, 393 When the devil finds the door shut he goes away, 46, 200 When the devil gets into the church he seats himself on the altar, 331 When the devil grows old he turns hermit, 47, 102 When the devil says his pater-nosters (or prayers) he means to cheat you, 47, 243 When the dog is awake the shepherd may sleep, 177 When the dog is down, every one is ready to bite him, 297 When the dog is drowning every one brings him water, 47 When the door is low one must stoop, 47 When the fields yield not, the saints have not, 244 When the fool has made up his mind the market is over, 243 When the fox licks his paw let the farmer look after his geese, 392 When the fox preaches, look to the geese, 177 When the fox preaches, take care of yourselves, poultry, 123 When the fox preaches to the goose her neck is in danger, 392 When the fox wants to catch geese, he wags his tail, 177 When the Frenchman sleeps the devil rocks him, 47 When the game is most thriving it is time to leave off, 392 When the goose trusts the fox then woe to her neck, 391 When the guest is in most favour he will do well to quit, 177 When the head aches all the limbs ache, 391 When the head is sick the whole body is sick, 299 When the helm is gone the ship will soon be wrecked, 391 When the hen has laid an egg she cackles, 152 When the host smiles most blandly he has an eye to the guest’s purse, 393 When the husband earns well the wife spins well, 298 When the iron is hot, then is the time to strike, 243 When the jest is at its best, ’twill be well to let it rest, 178 When the lion is dead the hares jump upon his carcase, 122 When the lords come out of the council-house, they are wiser than when they went in, 178 When the manger is empty the horses fight, 392 When the measure is full, it runs over, 179 When the millers are making an uproar, tie up your sacks; 122 When the mouse has had enough (or its fill) the meal is bitter, 298, 392 When the old dog barks he gives counsel, 219, 288 When the pear is ripe, it falls, 122, 178 When the pig has had a bellyful it upsets the trough, 299 When the prior plays cards, what will the monks do?, 243 When the rabbit has escaped, comes advice, 216 When the river makes no noise, it is either dried up or much swollen, 244 When the rooks are silent the swans begin to sing, 351 When the root is worthless, so is the tree, 188 When the sack is full it pricks up its ears, 178, 298 When the shepherd strays, the sheep stray, 297 When the Spaniard sings, he is either mad or has no money, 243 When the spleen increases, the body diminishes, 243 When the stomach is full the heart is glad, 297 When the summer is winter, and the winter summer, it is a sorry year, 244 When the sun shines on thee, thou needest not care for the moon, 122 When the sword is in the mouth you must caress the sheath, 392 When the tale of bricks is doubled, then comes Moses, 178 When the tree falls every one runs to cut boughs (or gather sticks), 342, 393 When the tree is down every one runs to it with a hatchet to cut wood, 88 When the tree is down everybody runs for branches, 47 When the waggon is tilting everybody gives it a shove, 393 When the will is prompt the legs are nimble, 94 When the wine is in the man, the wit is in the can, 342 When the wine is in (or goes in) the wit is (or goes) out, 94, 132, 289, 298, 392 When the wine runs to waste in the cellar, he mends the cask, 191 When the wolf grows old the crows ride him, 298 When the wolf’s ears appear, his body is not far off, 392 When the word is out it belongs to another (or some one else), 177 When the words are said, the holy water is made, 47 When the wound is healed the pain is forgotten, 392 When there are two friends to one purse, one sings, the other weeps, 215 When there is a fire in the neighbourhood carry water to your own house, 123 When there is little bread at table put plenty on your plate, 122 When there is no wind every man is a pilot, 47 When there is nothing the church loses, 123 When there is room in the heart there is room in the house, 378 When they give you the calf be ready with the halter, 244 When they offer you a ring, hold out your finger, 244 When thieves fall out, honest men come to their goods, 342 When thieves fall out, their knaveries (or thefts) come to light, 35, 239, 291, 393 When thine enemy retreateth, make him a golden bridge (For a flying enemy make a silver bridge), 299 When things go well it is easy to advise, 299 When thou seest thy house in flames, go warm thyself by it, 245 When thy neighbour’s house is on fire it’s time to look about thee, 299 When two dogs fight for a bone, the third runs away with it, 299 When two enemies blow one horn, the third will have to suffer for it, 392 When two quarrel both are in the wrong, 302 When two Sundays come together, 191 When we ask a favour we say, Madam; when we obtain it, what we please, 244 When we least expect it, the hare darts out of the ditch, 302 When we think to catch we are sometimes caught, 195 When wine enters modesty departs, 94 When wisdom fails luck helps, 357 When wise men play the fool (or pranks) they do it with a vengeance, 108 When woman reigns, the devil governs, 122 When you are an anvil, bear; when you are a hammer, strike, 243 When you are on the road speak not ill of your enemy, 244 When you are well off, keep as you are, 47 When you can’t get bread, oat-cakes are not amiss, 198 When you can’t get meat chickens and bacon are good, 198 When you eat new bread don’t drink water, 243 When you go to a strange house knock at the door, 244 When you go to dance, take heed whom you take by the hand, 376 When you see the wolf, do not look for his track, 123 When your devil was born, mine was going to school, 122 Where a man feels pain he lays his hand, 302 Where a woman rules the house the devil is serving-man, 188 Where every one goes, the grass never grows, 189 Where force prevails, right perishes, 214 Where friars abound, keep your eyes open, 222 Where friends, there riches, 189, 289 Where ghosts walk, there is loving or thieving, 190 Where God bestows an office, he provides brains to fill it, 177 Where God builds a church the devil builds a chapel, 188 Where gold chinks, arguments are of no avail (Where gold avails, argument fails), 189 Where honour grows a span, folly grows an ell, 174 Where law lacks, honour should eke it out, 357 Where love is, there the eye is, 94 Where luck is wanting, diligence is useless, 214 Where might is master, justice is servant, 189 Where might is right, right is not might, 189 Where misfortune befals injuries follow, 5 Where money and counsel are wanting, it is best not to make war, 379 Where one door is shut another opens, 215 Where poverty comes in at the door, love flies out at the window, 297 Where remedies are needed, sighing avails not, 93 Where shall the ox go, and not have to plough?, 214, 289 Where shall the ox go but he must labour, since he knows how?, 266 Where the bee sucks honey, the spider sucks poison, 342 Where the best wine grows, the worst is drunk, 188 Where the bird was hatched, it haunts, 307 Where the carrion is, there the eagles gather, 378 Where the cock is the hen does not crow, 289 Where the devil cannot put his head he puts his tail, 102 Where the devil can’t go himself, he sends an old woman, 188 Where the dike (or dam) is lowest, the water first runs over, 342 Where the goat is tied she must browse, 44 Where the goat leaps, leaps that which sucks her, 241 Where the hedge is lowest, every one goes over, 94, 188, 342 Where the hedge is lowest men leap over, 44 Where the hedge is lowest, the devil leaps over, 188 Where the hostess is handsome the wine is good, 44 Where the lion’s skin falls short, borrow of the fox, 188 Where the lion’s skin falls short, piece it out with (or join) that of the fox, 93, 94 Where the Pope is, Rome is, 94 Where the river is deepest it makes least noise, 94, 215, 289 Where the sea goes let the sands go, 241 Where the ship goes the brig can go, 94 Where the thread is weakest it breaks, 44 Where the wasp has passed the fly sticks fast, 44 Where the wolf gets one lamb he looks for another, 94, 218, 289 Where there are no dogs the fox is a king, 94 Where there are too many cooks the soup will be too salt (Too many cooks spoil the broth), 94 Where there are too many workmen there is little work, 189 Where there is discipline there is virtue; where there is peace there is plenty, 378 Where there is great love there is great pain, 94 Where there is least heart there is most tongue, 94 Where there is little bread, cut first, 267 Where there is no honour there is no dishonour, 289 Where there is no sore there needs no plaister, 44 Where there is no want of will there will be no want of opportunity, 235 Where there is no wit within, no wit will come out, 357 Where there is not equality there never can be perfect love, 94 Where there is nothing, the king (or emperor) loses his rights, 44, 189, 342 Where there is shame, there is virtue, 189 Where there’s a will there’s a way, 67, 214 Where there’s fire there’s smoke, 214 Where there’s money, there is the devil; but where there’s none, a greater evil, 189 Where there’s no fire there’s no smoke, 276, 289 Where there’s no good within, no good comes out, 302 Where there’s no jealousy, there’s no love, 189 Where there’s no love, all faults are seen, 189 Where there’s no might there’s no right, 289 Where there’s no shame, there’s no honour, 189, 308 Where they eat your meat let them pick the bones, 215 Where two fall out the third wins, 189 Where water has been, water will come again, 189 Where will is right, law is banished, 379 Where wine goes in, modesty goes out, 94, 189 Where you cannot climb over you must creep under, 379 Where you lost your cloak, seek it, 215 Where you smart there I will hit you, 204 Where you tell your secret you surrender your freedom, 267 Where you think there is bacon there are not even hooks for it, 194 Where you were a page be not an esquire, 276 Where your father has been with ink, go not you with a bag (i.e. what your father has sold and assigned, think not to recover with a bag of papers. In other words, don’t go to law for it), 215 Where’er an ass is crowned to fame, both town and country bear the shame, 189 Wherever there is a pretty spot, the devil plants a monastery or a lord, 189 Wherever there is mischief, there is sure to be a priest and a woman in it, 189 Wherever you are, do as you see done (When you are at Rome, do as Rome does), 214, 241 Whether it be so or not, husband, put on your hood (He had told her there was a new law that every man with horns should wear a hood), 241 Whether the pitcher strike the stone, or the stone the pitcher, woe to the pitcher, 256 While the dogs yelp the hare flies to the wood, 390 While the grass is growing the steed starves, 174, 317, 390 While the great bells are ringing no one hears the little ones, 391 While the pot boils friendship blooms, 169 While there’s life there’s hope, 99, 276 Whilst the dogs are growling at each other the wolf devours the sheep, 45 Whilst the grass grows the steed starves, 110, 154 Whilst the nurse suckles we love her; when she is of no further use she is forgotten, 222 Whilst the tall maid is stooping the little one sweeps the house, 232, 276 White hands are no offence, 228 White meal is not got out of a coal-sack, 16 Whither goest thou, misfortune? To where there is more, 194, 276 Whither goest thou, sorrow? Whither I am used to go, 194 Whither shall the ox go where he will not have to plough?, 194, 214, 289 Who accepts nothing has nothing to return, 184 Who accepts, sells himself, 85 Who answers for another, pays, 52 Who are ready to believe are easy to deceive, 183 Who arrays himself in other men’s garments is stripped on the highway, 247 Who avoids small sins does not fall into great ones, 183 Who begins amiss ends amiss, 187 Who blackens others does not whiten himself, 179 Who blows his nose too hard makes it bleed, 50 Who bows to might loses his right, 186 Who builds on the mob builds on sand, 81 Who buys land buys war, 79 Who buys wants a hundred eyes, who sells need have but one, 311 Who can escape envy and blame that speaks or writes for public fame?, 343 Who cannot beat the horse let him beat the saddle, 84 Who cannot fight wins nought by right, 184 Who cannot sing may whistle, 184 Who cannot work out his salvation by heart will not do it by book, 50 Who carries doubtful people to his house will doubtless from his carriage something lose, 187 Who changes country, changes luck, 83 Who changes his condition changes fortune, 83 Who chastises his child will be honoured by him, who chastises him not will be shamed, 344 Who comes first grinds first, 186, 309 Who comes seldom is welcome, 85 Who comes unbidden departs unthanked, 186 Who could live without hope?, 52 Who dangles after the great is the last at table and the first to be cuffed, 85 Who deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceive me twice, shame on me, 183 Who demands justice must administer justice, 184 Who divides honey with the bear will be like to get the lesser share, 79 Who does all he may never does well, 81 Who does not punish evil, invites it, 187 Who does not venture gets neither horse nor mule, and who ventures too much loses horse and mule, 51 Who does not wish to be like the wolf let him not wear its skin, 84 Who does too much often does little, 127 Who don’t keep faith with God won’t keep it with man, 308 Who doubts, errs not, 49 Who eats capon, capon comes to him, 48 Who eats his fowl alone, must saddle his horse alone, 252, 292 Who errs in the tens errs in the thousands, 80 Who excuses himself accuses himself, 53, 86, 310 Who excuses himself without being accused proclaims his fault, 86 Who faints not, achieves, 265 Who falls short in the head, must be long in the heels, 175 Who fears no shame comes to no honour, 308 (See Where there’s no shame) Who frequents the kitchen smells of smoke, 81 Who gives, teaches a return, 79 Who gives to me, teaches me to give, 310 Who gives well, sells dear, if the receiver be not a churl, 78 Who gives what he has, before he is dead, take a mallet and knock that fool on the head, 247 Who glows not, burns not, 83 Who goes and returns makes a good journey, 54 Who goes fasting to bed will sleep but lightly, 344 Who goes himself is in earnest, who sends is indifferent, 87 Who goes not, sees not; who proves not, believes not, 84 Who goes softly goes safely, and he that goes safely goes far, 86 Who has a bad wife, his hell begins on earth, 309 Who has a head won’t want for a hat, 181 Who has a tongue in his head can go all the world over (or to Rome), 81 Who has but one eye must take good care of it, 310 Who has, is, 81 Who has, let him thereof take heed; love wanes, misfortune comes with speed, 182 Who has love in his heart has spurs in his sides, 81 Who has many servants has many thieves, 311 Who has never done thinking never begins doing, 83 Who has no bread to spare should not keep a dog, 201 Who has no children does not know what love is, 83 Who has no head should have legs, 83 Who has no money in his purse must have honey in his mouth, 83 Who has no money must have no wishes, 83 Who has no plagues makes himself some, 83 Who has no shame all the world is his own, 82, 84 Who has no thirst has no business at the fountain, 343 Who has not, cannot, 50 Who has not, is not, 83 Who has nothing, fears nothing, 83, 201 Who has nothing, is nothing, 83 Who has patience may get fat thrushes at a farthing apiece, 82 Who has patience sees his revenge, 82 Who has plenty of pepper may pepper his beans, 344 Who has something, is something, 82 Who has tasted a sour apple, will have the more relish for a sweet one, 183 Who has time, yet waits for time, comes to a time of repentance, 253 Who hath no courage must have legs, 83 Who hears but one bell hears but one sound, 50 Who heeds not little things, will be troubled about lesser ones, 182 Who herds with wolves, must howl with wolves, 183 (See He who herds) Who holds his peace and gathers stones, will find a time to throw them, 292 Who honours not age, is unworthy of it, 186 Who hunts two hares together catches neither, 186 (See He who hunts) Who is always prying into other men’s affairs, leads a dangerous life, 249 Who is born a fool is never cured, 83 Who is born of a cat will run after mice, 50 Who is in fear of every leaf must not go into the wood, 82, 311 Who is in the right fears, who is in the wrong hopes, 82, 311 Who is over nice, loses many a shoe, 181 Who is righteous overmuch is a morsel for the Old One, 310 Who is tender in everything is a fool in everything (Catalan), 245 Who is to bell the cat?, 249 Who is to carry the cat to the water?, 249 Who is well seated should not budge, 186 Who is your enemy? A man of your own trade, 249 Who judges others, condemns himself, 78 Who knows most, believes least, 85 Who knows most, forgives most, 85 Who knows most, says least, 51, 85, 250 Who knows not how to dissemble knows not how to reign, 84 Who knows not how to flatter knows not how to talk, 84 Who knows not how to pray let him go sail the sea, 84 Who knows nothing in his thirtieth year, is nothing in his fortieth, has nothing in his fiftieth, learns nothing, is nothing, and comes to nothing, 182 Who knows the tongues is at home everywhere, 308 Who laughs at others’ ills, has his own behind the door, 85 Who lends his lips to nought but blame, has in his heart no love of fame, 184 Who lends recovers not; or if he recovers, recovers not all; or if all, not much; or if much, a mortal enemy, 251 Who lends to a friend loses doubly, 52 Who lets another sit on his shoulder, will soon have him on his head, 185 (See He who lets) Who lies down with dogs gets up with fleas, 79 (See He that lies) Who lives on the score has shame evermore, 54 Who lives will see, 54 Who loves, believes, 78 Who loves, fears, 78 Who loves his work and knows to spare, may live and flourish anywhere, 179 Who loves not women, wine, and song, remains a fool his whole life long, 184 Who loves the tree loves the branch, 78 Who loves well chastises well, 28, 48, 78 Who loves well is slow to forget, 48 Who makes friends of all, keeps none, 179 Who makes no promises has none to perform, 184 Who makes the wolf his companion should carry a dog under his cloak, 81 Who moves picks up, who stands still dries up, 86 Who neither believes heaven or hell, the devil heartily wishes him well, 189 Who offends writes on sand; who is offended, on marble, 84 Who often changes, suffers, 53 Who paints me before, blackens me behind, 79 Who pays a debt creates capital, 85 Who pays beforehand is served behindhand, 85 Who pays promptly borrows when he will, 51 Who proves too much, proves nothing, 52 Who punishes one threatens a hundred, 53 Who readily borrows, readily lies (Debtors are liars), 182 Who receives, should thank; who gives, should be silent, 181 Who reckons without his host must reckon again, 311 (See He that reckons) Who refuses, muses, 52 Who refuses to submit to justice, must not complain of oppression, 184 Who rides slow must saddle betimes, 183 Who runs is followed, 343 Who saves, saves for the cat, 85 Who says little, has little to answer for, 186 Who serves the mass is thanked by none, but cursed if aught be left undone, 53 Who serves the public, serves no one (or a fickle master), 85, 308 (See He who serves) Who serves well and says nothing makes claim enough, 73 Who serves well asks enough, 5 Who sings, drives away care, 247 Who sows ill, reaps ill, 82 Who sows, reaps, 53 Who sows thorns should not go barefoot, 53, 85 Who speaks, sows; who listens, reaps, 51 Who spits against heaven, it falls on his head, 49 Who spits against the wind, fouls his beard, 344 (See He who spits) Who steals a calf, steals a cow, 181 Who takes a lion at a distance fears a mole present, 85 Who takes an eel by the tail and a woman at her word, may say he holds nothing, 85 Who takes an eel by the tail or a woman by her word, grasp as he will, holds nothing fast, 181 Who talks much, errs much, 250 Who the daughter would win, with mamma must begin, 161 Who threatens, warns, 181 Who throws a stone above himself may have it fall on his own head (Eccles. xxvii. 25), 181 Who throws a stone at the sky, may have it fall on his head, 79 Who to-day was a haughty knight, is to-morrow a penniless wight, 309 Who troubles others has no rest himself, 78 Who undertakes many things at once seldom does anything well, 311 Who undertakes too much seldom succeeds, 310 Who ventures nothing has no luck (Nothing venture, nothing have), 251 Who ventures to lend, loses money and friend, 310 Who wants fire, let him look for it in the ashes, 311 Who wants to beat a dog, soon finds a stick, 87, 308 (See He that wants) Who watches not, catches not, 310 Who weds a sot to get his cot, will lose the cot and keep the sot, 312 Who will not feed the cats, must feed the mice and rats, 184 Who will not when he can, can’t when he will, 292 (See He that will not) Who wishes for a short Lent let him contract debts to be paid at Easter, 88 Who wives for a dower, resigns his own power, 52 Who would be rich, must keep his soul under cover of his cash-box, 185 Who would be young in age, must in youth be sage, 182 Who would have many friends let him test but few, 87 Who would not have feet set on his neck, let him not stoop, 84 Who would regard all things complacently must wink at a great many, 344 Who would win, must learn to bear, 182 Who would wish to be valued must make himself scarce, 186 Whoever brings finds the door open for him, 72 Whoever falls sick of folly, is long in getting cured, 248 Whom fortune favours, the world favours, 177 Whom God loves, his bitch litters pigs, 201 Whore or thief, young or old, welcome so you’ve got the gold, 168 Whoredom and thieving are never long concealed, 242 Whose bread I eat, his song I sing, 187 Whoso hath land hath war, 53 Whoso hunteth with cats will catch nothing but rats, 309 Whoso is tired of happy days, let him take a wife, 309 Whoso is well let him keep so, 49 Who’s the man that was never fooled by a woman?, 153 Will he nill he, the ass must go to the fair, 293 Will is power, 64 Willows are weak, yet serve to bind bigger wood, 105 Win a bet (or game) of your friend, and drink it on the spot, 203, 268 Wind and fortune are not lasting, 261, 295 Windmills are not driven by bellows, 188 Wine and women make fools of everybody, 176 Wine poured out is not wine swallowed, 64 Wine upon beer is very good cheer, beer upon wine consider with fear, 176 Wine wears no breeches, 36, 220 Wine will not keep in a foul vessel, 17 Wipe the nose of your neighbour’s son, and marry him to your daughter, 196, 288 Wipe your sore eye with your elbow, 219, 288 Wisdom in the man, patience in the wife, brings peace to the house, and a happy life, 344 Wisdom is the least burdensome travelling pack, 381 Wise lads and old fools were never good for anything, 124 Wise men sue for offices, and blockheads get them, 341 Wishes never filled the bag, 41 With a little wrong a man comes by his right, 209 With a staircase before you, you look for a rope to go down by, 193 “With all my heart!” (or great pleasure), says the boor when he must, 161, 173 With an old husband’s hide one buys a young one, 16 With art and knavery we live through half the year; with knavery and art we live through the other half, 88 With great men one must allow five to be an even number, 135 With honour in store, what would you more, 343 With houses and gold, men are rarely bold, 189 With law must the land be built, 390 With lightning and with love, the clothes sound, the heart burned, 220 With money you would not know yourself, without money nobody would know you, 209 With patience and time the mulberry-leaf becomes a silk gown, 162 With the fox one must play the fox, 89 With the good we become good, 301 With the Gospel men may become heretics, 88 With the help of an If, you might put Paris into a bottle, 7 With the hide of the dog its bite is cured, 89 With time and straw medlars ripen, 7, 88 With wishing comes grieving, 89 Without bread and wine, even love will pine, 55 Without debt, without care, 126 Without knowledge, without sin, 165 Witticisms spare no one, 9 Woe be to an evil eye, 403 Wolves are often hidden under sheep’s clothing, 393 Wolves do not eat wolves (or one another), 35, 104, 109 Woman impromptu, man on reflection, 105 Woman’s beauty, the forest echo, and rainbows, soon pass away, 176 Women always speak the truth, but not the whole truth, 108 Women and glass are always in danger, 265 Women and hens are lost by too much gadding, 98 Women and maidens must be praised, whether truly or falsely, 148 Women are as fickle as April weather, 176 Women are never at a loss for words, 176 Women are supernumerary when present, and missed when absent, 267 Women are watches that keep bad time, 176 Women are wise impromptu, fools on reflection, 125 Women, asses, and nuts, require strong hands, 93 Women, fortune, and gold, favour fools, 176 Women know a point more than the devil, 108 Women, money, and wine, have their balm and their harm, 18 Women, priests, and poultry, never have enough, 93 Women rouge that they may not blush, 108 Women, wind, and fortune, soon change, 233, 283 Women’s tears are a fountain of craft, 106 Woo the widow whilst she is in weeds, 148 Woods have ears and fields have eyes, 174, 304 Word by word great books are made, 39 Words are female, deeds are male, 108 Words are good, but fowls lay eggs, 190 Words are good when works follow, 190 Words don’t fill the belly, 291 Words don’t fill the sack, 190 Words fine and bold are goods half sold, 168 Words of snow, which fell last year, 190 Words often do more than blows, 190 Words once spoken cannot be wiped out with a sponge, 363 Words will not do for my aunt, for she does not put faith even in deeds, 237 Words won’t feed cats, 108 Work done expects money, 287 Workmen are easier found than masters (There are more hands than heads), 187 Worldly good is ebb and flood, 343 Would you be strong, conquer yourself, 188 Would you have me serve you, good king, give me the means of living, 293 Would you know your daughter? See her in company, 293 Would you live long, be healthy and fat, drink like a dog, and eat like a cat, 188 Wounds from the knife are healed, but not those of the tongue, 255 Wounds heal, but not ill words, 256 Wounds pain most when grown cool, 254 Write on one of the devil’s horns, “Good angel,” and many will believe it, 168 Y. Years and sins are always more than owned, 72 Yesterday a cowherd, to-day a cavalier, 204 Yielding stays war, 163 You a lady, I a lady, who is to put the sow out of doors? (Galician), 262 You can have no more of a fox than his skin, 386 You cannot damage a wrecked ship, 114 You cannot draw blood from a turnip, 114 You cannot drink and whistle at the same time, 388 (See No one can blow) You cannot get oil out of a wall, 43 You cannot have peace longer than your neighbour chooses, 387 (See No man can have) You cannot make a good archbishop of a rogue, 387 You cannot make a good hunting-horn (or shaft) of a pig’s tail, 275, 387 You cannot make a hawk of a buzzard, 43 You cannot make a sieve of an ass’s tail, 135 You cannot make an ass drink if he is not thirsty, 43 You cannot pull hard with a broken rope, 387 You cannot sail as you would, but as the wind blows, 387 You cannot shear the sheep closer than the skin, 388 You cannot take a cow from a man who has none, 386 You can’t make pancakes without breaking eggs, 237 You have broken my head, and now you bring me plaister, 245 You have debts, and make debts still; if you’ve not lied, lie you will, 213 You have lent and not recovered; and if recovered, not so much; and if so much, not such; and if such, a mortal enemy, 276 (See Who lends recovers not) You have married a beauty? So much the worse for you, 109 You may always find an opportunity in your sleeve, if you choose, 387 You may as well give a good beating as a bad one, 7 You may call that your own which no one can take from you, 358 You may cook in small pots as well as in large ones, 388 You may force a horse (or an ox) to the water, but you cannot make him drink, 388, 388 You may force a man to shut his eyes, but you cannot make him sleep, 388 You may gain by fair words what may fail you by angry ones, 386 You may get something off a bone, but nothing off a stone, 387 You may keep yourself safe from fire, but not from a bad man, 276 You may knock a long while against an alder-bush before you get a swarm of bees out of it, 389 You may know the lion by his claw, 3 You may light another’s candle at your own without loss, 388 You may often feel that heavily on your back, which you took lightly on your conscience, 400 You may preach ever so long to the wolf, he will nevertheless call for lamb before night, 390 You may shut your doors against a thief, but not against a liar, 388 You must be strong to pull a rope against a stronger, 357 You must contrive to bake with the flour you have, 386 You must grease the wheels if you would have the car run, 75 You must have good luck to catch hares with a drum, 357 (See Hares) You must howl with the wolves when you are among them, 390 (See He who herds) You must judge a maiden at the kneading trough, and not in a dance, 390 You must not throw stones into your neighbour’s garden, 23 You must shift your sail with the wind, 75 You must walk a long while behind a wild goose before you find an ostrich feather, 389 You need not find a shelter for an old ox, 263 You notice what I drink, and not the thirst I feel, 233 You surrender your freedom where you deposit your secret, 201 You used to be a baker, though now you wear gloves, 239 You want better bread than wheaten, 206 You will not be loved if you think of none but yourself, 70, 237 You will not see many with green eyes, 288 Young cats will mouse, young apes will louse, 330 Young dogs have sharp teeth, 402 Young folk, silly folk; old folk, cold folk, 330 Young fools think that the old are dotards, but the old have forgotten more than the young fools know, 305 Young gambler, old beggar, 150, 156 Young people must be taught, old ones be honoured, 363 Young pigs grunt as old hogs grunted before them, 396 Young twigs may be bent, but not old trees, 330 Your cracked jug seems better to me than my sound one, 232 Your enemy makes you wise, 103 Your friend lends, and your enemy asks payment, 332 Your wife and the sauce at the lance hand (the right hand), 227 “Your words are fair,” said the wolf, “but I will not come into the village”, 141 Youth may stray afar yet return at last, 29 THE END. 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