1576. Table. A poor man's table is soon spread.
1577. Table. Who depends upon another man's table often dines late.
1578. Tale-bearer. Remove the tale-bearer and contention ceaseth.
1579. Tale-bearers. Put no faith in tale-bearers.
1580. Talk. Talk of the devil and his imp appears.
1581. Talkers. The greatest talkers are always the least doers.
1582. Talking. Talking pays no toll.
1583. Taste. To him that hath lost his taste, sweet is sour.
1584. Teacheth. He teacheth ill who teacheth all.
1585. Tears. Nothing dries up sooner than tears.
1586. Teeth. A man may dig his grave with his teeth.
1587. Temperance. Temperance is the best physic.
1588. Tempter. The tempter is the greater rogue.
1589. Thanks. He loseth his thanks who promiseth and delayeth.
1590. Thatched. When I have thatched his house he would throw me down.
1591. Thief. Give a thief rope enough and he'll hang himself.
1592. Thief. The thief's sorry because he is caught, not because he is the thief.
1593. Thief. Set a thief to take a thief.
1594. Thieves. All are not thieves that dogs bark at.
1595. Think. One may think that dares not speak.
1596. Think. Think twice before you speak once.
1597. Think. Think much, speak little, and write less.
1598. Think.
Who thinks to live must live to think,
Else mind and body lose their link.
1599. Thinks. The horse thinks one thing, and he that rides him another.
1600. Thinkers. Thinkers govern toilers.
1601. Thistles. Gather thistles, expect prickles.
1602. Thistles. He that sows nothing plants thistles.
1603. Thorn. No rose without a thorn.
1604. Thorn. The thorn comes forth with his point forwards.
1605. Thorns. Roses, mind you, have thorns.
1606. Thorns. He that handles thorns shall prick his fingers.
1607. Thoughts. Second thoughts are best.
1608. Thoughts. Thoughts are free.
1609. Threatened. There are more threatened than struck.
1610. Threepence. If you make not much of threepence you'll ne'er be worth a groat.
1611. Thrifty. Thrifty men are fond of thrifty sayings.
1612. Thrive.
He that will thrive must rise at five.
He that hath thriven may lie till seven.
1613. Thunder. Thunder in December foretells fine weather.
1614. Thunders. When it thunders the thief becomes honest.
1615. Thyself. For what thou canst do thyself rely not on another.
1616. Tide. There is a tide in the affairs of man which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.
1617. Tide. Every tide has its ebb.
1618. Tide. The tide will fetch away what the ebb brings.
1619. Time. Take time by the forelock.
1620. Time. A mouse, in time, may bite in two a cable.
1621. Time. Take time when time is, for time will away.
1622. Time. Time and tide tarry for no man.
1623. Time. Time assuages the greatest grief.
1624. Time. Time cures sorrow.
1625. Time. Time is the rider that breaks youth.
1626. Time. Time tries all.
1627. Timely. Timely blossom timely ripe.
1628. Title. Simon Noland, clown, is a better style and title than Humphrey Hadland, gent.
1629. To-day. To-day me, to-morrow thee.
1630. Tom. He's Tom Tell-troth.
1631. To-morrow. To-morrow comes never.
1632. Tongue. A man may hold his tongue in an ill time.
1633. Tongue. Temper the tongue.
1634. Tongue. Confine your tongue, lest it confine you.
1635. Tongue. Keep your tongue within your teeth.
1636. Tongue.
The tongue breaketh bone,
Though itself have none.
1637. Tongue. The tongue's not steel, yet it cuts.
1638. Tongue. The tongue talks at the head's cost.
1639. Tongue. One tongue is enough for a woman.
1640. Tongue. Who has not a good tongue, ought to have good hands.
1641. Too late. Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.
1642. Tools. A bad workman quarrels with his tools.
1643. Tools. What is a workman without his tools?
1644. Too far. Too far east is west.
1645. Too much. He that grasps at too much, holds fast nothing.
1646. Top sawyers. We can't all be top sawyers.
1647. Trade. He that hath a trade hath an estate.
1648. Trade. Every man to his trade.
1649. Trade. Trade knows neither friends nor kindred.
1650. Trade. Trade is the mother of money.
1651. Trades. Jack of all trades, and master of none.
1652. Tradesman. A tradesman who gets not loseth.
1653. Travels. He that travels far knows much.
1654. Tree. A tree is known by its fruit, and not by its leaves.
1655. Tree. Remove an old tree and it will wither to death.
1656. Trees. Set trees poor, and they will grow rich; set them rich, and they will grow poor.
1657. Trees. You cannot see wood for trees.
1658. Trifle. Fall not out with a friend for a trifle.
1659. Trouble. He who seeketh trouble never misseth it.
1660. Troubled waters. Never fish in troubled waters.
1661. Troubles. Never make troubles of trifles.
1662. Troubles. Hidden troubles disquiet most.
1663. True word. There's many a true word spoken in jest.
1664. True. That is true which all men say.
1665. Trust.
If you trust before you try,
You may repent it ere you die.
1666. Trust. Trust in God, and keep your powder dry.
1667. Trust not. Trust not a broken staff.
1668. Trust not. Trust not a horse's heel, nor a dog's tooth.
1669. Truth. Truth lies in a well.
1670. Truth. Truth is stranger than fiction.
1671. Truth. Fair fall truth and daylight.
1672. Truth. Speak the truth and shame the devil.
1673. Truth. Truth hath a good face, but bad clothes.
1674. Truth. Truth may be blamed, but it can't be shamed.
1675. Truth.
1676. Try. Try your friend before you trust him.
1677. Tub. Every tub must stand on its own bottom.
1678. Turn. One good turn deserves another.
1679. Turned. Swine, women, and bees are not to be turned.
1680. Twelfth day. At twelfth-day the days are lengthened a cock's stride.
1681. Twenty. As good twenty as nineteen.
1682. Twice. If things were to be done twice, all would be wise.
1683. Two faces. Never carry two faces under one hat.
1684. Two heads. Two heads are better than one.
1685. Two places. One cannot be in two places at once.
1686. Two Sundays. When two Sundays come in one week—that is, never.
