INDEX. (continued 3)
Reading edition
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 have short legs, 75, 159
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, 53, 126
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 and grow tame, 208, 272
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
Might is not right, 19, 319
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 come, welcome, 163, 393
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 money, no Swiss, 46, 157
No need to say “trot” to a good horse, 65
No need to seek shelter for an old ox, 193
No news is good news, 46, 115
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 is no custom, 61, 314
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, 45, 200
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
Store is no sore, 1, 174
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