Proverbs from Roger L'Estrange

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• A38 Much ADO about nothing
• A58 AFTERWIT comes over late
• A152 ALL is vanity
• A302 We APPLES swim, quoth the horse turds
• B12 Fall BACK fall edge
• B54 He should be a BAKER by his bowlegs
• B76 A BARGAIN is a bargain
• B88 A BARLEYCORN is better than a diamond (pearl) to a cock
• B96 To be dressed like BARTHOLOMEW BABIES
• B222 Better BEG than steal
• B326 Make the BEST of a bad bargain (market)
• B328 We must hope for the BEST and fear the worst
• B522 To give one a BONE to pick
• B761 The BUTCHER looked for his knife when he had it in his mouth
• C184 They agree like CATS and dogs
• C284 To take the CHESTNUTS (nuts) out of the fire with the cat's paw (dog's foot)
• C590 CONFESSION of a fault pardons it
• C758 It becomes him as well as a COW does a cart saddle
• D270 The DEVIL was sick, the devil a monk would be; the devil was well, the devil a monk was he
• D300 To play the DEVIL for God's sake
• D365 The DiSH (pot) wears its OWN cover
• D440 As sick as a DOG
• D448 A dead DOG bites (barks) not
• D473 Hang a DOG on a crab tree and he'll never love verjuice
• D496 Love me love my DOG
• D545 Two DOGS strive for a bone and the third runs away with it
• E128 Think on the END before you begin
• E214 A bad EXCUSE (shift) is better than none at all
• E220 EXPERIENCE is the mistress of fools
• E248 To cry (look up) with one EYE and laugh (down) with the other
• F232 To wind one about one's FINGER
• F442 Answer a FOOL according to his folly
• F490 He that teaches himself has a FOOL to his master
• F617 FORTUNE's wheel is ever turning
• F681 A FRIDAY's feast (face, reason)
• F789 She simpers like a FURMITY-KETTLE
• G234 He that serves GOD for money will serve the devil for better wages
• H15 HAIL FELLOW WELL MET
• H21 Pull HAIR and hair and you'll make the carl (the horse's tail) bare
• H93 To be on the mending HAND
• H223 Between HAWK and buzzard
• H532 Court HOLY WATER
• H757 He set my HOUSE on fire only to roast his eggs
• I68 He invites a new INJURY who bears the old patiently
• J23 He is JACK-OUT-OF-OFFICE
• J81 Far from JOVE (Jupiter) far from thunder (lightning)
• K22 As dry (hollow) as a KEX¹
• K152 There is KNAVERY in all trades
• K185 He that KNOWS thee will never buy thee
• L97 Agree, for the LAW is costly
• L138 Neither LEAD nor drive
• L161 Too much LEARNING makes men mad
• L336 LISTENERS never hear good of themselves
• L372 LITTLE AND OFTEN fills the purse
• M5 When the MAGGOT bites
• M11 You correct MAGNIFICAT
• M84 Command your MAN and do it yourself
• M92 A drowning MAN will catch at a twig (rush, straw)
• M118 Every MAN has his weak side
• M126 Every MAN is the architect of his own fortune
• M195 If a MAN will have his business well done he must do it himself
• M299 A MAN should hear all parts ere he judge any
• M335 No MAN is wise at all times
• M387 That which a MAN causes to be done he does himself
• M443 A young MAN and woman is a match of God's making but a young man and an old woman is of the devil's making
• M526 He that all MEN will please shall never find ease
• M555 MEN (Men's love), not walls, make the city (prince) safe
• M605 Wise MEN propose and fools dispose
• M797 One may know your MEANING by your gaping (mumping)
• M974 A sound MIND in a sound body
• M1028 To handle without MITTENS
• M1084 MONEY will do anything
• M1086 MONEY will make the pot boil
• M1093 Tell¹ MONEY after your own father
• M1258 Out of one MOUTH to blow hot and cold
• N161 Old NICK
• N172 He that will be rich before NIGHT may be hanged before noon
• N194 To bring a NOBLE (shilling) to ninepence
• N251 Do NOTHING hastily but catching of fleas
• N310 NOTHING like leather
• O53 ONE, but that one is a lion
• P31 He shows a fair PAIR of heels
• P339 The PINE wishes herself a shrub when the ax is at her root
• P387 He that is born under a threepenny (three-halfpenny) PLANET will never be worth a groat¹
• P537a PRACTICE what you preach
• P604 All PROMISES are either broken or kept
• R71 There is no REMEDY but patience
• R122 Extreme RIGHT (justice) is extreme wrong (injustice, injury)
• R195 To give one a ROWLAND for an Oliver
• S102 What is SAUCE for a goose is sauce for a gander
• S403 Put your SHOULDER to the wheel
• S405 To get over the left SHOULDER
• S563 Like the SMITH's dog, that sleeps at the noise of the hammers and wakes at the crashing of teeth
• S598 To take in SNUFF
• S810 He has eaten (swallowed) a STAKE
• S1030 He that will SWEAR will lie
• T87 TELL me with whom thou goest and I will tell thee what thou dost (who thou art)
• T119 The great THIEVES hang the little ones
• T203 THINGS past cannot be recalled
• T257 THREE (Two) may keep counsel if two (one) be away
• T347 A TINKER stops one hole and makes two (three)
• T389 His TONGUE is no slander
• T392 Keep your TONGUE within your teeth
• T402 To keep a good TONGUE in one's head
• T421 To have an aching TOOTH at one
• T626 As good as (The worst that) ever TWANGED
• W265 Never WELL, full nor fasting
• W278 He shrinks in the WETTING
• W287 The worst WHEEL of the cart makes most noise
• W432 To go down the WIND
• W578 Good WITS jump¹
• W609 To cry WOLF
• W627 He that does not love a WOMAN sucked a sow
• W643 A wise¹ WOMAN is twice a fool
• W751 As warm as WOOL
• W791 Fair WORDS butter no parsnips
• W807 Good WORDS cost no more than bad
• W869 He that has the WORLD at will seems wise (To have the world at will)
• W913 It is good to fear (Provide for) the WORST, the best will save itself
• Y31 It is too late to call again YESTERDAY