Proverbs from Christopher Marlowe

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• A290 As dear as the APPLE of my eye
• A339 As pale as ASHES
• B88 A BARLEYCORN is better than a diamond (pearl) to a cock
• B298 Hold (Fill), BELLY, hold (fill)
• B440 To make BLACK white
• C39 A CANDLE (torch) lights others and consumes itself
• C223 The CHANCE of war is uncertain
• C571 It is good to have COMPANY in trouble (misery)
• C579 Some complain to prevent COMPLAINT
• C587 CONFESS and be hanged
• D225 The DEVIL and his dam
• D230 The DEVIL can cite Scripture for his purpose
• D252 The DEVIL is known by his claws (cloven feet, horns)
• D278 He must needs go that the DEVIL drives
• D407 What we DO willingly is easy
• D433 As dry as a DOG
• E60 As slippery as an EEL
• E177 Better be ENVIED than pitied
• E249 To have by the EYE
• F1 The FACE is the index of the heart (mind)
• F33 No FAITH with heretics
• F177 Ask my FELLOW (companion) if I be a thief
• F605 FORTUNE (Woman) is constant only in inconstancy
• F694 A FRIEND is never known till a man have need
• F696 A FRIEND is one's second self
• F747 If you deal so ill by your FRIENDS what will you do with your enemies?
• G458 Not worth a GROAT (gray groat)
• H199 No HASTE but good
• H280 They laid their HEADS together
• H323 Pluck up your HEART
• H406 HELL is wherever heaven is not
• H491 The HOG (dog) is got into the honeypot (porridge pot)
• H537 Let HOMER yield to such as presents bring
• H576 It is better to die with HONOR than to live with shame
• I93 IRON (Brass) with use grows bright
• I101 As poor as IRUS
• J49 As black as JET
• J75 To be out of JOINT
• J101 To drink the JUICE of mandrake (mandragora)
• K173 I KNOW (wot) what I know (wot)
• L384 Too soon wise to LIVE long
• L426 Love not at the first LOOK (Love at first sight)
• L477 Faithful LOVE will never turn to hate
• L559 LOVE me little love me long
• M243 A MAN is a man
• M244 A MAN is a man though he have but a hose on his head
• M326 No MAN ever lost his credit (honor) but he that had it not
• M417 A wicked MAN is his own hell
• M875 It is never too late to MEND (repent)
• M1162 To have MORE of the serpent than the dove
• M1315 MURDER will out
• M1319 A MUSHROOM grows in a night
• M1330 MUST is for the king
• M1331 What MUST (shall, will) be must (shall, will) be
• N57 I am NEAREST to myself
• N167 Dark NIGHT is Cupid's day
• N206 He is put to a NONPLUS
• N285 NOTHING can come of nothing
• N321 NOTHING violent can be permanent
• O7 An unlawful OATH is better broken than kept
• O9 To drink the OCEAN dry
• O54 ONE is no number
• O99 May we not do with our OWN what we list?
• P336 To cleave the PIN
• P356 He falls into the PIT he digs for another
• P533 To send (come) with a POWDER
• P663 To give one's PURSE a purgation
• R33 The croaking RAVEN bodes misfortune (death)
• R122 Extreme RIGHT (justice) is extreme wrong (injustice, injury)
• S443 Ecce SIGNUM
• S506 As true (honest) as the SKIN between your brows
• S608 She is chaste whom no one has SOLICITED (who has withstood temptation)
• S704 As flattering (fawning) as a SPANIEL
• S771 He must have a long SPOON that will eat with the devil
• S955 Of SUFFERANCE comes ease
• T88 When? Can you TELL?
• T311 Take TIME (occasion) by the forelock, for she is bald behind
• T371 TODAY for me tomorrow for thee
• T476 A TRAVELER may lie with authority
• T639 That which TWO will takes effect
• V30a VENUS always leaves an exquisite perfume behind her
• V68 To nourish a VIPER (snake) in one's bosom
• W148 There is no WAY but one
• W408 WIN it and wear it
• W461 Good WINE makes good blood
• W495 To be under another's (mother's) WING
• W603 He holds a WOLF by the ears
• W697 WOMEN are ambitious
• W718 WOMEN receive perfection by men
• W921 Great WORTH is often found in things of small appearance (in little boxes)