Proverbs from Thomas Middleton

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• A103 Good ALE is meat, drink, and cloth
• A133 ALL in all and all in every part
• A143 ALL is lost that is put in a riven dish
• A172 Bear (Take, Suffer) this, bear (take, suffer) ALL
• A233 The Welsh AMBASSADOR¹
• A242 There spoke an ANGEL
• A285 APPEARANCES are deceitful
• A381 His ASS (breech, tail) makes buttons
• A398 One of my AUNTS
• B4 As innocent (clear) as a newborn BABE (child, chrisom-child)
• B12 Fall BACK fall edge
• B162 As bold as BEAUCHAMP
• B179 BECAUSE is woman's reason
• B195 Who goes drunk to BED begets but a girl
• B198 To go to BEDFORDSHIRE
• B257 Everything has (All things have) a BEGINNING
• B426 He will BITE near (A close biter)
• B481 He cannot say BO to a goose
• B534 To be in (out of) one's BOOKS
• B774 He looks as if BUTTER would not melt in his mouth
• C23 Everyone must walk (labor) in his own CALLING (vocation)
• C189 CATCH that catch may
• C485 The COCK is the countryman's clock
• C536 As proud COMES behind as goes before
• C667 The CORRUPTION of one is the generation of another
• D60 The better DAY the better deed
• D143 DEATH is the grand leveler
• D243 The DEVIL is at home
• D316 That which is gotten over the DEVIL's back is spent under his belly
• D467 Fight DOG, fight bear, the devil part them
• D506 To be old DOG at it
• D588 DREAMS go by contraries
• E14 When your EAR tingles (burns) people are talking about you
• E42 You take your EASE in your inn
• E59 As nimble as an EEL in a sandbag
• E116 The END crowns (tries) all
• F310 Fresh FISH and newcome guests smell by that time they be three days old
• F319 Neither FISH nor flesh nor good red herring
• F483 He is a FOOL that makes his physician his heir
• F519 A FOOL's head of your own
• F679 FRIDAY is an unlucky day
• F733 Farewell and be hanged, FRIENDS must part
• F753 Kiss and be FRIENDS
• G157 To GO (stand) a high-lone¹
• G251 Those that GOD loves do not live long (The good die young)
• G398 GRAIN by grain and the hen (ant) fills her belly (his barn)
• H26 To hit (fit) it to a HAIR
• H87 One HAND washes another and both (both wash) the face
• H161 Set the HARE's head (foot) against the goose giblets
• H170 To be able to do HARM and not to do it is noble
• H396 It is HEIGHT makes Grantham¹ steeple stand awry
• H481 HOBSON's choice
• H576 It is better to die with HONOR than to live with shame
• H638 Do not spur a free HORSE
• H697 To go round like a blind HORSE in a mill
• H723 In my (your) t'other HOSE
• H804 To give one a Cornish HUG
• I35 There is no ILL but may turn to one's good
• I49 Give an INCH and he will take an ell
• J84 The JOY of the heart makes the face fair (a fair color)
• J104 A London (Kentish, Middlesex) JURY, hang half and save half
• K64 A KING (prince) loves the treason but hates the traitor
• K117 Neither KITH (kiff) nor kin
• L68 The LAPWING cries most when farthest from her nest
• L82 LAST but not least
• L92a To LAUGH and cry at once (like rain in sunshine)
• L96 To lay in LAVENDER
• L153 Never too old (late) to LEARN
• L193 To be (To go) on one's last LEGS
• L244 Anything for a quiet LIFE
• L280 LIGHTNING (Thunder) bruises the tree (melts the marrow) but breaks not the bark (skin)
• L384 Too soon wise to LIVE long
• L553 Your LOVE is a million
• M45 MAIDENS should be seen and not heard
• M79 A black MAN is a pearl (jewel) in a fair woman's eye
• M568 Old MEN are covetous by nature
• M628 Let him mend his MANNERS, it will be his own another day
• M739 Blurt, MASTER CONSTABLE
• M816 He brings (carries) MEAT in his mouth
• M863 MEDLARS¹ are never good till they be rotten
• M995 Better once a MISCHIEF than always an inconvenience
• M1175 A red MORNING foretells a stormy day
• M1205 The MOTHER's side is the surer side
• M1215 The MOUNTAIN was in labor and brought forth a mouse
• M1246 As like him as if he had been spit out of his MOUTH
• N10 It is unlucky to pare one's NAILS on Sunday (Friday)
• N18 To pay down upon the NAIL
• N125 To feather one's NEST
• N126 To feather one's NEST
• N167 Dark NIGHT is Cupid's day
• N229 To bore one's NOSE
• N233 To lead one by the NOSE
• N276 I know NOTHING except that I know not
• O96 To look (whoop) like an OWL in an ivy bush
• P1 To remember one's P's and Q's
• P36 There went but a PAIR of shears between them
• P39 As flat as a PANCAKE
• P52 He will not part with the PARINGS of his nails
• P183 PENS may blot but they cannot blush
• P187 To sit on PENNILESS BENCH¹
• P189 A better PENNY
• P322 As plain as a PIKESTAFF (packstaff)
• P336 To cleave the PIN
• P351 PIPING HOT
• P360 PITCH and pay
• P461 To stink like (worse than) a POLECAT
• R8 After RAIN (showers) comes fair weather (the sun)
• R157 To have RODS in piss (pickle) for one
• R164 To go (hop) to ROME with a mortar¹ on one's head
• S212 SEEING is believing
• S264 To make a SHAFT (bolt) or a bolt (shaft) of it
• S380 To be over SHOES
• S396 SHORT and sweet
• S443 Ecce SIGNUM
• S459 White SILVER draws black lines
• S544 SLOW but sure
• S584 He has eaten a SNAKE
• S704 As flattering (fawning) as a SPANIEL
• S788 A SPRINGE¹ to catch a woodcock²
• S834 As mute as a STATUE
• S885 A rolling STONE gathers no moss
• S908 After a STORM comes a calm (fair weather)
• S912 To be STRAIT-LACED
• S946 To bestir (stir) one's STUMPS
• S1028 Like a SWAN, he sings before his death
• S1047 He that strikes with the SWORD shall be beaten (stricken) with the scabbard
• T64 The greatest TALKERS are the least (not the greatest) doers
• T246 I know your THOUGHTS (know you) as well as if I were within you (in your belly)
• T525 TRIMTRAM, like master like man
• T575 TRUTH (Plain dealing) has no need of rhetoric (figures)
• T624 As true as a TURTLE to her mate
• U17 UNSIGHT unseen
• V62 The young VINE yields the most but the old one yields the best
• V95 The VOICE of the people is the voice of God
• W148 There is no WAY but one
• W149 This is the WAY (trick) to catch the old one
• W179 There be more WAYS to the wood than one
• W217 Fair WEATHER after you
• W312 To wet one's WHISTLE
• W382 A WIFE brings but two good days, her wedding day and death day
• W456 To come in at the WINDOW (o'er the hatch)
• W495 To be under another's (mother's) WING
• W500 Although I WINK I am not blind
• W545 Bought WIT is best
• W652 A WOMAN has nine lives, like a cat
• W658 A WOMAN, like a German clock, is still¹ repairing (never goes true)
• W702 WOMEN are in church saints, abroad angels, at home devils
• W732 He has lost himself in a WOOD
• W819 More WORDS than one go to a bargain
• W820 Not WORDS but deeds
• W827 Two WORDS to a bargain
• W880 A mad WORLD, my masters
• W911 If the WORST come to the worst
• W917 The WORST goes foremost