Proverbs with Keyword: "THING"
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- T123 The best or worst THING to man for this life is good or ill choosing his good or ill wife
- T124 Better to have than to hear of a good THING
- T125 Borrowed THING will home again
- T126 The dainty THING would have a dainty dish (bit)
- T127 For a tint¹ (lost) THING care not
- T128 Give a THING and take a thing, that is the devil's gold ring
- T129 Give a THING and take again and you shall ride in hell's wain
- T130 A good THING cannot be too often spoken
- T131 A good THING is soon snatched up
- T132 He shall never have a THING good cheap that is afraid to ask the price
- T133 He that makes a THING too fine breaks it
- T134 He that never did one THING ill can never do it well
- T135 I seek for a THING, wife, that I would not find
- T136 It is a rare THING to do good (to be honest)
- T137 It is a wicked THING to make a dearth one's garner
- T138 It is an easy THING to find a staff to beat a dog
- T139 It is an easy THING to find a stone to throw at a dog
- T140 It is an ill THING to be wicked (wretched) but a worse to be known so (to boast of it)
- T141 Keep a THING seven years and you will find a use for it
- T142 The more common a good THING is the better
- T143 Of a little THING a little displeases
- T144 One THING said twice deserves a trudge¹
- T145 That THING which is rare is dear
- T146 There is a THING in it, quoth the fellow when he drank the dishclout
- T147 There is no new THING under the sun
- T148 A THING done by force is not worth a rush (nutshell)
- T149 The THING done has an end (is not to do)
- T150 The THING that is fristed¹ is not forgiven
- T151 The THING that we first learn we best can
- T152 A THING there was, and done it was, and wise was he that hid it; let no man know who knows it not, nor do so no more that did it
- T153 A THING well done is twice done (is ever done)
- T154 To get by a THING, as Dickson did by his distress
- T155 To lay (cast) a THING in one's dish
- T156 To make a bad THING worse
- T157 To scorn a THING as a dog scorns a tripe
- T158 Too much of one THING is good for nothing
- T159 When a THING is done advice comes too late
- T160 You want the THING you have
- T161 All green (new) THINGS are gay (fair)
- T162 All THINGS are good unseyed¹
- T163 All THINGS are obedient to money
- T164 All THINGS are sold for money at Rome
- T165 All THINGS are turned topsy-turvy (upside down)
- T166 All THINGS by strife engender
- T167 All THINGS fit not all persons
- T168 All THINGS grow worse and worse
- T169 All THINGS have their place, knew we how to place them
- T170 All THINGS in their being are good for something
- T171 All THINGS may be suffered saving wealth
- T172 All THINGS may come soon enough if we can have the patience to stay for them
- T173 All THiNGS require skill but an appetite
- T174 All THINGS that breed in the mud are not efts¹ (eels)
- T175 All THINGS thrive at thrice (There are three things of all things)
- T176 All THINGS wites¹ that no well fares
- T177 All worldly THINGS are transitory
- T178 The best THINGS are worst to come by
- T179 From three THINGS God keep us: from powdered beef without mustard, from a servant that views himself, a wife that is painted
- T180 Give, take, seek all THINGS, few things, nothing
- T181 Good THINGS are difficult
- T182 He finds THINGS before they are lost
- T183 He lives unsafely that looks too near on THINGS
- T184 He seems wise with whom all THINGS thrive
- T185 If THINGS were to be done twice all would be wise
- T186 In three THINGS a man may be deceived: in a man till known, in a tree till down, in the day till done
- T187 It is better to lose some THINGS than all
- T188 Little THINGS are pretty
- T189 Little THINGS catch light minds (please fools)
- T190 Many THINGS grow in the garden which were never sowed
- T191 Many THINGS happen (fall) between the cup and the lip
- T192 Many THINGS happen unlooked for
- T193 Most THINGS have two handles
- T194 Of fair THINGS the autumn (the month of May) is fair
- T195 Some good THINGS I do not love: a good long mile, good small beer, and a good old woman
- T196 Take all THINGS as they come and be content
- T197 Taste not of THINGS that have black tails
- T198 There are many fair THINGS full false
- T199 THINGS are not as they seem
- T200 THINGS done cannot be undone
- T202 THINGS must be as they may
- T203 THINGS past cannot be recalled
- T204 THiNGS past cannot be recalled but may be repented
- T205 THINGS present are judged by things past
- T206 The THINGS that are above us are nothing to us
- T207 THINGS well fitted abide
- T208 Three THINGS always bring cost: the fawning of a dog, the love of a whore, and the invitation of a host
- T209 Three THINGS are ill handled: birds in boys' hands, young men in old men's hands, and wine in Germans' hands
- T210 Three THINGS there be which never decay whiles the world lasts: to bake, to brew, and to powl¹ or shear
- T211 To seek these THINGS is lost labor: geese in an oil pot, fat hogs among Jews, and wine in a fishing net
- T212 To take THINGS in dudgeon or wear a dudgeon dagger by his side
- T213 Two good THINGS (shirts) are better than one
- T214 Two THINGS do prolong your life, a quiet heart and a loving wife
- T215 What pretty THINGS are made for money, quoth the woman when she saw a monkey (squirrel)
- T216 When THINGS are at the worst they will mend
- T217 Who begins many THINGS finishes but few
- T218 Who meddles in all THINGS may shoe the goslings