Proverbs starting with "C"

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• C1 The great CAB¹ and the little cab go down to the grave
• C2 In two CABS of dates there is one CAB of stones and more
• C3 Ten CABS¹ of speech descended into the world and the women took away nine of them
• C4 A threefold CABLE (cord) is not easily broken
• C5 To keep a CACKLING and lay no eggs
• C6 CADGERS¹ speak of lead saddles²
• C7 She can cackle like a CADOWE¹
• C8 Either CAESAR or nobody
• C9 Render unto CAESAR the things which are Caesar's
• C10 He builds CAGES for oxen to bring up birds in
• C11 He needs not a CAKE of bread at all his kin
• C12 His CAKE is dough
• C13 It is CAKE and pudding to me
• C14 There was never a CAKE but it had a make¹
• C15 You can't eat your CAKE and have your cake (have it too)
• C15a CALAMITY (Extremity) is the touchstone of a brave mind (unto wit)
• C16 As old as CALE-HILL
• C17 The greatest CALF is not the sweetest veal
• C18 He eats the CALF in the cow's belly
• C18a A quiet CALF sucks its dam and another cow also
• C19 You would have the CALF with the white face
• C20 A CALF's head will feast a hunter and his hounds
• C21 Essex CALVES
• C22 His CALVES are gone down to grass
• C22a You CALL me scabbed because I will not call you scald
• C23 Everyone must walk (labor) in his own CALLING (vocation)
• C24 After a CALM comes a storm
• C25 CAMBRIDGE requires all to be equal
• C26 As hard as for a CAMEL to pass through a needle's eye
• C27 The CAMEL going to seek horns lost his ears
• C28 A CAMEL in Media dances in a little cab¹
• C29 A CAMEL when he means to drink troubles the water
• C30 It becomes him as well as it becomes a CAMEL to dance
• C31 Cambridgeshire CAMELS
• C32 Old CAMELS carry young camels' skins to the market
• C33 As crooked as a CAMMOCK¹
• C34 The more CAMOMILE is trodden down the more it spreads
• C35 I have victualled my CAMP
• C36 CAN is eith¹ carried about
• C37 As true as that the CANDLE ate the cat
• C38 As upright as a CANDLE stands in a socket
• C39 A CANDLE (torch) lights others and consumes itself
• C40 He that worst may must hold the CANDLE
• C41 His CANDLE burns within the socket
• C42 It is good to hold (set) a CANDLE before the devil
• C43 It smells of the CANDLE (lamp, oil)
• C44 Not to be able to hold a CANDLE to one
• C45 One CANDLE can light many more
• C46 To burn (waste) a CANDLE to find a pin (flea)
• C47 To burn one CANDLE to seek another
• C48 To burn (light) one's CANDLE at both ends
• C49 To go out like a CANDLE in a snuff
• C50 When CANDLES be out (At night) all cats be gray
• C51 A good CANDLEHOLDER proves a good gamester
• C52 If CANDLEMAS DAY¹ be fair and bright winter will have another flight; if on Candlemas Day it be shower and rain winter is gone and will not come again
• C53 On CANDLEMAS DAY¹ throw candle and candlestick away
• C54 On CANDLEMAS DAY¹ you must have half your straw and half your hay
• C55 When CANDLEMAS DAY¹ is come and gone the snow lies on a hot stone
• C56 The CANKER soonest eats the fairest rose (flowers)
• C57 Who was killed by a CANNON BULLET was cursed in his mother's belly
• C58 CANTERBURY is the higher rack but Winchester is the better manger
• C59 A CANTERBURY TALE
• C60 Cast your CAP at the moon
• C61 He is one that will not lose his CAP in a crowd
• C62 He may cast his CAP after him for ever overtaking him
• C63 If his CAP be made of wool
• C64 The three-cornered CAP
• C65 Thy CAP has more ease than thy head
• C66 You shall have the red CAP
• C67 He that gives thee a CAPON give him the leg and the wing
• C68 If thou hast not a CAPON feed on an onion (on bread and onion)
• C69 A CAPTAIN (ruler) should not sleep the whole night
• C70 Such as the CAPTAIN is such is the soldier
• C71 A white-livered CAPTAIN for all his brazen face
• C72 As cunning as CAPTAIN DRAKE
• C73 Where the CARCASS is there the eagles will gather
• C74 He has a sure CARD
• C75 To outface with a CARD of ten
• C76 CARDS are the devil's books
• C77 He has good CARDS to show for it
• C78 Many can pack the CARDS that cannot play
• C79 To throw up one's CARDS
• C80 When you have counted your CARDS you will find you have gained but little
• C81 He is in good CARDING
• C82 CARE brings gray hair
• C83 CARE is no cure
• C84 CARE will kill a cat
• C85 Hang CARE (sorrow)
• C86 Have a CARE to gain, for there will come a time of spending
• C87 He takes great CARE how to shame himself
• C88 Great CARES are great merchandise
• C89 He CARES not how he has it so he may but get it
• C90 CARE NOT would have it
• C91 As the CARL¹ riches he wretches²
• C92 Kiss a CARL¹ and clap² a carl and that's the way to tine³ a carl, knock a carl and ding⁴ a carl and that's the way to win a carl
• C93 The best CARPENTER makes the fewest chips
• C94 Such (Like) CARPENTER such (like) chips
• C95 A CARPER can cavil at anything
• C96 As smooth as a CARPET
• C97 To be upon the CARPET
• C98 A CARPET KNIGHT
• C99 No CARRION will kill a crow
• C100 He CARRIES well to whom it weighs not
• C101 The best CART may overthrow
• C102 If ever I get his CART whemling¹ I'll give it a put²
• C103 To set the CART before the horse
• C104 You put¹ at the CART that's ay ganging²
• C105 I am left out of the CART's tail
• C106 To be cast at CART's ass
• C107 All the CARTS that come to Crowland are shod with silver
• C108 CARTS well driven go long upright
• C109 As common as the CARTWAY
• C110 To be one's own CARVER
• C111 The CASE is altered, quoth Plowden
• C112 He is in ill CASE that gives example to another
• C113 Well goes the CASE where wisdom counsels
• C114 A CASK and an ill custom must be broken
• C115 He is at last CAST
• C116 He keeps a CAST of merlins
• C117 To give one a CAST of his office
• C118 To speak in one's CAST
• C119 Rub and a good CAST
• C120 Better a CASTLE of bones than of stones
• C121 A CASTLE of comfort
• C122 A CASTLE that parleys and a woman that hears will both yield
• C123 Were I in my CASTLE of Bungay upon the river of Waveney I would not care for the King of Cockney
• C124 CASTLES are forests of stone
• C125 To build CASTLES in Spain
• C126 To build CASTLES in the air
• C127 As a CAT plays with a mouse
• C128 As a CAT watches a mouse
• C129 As melancholy as a gibbed CAT
• C130 As nimble as (He signifies no more than) a blind CAT in a barn
• C131 As nimble as a CAT on a hot bakestone
• C132 A baited CAT may grow as fierce as a lion
• C133 Before the CAT can lick her ear
• C134 A blate¹ CAT makes a proud mouse
• C135 CAT (Kit) after kind
• C136 CAT after kind, good mouse hunt
• C137 The CAT has eaten her count
• C138 The CAT is hungry when a crust contents her
• C139 The CAT is in the cream pot
• C140 The CAT knows whose lips (beard) she licks well enough
• C141 A CAT may look on a king
• C142 The CAT sees not the mouse ever
• C143 The CAT, the rat, and Lovel, our dog, rule all England under a hog
• C144 The CAT would eat fish but she will not wet her feet
• C145 A gloved CAT can catch no mice
• C146 He bides as fast as a CAT bound with a saucer
• C147 He can hold the CAT to the sun
• C148 He hoped well that got the CAT with two tails
• C149 He is sure of a CAT that has her skin
• C150 He loves me as a CAT does mustard
• C151 How (What) can the CAT help it if the maid be a fool?
• C152 Let the CAT wink and let the mouse run
• C153 Like a CAT, he'll still fall upon his legs
• C154 Like a CAT, to have nine lives
• C155 The liquorish¹ CAT has (gets) many a rap
• C156 The more you rub a CAT on the rump the higher she sets up her tail
• C157 A muffled (muzzled, cuffed) CAT was never good mouser (hunter)
• C158 My CAT has no such ears
• C159 Never was CAT or dog drowned that could but see the shore
• C160 An old CAT laps as much milk as (more milk than) a young
• C161 An old CAT sports not with her prey
• C162 Put an old CAT to an old rat
• C163 A scalded CAT (dog) fears cold water
• C164 Send not a CAT for lard
• C165 She is like a CAT, she will play with her own tail
• C166 Such a CAT cannot be caught without mittens
• C167 That CAT is out of kind that sweet milk (cream) will not lap (lick, steal)
• C168 That that comes of a CAT will catch mice
• C169 Though the CAT winks awhile yet sure she is not blind
• C170 To buy a CAT in a poke
• C171 To know a CAT from a cony (cowlstaff)
• C172 To turn the CAT in the pan
• C173 To whip the CAT
• C174 Well might (It was not for nought that) the CAT wink (winked) when both her eyes were out
• C175 When the CAT's away the mice will play
• C176 When the CAT winks little wots the mouse what the cat thinks
• C177 You shall have what the CAT left on the malt heap
• C178 You will be like the singed CAT then, better than you are likely¹
• C179 Long and small, like a CAT's elbow
• C180 To have CAT's eyes
• C181 CATS eat what hussies spare (what the goodwife spares)
• C182 It rains CATS and dogs
• C183 Keep no more CATS than will catch mice
• C184 They agree like CATS and dogs
• C185 They agree like two CATS in a gutter
• C186 Two CATS and a mouse, two wives in one house, two dogs and a bone never agree in one
• C187 They draw the CAT HARROW
• C188 To lie at CATCH
• C189 CATCH that catch may
• C190 It is ill CATCHING of fish when the hook is bare
• C191 They are not (are) CATER-COUSINS
• C192 To go CATERWAULING
• C193 Lang lean¹ makes hameald² CATTLE
• C194 No (Mickle) CATTLE no (mickle) care
• C195 Old CATTLE breed not
• C196 When I am dead make me a CAUDLE¹
• C197 He was born with a CAUL
• C198 CAUSE causes
• C199 Crabbed¹ was and CAUSE had
• C200 He that is angry without a CAUSE must be pleased without amends
• C201 It is a bad CAUSE that none dares speak in
• C202 Remove the CAUSE and the effect will cease
• C203 A small CAUSE may produce much grief
• C204 You must not starve a CAUSE
• C205 To put in (enter) a CAVEAT
• C206 CAVIL will enter in at any hole and if it find none it will make one
• C207 As straight (tall) as a CEDAR
• C208 High CEDARS fall (are shaken) when low shrubs remain (are scarcely moved)
• C209 He has good CELLARAGE
• C210 CENSURE, which spares the raven, torments the dove
• C211 Without CERES and Bacchus Venus grows cold
• C212 He that leaves CERTAINTY (surety) and sticks to chance, when fools pipe he may dance
• C213 He is not free that draws his CHAIN
• C214 CHAINS of gold are stronger than chains of iron
• C215 They may sit in the CHAIR that have malt to sell
• C216 As like as CHALK and charcoal
• C217 CHALK is no shears
• C218 No more like than CHALK and cheese (To give chalk for cheese)
• C219 The CHAMBER of sickness is the chapel of devotion
• C220 Empty CHAMBERS make foolish maids
• C221 As changeable as a CHAMELEON
• C222 The CHAMELEON can change to all colors save white
• C223 The CHANCE of war is uncertain
• C224 It is too late to grieve when the CHANCE is past
• C225 More by CHANCE (luck) than any good cunning
• C226 No CHANCE but comes again
• C227 There is CHANCE in the cock's spur
• C228 CHANGE (Exchange) is no robbery
• C229 CHANGE is sweet
• C230 CHANGE of pasture makes fat calves
• C231 CHANGE of weather is the discourse of fools
• C232 CHANGE of women makes bald knaves
• C233 There is CHANGE of all things
• C234 To be no CHANGELING
• C235 CHANGING of works is lightening of hearts
• C236 He that is fit for the CHAPEL is meet for the field
• C237 He is a fond CHAPMAN that comes after the fair
• C238 I think we will be all CHAPMEN, quoth the good-wife when she got a turd on her back
• C239 The first CHAPTER of fools is to hold themselves wise
• C240 The first CHAPTER of fools magnifies themselves
• C241 This CHAR¹ is charred
• C242 CHAR-FOLKS are never paid
• C243 Lessen CHARGE and save cost
• C244 The CHARGES of building and making of gardens are unknown
• C245 Thou dost not bear my CHARGES that thou shouldst command me
• C246 He that has CHARGE of souls transports them not in bundles
• C247 Now you have a CHARGE look to it
• C248 The CHARITABLE gives out at door and God puts in at the window
• C249 As cold as CHARITY
• C250 CHARITY and pride do both feed the poor
• C251 CHARITY begins at home
• C252 CHARITY construes all doubtful things in good part
• C253 CHARITY grows cold
• C254 Let CHARITY measure all your actions
• C255 Happy is he that CHASTENS himself
• C256 CHATTING to chiding is not worth a chewet
• C257 Good CHEAP is dear
• C258 Light CHEAP lither yield
• C259 They buy good CHEAP that bring nothing home
• C260 CHEAPSIDE¹ is the best garden
• C261 As sure as CHECK
• C262 To give a CHECKMATE
• C263 CHEEK by jowl
• C264 Good CHEER and good cheap gars¹ many haunt the house
• C265 There is not always good CHEER where the chim-ney smokes
• C266 When good CHEER is lacking our friends will be packing
• C267 After CHEESE comes nothing
• C268 As thin as Banbury¹ CHEESE
• C269 CHEESE digests all things but itself
• C270 CHEESE is good that comes from a niggard (miser)
• C271 I would eat more CHEESE if I had it
• C272 If you will have a good CHEESE and have'n old you must turn'n seven times before he is cold
• C273 Suffolk CHEESE
• C274 Toasted CHEESE has no master
• C275 You cannot see green CHEESE but your teeth (mouth) must water
• C276 You have eaten some Hull CHEESE¹
• C277 As red as a CHERRY
• C278 CHERRIES and news fall price soonest
• C279 Eat not CHERRIES (prunes) with your lord
• C280 He that eats CHERRIES (pears) with his lord picks none of the best
• C281 One CHERRY TREE suffices not two jays
• C282 CHESHIRE, chief of men
• C283 Neither in CHESHIRE nor Chawbent
• C284 To take the CHESTNUTS (nuts) out of the fire with the cat's paw (dog's foot)
• C285 Said the CHEVIN¹ to the trout, My head is worth all thy bouk²
• C286 They love like CHICK
• C287 As tender as a CHICKEN
• C288 The CHICKEN crams the capon (cock)
• C289 The CHICKEN is the country's but the city eats it
• C290 He is a CHICKEN
• C291 CHICKENS feed capons
• C292 You count (reckon) your CHICKENS before they be hatched
• C293 They CHIDE handsmooth¹
• C294 He that sharply CHIDES is ready to pardon
• C295 As sore weeps the CHILD afternoon as a forenoon
• C296 Better a snotty CHILD than his nose wiped off
• C297 The burnt CHILD dreads the fire
• C298 The CHILD has a red tongue like its father
• C299 A CHILD may have too much of his mother's blessing
• C300 The CHILD says nothing but what it heard by the fire
• C301 The CHILD that is born must be kept
• C302 The CHILD was born and cried, became a man, after fell sick and died
• C303 Correct a CHILD behind and not before
• C304 Give a CHILD while he crave and a dog while his tail wave, you shall have a fair dog and a foul child
• C305 Happy is the CHILD whose father goes to the devil
• C306 He cares not whose CHILD cries, so his laugh
• C307 He has neither CHILD nor chicken (chick)
• C308 He that cockers his CHILD provides for his enemy
• C309 It is a wise CHILD (father) that knows his own father (child)
• C310 A late CHILD an early orphan
• C311 Let not a CHILD sleep upon bones
• C312 Many kiss (love) the CHILD for the nurse's sake
• C313 A naughty CHILD is better sick than whole
• C314 She is past dying of her first CHILD
• C315 Thy CHILD that is no child leave upon the waters and let him swim
• C316 To a CHILD all weather is cold
• C317 To be with CHILD to hear (see) something
• C318 To christen one's own CHILD first
• C319 When the CHILD is christened you may have godfathers enough
• C320 A CHILD's bird and a boy's wife are well used
• C321 CHILD's pig but father's bacon
• C322 A CHILD's service is little yet he is no little fool that despises it
• C323 He that wipes the CHILD's nose kisses the mother's cheek
• C324 It is no CHILD's play
• C325 Be patient and you shall have patient CHILDREN
• C326 Better CHILDREN weep than old men
• C327 CHILDREN and chickens must be always picking
• C328 CHILDREN (Drunkards) and fools cannot lie (Children and fools speak truth)
• C329 CHILDREN and fools have merry lives
• C330 CHILDREN are certain cares but uncertain comforts
• C331 CHILDREN are poor men's (parents') riches
• C332 CHILDREN learn to creep before they go (A man must creep before he goes)
• C333 CHILDREN pick up words as pigeons peas and utter them again as God shall please
• C334 CHILDREN suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old
• C335 CHILDREN to bed and the goose to the fire
• C336 CHILDREN when little make parents fools, when great, mad
• C337 CHILDREN will do like children (Boys will have toys)
• C338 Good CHILDREN are the best comforts
• C339 He that has CHILDREN, all his morsels are not his own
• C340 He that has no CHILDREN does bring them up well
• C341 He that has no CHILDREN knows not what love is
• C342 He that loves his CHILDREN corrects them well
• C343 She spins well that breeds her CHILDREN
• C344 What CHILDREN hear at home soon flies abroad
• C345 When CHILDREN stand quiet they have done some ill
• C346 Who has no CHILDREN feeds them fat
• C347 It is easier to build two CHIMNEYS than to maintain one
• C348 Many CHIMNEYS little smoke
• C349 He must needs swim that is held up by the CHIN
• C350 So we get the CHINK we will bear with the stink
• C351 As dry as a CHIP
• C352 A CHIP of the old block
• C353 Like a CHIP in a pottage (porridge) pot, does neither good nor harm
• C354 Look not too high lest a CHIP fall in your eye
• C355 Not to care a CHIP
• C356 As merry as three CHIPS
• C357 Hew not too high lest the CHIPS fall into the eye
• C358 There is small CHOICE in rotten apples
• C359 CHOLER has more heat than light
• C360 The CHOLERIC drinks, the melancholic eats, the phlegmatic sleeps
• C361 CHOOSE for yourself and use for yourself
• C362 In CHOOSING a wife and buying a sword we ought not to trust another
• C363 To CHOP and change
• C364 That which CHRIST has not the exchequer carries
• C365 She that knows where CHRIST's cross stands will never forget where great A dwells
• C366 A complete CHRISTIAN must have the works of a Papist, the words of a Puritan, and the faith of a Protestant
• C367 After CHRISTMAS comes Lent
• C368 At CHRISTMAS great loaves, at Easter clean souls, and at Whitsuntide new clothes
• C369 CHRISTMAS comes but once a year
• C370 CHRISTMAS lasts not all the year
• C371 A light CHRISTMAS a heavy sheaf
• C372 They keep CHRISTMAS all the year
• C373 They talk of CHRISTMAS so long that it comes
• C374 He has eaten many a CHRISTMAS PIE
• C375 Mark the CHRONICLES aright, when Oxford scholars fall to fight, before many months expired England will with war be fired
• C376 The CHURCH is no wild cat, it will stand
• C377 The CHURCH is not so large but the priest may say service in it
• C378 The CHURCH will lose nothing and defend nothing
• C379 Let the CHURCH stand in the churchyard
• C380 The nearer the CHURCH the farther from God
• C381 Though you see a CHURCHMAN ill yet continue in the church still
• C382 As hungry (poor) as a CHURCH MOUSE (church rat)
• C383 CHURCH WORK goes on slowly
• C384 Choke up, the CHURCHYARD is nigh
• C385 No CHURCHYARD is so handsome that a man would desire straight to be buried there
• C386 Claw a CHURL by (Grease a fat sow in) the tail and he (she) will beray your hand
• C387 Lay not a CHURL upon a gentleman
• C388 A CHURL's feast is better than none at all
• C389 CIDER is treacherous because it smiles in a man's face and then cuts his throat
• C390 An old CINQUE CATER
• C391 He is a CIPHER among numbers
• C392 The CIRCUMSTANCES of an act make it good
• C393 The CITIZEN is at his business before he rise
• C394 A rich CITIZEN's daughter marrying a nobleman is like a black pudding:¹ the one brings blood, the other suet
• C395 Do not dwell in a CITY where a horse does not neigh nor a dog bark
• C396 Do not dwell in a CITY whose governor is a physician
• C397 Far from CITY far from health
• C398 A great CITY a great solitude
• C399 In my own CITY my name, in a strange city my clothes, procure me a respect
• C400 That CITY cannot prosper where an ox is sold for less than a fish
• C401 That CITY is in a bad case whose physician has the gout
• C402 CITIES are taken by the ears
• C403 CITIES seldom change religion only
• C404 He has got a CLAP
• C405 CLAW me and I will claw thee
• C406 As cold (pale) as CLAY
• C407 He claws it as CLAYTON clawed the pudding when he ate bag and all
• C408 It is the CLERK makes the justice
• C409 The greatest CLERKS are not the wisest men
• C410 CLEVELAND in the clay, bring in two soles and carry one away
• C411 A CLIENT 'twixt his attorney and counselor is like a goose 'twixt two foxes
• C412 He that never CLIMBED never fell
• C413 Hasty CLIMBERS have sudden falls
• C414 The highest CLIMBERS have the greatest falls (The higher he climbs the greater his fall)
• C415 April CLING good for nothing
• C416 To kiss the CLINK¹ (counter¹)
• C417 A CLOAK for the rain
• C418 Have not thy CLOAK to make when it begins to rain
• C419 He has a CLOAK for his knavery
• C420 He has turned his CLOAK on the other shoulder
• C421 To have a CLOAK for all waters (I am for any weather)
• C422 Under a bad CLOAK lies a good drinker
• C423 As clean as a CLOCK
• C424 As cold as a CLOCK
• C425 The CLOCK goes as it pleases the clerk
• C426 They agree like the CLOCKS OF LONDON
• C427 Better it is to lose CLOTH than bread
• C428 The CLOTH must still be shorn lest it should hap to be consumed with moths
• C429 The finest CLOTH is eaten by moths
• C430 He that dines and leaves lays the CLOTH twice
• C431 It is a bad CLOTH (wool) that will take no color (dye)
• C432 Like Northern CLOTH, shrunk in the wetting
• C433 To cut it out of whole CLOTH
• C434 All the CLOTHES on your back was once in clews¹
• C435 Ever since we wear CLOTHES we know not one another
• C436 He is in his better blue CLOTHES
• C437 Mend your CLOTHES and you may hold out this year
• C438 He is in the CLOTH MARKET
• C439 Every CLOUD has a silver lining
• C440 He that pries into every CLOUD may be struck with a thunderbolt
• C441 To be under a CLOUD
• C442 After black CLOUDS clear weather
• C443 All CLOUDS bring not rain (storms)
• C444 To speak in the CLOUDS
• C445 When the CLOUDS are upon the hills they'll come down by the mills
• C446 As pale (white) as a CLOUT
• C447 Better to see a CLOUT than a hole out
• C448 They are CLOVE and orange
• C449 Give a CLOWN (carl) your finger and he will take your hand
• C450 A Middlesex CLOWN
• C451 CLOWNS kill each other and gentles cleave together
• C452 As sure as a CLUB
• C453 CLUBS are trump
• C454 Hertfordshire CLUBS and clouted shoon
• C455 To escape CLUDE and be drowned in Conway
• C456 You speak in CLUSTERS, you were begot in nutting
• C457 A COACH-AND-SIX may be driven through an act of Parliament
• C458 As black as a COAL
• C459 I have a cold COAL to blow at
• C460 Let them that be acold blow at the COAL
• C461 Punch COAL, cut candle, set brand on end, neither good housewife nor good housewife's friend
• C462 As hot as COALS
• C463 Glowing COALS sparkle often
• C464 He will carry (bear) no COALS
• C465 To blow the COALS
• C466 To carry COALS to Newcastle
• C467 To fetch over the COALS
• C468 To heap COALS of fire on one's head
• C469 The COAST is (is not) clear
• C470 As sure as the COAT is on one's back
• C471 A blue COAT without a badge
• C472 Cut your COAT according to your cloth
• C473 I would not be in your COAT (skin) for anything
• C474 It is not the gay COAT that makes the gentleman
• C475 To shape a COAT for the moon
• C476 Under a ragged (threadbare) COAT lies wisdom
• C477 COATS change with countries
• C478 They praise them for their gay COATS
• C479 The COBBLER deals with all [awl]
• C480 Let not the COBBLER (shoemaker) go beyond his last
• C481 COBBLER's law, he that takes money must pay the shot
• C482 COBBLERS and tinkers are the best ale drinkers
• C483 Better be a COCK for a day than a hen for a year
• C484 The COCK crows but the hen goes
• C485 The COCK is the countryman's clock
• C486 Every COCK is proud on his own dunghill
• C487 He leaps from the COCK to the ass
• C488 If the COCK molt before the hen we shall have weather thick and thin, but if the hen molt before the cock we shall have weather hard as a block
• C489 To leap like a COCK at a blackberry
• C490 Who eats his COCK (dinner) alone must saddle his horse alone
• C491 The young COCK crows as he the old hears
• C492 Young COCKS love no coops
• C493 He sets COCK on the hoop
• C494 You have it in dry COCK
• C495 The COCKATRICE slays by sight only
• C496 Crush (Kill) the COCKATRICE in the egg
• C497 COCKLE and corn grow in the same field
• C498 To rejoice the COCKLES of one's heart
• C499 As close as COCKLES
• C500 His COCKLOFT is unfurnished
• C501 A London COCKNEY
• C502 Hold or cut CODPIECE POINT
• C503 Poorer than CODRUS
• C504 Jeering COGGESHALL
• C505 To keep a foul COIL¹
• C506 Much COIN much care
• C507 To pay one in his own COIN
• C508 Where COIN (wine) is not common commons must be scant
• C509 As common as COLEMAN HEDGE¹
• C510 To play COLE-PROPHET
• C511 COLEWORTS (Cabbage) twice sodden
• C512 COLL¹ under canstick,² he can play with both hands
• C513 After a COLLAR comes a halter
• C514 If you wrestle with a COLLIER you will get a blotch
• C515 As melancholy as a COLLIER's horse
• C516 A COLLIER's cow and an alewife's sow are always well fed
• C517 It is a dear COLLOP¹ that is taken (cut) out of the flesh
• C518 It is a sairy¹ COLLOP² that is taken off a capon
• C519 As many COLORS as there are in the rainbow
• C520 To fear no COLORS¹
• C521 As ragged as a COLT
• C522 Of a ragged COLT comes a good horse
• C523 There is no COLT but will break some halter
• C524 When you ride a young COLT see your saddle be well girt
• C525 He has a COLT's tooth in his head
• C526 He has cut his COMB
• C527 COMB single (seldom) comb sore
• C528 COMB single (seldom) comb sore
• C529 COME (Hap) what come (hap) may
• C530 First COME first served
• C531 If they COME they come not, if they come not they come
• C532 If thou wilt COME with me bring with thee
• C533 Lightly COME lightly go
• C534 To COME off bluely
• C535 What, do you COME or send?
• C536 As proud COMES behind as goes before
• C536a He is welcome who COMES well laden
• C537 He that COMES uncalled sits unserved
• C538 To it again, nobody COMES
• C539 He CAME in hosed and shod
• C540 I CAME, saw, and overcame
• C541 COMELY not gaudy
• C542 Cold COMFORT
• C543 Stark dead be thy COMFORT
• C544 Concealed COMFORTS are the sweetest
• C545 The COMFORTER's (counselor's) head never aches
• C546 It is as long in COMING as Cotswold barley
• C547 It is better COMING to the beginning of a feast than the end of a fray
• C548 It is ill COMING to the end of a feast (shot¹) and beginning of a fray
• C549 No COMING to heaven with dry eyes
• C550 A good COMING IN is all in all with a widow
• C551 The COMMAND of custom is great
• C552 He is not fit to COMMAND (govern) others that cannot command (govern) himself.
• C553 The ten COMMANDMENTS
• C554 Who COMMENDS himself berays himself
• C555 Every COMMODITY has its incommodity
• C556 A fat COMMODITY has no fellow
• C557 Rate thy COMMODITIES at home but sell them abroad
• C558 Evil COMMUNICATIONS (words) corrupt good manners
• C559 A merry COMPANION is a wagon in the way (is as good as a nag)
• C560 There is no COMPANION like the penny
• C561 You are a crafty COMPANION
• C562 Better to be beaten than be in bad COMPANY
• C563 Choose thy COMPANY before thy drink
• C564 COMPANY makes a man spend
• C565 COMPANY makes cuckolds
• C566 Good COMPANY makes short miles
• C567 He that dies without the COMPANY of good men puts not himself into a good way
• C568 He that goes not in COMPANY knows nothing
• C569 Ill (Evil) COMPANY brings a man to the gallows
• C570 It is better to be alone than in bad (ill) COMPANY
• C571 It is good to have COMPANY in trouble (misery)
• C572 It is the COMPANY that makes the feast
• C573 Not to be fit COMPANY for a dog
• C574 Who keeps COMPANY with the wolf will learn to howl
• C575 It is COMPARISON that makes men happy or miserable
• C576 COMPARISONS are odious
• C577 Live within COMPASS
• C578 Compare only with thy COMPEERS
• C579 Some complain to prevent COMPLAINT
• C580 Cold of COMPLEXION good of condition
• C581 COMPLIMENTING is lying
• C582 He that is wise in his own CONCEIT is a fool
• C583 He is CONCERNED
• C584 CONDITION makes and condition breaks law
• C585 One ill CONDITION mars all the good
• C586 He is proper (noble) that has proper (noble) CONDITIONS
• C587 CONFESS and be hanged
• C588 CONFESSION and sorrow without amendment are the pumping of a ship without stopping the leaks
• C589 CONFESSION of a fault is half amends
• C590 CONFESSION of a fault pardons it
• C591 Open CONFESSION is good for the soul
• C592 Open CONFESSION open penance
• C593 He is no CONJURER
• C594 He came in with the CONQUEROR
• C595 Safe CONQUEST without bloodshed is the greatest
• C596 A clear CONSCIENCE is a sure card
• C597 A clear CONSCIENCE laughs at (fears not) false accusations
• C598 The CONSCIENCE and the eye are tender parts
• C599 A CONSCIENCE as large as a shipman's hose
• C600 CONSCIENCE is a cutthroat
• C601 CONSCIENCE is a thousand witnesses
• C602 CONSCIENCE is hanged up long ago
• C603 CONSCIENCE is witness enough
• C603a A CONSCIENCE wide enough to swing a cat in
• C604 An evil CONSCIENCE breaks many a man's neck
• C605 A good CONSCIENCE is a continual feast
• C606 A guilty CONSCIENCE is a self-accuser (feels continual fear)
• C607 He has a CONSCIENCE as large as a Franciscan's sleeve
• C608 He has a CONSCIENCE like a cheverel's¹ skin
• C609 A quiet CONSCIENCE sleeps in thunder
• C610 Some make a CONSCIENCE of spitting in the church yet rob the altar
• C611 Whose CONSCIENCE is cumbered and stands not clean, of another man's deeds the worse will he deem
• C612 To speak without CONSIDERATION is to shoot without aim
• C613 To put on one's CONSIDERING CAP
• C614 To order without a CONSTABLE
• C615 To outrun the CONSTABLE
• C616 You might be a CONSTABLE for your wit
• C617 The CONSTABLE OF OPPENSHAW sets beggars in stocks at Manchester
• C618 CONSTANCY has one foot on land and another on sea
• C619 The CONSTANCY of the benefit of the year in their seasons argues a deity
• C620 He has got the new CONSUMPTION
• C621 To be too busy gets CONTEMPT
• C622 It is ill CONTENDING with the master of thirty legions
• C623 CONTENT (A mind content) is a kingdom (crown)
• C623a CONTENT is all
• C624 CONTENT is happiness
• C625 CONTENT is the philosopher's stone, that turns all it touches into gold
• C626 CONTENT lodges oftener in cottages than palaces
• C627 He that studies his CONTENT wants it
• C628 He is never CONTENT
• C629 CONTENTMENT (A contented mind) is great riches
• C630 CONTRARIES being set the one against the other appear more evident
• C631 A CONTROLLER is not without contempt
• C632 CONVERSATION makes one what he is
• C633 CONIES love roast meat
• C634 As testy as an old COOK
• C635 Every COOK commends his own sauce
• C635a A good COOK is half a physician
• C636 He is an ill COOK that cannot lick his own fingers
• C637 An ill COOK should have a good cleaver
• C638 He that loves another better than himself starves in a COOK's shop
• C639 You starve in a COOK's shop
• C640 Better wait on the COOKS than the mediciners
• C641 Salt COOKS bear blame but fresh bear shame
• C642 Too many COOKS spoil the broth
• C643 COOK-RUFFIAN, able to scald the devil in his feathers
• C644 A Cooling CARD
• C645 As bald as a COOT
• C646 As black as a COOT
• C647 It is but a COPY¹ of his countenance
• C648 To change (turn) one's COPY
• C649 The right CORAL needs no coloring
• C650 The CORD breaks at the last by the weakest pull
• C651 All the CORN in the country is not shorn by kempers¹
• C652 CORN and horn go together
• C653 The CORN hides itself in the snow as an old man in furs
• C654 CORN in good years is hay, in ill years straw is corn
• C655 CORN is cleaned (cleansed) with wind and the soul with chastenings
• C656 CORN is not to be gathered in the blade but the ear
• C657 Grind good CORN and blow not the horn
• C658 He eats his CORN in the blade
• C659 In much CORN is some cockle
• C660 Look at your CORN¹ in May and you'll come weeping away, look at the same in June and you'll come home in another tune
• C661 Much CORN lies under the straw that is not seen
• C662 Who sows his CORN in the field (He that sows) trusts in God
• C663 You measure everyone's CORN by your own bushel
• C664 To turn in a narrow CORNER
• C665 He is CORN-FED
• C666 He does sail into CORNWALL¹ without a bark (boat)
• C667 The CORRUPTION of one is the generation of another
• C668 The CORRUPTION of the best is worst
• C669 It will not (will) quit the COST
• C670 More COST more worship
• C671 Who may woo but¹ COST?
• C672 With COST one may make pottage of a stool foot
• C673 He that counts all COSTS will never put plow in the earth
• C674 I will not change a COTTAGE in possession for a kingdom in reversion (hope)
• C675 The COUCH is the idle man's prison
• C676 A COUGH will stick longer by a horse than half a peck of oats
• C677 A dry COUGH is the trumpeter of death
• C678 Come not to COUNSEL uncalled
• C679 COUNSEL breaks not the head
• C680 COUNSEL is as good for him as a shoulder of mutton for a sick horse
• C681 COUNSEL is no command
• C682 The COUNSEL thou wouldst have another keep first keep thyself
• C683 Good COUNSEL cannot be bought too dear
• C684 Good COUNSEL does no harm
• C685 Good COUNSEL lightly never comes too late
• C686 Good COUNSEL proceeds from a friendly mind
• C687 Good COUNSEL will sometimes do more than a thousand men
• C688 He can give others good COUNSEL but will take none himself
• C689 He that refuses to buy COUNSEL cheap shall buy repentance dear
• C690 If the COUNSEL be good no matter who gave it
• C691 Ill COUNSEL is worst to the counselor
• C692 Ill COUNSEL mars all
• C693 It is an ill COUNSEL that has no escape
• C694 Keep COUNSEL first thyself
• C695 Neither COUNSEL nor salt is presented unless demanded
• C696 Take COUNSEL of your pillow
• C697 Take no COUNSEL of a fool (of green heads)
• C698 Take not COUNSEL in the combat
• C699 To the COUNSEL of fools a wooden bell
• C700 We have better COUNSEL to give (take) than to take (give)
• C701 COUNSELS in wine seldom prosper
• C702 He that will not be COUNSELED cannot be helped
• C703 He that is his own COUNSELOR knows nothing sure but what he has laid out
• C704 Though thou hast never so many COUNSELORS yet do not forsake the counsel of thy own soul
• C705 To be put out of COUNTENANCE
• C706 Oft COUNTING makes good friends
• C707 Overnarrow COUNTING culzies¹ no kindness
• C708 Every COUNTRY has its law (fashion)
• C709 In every COUNTRY dogs bite
• C710 In every COUNTRY the sun rises in the morning
• C711 So many COUNTRIES so many laws (customs)
• C712 You must go into the COUNTRY to hear what news at London (in town)
• C713 The COUNTRYMAN between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats
• C714 When a COUPLE are newly married the first month is honeymoon or smick smack, the second is hither and thither, the third is thwick thwack, the fourth, the devil take them that brought you and I together
• C715 Great COURAGE is in greatest dangers tried
• C716 To cool one's COURAGE
• C717 If that the COURSE be fair, again and again, quoth Bunny to his bear
• C718 At COURT everyone for himself
• C719 Better happy at COURT than good service
• C720 The COURT has no almanac
• C721 COURT to the town and whore to the window
• C722 Far from COURT far from care
• C723 He that lives in COURT dies upon straw
• C724 He that will in COURT dwell must needs curry favel
• C725 In COURT, city, and country
• C726 Leave the COURT ere the court leave thee
• C727 One (Neither) of the COURT but none (nor) of the counsel
• C728 In COURTS are cares
• C729 The COURTESAN weeps with one eye, the wife with two, and the nun with four
• C730 COURTESY is cumbersome to them that ken it not
• C731 COURTESY on one side only lasts not long
• C732 Full of COURTESY full of craft
• C733 It is a rank COURTESY when a man is forced to give thanks for his own
• C734 A slow COURTESY is a discourtesy
• C735 Who takes (begs) a COURTESY of another sells him his liberty
• C736 He may freely receive COURTESIES that knows how to requite them
• C737 A young COURTIER an old beggar
• C738 COURTING and wooing bring dallying and doing
• C739 Call me COUSIN but cozen me not
• C740 Marry come up, my dirty COUSIN
• C741 COUSIN-GERMANS, quite removed
• C742 The COVER is worthy of such a cup
• C743 He that COVERS thee discovers thee
• C744 COVETOUSNESS (Too much) breaks the bag (sack)
• C745 COVETOUSNESS brings nothing home
• C746 COVETOUSNESS is (Riches are) the root of all evil
• C747 As nimble (comely) as a COW in a cage
• C748 A barren COW never loves calf
• C749 The COW knows not what her tail is worth till she has lost it
• C750 A COW may catch a hare
• C751 A curst COW has short horns
• C752 Drive (Bring) a COW to the hall and she will run to the byre¹ again
• C753 He that owns the COW goes nearest her tail (takes her by the tail)
• C754 He tint¹ never a COW that grat² for a needle
• C755 He would sell the COW and sup the milk
• C756 His COW has calved
• C757 If one give thee a COW run with a cord
• C758 It becomes him as well as a COW does a cart saddle
• C759 Like COW like calf
• C760 Look to the COW and the sow and the wheat mow and all will be well enow
• C761 Many a good COW has an ill (evil) calf
• C762 Milk the COW that stands still. Why follow you the flying?
• C763 Set a COW to catch a hare
• C764 She looked on me as a COW on a bastard calf
• C765 Who bulls the COW must keep the calf
• C766 Who will sell the COW must say the word
• C767 Who would keep a COW when he may have a quart of milk for a penny?
• C768 A red COW's milk is restorative
• C769 To a COW's thumb
• C770 To grow downwards (backward) like a COW's tail
• C771 As COWS come to town, some good some bad
• C772 Till the COWS come home
• C773 A COWARD changes color
• C774 A COWARD dies many deaths, a brave man but one
• C775 If he be a COWARD he is a murderer
• C776 It is better to be a COWARD than foolhardy
• C777 Put a COWARD to his mettle and he will fight the devil
• C778 COWARDS are cruel
• C779 Between COWHITHE and merry Cossingland the devil shits Benacre, look where it stands
• C780 Look high and fall into a COW TURD
• C781 She looks like a COW TURD stuck with primroses
• C782 To be cut in the COXCOMB (head)
• C783 As sour as a CRAB
• C784 The CRAB of the wood is sauce very good for the crab of the sea, but the wood of the crab is sauce for a drab that will not her husband obey
• C785 CRABS breed babs by help of good lads
• C786 The greatest CRABS are not all the best (the best meat)
• C787 To be basted with a CRABSTICK
• C788 Plant the CRAB TREE where you will, it will never bear sweet apples
• C789 To be a little CRACKED (touched)
• C790 As cunning as CRADDOCK
• C791 Cast not thy CRADLE over thy head
• C792 Foul (Fair) in the CRADLE, fair (foul) in the saddle
• C793 Shod in the CRADLE, barefoot in the stubble
• C794 To rock the CRADLE in one's spectacles
• C795 CRADLE STRAWS are scarce out of his breech
• C796 All the CRAFT is in the catching
• C797 CRAFT against craft makes no living
• C798 CRAFT brings nothing home
• C799 CRAFT is bastard policy
• C800 CRAFT lies in clouted shoes
• C801 The gentle CRAFT
• C802 He that has not the CRAFT let him shut up shop
• C803 There is CRAFT in daubing
• C804 Of all CRAFTS to be an honest man is the master CRAFT
• C805 The CRANE to avoid sleep holds a stone in its foot
• C806 You can well skill of CRANE's dirt, your father was a poulter
• C807 A sore CRAVER was never a good payer
• C808 Shameful CRAVING must have shameful nay
• C809 As crooked as CRAWLEY BROOK
• C810 He cries CREAK
• C811 That is the CREAM of the jest
• C812 Every CREATURE thinks her own fair
• C813 There is no CREATURE so like a man as an ape
• C814 CREDIT lost is like a Venice glass broke
• C815 CREDIT ought rather to be given to the eyes than to the ears
• C816 He that buys dear and takes upon CREDIT consumes the body and loses the seed
• C817 He that has lost his CREDIT is dead to the world
• C818 The CREDITOR has a better memory than the debtor
• C819 As sure (true) as CREED
• C820 First CREEP, then go (Learn to creep before you go)
• C821 Eat well of the CRESSES
• C822 CRETANS are liars (Use craft against Cretans)
• C823 One of the same CREW or faction
• C824 Sick of the idle CRICK and the bellywark in the heel
• C825 As merry as a CRICKET
• C826 CRIMES (Mischiefs) are made secure by greater crimes (mischiefs)
• C826a He has got the CRINCKAMS
• C827 He that mocks a CRIPPLE ought to be whole
• C828 If one dwell by (next door to) a CRIPPLE he will learn to halt
• C829 CRITICS are like brushers of noblemen's clothes
• C830 She will as soon part with the CROCK as the porridge
• C831 CROCODILE TEARS
• C832 As rich as CROESUS (a king)
• C833 As coy as CROKER's MARE
• C834 CROSS I win, pile you lose
• C835 CROSS or (and) pile
• C836 He has never a CROSS (penny, halfpenny) to bless himself withal
• C837 The CROSS in his breast and the devil in his actions
• C838 Each CROSS has its inscription
• C839 No CROSS no crown
• C840 CROSSES are ladders that do lead to heaven
• C841 To be cried at the CROSS
• C842 To make a CROSS on a gate
• C843 He has CROTCHETS in his head
• C844 As black as a CROW
• C845 As safe as a CROW (sow) in a gutter
• C846 Breed up a CROW and she will peck out your eyes
• C847 The CROW bewails the sheep and then eats it
• C848 The CROW bids you good morrow
• C849 The CROW cannot be blacker than her wings
• C850 A CROW is never whiter for washing herself often
• C851 The CROW thinks her own bird¹ fairest (whitest)
• C852 He struts like a CROW in a gutter
• C853 He will say the CROW is white
• C854 The hoarse CROW croaks before the rain
• C855 I have a CROW to pluck with you
• C856 One CROW never pulls out another's eyes
• C857 When the CROW begins to build then sheep begin to yield
• C858 When the CROW flies her tail follows
• C859 A white CROW (raven)
• C860 You look as if you would make the CROW a pudding
• C861 A CROWD is not company
• C862 The royal CROWN cures not the headache
• C863 CROWNS have cares
• C864 From the CROWN of the head to the sole of the foot
• C865 The CROW's-FOOT grows under her eye
• C866 CRUELTY is a tyrant that's always attended with fear
• C867 CRUELTY is more cruel if we defer the pain
• C868 To gather up one's CRUMBS
• C869 A CRUST is better than no bread
• C870 To leap at a CRUST
• C871 Great CRY and little wool
• C872 I am sorry for thee but I cannot CRY
• C873 You CRY before you are hurt
• C874 CRY YOU MERCY killed my cat
• C875 As clear as CRYSTAL
• C876 Better be a CUCKOLD and not know it than be none and everybody say so
• C877 The CUCKOLD is the last that knows of it
• C878 The CUCKOLD was very cunning but he was cunninger that cuckolded him
• C879 He that is a CUCKOLD and allows it may be so forever
• C880 If a CUCKOLD come he'll take away the meat if there be no salt on the table
• C881 It is better to be acold than a CUCKOLD
• C882 Let every CUCKOLD wear his own horns
• C883 A malcontented CUCKOLD has no wit
• C884 A malcontented CUCKOLD has no wit
• C885 Who is a CUCKOLD and conceals it carries coals in his bosom
• C886 To send one to CUCKOLD's haven
• C887 CUCKOLDS are Christians
• C888 CUCKOLDS are kind to those who make them so
• C889 CUCKOLDS come by destiny
• C890 As scabbed as a CUCKOO
• C891 The CUCKOO sings all the year
• C892 A CUCKOO thinks herself a fine bird
• C893 When the CUCKOO comes to the bare thorn sell your cow and buy you corn, but when she comes to the full bit sell your corn and buy you sheep
• C894 You are like the CUCKOO, you have but one song
• C895 As cool as a CUCUMBER
• C896 To chew the CUD upon a thing
• C897 To lay down the CUDGELS
• C898 To take up the CUDGELS
• C899 CUNNING (Knowledge, Skill) is no burden
• C900 Too much CUNNING undoes
• C901 A drunken CUNT has no porter
• C902 As great as CUP and can
• C903 As merry as CUP and can
• C904 A CUP in the pate is a mile in the gait
• C905 He has got a CUP too much
• C906 Such CUP (pot) such cover (potlid)
• C907 To carry one's CUP even
• C908 To drink of the same CUP
• C909 To kiss the CUP
• C910 When the CUP is fullest bear it evenest
• C911 To be in one's CUPS
• C912 CUPBOARD LOVE
• C913 Still CUPID's arrows stick near to the heart
• C914 A cumbersome¹ CUR is hated in company
• C915 A CUR will bite before he bark
• C916 A snarling CUR (dog) has a scurvy coat
• C917 Brabbling CURS never want sore ears
• C918 Two CURS shall tame (bite) each other
• C919 Yelping CURS will raise mastiffs
• C920 He that bewails himself has the CURE in his hands
• C921 Past CURE past care
• C922 What cannot be CURED must be endured
• C923 There is no CURING of a grief concealed
• C924 CURSES return upon the heads of those that CURSE
• C925 A CURTAIN LECTURE
• C926 As sick as a CUSHION
• C927 He has deserved a CUSHION
• C928 To miss the CUSHION
• C929 To set one beside the CUSHION
• C930 As stale as CUSTOM
• C931 A bad CUSTOM is like a good cake (A bad custom is), better broken than kept
• C932 CUSTOM (Use) is another (a second) nature
• C933 CUSTOM makes all things easy
• C934 CUSTOM makes sin no sin
• C935 CUSTOM without reason is but an ancient error
• C936 A good CUSTOM must root out that which an ill has brought in
• C937 With CUSTOMS we live well but laws undo us
• C938 Come CUT and longtail
• C939 CUT dwells in every town
• C940 Then call me CUT
• C941 The first CUT and all the loaf besides
• C942 No CUT to unkindness
• C943 A CUTPURSE is a sure trade, for he has ready money when his work is done
• C944 To scold like a CUTPURSE
• C945 Like CYPRESS TREES, that have fair leaves but no fruit