Proverbs starting with "H"

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• H1 A holy HABIT¹ cleanses not a foul soul
• H2 A halfpenny HACKNEY
• H3 As witty as a HADDOCK
• H4 Not worth a HADDOCK
• H5 To bring HADDOCK to paddock
• H6 To have been at HADDUM
• H7 HAD I FISH is good without mustard (was never good with garlic)
• H8 Beware of HAD I WIST
• H9 HAD I WIST comes too late
• H10 HAD I WIST was a fool
• H11 As thick as HAIL
• H12 HAIL brings frost in the tail
• H13 He uses HAIL when he has no thunder
• H14 Be not HAIL FELLOW WELL MET with everyone
• H15 HAIL FELLOW WELL MET
• H16 For one HAIR Martin lost his ass
• H17 His HAIR grows through his hood
• H18 It goes against the HAIR
• H19 Not worth a HAIR
• H20 One HAIR of a woman (Nature) draws more than a hundred yoke of oxen (ten oxen)
• H21 Pull HAIR and hair and you'll make the carl (the horse's tail) bare
• H22 Take a HAIR from his beard
• H23 Take a HAIR of the dog that bit you
• H24 There is but a HAIR between
• H25 There is no HAIR so small but has its shadow
• H26 To hit (fit) it to a HAIR
• H27 To look like a strained HAIR in a can
• H28 Not to stir a HAIR's breadth
• H29 Within a HAIR's breadth
• H30 As many as there are HAIRS on the head
• H31 Gray HAIRS are death's blossoms
• H32 To split HAIRS
• H33 What we lost in HAKE (salt fish) we shall have in herring
• H34 Believe HALF of what you hear of money and health (wisdom) and good faith
• H35 Believe HALF of what you see and nothing of what you see not
• H36 Better HALF a loaf than no bread
• H37 Better HALF an egg than an empty shell
• H38 HALF a pea a day will serve a lady
• H39 HALF a word (tale) to a wise man (a good understander) is enough
• H40 HALF an acre is good land
• H41 HALF an hour past three quarters and ready to strike again
• H42 HALF an hour's hanging hinders five miles' riding
• H43 The HALF is more than the whole
• H44 The HALF shows what the whole means
• H45 HALF the way to know the way
• H46 HALF (One half of) the world knows not how the other half lives
• H47 He that has but HALF an eye may see it
• H48 It is best to take HALF in hand and the rest by and by
• H49 My better HALF
• H50 He drank till he gave up his HALFPENNY
• H51 They will know by a HALFPENNY if a priest will take offering
• H52 As nice as a HALFPENNYWORTH of silver spoons
• H53 To be HALF-SEAS over
• H54 HALF-WARNED (Forewarned) is half-armed (fore-armed)
• H55 It is merry in HALL when beards wag all
• H56 Out of the HALL into the kitchen
• H57 You HALT before you are lame
• H58 He has made a HALTER to hang himself
• H59 Mention not a HALTER (rope) in the house of him that was hanged (that hanged himself)
• H60 It is hard (ill) HALTING before a cripple
• H61 A trout HAMLET with four legs
• H62 Between the HAMMER and the anvil
• H63 HAMPSHIRE GROUND requires every day of the week a shower of rain and on Sunday twain
• H64 As easy as to kiss one's HAND
• H65 At HAND, quoth pickpurse
• H66 Better HAND loose than bound to an ill baikie¹
• H67 For one's HAND to be in
• H68 Give not your right HAND to every man
• H69 Good HAND (servant) good hire (wages)
• H70 HAND over head
• H71 HAND over head as men took the covenant
• H72 The HAND that gives gathers
• H73 He is his right HAND
• H74 He knows not (knows) his right HAND from his left
• H75 He puts his HAND between two millstones
• H76 He that is fed at another's HAND may stay long ere he be full
• H77 A hearty HAND to give a hungry melteth¹
• H78 His HAND is in the creel
• H79 His one HAND wots not what the other is doing
• H80 I will lay my HAND on my halfpenny ere I part with it
• H81 If you be not pleased (content) put your HAND in your pocket and please yourself
• H82 If your HAND be in a lion's mouth get it out as fast as you can
• H83 Lay thy HAND on thy heart and speak the truth
• H84 The left HAND is the hand of the heart
• H85 Many kiss the HAND they wish cut off
• H86 A moist HAND argues an amorous nature (fruitfulness)
• H87 One HAND washes another and both (both wash) the face
• H88 Put not your HAND between the bark and the tree
• H89 Put your HAND into the creel and you will get either an adder or an eel
• H90 The same HAND that gave must heal the wound
• H91 Sow with the HAND and not with the whole sack
• H92 They are HAND and glove
• H93 To be on the mending HAND
• H94 To bear one in HAND
• H95 To get (have) the upper HAND
• H96 To have had one's HAND in the salt box
• H97 To lend a helping HAND
• H98 To live (have) from HAND to mouth
• H99 To make a HAND (fair hand) of a thing
• H100 To refuse with the right HAND and take with the left
• H101 A wet HAND will hold a dead herring
• H102 Whatever is made by the HAND of man, by the hand of man may be overturned
• H103 Where every HAND fleeces, the sheep go naked
• H104 Who can hold that they have not in their HAND?
• H105 The wise HAND does not all the foolish mouth speaks
• H106 Wish in one HAND and shit in the other and see which will be full first
• H107 Withhold not thine HAND from showing mercy to the poor
• H108 Your HAND is never worse for doing your own work
• H109 Both HANDS are cleansed when the one is washed with the other
• H110 Empty HANDS deserve no prayer
• H111 Empty Hands no hawks allure
• H112 HANDS off is fair play
• H113 Happier are the HANDS compassed with iron than a heart with thoughts
• H114 He has both his HANDS full
• H115 He plays on both HANDS
• H116 Help, HANDS, for I have no lands
• H117 I will not foul my HANDS with him
• H118 I will wash my HANDS and wait upon you
• H119 Many HANDS make light work
• H120 Spit in your HANDS and take better hold
• H121 Spit in your HANDS and take better hold
• H122 To wash one's HANDS of a thing
• H123 Two HANDS in a dish and one in a purse
• H124 Wash your HANDS often, your feet seldom, and your head never
• H125 With unwashed HANDS
• H126 A HANDFUL of good life is better than a bushel of learning
• H127 A HANDFUL of nature is better than an armful of science¹
• H128 As idle as one may HANG together
• H129 Better to HANG than to hold
• H130 Better be half HANGED than ill wed
• H131 HANGING is stretching, mocking is catching
• H132 HANGING is the worst use you can put a man to
• H133 A HANGMAN is a good trade, he does his work by daylight
• H134 The HANGMAN leads the dance
• H135 HAP and a halfpenny is world's gear enough
• H136 Some have the HAP, some stick in the gap
• H137 HAP good hap ill (evil)
• H138 HAPPINESS cannot be attained in this world
• H139 He that talks much of his HAPPINESS summons grief
• H140 It is better to be HAPPY (fortunate) than wise
• H141 HAPPY-GO-LUCKY
• H142 He that is ill of his HARBERIE¹ is good of his way-kenning
• H143 I will throw you into HARBOROUGH FIELD
• H144 The HARD gives more (no more) than he that has nothing
• H145 HARD with hard never made good wall
• H146 He that eats the HARD shall eat the ripe
• H147 As fearful as a HARE
• H148 As mad as a March HARE
• H149 A HARE and a mare go one year
• H150 A HARE has crossed your way
• H151 HARE is melancholy meat
• H152 The HARE runs well but the dog that catches her better
• H153 A HARE sleeps with his eyes open
• H154 He that will have a HARE to breakfast must hunt overnight
• H155 If you could run as you drink you might catch a HARE
• H156 Take a HARE without a meuse and a woman without a 'scuse
• H157 There goes the HARE away
• H158 To hold (run) with the HARE and run (hold, hunt) with the hound
• H159 Who eats a HARE laughs seven days after (will look fair)
• H160 You shall as soon catch a HARE with a tabor
• H161 Set the HARE's head (foot) against the goose giblets
• H162 To kiss the HARE's foot
• H163 He that hunts two HARES loses both
• H164 He will make you believe that HARES lay eggs
• H165 So HARES may pull dead lions by the beard
• H166 Better the HARM I know than that I know not
• H167 HARM watch harm catch
• H168 Hate not at the first HARM
• H169 He that drinks well sleeps well and he that sleeps well thinks no HARM
• H170 To be able to do HARM and not to do it is noble
• H171 To be (keep) out of HARM's way
• H172 He grows warm in his HARNESS
• H173 They agree like HARP and harrow
• H174 To hang one's HARP on the willow
• H175 As blind as a HARPER
• H176 Have among you, blind HARPERS
• H177 To be a HARPOCRATES
• H178 Not worth a HARRINGTON
• H179 He is drinking at the HARROW¹ when he should be following the plow
• H180 They draw a light HARROW
• H181 HARRY's children of Leigh, never a one like another
• H182 HARVEST follows seedtime
• H183 He that has a good HARVEST may be content with some thistles
• H184 A long HARVEST of a little corn
• H185 Good HARVESTS make men prodigal, bad ones provident
• H186 You have on your HARVEST EARS
• H187 In HARVEST TIME ladies are chambermaids
• H188 HASTE comes not alone
• H189 HASTE makes waste
• H190 HASTE makes waste and waste makes want and want makes strife between the goodman and his wife
• H191 He that resolves in HASTE repents at leisure
• H192 Make HASTE Slowly
• H193 Make HASTE to an ill way that you may get out of it
• H194 Make HASTE when you are purchasing a field but when you are to marry a wife be slow
• H195 Make no more HASTE when you come down than when you went up
• H196 Marry in HASTE and repent at leisure
• H197 More HASTE than good speed
• H198 The more HASTE the less (worse) speed
• H199 No HASTE but good
• H200 No HASTE but good speed
• H201 NO HASTE to hang true men
• H202 Who has no HASTE in his business, mountains to him seem valleys
• H203 He is none of the HASTINGS
• H204 A HAT is not made for one shower
• H205 My old HAT must have a new band
• H206 Pull down your HAT on the wind's side
• H207 It is good to have a HATCH¹ before the door
• H208 Afraid of the HATCHET lest the helve stick in his ass
• H209 I have hung up my HATCHET
• H210 The greatest HATE proceeds from the greatest love
• H211 No HATE like to brothers' if they fall at debate
• H212 HATRED with friends is succor to foes
• H213 Better HAVE it than hear of it
• H214 Better to HAVE than wish
• H214a HAVE is half full (enough)
• H215 HAVE is have
• H216 He that would HAVE what he has not should do what he does not
• H217 He that HAS of his own needs not to borrow
• H218 Not what is she but what HAS she
• H219 To shipwreck in the HAVEN (harbor)
• H220 To make HAVOC and set cock on the hoop
• H221 Not worth a HAW¹
• H222 As hungry as a HAWK (horse)
• H223 Between HAWK and buzzard
• H224 By HAWK and hound small profit is found
• H225 The gentle HAWK half mans herself
• H226 He knows not a HAWK from a handsaw
• H227 Ware the HAWK
• H228 Whiles the HAWK has and whiles he hunger has
• H229 High-flying HAWKS are fit for princes
• H230 Unmanned HAWKS forsake the lure
• H231 He has been out a HAWKING for butterflies
• H232 Be sure of HAY till the end of May
• H233 He has HAY on his horn
• H234 It goes down like chopped HAY
• H235 Make HAY while the sun shines
• H236 HEA¹ will gar² a deaf man hear
• H237 A bald HEAD is soon shaven
• H238 Better be the HEAD of a lizard (mouse) than the tail of a lion
• H239 Better be the HEAD of an ass than the tail of a horse
• H240 Better be the HEAD of the yeomanry than the tail of the gentry
• H241 Break my HEAD and draw on my hoo¹
• H242 Cover your HEAD by day as much as you will, by night as much as you can
• H243 Cut off the HEAD and tail and throw the rest away
• H244 A great HEAD and thin neck is a sign of a fool
• H245 Great (Mickle) HEAD little wit
• H246 He dares not show his HEAD (himself) for debt
• H247 He has a leaden HEAD and wooden wit
• H248 He has thy HEAD under his girdle
• H249 He that has a HEAD of wax must not walk in the sun
• H250 He that has no HEAD needs no hat (cap, hood)
• H251 He that will be a HEAD let him be a bridge
• H252 He will not give his HEAD for the washing
• H253 The HEAD and feet keep warm, the rest will take no harm
• H254 A HEAD that's white to maids brings no delight
• H255 His HEAD is full of bees
• H256 His HEAD is full of proclamations
• H257 An idle HEAD is a box for the wind
• H258 It has neither HEAD nor tail
• H259 It is better to be the HEAD of a pike than the tail of a sturgeon
• H260 It is good to keep one HEAD for the reckoning
• H261 Little HEAD great wit
• H262 No sooner up but HEAD in the ambry¹ and nose in the cup
• H263 Old HEAD and young hands
• H264 The scabby HEAD loves not the comb
• H265 A scald¹ HEAD (A scald man's head) is soon broken
• H266 Sup with your HEAD, the horner¹ is dead
• H267 That which is good for the HEAD is ill for the neck and shoulders (That which is good for the back is bad for the head)
• H268 To be over HEAD and ears (up to the ears) in a thing
• H269 To break one's HEAD and give him a plaster
• H270 To comb one's HEAD with a three-legged stool
• H271 To come to a HEAD
• H272 To hold up his HEAD like a steed of ten pounds
• H273 To run one's HEAD against a stone wall
• H274 To thrust out (in) by the HEAD and shoulders
• H275 When the HEAD aches all the body is the worse
• H276 A wise HEAD makes a close mouth
• H277 You have a handsome HEAD of hair, pray give me a tester¹
• H278 As many HEADS as Hydra
• H279 So many HEADS so many wits
• H280 They laid their HEADS together
• H281 TWO HEADS (wits) are better than one
• H282 To have a good HEADPIECE
• H283 It is ill HEALING an old sore
• H284 As welcome as HEALTH to sick men
• H285 Better in HEALTH than in good conditions
• H286 HEALTH and money go far
• H287 HEALTH and sickness surely are men's double enemies
• H288 HEALTH is a jewel (great riches)
• H289 HEALTH is better than wealth
• H290 HEALTH is not valued till sickness comes
• H291 HEALTH without money is half an ague (half a sickness)
• H292 To drink HEALTH is to drink sickness
• H293 You must not pledge your own HEALTH
• H294 Some HEAR and see him whom he hears and sees not
• H295 Who so deaf as he that will not HEAR?
• H296 He may be HEARD where he is not seen
• H297 Were there no HEARERS there would be no backbiters (none to rail)
• H298 HEARING much increases knowledge
• H299 Ill (Wrong) HEARING makes wrong rehearsing
• H300 It is worth the HEARING
• H301 A blithe HEART makes a blooming visage
• H302 Faint HEART ne'er won fair lady
• H303 A full HEART lied never
• H304 A gentle HEART is tied with an easy thread
• H305 A good HEART conquers ill fortune (overcomes all)
• H306 A good HEART may do well anywhere
• H307 A good HEART overcomes many sorrows
• H308 He is a velvet true HEART
• H309 He is HEART of oak
• H310 He may weep till his HEART ache that has nobody to comfort him
• H311 A HEART as hard as a stone (flint, marble)
• H312 The HEART of a fool is in his tongue (mouth)
• H313 The HEART of an Englishman towards a Welshman
• H314 His HEART is in his hose (heels)
• H315 His HEART (mind, hand) is on his halfpenny
• H316 An honest HEART cannot dissemble
• H317 I will not set at my HEART what I should set at my heel (what you set at your heel)
• H318 It goes as much in his HEART as his heel
• H319 A kind HEART loses nought at last
• H320 A loyal HEART may be landed under Traitors' Bridge
• H320a A merry HEART lives long
• H321 Nearest the HEART nearest the mouth
• H322 Piss and fart, a sound HEART
• H323 Pluck up your HEART
• H324 A proud (A lord's) HEART (mind) and a beggar's purse agree not
• H325 A proud HEART in a poor breast has mickle dolor¹ to dree²
• H326 Set hard (stout) HEART against hard hap (stay¹ brea²)
• H327 Set your HEART at rest
• H328 A small (humble) HEART has small (humble) desires
• H329 That which comes from the HEART returns to the heart
• H330 To eat one's HEART out
• H331 To have one's HEART at (in) one's mouth
• H332 To take HEART of grace
• H333 What is in the HEART of the sober man is in the tongue (mouth) of the drunkard
• H334 What the HEART thinks the tongue speaks
• H335 Where the HEART is past hope the face is past shame
• H336 Who has not a HEART let him have legs (heels)
• H337 A willing HEART performs his part
• H338 With all my HEART and a piece of my liver
• H339 With HEART and hand
• H340 Your kind HEART will be your death
• H341 HEARTS may agree though heads differ
• H342 Kind HEARTS are soonest wronged
• H343 Neither HEAT nor cold abides always in the sky
• H344 There is no HEAT of affection but is joined with some idleness of brain
• H345 To HEAVE and theave
• H346 To pay one home with HEAVE AND HO
• H347 He is well since he is in HEAVEN
• H348 HEAVEN (God) is above all
• H349 HEAVEN is not so soon gotten as wished for
• H350 To be in HEAVEN
• H351 To be in the ninth (second, third) HEAVEN
• H352 To go to HEAVEN in a feather bed
• H353 To go to HEAVEN in a string
• H354 To go to HEAVEN in a wheelbarrow
• H355 To spit against HEAVEN (in heaven's face)
• H356 Who spits against HEAVEN, it falls in his face
• H357 To take HECTOR's cloak
• H358 Better shelter under an old HEDGE than a young furze bush
• H359 He has made many a white HEDGE black
• H360 If you would a good HEDGE have carry the leaves to the grave
• H361 A low HEDGE is easily leaped over
• H362 To hang on the HEDGE
• H363 To leap over the HEDGE before you come at the stile
• H364 Where the HEDGE is lowest men may soonest over
• H365 He is ready to leap over nine HEDGES
• H366 I would it were in again with the HEDGEHOG after it
• H367 Trim up a HEDGEHOG and he will look like a lord
• H368 HEDGEHOGS lodge among thorns because themselves are prickly
• H369 Hertfordshire HEDGEHOGS
• H370 Good HEED has good hap
• H371 Much HEED does no harm
• H372 Take HEED of a person marked and a widow thrice married
• H373 Take HEED (Beware) of a reconciled enemy (friend)
• H374 Take HEED of a stepmother, the very name of her suffices
• H375 Take HEED of a young wench, a prophetess, and a Latin woman
• H376 Take HEED of an ox before, a horse (an ass) behind, of a monk (parson) on all sides
• H377 Take HEED of credit decayed and people which have nothing
• H378 Take HEED of enemies (friends) reconciled and of meat twice boiled
• H379 Take HEED of foul dirty ways and long sickness
• H380 Take HEED of lightning at both ends
• H381 Take HEED of mad fools (folks) in a narrow place
• H382 Take HEED of the vinegar of sweet wine
• H383 Take HEED of the wrath of a mighty man and the tumult of the people
• H384 Take HEED of wind that comes in at a hole and a reconciled enemy
• H385 Take HEED you find not that you do not seek
• H386 When you go to dance take HEED whom you take by the hand
• H387 Touch me not on the sore HEEL
• H388 Let him hang by the HEELS
• H389 Out at HEELS
• H390 To beat his HEELS against the ground
• H391 To cool one's HEELS
• H392 To kick up one's HEELS
• H393 To run down his HEELS
• H394 To take to one's HEELS
• H395 To plow with another's HEIFER
• H396 It is HEIGHT makes Grantham¹ steeple stand awry
• H397 As black (dark) as HELL
• H398 As false as HELL
• H399 From HELL, Hull, and Halifax, good Lord deliver us
• H400 Harrow (Rake) HELL and scum the devil
• H401 He that gains HELL has made an ill market
• H402 He will go to HELL for the house profit
• H403 HELL is broke loose
• H404 HELL is full of good meanings and wishings (intentions)
• H405 HELL is paved with priests' shaven crowns and great men's headpieces
• H406 HELL is wherever heaven is not
• H407 If HELL were not full the lawyer could not be saved
• H408 No HELL like a bad conscience
• H409 There is nobody will go to HELL for company
• H410 They that be in HELL ween there is no other heaven
• H411 HELP never comes too late
• H412 He HELPS little that helps not himself
• H413 To throw the HELVE after the hatchet
• H414 When HEMPE is spun England is done
• H415 As busy as a HEN with one (two, ten) chicken (chickens)
• H416 As fat as a HEN in the forehead
• H417 Better a laying HEN than a lying crown¹
• H418 A black HEN lays a white egg
• H419 He looks like a HEN drinking water
• H420 He that comes of a HEN must scrape
• H421 The HEN lays as well upon one egg as many
• H422 If one knew how good it were to eat a HEN in January, had he twenty in the flock he'd leave but one to go with the cock
• H423 Let a HEN live though she has a pip
• H424 Like HEN like chicken
• H425 Nor HEN without bacon, nor sermon without Saint Austin
• H426 Not worth a HEN
• H427 You will not sell your HEN in a rainy day
• H428 You are like the HENS, you go aye to the heap
• H429 From HENCE to (Between this and) --[some distant place]
• H430 HENGSTEN DOWN well wrought is worth London Town dear bought
• H431 In HENRY¹ was the union of the roses,² in James³ of the kingdoms
• H432 HENRY CHICK never slew a man till he came to him
• H433 A HENRY SOPHISTER
• H434 HENRY THE EIGHTH pulled down monks and their cells, Henry the Ninth should pull down bishops and their bells
• H435 Fie upon HEPS, quoth the fox because he could not reach them
• H436 HERCULES himself cannot deal with two
• H437 Ill HERDS make fat wolves
• H438 It is neither HERE nor there
• H439 HEREAFTER comes not yet
• H440 HERESY and beer (turkey, carp) came into England in one year
• H441 HERESY and frenzy go together
• H442 HERESY is the school of pride
• H443 HERESY may be easier kept out than shaken off
• H444 The HERMIT thinks the sun shines nowhere but in his cell
• H445 As close as red HERRING in a barrel
• H446 As dead as a HERRING
• H447 As lean (lank) as a shotten HERRING
• H448 Every HERRING must hang by its own gill
• H449 Red HERRING ne'er spake word but een,¹ Broil my back but not my weamb²
• H450 To fish for a HERRING and catch a sprat
• H451 They are lightly HERRIT¹ that have their own
• H452 HICKLEDY-PICKLEDY, one among another
• H453 They that HIDE can find
• H454 To be HIDEBOUND
• H455 HIGH and heavenly
• H456 Over HIGH over low
• H457 As common as the HIGHWAY
• H458 He that sows in the HIGHWAY wearies his oxen and loses his labor
• H459 The HIGHWAY is never about
• H460 You are in the HIGHWAY to Needham
• H461 To keep HILARY TERM
• H462 Do on the HILL as you would do in the hall
• H463 He that comes first to the HILL may sit where he will
• H464 The higher the HILL the lower the grass
• H465 It is easy to bowl down the HILL
• H466 Praise a HILL but keep below (on the plain)
• H467 There is no HILL without its valley
• H468 This was a HILL in King Harry's days
• H469 To hop against the HILL
• H470 Up the HILL favor me, down the hill beware thee
• H471 When the HILL wears a cap it means mischief
• H472 She is loose in the HILTS (haft)
• H473 To be off (on) the HINGES
• H474 To have one on the HIP
• H475 HIT or miss
• H476 He that once HITS is ever bending (shooting)
• H477 He has (There is) no HO with him (Beyond all ho)
• H478 He that has two HOARDS is able to get the third
• H479 HOB nob (Hab nab, Hab or nab)
• H480 HOBBLEDEHOY, half a man and half a boy
• H481 HOBSON's choice
• H482 As straight as НOCKLEY BROOK
• H483 As fat as a HOG
• H484 As high as a HOG all but the bristles
• H485 Better my HOG dirty home than no hog at all
• H486 Every HOG has his Saint Martin
• H487 Everyone bastes the fat HOG, while the lean one burns
• H488 A Hampshire HOG
• H489 He looks like a HOG in armor
• H490 He that has one HOG makes him fat and he that has one son makes him a fool
• H491 The HOG (dog) is got into the honeypot (porridge pot)
• H492 The HOG never looks up to him that threshes down the acorns
• H493 A HOG of a month, a goose of three, are food for a king
• H494 It is hard to break a HOG of an ill custom
• H495 Lose not a HOG¹ (sheep) for a halfpennyworth of tar²
• H496 To make a HOG or a dog of it
• H497 To rout¹ like a HOG
• H498 To steal the HOG and give the feet for alms
• H499 All asiden¹ as HOGS fighten
• H500 It is ill to drive black HOGS in the dark
• H501 To drive one's HOGS to market
• H502 To hear as HOGS do in harvest, or with your harvest ears
• H503 You have brought your HOGS (eggs) to a fair (fine, wrong) market
• H504 To couch a HOGSHEAD
• H505 You were born at HOGS NORTON, where pigs play on organs
• H506 You are all for the HOISTINGS or Hustings
• H507 To go up HOLBORN¹ backwards
• H508 As much HOLD of his word as of a wet eel by the tail
• H509 There is no more HOLD of a new friend than of a new fashion
• H510 As good HOLD as draw
• H511 Better HOLD out than put out
• H512 He is wise that when he is well can HOLD him so
• H513 HOLD fast when you have it
• H514 Too hot to HOLD
• H515 Who can HOLD that will away?
• H516 HOLDING an eel too fast is the way to let her escape
• H517 He has a HOLE under his nose that all his money runs into
• H518 He will find some HOLE to creep out at
• H519 The HOLE calls the thief
• H520 Not to have a HOLE to put one's head in
• H521 There is a HOLE in the house
• H522 To pick a HOLE in a man's coat
• H523 He is blind enough who sees not through the HOLES of a sieve
• H524 You tell how many HOLES be in a scummer
• H525 Pretended HOLINESS is double iniquity
• H526 He never lies but when the HOLLEN¹ is green
• H527 He never lies but when the HOLLEN¹ is green
• H528 I will be HOLY, ay, marry will I
• H529 The HOLY GHOST comes many times from Rome to Trent in a mail¹
• H530 On HOLYROOD DAY the devil goes a nutting
• H531 The HOLY SCRIPTURE is made a nose of wax
• H532 Court HOLY WATER
• H533 He is gone to his long (last) HOME
• H534 HOME is home be it never so homely
• H535 I come from HOME, I have neither gained nor lost
• H536 HOMER nods sometimes
• H537 Let HOMER yield to such as presents bring
• H538 All the HONESTY is in the parting
• H539 He that loses his HONESTY has nothing else to lose
• H540 HONESTY is best at long run
• H541 HONESTY is ill for thriving
• H542 HONESTY is no pride
• H543 HONESTY is the best policy
• H544 As sweet as HONEY
• H545 Cover yourself with HONEY and the flies will have you
• H546 He has bought HONEY too dear who hurts his hands in the getting of it
• H547 He has HONEY in his mouth and the razor at his girdle
• H548 He is all HONEY or all turd
• H549 He that handles HONEY shall feel it cling to his fingers
• H550 He that has no HONEY in his pot let him have it in his mouth
• H551 He who shares HONEY with a bear has the least part of it
• H552 HONEY is not for the ass's mouth
• H553 HONEY is sweet but the bee stings
• H554 It is dear-bought HONEY that is licked off a thorn
• H555 Lick HONEY with your little finger
• H556 No HONEY without gall
• H557 Of HONEY and gall in love there is store
• H558 Seeking HONEY I caught the bee by the tail
• H559 To lick HONEY through a cleft stick
• H560 Too much HONEY cloys the stomach
• H561 Under HONEY ofttime lies bitter gall (poison)
• H562 You will (cannot) make HONEY of a dog's turd
• H563 It is but HONEYMOON with them
• H564 It will not always be HONEYMOON
• H565 Either live or die with HONOR
• H566 He is least worthy of HONOR that seeks it
• H567 He that gives HONOR to his enemy is like to an ass
• H568 HONOR and ease are seldom bedfellows
• H569 HONOR and profit lie not in one sack
• H570 HONOR bought is temporal simony
• H571 HONOR is the reward of virtue
• H572 HONOR is unseemly for a fool
• H573 HONOR will buy no beef
• H574 HONOR without maintenance is like a blue coat¹ without a badge
• H575 HONOR without profit is a ring on the finger
• H576 It is better to die with HONOR than to live with shame
• H577 The more rich the more HONOR
• H578 The more rich the more HONOR
• H579 We cannot come to HONOR under coverlet
• H580 Where HONOR ceases there knowledge decreases
• H581 Where there is no HONOR there is no grief (sorrow)
• H582 Great HONORS are great burdens
• H583 HONORS change manners
• H584 HONORS nourish arts
• H585 A HOOD for this fool
• H586 The HOOD (habit, cowl) makes not the monk
• H587 To beat it on the HOOF
• H588 By HOOK or crook
• H589 Hold HOOK and line
• H590 A HOOK well lost to catch a salmon
• H591 To fish with a golden (silver) НOOK
• H592 To be off the HOOKS
• H593 As round as a HOOP
• H594 When the HOP grows high it must have a pole
• H595 As fast (thick) as HOPS
• H596 A good HOPE is better than a bad possession
• H597 He that lives in HOPE dances without music
• H598 He that lives on HOPE has a slender diet
• H599 He who lives in HOPE does dance in a hoop
• H600 HOPE delayed afflicts the heart
• H601 HOPE is a good breakfast but a bad supper
• H602 HOPE is the last thing that man has to flee unto
• H603 HOPE is the poor man's bread
• H604 HOPE keeps him alive
• H605 If it were not for HOPE (Without hope) the heart would break (burst)
• H606 It is HOPE holds up his chin
• H607 There is more HOPE of a fool than of him that is wise in his own eyes
• H608 Too much HOPE deceives
• H609 Who lives by HOPE dies breaking of wind backwards
• H610 With HOPE, a halfpenny, and a lambskin
• H611 HOPE well and have well
• H612 As welcome as HOPKIN that came to jail overnight and was hanged the next morning
• H613 HOP-O'-MY-THUMB
• H614 HOPTON, Horner, Smyth, and Thynne, when abbots went out, they came in
• H615 As loud as a HORN
• H616 He that blows best bears away the HORN
• H617 A HORN heard soon though hardly seen
• H618 Wear a HORN and blow it not
• H619 You cannot make a HORN (pipe, whistle) of a pig's (ape's, tod's¹) tail
• H620 Pluck (Pull) in your HORNS
• H621 As hard as HORN
• H622 To wear a HORN (To be a cuckold) and not know it will do one no more harm than to eat a fly and not see it
• H623 He had better put his HORNS in his pocket than wind them
• H624 He that has HORNS in his bosom let him not put them on his head
• H625 He wears the HORNS
• H626 HORNS and gray hairs do not come by years
• H627 He is as mild as a HORNET
• H628 He is HORN-MAD
• H629 As holy as a HORSE
• H630 As shortly as a HORSE will lick his ear
• H631 Behind before, before behind, a HORSE is in danger to be pricked
• H632 The best HORSE needs breaking and the aptest child needs teaching
• H633 The best-shod HORSE does slip sometimes
• H634 The blind HORSE is hardiest¹
• H635 Choose a HORSE made, a servant to be made
• H636 Choose a HORSE made and a wife to make
• H637 The common HORSE is worst shod
• H638 Do not spur a free HORSE
• H639 Either win the HORSE or lose the saddle
• H640 A flea-bitten HORSE never tires
• H641 A four white-foot HORSE is a horse for a fool, a three white-foot horse is a horse for a king, and if he has but one I'll give him to none
• H642 A free HORSE will soon tire
• H643 A gentle HORSE should not be oversore (should be seldom) spurred
• H644 Give your HORSE a Welsh bait
• H645 A good HORSE becomes never a jade
• H646 A good HORSE cannot be of a bad color
• H647 A good HORSE draws himself and his master out of the mire
• H648 A good HORSE oft needs a good spur
• H649 A grunting HORSE and a groaning wife never fail their master
• H650 Have a HORSE of your own, you may borrow another
• H651 He has eaten a HORSE and the tail hangs out at his mouth
• H652 He has taken my HORSE and left me the tether
• H653 He is a weak HORSE that may not bear the saddle
• H654 He is so hungry he could eat a HORSE behind the saddle
• H655 He is undone, HORSE and man (foot)
• H656 He that cannot beat the HORSE (ass) beats the saddle (packsaddle)
• H657 He that has a white HORSE and a fair wife never wants trouble
• H658 He that has neither HORSE nor cart cannot always load
• H659 He that hires the HORSE must ride before
• H660 He will lie as fast as a HORSE (dog) will trot
• H661 A hired HORSE tired never
• H662 The HORSE looks not on the hedge but the corn (hay)
• H663 A HORSE may stumble (snapper¹) on four feet
• H664 The HORSE next the mill carries all the grist
• H665 A HORSE of another (that) color
• H666 The HORSE that draws after him his halter is not altogether escaped
• H667 The HORSE (ass) thinks one thing and he that saddles him another
• H668 A hungry HORSE makes a clean manger
• H669 I will make him water his HORSE at Highgate
• H670 It is a good HORSE that never stumbles
• H671 It is an ill HORSE that can neither whinny nor wag his tail
• H672 It is good to ride on the sure HORSE
• H673 It would make a HORSE break his bridle or a dog his halter (It would make a horse [dog] laugh)
• H674 Lend not HORSE nor wife nor sword
• H675 Lend your HORSE for a long journey, you may have him return with his skin
• H676 Let a HORSE drink when he will, not what he will
• H677 Let the quick HORSE draw the dead horse out of the mire
• H678 Look not a given HORSE in the mouth
• H679 My HORSE pisses whey, my man pisses amber, my horse is for my way, my man is for my chamber
• H680 The old HORSE must die in some man's hand
• H681 An old HORSE to a young soldier
• H682 One may lead a HORSE to the water but four and twenty cannot gar¹ him drink
• H683 A proud HORSE that will not carry (bear) his own provender
• H684 A resty (boisterous) HORSE must have a sharp spur (a rough bridle)
• H685 Ride a HORSE and mare on the shoulders, an ass and mule on the buttocks
• H686 A Royston HORSE and a Cambridge master of arts will give way to nobody
• H687 A running HORSE is an open grave
• H688 A running HORSE needs no spur
• H689 A scabbed (galled) HORSE cannot abide the comb
• H690 A scald (scabbed) HORSE is good enough for a scabbed (scald) squire
• H691 A short HORSE is soon curried
• H692 Some may better steal a HORSE than others look on (look over the hedge)
• H693 Steal the HORSE and carry home the bridle
• H694 That HORSE is troubled with corns
• H695 They are good willy¹ of their HORSE that have none
• H696 To a greedy eating HORSE a short halter
• H697 To go round like a blind HORSE in a mill
• H698 To stay as one HORSE stays for another
• H699 To work for a dead HORSE
• H700 Touch (Rub) a galled HORSE on the back and he will wince (kick)
• H701 A weand¹ HORSE and a rotten harrow are soon parted
• H702 Well, HORSE, winter will come
• H703 Where stands your great HORSE
• H704 Where the HORSE lies down, there some hair will be found
• H705 You bridle the HORSE by the tail
• H706 You may beat a HORSE till he be sad and a cow till she be mad
• H707 You may (may not) know the HORSE by his harness
• H708 You will ride on a HORSE that was foaled of an acorn (You will ride on a wooden horse)
• H709 Your HORSE cast a shoe
• H710 His HORSE's head is swollen so big that he cannot come out of the stable
• H711 Trust not a HORSE's heel nor a dog's tooth
• H712 You may break a HORSE's back be he never so strong
• H713 From the HORSES to the asses
• H714 Good HORSES make short miles
• H715 HORSES, dogs, and servants devour many
• H716 They are scarce of HORSES where two ride on a dog
• H717 They cannot set (To set) their HORSES together
• H718 When one is on HORSEBACK he knows all things
• H719 To give HORSE KISSES
• H720 To fall away from a HORSELOAD to a cartload
• H721 As high as three (two) HORSE LOAVES¹
• H722 He wears short HOSE
• H723 In my (your) t'other HOSE
• H724 He has sneezed thrice, turn him out of the HOSPITAL
• H725 Ask mine HOST whether he have good wine
• H726 He that reckons without his (Reckoners without their) HOST must reckon twice
• H727 Like HOST like guest
• H728 To reckon without one's HOST (hostess)
• H729 A HOST of harts is more to be feared that is ruled by a lion than a host of lions by a hart
• H730 The fairer the HOSTESS the fouler the reckoning
• H731 Over HOT over cold
• H732 Soon HOT soon cold
• H733 He is a HOT SHOT in a mustard pot when both his heels stand right up
• H734 You are a HOT SHOT
• H735 A foisting HOUND
• H736 An ill (evil) HOUND (dog) comes halting home
• H737 We HOUNDS slew the hare, quoth the messan¹
• H738 He is born in a good HOUR who gets a good name
• H739 He never broke his HOUR that kept his day
• H740 He was born in an ill HOUR who gets an ill name
• H741 It happens in one HOUR that happens not in seven years
• H742 There is an HOUR wherein a man might be happy all his life could he find it
• H743 There is but an HOUR in a day between a good housewife and a bad
• H744 One HOUR's sleep before midnight is worth three (two) after
• H745 Better be two HOURS before time than three behind it
• H746 Five HOURS sleeps a traveler, seven a scholar, eight a merchant, and eleven every knave
• H747 HOURS of pleasure are short
• H748 After the HOUSE is finished leave it
• H749 Before thou marry be sure of a HOUSE wherein to tarry
• H750 Better one HOUSE filled than two spilled
• H751 Better one's HOUSE too little one day than too big all the year after
• H752 Burn not your HOUSE to fright away the mice
• H753 Choose not a HOUSE near an inn, for noise, or in a corner, for filth
• H754 He keeps open HOUSE
• H755 He must take a HOUSE in Turnagain Lane
• H756 He pulls an old HOUSE on his head
• H757 He set my HOUSE on fire only to roast his eggs
• H758 He that burns his HOUSE warms himself for once
• H759 He that buys a HOUSE ready wrought has many a pin and nail for nought
• H760 He that has no HOUSE must lie in the yard
• H761 He that thatches his HOUSE with turds shall have more teachers than reachers
• H762 He that would be well needs not go from his own HOUSE
• H763 He will burn his HOUSE to warm his hands
• H764 His HOUSE stands on my lady's ground
• H765 A HOUSE and a woman suit excellently
• H766 A HOUSE built by the wayside is either too high or too low
• H767 A HOUSE dry overhead is happy
• H768 A HOUSE easier burnt (broken down) than built
• H769 The HOUSE is a fine house when good folks are within
• H770 A HOUSE pulled down is half built up
• H771 A HOUSE ready made and a wife to make
• H772 The HOUSE shows the owner
• H773 A HOUSE well-furnished makes a good housewife
• H774 I will mend this HOUSE and pair¹ another
• H775 If he were as long as he is lither¹ he might thatch a HOUSE without a ladder
• H776 In a good (plentiful) HOUSE all (supper) is quickly ready
• H777 In the HOUSE of a fiddler all fiddle (are dancers)
• H778 It is a sad HOUSE where the hen crows louder than the cock
• H779 A little HOUSE well filled, a little land (ground) well tilled, and a little wife well willed
• H780 My HOUSE, my house, though thou art small thou art to me the Escorial
• H781 A smoking HOUSE and a chiding wife make a man run out of doors (Smoke, rain, and a cursed wife drive a man out of his house)
• H782 There is no HOUSE but has something not to be spoken of
• H783 To burn the HOUSE and run away by the light of it
• H784 To eat one out of HOUSE and home
• H785 To throw the HOUSE out at the windows
• H786 What better is the HOUSE that the daw¹ rises in the morning?
• H787 When I have thatched his HOUSE he would throw me down
• H788 When you enter into a HOUSE leave the anger at the door
• H789 Whose HOUSE (head) is of glass must not throw stones at another
• H790 You will be sent to a stronger HOUSE than ever your father built for you
• H791 There are more HOUSES than parish churches
• H792 He may be trusted with a HOUSEFUL of unbored millstones
• H793 A fat HOUSEKEEPER makes lean executors
• H794 A great HOUSEKEEPER is sure of nothing for his
• H795 Noble HOUSEKEEPERS need no doors
• H796 HOUSEKEEPING is a privy thief
• H797 To be up on the HOUSETOP in anger
• H798 A clean-fingered HOUSEWIFE and an idle
• H799 A gentle HOUSEWIFE mars the household
• H800 A good HOUSEWIFE is a jewel (worth a diadem)
• H801 A liquorish HOUSEWIFE seldom makes thick pottage
• H802 She is not a good HOUSEWIFE that will not wind up her bottom
• H803 To be in HUCKSTERS' handling (hands)
• H804 To give one a Cornish HUG
• H805 In HUGGERMUGGER
• H806 An HUMBLEBEE in a cow turd thinks himself a king
• H807 The stillest HUMORS are always the worst
• H808 Who has a HUNDRED and owes a hundred and one needs not fear; who has a hundred and one and owes one hundred and two, I recommend him to God
• H809 What some win (lose) in the HUNDRED they lose (win) in the shire
• H810 He is hidebound, he is an HUNGARIAN
• H811 HUNGER breaks down (pierces) stone walls
• H812 HUNGER drives the wolf out of the wood
• H813 HUNGER drops out of his nose
• H814 HUNGER has always a good cook
• H815 HUNGER is good kitchen meat¹
• H816 HUNGER is hard in a hale¹ maw
• H817 HUNGER is not dainty (ambitious)
• H818 HUNGER is sharper than thorn
• H819 HUNGER is the best sauce
• H820 HUNGER makes a man leap at a crust
• H821 HUNGER makes dinners, pastime suppers
• H822 HUNGER makes hard beans sweet (hard bones sweet beans)
• H823 Like HUNT's (Wood's) dog, that will neither go to church nor stay at home
• H824 HUNTING, hawking, and paramours, for one joy a hundred displeasures
• H825 HUNTING is for kings
• H826 The HUNTSMAN's breakfast, the lawyer's dinner
• H827 Better is March HURDS¹ than April flax
• H828 Of HURDS¹ is never made a good shirt
• H829 He that has done so much HURT he can do no more may sit down and rest him
• H830 He that HURTS another hurts himself
• H831 A good HUSBAND makes a good wife
• H832 He is an ill HUSBAND that is not missed
• H833 Heigh-ho for a HUSBAND
• H834 A HUSBAND must be deaf and the wife blind to have quietness
• H835 HUSBAND, you are a cuckold. Wife, who told you so?
• H836 If the HUSBAND be not at home there is nobody
• H837 In the HUSBAND wisdom, in the wife gentleness
• H838 When the HUSBAND drinks to the wife all would be well, when the wife drinks to the husband all is well
• H839 When the HUSBAND is sad (merry) the wife will be merry (sad)
• H840 The calmest HUSBANDS make the stormiest wives
• H841 HUSBANDS are in heaven whose wives chide not
• H842 The HUSBANDMAN ought first to taste of the new-grown fruit
• H843 A reckless (careless) HUSSY makes many thieves
• H844 To laugh like a HYENA