Proverbs starting with "L"

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• L1 He has his LABOR for his pains
• L2 He that will not endure LABOR in this world let him not be born
• L3 LABOR in vain is loss of time
• L4 The LABOR of a husbandman returns into a ring
• L5 LABOR overcomes all things
• L6 A little LABOR much health
• L7 Past LABOR is pleasant
• L8 Seek till you find and you'll not lose your LABOR
• L9 You lose your LABOR
• L10 He that will not LABOR must not eat
• L11 LABOR as long-lived, pray as even dying
• L12 The LABORER is worthy of his hire
• L13 In the LABORER's house hunger looks in but dares not enter
• L14 If you go into a LABYRINTH take a clew with you
• L15 To sing LACHRYMAE
• L16 LACK is a hell
• L17 LACK of looking to makes cobwebs grow in boys' tails
• L18 No LACK to¹ a wife
• L19 There is no LACK¹ the lack of money
• L20 What do you LACK?
• L21 When a LACKEY comes to hell's door the devil locks the gate
• L22 Hae¹ LAD and run lad
• L23 LAD's love is a busk of broom, hot awhile and soon done
• L24 LADS (Boys) will be men
• L25 Go down the LADDER when you marry a wife, go up when you choose a friend
• L26 To turn one's back on the LADDER (cut down the stairs) by which one rose
• L27 You will go up the LADDER to bed
• L28 The LADY kisses her man for his master's sake
• L29 When Our LADY shall have a new son
• L30 As fair as LADY DONE
• L31 LAG puts all in his bag
• L32 He looks like the LAIRD of pity
• L33 As chaste as a LAMB
• L34 As gentle (quiet, meek, mild) as a LAMB
• L35 The humble (meek) LAMB sucks its own dam and others also
• L36 The LAMB is more in dread of the wolf than of the lion
• L37 The LAMB shall not rot as long as it sucks, except the dam wants meat
• L38 To give one some LAMB PIE
• L39 As soon goes the young LAMBSKIN (lamb) to the market as the old ewe's (sheep)
• L40 To lap in a LAMBSKIN
• L41 The LAME goes as far as your staggerer
• L42 The LAME returns sooner than his servant
• L43 After LAMMAS¹ corn ripens as much by night as by day
• L44 It smells more of the LAMP than of wine
• L45 LANCASHIRE for fair women
• L46 As good LAND (As much ground) as the crow flies over (flies over in a day)
• L47 Chalked LAND makes a rich father but a poor son
• L48 Every LAND has its own lauch¹ and every corn its own chaff
• L49 For a little LAND take a fool by the hand
• L50 Good LAND evil way
• L51 Good LAND must not be left because of a bad landlord
• L52 He that buys LAND buys many stones, he that buys flesh buys many bones, he that buys eggs buys many shells, but he that buys good ale buys nothing else
• L53 He that has some LAND must have some labor
• L54 LAND was never lost for want of an heir
• L55 To Devonshire (Denshire) LAND
• L56 To see LAND
• L57 To water (dig, ear¹) another's LAND
• L58 You may be on LAND yet not in a garden
• L59 He that has LANDS has quarrels (war)
• L60 Who has any LANDS in Appleby?
• L61 A quick LANDLORD makes a careful tenant
• L62 To meet one at LAND's END
• L63 A long LANE and a fair wind and always your heels here away
• L64 That is not good LANGUAGE which all understand not
• L65 There were no ill LANGUAGE if it were not ill taken
• L66 To answer one in his own LANGUAGE
• L67 After a LANK¹ comes a bank²
• L68 The LAPWING cries most when farthest from her nest
• L69 Like a LAPWING that runs away with the shell on its head
• L70 To sing like a LARK
• L71 He thought that roasted LARKS would have fallen into his mouth
• L72 To leave one in the LASH
• L73 As lithe as LASS of Kent
• L74 He that is old and marries with a LASS lies but at home and proves himself an ass
• L75 The LASS in the red petticoat shall pay for all
• L76 A lisping LASS is good to kiss
• L77 LASSES are lads' leavings
• L78 He overtakes at LAST who tires not
• L79 He stays not long that comes at LAST
• L80 It is not lost that comes at LAST
• L81 They that live longest must die at LAST
• L82 LAST but not least
• L83 LATA¹ is long and dreich²
• L84 Not worthy to loose the LATCHET of his shoes
• L85 Better LATE than never
• L86 As lean as a LATH
• L87 To be all of a LATHER
• L88 To speak false LATIN
• L89 With LATIN, a good nag (horse), and money you may travel the world
• L90 At LATTER LAMMAS
• L91 LAUGH and be fat
• L92 LAUGH and lie down
• L92a To LAUGH and cry at once (like rain in sunshine)
• L93 He LAUGHS that wins
• L94 To be ready to burst with LAUGHING
• L95 The LAUREL is ever green
• L96 To lay in LAVENDER
• L97 Agree, for the LAW is costly
• L98 He that goes to LAW holds a wolf by the ears
• L99 He will go to LAW for the wagging of a straw
• L100 LAW and country
• L101 LAW cannot persuade where it cannot punish
• L102 The LAW grows of sin and chastises it
• L103 The LAW intends the mind more than the deed
• L104 The LAW is made a nose of wax
• L105 The LAW is not the same at morning and at night
• L106 The LAW is the philosopher's stone
• L107 LAW is the scourge of sin
• L108 LAW, logic, and the Switzers may be hired to fight for anybody
• L109 The LAW must rule us and not we the law
• L110 No LAW for lying
• L111 To have the LAW in one's own hand
• L112 You may have much LAW on your side and but little equity (justice)
• L113 As unalterable as the LAWS of the Medes and Persians
• L115 LAWS are good if they be rightly interpreted and duly executed
• L116 LAWS catch flies (little flies) but let the hornets (great flies) go free
• L117 The more (Many) LAWS the more (many) offenders (sins)
• L118 They that make LAWS must not break them
• L119 Great LAWING small loving
• L120 The finest LAWN (cloth) will be the soonest stained
• L121 He that will sell (buy) LAWN before he can fold it shall repent him before he has sold it
• L122 LAWSUITS consume time and money and rest and friends
• L123 She has given LAWTON GATE a clap
• L124 A good LAWYER an evil neighbor
• L125 A LAWYER will not plead but for money (a fee)
• L126 A LAWYER's pen is a hook
• L127 A LAWYER's purse is the mouth of hell
• L128 Fair and softly, as LAWYERS go to heaven
• L129 Few LAWYERS die well, few physicians live well
• L130 LAWYERS' houses are built on the heads of fools
• L131 I will LAY it on, take it off who will
• L132 I have cured her from LAYING in the hedge, quoth the good man when he had wed his daughter
• L133 Leave her on a LEA¹ and let the devil flit her
• L134 As heavy as LEAD
• L135 As wan (pale) as LEAD
• L136 To have LEAD on one's heels
• L137 Ye are as cold as LEAD
• L138 Neither LEAD nor drive
• L139 As light as LEAF on lind
• L140 He trembles (quakes, shakes) like an aspen LEAF
• L141 A LEAF of borage might buy all the substance that they can sell
• L142 He eats LEAVES and voids silk
• L143 He that is afraid of the LEAVES must not go to the wood
• L144 LEAVES enough but few grapes
• L145 Often drunk and seldom sober falls like the LEAVES in October
• L146 To turn over a new LEAF
• L147 A small LEAK will sink a great ship
• L148 A LEAP in the dark
• L149 LEARN not and know not
• L150 LEARN to say before you sing
• L151 LEARN weeping and you shall laugh gaining
• L152 LEARN young learn fair
• L153 Never too old (late) to LEARN
• L154 That which is evil (nought) is soon LEARNED
• L155 LEARNING belongs to students, riches to the careful, the world to the presumptuous, paradise to the devout
• L156 LEARNING in the breast of a bad man (a prince) is as a sword in the hand of a madman
• L157 LEARNING is the eye of the mind
• L158 LEARNING is the labor of the brain
• L159 LEARNING is the labor of the brain
• L160 They favor LEARNING whose actions are worthy of a learned pen
• L161 Too much LEARNING makes men mad
• L162 He never has a bad LEASE that has a good landlord
• L163 He that eats LEAST eats most
• L164 Who is more busy than he that has LEAST to do?
• L165 Whom we love best to them we can say LEAST
• L166 As tough as LEATHER (white leather)
• L167 Raw LEATHER will stretch
• L168 He must have LEAVE to speak who cannot hold his tongue
• L169 He that will thrive must ask LEAVE of his wife
• L170 LEAVE is light
• L171 I will take no LEAVE of you, quoth the baker to the pillory
• L172 Better LEAVE than lack
• L173 LECHERY and covetousness go together
• L174 To give one a Juniper LECTURE (letter)
• L175 The empty LEECH sucks sore
• L176 As green as a LEEK
• L177 Like a LEEK, he has a white head and a green tail
• L178 Eat LEEKS in Lide¹ and raisins in May and all the year after physicians may play
• L179 Sometimes the LEES are better than the wine
• L180 As right (straight) as my LEG
• L181 Back with that LEG (foot)
• L182 Badger-like, one LEG shorter than another
• L183 Cut off the LEG of an ill custom
• L184 He has cut his LEG
• L185 I now see which LEG (foot) you are lame of
• L186 A LEG (pestle) of a lark is better than the body of a kite
• L187 She has broken her LEG above the knee (broken her elbow)
• L188 While the LEG (foot) warms, the boot (shoe) harms
• L189 Everyone stretches his LEGS according to his coverlet
• L190 He is run off his LEGS
• L191 How came you hither? On my LEGS
• L192 Long be your LEGS and short be your life
• L193 To be (To go) on one's last LEGS
• L194 To stand on his own LEGS
• L195 Use LEGS and have legs
• L196 At LEISURE, as flax grows
• L197 He has no LEISURE who uses it not
• L198 I have no LEISURE to hunt the loiterer
• L199 He that LENDS gives
• L200 At LENGTH the fox is brought to the furrier
• L201 At LENGTH the string cracks by being over-strained
• L202 To have (know) the LENGTH of one's foot
• L203 As much akin as LENSON HILL to Pilsen Pen
• L204 Who intends to have a short LENT let him take up money to pay at Easter
• L205 In a LEOPARD the spots are not observed
• L206 A LEOPARD (panther) cannot change his spots
• L207 Eat LESS and drink less and buy a knife at Michaelmas
• L208 LESS of your courtesy (counsel) and more of your purse (cost)
• L209 A little LET¹ lets² an ill workman
• L210 He is not so daft as he LETS him
• L211 He will not LET anybody lie by him
• L212 Let ALONE makes many a lurdan
• L213 Let the LETTER stay for the post, not the post for the letter
• L214 LETTERS OF BELLEROPHON
• L215 All the LEVERS you can lay will not do it
• L216 He is a greater LIAR than an epitaph
• L217 A LIAR is not believed when he tells truth
• L218 A LIAR is worse than a thief
• L219 A LIAR should have a good memory
• L220 Show me a LIAR and I'll show you a thief
• L221 LIARS begin by imposing upon others but end by deceiving themselves
• L222 LIAR LICK-DISH
• L223 LIBERTY is more worth than gold (is a pearl, is a jewel)
• L224 LIBERTY makes thieves
• L225 Too much LIBERTY spoils all
• L226 They are for LICENSE not for liberty
• L227 He will LICK himself whole again
• L228 London LICKPENNY¹
• L229 You are a LICK-THE-WIDDY or pin
• L230 LIDE¹ pills² the hide
• L231 He that trusts in a LIE shall perish in truth
• L232 A hot (sudden) LIE is the best
• L233 If a LIE could have choked him that would have done it
• L234 A LIE does good how little a while soever it be believed
• L235 A LIE stands on one leg, truth on two
• L236 One LIE calls for many
• L237 Tell a LIE and find the truth
• L238 That is a LIE with a latchet (witness), all the dogs in the town cannot match it
• L239 Though a LIE be well dressed it is ever overcome
• L241 LIES have no (short) feet (legs, wings)
• L242 Milesian LIES
• L243 He will not LIE where he is slain
• L244 Anything for a quiet LIFE
• L245 A good LIFE has a good death
• L246 If I were to fast for my LIFE I would eat a good breakfast in the morning
• L247 An ill LIFE an ill end
• L248 In LIFE you loved me not, in death you bewail me
• L249 LIFE is a pilgrimage
• L250 LIFE is a shuttle
• L251 LIFE is a span
• L252 LIFE is half spent before we know what it is
• L253 LIFE is no sure inheritance
• L254 LIFE is sweet
• L255 LIFE lies not in living but in liking
• L256 The LIFE of man is a winter's day and a winter's way
• L257 The LIFE of spies is to know, not be known
• L258 The LIFE of the wolf is the death of the lamb
• L259 LIFE without a friend is death without (with) a witness
• L260 Long LIFE has long misery
• L261 A short LIFE and a merry (sweet)
• L262 A single LIFE is best
• L263 Such a LIFE such a death (an end)
• L264 There is LIFE in a mussel
• L265 There is LIFE in it
• L266 To keep LIFE and soul together
• L267 We must not look for a golden LIFE in an iron age (world)
• L268 What is LIFE where living is wanting (extinct)?
• L269 While there's LIFE there's hope
• L270 He is LIFELESS that is faultless
• L271 To help at a dead LIFT
• L272 Every LIGHT has its shadow
• L273 Every LIGHT is not the sun
• L274 The LIGHT is nought for sore eyes
• L275 To hide one's LIGHT (candle) under a bushel
• L276 To stand in one's own LIGHT
• L277 A LIGHTENING (lightning) before death
• L278 To be LIGHT-FINGERED
• L279 As swift as LIGHTNING
• L280 LIGHTNING (Thunder) bruises the tree (melts the marrow) but breaks not the bark (skin)
• L281 There is LIGHTNING lightly¹ before thunder
• L282 The LIKE breeds the like
• L283 The LIKE, I say, sits with the jay
• L284 LIKE to like, a scabbed horse to an old dike
• L285 LIKE to like and Nan for Nicholas
• L286 LIKE will to like
• L287 LIKE will to like, quoth the devil to the collier
• L288 No LIKE is the same
• L289 As LIKE as like may be
• L290 They are so LIKE that they are the worse for it
• L291 Do the LIKELIEST and God will do the best (and hope the best)
• L292 LIKELY lies in the mire and unlikely goes by it (gets over)
• L293 I will paint you in your LIKENESS
• L294 LIKENESS causes liking (love)
• L295 LIKE TO DIE mends not the kirkyard
• L296 As white as a LILY
• L297 The LILY is fair in show but foul in smell
• L298 To lick it up like LIM HAY
• L299 LINCOLN shall be hanged for London's sake
• L300 LINCOLN was, London is, and York shall be
• L301 LINCOLN GREEN
• L302 LINCOLNSHIRE, where hogs shit soap and cows shit fire
• L303 As straight as a LINE (thread)
• L304 Bring your LINE to the wall, not wall to line
• L305 To work by LINE and level (measure)
• L306 To wrap up in clean LINEN
• L307 By LINK and link the coat of mail is made at last
• L308 As fierce (valiant) as a LION
• L309 A LION among sheep and a sheep among lions
• L310 A LION fears no bugs¹
• L311 A LION in the field, a lamb in the town
• L312 A LION in the way
• L313 A LION is known by his paw (claw)
• L314 The LION is not so fierce as he is painted
• L315 A LION may come to be beholden to a mouse
• L316 The LION spares the suppliant
• L317 Wake not a sleeping LION
• L318 Who takes a LION absent fears a mouse present
• L319 If the LION's skin cannot the fox's shall
• L320 The LION's skin is never cheap
• L321 Essex LIONS¹
• L322 To see the LIONS
• L323 As fierce as a LION of COTSWOLD¹
• L324 He can ill pipe that lacks (wants) his upper LIP
• L325 Free of her LIPS free of her hips
• L326 Like (Such) LIPS like (such) lettuce
• L327 LIPS go, laps go, drink and pay
• L328 Scald not your LIPS in another man's pottage
• L329 You licked not your LiPS since you lied last
• L330 Your LIPS hang in your light
• L331 LIP HONOR costs little yet may bring in much
• L332 To preach over one's LIQUOR (cup, pot)
• L333 With what LIQUOR a vessel is first seasoned, it will long keep the scent of it
• L334 Eat your LIST and leave the lave¹
• L335 You may if you LIST but do if you dare
• L336 LISTENERS never hear good of themselves
• L337 The LITTER is like to the sire and the dam
• L338 Better long LITTLE nor¹ soon right nought (than soon nothing)
• L339 By a LITTLE and little the wolf eats the sheep (goose)
• L340 By LITTLE and little
• L341 By LITTLE and little the poor whore sinks her barn
• L342 By the LITTLE is known the much
• L343 Clothe thee warm, eat LITTLE, drink enough, and thou shalt live
• L344 Dine with LITTLE, sup with less
• L345 He can give LITTLE to his servant that licks his knife
• L346 He is not poor that has LITTLE but he that desires much
• L347 He loves me for LITTLE that hates me for nought
• L347a He that desires but LITTLE has no need of much
• L348 He that has LITTLE is the less dirty
• L349 He that knows LITTLE often repeats it
• L350 It is better to enjoy a LITTLE with quietness than to possess much with trouble
• L351 It is better to pay and have LITTLE than have much and to be in debt
• L352 It is LITTLE of God's might to make a poor man a knight
• L353 A LITTLE and a little the cat eats up the bacon flitch
• L354 The LITTLE cannot be great unless he devours many
• L355 A LITTLE given seasonably excuses a great gift
• L356 A LITTLE in the morning is enough, enough at dinner is but little, a little at night is too much
• L357 LITTLE may an old horse do if he may not neigh
• L358 LITTLE (Nothing) said, soon amended
• L359 LITTLE troubles the eye but far less the soul
• L360 A LITTLE with honesty is better than a great deal with knavery
• L361 A LITTLE with quiet is the only diet
• L362 Many a LITTLE (Every little) makes a mickle (a great)
• L363 Of a LITTLE take little
• L364 Stay a LITTLE and news will find you
• L365 That LITTLE which is good fills the trencher
• L366 There is LITTLE for the rake after the besom
• L367 Though he said LITTLE he thought the more
• L368 To yield a LITTLE is better than to be stiff
• L369 We must recoil a LITTLE to the end we leap the better
• L370 What costs LITTLE is less esteemed
• L371 You would do LITTLE for God if the devil were dead
• L372 LITTLE AND OFTEN fills the purse
• L373 He was born at LITTLE WITHAM
• L374 As sure as you LIVE
• L375 He is well to LIVE
• L376 He is well to LIVE
• L377 If you would not LIVE to be old you must be hanged when you are young
• L378 It is not how long but how well we LIVE
• L379 LIVE and learn
• L380 LIVE and let live
• L381 LIVE charily if not chastely
• L382 LIVE well and live forever
• L383 LIVE with me and seek some other to maintain thee
• L384 Too soon wise to LIVE long
• L385 We shall LIVE till we die
• L386 He LIVES long that lives well
• L387 He LIVES that overcomes
• L388 He that LIVES long suffers much
• L389 He that LIVES most dies most
• L390 He that LIVES well is learned enough
• L391 He that LIVES well shall die well (cannot die amiss)
• L392 He that LIVES wickedly can hardly die honestly
• L393 The longer that one LIVES the more he knows
• L394 Who LIVES well sees afar off
• L395 Let the longer LIVER take all
• L396 You are mope-eyed¹ by LIVING so long a maid
• L397 LIVING WELL is the best revenge
• L398 Like a LOADER's¹ horse that lives among thieves
• L399 Give a LOAF and beg a shive¹
• L400 A white LOAF and a hard cheese never shame the master
• L401 LOAVES and fishes
• L402 A borrowed LOAN should come laughing home
• L403 He is in LOB's POUND (Cob's pound)
• L404 A Chichester LOBSTER, a Selsey cockle, an Arundel mullet, a Pulborough eel, an Amberley trout, a Rye herring, a Bourne wheatear
• L405 To be as red as a boiled LOBSTER
• L406 No LOCK will hold against the power of gold
• L407 To keep under LOCK and key
• L408 He who comes in late has an ill LODGING
• L409 Neither a LOG nor a stork, good Jupiter
• L410 To sleep like a LOG
• L411 Crooked LOGS make straight fires
• L412 To chop LOGIC
• L413 He is sick of the LOMBARD FEVER
• L414 LOMBARDY is the garden of the world (Italy)
• L415 She has been at LONDON to call a strea a straw and a waw a wall
• L416 LONDON BRIDGE was built upon WOOLPACKS
• L417 LONDON BRIDGE was made for wise men to go over and fools to go under
• L418 LONDONER-LIKE, ask as much more as you will take
• L419 The LONG (short) and the short (long) of it
• L420 If it be LONG it will be light
• L421 LONG and lazy, little and loud, fat and fulsome, pretty and proud
• L422 To lose one's LONGING
• L423 LONG LOOKED FOR comes at last
• L424 A cheerful LOOK makes a dish a feast
• L425 Good LOOKS are good cheap
• L426 Love not at the first LOOK (Love at first sight)
• L427 A pitiful LOOK asks enough
• L428 LOOK behind you and consider what you were
• L429 LOOK ere (before) you leap
• L430 LOOK ere you loup¹ and you'll ken the better where you light
• L431 LOOK high and fall low
• L432 He LOOKS not well to himself that looks not ever
• L433 He that LOOKS not before finds himself behind
• L434 He that LOOKS not ere he loup¹ will fall ere he wit of himself
• L435 She that LOOKS too much at herself looks too little to herself
• L436 You LOOK as if you were crow-trodden
• L437 He LOOKS as if he had neither won nor lost
• L438 He LOOKS as if he would look through me
• L439 As drunk as a LORD (emperor)
• L440 As safe as a LORD in a hutch
• L441 He that follows the LORD hopes to go before
• L442 Like LORD like chaplain
• L443 As fine (proud) as a LORD's bastard
• L444 I live and LORDS do no more
• L445 Many LORDS many laws
• L446 New LORDS (kings) new laws
• L447 LORDS' hests are held for laws
• L448 My LORD BALDWIN's dead
• L449 I have dined as well as my LORD MAYOR of London
• L450 I would not change with my LORD MAYOR
• L451 As skittish as my LORD MAYOR's horse
• L452 He wears a whole LORDSHIP on his back
• L453 One good LORDSHIP¹ is worth all his manners²
• L454 As good (Better) LOST as (than) found
• L455 It is LOST that is unsought
• L456 What is LOST is lost
• L457 When he has been at LOSEHAM¹ FAIR some cross² comes in his way
• L458 Give LOSERS leave to speak (talk)
• L459 He buys and sells and lives by the LOSS
• L460 He that goes out with often LOSS at last comes home by Weeping Cross¹
• L461 He that is not sensible of his LOSS has lost nothing
• L462 LOSS embraces shame
• L463 No great LOSS but some small profit
• L464 To fear the LOSS of the bell more than the loss of the steeple
• L465 Little LOSSES amaze, great tame
• L466 As sure as a LOUSE in Pomfret
• L467 As sure as LOUSE in bosom
• L468 Better a LOUSE (mouse) in the pot than no flesh at all
• L469 If a LOUSE miss its footing on his coat it will be sure to break its neck
• L470 It is not long since LOUSE bore langelt,¹ no wonder she fall and break her neck
• L471 A LOUSE is a man's (beggar's) companion
• L472 Not worth a LOUSE
• L473 To flay a LOUSE for the skin
• L474 To go as if dead LICE dropped off him
• L475 As good LOVE comes as goes
• L476 Aye be as merry as be can, for LOVE ne'er delights in a sorrowful man
• L477 Faithful LOVE will never turn to hate
• L478 The first LOVE is the fastest
• L479 Follow LOVE (pleasure, glory) and it will flee, flee love (pleasure, glory) and it will follow thee
• L480 Great LOVE great sorrow (grief)
• L481 He that has LOVE in his breast has spurs in his sides
• L482 Hot LOVE hasty vengeance
• L483 Hot LOVE is soon cold
• L484 I could not get any, neither for LOVE nor money
• L485 In LOVE is no lack
• L486 In LOVE there is both dotage and discretion
• L487 It is better to obtain by LOVE than force
• L488 Light LOVE will change
• L489 Lingering LOVE breeds mislike
• L490 LOVE and a cough (smoke, itch) cannot be hid
• L491 LOVE and business teach eloquence
• L492 LOVE and dirt are two stark things
• L493 LOVE and envy make a man pine
• L494 LOVE and knowledge live not together
• L495 LOVE and lordship like no fellowship
• L496 LOVE and pease pottage will make their way
• L497 LOVE asks faith and faith firmness
• L498 LOVE, being jealous, makes a good eye look asquint
• L499 LOVE cannot be compelled (forced)
• L500 LOVE cannot be hid
• L501 LOVE comes by looking (in at the eyes)
• L502 LOVE comes in at the window and goes out at the door
• L503 LOVE covers many infirmities
• L504 LOVE does much but money does all (more)
• L505 LOVE has no respect of persons
• L505a LOVE is a sweet torment
• L506 LOVE is blind
• L507 LOVE is full of fear (trouble)
• L508 LOVE is lawless
• L509 LOVE is liberal
• L510 LOVE is never without jealousy
• L511 LOVE is not found in the market
• L512 LOVE is potent but money is omnipotent
• L513 LOVE is sweet in the beginning but sour in the ending
• L514 LOVE is the loadstone of love
• L515 LOVE is the reward of love
• L516 LOVE is the touchstone of virtue
• L517 LOVE is without reason
• L518 LOVE (Woman, Honor), like a shadow (crocodile, death), flies one following and pursues one fleeing
• L519 LOVE lives in cottages as well as in courts
• L520 LOVE locks no cupboards
• L521 LOVE makes all hard hearts gentle
• L522 LOVE makes men orators
• L523 LOVE makes one fit for any work
• L524 LOVE needs no teaching
• L525 The LOVE of a harlot (whore) and wine of a flagon is good in the morning (evening) and nought in the evening (morning)
• L526 LOVE of lads and fire of chats¹ is soon in and soon out
• L527 LOVE overcomes all
• L528 LOVE rules his kingdom without a sword
• L529 LOVE will break out in spite of a man
• L530 LOVE will cool 'twixt a pair of sheets if there be not wherewithal to keep them warm
• L531 LOVE will find a way
• L532 LOVE will go through stone walls
• L533 LOVE without end has no end
• L534 Marry first and LOVE will come after
• L535 Natural LOVE descends but it does not ascend
• L536 Next to LOVE, quietness
• L537 No LOVE to¹ a father's
• L538 One LOVE drives out (expels) another
• L539 A perfect LOVE does last eternally
• L540 See for your LOVE, buy for your money
• L541 She lives by LOVE and lumps in corners
• L542 Sound LOVE is not soon forgotten
• L543 There is LOVE in a budget
• L544 There is no LOVE lost between them
• L545 There was never a foul LOVE nor a fair prison
• L546 They LOVE too much that die for love
• L547 True LOVE is the joy of life
• L548 True LOVE kithes¹ in time of need
• L549 When LOVE puts in friendship is gone
• L550 Where LOVE fails we espy all faults
• L551 Where LOVE is there is faith (Where there is no trust there is no love)
• L552 Who marries for LOVE without money has good nights and sorry days
• L553 Your LOVE is a million
• L554 In LOVE's wars he who flies is conqueror
• L555 LOVE's beginning is fear, middle sin, and end grief and annoyance
• L556 He cannot LOVE me that is afraid of me
• L557 I LOVE it but it loves not me
• L558 It is impossible to LOVE and be wise
• L559 LOVE me little love me long
• L560 LOVE one and love only
• L561 They that LOVE most are least set by
• L562 We LOVE that dearly that costs us dearest
• L563 He LOVES to hear himself speak
• L564 He that LOVES well does punish well
• L565 The LOVER is not where he lives but where he loves
• L566 An old LOVER is as winter without flowers
• L567 A LOVER's purse must be tied with a cobweb or a leek's leaf
• L568 LOVERS ever run before the clock
• L569 LOVERS live by love as larks live by leeks
• L570 Lovers' vows are not to be trusted
• L571 A true LOVER's-KNOT
• L572 As proud as LUCIFER
• L573 As good LUCK as had the cow that stuck herself with her own horn
• L574 As good LUCK as the lousy calf that lived all winter and died in the summer
• L575 He that would have good LUCK in horses (horseflesh) must kiss the parson's wife
• L576 Ill LUCK is good for something
• L577 Ill LUCK is worse than found money
• L578 Left-handed LUCK is ill luck
• L579 LUCK and bon voyage
• L580 LUCK is a lord
• L581 Shitten LUCK is good luck
• L582 There is LUCK in odd numbers
• L583 They run well but they have ill LUCK
• L584 What is worse than ill LUCK?
• L585 LUCY-LIGHT¹, the shortest day and the longest night
• L586 A LUDGATE¹ BIRD
• L587 As lazy as LUDLAM's dog that leaned his head against a wall to bark
• L588 To leave one (To lie) in the LURCH
• L589 His LUST is as young as his limbs are old
• L590 LYDFORD¹ LAW (Halifax² law): first hang and draw, then hear the cause