Proverbs starting with "T"
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- T1 At a round TABLE there is no dispute of place
- T2 Spread the TABLE and contention will cease
- T3 The TABLE robs more than a thief
- T4 To turn the TABLES
- T5 TABLE TALK is an excellent schoolmaster
- T6 TACE is Latin¹ for a candle
- T7 To stand to one's TACKLING
- T8 He frets like gummed TAFFETY (grogram, velvet)
- T9 TAG and rag, cut and longtail
- T10 TAG, rag, and bobtail (Tag and rag)
- T11 Better be the TAIL of a horse (of lions) than the head of an ass (of foxes)
- T12 His TAIL will catch the kinkcough¹
- T13 Learn to lick betimes, you know not whose TAIL you may go by
- T14 Make not thy TAIL broader than thy wings
- T15 The TAIL does often catch the fox
- T16 To turn TAIL
- T17 The TAILOR makes the man
- T18 The TAILOR must cut three sleeves for every woman's gown
- T19 Whip, says the TAILOR, whir, says the shears, take a true tailor and cut off his ears
- T20 A TAILOR's shreds are worth the cutting
- T21 The TAILOR's wife (child) is worst clad
- T22 A hundred TAILORS, a hundred millers, and a hundred weavers make three hundred thieves
- T23 Nine (Three) TAILORS make a man
- T24 TAILORS and writers must mind the fashion
- T25 When TAILORS are true there is little good to shew (sew)
- T26 If you will not TAKE what I will give you take what you brought with you
- T27 TAKE it as you will (list, please)
- T28 TAKE it or leave it
- T29 To TAKE one as we find him
- T30 You TAKE me up before I am down
- T31 Everything is as it is TAKEN
- T32 Good TAKE HEED does surely speed
- T33 TAKE HEED is a good rede¹ (a fair thing)
- T34 It is safe TAKING a shive¹ of a cut loaf
- T35 Not worth TAKING the wall of a dog
- T36 Too much TAKING HEED is loss
- T37 An excellent TALE and it were told in Greek
- T38 A good TALE ill told is marred in the telling
- T39 A good TALE is none the worse to be twice told
- T40 I tell you my TALE and my tale's author
- T41 Must I tell you a TALE and find you ears?
- T42 One TALE is good until another be told (heard)
- T43 A TALE never loses in the telling (carrying)
- T44 A TALE of a roasted horse
- T45 A TALE of a tub
- T46 A TALE of Tom Thumb
- T47 Tell a TALE to a mare and she will let a fart
- T48 Thereby hangs a TALE
- T49 To make one tell another TALE
- T50 To take the TALE (word) out of one's mouth
- T51 You tell a TALE to a deaf man
- T52 Believe no TALES from an enemy's tongue
- T53 TALES of Robin Hood are good for fools
- T54 To tell TALES out of school
- T55 A TALETELLER (tratler¹) is worse than a thief
- T56 For foolish (dirty) TALK deaf ears
- T57 Here is TALK of the Turk and the Pope but it's my next neighbor does me the harm
- T58 Least TALK most work
- T59 TALK (Prate) is but talk (prate), but it is money buys land
- T60 There is more TALK than trouble
- T61 To TALK post
- T62 He is here you TALKED on
- T63 The greatest TALKERS are not always the wisest men
- T64 The greatest TALKERS are the least (not the greatest) doers
- T65 TALKING (Talk) pays no toll
- T66 He has pissed his TALLOW
- T67 But the good ale TANKARD, happy might it be
- T68 Run TAP run tapster
- T69 Take TAP under lap and turn back again
- T70 The TAP is a thief
- T71 The TAPSTER is undone by chalk
- T72 Long TARRYING takes all the thanks away
- T73 To catch a TARTAR
- T74 The TASTE of the kitchen is better than the smell
- T75 To him that has lost his TASTE sweet is sour
- T76 With never a TATTER (rag) to his tail
- T77 Where should I be born else than in TAUNTON DEAN?
- T78 He that is in a TAVERN thinks he is in a vine garden
- T79 To swallow a TAVERN TOKEN
- T80 We learn by TEACHING
- T81 Care not for the TEARS of a whore or the bravadoes of a ruffian
- T82 From thence came these TEARS
- T83 TEARS in the eyes, ruth in the heart
- T84 The TEARS of age are lamentable
- T85 The TEARS of the tankard
- T86 TELL me it snows
- T87 TELL me with whom thou goest and I will tell thee what thou dost (who thou art)
- T88 When? Can you TELL?
- T89 So you TOLD me
- T90 No TEMPEST, good Julie (July), lest corn look ruely
- T90a He can tell¹ TEN (the fingers in his hand)
- T91 TENTERDEN STEEPLE was the cause of Goodwin Sands
- T92 TESTONS are gone to Oxford to study in Brazen-nose
- T93 I con him no THANK for his labor
- T94 He is more busy than he has THANKS for his labor
- T95 He loses his THANKS that promises and delays
- T96 Keep your THANKS to feed your chickens
- T97 THANKS will buy nothing in the market
- T98 We may THANK ourselves
- T99 THEY SAY SO is half a lie
- T100 THICK and threefold
- T101 To run through THICK AND THIN
- T102 As safe as a THIEF in a mill
- T103 As well worth it as a THIEF is worth a rope (halter)
- T104 Give a THIEF rope enough and he will hang himself
- T105 He that trusts a THIEF is a fool
- T106 It is as meet as a THIEF for the widdy¹
- T107 An old THIEF desires (deserves) a new halter
- T108 One THIEF (merchant) robs (accuses) another
- T109 Save a THIEF from the gallows and he will cut your throat
- T110 Set a THIEF (fool) to catch a thief (fool)
- T111 A THIEF (knave) and a whore are never far asunder
- T112 The THIEF does fear each bush an officer
- T113 A THIEF hides himself in a bush
- T114 A THIEF in a candle
- T115 A THIEF knows a thief and a wolf knows a wolf
- T116 The THIEF thinks all are of his condition
- T117 The THIEF will be found out at last
- T118 When it thunders the THIEF becomes honest
- T119 The great THIEVES hang the little ones
- T120 THIEVES and rogues have the best luck, if they do but escape hanging
- T121 THIEVES and whores meet at the gallows
- T121a THIEVES are never rogues among themselves
- T122 When THIEVES fall out true men come by their goods (to their own)
- T123 The best or worst THING to man for this life is good or ill choosing his good or ill wife
- T124 Better to have than to hear of a good THING
- T125 Borrowed THING will home again
- T126 The dainty THING would have a dainty dish (bit)
- T127 For a tint¹ (lost) THING care not
- T128 Give a THING and take a thing, that is the devil's gold ring
- T129 Give a THING and take again and you shall ride in hell's wain
- T130 A good THING cannot be too often spoken
- T131 A good THING is soon snatched up
- T132 He shall never have a THING good cheap that is afraid to ask the price
- T133 He that makes a THING too fine breaks it
- T134 He that never did one THING ill can never do it well
- T135 I seek for a THING, wife, that I would not find
- T136 It is a rare THING to do good (to be honest)
- T137 It is a wicked THING to make a dearth one's garner
- T138 It is an easy THING to find a staff to beat a dog
- T139 It is an easy THING to find a stone to throw at a dog
- T140 It is an ill THING to be wicked (wretched) but a worse to be known so (to boast of it)
- T141 Keep a THING seven years and you will find a use for it
- T142 The more common a good THING is the better
- T143 Of a little THING a little displeases
- T144 One THING said twice deserves a trudge¹
- T145 That THING which is rare is dear
- T146 There is a THING in it, quoth the fellow when he drank the dishclout
- T147 There is no new THING under the sun
- T148 A THING done by force is not worth a rush (nutshell)
- T149 The THING done has an end (is not to do)
- T150 The THING that is fristed¹ is not forgiven
- T151 The THING that we first learn we best can
- T152 A THING there was, and done it was, and wise was he that hid it; let no man know who knows it not, nor do so no more that did it
- T153 A THING well done is twice done (is ever done)
- T154 To get by a THING, as Dickson did by his distress
- T155 To lay (cast) a THING in one's dish
- T156 To make a bad THING worse
- T157 To scorn a THING as a dog scorns a tripe
- T158 Too much of one THING is good for nothing
- T159 When a THING is done advice comes too late
- T160 You want the THING you have
- T161 All green (new) THINGS are gay (fair)
- T162 All THINGS are good unseyed¹
- T163 All THINGS are obedient to money
- T164 All THINGS are sold for money at Rome
- T165 All THINGS are turned topsy-turvy (upside down)
- T166 All THINGS by strife engender
- T167 All THINGS fit not all persons
- T168 All THINGS grow worse and worse
- T169 All THINGS have their place, knew we how to place them
- T170 All THINGS in their being are good for something
- T171 All THINGS may be suffered saving wealth
- T172 All THINGS may come soon enough if we can have the patience to stay for them
- T173 All THiNGS require skill but an appetite
- T174 All THINGS that breed in the mud are not efts¹ (eels)
- T175 All THINGS thrive at thrice (There are three things of all things)
- T176 All THINGS wites¹ that no well fares
- T177 All worldly THINGS are transitory
- T178 The best THINGS are worst to come by
- T179 From three THINGS God keep us: from powdered beef without mustard, from a servant that views himself, a wife that is painted
- T180 Give, take, seek all THINGS, few things, nothing
- T181 Good THINGS are difficult
- T182 He finds THINGS before they are lost
- T183 He lives unsafely that looks too near on THINGS
- T184 He seems wise with whom all THINGS thrive
- T185 If THINGS were to be done twice all would be wise
- T186 In three THINGS a man may be deceived: in a man till known, in a tree till down, in the day till done
- T187 It is better to lose some THINGS than all
- T188 Little THINGS are pretty
- T189 Little THINGS catch light minds (please fools)
- T190 Many THINGS grow in the garden which were never sowed
- T191 Many THINGS happen (fall) between the cup and the lip
- T192 Many THINGS happen unlooked for
- T193 Most THINGS have two handles
- T194 Of fair THINGS the autumn (the month of May) is fair
- T195 Some good THINGS I do not love: a good long mile, good small beer, and a good old woman
- T196 Take all THINGS as they come and be content
- T197 Taste not of THINGS that have black tails
- T198 There are many fair THINGS full false
- T199 THINGS are not as they seem
- T200 THINGS done cannot be undone
- T201 THINGS hardly attained are long retained (highly deemed)
- T202 THINGS must be as they may
- T203 THINGS past cannot be recalled
- T204 THiNGS past cannot be recalled but may be repented
- T205 THINGS present are judged by things past
- T206 The THINGS that are above us are nothing to us
- T207 THINGS well fitted abide
- T208 Three THINGS always bring cost: the fawning of a dog, the love of a whore, and the invitation of a host
- T209 Three THINGS are ill handled: birds in boys' hands, young men in old men's hands, and wine in Germans' hands
- T210 Three THINGS there be which never decay whiles the world lasts: to bake, to brew, and to powl¹ or shear
- T211 To seek these THINGS is lost labor: geese in an oil pot, fat hogs among Jews, and wine in a fishing net
- T212 To take THINGS in dudgeon or wear a dudgeon dagger by his side
- T213 Two good THINGS (shirts) are better than one
- T214 Two THINGS do prolong your life, a quiet heart and a loving wife
- T215 What pretty THINGS are made for money, quoth the woman when she saw a monkey (squirrel)
- T216 When THINGS are at the worst they will mend
- T217 Who begins many THINGS finishes but few
- T218 Who meddles in all THINGS may shoe the goslings
- T219 First THINK and then speak
- T220 One may THINK that dares not speak
- T221 They that THINK none ill are soonest beguiled (They that do no harm suspect none)
- T222 He that THINKS amiss concludes worse
- T223 He that THINKS himself surest is often deceived
- T224 He THINKS not well that thinks not twice
- T225 I had THOUGHT to have asked you
- T226 The THIRD of November the Duke of Vandosm was under water, the fourth of November the Queen was delivered of a daughter, the fifth of November we were like to have a great slaughter, and the sixth of November was the next after
- T227 THIRTEEN to the dozen
- T228 He that sows THISTLES shall reap thorns (prickles)
- T229 He cuts large THONGS of other men's leather
- T230 As sharp as a THORN
- T231 I will not pull the THORN out of your foot and put it into my own
- T232 It early pricks (It pricks betimes) that will be a THORN
- T233 Of a THORN springs not a rose
- T234 The THORN comes forth with his point forwards
- T235 He that goes barefoot (sows thorns) must not plant THORNs (go barefoot)
- T236 He that handles THORNS shall prick his fingers
- T237 THORNS¹ whiten yet do nothing
- T238 To go shod among THORNS
- T239 To sit (stand) upon THORNS
- T240 As swift as THOUGHT
- T241 I had no THOUGHT of catching you when I fished for another
- T242 THOUGHT breaks the heart
- T243 The THOUGHT has good legs and the quill a good tongue
- T244 THOUGHT is free
- T245 Green THOUGHTS and great minds
- T246 I know your THOUGHTS (know you) as well as if I were within you (in your belly)
- T247 Second THOUGHTS are best
- T248 Your THOUGHTS close and your countenance loose
- T249 His THREAD is spun
- T250 It hangs by a THREAD (hair)
- T251 The THREAD breaks where it is weakest
- T252 You have spun a fine (fair) THREAD
- T253 THREATS without power are like powder without ball
- T254 He that THREATENS and smites not is afraid
- T255 He THREATENS many that hurts any
- T256 THREE helping one another bear the burden of six
- T257 THREE (Two) may keep counsel if two (one) be away
- T258 THREE to one may put a straw in one's ass
- T259 To stumble at the THRESHOLD
- T260 Their THRIFT waxes thin that spend more than they win
- T261 THRIFT and he are at a fray
- T262 When THRIFT is in the field (town) he's in the town (field)
- T263 Better late THRIVE than never
- T264 First THRIVE and then wive
- T265 He that will THRIVE must rise at five, he that has thrived may lie till seven, he that will never thrive may lie till eleven
- T266 That sticks in his THROAT
- T267 Tickle my THROAT with a feather and make a fool of my stomach
- T268 To lie in one's THROAT
- T269 He that is THROWN would ever wrestle
- T270 The THRUSH (foolish bird) limes herself with that which grew from her own excretion
- T271 Thy THUMB is under my belt
- T272 To stand with one's THUMB under one's girdle
- T273 To bite his Thumbs
- T274 To hit over the THUMBS
- T275 After THUNDER (wind) comes rain
- T276 I escaped the THUNDER and fell into the lightning
- T277 Winter THUNDER is old men's wonder
- T278 The THUNDERBOLT has but his clap
- T279 THURSDAY come and the week has gone
- T280 He struck at TIB but down fell Tom
- T281 As full as a TICK
- T283 The TIDE keeps its course
- T284 The TIDE will fetch away what the ebb brings
- T285 TIDINGS make either glad or sad
- T286 No TIE can oblige the perfidious
- T287 TIE it well and let it go
- T288 Lack a TILE lack a sheaf
- T289 To wash a TILE (wall of loam)
- T290 He does not desire to die before his TIME
- T291 He is wise that is ware (wary) in TIME
- T292 He that has TIME and looks for time loses time
- T293 He that has TIME has life
- T294 I cannot run and sit still at the same TIME
- T295 If you lose your TIME you cannot get money or gain
- T296 In a good TIME I speak it, in a better I leave it
- T297 In the TIME of affliction a vow, in the time of prosperity an inundation
- T298 In TIME all haggard hawks will stoop to lure
- T299 In TIME comes he whom God sends
- T300 In TIME of peace prepare (provide) for war
- T301 In TIME of prosperity friends will be plenty, in time of adversity not one among twenty
- T302 In TIME one gets experience
- T303 In TIME the ox (bull) will bear the yoke
- T304 In TIME the sturdy oak will bend and bow
- T305 It is no TIME to stoop when the head is off
- T306 It is TIME to set in when the oven comes to the dough
- T307 It is TIME to stir when others stink
- T308 It is TIME to yoke when the cart comes to the caples
- T309 Love as in TIME to come you should hate and hate as you should in time to come love
- T310 No TIME like the present
- T311 Take TIME (occasion) by the forelock, for she is bald behind
- T312 Take TIME when time comes (while time serves)
- T313 Take TIME when time comes lest time steal away
- T314 There is a TIME for all things (Everything has its time)
- T315 There is a TIME to spare and a time to spend
- T316 There is a TIME to speak and a time to hold one's peace
- T317 There is a TIME to wink (gley¹) as well as to see (look even)
- T318 There needs a long TIME to know the world's pulse
- T319 The third TIME pays for all
- T320 TIME and experience make men wise
- T321 TIME and straw make medlars ripe
- T322 TIME and thought tame the strongest grief
- T323 TIME and tide (The tide) tarries (stays for) no man
- T324 TIME brings the truth to light
- T325 TIME cures every disease
- T326 TIME devours (consumes, wears out) all things
- T327 TIME flees away without delay (has wings)
- T328 TIME is a still file
- T329 TIME is money
- T329a TIME is the father of truth and experience is the mother of things (science¹)
- T330 TIME is the rider that breaks youth
- T331 TIME is tickle
- T332 TIME lost (past) we cannot win (recall)
- T333 TIME reveals (discloses) all things
- T334 TIME stays for no man
- T335 TIME stays not the fool's leisure
- T336 TIME tries all things
- T337 TIME tries friends as fire tries gold
- T338 TIME tries the truth
- T339 TIME undermines us
- T340 TIME wears away love (fancies)
- T341 When TIME has turned white sugar to white salt
- T342 Who will in TIME present pleasure refrain shall in time to come the more pleasure obtain
- T343 TIMES change and we with them
- T344 As dry as TINDER
- T345 As lazy as the TINKER who laid down his budget¹ to fart
- T346 A TINKER and a piper make bad music together
- T347 A TINKER stops one hole and makes two (three)
- T348 As rough as a TINKER's budget
- T349 A TINKER's budget¹ is full of necessary tools
- T350 As merry as TINKERS
- T351 Like Banbury TINKERS, who in mending one hole make three
- T352 TINT for taunt
- T352a TIP for tap
- T353 He has turned his TIPPET (coat)
- T354 Though he be little he can TIPPLE
- T355 Little TIT¹ all tail
- T356 TIT for tat
- T357 TITHE and be rich
- T358 A good TITHER a good thriver
- T359 TITTLE-TATTLE, give the goose more hay
- T360 Full as a TOAD of poison
- T361 To hate one like a TOAD
- T362 To swell like a TOAD
- T363 As hot as a TOAST
- T364 When thou dost drink beware the TOAST, for therein lies the danger most
- T365 TOBACCO hic, if a man be well it will make him sick, tobacco hic will make a man well if he be sick
- T366 As long as you serve the TOD¹ you must bear up his tail
- T367 He is a proud TOD¹ that will not scrape (dig) his own hole
- T368 Here TODAY and gone tomorrow
- T369 If TODAY will not tomorrow may
- T370 One TODAY is worth two tomorrows
- T371 TODAY for me tomorrow for thee
- T372 TODAY is yesterday's pupil
- T373 You touch on the sore TOE
- T374 I will not make a TOIL of a pleasure
- T375 When you do hear a TOLL or knell then think upon your passing bell
- T376 TOM, Dick, and Will (Jack)
- T377 As loud as TOM OF LINCOLN
- T378 Defer not until TOMORROW if you can do it today
- T379 TOMORROW come never
- T380 TOMORROW is a new day
- T381 When TOM PITCHER is broken I shall have the shards
- T382 He (Time) is TOM TELLTRUTH
- T383 A false TONGUE will hardly speak truth
- T384 He has lost his TONGUE
- T385 He that strikes with his TONGUE must ward with his head
- T386 Her TONGUE goes like a hand bell
- T387 Her TONGUE runs on pattens (wheels)
- T388 His TONGUE is like a lamb's tail or the clack of a mill
- T389 His TONGUE is no slander
- T390 Hold your TONGUE, husband, and let me talk that have all the wit
- T391 A honey TONGUE a heart of gall (poison)
- T392 Keep your TONGUE within your teeth
- T393 The lame TONGUE gets nothing
- T394 Let not your TONGUE run at rover
- T395 A lickerish TONGUE (mouth) a lickerish tail
- T396 A lickerish TONGUE is the purse's canker
- T397 A long TONGUE is a sign of a short hand
- T398 One TONGUE is enough for a woman
- T399 Put your TONGUE in your purse
- T400 That TONGUE does lie that speaks in haste
- T401 To have a still TONGUE but a busy head
- T402 To keep a good TONGUE in one's head
- T403 The TONGUE breaks bone though itself has none
- T404 The TONGUE is ever turning to the aching tooth
- T405 The TONGUE is not steel yet it cuts
- T406 The TONGUE is the rudder of our ship
- T407 The TONGUE stings (is more venomous than a serpent's sting)
- T408 The TONGUE talks at the head's cost
- T409 The TONGUE walks where the teeth speed not
- T410 You eat above the TONGUE like a calf
- T411 Your TONGUE goes like the clatterbone of a goose's ass
- T412 Your TONGUE runs before your wit
- T413 To have it at one's TONGUE's end
- T414 Foolish TONGUES talk by the dozen
- T415 He lays it on with TONGUE POWDER
- T416 To be TONGUE-TIED
- T417 TOO HASTY burnt his lips
- T418 Any TOOTH, good barber
- T419 Better TOOTH out than always ache
- T420 To have a sweet (wanton) TOOTH
- T421 To have an aching TOOTH at one
- T422 TOOTH and nail
- T423 From the TEETH outwards
- T424 Good that the TEETH guard the tongue
- T425 If you cannot bite never show your TEETH
- T426 My TEETH are nearer to me than my kindred
- T427 Pull not out your TEETH but with a leaden instrument
- T428 She smiles on everyone to show her fine TEETH
- T429 To cast (hit) in the TEETH
- T430 To have one's TEETH to water at anything
- T431 To set one's TEETH on edge
- T432 Who has aching TEETH has ill tenants
- T433 The TOOTHACHE is more ease than to deal with ill people
- T434 He looks like a TOOTHDRAWER
- T435 TOO-TOO will in two
- T436 From TOP (head) to toe (heel)
- T437 With TOP and topgallant
- T438 As soon drive a TOP over a tiled house
- T439 To be whipped like a TOP
- T440 To sleep like a TOP
- T441 He is TOP-HEAVY
- T442 A great TORCH may be lighted at a little candle
- T443 A TORCH turned downward is extinguished by its own wax
- T444 TOTTENHAM¹ is turned French
- T445 When TOTTENHAM Wood is all on fire then Tottenham Street is nought but mire
- T446 As true as TOUCH
- T447 TOUCH and take
- T448 As the TOUCHSTONE tries gold, so gold tries men
- T449 A new TOUT¹ in an old horn
- T450 To have more TOW on one's distaff than one can spin
- T451 To have other TOW on one's distaff
- T452 TOWERS build masons
- T453 He that is in TOWN in May loses his spring
- T454 He that passes through a TOWN and will throw a stone at every cur that barks shall have in the end but a weary arm
- T455 A strong TOWN is not won in an hour
- T456 A TOY¹ to mock an ape
- T457 The TRACEYS have always the wind in their faces
- T458 He drives a subtle TRADE
- T459 He that has no good TRADE, it is to his loss
- T460 He that learns a TRADE has a purchase made (has an estate)
- T461 He who has a TRADE has a share everywhere
- T461a Learn a TRADE, for the time will come when you shall need it
- T462 A TRADE is better than service
- T463 TRADE is the mother of money
- T464 Either a TRADER or a stealer
- T465 TRADESMEN live upon lack
- T466 Are there TRAITORS at the table that the loaf is turned wrong side upwards?
- T467 A TRANSLATOR is an author as a cobbler is a shoemaker
- T468 It is easy to fall into a TRAP (net) but hard to get out again
- T469 To understand TRAP
- T470 If you toil so for TRASH what would you do for treasure?
- T471 TRASH and trumpery is the highway to beggary
- T472 TRAVAIL but toil not
- T473 TRAVEL makes a wise man better but a fool worse
- T474 TRAVEL (Go) whither thou canst but die where thou oughtest
- T475 Much spends the TRAVELER more than the abider
- T476 A TRAVELER may lie with authority
- T477 TRAVELERS change climates, not conditions
- T478 Much TRAVELING makes bad ways
- T479 By TRE, Pol, and Pen you shall know the Cornish men
- T480 Old TREACLE and a new confection
- T481 Between TREASURE buried under the ground and wisdom kept hidden in the heart there is no difference
- T482 His TREASURE saw neither sun nor moon this many a day
- T483 No such TREASURE as to live at ease
- T484 The TREASURE consisted of coals
- T485 Where TREASURE is the heart is
- T486 An evil TREE brings forth ill fruit
- T487 He that leans on a good TREE a good shade shall cover him
- T488 He that loves the TREE loves the branch
- T489 The highest TREE has the greatest fall
- T490 The most fruitful TREE (The ripest fruit) is eaten by worms (the caterpillar)
- T491 Remove an old TREE and it will wither to death
- T492 A shored¹ TREE stands long
- T493 Soon (Timely) crooks the TREE that good cammock¹ (gambrel) will be
- T494 Such as the TREE is such is the fruit
- T495 There is no TREE but bears some fruit
- T496 The TREE (oak) falls not at the first stroke (blow)
- T497 The TREE (fruit) is known by the fruit (tree)
- T498 A TREE is known by the fruits and not by the leaves (flowers)
- T499 A TREE often transplanted bears not much fruit
- T500 The TREE that God plants no wind hurts it
- T501 The TREE that grows slowly keeps itself for another
- T501a The triple TREE
- T502 When the TREE is fallen every man goes to it with his hatchet
- T503 Where the TREE falls there it shall lie
- T504 You ask an elm TREE for pears
- T505 Great TREES are good for nothing but shade
- T506 Great TREES bring forth more shade than fruit
- T507 Great TREES keep under the little ones
- T508 He is doubly wet that shrouds himself under TREES
- T509 The highest TREES abide the sharpest storms (winds)
- T510 Set TREES poor and they will grow rich, set them rich and they will grow poor
- T511 Straight TREES have crooked roots
- T512 TREES eat but once
- T513 As trim as a TRENCHER
- T514 An Uppingham TRENCHER
- T515 A good TRENCHERMAN
- T516 To belong to the TRIBE OF GAD
- T517 In a TRICE
- T518 I know a TRICK worth two of that
- T519 TRICK for trick and a stone in your foot besides, quoth one pulling a stone out of his mare's foot when she bit him on the back and he her on the buttock
- T520 The TRICK the colt gets at his first backing will, while he continues, never be lacking
- T521 Do not put TRICKS upon travelers
- T522 He has as many TRICKS as (more tricks than) a dancing bear
- T523 He has as many TRICKS as a lawyer
- T524 To have been at TRIG-STAIRS
- T525 TRIMTRAM, like master like man
- T526 To take one in a TRIP
- T527 TRIPE is good meat if it be well wiped
- T528 Like the TROJANS, we were wise too late
- T529 We were TROJANS
- T530 He is happy that is wed and without TROUBLE
- T531 He that is not circumspect wants no TROUBLE
- T532 He that seeks TROUBLE never misses it
- T533 It is a great TROUBLE to ride and death to foot it
- T534 Search not too curiously lest you find TROUBLE
- T535 TROUBLE brings experience and experience brings wisdom
- T536 As sound (whole) as a TROUT
- T537 To catch one like a TROUT with tickling
- T538 You cannot take TROUTS with dry breeches
- T539 To lay it on with a TROWEL
- T540 TROY was
- T541 To stumble at the TRUCKLE BED¹
- T542 He is TRUE BLUE (Coventry blue)
- T543 TRUE BLUE will never stain
- T544 To turn up TRUMP
- T545 To put one to his TRUMPS
- T546 To sound one's own TRUMPET
- T547 As hollow as a TRUNK¹
- T548 He that sells upon TRUST loses many friends and always wants money
- T549 In TRUST is treason
- T550 In TRUST is truth
- T551 No TRUST is to be given to a woman's word (a woman)
- T552 No TRUST to a dry stick
- T553 Sudden TRUST (friendship) brings sudden (sure) repentance
- T554 TRUST is dead, ill payment killed it
- T555 TRUST is the mother of deceit
- T556 I will TRUST him no farther than I can sling (throw, fling) him
- T557 I will TRUST you no farther than I can see you
- T558 If you TRUST before you try you may repent before you die
- T559 He who TRUSTS not is not deceived
- T560 As innocent as TRUTH (silence, grace)
- T561 As naked as TRUTH
- T562 As TRUTH gets hatred so flattery wins love (friends)
- T563 Better speak TRUTH rudely than lie covertly
- T564 Fair fall TRUTH and daylight
- T565 It is as true as TRUTH itself
- T566 Speak the TRUTH and shame the devil
- T567 They have neither TRUTH nor honesty in them
- T568 TRUTH and oil are ever above
- T569 TRUTH begets hatred
- T570 TRUTH finds foes where it makes none
- T571 TRUTH has a good face but ill clothes
- T572 TRUTH has a scratched face
- T573 TRUTH has always a fast (sure) bottom
- T574 TRUTH has no answer
- T575 TRUTH (Plain dealing) has no need of rhetoric (figures)
- T576 TRUTH is always the strongest
- T577 TRUTH is green
- T578 TRUTH is in ale as in history
- T579 TRUTH is mighty and will prevail
- T580 TRUTH is time's daughter
- T581 TRUTH is truth
- T582 TRUTH lies at the bottom of a well
- T583 TRUTH loves (fears no) trial
- T584 TRUTH may be blamed but cannot be shamed
- T585 TRUTH needs no colors
- T586 TRUTH never shames the master
- T587 TRUTH seeks no corners
- T588 TRUTH shames the devil
- T589 The TRUTH shows best being naked
- T590 The TRUTH, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth
- T591 TRUTH will come to light (break out)
- T592 Who follows TRUTH too close at the heels, she may chance dash out his teeth
- T593 TRUTH's tale is simple (Truth is plain)
- T594 All TRUTHS must not be told
- T595 TRY (Try your friend) before you trust
- T596 Every TUB must stand on its own bottom
- T597 To throw out a TUB to the whale
- T598 He is fed as full as a TUN¹
- T599 They play one TUNE and dance another
- T600 As rotten as a TURD
- T601 Care not a TURD
- T602 He that wrestles with a TURD, fall he undermost or uppermost, he shall be sure to be bedirten
- T603 The more you stir a TURD (it) the more (worse) it stinks
- T604 The more you tramp on a TURD, it grows the broader
- T605 Not worth a TURD
- T606 There is not a TURD to choose
- T607 A TURD in his teeth
- T608 A TURD is as good for a sow as a pancake
- T609 To turn TURK
- T610 Where the TURK's horse once treads the grass never grows
- T611 As red as a TURKEY cock
- T612 He swells like a TURKEY COCK
- T613 He that does his TURN in time sits half idle
- T614 He that will do thee a good TURN, either he will be gone or die
- T615 I will watch you a good TURN for it
- T616 One good TURN asks (requires, deserves) another
- T617 One shrewd TURN follows (asks) another
- T618 Take him in a good TURN and knock out his brains
- T619 Ten good TURNS lie dead and one ill deed report abroad does spread
- T620 He will TURN rather than burn
- T621 A jolly (very) TURNCOAT
- T622 With the TURNING of a hand
- T623 TURNSPITS are dry
- T624 As true as a TURTLE to her mate
- T625 Well rhymed, TUTOR, brains and stairs
- T626 As good as (The worst that) ever TWANGED
- T627 Tell TWAT and all the town must talk of it
- T628 At TWELFTH-DAY the days are lengthened a cock's stride
- T629 TWELVE, quoth Twat when it rung noon
- T630 As good TWENTY as nineteen
- T631 He that is not handsome at TWENTY, nor strong at thirty, nor rich at forty, nor wise at fifty, will never be handsome, strong, rich, or wise
- T632 Best to bend while it is a TWIG
- T633 Birchen TWIGS break no ribs
- T634 In the TWINKLING of a bedstaff
- T635 In the TWINKLING of an eye
- T636 It goes on a TWITTER¹
- T637 TWITTLE-TWATTLE,¹ drink up your posset drink
- T638 If TWO ride upon a horse one must sit behind
- T639 That which TWO will takes effect
- T640 To be TWO (twain)
- T641 TWO and two make four
- T642 TWO are better than one
- T643 Two of a TRADE seldom agree
- T644 TWO to one is odds (is odds at football)
- T645 You TWO are finger and thumb
- T646 To preach at TYBURN CROSS¹
- T647 A TYBURN TIPPET
- T648 She has a TYMPANY¹ with two legs (heels)
- T649 A TYRANT is most tyrant to himself