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