Proverbs starting with "Y"

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• Y1 You measure everyone by your own YARD
• Y2 A YARMOUTH CAPON
• Y3 One YATE¹ for another, good fellow
• Y4 Peradventure YEA peradventure nay
• Y5 Afraid of him that died last YEAR
• Y6 As the YEAR is, your pot must seethe
• Y7 A cherry YEAR a merry year, a plum year a dumb year
• Y8 Feed me this YEAR is feed you the next
• Y9 He that lives not well one YEAR sorrows for it seven
• Y10 An ill YEAR and a wife do never fail
• Y11 The ill YEAR comes in swimming
• Y12 It is hard to wive and thrive both in a YEAR
• Y13 None so old that he hopes not for a YEAR of life
• Y14 Once a YEAR a man may say, on his conscience
• Y15 Once a YEAR Apollo laughs
• Y16 One YEAR a nurse and seven years the worse (a daw¹)
• Y17 One YEAR of joy, another of comfort, and all the rest of content
• Y18 A snow YEAR a rich year
• Y19 The YEAR does nothing else but open and shut
• Y20 He will spend a whole YEAR's rent at one meal's meat
• Y21 In a hundred YEARS, from the plow (wheelbarrow) to the spear (banner)
• Y22 It will be all one a hundred YEARS hence
• Y23 The more thy YEARS the nigher (nearer) thy grave
• Y24 Once in ten YEARS one man has need of another
• Y25 This seven YEARS
• Y26 Three dear YEARS will raise a baker's daughter to a portion
• Y27 YEARS know more than books
• Y28 It is YEARED
• Y29 You must not count your YEARLINGS till May Day
• Y30 A good YEOMAN makes a good woman
• Y31 It is too late to call again YESTERDAY
• Y32 YESTERDAY's bread, and this day's flesh, wine of the year past bring health
• Y33 There is more than one YEW BOW in Chester
• Y34 A YORKSHIRE TIKE
• Y35 The YOUNG are not always with their bow bent
• Y36 You shall never be (labor) YOUNGER
• Y37 He that in YOUTH no virtue uses, in age all honor him refuses
• Y38 An idle YOUTH a needy age
• Y39 If YOUTH knew what age would crave it would both get and save
• Y40 A reckless YOUTH makes a gousty¹ age
• Y41 Rule YOUTH well, for (and) age will rule itself
• Y42 That which one learns in YOUTH will continue till old age
• Y43 YOUTH and age will never agree
• Y44 YOUTH and white paper take any impression
• Y45 YOUTH must not have its will
• Y46 YOUTH never casts for peril
• Y47 YOUTH riotously led breeds a loathsome old age
• Y48 YOUTH will have its course (swing)
• Y49 A growing YOUTH has a wolf in his belly
• Y50 A well-bred YOUTH neither speaks of himself nor, being spoken to, is silent
• Y51 YOUTH in a basket
• Y52 At YULE and Pasch¹ and high times
• Y53 It is easy to cry YULE at other men's cost
• Y54 YULE is good on Yule Even