Complete Proverb Index

A full list of all 11821 proverbs in the collection.

• A1 Make ABB or warp of the business as soon as you can
• A2 He is able to bury an ABBEY
• A3 To bring an ABBEY to a grange
• A4 He swears like an ABBOT (falconer, lord, tinker)
• A5 If the ABBOT OF GLASTONBURY might marry the Abbess of Shaftesbury their heir would have more land than the King of England
• A6 He is an ABERDEEN's man, taking his word again
• A7 He that spends beyond his ABILITY may hang himself with great agility
• A8 ABRAHAM's bosom
• A9 ABSENCE is a shrew
• A10 ABSENCE sharpens love
• A11 The ABUNDANCE of money ruins youth
• A12 The ABUNDANCE of things engenders disdainfulness
• A13 Of the ABUNDANCE of the heart the mouth speaks
• A14 Better is one ACCIPE (take) than twice to say, Dabo tibi (I will give you)
• A15 There is no ACCORD where every man would be a lord
• A16 To cast up ACCOUNTS
• A17 To cast up ACCOUNTS
• A18 Who must ACCOUNT for himself and others must know both
• A19 He that gains well and spends well needs no ACCOUNT BOOK
• A20 Bate me an ACE, quoth Bolton
• A21 ACORNS were good till bread was found
• A22 From ACORNS come oaks
• A23 Short ACQUAINTANCE brings repentance
• A24 One ACRE of possession is worth a whole land of promise
• A25 He sits above that deals ACRES
• A26 Neither praise nor dispraise thyself, thy ACTIONS serve the turn
• A27 Our own ACTIONS are our security, not others' judgments
• A28 As old as ADAM
• A29 The old ADAM
• A30 When ADAM delved and Eve span who was then the gentleman?
• A31 We are all ADAM's children but silk makes the difference
• A32 As deaf as an ADDER
• A33 Whom an ADDER bites dreads a lizard
• A34 Come let us talk of ADDERS
• A35 Make ADO and have ado
• A36 Mickle ADO and little help
• A37 More ADO than needs
• A38 Much ADO about nothing
• A39 Much ADO to bring beggars to the stocks
• A40 Much ADO to keep cart on wheels
• A41 There is more ADO with one jackanapes than all the bears
• A42 ADVERSITY makes men wise
• A43 In ADVERSITY men find eyes
• A44 Though old and wise yet still ADVISE
• A45 It is good to be well ADVISED
• A46 An ADVOCATE's suit is a suit which never dies
• A47 There are more ADVOCATES than lawyers
• A48 AFFECTION is blind reason
• A49 AFFECTIONS¹ are the wings of the soul
• A50 Strong AFFECTIONS¹ give credit to weak arguments
• A51 He is AFFLICTED
• A52 Do not add AFFLICTION to the afflicted
• A53 AFFLICTIONS are sent us by God for our good
• A54 To be AFLOAT
• A55 More AFRAID than hurt
• A56 AFRICA is always producing something new (monsters, serpents)
• A57 Beware an AFTERCLAP
• A58 AFTERWIT comes over late
• A59 AFTERWIT is dear bought
• A60 An AFTERWIT is everybody's wit
• A61 AFTER YOU is good manners
• A62 AGE and experience teach wisdom
• A63 AGE and wedlock bring a man to his nightcap
• A64 AGE (Winter) and wedlock tame both man and beast
• A65 AGE and wedlock we all desire and repent of
• A66 AGE breeds aches
• A67 AGE should be housed
• A68 He dotes for AGE
• A69 He fears old AGE that knows it brings with it a world of woes
• A70 Old AGE comes stealing on
• A71 Old AGE is crooked
• A72 Old AGE is full of infirmities
• A73 Old AGE is sickness of itself
• A74 Old AGE tires both body and soul
• A75 A virtuous old AGE is a crown of glory
• A76 When AGE is jocund it makes sport for death
• A77 Where old AGE is evil youth can learn no good
• A78 An ill (lean) AGREEMENT is better than a good (fat) judgment
• A79 An AGUE in the spring is physic for a king
• A80 The Barnwell¹ (Kentish) AGUE
• A81 The Covent Garden¹ AGUE
• A82 A quartan AGUE¹ kills the old men and cures the young
• A83 AGUES (Sicknesses) come on horseback but go away on foot
• A84 Autumnal AGUES are long or mortal
• A85 He is out of his AIM
• A86 One can take no AIM (One cannot take true aim) at things too high
• A87 The AIR of a window is as the stroke of a crossbow
• A88 As free as the AIR (wind)
• A89 As good as ever flew in the AIR
• A90 As light as AIR (wind)
• A91 As loved (dear) as the AIR I breathe
• A92 As subtle (clear, thin) as AIR
• A93 Fresh AIR is ill for the diseased or wounded man
• A94 It is an ill AIR where nothing is to be gained
• A95 As mad as AJAX, who killed sheep
• A96 A false ALARM
• A97 No ALCHEMY to¹ saving
• A98 He is paced like an ALDERMAN
• A99 ALE (Liquor) that would make a cat speak
• A100 Banbury ALE, a half-yard pot
• A101 Derby¹ ALE and London beer
• A102 Fair cheve good ALE, it makes many folks speak as they think
• A103 Good ALE is meat, drink, and cloth
• A104 Good ALE is wine's equal
• A105 Good ALE makes good sale
• A106 He mends as sour ALE mends in summer
• A107 The nappy strong ALE of Southwark keeps many a gossip from the kirk
• A108 If ALEXANDER were a cook all the world should know it
• A109 ALIVE today and dead tomorrow
• A110 He is ALIVE and alive-like
• A111 ALL are fools
• A112 ALL are not friends that speak us fair
• A113 ALL are not hunters that blow the horn
• A114 ALL are not in bed that shall have ill rest
• A115 ALL are not maidens that wear bare hair
• A116 ALL are not saints that go to church
• A117 ALL are not thieves that dogs bark at
• A118 ALL are not turners that are dish-throwers
• A119 ALL are of the same dust
• A120 ALL are presumed good till they are found in a fault
• A121 ALL at this day are scholars to the fox
• A122 ALL brings grist to your mill
• A123 ALL came from and will go to others
• A124 ALL commend patience but none can endure to suffer
• A125 ALL commonly rejoice at new things
• A126 ALL complain
• A127 ALL covet all lose
• A128 ALL cracks all bears
• A129 ALL fails that fools think
• A130 ALL follow the corpse to the grave but every man bewails his own griefs
• A131 ALL for what will you give me
• A132 ALL goes down Gutter Lane
• A133 ALL in all and all in every part
• A134 ALL is alike at the latter day, a bag of gold and a wisp of hay
• A135 ALL is but lip wisdom that wants experience
• A136 ALL is fish that comes to net
• A137 ALL is good if God say amen
• A138 ALL is good that God sends
• A139 ALL is (All stratagems are) lawful in love and war
• A140 ALL is lost, both labor and cost
• A141 ALL is lost that falls beside¹ one's own mouth
• A142 ALL is lost that is given to a fool
• A143 ALL is lost that is put in a riven dish
• A144 ALL is not alway
• A145 ALL is not at hand that helps
• A146 ALL is not gold that glisters (glitters)
• A147 ALL is not gospel that comes out of his mouth
• A148 ALL is not lost that is in danger (peril, hazard)
• A149 ALL is not paid that is promised
• A150 ALL is not well (is well)
• A151 ALL is not won that is put in the purse
• A152 ALL is vanity
• A153 ALL is well and the man has his mare again
• A154 ALL is well that ends well
• A155 ALL is well, the old man dances
• A156 ALL is well when the mistress smiles
• A157 ALL is well with him who is beloved of his neighbors
• A158 ALL lay load on a willing horse
• A159 ALL lies and bleeds (lies a bleeding)
• A160 ALL looks yellow to the jaundiced eye
• A161 ALL must be as God will
• A162 ALL must live under a law
• A163 ALL must not be gotten by force
• A164 ALL shall be well and Jack shall have Jill
• A165 ALL that a man thinks comes not to pass
• A166 ALL that are in bed must not have quiet rest
• A167 ALL that is alike is not the same
• A168 ALL that is sharp is short
• A169 ALL that shakes falls not
• A170 ALL that the clerk gets his punk devours
• A171 ALL would have all, all would forgive
• A172 Bear (Take, Suffer) this, bear (take, suffer) ALL
• A173 Both together do best of ALL
• A174 Both together do best of ALL
• A175 Deal small and serve ALL
• A176 Either ALL or none at all
• A177 Fair cheve¹ ALL where love trucks²
• A178 He bears down ALL before him
• A179 He cannot hold but ALL must out
• A180 He has not lost ALL who has one throw to cast
• A181 He has pissed ALL he has against the wall
• A182 He looks as if he had sold ALL and took nothing for it
• A183 He sups ill who eats ALL at dinner
• A184 He teaches ill who teaches ALL
• A185 He that believes ALL misses, he that believes nothing hits not
• A186 He that comes last makes ALL (the door) fast
• A187 He that gives ALL before he dies provides to suffer (is a fool)
• A188 He that grants ALL that is asked is much harder than Hercules tasked
• A189 He that is warm thinks ALL so
• A190 He that ventures too far loses ALL
• A191 He that will have ALL dies of madness
• A192 He that will have ALL loses all
• A193 He that would please ALL and himself too undertakes what he cannot do
• A194 He would ALL have and nought forgo
• A195 I have lost ALL and found myself
• A196 Let ALL live as they would die
• A197 None so good that's good to ALL
• A198 Of ALL and of all commend me to Ball, for by licking the dishes he saved me much labor
• A199 Pardon (Forgive) ALL but thyself
• A200 Praise none too much, for ALL are fickle
• A201 Since you know ALL and I nothing, tell me what I dreamed last night
• A202 Speak not ALL you know, do not all you can, believe not all you hear
• A203 Take ALL and pay all
• A204 Take ALL and pay the baker
• A205 To live peaceably with ALL breeds good blood
• A206 To make ALL sure
• A207 To set ALL a going if it were a mile to the bottom
• A208 To set ALL at six and seven
• A209 Venture not ALL in one bottom
• A210 Whatever he can wrap and wring, ALL is his own
• A211 When ALL is consumed repentance comes too late
• A212 When ALL is gone and nothing left what avails the dagger with the dudgeon haft?
• A213 Who gives to ALL denies all
• A214 Who has ALL in one place has all in the fire
• A215 Ye are ALL cunts benison¹
• A216 Ye eat ALL and dryts¹ all and harles² the barrow at your arse
• A217 You see what we must ALL come to if we live
• A218 ALL ONE but their meat goes two ways
• A219 ALL's OUT is good for prisoners but nought for the eyes
• A220 An ALMOND for parrot
• A221 ALMOST and well-nigh (very nigh) save many a lie
• A222 ALMOST was never hanged
• A223 ALMS never make poor
• A224 He that preaches gives ALMS
• A225 It were ALMS (almsdeed) to punish him
• A226 Great ALMSGIVING lessens no man's living
• A227 Hungry ALMSMEN are Venus' apes
• A228 Never less ALONE than when alone (He is never alone who is accompanied with noble thoughts)
• A229 He carries his ALTAR with him
• A230 He that serves at the ALTAR ought to live by the altar
• A231 What cannot be ALTERED must be borne not blamed
• A232 He is AMATED and amazed
• A233 The Welsh AMBASSADOR¹
• A234 AMBITION is the last affection¹ a noble mind can put off
• A235 AMBITION loses many a man
• A236 He is young enough to AMEND
• A237 Some do AMEND when they cannot appair¹ (grow worse)
• A238 He is not far from AMENDMENT who confesses his fault
• A239 AMIENS was taken by the fox and retaken by the lion
• A240 Like an ANCHOR, that is ever in the water and never learns to swim
• A241 To cast one's ANCHOR
• A242 There spoke an ANGEL
• A243 ANGER and heartsease are utter enemies
• A244 ANGER dies quickly with a good man
• A245 ANGER edges valor
• A246 ANGER is short madness
• A247 ANGER punishes itself
• A248 ANGLESEY is the mother of Wales
• A249 Two ANONS and a by-and-by is an hour and a half
• A250 You are such ANOTHER
• A251 An ANSWER in a word
• A252 The shortest ANSWER is doing
• A253 A shrewd ANSWER is always ready
• A254 Such ANSWER as a man gives, such will he get
• A255 There is no ANSWER for, Go from my house, and, What will you have with my wife?
• A256 The ANT had wings to do her hurt
• A257 The ANVIL fears no blows
• A258 He has hammered it on his own ANVIL
• A259 To a hard ANVIL a hammer of feathers
• A260 When many strike on an ANVIL they must strike by measure
• A261 When you are an ANVIL hold you still, when you are a hammer strike your fill
• A262 An APE is an ape, a varlet is a varlet, though they be clad in silk or scarlet
• A263 An APE is an ape though clad in scarlet (gold)
• A264 The APE kills her young with kindness (by clipping)
• A265 As drunk as an APE
• A266 As fine as an APE in purple
• A267 As fond as an APE of a whip
• A268 As free as an APE is of his tail
• A269 As wise as an APE
• A270 Every APE thinks his puppy the fairest
• A271 The higher the APE goes the more he shows his tail
• A272 An old APE has an old eye
• A273 To make one his APE
• A274 To say an APE's paternoster
• A275 A PER SE
• A276 APOLLO's words and Cato's works are worthy of praise
• A277 As proud as an APOTHECARY
• A278 A broken APOTHECARY a new doctor
• A279 He chafes like an APOTHECARY
• A280 To speak like an APOTHECARY
• A281 The APOTHECARY's mortar spoils the luter's music
• A282 APOTHECARIES would not give pills in sugar unless they were bitter
• A283 APPAREL makes (Clothes make) the man
• A284 Handsome APPAREL makes fools pass for wise men (hides much deformity)
• A285 APPEARANCES are deceitful
• A286 APPETITE comes with eating
• A287 The APPETITE opens itself as soon as the eye
• A288 To moderate the APPETITE is a virtue, to let it loose is a vice
• A289 To rise with an APPETITE
• A290 As dear as the APPLE of my eye
• A291 As like as an APPLE is to an oyster (nut)
• A292 Better APPLE given nor eaten
• A293 He that's cooled with an APPLE and heated with an egg, over me shall never spread his leg
• A294 One rotten APPLE corrupts all those apples that lie near it
• A295 Won with an APPLE (egg) and lost with a nut (the shell)
• A296 APPLES, eggs, and nuts you may eat though dressed by sluts
• A297 APPLES of gold in pictures of silver
• A298 APPLES, pears, and nuts spoil the voice
• A299 APPLES, pears, hawthorn-quick, oak, set them at Allhallontide and command them to prosper, set them at Candlemas and intreat them to grow
• A300 Sodom APPLES outwardly fair, ashes at the core
• A301 Two APPLES in my hand and the third in my mouth
• A302 We APPLES swim, quoth the horse turds
• A303 An APPLE-SQUIRE
• A304 To be tied to the sour APPLE TREE
• A305 To be up the queen APPLE TREE
• A306 APRIL and May are the key of all the year
• A307 APRIL (March) borrows three days of March (April) and they are ill
• A308 In APRIL Dove's flood is worth a king's good
• A309 In APRIL the cuckoo can sing her song by rote; in June, out of tune, she cannot sing a note
• A310 In the APRIL of one's age
• A311 When APRIL blows his horn it's good for hay and corn
• A312 To hold by the APRON STRINGS
• A313 A good ARCHER is not known by his arrows but his aim
• A314 An ARGUS abroad and a mole at home
• A315 The sore ARM must have the scarf, the sore leg the bed
• A316 Stretch your ARM no farther than your sleeve will reach
• A317 To keep (hold) one at ARM's end
• A318 He that fights with silver ARMS is sure to overcome
• A319 ARMOR is light at table
• A320 It is absurd to warm one in his ARMOR
• A321 As straight as an ARROW
• A322 As swift as an ARROW
• A323 He that shoots always aright forfeits his ARROW
• A324 Oftentimes the ARROW hits the shooter
• A325 Shoot one ARROW after another
• A326 Dirten ARSE dreads aye
• A327 An ARSE BEATING is but an arse heating
• A328 ARSIE VERSIE
• A329 ART and part
• A330 ART apes nature
• A331 ART (Knowledge, Learning) has no enemy save ignorance
• A332 ART is long, life short
• A333 By ART and deceit men live half the year and by deceit and art the other half
• A334 In every ART it is good to have a master
• A335 It is ART to hide art
• A336 ARTHUR could not tame woman's tongue
• A337 ARTHUR himself had but his time
• A338 Hey brave ARTHUR BRADLEY
• A339 As pale as ASHES
• A340 Divine ASHES are better than earthly meal
• A341 I proud (stout) and thou proud (stout), who shall bear the ASHES out?
• A342 He that is ASHAMED to eat is ashamed to live
• A343 ASK and have
• A344 He that cannot ASK cannot live
• A345 A good ASKER (shameless beggar) should have a good naysayer (shameless denial)
• A346 He will not lose it (Nothing is lost) for ASKING (for want of asking)
• A347 To be had for the ASKING
• A348 As dull as an ASS
• A349 An ASS covered with gold is more respected than a good horse with a packsaddle
• A350 An ASS endures his burden but not more than his burden
• A351 An ASS in a lion's skin
• A352 An ASS is but an ass though laden with gold
• A353 An ASS is cold even in the summer solstice
• A354 An ASS is eaten up of wolves
• A355 An ASS is known by his ears
• A356 An ASS laden with gold climbs to the top of the castle
• A357 An ASS must be tied where his master will have him
• A358 An ASS (horse) pricked must needs trot
• A359 The ASS that brays most eats least
• A360 The ASS though laden with gold still eats thistles
• A361 Better ride on an ASS that carries me than a horse that throws me
• A362 Every ASS thinks himself worthy to stand with the king's horses
• A363 It is a sorry ASS that will not bear his own burden
• A364 It is good to hold the ASS by the bridle
• A365 One poor ASS cannot carry two burdens
• A366 To see an ASS play on a harp
• A367 When an ASS climbs a ladder we may find wisdom in women
• A368 Who drives an ASS and leads a whore has pain and sorrow evermore
• A369 The dull ASS's trot lasts not long
• A370 He that washes an ASS's head loses both his soap and labor
• A371 You will make me believe that an ASS's ears are made of horns
• A372 The very ASSES may have a bit there
• A373 He is a very ASS that thinks to live ever
• A374 He is an ASS that brays against an ass
• A375 He is an ASS that cannot make use of his own
• A376 He is an ASS that gives flesh for bones
• A377 He is an ASS that hurts himself
• A378 It is better to be mute than with an ASS to dispute
• A379 The veriest ASSES hide their ears most
• A380 He rose with his ASS upward
• A381 His ASS (breech, tail) makes buttons
• A382 I will not creep in her ASS to bake in her oven
• A383 It has neither ASS nor elbow
• A384 To hang an ASS (groin)
• A385 You may lend your ASS and shit through your ribs
• A386 You would kiss my ASS before my breeches be down
• A387 You would lose your ASS if it were loose
• A388 An ASSHEAD of your own
• A389 ASTROLOGY is true but the astrologers cannot find it
• A390 An ASTRONOMER is no prophet
• A391 It is as far from ATHENS (heaven, Highgate) to England (earth, London) as from England (earth, London) to Athens (heaven, Highgate)
• A392 To dance ATTENDANCE
• A393 No good ATTORNEY will ever go to law
• A394 As old as AUGHT
• A395 He is well eased¹ that has AUGHT of his own when others go to meat
• A396 Dry AUGUST and warm does harvest no harm
• A397 He was born in AUGUST
• A398 One of my AUNTS
• A399 She is one of my AUNTS that made my uncle go a begging
• A400 AURORA (The morning) is a friend to the Muses
• A401 Like AUTHOR like book
• A402 AUTHORITY (Honor, Office) shows what a man is
• A403 A kindly AVER¹ will never make a good horse
• A404 AWE makes Dun¹ draw
• A405 Well worth AWE that gars¹ the plow draw
• A406 Without AWL (all) the cobbler's nobody
• A407 Six AWLS (alls) make a shoemaker
• A408 To pack up one's AWLS
• A409 The AX goes to the wood where it borrowed its helve
• A410 He looks like a Lochaber AX
• A411 He sends the AX after the helve
• B1 He knows not a B from a battledore¹
• B2 A BABBLER wearies all the company
• B3 Much BABBLING is not without offense
• B4 As innocent (clear) as a newborn BABE (child, chrisom-child)
• B5 Love the BABE for her that bore it
• B6 The BABY comes out of his mother's parsley bed
• B7 Ye be a BABY of Beelzebub's bower
• B8 To look BABIES in another's eyes
• B9 We BACHELORS grin but you married men laugh till your hearts ache
• B10 BACHELORS' wives and maids' children are well taught
• B11 The BACK of a herring, the poll of a tench, the side of a salmon, the belly of a wench are best
• B12 Fall BACK fall edge
• B13 His BACK is broad enough to bear jests
• B14 I bear him on my BACK
• B15 Stick to him BACK and edge
• B16 To break one's BACK
• B17 To claw one by the BACK
• B18 As bare as the BACK of my hand
• B19 He both BACK-BEATS him and belly-beats him
• B20 As straight as the BACKBONE of a herring
• B21 The BACK DOOR robs the house
• B22 Dunmow BACON¹ and Doncaster daggers, Monmouth caps² and Lemster wool³, Derby ale⁴ and London beer
• B23 He loves BACON well that licks the swinesty door
• B24 To save one's BACON
• B25 Where you think there is BACON there is not so much as a chimney
• B26 To change the BAD for the better
• B27 To go from BAD to worse
• B28 Gip, quoth BADGER (Gilbert) when his mare kicked
• B29 Bode¹ a BAG and bairn
• B30 An empty BAG (sack) cannot stand upright
• B31 He is able to put him up in a BAG
• B32 To give one the BAG
• B33 Toom¹ BAGS rattle
• B34 He is like a BAGPIPE, he never talks till his belly is full
• B35 Lincolnshire BAGPIPES
• B36 Whiles¹ thou whiles I, so goes the BAILIERY²
• B37 The BAILIFF OF BEDFORD is coming
• B38 He is arrested by the BAILIFF OF MARSHLAND
• B39 As sore cries the BAIRN that is dung¹ at night as he that was dung in the morning
• B40 A beltless BAIRN cannot lie
• B41 It is a sair dung¹ BAIRN that dare not greet²
• B42 It is an ill-faced BAIRN that is gotten against the father's will
• B43 Let him who begot the BAIRN hold the bairn
• B44 A silly¹ BAIRN is eith² to learn
• B45 A tarrowing¹ BAIRN was never fat
• B46 Better my BAIRNS (children) seek of me than I of them
• B47 I am beggared and all my BAIRNS
• B48 Ill BAIRNS are best heard at home
• B49 BAIRNS' mother brust¹ never
• B50 The BAIT hides the hook
• B51 What BAITS one banes¹ another
• B52 As you BAKE so shall you brew (eat)
• B53 Be not a BAKER if your head be of butter
• B54 He should be a BAKER by his bowlegs
• B55 A BAKER's wife may bite of a bun, a brewer's wife may drink of a tun, and a fishmonger's wife may feed of a conger, but a servingman's wife may starve for hunger
• B56 It is good BAKING beside meal
• B57 The BALANCE¹ distinguishes not between gold and lead
• B58 Every BALANCE¹ has its counterpoise
• B59 When BALE is highest boot is next¹
• B60 Make no BALKS¹ (not a BALK) in good ground (bear-land²)
• B61 As round as a BALL
• B62 He has struck the BALL under the line
• B63 He has the BALL at his foot
• B64 An old BAND (ensign) is the honor of a captain
• B65 Be as be may is no BANNING (Be as be may)
• B66 Bite not (Bourd¹ not with) my BANNOCK²
• B67 BANNOCKS¹ is better than no bread
• B68 There is no great BANQUET but some fare ill
• B69 A BARBER learns to shave by shaving of fools
• B70 One BARBER shaves not so close but another finds work
• B71 One BARBER trims (shaves) another
• B72 A young BARBER and an old physician
• B73 As common as a BARBER's chair
• B74 Like a BARBER's chair, fit for every buttock
• B75 BARBERS are correctors of capital crimes
• B76 A BARGAIN is a bargain
• B77 A good BARGAIN is a pickpurse
• B78 It is an ill BARGAIN where no man wins
• B79 On a good BARGAIN (pennyworth) think twice (pause a while)
• B80 To sell one a BARGAIN
• B81 Some BARGAINS dear bought good cheap would be sold
• B82 To be beloved is above all BARGAINS
• B83 As near as BARK to tree
• B84 He never BARKS false
• B85 Great BARKERS are no biters
• B86 The greatest BARKERS are not the sorest biters (bite not sorest)
• B87 BARLEY makes the heap but wheat the cheap
• B88 A BARLEYCORN is better than a diamond (pearl) to a cock
• B89 BARLEY STRAW is good fodder when the cow gives water
• B90 When the BARN is full you may thresh before the door
• B91 To dance BARNABY
• B92 BARNABY BRIGHT, the longest day and the shortest night
• B93 As broad as a BARN DOOR
• B94 Neither (Never a) BARREL better herring
• B95 To be bout as BARROW was
• B96 To be dressed like BARTHOLOMEW BABIES
• B97 BASHFULNESS does moderate desires
• B98 BASHFULNESS is an enemy to poverty
• B99 The BASILISK's eye is fatal
• B100 He that makes one BASKET may make a hundred
• B101 It is not a BASKET of hay but a basket of flesh which will make a lion roar
• B102 You shall have the BASKET
• B103 A BASKET justice will do justice right or wrong
• B104 BASTARDS by chance are good, by nature bad
• B105 The BATH of the blackamoor has sworn not to whiten
• B106 BATTLES cost both sides blows
• B107 The BAVIN¹ burns bright but it is but a blaze
• B108 BAWDS and attorneys, like andirons, the one holds the sticks, the other their clients, till they consume
• B109 At a BAY
• B110 BAYARD¹ of ten toes
• B111 Keep BAYARD¹ in the stable
• B112 Who so bold (As bold) as blind BAYARD¹?
• B113 The BEADS in the hand and the devil in capuche1
• B114 A BEAN in liberty is better than a comfit in prison
• B115 Every BEAN has its black
• B116 He has sold a BEAN and bought a pea
• B117 Like a BEAN in a monk's hood
• B118 Not worth a BEAN
• B119 Abstain from BEANS
• B120 The more BEANS (sheep) the fewer (fewer eggs) for a penny
• B121 Set BEANS in the wane of the moon
• B122 Sow BEANS in the mud and they'll grow like wood
• B123 Sow or set BEANS in Candlemas¹ waddle²
• B124 Three blue BEANS in a blue bladder, rattle, bladder, rattle
• B125 To sow BEANS in the wind
• B126 As handsomely as a BEAR picks mussels
• B127 As willingly as the BEAR goes to the stake
• B128 The BEAR wants a tail and cannot be a lion
• B129 If it were a BEAR (wolf) it would bite you
• B130 Like a BEAR to a honeypot
• B131 You dare as well take a BEAR (boar) by the tooth
• B132 Sell not the BEAR's skin before you have caught him
• B133 Are you there with your BEARS?
• B134 He would bind BEARS
• B135 BEAR and forbear
• B136 BEAR with me and I will bear with thee
• B137 As naked as they were BORN
• B138 First BORN first fed
• B139 He that is BORN to be hanged (drowned) shall never be drowned (hanged)
• B140 He that is once BORN once must die
• B141 We are not BORN for ourselves
• B142 Who is BORN fair is born married
• B143 A red BEARD and a black head, catch him with a good trick and take him dead
• B144 Whoever has a divided BEARD the whole world will not prevail against him
• B145 Long BEARDS heartless, painted hoods witless, gay coats graceless, make England thriftless
• B146 He speaks BEAR GARDEN
• B147 He is the black BEAR OF ARDEN
• B148 He that has eaten a BEAR PIE will always smell of the garden¹
• B149 The awfullest BEAST is a bearded king
• B150 The BEAST that goes always never wants blows
• B151 The BEAST with two backs
• B152 Better a BEAST sold than bought
• B153 A good BEAST will get himself a heat with eating
• B154 He a BEAST does die that has done no good to his country
• B155 It is a strange BEAST that has neither head nor tail
• B156 Who goes a BEAST to Rome a beast returns
• B157 All BEASTS of prey are strong
• B158 The most deadly of wild BEASTS is a backbiter (tyrant), of tame ones a flatterer
• B159 Of all tame BEASTS I hate sluts
• B160 To BEAT (pinch) one black and blue
• B161 It is good BEATING proud folks, for they'll not complain
• B162 As bold as BEAUCHAMP
• B163 BEAUTY and chastity (honesty) seldom meet
• B164 BEAUTY and folly are often matched together
• B165 BEAUTY does fade like a flower
• B166 BEAUTY draws more than oxen
• B167 BEAUTY is a blaze (blast)
• B168 BEAUTY is a blessing
• B169 BEAUTY is but a blossom
• B170 BEAUTY is but skin-deep
• B171 BEAUTY is no heritage (inheritance)
• B172 BEAUTY is potent but money is omnipotent
• B173 BEAUTY may have fair leaves yet bitter fruit
• B174 BEAUTY without bounty avails nought
• B175 BEAUTY without goodness is worth nothing (is like wine that has taken wind)
• B176 Sweet BEAUTY with sour beggary
• B177 Where BEAUTY is there needs no other plea
• B178 A poor BEAUTY finds more lovers (sweethearts) than husbands
• B179 BECAUSE is woman's reason
• B180 BECCLES for a Puritan, Bungay for the poor, Halesworth for a drunkard, and Bliborough for a whore
• B181 A BECK¹ is as good as dieugarde²
• B182 To be at BECK and bay
• B183 Better to go to BED supperless than to rise in debt
• B184 Early to BED and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise
• B185 Eat till you sweat and work till you freeze and lie in BED till your bones ache
• B186 Go to BED with the lamb and rise with the lark
• B187 He that goes to BED thirsty rises healthy
• B188 He that lies long in BED his estate feels it
• B189 He that makes his BED ill lies there
• B190 If the BED could tell all it knows it would put many to the blush
• B191 Last in BED best heard
• B192 Loath to BED loath out of it
• B193 To lie in BED and forecast
• B194 To look for and not to come, to be in BED and not to sleep, to serve and not to be accepted are three deadly things
• B195 Who goes drunk to BED begets but a girl
• B196 Who goes to BED supperless all night tumbles and tosses
• B197 Ye would make me go to BED at noon
• B198 To go to BEDFORDSHIRE
• B199 A mad BEDLAM
• B200 To scratch one with a BEDSTAFF¹
• B201 To look as if he had eaten his BEDSTRAW
• B202 As busy as a BEE
• B203 As quick as a BEE
• B204 The BEE is often hurt with its own honey
• B205 The BEE sucks honey out of the bitterest flowers (thyme)
• B206 A dead BEE makes no honey
• B207 Where the BEE can suck no honey she leaves her sting behind
• B208 Where the BEE sucks honey the spider sucks poison
• B209 Every BEE's honey is sweet
• B210 As thick as Bees
• B211 BEES that have honey in their mouths have stings in their tails
• B212 When BEES are old they yield no honey
• B213 Where BEES are there is honey
• B214 Salt BEEF finds the way to the wine without a candle
• B215 Such BEEF such broth
• B216 To complain of fat BEEF
• B217 The BEER (ale) runs atilt
• B218 What is better than the BEER that's made of malt?
• B219 As blind as a BEETLE
• B220 As dull as a BEETLE
• B221 The BEETLE flies over many a sweet flower and lights in a cowshard
• B222 Better BEG than steal
• B223 He BEGS of them that borrowed of him
• B224 As big as a BEGGAR
• B225 As drunk as a BEGGAR
• B226 A BEGGAR can never be bankrupt
• B227 A BEGGAR can no beggar well abide
• B228 The BEGGAR is never out of his way
• B229 The BEGGAR may sing before the thief
• B230 A BEGGAR pays a benefit with a louse
• B231 Better die a BEGGAR than live a beggar
• B232 Every BEGGAR is descended from some king and every king is descended from some beggar
• B233 He is a sairy (poor) BEGGAR that may not go by one man's door
• B234 I know him as well as the BEGGAR knows his dish¹
• B235 It would make a BEGGAR beat his bag
• B236 One BEGGAR is enough at one door
• B237 One BEGGAR is woe (bides woe) that another by the door should go
• B238 Set a BEGGAR on horseback and he will ride a gallop (run his horse out of breath)
• B239 Set a BEGGAR on horseback and he will ride to the devil
• B240 Sue a BEGGAR and get (catch) a louse
• B241 You will scratch a BEGGAR before you die
• B242 A BEGGAR's purse is bottomless (always empty)
• B243 As merry as forty BEGGARS
• B244 BEGGARS breed and rich men feed
• B245 BEGGARS can bear no wealth
• B246 BEGGARS make a free company¹
• B247 BEGGARS should be no choosers
• B248 To swear by no BEGGARS (bugs)
• B249 You think BEGGARS have no lice
• B250 The BEGGARS OF BATH
• B251 Like the blind BEGGARS OF BOLOGNA
• B252 He is lodged in BEGGARS' INN
• B253 Good to BEGIN well, better to end well
• B254 Well BEGUN is half done
• B255 The BEGINNING of virtue is of nature
• B256 Every BEGINNING is hard
• B257 Everything has (All things have) a BEGINNING
• B258 From the BEGINNING to the end
• B259 A good BEGINNING makes a good ending
• B260 A hard BEGINNING has (makes) a good ending
• B261 An ill (bad) BEGINNING has an ill (bad) ending
• B262 Such BEGINNING such end
• B263 Beware BEGINNINGS
• B264 From small BEGINNINGS come great things
• B265 BELIEVE well and have well
• B266 Better BELIEVE it than go where it was done to prove it
• B267 I cannot BELIEVE it though I saw it myself
• B268 I will BELIEVE it when I see it
• B269 We soon BELIEVE what we desire
• B270 Quick BELIEVERS need broad shoulders
• B271 As clear as a BELL
• B272 As sound as a BELL
• B273 A BELL is known by the sound
• B274 A cracked BELL can never sound well
• B275 He bears away the BELL
• B276 To curse with BELL, book, and candle
• B277 Who shall tie (hang) the BELL about the cat's neck?
• B278 BELLS call others but themselves enter not into the church
• B279 I must not hang all my BELLS upon one horse
• B280 Many BELLS many clappers
• B281 They agree like BELLS, they want nothing but hanging
• B282 To take off your BELLS and let you fly
• B283 Allow thy BELLY what thou shouldst, not what thou mayest
• B284 The BELLY carries the legs and not the legs the belly
• B285 A BELLY full of gluttony will never study willingly
• B286 The BELLY has no ears
• B287 The BELLY is not filled (fed) with fair words
• B287a The BELLY is the truest clock
• B288 The BELLY robs the back
• B289 The BELLY that is full may well fast
• B290 The BELLY thinks the throat cut
• B291 Better BELLY burst than good drink (meat) lost
• B292 A fasting BELLY may never be merry
• B293 A fat BELLY does not engender a subtle wit
• B294 A full BELLY gives good counsel
• B295 A full BELLY neither fights nor flies well
• B296 He whose BELLY is full believes not him that is fasting (empty)
• B297 His BELLY is too strong for his purse
• B298 Hold (Fill), BELLY, hold (fill)
• B299 I wish it were in your BELLY for me
• B300 It were well for your little BELLY if your guts were out
• B301 My BELLY cries cupboard
• B302 Never good that mind their BELLY so much
• B303 When the BELLY is full the bones would be at rest
• B304 When the BELLY is full the mind is amongst the maids
• B305 A BELLYFUL is a bellyful though it be but of chopped hay
• B306 To have a BELLYFUL
• B307 He is a BENCH WHISTLER
• B308 He gapes for a BENEFICE
• B309 BENEFITS are soon forgotten
• B310 BENEFITS bind
• B311 BENEFITS please, like flowers, while they are fresh
• B312 I hope better, quoth BENSON when his wife bid him, Come in, cuckold
• B313 I have the BENT of his bow
• B314 As brown as a BERRY
• B315 From BERWICK to Dover, three hundred miles over
• B316 Bad is the BEST
• B317 The BEST is as good as stark nought
• B318 The BEST is behind
• B319 The BEST is best cheap
• B320 The BEST is best to speak to
• B321 The BEST may amend
• B322 The BEST must crave their aces of allowance
• B323 The BEST of the sport is to do the deed and say nothing
• B324 Deem the BEST (Judge nothing) till time has tried the truth out
• B325 I see the BEST but follow the worst
• B326 Make the BEST of a bad bargain (market)
• B327 There is never a BEST among them, as the fellow said by the fox cubs
• B328 We must hope for the BEST and fear the worst
• B329 A good BE STILL is worth a groat¹
• B330 BETTER is better
• B331 He niffers¹ for the BETTER
• B332 Seldom comes the BETTER
• B333 The BETTER the worse
• B334 She is BETTER than she is bonny
• B335 To be no BETTER than one (it) should be
• B336 If BEVER¹ has a cap you churls of the vale look to that
• B337 BEWARE what and to whom yo
• B338 He turns to his old BIAS again
• B339 To run against the BIAS
• B340 The BIBLE and a stone do well together
• B341 BID me and do it yourself
• B342 He that does BIDDING deserves no dinging¹
• B343 Weel BIDES weel betides
• B344 Two BIGS will not go in one bag
• B345 The BIGGER eats the bean
• B346 Be not too bold with your BIGGERS or betters
• B347 Strike (Cut) or give me the BILL
• B348 To keep BILL under wing
• B349 In and out, like BILLEDON, I wot
• B350 BILLINGSGATE LANGUAGE
• B351 BILLY has found a pin
• B352 Fast (Sure) BIND fast (sure) find
• B353 One is not BOUND to see more than he can
• B354 They that are BOUND must obey
• B355 Hall BINKS¹ are slidder²
• B356 He is as bare as the BIRCH on Yule even
• B357 As free as BIRD in air
• B358 As merry as a BIRD in May
• B359 As merry as BIRD on bough (brier)
• B360 Better a BIRD in hand than a vulture flying
• B361 Better to be a BIRD of the wood than of the cage
• B362 A BIRD cries too late when it is taken
• B363 A BIRD in the hand is better than (is worth) two in the bush (ten in the wood)
• B364 The BIRD is flown
• B365 A BIRD is known by its note and a man by his talk
• B365a A BIRD (egg) of the same nest
• B366 The BIRD that can sing and will not sing must be made to sing
• B367 Each BIRD loves to hear himself sing
• B368 The early BIRD catches the worm
• B369 Every BIRD is known by his feather
• B370 Every BIRD must hatch her own eggs
• B371 A fair BIRD has fair feathers
• B372 He has brought up a BIRD to pick out his own eyes
• B373 He that will take the BIRD must not scare it
• B374 I heard a BIRD sing (A little bird said so)
• B375 If every BIRD had (should take) his own feathers he should be as rich as a new-shorn sheep (you would be naked)
• B376 An ill (evil) BIRD (crow) lays an ill (evil) egg
• B377 It is a foul BIRD that defiles his own nest
• B378 It is an ill BIRD that picks out the dam's eyes
• B379 A little BIRD is content with a little nest
• B380 The more the BIRD caught in lime strives the faster he sticks
• B381 Such BIRD such nest (egg)
• B382 Thou art a bitter BIRD, said the raven to the starling
• B383 Thou singest like a BIRD called a swine
• B384 To be in for a BIRD
• B385 To every BIRD his own nest is best
• B386 To have a BIRD in one's breast
• B387 To hit the BIRD in the eye
• B388 To take the BIRD by its feet
• B389 Ye are my BIRD for as black as ye are
• B390 You may gape long enough ere a BIRD fall in your mouth
• B391 As bare as a BIRD's ass
• B392 Whist, whist, I smell a BIRD's nest
• B393 BIRDS of a feather will flock (fly) together
• B394 BIRDS once snared (limed) fear all bushes
• B395 March BIRDS are best
• B396 Old BIRDS are not caught with chaff
• B397 Small BIRDS must have meat
• B398 Then we shall catch BIRDS tomorrow
• B399 There are no BIRDS of this year in last year's nests
• B400 To kill two BIRDS with one stone
• B400a To love hollow BIRDS¹
• B401 You catch BIRDS by laying salt on their tails
• B402 BIRTH is much but breeding is more
• B403 To sell one's BIRTHRIGHT
• B404 As dry as a BISCUIT
• B405 The BISHOP has blessed it
• B406 The BISHOP has put his foot in it
• B407 The BISHOP makes things better than he finds them
• B408 No BISHOP no king
• B409 Once a BISHOP and ever a bishop
• B410 Well is him and woe is him that has a BISHOP of his kin
• B411 What, a BISHOP's wife? Eat and drink in your gloves?
• B412 Better a BIT than no bread
• B413 BIT about is good bartering
• B414 A BIT in the morning is better than nothing all day or than a thump on the back with a stone
• B415 The BIT that one eats no friend makes
• B416 He gives him the BIT and the buffet with it (a bit and a knock)
• B417 He loses many a good BIT that strives with his betters
• B418 He will have a BIT for his cat
• B419 One BIT draws down another
• B420 With a BIT and a bob, as they feed apes
• B421 You may see by a BIT what the bread is
• B422 He will make nineteen BITS of a bilberry
• B423 To make two BITS of a cherry
• B424 To take the BIT in the teeth
• B425 The hasty BITCH brings forth blind whelps
• B426 He will BITE near (A close biter)
• B427 To BITE and whine
• B428 Though I be BITTEN I am not all eaten
• B429 To bite the BITER
• B430 BITING and scarting¹ is Scotchmen's wooing
• B431 BITING and scratching gets the cat with kitling
• B432 Who has BITTER in his mouth spits not all sweet
• B433 BLAB (Labbe) it wist and out it must
• B434 He that is a BLAB is a scab
• B435 BLACK best sets forth white
• B436 BLACK will take no other hue
• B437 He that wears BLACK must hang (carry) a brush at his back
• B438 No more like than BLACK is to white
• B439 To have it in BLACK and white
• B440 To make BLACK white
• B441 To say that BLACK (white) is white (black)
• B442 As plentiful (cheap) as BLACKBERRIES
• B443 He can swim without BLADDERS
• B444 Do as you are bidden and you will never bear the BLAME
• B445 He that BLAMES would buy
• B446 He is BLANK
• B447 He spits on his own BLANKET
• B448 He that at every BLAST puts to the lee will never be good sailor
• B449 I hold BLENCH of him
• B450 BLESSING of your heart, you brew good ale
• B451 The BLIND eat many a fly
• B452 If the BLIND lead the blind they both fall into the ditch
• B452a BLINDMAN's HOLIDAY
• B453 As dull as a BLOCK
• B454 To lay (throw, cast) a BLOCK in another's way
• B455 As red as BLOOD
• B456 BLOOD is inherited but virtue is achieved
• B457 The BLOOD of the martyrs is the seed of the Church
• B458 BLOOD will have blood
• B459 Good BLOOD cannot lie
• B460 Good BLOOD makes poor pudding¹ without suet
• B461 He has good BLOOD if he had but groats to him
• B462 His Welsh BLOOD is up
• B463 It is easy to draw BLOOD out of a scabby head
• B464 It runs in a BLOOD
• B465 Like BLOOD, like good, and like age make the happiest marriage
• B466 There is no BLOOD to be got out of a turnip
• B467 You are come of a BLOOD and so is a pudding¹
• B468 Timely BLOSSOM timely fruit (ripe, bear)
• B469 BLOSSOMS ere May not good some say
• B470 A BLOT in his escutcheon
• B471 A BLOT is no blot unless it be hit
• B472 The first BLOW is as much as two
• B473 He has got a BLOW over the nose with a French cowlstaff
• B474 One sound BLOW will serve to undo us all
• B475 The second BLOW makes the fray
• B476 BLOW first and sip afterwards
• B477 He is BLOWN up
• B478 He was born at BLOXHAM
• B479 Better a BLUSH in the face than a spot in the heart
• B480 BLUSHING (Bashfulness) is virtue's color (is a sign of grace)
• B481 He cannot say BO to a goose
• B482 As brim¹ as a BOAR
• B483 He feeds like a BOAR in a frank¹
• B484 To foam like a BOAR
• B485 As stiff as a BOARD
• B486 At the BOARD be a maid but a clown in bed
• B487 Knock under the BOARD (table)
• B488 Great BOAST (and) small roast
• B489 The greatest BOASTERS (crackers) are not the greatest doers (the boldest men)
• B490 Ill goes the BOAT without the oar
• B491 To be in the same BOAT (ship)
• B492 You must trim the BOAT
• B493 Ye may get waur¹ BODES² ere Beltan³
• B494 To be BODKIN
• B495 A BODY is esteemed according as he values himself
• B496 The BODY is more (sooner, better) dressed than the soul
• B497 The BODY is the prison of the soul
• B498 The BODY is the socket of the soul
• B499 I am all yours except BODY and goods
• B500 It is a good BODY,¹ she wants but a new pair of sleeves
• B501 A little BODY does often harbor a great soul
• B502 Dieted BODIES are but bridges to physicians' minds
• B503 Great BODIES move slowly
• B504 As brisk (busy, brag) as a BODY LOUSE
• B505 Be BOLD with what is your own
• B506 More (Not so) BOLD than (as) welcome (wise)
• B507 BOLDNESS is blind
• B508 If you love the BOLL you cannot hate the branches
• B509 BOLSTER or pillow, be it whose will for me
• B510 Buy the BOLSTER (pillow) of one in debt and thou wilt sleep soundly
• B511 This BOLT (arrow) came never out of your bag
• B512 To have shot one's BOLT
• B513 Wide, quoth BOLTON when his bolt flew back-ward
• B514 As dry (hard) as a BONE
• B515 A broken BONE (leg) is the stronger when it is well set
• B516 Gnaw the BONE that is fallen to thy lot
• B517 He has a BONE in his mouth (throat)
• B518 He has cast a BONE between them
• B519 He that gives thee a BONE would not have thee die
• B520 The nearer the BONE the sweeter the flesh
• B521 To carry a BONE in the mouth
• B522 To give one a BONE to pick
• B523 To have a BONE in one's arm (leg)
• B524 To put (wish) a BONE in one's hood
• B525 Were it not for the BONE in the leg all the world would turn carpenters
• B526 BONES bring meat to town
• B527 He made no BONES of it
• B528 To lay one's BONES to work
• B529 I will never drite¹ in my BONNET and set it on my head
• B530 A great BOOK is a great mischief
• B531 He is quite beside the BOOK (cushion)
• B532 To speak without BOOK
• B533 Not worthy to carry his BOOKS after him
• B534 To be in (out of) one's BOOKS
• B535 A fortunate BOOR needs but be born
• B536 Be jogging while your BOOTS are green
• B537 To give one the BOOTS
• B538 They that are BOOTED are not always ready
• B539 To play BOOTY
• B540 To play BOPEEP
• B541 BOROUGH-MEN merry, more bread than drink
• B542 He that will BORROW must pay
• B543 Not so good to BORROW as to be able to lend
• B544 Who will BORROW when he has not, let him borrow when he has
• B545 He that goes a BORROWING goes a sorrowing
• B546 He will creep into your BOSOM
• B547 BOTCH (Patch) and sit, build and flit
• B548 To brew in a BOTTLE and bake in a bag
• B549 What are you good for? to stop BOTTLES?
• B550 He brought the BOTTOM of the bag clean out
• B551 It is too late to spare when the BOTTOM is bare
• B552 Who still takes out and puts not in will quickly find a BOTTOM
• B553 Wind up your BOTTOM
• B554 Cut not the BOUGH that thou standest upon
• B555 The BOUGHS that bear most hang lowest
• B556 Short BOUGHS long vintage
• B557 Who trusts to rotten BOUGHS may fall
• B558 To buy dear is not BOUNTY
• B559 Sooth BOURD is no bourd
• B560 That is a good BOURD that all men laugh at
• B561 A BOW long bent at last waxes weak
• B562 The BOW of Ulysses
• B563 He outshot him in his own BOW
• B564 I have a good BOW but it is in the castle
• B565 To bring to one's BOW
• B566 Better BOW than break
• B567 Wide at the BOW HAND
• B568 Sole¹ your BOWL well
• B569 He that will play at BOWLS must expect to meet with rubs
• B570 He is a long BOWMAN
• B571 Bourd¹ not with BOWTY² lest he bite you
• B572 BOWWOWS¹ is no wedding
• B573 A BOX on the ear
• B574 The chief BOX of health is time
• B575 Thou art in a wrong BOX
• B576 A BOY, has a purse and twopence in it
• B577 The least BOY always carries the greatest fiddle
• B578 A smiling BOY seldom proves a good servant
• B579 To be one's white BOY (son)
• B580 An unhappy (ill, shrewd) BOY (lad) may make a good man
• B581 To leave BOY's play and fall (go) to blowpoint
• B582 He that is manned with BOYS and horsed with colts shall have his meat eaten and his work undone
• B583 Jest with BOYS and leave the saints (holy things) alone
• B584 You seek a BRACK (gap) where the hedge is whole
• B585 BRACKLEY BREED, better to hang than feed
• B586 What have I to do with BRADSHAW's windmill?
• B587 BRAG is a good dog
• B588 BRAG is a good dog but Holdfast is a better
• B589 BRAG is a good dog but that he has lost his tail
• B590 BRAG is a good dog if he be well set on but he dare not bite
• B591 Great BRAGGERS little doers
• B592 He that fills his BRAIN with wine can put nothing else in it
• B593 An idle BRAIN idle counsel
• B594 An idle BRAIN is the devil's shop
• B595 If the BRAIN sows not corn it plants thistles
• B596 To bear a BRAIN
• B597 You will not believe he is bald (dead) till you see his BRAIN
• B598 He has no more BRAINS than a burbolt¹
• B599 His BRAINS are addle
• B600 His BRAINS crow
• B601 His BRAINS will work without barm¹
• B602 To beat (cudgel) one's BRAINS
• B603 BRAINTREE for the pure and Bocking for the poor, Coggeshell for the jeering town and Kelvedon for the whore
• B604 Much BRAN and little meal
• B605 BRANDY is Latin¹ for a goose
• B606 Fly, BRASS, thy father is a tinker
• B607 His old BRASS (cloak) will buy you a new pan (kirtle)
• B608 If BRAYTON BARGH and Hambleton bough and Burton bream were all in thy belly 'twould never be team¹
• B609 Another's BREAD costs dear
• B610 Be fair conditioned and eat BREAD with your pudding¹
• B611 BREAD and cheese is good to eat when men can get no other meat (are physic to such as are in health)
• B612 BREAD is a binder
• B613 BREAD is the staff of life
• B614 BREAD of one day, an egg of one hour, wine of one year, fish of ten, a woman of fifteen, and a friend of a hundred
• B615 BREAD with eyes, cheese without eyes, and wine that leaps up to the eyes
• B616 Buckinghamshire BREAD and beef
• B617 Crumb not your BREAD before you taste your porridge
• B618 Dry BREAD at home is better than roast meat abroad
• B619 Eat BREAD at pleasure, drink wine by measure
• B620 Eaten BREAD is forgotten
• B621 He that sets the BREAD in the oven naughtily draws out the loaves crushed awry
• B622 He would eat finer BREAD than is made of wheat
• B623 His BREAD is buttered on both sides
• B624 Lemster¹ BREAD and Weabley² ale
• B625 Plow deep, thou shalt have BREAD (corn) enough
• B626 Stolen BREAD is ever sweetest
• B627 There is no BREAD locked from true friends
• B628 To him who is hungry any BREAD is pleasant
• B629 To take the BREAD out of one's mouth
• B630 What BREAD men break is broken to them again
• B631 Where BREAD is wanting all is to be sold
• B632 Who has no more BREAD than needs must not keep a dog
• B633 You give me BREAD for cake
• B634 You show BREAD in one hand and a stone in the other
• B635 BREAD's house skaild¹ never
• B636 It will sooner BREAK than bow
• B637 The BREAKING OPEN of letters is the basest kind of burglary
• B638 He that has BREAMS in his pond is able to bid his friend welcome
• B639 A corrupt BREATH stains a clear glass
• B640 He can laugh and cry both with a BREATH
• B641 He runs himself out of BREATH
• B642 You but spend your BREATH (wind) in vain
• B643 Scratch my BREECH and I will claw your elbow
• B644 You seek (To beg) a BREECH of a bare-assed man
• B645 She wears the BREECHES
• B646 Beware of BREED
• B647 Not where one is BRED but where he is fed
• B648 It is BREEDING and not birth that makes a man
• B649 He sits full still that has a riven BREEK¹
• B650 It is ill to take BREEKS¹ off a bare ass
• B651 To have a BREEZE¹ in his breech
• B652 BREVITY is the soul of wit
• B653 This must be if we BREW (sell ale)
• B654 As one BREWS so let him bake (drink)
• B655 He smiles like a BREWER's horse
• B656 One whom the BREWER's horse has bit
• B657 It is a sairy¹ BREWING that is not good in the newing²
• B658 A BRIBE enters everywhere without knocking
• B659 BRIBES blind the wise man's sight
• B660 To make BRICKS without straw
• B661 The BRIDE goes to her marriage bed but knows not what shall happen to her
• B662 A fair BRIDE is soon busked¹ and a short horse soon whisked²
• B663 Happy is the BRIDE the sun shines on and the corpse the rain rains on
• B664 She simpers like a BRIDE on her wedding day
• B665 Make a BRIDGE of gold (silver) for a flying enemy
• B666 On BRIDGE, on plank, and in river the boy (servant) before and master after
• B667 To make a BRIDGE of one's nose
• B668 BRIDGES were made for wise men to walk over and fools to ride over
• B669 Shake a BRIDLE over a Yorkshire tike's grave and he will rise again
• B670 To bite upon the BRIDLE
• B671 To give one the BRIDLE (reins)
• B672 To be out of the BRIERS
• B673 To leave one (To be) in the BRIERS
• B674 Better spare at the BRIM than at the bottom
• B675 It is ill to BRING¹ but that is no there ben²
• B676 He has sold BRISTOL and bought Bedminster
• B677 It is as BROAD as it is long
• B678 To burst at the BROADSIDE
• B679 To stink like a BROCK¹
• B680 It is hard to fling at the BROD¹ or kick at the prick
• B681 Little BROOKS make great rivers
• B682 A new BROOM (besom) sweeps clean
• B683 Though new BROOMS sweep clean yet old friends still retain
• B684 Many esteem more of the BROTH than of the meat sod therein
• B685 The BROTHER had rather see his sister rich than make her so
• B686 He has made a younger BROTHER of him
• B687 The younger BROTHER has the more wit
• B688 The younger BROTHER is the better (ancienter) gentleman
• B689 Between BROTHERS put not thou thy hand, for who severs them has ever the worst
• B690 Much BRUIT little fruit
• B691 To buy a BRUSH
• B692 As wild as a BUCK
• B693 He is like a BUCK of the first head
• B694 Where goes the BUCKET there goes the rope
• B695 Like two BUCKETS of a well, if one go up the other must go down
• B696 He will bring (hold) BUCKLE and thong together
• B697 Hold him to it BUCKLE and thong
• B698 If you be angry you may turn the BUCKLE of your girdle behind you
• B699 To agree as BUCKLE and thong
• B700 Let them BUCKLE for it
• B701 Bounce BUCKRAM, velvet's dear, Christmas comes but once a year, and when it comes it brings good cheer, but when it's gone it's never the near¹
• B702 To nip in the BUD (blossom)
• B703 BUGBEARS (Bugs) to scare babes
• B704 BUILDING and marrying of children are great wasters
• B705 BUILDING is a sweet impoverishing
• B706 BUILDING is a thief
• B707 BUILDING is chargeable
• B708 A high BUILDING a low foundation
• B709 He bellows like a BULL but is as weak as a bul-rush
• B710 He looks like a BULL that has beshit the fair
• B711 He may bear (carry) a BULL that hath borne (carried) a calf
• B712 Let him take the BULL that stole away the calf
• B713 To be as strong as (To sweat like) a BULL
• B714 To milk a BULL (he-goat)
• B715 To roar like a BULL
• B716 The town BULL is as much a bachelor as he
• B717 He wears the BULL's feather
• B718 That is a BULL, sir
• B719 He looks as big as if he had eaten BULL BEEF
• B720 Every BULLET has a lighting place
• B721 As mad as the baiting BULL OF STAMFORD
• B722 To take a BUNTING for a lark
• B723 They cleave (stick, hold) together like BURS
• B724 To stick like BURS
• B725 Everyone shall bear his own BURDEN
• B726 It is a sad BURDEN to carry a dead man's child
• B727 Light BURDEN far heavy
• B728 To lay one's BURDEN upon another's back
• B729 The greatest BURDENS are not the gainfullest
• B730 To take a BURFORD BAIT¹
• B731 Ye may drink of the BURN¹ but not bite of the brae²
• B732 He that BURNS most shines most
• B733 A BURR¹ around the moon bodes wind and rain
• B734 BURROUGH's end of sheep, some one
• B735 A bad BUSH is better than the open field
• B736 BUSH natural, more hair than wit
• B737 He that is afraid of every BUSH will never prove good huntsman
• B738 He thinks every BUSH a bugbear (bear)
• B739 Here if you beat a BUSH it's odds you'll start a thief
• B740 One beats the BUSH and another catches the bird
• B741 One BUSH (grove) cannot harbor two robin red-breasts
• B742 To beat (go) about the BUSH
• B743 A BUSHEL of March dust is worth a king's ransom
• B744 In a BUSHEL of winning is not a handful of cunning
• B745 Between the BUSINESS of life and the day of death a space ought to be interposed
• B746 Everybody's BUSINESS is nobody's business
• B747 He has more BUSINESS than English ovens at Christmas
• B748 He that does a serious BUSINESS in haste rides post upon an ass
• B749 He that stays does the BUSINESS
• B750 If you would have your BUSINESS done, go; if not, send
• B751 In little BUSINESS stands great rest
• B752 Mind your own BUSINESS
• B753 One BUSINESS breeds another
• B754 To go through-stitch with a BUSINESS
• B755 Who does his own BUSINESS fouls not his hands
• B756 Without BUSINESS debauchery
• B757 Great BUSINESSES (engines) turn on a little pin
• B758 A BUSKIN that will serve both legs
• B759 BUSY will have bonds (bands)
• B760 As bawdy as a BUTCHER
• B761 The BUTCHER looked for his knife when he had it in his mouth
• B762 The BUTCHER looked for the candle and 'twas in's hat
• B763 He would have made a good BUTCHER but for the by-blow
• B764 As surly as a BUTCHER's dog
• B765 I think this is a BUTCHER's horse, he carries a calf so well
• B766 Like a BUTLER's box at Christmas
• B767 As fat as BUTTER
• B768 As soft as BUTTER
• B769 As sure as if it were sealed with BUTTER
• B770 BUTTER is gold in the morning, silver at noon, and lead at night
• B771 BUTTER is good for anything but to stop an oven or seal a letter
• B772 BUTTER is mad twice a year
• B773 BUTTER is once a year in the cow's horn
• B774 He looks as if BUTTER would not melt in his mouth
• B775 It is not all BUTTER that comes from the cow
• B776 It melts like BUTTER in a sow's tail
• B777 Like BUTTER in a dog's throat
• B778 No BUTTER will stick on his bread
• B779 That which will not be BUTTER must be made into cheese
• B780 To melt like BUTTER before the sun
• B781 To scold like BUTTERWIVES (butterwhores)
• B782 Not worth a BUTTON
• B783 Better to BUY than to borrow (beg, beg or borrow)
• B784 BUY when I bid you
• B785 He that BUYS dear must sell dear
• B786 Who always BUYS and sells feels not what he spends
• B787 To be BOUGHT and sold
• B788 Let the BUYER beware
• B789 BUYING and selling is but winning and losing
• B790 It is ill BUYING of oats from a goose
• B791 This BUYING of bread undoes us
• B792 He is a blind BUZZARD
• B793 Let BYGONES be bygones
• C1 The great CAB¹ and the little cab go down to the grave
• C2 In two CABS of dates there is one CAB of stones and more
• C3 Ten CABS¹ of speech descended into the world and the women took away nine of them
• C4 A threefold CABLE (cord) is not easily broken
• C5 To keep a CACKLING and lay no eggs
• C6 CADGERS¹ speak of lead saddles²
• C7 She can cackle like a CADOWE¹
• C8 Either CAESAR or nobody
• C9 Render unto CAESAR the things which are Caesar's
• C10 He builds CAGES for oxen to bring up birds in
• C11 He needs not a CAKE of bread at all his kin
• C12 His CAKE is dough
• C13 It is CAKE and pudding to me
• C14 There was never a CAKE but it had a make¹
• C15 You can't eat your CAKE and have your cake (have it too)
• C15a CALAMITY (Extremity) is the touchstone of a brave mind (unto wit)
• C16 As old as CALE-HILL
• C17 The greatest CALF is not the sweetest veal
• C18 He eats the CALF in the cow's belly
• C18a A quiet CALF sucks its dam and another cow also
• C19 You would have the CALF with the white face
• C20 A CALF's head will feast a hunter and his hounds
• C21 Essex CALVES
• C22 His CALVES are gone down to grass
• C22a You CALL me scabbed because I will not call you scald
• C23 Everyone must walk (labor) in his own CALLING (vocation)
• C24 After a CALM comes a storm
• C25 CAMBRIDGE requires all to be equal
• C26 As hard as for a CAMEL to pass through a needle's eye
• C27 The CAMEL going to seek horns lost his ears
• C28 A CAMEL in Media dances in a little cab¹
• C29 A CAMEL when he means to drink troubles the water
• C30 It becomes him as well as it becomes a CAMEL to dance
• C31 Cambridgeshire CAMELS
• C32 Old CAMELS carry young camels' skins to the market
• C33 As crooked as a CAMMOCK¹
• C34 The more CAMOMILE is trodden down the more it spreads
• C35 I have victualled my CAMP
• C36 CAN is eith¹ carried about
• C37 As true as that the CANDLE ate the cat
• C38 As upright as a CANDLE stands in a socket
• C39 A CANDLE (torch) lights others and consumes itself
• C40 He that worst may must hold the CANDLE
• C41 His CANDLE burns within the socket
• C42 It is good to hold (set) a CANDLE before the devil
• C43 It smells of the CANDLE (lamp, oil)
• C44 Not to be able to hold a CANDLE to one
• C45 One CANDLE can light many more
• C46 To burn (waste) a CANDLE to find a pin (flea)
• C47 To burn one CANDLE to seek another
• C48 To burn (light) one's CANDLE at both ends
• C49 To go out like a CANDLE in a snuff
• C50 When CANDLES be out (At night) all cats be gray
• C51 A good CANDLEHOLDER proves a good gamester
• C52 If CANDLEMAS DAY¹ be fair and bright winter will have another flight; if on Candlemas Day it be shower and rain winter is gone and will not come again
• C53 On CANDLEMAS DAY¹ throw candle and candlestick away
• C54 On CANDLEMAS DAY¹ you must have half your straw and half your hay
• C55 When CANDLEMAS DAY¹ is come and gone the snow lies on a hot stone
• C56 The CANKER soonest eats the fairest rose (flowers)
• C57 Who was killed by a CANNON BULLET was cursed in his mother's belly
• C58 CANTERBURY is the higher rack but Winchester is the better manger
• C59 A CANTERBURY TALE
• C60 Cast your CAP at the moon
• C61 He is one that will not lose his CAP in a crowd
• C62 He may cast his CAP after him for ever overtaking him
• C63 If his CAP be made of wool
• C64 The three-cornered CAP
• C65 Thy CAP has more ease than thy head
• C66 You shall have the red CAP
• C67 He that gives thee a CAPON give him the leg and the wing
• C68 If thou hast not a CAPON feed on an onion (on bread and onion)
• C69 A CAPTAIN (ruler) should not sleep the whole night
• C70 Such as the CAPTAIN is such is the soldier
• C71 A white-livered CAPTAIN for all his brazen face
• C72 As cunning as CAPTAIN DRAKE
• C73 Where the CARCASS is there the eagles will gather
• C74 He has a sure CARD
• C75 To outface with a CARD of ten
• C76 CARDS are the devil's books
• C77 He has good CARDS to show for it
• C78 Many can pack the CARDS that cannot play
• C79 To throw up one's CARDS
• C80 When you have counted your CARDS you will find you have gained but little
• C81 He is in good CARDING
• C82 CARE brings gray hair
• C83 CARE is no cure
• C84 CARE will kill a cat
• C85 Hang CARE (sorrow)
• C86 Have a CARE to gain, for there will come a time of spending
• C87 He takes great CARE how to shame himself
• C88 Great CARES are great merchandise
• C89 He CARES not how he has it so he may but get it
• C90 CARE NOT would have it
• C91 As the CARL¹ riches he wretches²
• C92 Kiss a CARL¹ and clap² a carl and that's the way to tine³ a carl, knock a carl and ding⁴ a carl and that's the way to win a carl
• C93 The best CARPENTER makes the fewest chips
• C94 Such (Like) CARPENTER such (like) chips
• C95 A CARPER can cavil at anything
• C96 As smooth as a CARPET
• C97 To be upon the CARPET
• C98 A CARPET KNIGHT
• C99 No CARRION will kill a crow
• C100 He CARRIES well to whom it weighs not
• C101 The best CART may overthrow
• C102 If ever I get his CART whemling¹ I'll give it a put²
• C103 To set the CART before the horse
• C104 You put¹ at the CART that's ay ganging²
• C105 I am left out of the CART's tail
• C106 To be cast at CART's ass
• C107 All the CARTS that come to Crowland are shod with silver
• C108 CARTS well driven go long upright
• C109 As common as the CARTWAY
• C110 To be one's own CARVER
• C111 The CASE is altered, quoth Plowden
• C112 He is in ill CASE that gives example to another
• C113 Well goes the CASE where wisdom counsels
• C114 A CASK and an ill custom must be broken
• C115 He is at last CAST
• C116 He keeps a CAST of merlins
• C117 To give one a CAST of his office
• C118 To speak in one's CAST
• C119 Rub and a good CAST
• C120 Better a CASTLE of bones than of stones
• C121 A CASTLE of comfort
• C122 A CASTLE that parleys and a woman that hears will both yield
• C123 Were I in my CASTLE of Bungay upon the river of Waveney I would not care for the King of Cockney
• C124 CASTLES are forests of stone
• C125 To build CASTLES in Spain
• C126 To build CASTLES in the air
• C127 As a CAT plays with a mouse
• C128 As a CAT watches a mouse
• C129 As melancholy as a gibbed CAT
• C130 As nimble as (He signifies no more than) a blind CAT in a barn
• C131 As nimble as a CAT on a hot bakestone
• C132 A baited CAT may grow as fierce as a lion
• C133 Before the CAT can lick her ear
• C134 A blate¹ CAT makes a proud mouse
• C135 CAT (Kit) after kind
• C136 CAT after kind, good mouse hunt
• C137 The CAT has eaten her count
• C138 The CAT is hungry when a crust contents her
• C139 The CAT is in the cream pot
• C140 The CAT knows whose lips (beard) she licks well enough
• C141 A CAT may look on a king
• C142 The CAT sees not the mouse ever
• C143 The CAT, the rat, and Lovel, our dog, rule all England under a hog
• C144 The CAT would eat fish but she will not wet her feet
• C145 A gloved CAT can catch no mice
• C146 He bides as fast as a CAT bound with a saucer
• C147 He can hold the CAT to the sun
• C148 He hoped well that got the CAT with two tails
• C149 He is sure of a CAT that has her skin
• C150 He loves me as a CAT does mustard
• C151 How (What) can the CAT help it if the maid be a fool?
• C152 Let the CAT wink and let the mouse run
• C153 Like a CAT, he'll still fall upon his legs
• C154 Like a CAT, to have nine lives
• C155 The liquorish¹ CAT has (gets) many a rap
• C156 The more you rub a CAT on the rump the higher she sets up her tail
• C157 A muffled (muzzled, cuffed) CAT was never good mouser (hunter)
• C158 My CAT has no such ears
• C159 Never was CAT or dog drowned that could but see the shore
• C160 An old CAT laps as much milk as (more milk than) a young
• C161 An old CAT sports not with her prey
• C162 Put an old CAT to an old rat
• C163 A scalded CAT (dog) fears cold water
• C164 Send not a CAT for lard
• C165 She is like a CAT, she will play with her own tail
• C166 Such a CAT cannot be caught without mittens
• C167 That CAT is out of kind that sweet milk (cream) will not lap (lick, steal)
• C168 That that comes of a CAT will catch mice
• C169 Though the CAT winks awhile yet sure she is not blind
• C170 To buy a CAT in a poke
• C171 To know a CAT from a cony (cowlstaff)
• C172 To turn the CAT in the pan
• C173 To whip the CAT
• C174 Well might (It was not for nought that) the CAT wink (winked) when both her eyes were out
• C175 When the CAT's away the mice will play
• C176 When the CAT winks little wots the mouse what the cat thinks
• C177 You shall have what the CAT left on the malt heap
• C178 You will be like the singed CAT then, better than you are likely¹
• C179 Long and small, like a CAT's elbow
• C180 To have CAT's eyes
• C181 CATS eat what hussies spare (what the goodwife spares)
• C182 It rains CATS and dogs
• C183 Keep no more CATS than will catch mice
• C184 They agree like CATS and dogs
• C185 They agree like two CATS in a gutter
• C186 Two CATS and a mouse, two wives in one house, two dogs and a bone never agree in one
• C187 They draw the CAT HARROW
• C188 To lie at CATCH
• C189 CATCH that catch may
• C190 It is ill CATCHING of fish when the hook is bare
• C191 They are not (are) CATER-COUSINS
• C192 To go CATERWAULING
• C193 Lang lean¹ makes hameald² CATTLE
• C194 No (Mickle) CATTLE no (mickle) care
• C195 Old CATTLE breed not
• C196 When I am dead make me a CAUDLE¹
• C197 He was born with a CAUL
• C198 CAUSE causes
• C199 Crabbed¹ was and CAUSE had
• C200 He that is angry without a CAUSE must be pleased without amends
• C201 It is a bad CAUSE that none dares speak in
• C202 Remove the CAUSE and the effect will cease
• C203 A small CAUSE may produce much grief
• C204 You must not starve a CAUSE
• C205 To put in (enter) a CAVEAT
• C206 CAVIL will enter in at any hole and if it find none it will make one
• C207 As straight (tall) as a CEDAR
• C208 High CEDARS fall (are shaken) when low shrubs remain (are scarcely moved)
• C209 He has good CELLARAGE
• C210 CENSURE, which spares the raven, torments the dove
• C211 Without CERES and Bacchus Venus grows cold
• C212 He that leaves CERTAINTY (surety) and sticks to chance, when fools pipe he may dance
• C213 He is not free that draws his CHAIN
• C214 CHAINS of gold are stronger than chains of iron
• C215 They may sit in the CHAIR that have malt to sell
• C216 As like as CHALK and charcoal
• C217 CHALK is no shears
• C218 No more like than CHALK and cheese (To give chalk for cheese)
• C219 The CHAMBER of sickness is the chapel of devotion
• C220 Empty CHAMBERS make foolish maids
• C221 As changeable as a CHAMELEON
• C222 The CHAMELEON can change to all colors save white
• C223 The CHANCE of war is uncertain
• C224 It is too late to grieve when the CHANCE is past
• C225 More by CHANCE (luck) than any good cunning
• C226 No CHANCE but comes again
• C227 There is CHANCE in the cock's spur
• C228 CHANGE (Exchange) is no robbery
• C229 CHANGE is sweet
• C230 CHANGE of pasture makes fat calves
• C231 CHANGE of weather is the discourse of fools
• C232 CHANGE of women makes bald knaves
• C233 There is CHANGE of all things
• C234 To be no CHANGELING
• C235 CHANGING of works is lightening of hearts
• C236 He that is fit for the CHAPEL is meet for the field
• C237 He is a fond CHAPMAN that comes after the fair
• C238 I think we will be all CHAPMEN, quoth the good-wife when she got a turd on her back
• C239 The first CHAPTER of fools is to hold themselves wise
• C240 The first CHAPTER of fools magnifies themselves
• C241 This CHAR¹ is charred
• C242 CHAR-FOLKS are never paid
• C243 Lessen CHARGE and save cost
• C244 The CHARGES of building and making of gardens are unknown
• C245 Thou dost not bear my CHARGES that thou shouldst command me
• C246 He that has CHARGE of souls transports them not in bundles
• C247 Now you have a CHARGE look to it
• C248 The CHARITABLE gives out at door and God puts in at the window
• C249 As cold as CHARITY
• C250 CHARITY and pride do both feed the poor
• C251 CHARITY begins at home
• C252 CHARITY construes all doubtful things in good part
• C253 CHARITY grows cold
• C254 Let CHARITY measure all your actions
• C255 Happy is he that CHASTENS himself
• C256 CHATTING to chiding is not worth a chewet
• C257 Good CHEAP is dear
• C258 Light CHEAP lither yield
• C259 They buy good CHEAP that bring nothing home
• C260 CHEAPSIDE¹ is the best garden
• C261 As sure as CHECK
• C262 To give a CHECKMATE
• C263 CHEEK by jowl
• C264 Good CHEER and good cheap gars¹ many haunt the house
• C265 There is not always good CHEER where the chim-ney smokes
• C266 When good CHEER is lacking our friends will be packing
• C267 After CHEESE comes nothing
• C268 As thin as Banbury¹ CHEESE
• C269 CHEESE digests all things but itself
• C270 CHEESE is good that comes from a niggard (miser)
• C271 I would eat more CHEESE if I had it
• C272 If you will have a good CHEESE and have'n old you must turn'n seven times before he is cold
• C273 Suffolk CHEESE
• C274 Toasted CHEESE has no master
• C275 You cannot see green CHEESE but your teeth (mouth) must water
• C276 You have eaten some Hull CHEESE¹
• C277 As red as a CHERRY
• C278 CHERRIES and news fall price soonest
• C279 Eat not CHERRIES (prunes) with your lord
• C280 He that eats CHERRIES (pears) with his lord picks none of the best
• C281 One CHERRY TREE suffices not two jays
• C282 CHESHIRE, chief of men
• C283 Neither in CHESHIRE nor Chawbent
• C284 To take the CHESTNUTS (nuts) out of the fire with the cat's paw (dog's foot)
• C285 Said the CHEVIN¹ to the trout, My head is worth all thy bouk²
• C286 They love like CHICK
• C287 As tender as a CHICKEN
• C288 The CHICKEN crams the capon (cock)
• C289 The CHICKEN is the country's but the city eats it
• C290 He is a CHICKEN
• C291 CHICKENS feed capons
• C292 You count (reckon) your CHICKENS before they be hatched
• C293 They CHIDE handsmooth¹
• C294 He that sharply CHIDES is ready to pardon
• C295 As sore weeps the CHILD afternoon as a forenoon
• C296 Better a snotty CHILD than his nose wiped off
• C297 The burnt CHILD dreads the fire
• C298 The CHILD has a red tongue like its father
• C299 A CHILD may have too much of his mother's blessing
• C300 The CHILD says nothing but what it heard by the fire
• C301 The CHILD that is born must be kept
• C302 The CHILD was born and cried, became a man, after fell sick and died
• C303 Correct a CHILD behind and not before
• C304 Give a CHILD while he crave and a dog while his tail wave, you shall have a fair dog and a foul child
• C305 Happy is the CHILD whose father goes to the devil
• C306 He cares not whose CHILD cries, so his laugh
• C307 He has neither CHILD nor chicken (chick)
• C308 He that cockers his CHILD provides for his enemy
• C309 It is a wise CHILD (father) that knows his own father (child)
• C310 A late CHILD an early orphan
• C311 Let not a CHILD sleep upon bones
• C312 Many kiss (love) the CHILD for the nurse's sake
• C313 A naughty CHILD is better sick than whole
• C314 She is past dying of her first CHILD
• C315 Thy CHILD that is no child leave upon the waters and let him swim
• C316 To a CHILD all weather is cold
• C317 To be with CHILD to hear (see) something
• C318 To christen one's own CHILD first
• C319 When the CHILD is christened you may have godfathers enough
• C320 A CHILD's bird and a boy's wife are well used
• C321 CHILD's pig but father's bacon
• C322 A CHILD's service is little yet he is no little fool that despises it
• C323 He that wipes the CHILD's nose kisses the mother's cheek
• C324 It is no CHILD's play
• C325 Be patient and you shall have patient CHILDREN
• C326 Better CHILDREN weep than old men
• C327 CHILDREN and chickens must be always picking
• C328 CHILDREN (Drunkards) and fools cannot lie (Children and fools speak truth)
• C329 CHILDREN and fools have merry lives
• C330 CHILDREN are certain cares but uncertain comforts
• C331 CHILDREN are poor men's (parents') riches
• C332 CHILDREN learn to creep before they go (A man must creep before he goes)
• C333 CHILDREN pick up words as pigeons peas and utter them again as God shall please
• C334 CHILDREN suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old
• C335 CHILDREN to bed and the goose to the fire
• C336 CHILDREN when little make parents fools, when great, mad
• C337 CHILDREN will do like children (Boys will have toys)
• C338 Good CHILDREN are the best comforts
• C339 He that has CHILDREN, all his morsels are not his own
• C340 He that has no CHILDREN does bring them up well
• C341 He that has no CHILDREN knows not what love is
• C342 He that loves his CHILDREN corrects them well
• C343 She spins well that breeds her CHILDREN
• C344 What CHILDREN hear at home soon flies abroad
• C345 When CHILDREN stand quiet they have done some ill
• C346 Who has no CHILDREN feeds them fat
• C347 It is easier to build two CHIMNEYS than to maintain one
• C348 Many CHIMNEYS little smoke
• C349 He must needs swim that is held up by the CHIN
• C350 So we get the CHINK we will bear with the stink
• C351 As dry as a CHIP
• C352 A CHIP of the old block
• C353 Like a CHIP in a pottage (porridge) pot, does neither good nor harm
• C354 Look not too high lest a CHIP fall in your eye
• C355 Not to care a CHIP
• C356 As merry as three CHIPS
• C357 Hew not too high lest the CHIPS fall into the eye
• C358 There is small CHOICE in rotten apples
• C359 CHOLER has more heat than light
• C360 The CHOLERIC drinks, the melancholic eats, the phlegmatic sleeps
• C361 CHOOSE for yourself and use for yourself
• C362 In CHOOSING a wife and buying a sword we ought not to trust another
• C363 To CHOP and change
• C364 That which CHRIST has not the exchequer carries
• C365 She that knows where CHRIST's cross stands will never forget where great A dwells
• C366 A complete CHRISTIAN must have the works of a Papist, the words of a Puritan, and the faith of a Protestant
• C367 After CHRISTMAS comes Lent
• C368 At CHRISTMAS great loaves, at Easter clean souls, and at Whitsuntide new clothes
• C369 CHRISTMAS comes but once a year
• C370 CHRISTMAS lasts not all the year
• C371 A light CHRISTMAS a heavy sheaf
• C372 They keep CHRISTMAS all the year
• C373 They talk of CHRISTMAS so long that it comes
• C374 He has eaten many a CHRISTMAS PIE
• C375 Mark the CHRONICLES aright, when Oxford scholars fall to fight, before many months expired England will with war be fired
• C376 The CHURCH is no wild cat, it will stand
• C377 The CHURCH is not so large but the priest may say service in it
• C378 The CHURCH will lose nothing and defend nothing
• C379 Let the CHURCH stand in the churchyard
• C380 The nearer the CHURCH the farther from God
• C381 Though you see a CHURCHMAN ill yet continue in the church still
• C382 As hungry (poor) as a CHURCH MOUSE (church rat)
• C383 CHURCH WORK goes on slowly
• C384 Choke up, the CHURCHYARD is nigh
• C385 No CHURCHYARD is so handsome that a man would desire straight to be buried there
• C386 Claw a CHURL by (Grease a fat sow in) the tail and he (she) will beray your hand
• C387 Lay not a CHURL upon a gentleman
• C388 A CHURL's feast is better than none at all
• C389 CIDER is treacherous because it smiles in a man's face and then cuts his throat
• C390 An old CINQUE CATER
• C391 He is a CIPHER among numbers
• C392 The CIRCUMSTANCES of an act make it good
• C393 The CITIZEN is at his business before he rise
• C394 A rich CITIZEN's daughter marrying a nobleman is like a black pudding:¹ the one brings blood, the other suet
• C395 Do not dwell in a CITY where a horse does not neigh nor a dog bark
• C396 Do not dwell in a CITY whose governor is a physician
• C397 Far from CITY far from health
• C398 A great CITY a great solitude
• C399 In my own CITY my name, in a strange city my clothes, procure me a respect
• C400 That CITY cannot prosper where an ox is sold for less than a fish
• C401 That CITY is in a bad case whose physician has the gout
• C402 CITIES are taken by the ears
• C403 CITIES seldom change religion only
• C404 He has got a CLAP
• C405 CLAW me and I will claw thee
• C406 As cold (pale) as CLAY
• C407 He claws it as CLAYTON clawed the pudding when he ate bag and all
• C408 It is the CLERK makes the justice
• C409 The greatest CLERKS are not the wisest men
• C410 CLEVELAND in the clay, bring in two soles and carry one away
• C411 A CLIENT 'twixt his attorney and counselor is like a goose 'twixt two foxes
• C412 He that never CLIMBED never fell
• C413 Hasty CLIMBERS have sudden falls
• C414 The highest CLIMBERS have the greatest falls (The higher he climbs the greater his fall)
• C415 April CLING good for nothing
• C416 To kiss the CLINK¹ (counter¹)
• C417 A CLOAK for the rain
• C418 Have not thy CLOAK to make when it begins to rain
• C419 He has a CLOAK for his knavery
• C420 He has turned his CLOAK on the other shoulder
• C421 To have a CLOAK for all waters (I am for any weather)
• C422 Under a bad CLOAK lies a good drinker
• C423 As clean as a CLOCK
• C424 As cold as a CLOCK
• C425 The CLOCK goes as it pleases the clerk
• C426 They agree like the CLOCKS OF LONDON
• C427 Better it is to lose CLOTH than bread
• C428 The CLOTH must still be shorn lest it should hap to be consumed with moths
• C429 The finest CLOTH is eaten by moths
• C430 He that dines and leaves lays the CLOTH twice
• C431 It is a bad CLOTH (wool) that will take no color (dye)
• C432 Like Northern CLOTH, shrunk in the wetting
• C433 To cut it out of whole CLOTH
• C434 All the CLOTHES on your back was once in clews¹
• C435 Ever since we wear CLOTHES we know not one another
• C436 He is in his better blue CLOTHES
• C437 Mend your CLOTHES and you may hold out this year
• C438 He is in the CLOTH MARKET
• C439 Every CLOUD has a silver lining
• C440 He that pries into every CLOUD may be struck with a thunderbolt
• C441 To be under a CLOUD
• C442 After black CLOUDS clear weather
• C443 All CLOUDS bring not rain (storms)
• C444 To speak in the CLOUDS
• C445 When the CLOUDS are upon the hills they'll come down by the mills
• C446 As pale (white) as a CLOUT
• C447 Better to see a CLOUT than a hole out
• C448 They are CLOVE and orange
• C449 Give a CLOWN (carl) your finger and he will take your hand
• C450 A Middlesex CLOWN
• C451 CLOWNS kill each other and gentles cleave together
• C452 As sure as a CLUB
• C453 CLUBS are trump
• C454 Hertfordshire CLUBS and clouted shoon
• C455 To escape CLUDE and be drowned in Conway
• C456 You speak in CLUSTERS, you were begot in nutting
• C457 A COACH-AND-SIX may be driven through an act of Parliament
• C458 As black as a COAL
• C459 I have a cold COAL to blow at
• C460 Let them that be acold blow at the COAL
• C461 Punch COAL, cut candle, set brand on end, neither good housewife nor good housewife's friend
• C462 As hot as COALS
• C463 Glowing COALS sparkle often
• C464 He will carry (bear) no COALS
• C465 To blow the COALS
• C466 To carry COALS to Newcastle
• C467 To fetch over the COALS
• C468 To heap COALS of fire on one's head
• C469 The COAST is (is not) clear
• C470 As sure as the COAT is on one's back
• C471 A blue COAT without a badge
• C472 Cut your COAT according to your cloth
• C473 I would not be in your COAT (skin) for anything
• C474 It is not the gay COAT that makes the gentleman
• C475 To shape a COAT for the moon
• C476 Under a ragged (threadbare) COAT lies wisdom
• C477 COATS change with countries
• C478 They praise them for their gay COATS
• C479 The COBBLER deals with all [awl]
• C480 Let not the COBBLER (shoemaker) go beyond his last
• C481 COBBLER's law, he that takes money must pay the shot
• C482 COBBLERS and tinkers are the best ale drinkers
• C483 Better be a COCK for a day than a hen for a year
• C484 The COCK crows but the hen goes
• C485 The COCK is the countryman's clock
• C486 Every COCK is proud on his own dunghill
• C487 He leaps from the COCK to the ass
• C488 If the COCK molt before the hen we shall have weather thick and thin, but if the hen molt before the cock we shall have weather hard as a block
• C489 To leap like a COCK at a blackberry
• C490 Who eats his COCK (dinner) alone must saddle his horse alone
• C491 The young COCK crows as he the old hears
• C492 Young COCKS love no coops
• C493 He sets COCK on the hoop
• C494 You have it in dry COCK
• C495 The COCKATRICE slays by sight only
• C496 Crush (Kill) the COCKATRICE in the egg
• C497 COCKLE and corn grow in the same field
• C498 To rejoice the COCKLES of one's heart
• C499 As close as COCKLES
• C500 His COCKLOFT is unfurnished
• C501 A London COCKNEY
• C502 Hold or cut CODPIECE POINT
• C503 Poorer than CODRUS
• C504 Jeering COGGESHALL
• C505 To keep a foul COIL¹
• C506 Much COIN much care
• C507 To pay one in his own COIN
• C508 Where COIN (wine) is not common commons must be scant
• C509 As common as COLEMAN HEDGE¹
• C510 To play COLE-PROPHET
• C511 COLEWORTS (Cabbage) twice sodden
• C512 COLL¹ under canstick,² he can play with both hands
• C513 After a COLLAR comes a halter
• C514 If you wrestle with a COLLIER you will get a blotch
• C515 As melancholy as a COLLIER's horse
• C516 A COLLIER's cow and an alewife's sow are always well fed
• C517 It is a dear COLLOP¹ that is taken (cut) out of the flesh
• C518 It is a sairy¹ COLLOP² that is taken off a capon
• C519 As many COLORS as there are in the rainbow
• C520 To fear no COLORS¹
• C521 As ragged as a COLT
• C522 Of a ragged COLT comes a good horse
• C523 There is no COLT but will break some halter
• C524 When you ride a young COLT see your saddle be well girt
• C525 He has a COLT's tooth in his head
• C526 He has cut his COMB
• C527 COMB single (seldom) comb sore
• C528 COMB single (seldom) comb sore
• C529 COME (Hap) what come (hap) may
• C530 First COME first served
• C531 If they COME they come not, if they come not they come
• C532 If thou wilt COME with me bring with thee
• C533 Lightly COME lightly go
• C534 To COME off bluely
• C535 What, do you COME or send?
• C536 As proud COMES behind as goes before
• C536a He is welcome who COMES well laden
• C537 He that COMES uncalled sits unserved
• C538 To it again, nobody COMES
• C539 He CAME in hosed and shod
• C540 I CAME, saw, and overcame
• C541 COMELY not gaudy
• C542 Cold COMFORT
• C543 Stark dead be thy COMFORT
• C544 Concealed COMFORTS are the sweetest
• C545 The COMFORTER's (counselor's) head never aches
• C546 It is as long in COMING as Cotswold barley
• C547 It is better COMING to the beginning of a feast than the end of a fray
• C548 It is ill COMING to the end of a feast (shot¹) and beginning of a fray
• C549 No COMING to heaven with dry eyes
• C550 A good COMING IN is all in all with a widow
• C551 The COMMAND of custom is great
• C552 He is not fit to COMMAND (govern) others that cannot command (govern) himself.
• C553 The ten COMMANDMENTS
• C554 Who COMMENDS himself berays himself
• C555 Every COMMODITY has its incommodity
• C556 A fat COMMODITY has no fellow
• C557 Rate thy COMMODITIES at home but sell them abroad
• C558 Evil COMMUNICATIONS (words) corrupt good manners
• C559 A merry COMPANION is a wagon in the way (is as good as a nag)
• C560 There is no COMPANION like the penny
• C561 You are a crafty COMPANION
• C562 Better to be beaten than be in bad COMPANY
• C563 Choose thy COMPANY before thy drink
• C564 COMPANY makes a man spend
• C565 COMPANY makes cuckolds
• C566 Good COMPANY makes short miles
• C567 He that dies without the COMPANY of good men puts not himself into a good way
• C568 He that goes not in COMPANY knows nothing
• C569 Ill (Evil) COMPANY brings a man to the gallows
• C570 It is better to be alone than in bad (ill) COMPANY
• C571 It is good to have COMPANY in trouble (misery)
• C572 It is the COMPANY that makes the feast
• C573 Not to be fit COMPANY for a dog
• C574 Who keeps COMPANY with the wolf will learn to howl
• C575 It is COMPARISON that makes men happy or miserable
• C576 COMPARISONS are odious
• C577 Live within COMPASS
• C578 Compare only with thy COMPEERS
• C579 Some complain to prevent COMPLAINT
• C580 Cold of COMPLEXION good of condition
• C581 COMPLIMENTING is lying
• C582 He that is wise in his own CONCEIT is a fool
• C583 He is CONCERNED
• C584 CONDITION makes and condition breaks law
• C585 One ill CONDITION mars all the good
• C586 He is proper (noble) that has proper (noble) CONDITIONS
• C587 CONFESS and be hanged
• C588 CONFESSION and sorrow without amendment are the pumping of a ship without stopping the leaks
• C589 CONFESSION of a fault is half amends
• C590 CONFESSION of a fault pardons it
• C591 Open CONFESSION is good for the soul
• C592 Open CONFESSION open penance
• C593 He is no CONJURER
• C594 He came in with the CONQUEROR
• C595 Safe CONQUEST without bloodshed is the greatest
• C596 A clear CONSCIENCE is a sure card
• C597 A clear CONSCIENCE laughs at (fears not) false accusations
• C598 The CONSCIENCE and the eye are tender parts
• C599 A CONSCIENCE as large as a shipman's hose
• C600 CONSCIENCE is a cutthroat
• C601 CONSCIENCE is a thousand witnesses
• C602 CONSCIENCE is hanged up long ago
• C603 CONSCIENCE is witness enough
• C603a A CONSCIENCE wide enough to swing a cat in
• C604 An evil CONSCIENCE breaks many a man's neck
• C605 A good CONSCIENCE is a continual feast
• C606 A guilty CONSCIENCE is a self-accuser (feels continual fear)
• C607 He has a CONSCIENCE as large as a Franciscan's sleeve
• C608 He has a CONSCIENCE like a cheverel's¹ skin
• C609 A quiet CONSCIENCE sleeps in thunder
• C610 Some make a CONSCIENCE of spitting in the church yet rob the altar
• C611 Whose CONSCIENCE is cumbered and stands not clean, of another man's deeds the worse will he deem
• C612 To speak without CONSIDERATION is to shoot without aim
• C613 To put on one's CONSIDERING CAP
• C614 To order without a CONSTABLE
• C615 To outrun the CONSTABLE
• C616 You might be a CONSTABLE for your wit
• C617 The CONSTABLE OF OPPENSHAW sets beggars in stocks at Manchester
• C618 CONSTANCY has one foot on land and another on sea
• C619 The CONSTANCY of the benefit of the year in their seasons argues a deity
• C620 He has got the new CONSUMPTION
• C621 To be too busy gets CONTEMPT
• C622 It is ill CONTENDING with the master of thirty legions
• C623 CONTENT (A mind content) is a kingdom (crown)
• C623a CONTENT is all
• C624 CONTENT is happiness
• C625 CONTENT is the philosopher's stone, that turns all it touches into gold
• C626 CONTENT lodges oftener in cottages than palaces
• C627 He that studies his CONTENT wants it
• C628 He is never CONTENT
• C629 CONTENTMENT (A contented mind) is great riches
• C630 CONTRARIES being set the one against the other appear more evident
• C631 A CONTROLLER is not without contempt
• C632 CONVERSATION makes one what he is
• C633 CONIES love roast meat
• C634 As testy as an old COOK
• C635 Every COOK commends his own sauce
• C635a A good COOK is half a physician
• C636 He is an ill COOK that cannot lick his own fingers
• C637 An ill COOK should have a good cleaver
• C638 He that loves another better than himself starves in a COOK's shop
• C639 You starve in a COOK's shop
• C640 Better wait on the COOKS than the mediciners
• C641 Salt COOKS bear blame but fresh bear shame
• C642 Too many COOKS spoil the broth
• C643 COOK-RUFFIAN, able to scald the devil in his feathers
• C644 A Cooling CARD
• C645 As bald as a COOT
• C646 As black as a COOT
• C647 It is but a COPY¹ of his countenance
• C648 To change (turn) one's COPY
• C649 The right CORAL needs no coloring
• C650 The CORD breaks at the last by the weakest pull
• C651 All the CORN in the country is not shorn by kempers¹
• C652 CORN and horn go together
• C653 The CORN hides itself in the snow as an old man in furs
• C654 CORN in good years is hay, in ill years straw is corn
• C655 CORN is cleaned (cleansed) with wind and the soul with chastenings
• C656 CORN is not to be gathered in the blade but the ear
• C657 Grind good CORN and blow not the horn
• C658 He eats his CORN in the blade
• C659 In much CORN is some cockle
• C660 Look at your CORN¹ in May and you'll come weeping away, look at the same in June and you'll come home in another tune
• C661 Much CORN lies under the straw that is not seen
• C662 Who sows his CORN in the field (He that sows) trusts in God
• C663 You measure everyone's CORN by your own bushel
• C664 To turn in a narrow CORNER
• C665 He is CORN-FED
• C666 He does sail into CORNWALL¹ without a bark (boat)
• C667 The CORRUPTION of one is the generation of another
• C668 The CORRUPTION of the best is worst
• C669 It will not (will) quit the COST
• C670 More COST more worship
• C671 Who may woo but¹ COST?
• C672 With COST one may make pottage of a stool foot
• C673 He that counts all COSTS will never put plow in the earth
• C674 I will not change a COTTAGE in possession for a kingdom in reversion (hope)
• C675 The COUCH is the idle man's prison
• C676 A COUGH will stick longer by a horse than half a peck of oats
• C677 A dry COUGH is the trumpeter of death
• C678 Come not to COUNSEL uncalled
• C679 COUNSEL breaks not the head
• C680 COUNSEL is as good for him as a shoulder of mutton for a sick horse
• C681 COUNSEL is no command
• C682 The COUNSEL thou wouldst have another keep first keep thyself
• C683 Good COUNSEL cannot be bought too dear
• C684 Good COUNSEL does no harm
• C685 Good COUNSEL lightly never comes too late
• C686 Good COUNSEL proceeds from a friendly mind
• C687 Good COUNSEL will sometimes do more than a thousand men
• C688 He can give others good COUNSEL but will take none himself
• C689 He that refuses to buy COUNSEL cheap shall buy repentance dear
• C690 If the COUNSEL be good no matter who gave it
• C691 Ill COUNSEL is worst to the counselor
• C692 Ill COUNSEL mars all
• C693 It is an ill COUNSEL that has no escape
• C694 Keep COUNSEL first thyself
• C695 Neither COUNSEL nor salt is presented unless demanded
• C696 Take COUNSEL of your pillow
• C697 Take no COUNSEL of a fool (of green heads)
• C698 Take not COUNSEL in the combat
• C699 To the COUNSEL of fools a wooden bell
• C700 We have better COUNSEL to give (take) than to take (give)
• C701 COUNSELS in wine seldom prosper
• C702 He that will not be COUNSELED cannot be helped
• C703 He that is his own COUNSELOR knows nothing sure but what he has laid out
• C704 Though thou hast never so many COUNSELORS yet do not forsake the counsel of thy own soul
• C705 To be put out of COUNTENANCE
• C706 Oft COUNTING makes good friends
• C707 Overnarrow COUNTING culzies¹ no kindness
• C708 Every COUNTRY has its law (fashion)
• C709 In every COUNTRY dogs bite
• C710 In every COUNTRY the sun rises in the morning
• C711 So many COUNTRIES so many laws (customs)
• C712 You must go into the COUNTRY to hear what news at London (in town)
• C713 The COUNTRYMAN between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats
• C714 When a COUPLE are newly married the first month is honeymoon or smick smack, the second is hither and thither, the third is thwick thwack, the fourth, the devil take them that brought you and I together
• C715 Great COURAGE is in greatest dangers tried
• C716 To cool one's COURAGE
• C717 If that the COURSE be fair, again and again, quoth Bunny to his bear
• C718 At COURT everyone for himself
• C719 Better happy at COURT than good service
• C720 The COURT has no almanac
• C721 COURT to the town and whore to the window
• C722 Far from COURT far from care
• C723 He that lives in COURT dies upon straw
• C724 He that will in COURT dwell must needs curry favel
• C725 In COURT, city, and country
• C726 Leave the COURT ere the court leave thee
• C727 One (Neither) of the COURT but none (nor) of the counsel
• C728 In COURTS are cares
• C729 The COURTESAN weeps with one eye, the wife with two, and the nun with four
• C730 COURTESY is cumbersome to them that ken it not
• C731 COURTESY on one side only lasts not long
• C732 Full of COURTESY full of craft
• C733 It is a rank COURTESY when a man is forced to give thanks for his own
• C734 A slow COURTESY is a discourtesy
• C735 Who takes (begs) a COURTESY of another sells him his liberty
• C736 He may freely receive COURTESIES that knows how to requite them
• C737 A young COURTIER an old beggar
• C738 COURTING and wooing bring dallying and doing
• C739 Call me COUSIN but cozen me not
• C740 Marry come up, my dirty COUSIN
• C741 COUSIN-GERMANS, quite removed
• C742 The COVER is worthy of such a cup
• C743 He that COVERS thee discovers thee
• C744 COVETOUSNESS (Too much) breaks the bag (sack)
• C745 COVETOUSNESS brings nothing home
• C746 COVETOUSNESS is (Riches are) the root of all evil
• C747 As nimble (comely) as a COW in a cage
• C748 A barren COW never loves calf
• C749 The COW knows not what her tail is worth till she has lost it
• C750 A COW may catch a hare
• C751 A curst COW has short horns
• C752 Drive (Bring) a COW to the hall and she will run to the byre¹ again
• C753 He that owns the COW goes nearest her tail (takes her by the tail)
• C754 He tint¹ never a COW that grat² for a needle
• C755 He would sell the COW and sup the milk
• C756 His COW has calved
• C757 If one give thee a COW run with a cord
• C758 It becomes him as well as a COW does a cart saddle
• C759 Like COW like calf
• C760 Look to the COW and the sow and the wheat mow and all will be well enow
• C761 Many a good COW has an ill (evil) calf
• C762 Milk the COW that stands still. Why follow you the flying?
• C763 Set a COW to catch a hare
• C764 She looked on me as a COW on a bastard calf
• C765 Who bulls the COW must keep the calf
• C766 Who will sell the COW must say the word
• C767 Who would keep a COW when he may have a quart of milk for a penny?
• C768 A red COW's milk is restorative
• C769 To a COW's thumb
• C770 To grow downwards (backward) like a COW's tail
• C771 As COWS come to town, some good some bad
• C772 Till the COWS come home
• C773 A COWARD changes color
• C774 A COWARD dies many deaths, a brave man but one
• C775 If he be a COWARD he is a murderer
• C776 It is better to be a COWARD than foolhardy
• C777 Put a COWARD to his mettle and he will fight the devil
• C778 COWARDS are cruel
• C779 Between COWHITHE and merry Cossingland the devil shits Benacre, look where it stands
• C780 Look high and fall into a COW TURD
• C781 She looks like a COW TURD stuck with primroses
• C782 To be cut in the COXCOMB (head)
• C783 As sour as a CRAB
• C784 The CRAB of the wood is sauce very good for the crab of the sea, but the wood of the crab is sauce for a drab that will not her husband obey
• C785 CRABS breed babs by help of good lads
• C786 The greatest CRABS are not all the best (the best meat)
• C787 To be basted with a CRABSTICK
• C788 Plant the CRAB TREE where you will, it will never bear sweet apples
• C789 To be a little CRACKED (touched)
• C790 As cunning as CRADDOCK
• C791 Cast not thy CRADLE over thy head
• C792 Foul (Fair) in the CRADLE, fair (foul) in the saddle
• C793 Shod in the CRADLE, barefoot in the stubble
• C794 To rock the CRADLE in one's spectacles
• C795 CRADLE STRAWS are scarce out of his breech
• C796 All the CRAFT is in the catching
• C797 CRAFT against craft makes no living
• C798 CRAFT brings nothing home
• C799 CRAFT is bastard policy
• C800 CRAFT lies in clouted shoes
• C801 The gentle CRAFT
• C802 He that has not the CRAFT let him shut up shop
• C803 There is CRAFT in daubing
• C804 Of all CRAFTS to be an honest man is the master CRAFT
• C805 The CRANE to avoid sleep holds a stone in its foot
• C806 You can well skill of CRANE's dirt, your father was a poulter
• C807 A sore CRAVER was never a good payer
• C808 Shameful CRAVING must have shameful nay
• C809 As crooked as CRAWLEY BROOK
• C810 He cries CREAK
• C811 That is the CREAM of the jest
• C812 Every CREATURE thinks her own fair
• C813 There is no CREATURE so like a man as an ape
• C814 CREDIT lost is like a Venice glass broke
• C815 CREDIT ought rather to be given to the eyes than to the ears
• C816 He that buys dear and takes upon CREDIT consumes the body and loses the seed
• C817 He that has lost his CREDIT is dead to the world
• C818 The CREDITOR has a better memory than the debtor
• C819 As sure (true) as CREED
• C820 First CREEP, then go (Learn to creep before you go)
• C821 Eat well of the CRESSES
• C822 CRETANS are liars (Use craft against Cretans)
• C823 One of the same CREW or faction
• C824 Sick of the idle CRICK and the bellywark in the heel
• C825 As merry as a CRICKET
• C826 CRIMES (Mischiefs) are made secure by greater crimes (mischiefs)
• C826a He has got the CRINCKAMS
• C827 He that mocks a CRIPPLE ought to be whole
• C828 If one dwell by (next door to) a CRIPPLE he will learn to halt
• C829 CRITICS are like brushers of noblemen's clothes
• C830 She will as soon part with the CROCK as the porridge
• C831 CROCODILE TEARS
• C832 As rich as CROESUS (a king)
• C833 As coy as CROKER's MARE
• C834 CROSS I win, pile you lose
• C835 CROSS or (and) pile
• C836 He has never a CROSS (penny, halfpenny) to bless himself withal
• C837 The CROSS in his breast and the devil in his actions
• C838 Each CROSS has its inscription
• C839 No CROSS no crown
• C840 CROSSES are ladders that do lead to heaven
• C841 To be cried at the CROSS
• C842 To make a CROSS on a gate
• C843 He has CROTCHETS in his head
• C844 As black as a CROW
• C845 As safe as a CROW (sow) in a gutter
• C846 Breed up a CROW and she will peck out your eyes
• C847 The CROW bewails the sheep and then eats it
• C848 The CROW bids you good morrow
• C849 The CROW cannot be blacker than her wings
• C850 A CROW is never whiter for washing herself often
• C851 The CROW thinks her own bird¹ fairest (whitest)
• C852 He struts like a CROW in a gutter
• C853 He will say the CROW is white
• C854 The hoarse CROW croaks before the rain
• C855 I have a CROW to pluck with you
• C856 One CROW never pulls out another's eyes
• C857 When the CROW begins to build then sheep begin to yield
• C858 When the CROW flies her tail follows
• C859 A white CROW (raven)
• C860 You look as if you would make the CROW a pudding
• C861 A CROWD is not company
• C862 The royal CROWN cures not the headache
• C863 CROWNS have cares
• C864 From the CROWN of the head to the sole of the foot
• C865 The CROW's-FOOT grows under her eye
• C866 CRUELTY is a tyrant that's always attended with fear
• C867 CRUELTY is more cruel if we defer the pain
• C868 To gather up one's CRUMBS
• C869 A CRUST is better than no bread
• C870 To leap at a CRUST
• C871 Great CRY and little wool
• C872 I am sorry for thee but I cannot CRY
• C873 You CRY before you are hurt
• C874 CRY YOU MERCY killed my cat
• C875 As clear as CRYSTAL
• C876 Better be a CUCKOLD and not know it than be none and everybody say so
• C877 The CUCKOLD is the last that knows of it
• C878 The CUCKOLD was very cunning but he was cunninger that cuckolded him
• C879 He that is a CUCKOLD and allows it may be so forever
• C880 If a CUCKOLD come he'll take away the meat if there be no salt on the table
• C881 It is better to be acold than a CUCKOLD
• C882 Let every CUCKOLD wear his own horns
• C883 A malcontented CUCKOLD has no wit
• C884 A malcontented CUCKOLD has no wit
• C885 Who is a CUCKOLD and conceals it carries coals in his bosom
• C886 To send one to CUCKOLD's haven
• C887 CUCKOLDS are Christians
• C888 CUCKOLDS are kind to those who make them so
• C889 CUCKOLDS come by destiny
• C890 As scabbed as a CUCKOO
• C891 The CUCKOO sings all the year
• C892 A CUCKOO thinks herself a fine bird
• C893 When the CUCKOO comes to the bare thorn sell your cow and buy you corn, but when she comes to the full bit sell your corn and buy you sheep
• C894 You are like the CUCKOO, you have but one song
• C895 As cool as a CUCUMBER
• C896 To chew the CUD upon a thing
• C897 To lay down the CUDGELS
• C898 To take up the CUDGELS
• C899 CUNNING (Knowledge, Skill) is no burden
• C900 Too much CUNNING undoes
• C901 A drunken CUNT has no porter
• C902 As great as CUP and can
• C903 As merry as CUP and can
• C904 A CUP in the pate is a mile in the gait
• C905 He has got a CUP too much
• C906 Such CUP (pot) such cover (potlid)
• C907 To carry one's CUP even
• C908 To drink of the same CUP
• C909 To kiss the CUP
• C910 When the CUP is fullest bear it evenest
• C911 To be in one's CUPS
• C912 CUPBOARD LOVE
• C913 Still CUPID's arrows stick near to the heart
• C914 A cumbersome¹ CUR is hated in company
• C915 A CUR will bite before he bark
• C916 A snarling CUR (dog) has a scurvy coat
• C917 Brabbling CURS never want sore ears
• C918 Two CURS shall tame (bite) each other
• C919 Yelping CURS will raise mastiffs
• C920 He that bewails himself has the CURE in his hands
• C921 Past CURE past care
• C922 What cannot be CURED must be endured
• C923 There is no CURING of a grief concealed
• C924 CURSES return upon the heads of those that CURSE
• C925 A CURTAIN LECTURE
• C926 As sick as a CUSHION
• C927 He has deserved a CUSHION
• C928 To miss the CUSHION
• C929 To set one beside the CUSHION
• C930 As stale as CUSTOM
• C931 A bad CUSTOM is like a good cake (A bad custom is), better broken than kept
• C932 CUSTOM (Use) is another (a second) nature
• C933 CUSTOM makes all things easy
• C934 CUSTOM makes sin no sin
• C935 CUSTOM without reason is but an ancient error
• C936 A good CUSTOM must root out that which an ill has brought in
• C937 With CUSTOMS we live well but laws undo us
• C938 Come CUT and longtail
• C939 CUT dwells in every town
• C940 Then call me CUT
• C941 The first CUT and all the loaf besides
• C942 No CUT to unkindness
• C943 A CUTPURSE is a sure trade, for he has ready money when his work is done
• C944 To scold like a CUTPURSE
• C945 Like CYPRESS TREES, that have fair leaves but no fruit
• D1 DAFFING¹ dow nothing²
• D2 He is DAGGED
• D3 He will swear DAGGER out of sheath
• D4 I will not wear the wooden DAGGER
• D5 Stabbed with a Bridport DAGGER
• D6 To come off with a wooden DAGGER
• D7 To take a DAGGER and drown oneself
• D8 Hold up your DAGGER HAND
• D9 To be at DAGGERS' DRAWING
• D10 DAINTY makes dearth
• D11 The DAINTIES of the great are the tears of the poor
• D12 Dear bought and far fetched are DAINTIES for ladies
• D13 Who DAINTIES love shall beggars prove
• D14 To leap at a DAISY
• D15 The DAM of that was a whisker
• D16 To look as though he had sucked his DAM through a hurdle
• D17 A long-gathered DAM is soon run out
• D18 DAME deem¹ warily
• D19 He that will not be ruled by his own DAME (father) must be ruled by his stepdame (stepfather)
• D20 She is an holiday DAME
• D21 DAMMING and laving¹ is sure fishing
• D22 To DANCE barefoot
• D23 Everyone is not merry that DANCES
• D24 Never was DANCER good scholar
• D25 DANCING follows a full belly
• D26 They love DANCING well that dance among thorns
• D27 Better pass a DANGER once than be always in fear
• D28 DANGER and delight grow both upon one stalk (stock)
• D29 A DANGER foreseen is half avoided
• D30 DANGER itself the best remedy for danger
• D31 The DANGER (river) past and God forgotten
• D32 He incurs no DANGER that comes not where it is
• D33 He that seeks DANGER perishes therein
• D34 He that will sail without DANGER must never come upon the main sea
• D35 The more DANGER the more honor
• D36 Who perishes in needless DANGER is the devil's martyr
• D37 Without DANGER we cannot get beyond danger
• D38 I will put DARE behind the door and do it
• D39 He that gropes in the DARK finds that he would not
• D40 It is as good to be in the DARK as without light
• D41 He that is dim-sighted has eaten DARNEL
• D42 He is out at first DASH
• D43 He that would the DAUGHTER win must with the mother first begin
• D44 If your DAUGHTER be marriageable set your servant free and give her to him in marriage
• D45 Marry your DAUGHTER and eat fresh fish betimes
• D46 When the DAUGHTER is stolen shut Peppergate
• D47 Marry your DAUGHTERS betimes lest they marry themselves
• D48 Two DAUGHTERS and a back door are three arrant (stark) thieves
• D49 DAVID¹ and Chad² sow peas good or bad
• D50 As wise as a DAW
• D51 He that marries a DAW (slut) eats mickle dirt
• D52 The dasnell¹ DAWCOCK² sits among the doctors
• D53 Strike, DAWKIN, the devil is in the hemp
• D54 Dab, quoth DAWKINS, when he hit his wife in the ass with a pound of butter
• D55 As bright as DAY
• D56 As clear as the DAY
• D57 As merry as the DAY is long
• D58 As the DAY lengthens so the cold strengthens
• D59 Be the DAY never so long, at last (at length) comes (it rings to) evensong
• D60 The better DAY the better deed
• D61 Come DAY, go day, the day is long enough (God send Sunday)
• D62 The DAY has eyes, the night has ears
• D63 The DAY is short and the work is much
• D64 Do and undo, the DAY is long enough
• D65 Every DAY brings its bread with it
• D66 Every DAY has his dolor
• D67 Every DAY in the week one shower of rain and on Sunday twain
• D68 Every DAY is not holiday (Sunday)
• D69 Every DAY is not yesterday
• D70 Every DAY the night comes
• D71 Every DAY worse and worse
• D72 A fair DAY in winter is mother of a storm
• D73 The first DAY of April you may send a fool whither you will
• D74 For ever and a DAY
• D75 A good DAY will not mend him nor a bad day impair him
• D76 He is bursen¹ all DAY with bearing timber to the crag²
• D77 He that comes every DAY shall have a cockney,¹ he that comes now and then shall have a fat hen
• D78 He that contemplates has a DAY without night
• D79 He that fights and runs away may live to fight another DAY
• D80 He that knows what may be gained in a DAY never steals
• D81 He that sees you in the DAY will not seek you in the night
• D82 I wept when I was born and every DAY shows why
• D83 It falls in a DAY that falls not all the year after
• D84 It is always darkest just before the DAY dawns
• D85 It is DAY still while the sun shines
• D86 It is good to take the DAY before you
• D87 It is never a bad DAY that has a good night
• D88 It will be a black (bloody) DAY to somebody
• D89 Lay up for a rainy DAY
• D90 The longest DAY has an end
• D91 No DAY passes without some grief
• D92 No DAY so clear but has dark clouds
• D93 No DAY without a line
• D94 Not a long DAY but a good heart rids work
• D95 Not worthy to be named the same DAY
• D96 One DAY judges another and the last is judge of all
• D97 One DAY will pay for all
• D98 One fair DAY in winter makes not birds merry
• D99 One may see DAY at a little hole
• D100 Praise a fair DAY at night
• D101 There will come a DAY of reckoning
• D102 They take a long DAY that never pay
• D103 This DAY there is no trust, but come tomorrow
• D104 Though you rise early yet the DAY comes at his time and not till then
• D105 To a fair DAY open the window but make you ready as to a foul
• D106 To angle all DAY and catch a gudgeon at night
• D107 To know how to live another DAY
• D108 To rise late (at ten o'clock), DAY or day not
• D109 What one DAY gives us another takes away from us
• D110 Who rises late trots all the DAY
• D111 You are feared of the DAY you never saw
• D112 You come a DAY after the fair
• D113 He does an excellent DAY's work who rids himself of a fool
• D114 After three DAYs men grow weary of a wench, a guest, and weather rainy (rain)
• D115 Farewell my good DAYS, they will be soon gone
• D116 Halcyon DAYS
• D117 I will make him know churning DAYS
• D118 My dancing DAYS are done
• D119 One of these DAYS is none of these days
• D120 So many DAYS old the moon is on Michaelmas DAY, so many floods
• D121 Thirty DAYS have November, April, June, and September; February has twenty-eight alone and all the rest have thirty-one
• D122 Two dismal DAYS, the day of death and the day of doom
• D123 You burn DAYLIGHT
• D124 Speak well of the DEAD
• D125 To lament the DEAD avails not and revenge vents hatred
• D126 To lament the DEAD avails not and to the living it is hurtful
• D127 The DEAF (Deaf men) gain (go away with) the injury
• D128 To DEAL (play) aboveboard
• D129 One seldom loses by DEALING with honest men
• D130 The DEARER it is the cheaper for me
• D131 No DEARTH but breeds in the horse manger
• D132 DEARTHS foreseen come not
• D133 After DEATH the doctor (physic)
• D134 As pale as DEATH
• D135 As silent as DEATH
• D136 As sure as DEATH
• D137 DEATH and marriage make term day
• D138 DEATH at the one door and heirship at the other
• D139 DEATH devours lambs as well as sheep
• D140 DEATH has a thousand doors to let out life
• D141 DEATH is a plaster for all ills
• D142 DEATH is common to all
• D143 DEATH is the grand leveler
• D144 DEATH keeps no calendar
• D145 The DEATH of a young wolf does never come too soon
• D146 The DEATH of the wolves is the safety of the sheep
• D147 The DEATH of wives and the life (standing) of sheep make men rich
• D148 DEATH pays all debts
• D149 DEATH takes no bribe
• D150 DEATH when it comes will have no denial
• D151 A fair DEATH honors the whole life
• D152 For his DEATH there is many a wet eye in Groby Pool
• D153 He has not lived that lives not after DEATH
• D154 He laughs ill that laughs himself to DEATH
• D155 He that fears DEATH lives not
• D156 One had as good be nibbled to DEATH by ducks or pecked to death by a hen
• D157 Till DEATH all is life
• D158 To rhyme to DEATH, as they do rats in Ireland
• D159 Welcome, DEATH, quoth the rat when the trap fell down
• D160 You have DEATH in your house and do bewail another's
• D161 DEATH's day is doomsday
• D162 To be at DEATH's door
• D163 DEBT is better than death
• D164 He that gets out of DEBT grows rich
• D165 I will not die in your DEBT (your debtor)
• D166 Out of DEBT out of danger
• D167 Out of DEBT out of deadly sin
• D168 To pay one's DEBT to nature
• D169 You can puind¹ for DEBT but not for unkindness
• D170 Better old DEBTS than old sores
• D171 Speak not of my DEBTS unless you mean to pay them
• D172 DEBTORS are liars
• D173 Of ill DEBTORS men take oats (hay, straw)
• D174 One DECEIT (falsehood) drives out another
• D175 There is no DECEIT in a bag pudding
• D176 There is no DECEIT in a brimmer
• D177 To do well is no DECEIT, to cast away his own is no gain
• D178 To DECEIVE oneself is very easy
• D179 He that DECEIVES (beguiles) another is oft deceived (beguiled) himself
• D180 He that once DECEIVES is ever suspected
• D181 Nobody DECEIVED but he that confides (trusts)
• D182 To deceive the DECEIVER is no deceit
• D183 A good DEED is never lost
• D184 An ill DEED cannot bring honor
• D185 Self DEED self fa¹
• D186 DEEDS are fruit, words are but leaves
• D187 DEEDS are male (men), words are female (women)
• D188 The DEEPER the sweeter
• D189 As the stricken DEER withdraws himself to die
• D190 Where the DEER is slain some of her blood will lie
• D191 The greatest DEER-STEALERS make the best park-keepers
• D192 DEFEND me and spend me
• D193 The first DEGREE of folly is to hold oneself wise, the second to profess it, the third to despise counsel
• D194 After a DELAY comes a let¹
• D195 DELAY breeds danger (is dangerous)
• D196 DELAY in love is dangerous
• D197 That DELAY is good which makes the way the safer
• D198 DELAYS are the death of suitors
• D199 When the DEMAND is a jest the fittest answer is a scoff
• D200 He that demands misses not unless his DEMANDS be foolish
• D201 He that asks faintly begs a DENIAL
• D202 DENIALS make little faults great
• D203 To bind in DERBY's bands
• D204 It is easier to DESCEND than ascend
• D205 The DESCENT to hell is easy
• D206 DESERT and reward be ever far odd (seldom keep company)
• D207 To reward one according to his DESERTS
• D208 First DESERVE and then desire
• D209 He that DESERVES best is commonly worst re-warded
• D210 Great DESERVERS grow intolerable presumers
• D211 DESIRE has no rest
• D212 DESIRE torments us and hope comforts us
• D213 DESIRES are nourished by delay
• D214 He begins to die that quits his DESIRES
• D215 He begins to die that quits his DESIRES
• D216 DESPAIR (Love) makes cowards courageous (desperate)
• D217 As black as the DEVIL
• D218 As false as the DEVIL
• D219 As innocent as a DEVIL of two years old
• D220 As the DEVIL loves holy water
• D221 As the DEVIL mended his dame's leg
• D222 Between the DEVIL and the deep sea (Dead Sea)
• D223 Bring you the DEVIL and I'll bring out his dam
• D224 The DEVIL always leaves a stink behind him
• D225 The DEVIL and his dam
• D226 The DEVIL and John of Cumber
• D227 The DEVIL and the dean begin with a letter; when the devil has the dean the kirk will be the better
• D228 The DEVIL and the whirlwind go with him
• D229 The DEVIL brought the bashful man to the court
• D230 The DEVIL can cite Scripture for his purpose
• D231 The DEVIL can transform himself into an angel of light
• D232 The DEVIL dances in a woman's placket
• D233 The DEVIL dances in an empty pocket
• D234 The DEVIL divides the world between atheism and superstition
• D235 The DEVIL gets up to the belfry by the vicar's skirts
• D236 The DEVIL go with thee down the lane
• D237 The DEVIL has cast a bone to set strife
• D238 The DEVIL has owed me a cake of a long time and now has paid me a loaf
• D239 The DEVIL himself can't understand it
• D240 The DEVIL is a busy bishop in his own diocese
• D241 The DEVIL is a knave
• D242 The DEVIL is an ass
• D243 The DEVIL is at home
• D244 The DEVIL is dead
• D245 The DEVIL is ever kind to his own
• D246 The DEVIL is full of knowledge (is nought) because he is old
• D247 The DEVIL is God's ape
• D248 The DEVIL is good to some
• D249 The DEVIL is good when he is pleased
• D250 The DEVIL is in the dice
• D251 The DEVIL is in the straw
• D252 The DEVIL is known by his claws (cloven feet, horns)
• D253 The DEVIL is not always at a poor man's door
• D254 The DEVIL is not always at one door
• D255 The DEVIL is not so black as he is painted
• D256 The DEVIL lurks behind the cross
• D257 The DEVIL made souters¹ shipmen, that can neither steer nor row
• D258 The DEVIL makes his Christmas pie of lawyers' tongues and clerks' fingers
• D259 The DEVIL never assails a man except he find him either void of knowledge or of the fear of God
• D260 The DEVIL on Dun's¹ back
• D261 The DEVIL owed him a shame and now he has paid it
• D262 The DEVIL rebukes sin
• D263 The DEVIL rides on a fiddlestick
• D264 The DEVIL run through you booted and spurred with a scythe on his back
• D265 The DEVIL shits upon a great heap
• D266 The DEVIL sometimes speaks the truth
• D267 The DEVIL take the hindmost
• D268 The DEVIL (The devil and all) to pay
• D269 The DEVIL turns his back at a door shut
• D270 The DEVIL was sick, the devil a monk would be; the devil was well, the devil a monk was he
• D271 The DEVIL wipes his tail with the poor man's pride
• D272 The DEVIL would have been a weaver but for the temples
• D273 Give the DEVIL his due
• D274 Go to the DEVIL and bishop you
• D275 He is good to fetch the DEVIL a priest
• D276 He is like the DEVIL, always in mischief
• D277 He looks as the DEVIL looked over Lincoln
• D278 He must needs go that the DEVIL drives
• D279 He must rise betimes that will cozen the DEVIL
• D280 He that has shipped the DEVIL must make the best of him
• D281 He that is busy is tempted but by one DEVIL, he that is idle by a legion
• D282 He that takes the DEVIL into his boat must carry him over the sound
• D283 He will swear the DEVIL out of hell
• D284 He would have (To know) the DEVIL and all
• D285 If the DEVIL be a vicar you will be his clerk
• D286 Ill does the DEVIL preserve his servant
• D287 Let one DEVIL ding¹ another
• D288 Let the DEVIL pay the maltman
• D289 More like the DEVIL than Saint Laurence
• D290 One DEVIL is like another
• D291 One had as good eat the DEVIL as the broth he is boiled in
• D292 Sain¹ you well from the DEVIL and the laird's bairns
• D293 Seldom lies the DEVIL dead in a ditch (by the dike side)
• D294 Speak of the DEVIL and he will appear
• D295 That will come when the DEVIL is blind
• D296 There is a DEVIL in every berry of the grape
• D297 Though I am black I am not the DEVIL
• D298 To give the DEVIL the one to carry away the other
• D299 To hug one as the DEVIL hugs a witch
• D300 To play the DEVIL for God's sake
• D301 To play the DEVIL in the bullimong¹
• D302 To play the DEVIL in the horologue
• D303 To set the DEVIL on sale
• D304 Up with it if it be but a DEVIL of two years old
• D305 When he has wounded himself he seeks to the DEVIL for physic
• D306 When the DEVIL is a hog you shall eat bacon
• D307 When the DEVIL is dead there is a wife for Humphrey
• D308 Where had the DEVIL the friar but where he was?
• D309 Where none else will, the DEVIL himself must bear the cross
• D310 The white DEVIL is worse than the black
• D311 A young DEVIL an old saint
• D312 The DEVIL's child the devil's luck
• D313 The DEVIL's guts
• D314 The DEVIL's mouth is a miser's purse
• D315 He is patterning the DEVIL's paternoster
• D316 That which is gotten over the DEVIL's back is spent under his belly
• D317 To be at the DEVIL's ass-a-peak
• D318 To bear the DEVIL's sack
• D319 Raise no more DEVILS (spirits) than you are able to lay
• D320 As true as the DIAL to the sun
• D321 To move as does the DIAL HAND, which is not seen to move
• D322 To be a rough DIAMOND
• D323 DIAMONDS cut diamonds
• D324 DICING, drabbing, and drinking are the three D's to destruction
• D325 As smooth (fit) as a DIE
• D326 The DIE is cast
• D327 It is as natural to DIE as to be born
• D328 OLD be or young DIE
• D329 The sparing DIET is the spirit's feast
• D330 The DIFFERENCE is wide that the sheets will not decide
• D331 Little DIFFERENCE between a feast and a bellyful
• D332 There is a DIFFERENCE between Peter and Peter
• D333 There is a great DIFFERENCE between word and deed
• D334 There is DIFFERENCE between staring and stark-blind (stark-mad)
• D335 There is no DIFFERENCE of bloods in a basin
• D336 There is small DIFFERENCE to the eye of the world in being nought and being thought so
• D337 When DIGHTON is pulled down Hull shall become a great town
• D338 DILIGENCE is the mother of good fortune (luck)
• D339 Too much DILIGENCE is hurtful
• D340 After DINNER sit a while, after supper walk a mile
• D341 At DINNER my man appears
• D342 He that saves his DINNER will have the more for his supper
• D343 He that would eat a good DINNER let him eat a good breakfast
• D344 DINNERS cannot be long where dainties want
• D345 Cast no DIRT into the well that has given you water
• D346 DIRT bodes luck
• D347 DIRT parts company
• D348 He that falls into the DIRT, the longer he stays there the fouler he is
• D349 Throw DIRT enough and some will stick
• D350 What serves DIRT for if it do not stink?
• D351 The DIRTBIRD (dirt owl) sings, we shall have rain
• D352 Sweet DISCOURSE makes short days and nights
• D353 While the DISCREET advise the fool does his business
• D354 DISCRETION is the better part of valor
• D355 The chief DISEASE that reigns this year is folly
• D356 A deadly DISEASE neither physician nor physic can ease
• D357 A desperate DISEASE must have a desperate cure
• D358 A DISEASE known is half cured
• D359 DISEASES are the interests of pleasures
• D360 DISEASES of the eye are to be cured with the elbow
• D361 DISGRACES are like cherries, one draws another
• D362 He is DISGUISED
• D363 As easy as to lick a DISH
• D364 A DISH of dotterels
• D365 The DiSH (pot) wears its OWN cover
• D366 Everyone that can lick a DISH
• D367 The first DISH pleases all
• D368 He has got a DISH
• D369 Hold the DISH while I shed my pottage
• D370 Lick your DISH
• D371 One DISH should serve the turn
• D372 Pay with the same DISH you borrow
• D373 She simpers like a riven DISH
• D374 To carry one's DISH upright
• D375 To hold one's DISH under another person's ladle
• D376 You clap your DISH¹ (beg, knock) at a wrong man's door
• D377 All her DISHES are chafing dishes
• D378 Many DISHES many diseases
• D379 They were never fain that fidged nor full that licked DISHES
• D380 I will not make my DISHCLOUT my tablecloth
• D381 The DISPOSITION of the mind follows the constitution (composition) of the body
• D382 Serve a noble DISPOSITION (man) though poor, the time comes that he will repay thee
• D383 DISPRAISE by evil men is praise
• D384 In too much DISPUTE truth is lost
• D385 There is no DISPUTING of taste
• D386 He that cannot DISSEMBLE knows not how to live (rule)
• D387 Better to go about than to fall into the DITCH
• D388 Lie not in the DITCH and say God help me
• D389 A DIURNAL-MAKER¹ is the subamner² to a historian
• D390 DIVERSITY of humors breeds tumors
• D391 DIVIDE and rule
• D392 Make me a DIVINER (soothsayer) and I will make you rich
• D393 As good undone as DO it too soon
• D394 DO as I say, not as I do
• D395 DO as you would be done to
• D396 DO it well or do it again
• D397 Do not DO it if thou wilt not have it known
• D398 DO well and have well
• D399 DO well for others yet look to yourself
• D400 DO what you ought and come what come can
• D401 For that which thou canst DO thyself rely not on another
• D402 It is better to DO well than to say well
• D403 It is never too late to DO well
• D404 It is never too late to DO well
• D405 Self DO self have
• D406 We will DO anything that we may dance all
• D407 What we DO willingly is easy
• D408 You can't DO but you must overdo
• D409 He DOES well but none knows but himself
• D410 He is handsome that handsome DOES
• D411 He that DOES amiss may do well
• D412 He that DOES (seeks) that he ought not, that happens to him he thinks not (finds what he would not)
• D413 He that DOES well wearies not himself
• D414 He that DOES what he will does not what he ought
• D415 Well is that well DOES
• D416 As you have DONE so shall you feel
• D417 Better it be DONE than wish it had been done
• D418 Everything is easy after it has been DONE
• D419 That which is easily DONE is soon believed
• D420 As like as a DOCK to a daisy
• D421 In DOCK out nettle
• D422 In DOCK out nettle
• D423 He must be a DOCTOR at least that reads it
• D424 If the DOCTOR (physician) cures, the sun sees it, but if he kills, the earth hides it
• D425 You need not doubt, you are no DOCTOR
• D426 That is but one DOCTOR's opinion
• D427 The best DOCTORS (physicians) are Dr. Diet, Dr. Quiet, and Dr. Merryman
• D428 To be DOCTORS at Daws' Cross
• D429 Doctor DODDYPOLL
• D430 Not worth a DODKIN
• D431 To trot like a DOE
• D432 Ill DOERS are ill deemers
• D433 As dry as a DOG
• D434 As greedy as a DOG
• D435 As idle as a DOG
• D436 As long as a DOG (cat) would be bound with a blood pudding¹
• D437 As low as DOG to bow
• D438 As melancholy as a DOG
• D439 As nimble as a new-gelt DOG
• D440 As sick as a DOG
• D441 As weary as a DOG
• D442 A bad DOG never sees the wolf
• D443 Beat the DOG before the lion
• D444 The best DOG leaps the stile first
• D445 Better to have a DOG fawn on you than bite (bark at) you
• D446 Bid a churlish DOG bite
• D447 A curst DOG (cur) must be tied short
• D448 A dead DOG bites (barks) not
• D449 The DOG (wolf) barks in vain at the moon
• D450 The DOG fights best that out of danger plays
• D451 The DOG gnaws the bone because he cannot swallow it
• D452 A DOG in a doublet
• D453 A DOG (man) of wax
• D454 The DOG offended, the sow suffered
• D455 The DOG returns to his vomit
• D456 The DOG that kills the wolf is at length killed by the wolf
• D457 The DOG (cat) that licks ashes trust not with meal
• D458 The DOG to his vomit and the swine (sow) to his (her) mire
• D459 The DOG wags his tail not for love of you but of your bread
• D460 The DOG who hunts foulest hits at most faults
• D461 A DOG will bark ere he bite
• D462 A DOG will endure no companions in the kitchen
• D463 A DOG will not cry (bite, yowl) if you strike (beat) him with a bone
• D464 Every DOG has his day
• D465 Every DOG is stout at his own door (is a lion at home)
• D466 Every naughty DOG hangs his tail
• D467 Fight DOG, fight bear, the devil part them
• D468 Fling the DOG a bone
• D469 The foremost DOG catches the hare
• D470 A good DOG deserves a good bone
• D471 A good DOG never barked but¹ a bone
• D472 A good DOG seldom meets with a good bone
• D473 Hang a DOG on a crab tree and he'll never love verjuice
• D474 He is not able to give a DOG a crust
• D475 He looks like a DOG under a door
• D476 He that has a DOG of his own may go to the kirk with a clean breast
• D477 He that would hang his DOG gives out first that he's mad
• D478 He will lie as fast as a DOG will lick a dish
• D479 Help the lame DOG over the stile
• D480 The hindmost DOG may catch the hare
• D481 I am not everybody's DOG that whistles
• D482 I will not keep a DOG and bark myself
• D483 If the DOG bark go in, if the bitch bark go out
• D484 If the old DOG barks he gives counsel
• D485 If you will have the DOG follow you (have a good dog), give him bread (feed him well)
• D486 It is a good DOG can catch anything
• D487 It is an ill DOG that deserves not a crust
• D488 It is an ill (poor) DOG that is not worth the whistling
• D489 It is hard to make an old DOG stoop
• D490 It would make a DOG doff his doublet
• D491 It would vex a DOG (man) to see a pudding creep
• D492 Knit my DOG a pair of breeches and my cat a codpiece
• D493 Let the DOG worry the hog
• D494 Like a DOG in a fair
• D495 A living DOG is better than a dead lion
• D496 Love me love my DOG
• D497 Many a DOG is hanged for his skin and many a man is killed for his purse
• D498 An old DOG barks not in vain
• D499 An old DOG (hound) bites sore
• D500 An old DOG will learn no tricks
• D501 An old DOG (mastiff) will not be led in a string (chain)
• D502 Sirrah¹ your DOG but sirrah not me, for I was born before you could see
• D503 A still DOG bites sore
• D504 There is a DOG in the well
• D505 To be cozened as the DOG was who thought to go to breakfast and went to hanging
• D506 To be old DOG at it
• D507 To blush like a black DOG
• D508 To call a DOG a dog
• D509 To die like a DOG
• D510 To give one the DOG to hold
• D511 To look like a DOG that has lost his tail
• D512 To love it as a DOG loves a whip
• D513 To play the DOG in the manger, not eat yourself nor let anybody else
• D514 To use one like a DOG
• D515 A waking DOG afar off barks at a sleeping lion
• D516 When a DOG is drowning everyone offers him drink
• D517 When the DOG is beaten out of the room where will they lay their stink?
• D518 While a DOG gnaws a bone he hates his fellow
• D519 The worst DOG that is wags his tail
• D520 Cut off a DOG's tail and he will be a dog still
• D521 A DOG's life, hunger and ease
• D522 A DOG's nose and a maid's knees are always cold
• D523 To make a DOG's bed
• D524 To sleep DOG's sleep
• D525 Wake not at every DOG's bark
• D526 All DOGS bark not (No dogs shall bark) at him
• D527 All the DOGS follow the salt bitch
• D528 Cowardly DOGS bark much
• D529 DOGS are fine in the field
• D530 DOGS bark more for custom than fierceness
• D531 DOGS barking aloof bite not at hand
• D532 DOGS begin in jest and end in earnest
• D533 DOGS must eat
• D534 DOGS run away with whole shoulders
• D535 DOGS will rid¹ swine
• D536 He sleeps as DOGS do when wives sift meal (bake)
• D537 He that lies down (goes to bed, sleeps) with DOGS must rise with fleas
• D538 Hungry DOGS will eat (love) dirty puddings
• D539 Like DOGS, if one barks all bark
• D540 Little DOGS start the hare but the great ones catch it
• D541 Many DOGS may easily worry one
• D542 Silly DOGS are more angry with the stone than with the hand that had flung it
• D543 To go to the DOGS
• D544 Two DOGS never agree about one bone
• D545 Two DOGS strive for a bone and the third runs away with it
• D546 To serve one a DOG TRICK
• D547 By DOING nothing we learn to do ill
• D548 In DOING we learn
• D549 One never loses by DOING good turns
• D550 Great DOINGS at Gregory's, heat the oven twice for a custard
• D551 There is great DOINGS in the North when they bar their doors with tailors
• D552 At the DOOR of the fold, words; within the fold, an account
• D553 The DOOR that is not opened to him that begs our alms will be opened to the physician
• D554 Every DOOR may be shut but death's door
• D555 He must stoop that has a low DOOR
• D556 Here is the DOOR and there is the way
• D556a I had rather go by his DOOR than over his grave
• D557 Make not the DOOR (entry) wider than the house
• D558 An open DOOR (gate) may tempt a saint
• D559 Out of DOOR out of debt
• D560 The postern DOOR (back door) makes thief and whore
• D561 Sweep before your own DOOR
• D562 To love at the DOOR and leave at the hatch
• D563 When one DOOR is shut another is open
• D564 At open DOORS dogs come in
• D565 Old enough to lie without DOORS
• D566 Well does he live within DOORS that is beloved without doors
• D567 As dead (deaf, dumb) as a DOORNAIL
• D568 As dull as (To sleep like) a DORMOUSE
• D569 Dorsetshire DORSERS
• D570 He will not put off his DOUBLET (clothes) before he goes to bed
• D571 He that casts all DOUBTS shall never be resolved
• D572 As innocent (harmless) as a DOVE
• D573 As loving (tame, patient) as a DOVE (pigeon)
• D574 DOVES (Pigeons) have no gall
• D575 DOVERCOURT, ¹ all speakers and no hearers
• D576 Over jolly DOW¹ not
• D577 A great DOWRY is a bed full of brabbles (brambles)
• D578 To expect, to expect, is worth four hundred DRACHMS
• D579 The DRACHM of the bottle
• D580 DRAFF is good enough for swine
• D581 DRAFF was his errand but drink he would have
• D582 Every DRAM of delight has a pound of pain
• D583 A DRAUGHT of hen's milk
• D584 It is sweet DRAWING in one line
• D585 After a DREAM of a wedding comes a corpse
• D586 It is a true DREAM that is seen waking
• D587 DREAMS are lies
• D588 DREAMS go by contraries
• D589 Golden DREAMS make men awake hungry
• D590 If DREAMS and wishes were true there would hardly be found a maid in all the nunneries of Christendom
• D591 Morning DREAMS are true
• D592 He never DREAMED of it
• D593 Many DRESSERS put the bride's dress out of order
• D594 Fine DRESSING is a foul house swept before the doors
• D595 DRIFT is as bad as unthrift
• D596 DRINK after grief goes merrily down
• D597 DRINK and drought come seldom together
• D598 DRINK but¹ bread makes all the town astir (house ado)
• D599 Drink off your DRINK and steal no lambs
• D600 He cares not how good his DRINK be so his bread be good
• D601 He was hanged that left his DRINK behind
• D602 Loath to the DRINK and loath from it
• D603 Such DRINK as will keep one in the right way
• D604 To snatch a DRINK like the dogs of Egypt (at the Nile)
• D605 Who likes not the DRINK God deprives him of bread
• D606 One cannot DRINK and whistle at once
• D607 He that never DRANK was never athirst (adry)
• D608 He has DRUNK more than he has bled
• D609 It is best DRINKING at the fountain (wellhead, spring)
• D610 It is good DRINKING of wine at another man's cost
• D611 Many speak of my great DRINKING but few of my sore thirst
• D612 I will make you know your DRIVER
• D613 As lost as a DROP of water in the sea
• D614 DROP by drop the sea is drained (the tub is filled)
• D615 The last DROP makes the full cup run over
• D616 Fat DROPS fall from fat flesh
• D617 Many (Small) DROPS make a shower (flood)
• D618 Constant DROPPING will wear the stone
• D619 He will not lose the DROPPINGS of his nose
• D620 He has the silver DROPSY
• D621 After DROUGHT comes rain
• D622 DROUGHT never brought dearth
• D623 He that fears DROWNING comes near no wells
• D624 Where DRUMS beat laws are silent
• D625 Ever DRUNK ever dry
• D626 The DRUNKARD is known by his snout (nose)
• D627 A DRUNKARD is not master of his own soul
• D628 Let but the DRUNKARD alone and he will fall of himself
• D629 A DRUNKARD's purse is a bottle
• D630 There are more old DRUNKARDS than old physicians
• D631 The DUCKS fare well in the Thames
• D632 To make DUCKS and drakes with one's money
• D633 When DUDMAN and Ramhead meet
• D634 Give everyone his DUE
• D635 He that loses his DUE gets no thanks
• D636 Like a DUKE? Like a duck
• D637 To dine with DUKE HUMPHREY¹
• D638 To be at DULCARNON
• D639 DUMMY¹ cannot lie
• D640 To be in the DUMPS
• D641 Norfolk DUMPLINGS
• D642 Draw DUN¹ out of the mire
• D643 DUN¹ is in the mire
• D644 DUN is the mouse
• D645 The DUNDER¹ do gally² the beans
• D646 As plain as DUNSTABLE¹ HIGHWAY (Plain Dunstable)
• D647 As dry as DUST
• D648 He that blows in the DUST fills his eyes with it
• D649 Play off your DUST
• D650 To cast DUST in a man's eyes
• D651 To lick (kiss) the DUST (ground)
• D652 What a DUST do I raise, said the fly upon the chariot wheel
• D653 While the DUST is on your feet sell what you have bought
• D654 As dull as a DUTCHMAN
• D655 The DUTCHMAN drinks his buttons off, the English doublet and away
• D656 The DUTCHMAN drinks pure wine in the morning, at noon wine without water, in the evening as it comes from the butt
• D657 DUTCHMEN (Hollanders) be wise (have their wits) in their hands
• D658 He that eats well and drinks well should do his DUTY well
• D659 A DWARF on a giant's shoulder sees farther of the two
• E1 The EAGLE does not catch flies
• E2 An EAGLE does not hatch a dove
• E3 Only the EAGLE can gaze at the sun
• E4 You cannot fly like an EAGLE with the wings of a wren
• E5 An EAGLE's old age
• E6 To have an EAGLE's eye
• E7 EAGLES fly alone
• E8 Full EARS of corn hang lowest
• E9 Everything has an EAR and a pitcher has two
• E10 He bites the EAR yet seems to cry for fear
• E11 He cannot hear on that EAR (side)
• E12 In at one EAR and out at the other
• E13 To turn (give) a deaf EAR
• E14 When your EAR tingles (burns) people are talking about you
• E15 He dares not for his EARS
• E16 He may go shake his EARS
• E17 It is better to play with the EARS than the tongue
• E18 Lend me your EARS awhile
• E19 My EARS are my own
• E20 To be all EARS
• E21 To carry one by the EARS like a pot (pitcher)
• E22 To hang one's EARS
• E23 To set (fall) together by the EARS
• E24 To sleep securely on both EARS (on either EAR)
• E25 Who has EARS let him hear
• E26 Wide EARS and a short tongue
• E27 EARLY up and never the nearer
• E28 EARTH is the best shelter, truth the best buckler
• E29 The EARTH makes not the gold the worse
• E30 EARTH must go to earth (Dust to dust)
• E31 The EARTH produces all things and receives all again
• E32 The EARTH that yields food yields also poison
• E33 Like EARTH like pitcher
• E34 Of the EARTH must the dike be bigged
• E35 EASE is the sauce of labor
• E36 He is at EASE who has enough
• E37 He that is angry is not at EASE
• E38 He that is at EASE seeks dainties
• E39 If you would be at EASE all the world is not
• E40 Think of EASE but work on
• E41 To complain of EASE
• E42 You take your EASE in your inn
• E43 He that never EASES himself faints
• E44 EAST and west (Extremes) become the same
• E45 The longer EAST the shorter west
• E46 At EASTER the wind is at Chester
• E47 EASTER (Christmas) so wished for long, passes away in one day
• E48 When EASTER DAY sits in Lady Day's¹ lap England must beware of a clap
• E49 EAT and welcome, fast and heartily welcome
• E50 EAT to live, not live to eat
• E51 You EAT and eat but you do not drink to fill you
• E52 He that EATS while¹ he brusts² (lasts) will be the worse while he die
• E53 Great EATERS (Gluttons) dig their graves with their teeth
• E54 EATING and drinking take away one's stomach
• E55 Often and little EATING makes a man fat
• E56 He that is at a low EBB at Newgate¹ may soon be afloat at Tyburn
• E56a As black as EBONY
• E57 He is upon the EDGE of his grave
• E58 Good EDUCATION is (The best bred have) the best portion
• E59 As nimble as an EEL in a sandbag
• E60 As slippery as an EEL
• E61 He holds a wet EEL by the tail
• E62 Hold fast an EEL with a fig leaf
• E63 You cannot hide an EEL in a sack
• E64 The EFFECT speaks, the tongue needs not
• E65 As an EGG without salt
• E66 As like as one EGG is to another
• E67 Better is an EGG in peace than an ox in war
• E68 An EGG and to bed
• E69 An EGG is worth an ox to the poor
• E70 An EGG today is better than a hen tomorrow
• E71 An EGG will be in three bellies in twenty-four hours
• E72 Give him the other half EGG and burst him
• E73 He that will steal an EGG will steal an ox
• E74 He will dress an EGG and give the offal to the poor
• E75 I will warrant you for an EGG at Easter
• E76 It is very hard to shave an EGG
• E77 Neither good EGG nor bird
• E78 One EGG is none, two somewhat, three enough, four be too much, five give a deadly blow
• E79 Out of the EGG a chicken was expected but behold a cockatrice
• E80 There be many that will have both the EGG and the hen
• E81 To come of the same EGG (nest)
• E82 Who means to have the EGG must endure the cackling of the hen
• E83 As dear as two EGGS a penny
• E84 As sure as EGGS be eggs
• E85 From the EGGS to the apples
• E86 I have EGGS on the spit
• E87 I have other EGGS to fry
• E88 She that will not venture her EGGS shall never have chickens
• E89 To put all your EGGS in one basket
• E90 To take EGGS for money
• E91 To walk on EGGS
• E92 You come with your five EGGS a penny and four of them be rotten
• E93 Your EGGS have two yolks (five chickens)
• E94 Ill EGGING makes ill begging
• E95 Not worth an EGGSHELL (egg)
• E96 EILD¹ would have honor (Age is honorable)
• E97 If it be not true here is my ELBOW
• E98 My ELBOW itches, I must change my bedfellow
• E99 She has broken her ELBOW at the church door
• E100 To rub (scratch) the ELBOW
• E101 To shake one's ELBOW
• E102 To be out at ELBOWS
• E103 It smells of ELBOW GREASE
• E104 Now he has ELBOWROOM enough to turn him in
• E105 ELDEN HoLE¹ needs filling
• E106 When ELDER is white, brew and bake a peck; when elder is black, brew and bake a sack
• E107 He is out of his ELEMENT
• E108 To be in one's ELEMENT
• E109 In a hundred ELLS of contention there is not an inch of love
• E110 The EMPEROR of Germany is the king of kings, the King of Spain king of men, the King of France king of asses, the King of England king of devils
• E110a Half EMPTY is half full
• E111 He that goes far has many ENCOUNTERS
• E112 The END justifies the means
• E113 The END of fishing is not angling but catching
• E114 Better come at the latter END of a feast than the beginning of a fray
• E115 Better never to begin than never to make an END
• E116 The END crowns (tries) all
• E117 The END makes all equal
• E118 The END of our good begins our evil
• E119 The END of passion is the beginning of repentance
• E120 Everything has an END
• E121 Everything has an END and a pudding¹ has two
• E122 He knows no END of his good (goods)
• E123 He that never begins shall never make an END
• E124 In the END things will mend
• E125 Remember (Mark) the END
• E126 There is an END of an old song (story)
• E127 They know no END of their good nor beginning of any goodness
• E128 Think on the END before you begin
• E129 You will make an END of your whistle though the cart overthrow
• E130 He cares not which END goes forward
• E131 He goes in at the wide END of the horn and is squeezed out at the small end
• E132 He has (holds) the better (worse) END of the staff
• E133 To be at the END of one's rope
• E134 You will dance at the END of a rope without teaching
• E135 To make both ENDS meet
• E136 He that ENDURES (Who suffers) is not overcome (overcomes)
• E137 An ENEMY (Adversity) makes a man to know himself whereas a friend (prosperity) flattens a man and deceives him
• E138 He that dallies with his ENEMY dies by his own hand (by his hand)
• E139 It is better to leave to an ENEMY at one's death than to beg of a friend in one's life
• E140 It is good to see an ENEMY before we feel him
• E141 One ENEMY is too much
• E142 There is no little ENEMY
• E143 Better go by your ENEMY's grave than his gate
• E144 An ENEMY's mouth seldom says well
• E145 He that has no ENEMIES has no friends
• E146 ENGLAND is a good country but ill people
• E147 ENGLAND is the paradise of women, the hell of horses, and the purgatory of servants
• E148 ENGLAND is the ringing island
• E149 ENGLAND were but a fling save for the crooked stick and the grey goose wing
• E150 He that will ENGLAND win must with Ireland first begin
• E151 Little ENGLAND beyond Wales
• E152 To speak plain ENGLISH
• E153 The ENGLISH are the Frenchmen's apes
• E154 An ENGLISHMAN Italianate is a devil incarnate
• E155 One ENGLISHMAN can beat three Frenchmen
• E156 You are a right ENGLISHMAN, you cannot tell when a thing is well (when you are well)
• E157 Eat ENOUGH and it will make you wise
• E158 ENOUGH is as good as a feast
• E159 ENOUGH is enough
• E160 He grants ENOUGH that says nothing
• E161 He grants ENOUGH that says nothing
• E162 He has ENOUGH that is pleased (content)
• E163 He is wise (no fool) that knows when he has ENOUGH (is well enough)
• E164 He knows ENOUGH that knows nothing if so be he know how to hold his peace
• E165 He that has not ENOUGH has nothing
• E166 He will have ENOUGH one day when his mouth is full of molds
• E167 Of ENOUGH men leave
• E168 There was never ENOUGH where nothing left (nought leaves)
• E169 Who serves well asks ENOUGH
• E170 An examined ENTERPRISE goes on boldly
• E171 ENVY can abide no excellency
• E171a ENVY is the companion of honor
• E172 ENVY never dies
• E173 ENVY never enriched any man
• E174 ENVY shoots at others and wounds herself
• E175 ENVY (Calumny) shoots at the fairest mark (flowers, virtue)
• E176 No ENVY like a monk's
• E177 Better be ENVIED than pitied
• E178 Marry your EQUAL
• E179 To ERR is human, to repent is divine, to persevere is diabolical
• E180 A sleeveless (bootless) ERRAND
• E181 He is not like to ESCAPE scot-free
• E182 It is but my ESSAY, I played not today
• E183 Better be half-hanged than lose one's ESTATE
• E184 ESTATE in two parishes is bread in two wallets
• E185 He has a good ESTATE but that the right owner keeps it from him
• E186 To wash an ETHIOP (blackamoor, Moor) white
• E187 EVEN brings all men home
• E188 Good EVEN, good Robin Hood
• E189 The nearer the EVEN the more beggars
• E190 The EVENING crowns (praises) the day
• E191 An EVENING red and morning gray Is the sign of a fair day
• E192 To be wise after the EVENT
• E193 EVERYTHING new is fine
• E193a EVERYTHING would live
• E194 He that is EVERYWHERE is nowhere
• E195 Bear with EVIL (ill) and expect good
• E196 Do EVIL and evil will come of it
• E197 Drawing EVIL about one as the northeast wind does clouds
• E198 He sucked EVIL from the dug
• E199 He that EVIL does never good weens
• E200 He that helps the EVIL hurts the good
• E201 In EVIL there is odds
• E202 It is good to prevent an EVIL in the beginning
• E203 Never do EVIL (ill) that good may come of it
• E204 To render EVIL for good
• E205 Welcome, EVIL (mischief), if thou comest alone
• E206 EVILS have their comfort, good none can support with a moderate and contented heart
• E207 Of two EVILS (ills) choose the least
• E208 Some EVILS are cured by contempt
• E209 The gentle EWE (sheep) is sucked by many lambs (every lamb)
• E210 She stamps like a EWE upon yeaning¹
• E211 Good EXAMPLE makes all
• E212 He has made an EXAMPLE
• E213 EXAMPLES teach more than precepts
• E213a The EXCEPTION proves the rule
• E214 A bad EXCUSE (shift) is better than none at all
• E215 To EXCUSE is to accuse
• E216 He will be his own EXECUTOR
• E217 One ought to make the EXPENSE according to the income (means)
• E218 EXPERIENCE is sometimes dangerous
• E219 EXPERIENCE is the father of wisdom and memory the mother
• E220 EXPERIENCE is the mistress of fools
• E221 EXPERIENCE is the mother of wisdom (knowledge)
• E222 No EXTREME will hold long
• E223 Run not from one EXTREME to another
• E224 Every EXTREMITY (extreme) is a vice (fault)
• E225 Always have an EYE to the door
• E226 Better EYE out than always ache
• E227 Better to have one EYE than be blind altogether
• E228 Blessed is the EYE that is between Severn and Wye
• E229 The EYE is a shrew
• E230 The EYE is the pearl of the face
• E231 The EYE is the window of the heart (mind)
• E231a The EYE sees not itself but by reflection
• E232 The EYE that sees all things else sees not itself
• E233 The EYE will be where the love is
• E234 The EYE will have his part
• E235 Have an EYE (Look) to the main chance
• E236 He has an EYE behind
• E237 He has an EYE in his neck
• E238 He that has but one EYE must be afraid to (must take heed how he) lose it
• E239 He that has but one EYE sees the better for it
• E240 He that has one EYE is a king among the blind
• E241 He that winks with the one EYE and looks with the other, I will not trust him though he were my brother
• E242 Jest (Bourd¹) not with the EYE or with religion (honor)
• E243 One EYE of the master's sees more than ten of the servants'
• E244 Please the EYE but vex the heart (pick the purse)
• E245 A proud EYE, an open purse, and a light wife bring mischief to the first, misery to the second, and horns to the third
• E246 The sore EYE infects the sound
• E247 That the EYE sees not, the heart rues not
• E248 To cry (look up) with one EYE and laugh (down) with the other
• E249 To have by the EYE
• E250 To sleep with an EYE open
• E251 When the EYE sees what it never saw the heart will think what it never thought
• E252 You cannot say black is his EYE
• E253 You would have your EYE full
• E254 As many EYES as Argus
• E255 EYES as red as a ferret's
• E256 The EYES have one language everywhere
• E257 He has his EYES at his belt, his stomach in his purse, his foot in his hand
• E258 He sleeps out his EYE and profit
• E259 He that has EYES in his head will look about him
• E260 He that plays more than he sees forfeits his EYES to the king
• E261 His EYES are bigger than his belly
• E262 It is long¹ of your EYE, the crows might have helped it when you were young
• E263 My EYE draw straws
• E264 Neither EYES on letters nor hands in coffers (purses)
• E265 To drink until one's EYE stare like two blazing stars
• E266 To have his EYES about him
• E267 To whirl the EYES too much shows a kite's brain
• E268 Two (Four) EYES can see more (are better) than one (two)
• E269 Who has none to still him may weep out his EYES
• E270 Who means to be lean must keep his EYES open and his mouth shut
• E271 Your EYES are not matches
• E272 The EYESERVANT is never good for his master
• E273 To be an EYESORE
• E274 One EYEWITNESS is better than ten earwitnesses
• F1 The FACE is the index of the heart (mind)
• F2 A fair FACE and a foul bargain
• F3 Fair FACE foul heart
• F4 A fair FACE is half a portion
• F5 A fair FACE must have good conditions
• F6 A good FACE needs no band and a bad one deserves none
• F7 A good FACE needs no paint
• F8 He has a brazen FACE (a face of brass)
• F9 He has broken his FACE on the ambry¹
• F10 He has one FACE to God and another to the devil
• F11 I think his FACE is made of a fiddle, everyone that looks on him loves him
• F12 An ingenuous FACE is a good letter of recommendation
• F13 They love the FACE, not the grace
• F14 Thy FACE is shorn against the wool
• F15 Till he grows black in the FACE
• F16 To laugh (smile) in one's FACE and cut one's throat
• F17 To set a good FACE on the matter (on a bad matter)
• F18 To set one's FACE like a flint
• F19 To wash one's FACE in an ale clout
• F20 He carries (bears) two FACES under one hood
• F21 They wash their FACES with fair water and wipe them with a dishclout
• F22 He that would (must) eat a buttered FAGOT, let him go to Northampton
• F23 He is good that FAILED never
• F24 FAIR is not fair but that which pleases
• F25 Buy at a FAIR but sell at home
• F26 The FAIR lasts (lasts not) all the year
• F27 FAIR and far off
• F28 FAIR and foolish, black and proud, long and lazy, little and loud
• F29 FAIR without but foul within
• F30 FAITH sees by the ears
• F31 Grecian FAITH
• F32 He pins his FAITH on another man's sleeve
• F33 No FAITH with heretics
• F34 There is no FAITH in man
• F35 As gentle as a FALCON
• F36 Long ere you cut FALKLAND WOOD with a penknife
• F37 One may sooner FALL than rise
• F38 He that FALLS today may be up again tomorrow
• F39 He that is FALLEN cannot help him that is down
• F40 The FALLING-OUT of lovers is a renewing of love
• F41 There is FALSEHOOD (flattery) in fellowship
• F42 There is FALSEHOOD in packing
• F43 Common FAME¹ is seldom to blame
• F44 FAME (Report) is a liar
• F45 FAME is a magnifying glass
• F46 FAME is but the breath of the people and that often unwholesome
• F47 Too much FAMILIARITY breeds contempt
• F48 He that has had one of his FAMILY hanged may not say to his neighbor hang up his fish
• F49 It is a poor FAMILY (kin) which has neither a whore nor a thief in it
• F50 After a FAMINE in the stall comes a famine in the hall
• F51 A FAMINE in England begins at the horse manger
• F52 As fit as a FAN for a forehorse
• F53 FANCY¹ is a fool
• F54 FANCY may bolt¹ bran and think it flour
• F55 FANCY¹ surpasses (passes) beauty
• F56 Hard FARE makes hungry bellies (stomachs)
• F57 You see your FARE (dinner)
• F58 Afraid of FAR ENOUGH
• F59 FAREWELL unkissed
• F60 The longer we live the more FARLIES¹ we see
• F61 They that hold the greatest FARMS pay the least rent
• F62 To feed like a FARMER
• F63 As soon may you get a FART of a dead man (horse)
• F64 Cloak a FART with a cough
• F65 Everyone thinks his own FART smells sweet
• F66 He makes a very FART a thunderbolt
• F67 He that is afraid of every FART must go far to piss
• F68 He that is feared of a FART should never hear thunder
• F69 He thinks his FART as sweet as musk
• F70 There came never a large FART out of a wren's ass
• F71 Not worth a FARTHING
• F72 Four FARTHINGS and a thimble make a tailor's pocket jingle
• F73 Send FARTHINGALES (Verdingales) to Broadgates in Oxford
• F74 It is the FASHION in Rome to go barefoot that wants shoes
• F75 The plain FASHION is best
• F76 For FASHION's sake, as dogs go to the market (to church)
• F77 Over FAST (sicker) over loose
• F78 FAST AND LOOSE is no possession
• F79 The FAT (All the fat) is in the fire
• F80 To lick the FAT from one's beard (lips)
• F81 As sure (firm) as FATE
• F82 FATE leads the willing but drives the stubborn
• F83 It is impossible to avoid (undo) FATE (destiny)
• F84 The FATHER to the bough, the son to the plow
• F85 Give (Box) it about, it will come to my FATHER at last
• F86 He takes not after the FATHER
• F87 He whose FATHER is judge goes safe to his trial
• F88 I would cheat my own FATHER at cards
• F89 One FATHER is enough to govern (maintain) one hundred sons but not a hundred sons one father
• F90 One FATHER is more than a hundred schoolmasters
• F91 A sparing FATHER and a spending (prodigal) son
• F92 Such a (Like) FATHER such a (like) son
• F93 Whatsoever was the FATHER of a disease an ill diet was the mother
• F94 You teach your FATHER to get children
• F95 Your FATHER was no glazier
• F96 He is gone to seek his FATHER's sword
• F97 You are your FATHER's own son.
• F98 The FATHERS have eaten sour grapes and the children's teeth are set on edge
• F99 Our FATHERS which were wondrous wise did wash their throats before they washed their eyes
• F100 Our FATHERS won Boulogne, who never came within the report of the cannon
• F101 Everyone puts his FAULT on the times
• F102 The FAULT is as great as he that is faulty
• F103 A FAULT is sooner found than mended
• F104 A FAULT once excused (denied) is twice committed
• F105 A FAULT wilfully committed deserves no pardon
• F106 For FAULT (want) of a better
• F107 He finds FAULT with others and does worse himself (He that will blame another must be blameless himself)
• F108 He has but one FAULT, he is nought
• F109 He is neither absent without FAULT nor present without excuse
• F110 He may find FAULT that cannot amend
• F111 He that commits a FAULT thinks everyone speaks of it
• F112 He that is foolish in the FAULT let him be wise in the punishment
• F113 In every FAULT there is folly
• F114 Like FAULT like punishment
• F115 A little FAULT may be pardoned
• F116 Where no FAULT is there needs no pardon
• F117 Who is in FAULT (guilty) suspects everybody
• F118 You find FAULT with a fat goose
• F119 You would find FAULT if you knew how
• F120 Everyone's FAULTS are not written in their fore-heads
• F121 The first FAULTS are theirs that commit them, the second theirs that permit them
• F122 He that corrects not small FAULTS cannot control great ones
• F123 Wink at small FAULTS
• F124 You would spy FAULTS if your eyes were out
• F125 The FAULTY stands on his guard
• F126 FAVOR¹ will as surely perish as life
• F127 Without FAVOR none will know you and with it you will not know yourself
• F128 You shall have as much FAVOR as at Billingsgate for a box on the ear
• F129 To FAZARTS hard hazards are death ere they come there
• F130 All FEAR is bondage
• F131 Climb not too high for FEAR of falling
• F132 FEAR and shame much sin does tame
• F133 FEAR gives wings
• F134 FEAR has a quick ear
• F135 FEAR (Suspicion) is one part of prudence
• F136 FEAR keeps and looks to the vineyard, and not the owner
• F137 FEAR, the beadle of the law
• F138 Foolish FEAR doubles danger
• F139 He that lives ill, FEAR follows him
• F140 It comes with a FEAR
• F141 Not too fast for FEAR of falling (breaking your shins)
• F142 FEARS are divided in the midst
• F143 After a FEAST one scratches his head
• F144 He that is angry at a FEAST is rude
• F145 No FEAST to¹ a miser's
• F146 A Yule FEAST may be quit at Pasch¹
• F147 He that borrows and bigs,¹ makes FEASTS and thigs,² drinks and is not dry, these three are not thrifty
• F148 FEASTING is the physician's harvest
• F149 Merry is the FEAST-MAKING (company) till we come to the reckoning
• F150 As light as a FEATHER
• F151 FEATHER by feather the goose is plucked
• F152 A FEATHER in hand is better than a bird in the air
• F153 The FEATHER makes not the bird
• F154 A FEATHER of the same wing
• F155 He is like a FEATHER on a hill
• F156 He is the best FEATHER of our wing
• F157 He put a fine FEATHER in his cap
• F158 It is the last FEATHER that breaks the horse's back
• F159 She cannot bear a FEATHER but she must pant
• F160 To cut a FEATHER
• F161 To set this FEATHER to my arrow
• F162 As wavering as FEATHERS in the wind
• F163 Fair (Fine) FEATHERS make fair fowls (fine birds)
• F164 He would fain fly (flee) but he wants FEATHERS
• F165 Let not him that fears FEATHERS come among wild fowl
• F166 To be shot with one's own FEATHERS
• F167 FEBRUARY fill-dike be it black or be it white, but if it be white it's the better to like
• F168 FEBRUARY (Soulgrove) is seldom warm
• F169 FEBRUARY makes a bridge and March breaks it
• F170 Reckon right and FEBRUARY has one and thirty days
• F171 FEBRUEER doth cut and shear
• F172 A lean FEE is a fit reward for a lazy clerk
• F173 What recks¹ of the FEED² when the friendship dow³ not?
• F174 Better FED than taught
• F175 FEELING has no fellow
• F176 The greatest FELICITY is never to be born
• F177 Ask my FELLOW (companion) if I be a thief
• F178 A merry FELLOW for all companies
• F179 A pretty FELLOW to make an axletree for an oven
• F180 A white-livered FELLOW
• F181 You are a pretty FELLOW to ride a goose a gallop
• F182 All FELLOWS at football
• F183 All FELLOWS, Jock and the laird
• F184 He that has a FELLOW RULER has an overuler
• F185 No FENCE against a flail
• F186 There's no FENCE against ill fortune
• F187 A FENCER has one trick in his budget more than ever he taught his scholar (A fencer reserves his masterpiece)
• F188 To sell one (feed on) FENNEL
• F189 When FERN grows red then milk is good with bread
• F190 When the FERN is as high as a ladle you may sleep as long as you are able
• F191 When the FERN is as high as a spoon you may sleep an hour at noon
• F192 No FESTIVAL unless there be some fighting
• F193 No FESTIVAL unless there be some fighting
• F194 He has it for FETCHING
• F195 It is better to feed a FEVER than weakness
• F196 The worst FEVER is that of the tongue
• F197 To be sick of the FEVER-LURDEN¹
• F198 FEW are they whom fair-minded Jove loves
• F199 FEW take wives for God's sake or for fair looks
• F200 I saw FEW die of hunger, of eating much a hundred thousand
• F201 Put that in the next FEW
• F202 As fit (fine) as a FIDDLE
• F203 He has got the FIDDLE but not the stick
• F204 FIDDLER's fare, meat, drink, and money
• F205 To give one a FIDDLER's fee
• F206 FIDDLERS, dogs, and flies (flatterers) come to feasts uncalled
• F207 A hard-fought FIELD where no man escapes un-killed
• F208 He is going into the pea FIELD
• F209 FIELDS have eyes and woods have ears
• F210 A FIG for him (it)
• F211 Not worth a FIG
• F212 Provide a FIG for thy friend and a peach for thy enemy
• F213 To give one a FIG
• F214 FIGS after peace (Pasch¹)
• F215 To have one's FILL
• F216 FILL what you will and drink what you fill
• F217 FILL FULL and had full makes a stark¹ man
• F218 The FILTH under the white snow the sun discovers
• F219 To the FILTHY all things taste filthy
• F220 He will neither FIND nor grind
• F221 If you will FIND I will grind
• F222 He FINDS that seeks
• F223 Who FINDS himself well let him not stir
• F224 Here I FOUND you and here (As I found you) I leave you
• F225 Better FINGER off than always aching
• F226 FINGER in dish finger in pouch
• F227 I love his little FINGER more than thy whole body
• F228 To have a FINGER (hand) in the pie (matter)
• F229 To put FINGER in the eye
• F230 To put one's FINGER in the fire
• F231 To thrust away with the little FINGER what one pulls back with the whole hand
• F232 To wind one about one's FINGER
• F233 When he should work, each FINGER is a thumb
• F234 With a wet FINGER
• F235 FINGERS were made before forks and hands before knives
• F236 His FINGERS are lime twigs
• F237 His FINGERS itch to be at it
• F238 I will not foul my FINGERS with him
• F239 Lay thy FINGERS on thy lips
• F240 To burn one's FINGERS
• F241 To have one's FINGERS (hands) in mortar
• F242 To let it slip (drop) through one's FINGERS
• F243 To look through one's FINGERS
• F244 I sucked not this out of my FINGERS' ends
• F245 To have it at his FINGERS' ends
• F246 As contrary as FIRE and water
• F247 As hot as FIRE
• F248 As red (bright) as FIRE
• F249 Better a wee (little) FIRE to warm us than a mickle (great) fire to burn us
• F250 Cut not the FIRE with a sword
• F251 Do not blow the FIRE (coal) thou wouldst quench
• F252 A fair FIRE makes a roomy flet¹
• F253 FIRE and water are good servants but bad (ill) masters
• F254 FIRE and water have no mercy
• F255 FIRE cannot be hidden in flax (straw)
• F256 FIRE descends not
• F257 FIRE divided burns with less force
• F258 FIRE is as hurtful as healthful
• F259 FIRE is good for the farcy¹
• F260 FIRE is love, and water sorrow
• F261 The FIRE is never without heat
• F262 FIRE of flax, love of a quean, wind from the tail, all is one
• F263 FIRE, quoth the fox when he pissed on the ice
• F264 FIRE raked up in ashes keeps its heat a long time
• F265 FIRE that's closest kept burns most of all
• F266 A good FIRE is the best household stuff
• F267 He bears (carries) FIRE in one hand and water in the other
• F268 He is FIRE and tow (flax)
• F269 He that can make a FIRE well can end a quarrel
• F270 He that makes a FIRE of straw has store of smoke and nothing else
• F271 I had rather ask of my FIRE brown bread than borrow of my neighbor white
• F272 It is a dangerous FIRE begins in the bedstraw
• F273 Kindle not a FIRE that cannot be extinguished
• F274 A little FIRE burns up a great deal of corn
• F275 Make no FIRE, raise no smoke
• F276 No FIRE without fuel
• F277 One FIRE (heat) drives out another
• F278 Put not FIRE to tow (flax)
• F279 The same FIRE which purifies gold burns straw
• F280 Soft FIRE makes sweet malt
• F281 That FIRE which lights us at a distance will burn us when near
• F282 There is no FIRE without some smoke
• F283 To come to fetch FIRE
• F284 To force FIRE from snow
• F285 To go through FIRE and water
• F286 To play with FIRE
• F287 To quench FIRE with oil
• F288 To weigh the FIRE and measure the wind
• F289 Well may he smell FIRE whose gown burns
• F290 Well to work and make a FIRE, it does care and skill require
• F291 What he gets he gets out of the FIRE
• F292 Whose FIRE smokes not?
• F293 You cannot make the FIRE so low but it will get out
• F294 As good do it at FIRST as at last
• F295 I am not the FIRST and shall not be the last
• F296 On the FIRST of November, if the weather holds clear, an end of wheat-sowing do make for this year
• F297 Win at FIRST and lose at last
• F298 All FISH are not caught with flies
• F299 As drunk as a FISH
• F300 As mute as a FISH
• F301 As whole as a FISH
• F302 The best FISH swim near the bottom
• F303 Better are small FISH than an empty dish
• F304 A FISH begins first to smell at the head
• F305 FISH bred up in dirty pools will stink of mud
• F306 The FISH follow the hook (bait)
• F307 FISH is cast away that is cast into dry pools
• F308 FISH mars the water and flesh amends it
• F309 FISH must swim thrice (twice)
• F310 Fresh FISH and newcome guests smell by that time they be three days old
• F311 The great FISH eat the small
• F312 He angles for the FISH already caught
• F313 I have other FISH to fry
• F314 I will not make FISH of one and flesh of another
• F315 If you swear you'll catch no FISH
• F316 It is a silly FISH that is caught twice with the same bait (The fish once caught bewares the hook)
• F317 It is good FISH, if it were but caught
• F318 Like a FISH out of water
• F319 Neither FISH nor flesh nor good red herring
• F320 Of all the FISH in the sea, herring is the king
• F321 Old FISH, old oil, and an old friend are the best
• F322 Some FISH some frogs
• F323 Teach FISH to swim
• F324 That FISH will soon be caught that nibbles at every hook (bait)
• F325 To drink like a FISH
• F326 To find FISH on one's fingers
• F327 To love it no more than (as well as) a FISH loves water
• F328 To swim like a FISH (duck)
• F329 Venture a small FISH to catch a great one (a salmon)
• F330 When the FISH is caught the net is laid aside
• F331 Who sleeps catches no FISH
• F332 The FISHER stricken will be wise
• F333 He is a fond FISHER that angles for a frog
• F334 It is good FISHING in troubled waters
• F335 It is ill FISHING (Fish not) before the net
• F336 There is no FISHING to¹ the sea nor service to¹ the king
• F337 Go early to the FISH MARKET and late to the butchery
• F338 To offer his FIST and show a fair pair of heels
• F339 By FITS and girds, as an ague takes a goose
• F340 By FITS and girds, as an ague takes a goose
• F341 As fine as FIVEPENCE
• F342 Like FLANDERS LANDSCAPES (Flanders pieces), that look fair at a distance but coarser near at hand
• F343 A FLANDERS RECKONING
• F344 He gave him a FLAP with a foxtail
• F345 That is FLAT
• F346 A FLATTERER's throat is an open sepulcher
• F347 FLATTERERS look like friends, as wolves like dogs
• F348 When FLATTERERS meet the devil goes to dinner
• F349 FLATTERY gets friends
• F350 As flat as a FLAWN
• F351 Keep FLAX from fire and youth from gaming
• F352 He is so FLAYED he will never lie where he is slain
• F353 Not worth a FLEA
• F354 To send one (To go) away with a FLEA in his ear
• F355 It is but a FLEABITING
• F356 It is better to give the FLEECE than the sheep
• F357 Will you have both FLEECE and fell?
• F358 When the black FLEET of Norway is come and gone England build houses of lime and stone, for after wars you shall have none
• F359 All FLESH is grass
• F360 All FLESH is not venison
• F361 As small as FLESH to pot
• F362 FLESH but¹ bread makes maids ill hued
• F363 FLESH is frail
• F364 FLESH never stands so high but a dog will venture his legs
• F365 It will not out of the FLESH that is bred in the bone
• F366 My own FLESH and blood
• F367 To be FLESH and blood as others are
• F368 The worst FLESH in the world is the flesh of man
• F369 Young FLESH and old fish are best
• F370 He mends as the FLETCHER¹ does his bolt
• F371 In the coldest FLINT there is hot fire
• F372 To break a FLINT (blade) on a feather bed
• F373 To flay (skin) a FLINT
• F374 Out of two FLINTS smitten together there comes out fire
• F375 To fetch a FLITCH of bacon from Dunmow¹
• F376 The FLOCK follows the bellwether
• F377 It is a silly (sorry) FLOCK where the ewe bears the bell
• F378 After a FLOOD (ebb) there comes an ebb (flood)
• F379 An April FLOOD carries away the frog and her brood
• F380 There is not so great a FLOOD but there is as low an ebb
• F381 High FLOODS (Low ebbs) have low ebbs (high floods)
• F382 As flat as a FLOUNDER
• F383 All FLOUR has its bran
• F384 A FLOWER among thorns sends forth a very sweet smell
• F385 The FLOWER of the frying pan
• F386 It fades (withers) like a FLOWER
• F387 It is the fairest (finest) FLOWER in his garland (garden)
• F388 One FLOWER makes no garland
• F389 As fresh as FLOWERS in May
• F390 As welcome as FLOWERS in May
• F391 The fairest FLOWERS (freshest colors) soonest fade
• F392 As light as a FLY
• F393 The FLY has her spleen and the ant her gall
• F394 The FLY (moth) that plays too long in the candle singes its wings at last
• F395 He capers like a FLY in a tarbox
• F396 Not worth a FLY
• F397 One cannot catch a FLY when he will
• F398 To make of a FLY an elephant
• F399 You must lose a FLY to catch a trout
• F400 Dead FLIES corrupt the most precious ointments
• F401 The FLIES go to lean horses
• F402 Hungry FLIES bite (A hungry louse bites) sore
• F403 More FLIES are taken with a drop of honey than a tun of vinegar
• F404 To kill two FLIES with one flap
• F405 You hunt after FLIES
• F406 If you must FLY, fly well
• F407 It is no FLYING without wings
• F408 How can the FOAL amble when the horse and mare trot?
• F409 As good a FOE (an ill) that hurts not as a friend (a good) that helps not
• F410 It is better to have an open FOE than a dissembling friend
• F411 No FOE to¹ a flatterer
• F412 Thou shouldst not tell thy FOE when thy foot sleeps
• F413 Far FOLK fare best
• F414 FOLK call on the horse that will carry always
• F415 Misterful¹ FOLK must not be menseful²
• F416 Poor FOLK fare the best
• F417 Do, jeer poor FOLKS, and see how 'twill thrive
• F418 Dumb FOLKS get no lands
• F419 Fat FOLKS are faithful (good-natured)
• F420 Idle FOLKS have the most labor (Idle people take the most pains)
• F421 Idle FOLKS lack no excuses
• F422 Little FOLKS are fond of talking about what great folks do
• F423 Poor FOLKS are glad of pottage (porridge)
• F424 Snotty FOLKS are sweet (wise) but slavering folks are weet¹ (kiss sweet)
• F425 Threatened FOLKS (men) live long
• F426 To fine FOLKS a little ill finely wrapped
• F427 To fine FOLKS a little ill finely wrapped
• F428 To tell nobody but FOLKS
• F429 Warned FOLKS may live
• F430 When FOLKS grow old they are not set by
• F431 FOLLY grows (Fools grow) without watering
• F432 FOLLY is a bonny dog
• F433 FOLLY it is to spurn (kick) against a prick
• F434 If FOLLY were grief every house would weep
• F435 It is FOLLY to lose the flesh for the bones
• F436 It is FOLLY to strew roses amongst swine (hogs)
• F437 No FOLLY to¹ being in love
• F438 Happy is he who knows his FOLLIES in his youth
• F439 Short FOLLIES are the best
• F440 He is doubly fond¹ that justifies his FONDNESS
• F441 More die by FOOD than famine
• F442 Answer a FOOL according to his folly
• F443 As fat as a FOOL
• F444 As glad as a FOOL of a fair day
• F445 As the FOOL thinks the bell clinks
• F446 Better be a FOOL than a knave
• F447 Bray a FOOL in a mortar, you cannot make him leave his folly
• F448 An enterprising FOOL needs little wit
• F449 Even a FOOL sometimes speaks a wise word (to the purpose)
• F450 Every FOOL is a fiddle to the company
• F451 Everyone has a FOOL in his sleeve
• F452 A FOOL and his money are soon parted
• F453 A FOOL asks much but he is a greater fool that gives it
• F454 A FOOL at forty is a fool indeed
• F455 The FOOL begins but never ends a business
• F456 A FOOL believes everything
• F457 A FOOL brooks any disgrace
• F458 A FOOL by nature and wise in writing
• F459 A FOOL cannot speak unlike himself
• F460 A FOOL comes home as wise as he went
• F461 A FOOL is better than an obstinate man
• F462 A FOOL is ever laughing
• F463 A FOOL is fulsome
• F464 A FOOL is he that has his choice and chooses the worst
• F465 A FOOL is known by much babbling
• F466 The FOOL is most fusty (absurd) when he is least foolish
• F467 A FOOL knows more in his own house than a wise man in another's
• F468 A FOOL may ask more questions in an hour than a wise man can answer in seven years
• F469 A FOOL may sometimes give a wise man counsel
• F470 A FOOL may throw a stone into a well which a hundred wise men cannot get out
• F471 A FOOL oft finds himself short of his reckonings
• F472 A FOOL oft puts his finger in a hole
• F473 A FOOL on a bridge sounds like a drum
• F474 A FOOL when he has spoken has done all
• F475 A FOOL will not be foiled
• F476 A FOOL will not give (leave, part with) his bauble for the Tower of London
• F477 Forbid a FOOL a thing and that he will do
• F478 He had been wiser if he had not been a FOOL
• F479 He is a FOOL that cuts himself with his own knife
• F480 He is a FOOL that forgets himself
• F481 He is a FOOL that is not melancholy once a day
• F482 He is a FOOL that makes a wedge (mallet) of his fist
• F483 He is a FOOL that makes his physician his heir
• F484 He is a FOOL that thinks not that another thinks
• F485 He is more FOOL that demands sense of a fool
• F486 He is not the FOOL that the fool is but he that with the fool deals
• F487 He should be called a FOOL to his face that being well does quit his place (put himself into danger)
• F488 He that sends a FOOL expects one
• F489 He that sends a FOOL means to follow him
• F490 He that teaches himself has a FOOL to his master
• F491 I am a FOOL, I love anything that is good
• F492 If I am a FOOL put you your finger in my mouth
• F493 If you play the FOOL stay for a fellow
• F494 It is better to marry a quiet FOOL than a witty scold
• F495 Leave a FOOL alone and he will bethink himself what he has to do
• F496 Let him be begged for a FOOL
• F497 Let not one FOOL mock another
• F498 More FOOL than fiddler
• F499 None is a FOOL always, everyone sometimes
• F500 None is so wise but the FOOL overtakes him
• F501 One FOOL makes a hundred (many)
• F502 Play with a FOOL at home and he will play with you in the market
• F503 Send a FOOL to the market and a fool he will return again
• F504 Set a FOOL to roast eggs and a wise man to eat them
• F505 Set a FOOL upon the bench and he will play with his feet or sing
• F506 There is no FOOL to¹ the old fool
• F507 To bring a FOOL to bed
• F508 To cough one a FOOL (daw, mome¹)
• F509 To dote more on it than a FOOL on his bauble
• F510 We must answer a FOOL with silence
• F511 What is a FOOL without a bauble?
• F512 What the FOOL does in the end the wise man does in the beginning
• F513 Who is born a FOOL is never cured
• F514 You have not a FOOL in hand
• F515 A FOOL's bolt is soon shot
• F516 A FOOL's bolt may sometimes hit the mark (white)
• F517 A FOOL's handsel is lucky
• F518 FOOL's haste is no speed
• F519 A FOOL's head of your own
• F520 The FOOL's tears are not to be trusted
• F521 A FOOL's tongue is long enough to cut his own throat
• F522 I will not dance to every FOOL's pipe
• F523 To bring one into a FOOL's paradise
• F524 To deal FOOL's dole
• F525 All FOOLS are sots but all sots are not fools
• F526 Among twenty-four FOOLS not one wise man
• F527 FOOLS and conceited men (quarrelers) make lawyers rich
• F528 FOOLS and little dogs (Fools' baubles) are ladies' playfellows
• F529 FOOLS are fain of flitting
• F530 FOOLS are fain of nothing (right noght)
• F531 FOOLS are wise as long as silent
• F532 FOOLS bite one another but wise men agree together
• F533 FOOLS build houses and wise men buy them
• F534 FOOLS give to please all but their own
• F535 FOOLS had never less wit in a year
• F536 FOOLS have fortune (are fortunate)
• F537 FOOLS have wit enough to come in out of the rain
• F538 FOOLS lade the water and wise men catch the fish
• F539 FOOLS live poor to die rich
• F540 FOOLS make feasts and wise men eat them
• F541 FOOLS refuse favors
• F542 FOOLS set far (long) trysts
• F543 FOOLS set stools for wise men (folks) to stumble at (to break their shins)
• F544 FOOLS should have no chapping sticks¹
• F545 FOOLS tie knots and wise men loose them
• F546 FOOLS will be meddling
• F547 FOOLS will still be fools
• F548 If all FOOLS had (were to wear) baubles we should want fuel (fuel would be dear)
• F549 If all FOOLS wore white caps we should seem a flock of geese
• F550 If FOOLS should not FOOL it they shall lose their season
• F551 If FOOLS went not to market bad ware would not be sold
• F552 Lend and lose, so play FOOLS
• F553 No small FOOLS have committed this fault
• F554 There two FOOLS met
• F555 Two FOOLS in a house are too many
• F556 We are FOOLS one to another
• F557 Who has neither FOOLS nor beggars nor whores among his kindred was born of a stroke of thunder
• F558 No FOOLERY to¹ falling-out
• F559 The least FOOLISH is wise
• F560 As softly as FOOT can fall
• F561 Better a bare FOOT than no foot at all (none)
• F562 Do not make the FOOT the head
• F563 The FOOT on the cradle and the hand on the distaff is the sign of a good housewife
• F564 A foul FOOT makes a full wame¹
• F565 A going (walking) FOOT is aye getting, if it were but a thorn
• F566 He that has one FOOT in the straw (a bawdy-house) has another in the spittle (hospital)
• F567 Measure yourself (not another) by your own FOOT
• F568 One FOOT is better than two crutches (stilts)
• F569 To have one FOOT in Charon's boat
• F570 To set the best (better) FOOT (leg) forward (before)
• F571 To take one FOOT out of the mire and put in the other
• F572 To thrust one's FOOT under another man's table
• F573 When one treads upon thee draw thy FOOT to thee
• F574 All FEET tread not in one shoe
• F575 Better the FEET slip than the tongue
• F576 Dry FEET, warm head bring safe to bed
• F577 He thinks his FEET be where his head shall never come
• F578 His FEET that are accustomed to wander cannot stand still
• F579 Keep thy FEET dry, thy mouth moist
• F579a To be cold on one's FEET
• F580 You have o'er foul FEET to come so far ben¹
• F581 He will not come within forty FOOT of him
• F582 Six FEET of earth make all men equal
• F583 The nimblest FOOTMAN is a false tale
• F584 FORBEARANCE (Omittance, Sufferance) is no quittance (acquittance)
• F585 What is FORBIDDEN (baneful) is desired
• F586 There is a great FORCE hidden in a sweet command
• F587 Ruse¹ the FORD as you find it
• F588 FORECAST is better than work-hard (as good as work)
• F589 He has a fair FOREHEAD to graft on
• F590 In the FOREHEAD and in the eye the lecture of the heart (mind) doth lie
• F591 That which one most FOREHETS¹ soonest comes to pass
• F592 The longer FORENOON the shorter afternoon
• F593 Beware of the FORE PART of a woman, the hind part of a mule, and all sides of a priest (monk)
• F594 She lies backward and lets out her FOREROOMS
• F595 One good FOREWIT is worth two afterwits
• F596 Long absent soon FORGOTTEN
• F597 FORGIVE and forget
• F598 Better to have good FORTUNE than be a rich man's child
• F599 FORTUNE can take from us nothing but what she gave us (our goods but not our virtue)
• F600 FORTUNE favors fools
• F601 FORTUNE favors the bold (hardy, valiant)
• F602 FORTUNE hates the slothful
• F603 FORTUNE helps him that's willing to help himself
• F604 FORTUNE (Justice) is blind
• F605 FORTUNE (Woman) is constant only in inconstancy
• F606 FORTUNE is fickle
• F607 FORTUNE is made of glass
• F608 FORTUNE knocks once at least at every man's door
• F609 FORTUNE to one is mother, to another is step-mother
• F610 Great FORTUNE brings with it great misfortune
• F611 He dances well to whom FORTUNE pipes
• F612 He that has no ill FORTUNE is troubled with good
• F613 If FORTUNE favor I may have her, for I go about her; if fortune fail you may kiss her tail and go without her
• F614 If FORTUNE me torments yet hope does me content
• F615 When FORTUNE smiles upon thee take the advantage of it
• F616 When ill FORTUNE lies asleep let none awake her
• F617 FORTUNE's wheel is ever turning
• F618 Farewell (Gramercy) FORTY PENCE, Jack Noble is dead
• F619 Be sure to build on a good FOUNDATION
• F620 Count not FOUR except you have them in a wallet (bag)
• F621 FOUR make up a mess
• F622 He that has but FOUR and spends five has no need of a purse
• F623 As like as FOURPENCE to a groat¹
• F624 As glad as a FOWL of a fair day
• F625 Far FOWLS have fair feathers
• F626 The FOWLER is caught (taken) in his own net (snare)
• F627 As long runs the FOX as he feet has
• F628 As rank as a FOX
• F629 As wily (crafty) as a FOX
• F630 Either a FOX (hare) or a fern bush (fernbrake)
• F631 Every FOX must pay his own skin to the flayer
• F632 The FOX fares best (well) when he is cursed (banned)
• F633 The FOX is known by his bush (tail)
• F634 The FOX is taken when he comes to take
• F634a The FOX is the finder
• F635 The FOX kills the lambs and the hounds the old sheep
• F636 The FOX knows many tricks but the hedgehog one great one
• F637 The FOX knows much but more he that catches him
• F638 The FOX may grow gray but never good
• F639 The FOX (wolf) preys farthest from his hole (den)
• F640 The FOX turns monk at length
• F641 The FOX was sick and he knew not where, he clapped his hand on his tail and swore it was there
• F642 The FOX when he cannot reach the grapes says that they are not ripe (are sour)
• F643 He sets the FOX to keep the geese
• F644 He that has a FOX for his mate had need have a net at his girdle
• F645 He that will deceive the FOX must rise betimes
• F646 Like the FOX who having lost his own tail would needs persuade all others out of theirs
• F647 An old FOX cannot be taken by a snare
• F648 An old FOX need learn no craft
• F649 The sleepy FOX has seldom feathered breakfasts
• F650 Though the FOX run the chicken has wings
• F651 To catch the FOX
• F652 To flay the FOX
• F653 We must fall down before a FOX (lion, fortune) in season
• F654 We never find that a FOX dies in the dirt of his own ditch
• F655 When the FOX has got in his head (nose) he will soon make the body follow
• F656 When the FOX preaches beware the geese
• F657 When the FOX sleeps nothing falls (no grapes fall) into his mouth
• F658 When the FOX stays long he looks for a prey
• F659 The FOX's wiles will never enter into the lion's head
• F660 To be in a FOX's sleep
• F661 To yoke FOXES
• F662 FRANCE is a meadow that cuts thrice a year
• F663 He that will FRANCE (Scotland) win must with Scotland (France) first begin
• F664 To go upon the FRANCISCANS' hackney
• F665 FRANKINCENSE is burned before it smells
• F666 He farts FRANKINCENSE
• F667 Too FREE to be fat
• F668 FREEDOM is a fair thing
• F669 To feed like a FREEHOLDER OF MACCLESFIELD, who has neither corn nor hay at Michaelmas
• F670 The FRENCH neither pronounce as they write nor sing as they prick nor think as they speak
• F670a He is FRENCHIFIED
• F671 Have the FRENCHMAN for thy friend not for thy neighbor
• F672 FRENZY, heresy, and jealousy seldom cured
• F673 Do as the FRIAR says, not as he does
• F674 A FRIAR a liar
• F675 The FRIAR preached against stealing and had a goose (when he had a pudding) in his sleeve
• F676 What was good the FRIAR never loved
• F677 When the FRIAR is beaten then comes James
• F678 Observant FRIARS spare their own and eat that which is other men's
• F679 FRIDAY is an unlucky day
• F680 He that sings on FRIDAY will weep on Sunday
• F681 A FRIDAY's feast (face, reason)
• F682 FRIDAY's hair and Sunday's horn goes to the dule¹ on Monday morn
• F682a FRIDAY's hair and Sunday's horn goes to the dule¹ on Monday morn
• F683 Admonish your FRIEND in secret, commend him in public
• F684 Be a FRIEND to thyself and others will be so too
• F685 Before you make a FRIEND eat a bushel of salt with him
• F686 Better a new FRIEND than an old foe
• F687 Better is a FRIEND in court than (A friend in court is worth) a penny in purse
• F688 A faithful FRIEND is like a phoenix
• F689 Fall not out with a FRIEND for a trifle
• F690 A FRIEND as far as the altar (as conscience permits)
• F691 A FRIEND from the teeth outward
• F692 A FRIEND in a corner
• F693 A FRIEND in need is a friend in deed (indeed)
• F694 A FRIEND is never known till a man have need
• F695 A FRIEND is not so soon gotten as lost
• F696 A FRIEND is one's second self
• F697 The FRIEND that faints is a foe
• F698 A FRIEND to all is a friend to none
• F699 A FRIEND will help at a dead lift
• F700 A good FRIEND is as the sun in winter
• F701 A good FRIEND is my nearest relation
• F702 A good FRIEND never offends
• F703 He is a FRIEND at a sneeze, the most you can get of him is a God-bless-you (God-help-you)
• F704 He is a good FRIEND that speaks well on's behind our backs
• F705 He is my FRIEND that grinds at my mill
• F706 He is my FRIEND that succors me
• F707 He who cannot counterfeit a FRIEND can never be a very bad enemy
• F708 He would rather lose his FRIEND than his jest
• F709 I cannot be your FRIEND and your flatterer
• F710 Love a FRIEND together with his fault
• F711 Make not thy FRIEND too cheap to thee nor thyself too dear to him
• F712 Never trust much to a new FRIEND or an old enemy
• F713 No FRIEND to¹ a friend in mister²
• F714 No longer foster,¹ no longer FRIEND (leman²)
• F715 An old FRIEND is a new house
• F716 One good FRIEND watches for another
• F717 One may visit a FRIEND sometimes but if he intends to be welcome he must not stay long
• F718 Prove your FRIEND ere you have need
• F719 A true FRIEND a great treasure
• F720 A true FRIEND should be like a privy, open in necessity
• F721 Trust no FRIEND with that you need fear him if he were your enemy
• F722 When a FRIEND asks there is no tomorrow
• F723 When I lend I am his FRIEND, when I ask I am unkind
• F724 Wherever you see your FRIEND trust yourself
• F725 Who lends to a FRIEND loses double
• F726 A FRIEND's dinner is soon dight¹
• F727 A FRIEND's frown is better than a fool's smiles (foe's kiss)
• F728 Afraid of your FRIENDS when none is near
• F729 Among FRIENDS all things are common
• F730 Be not ungrateful to your old FRIENDS
• F731 Choose your FRIENDS like your books, few but choice
• F732 Drink and be FRIENDS
• F733 Farewell and be hanged, FRIENDS must part
• F734 FRIENDS agree best at a distance
• F735 FRIENDS are thieves of time
• F736 FRIENDS do tie the purse with a cobweb thread
• F737 FRIENDS fail flyers
• F738 FRIENDS (Men) may meet but mountains never (never greet)
• F739 From my FRIENDS God defend me, from my enemies I can keep myself
• F740 Happy is he whose FRIENDS were (whose father was) born before him
• F741 Have but few FRIENDS though much acquaintance
• F742 He may bear all his FRIENDS on his back
• F743 He may even go write to his FRIENDS
• F744 He that has many FRIENDS eats too much salt with his meat
• F745 He that would have FRIENDS must show himself friendly
• F746 Here's to our FRIENDS and hang up the rest of our kindred
• F747 If you deal so ill by your FRIENDS what will you do with your enemies?
• F748 It is good to have FRIENDS
• F749 It is good to have some FRIENDS both in heaven and hell
• F750 It is merry when FRIENDS meet
• F751 It is not tint¹ that is done to FRIENDS
• F752 Keep well thy FRIENDS when thou hast gotten them
• F753 Kiss and be FRIENDS
• F754 Many FRIENDS in general, one in special
• F755 Old FRIENDS and old wine are best
• F756 To all FRIENDS round the Wrekin
• F757 To make two FRIENDS with one gift
• F758 When FRIENDS meet hearts warm
• F759 A broken FRIENDSHIP may be soldered but will never be sound
• F760 FRIENDSHIP stands not on one side
• F761 Perfect FRIENDSHIP (love) cannot be without equality
• F762 Trencher FRIENDSHIP
• F763 The FROG cannot out of her bog
• F764 To fret like a FROG under a harrow
• F765 To sit like a FROG on a chopping (washing) block
• F766 When the FROG has hair thou wilt be good
• F767 You fish fair and catch a FROG
• F768 Bearded FROST forerunner of snow
• F769 Farewell FROST
• F770 FROST and fraud have always foul ends
• F771 He that is surprised with the first FROST feels it all the winter after
• F772 They must hunger in FROST that will not work in heat
• F773 The first and last FROSTS are the worst
• F774 Sharp FROSTS bite forward springs
• F775 So many FROSTS in March so many in May
• F776 FRUGALITY and good husbandry is an income (estate)
• F777 Good FRUIT of a good tree
• F778 If you would FRUIT have you must bring the leaf to the grave
• F779 Stolen FRUIT is (Stolen apples are) sweet
• F780 Sweet is the FRUIT of labor
• F781 He has shot his FRY
• F782 The FRYING PAN said to the kettle, Avaunt, black brows
• F783 He that holds a FRYING PAN by the tail may turn it which way he lists
• F784 Out of (To leap like the flounder out of) the FRYING PAN (pan) into the fire
• F785 Add FUEL to the fire
• F786 Take away FUEL take away fire (flame)
• F787 In FULLNESS there is forgetfulness
• F788 He is free of FUMBLER's HALL
• F789 She simpers like a FURMITY-KETTLE
• F790 Under the FURZE is hunger and cold, under the broom is silver and gold
• G1 When GABRIEL blows his horn then this question will be decided
• G2 Everyone fastens where there is GAIN
• G3 GAIN savors sweetly from anything
• G4 It is clear GAIN that remains by honest gettings
• G5 Sometimes the best GAIN is to lose
• G6 The GAINS will quit the pains
• G7 Light GAINS make heavy purses
• G8 To GAIN teaches how to spend
• G9 Fair GAINING makes fair spending
• G10 GALEN gives goods, Justinian honors
• G11 As bitter as GALL
• G12 To rub one on the GALL
• G13 The GALLANTS OF FOWEY
• G14 Up with it, if it be but a GALLON 'twill ease your stomach
• G15 The GALLOWS groans for you
• G16 The GALLOWS is the cutpurse's pulpit
• G17 He repents too late that repents at the GALLOWS
• G18 If I be hanged I'll choose my GALLOWS
• G19 To be hanged on a fair GALLOWS (with a silken halter)
• G20 When everyone gets his own you'll get the GALLOWS
• G21 He (The devil) will play at small GAME rather than sit out (before he will stand out)
• G22 To fly at all GAME
• G23 At the GAME's end we shall see who gains
• G24 The better GAMESTER the worse man
• G25 GAMESTERS and race horses never last long
• G26 Hasty GAMESTERS oversee¹ themselves
• G27 GAMING (Play), women, and wine, while they laugh they make men pine
• G28 Every GAP has its bush
• G29 To stop GAPS with rushes
• G30 To stop two GAPs with one bush
• G31 He that GAPES until he be fed, well may he GAPE until he be dead
• G32 Will you buy any GAPESEED?
• G33 No GAPING against an oven
• G34 As is the GARDEN such is the gardener
• G35 A GARDEN must be looked unto and dressed as the body
• G36 He that hires one GARDEN which he is able to look after eats birds, he that hires more than one will be eaten by the birds
• G37 No GARDEN (wheat) without weeds (darnel)
• G38 As the GARDENER's dog, who would not eat cabbage himself nor suffer others to do it
• G39 Gay is the GARLAND where many flowers meet
• G40 GARLIC makes a man wink, drink, and stink
• G41 None says his GARNER is full
• G42 He may go hang himself in his own GARTERS
• G43 No GATES no city
• G44 It that lies not in your GATE breaks not your shins (toes)
• G45 Thither as I would go I can go late, thither as I would not go I know not the GATE
• G46 As grave as an old GATEPOST
• G47 It is ill GATHERING of stones where the sea is bottomless
• G48 GAUNTING¹ bodes wanting
• G49 Make not a GAUNTLET of a hedging glove
• G50 She that GAZES much spins not much
• G51 Better be well loved than have ill-won GEAR
• G52 Boden¹ GEAR stinks
• G53 Haldin¹ GEAR helps well
• G54 Have you GEAR, have you none, tine¹ heart and all is gone
• G55 He that has no GEAR to tine¹ has shins to pine
• G56 He that rides ere he be ready wants some of his GEAR
• G57 He that spends his GEAR on a whore has both shame and scathe¹
• G58 It is good GEAR that lasts aye
• G59 In GENOA there are mountains without wood, sea without fish, women without shame, and men without conscience
• G60 GENTILITY is nothing but ancient riches
• G61 GENTILITY sprang from the pen or pike
• G62 GENTILITY without ability is worse than plain beggary
• G63 Where there are GENTLES there are aye off-fallings¹
• G64 Everyone cannot be a GENTLEMAN
• G65 A GENTLEMAN may make a king and a clerk may prove a pope
• G66 A GENTLEMAN of the first head
• G67 A GENTLEMAN will do like a gentleman
• G68 A GENTLEMAN without money (living) is like a pudding¹ without suet
• G69 A goose-quill GENTLEMAN
• G70 He cannot be a GENTLEMAN that loves not a dog
• G71 He is a GENTLEMAN that has gentle conditions
• G72 He shoots like a GENTLEMAN, fair and far off
• G73 He that would be a GENTLEMAN let him storm a town (go to an assault)
• G74 To come off a clear GENTLEMAN
• G75 What is a GENTLEMAN but his pleasure?
• G76 What is a GENTLEMAN but his word?
• G77 A GENTLEMAN's greyhound and a salt box, seek them at the fire
• G78 All Cornish GENTLEMEN are cousins
• G79 GENTLEMAN JACK HERRING that puts his breeches on his head for want of wearing
• G80 GENTRY sent to market will not buy one bushel of corn
• G81 Farewell, gentle GEOFFREY
• G82 It hangs by GEOMETRY
• G83 As good as GEORGE of GREEN
• G84 That would I fain see, said blind GEORGE OF HOLLOWAY (blind Hugh)
• G85 Here is GERARD's bailiff, work or you must die with cold
• G86 The GERMAN drinks away sorrow, the Frenchman sings it away, the Spaniard weeps it away, and the Italian sleeps it away
• G87 As just (jump) as GERMAN's lips
• G88 The GERMAN's wit is in his fingers
• G89 So GOT so gone
• G90 Evil (Ill) GOTTEN evil (ill) spent
• G91 Soon GOTTEN soon spent
• G92 After a great GETTER comes a great spender
• G93 Goose GIBLETS are good meat, old sack better than new
• G94 GIFF GAFF (Give gave) was a good fellow
• G95 GIFF GAFF was a good man but he is soon weary
• G96 As free of his GIFT as a blind man (poor man, Jew) of his eye
• G97 A GIFT is valued by the mind of the giver
• G98 A GIFT much expected is paid, not given
• G99 GIFT of the gob¹
• G100 A small GIFT brings often a great reward
• G101 Throw no GIFT again at the giver's head
• G102 To get is the GIFT of fortune, to keep is the gift of wisdom
• G103 What is freer than GIFT?
• G104 Who receives a GIFT sells his liberty
• G105 GIFTS blind the eyes
• G106 GIFTS break through rocks
• G107 GIFTS enter everywhere without a wimble¹
• G108 GIFTS enter without knocking
• G109 GIFTS from enemies are dangerous
• G110 GIFTS make beggars bold
• G111 Great GIFTS are from great men
• G112 He bestows his GIFTS as broom¹ does honey
• G113 He that gives me small GIFTS would have me live
• G114 To find guilty GILBERT¹ where he had hid the brush
• G115 Lame GILES has played the man
• G116 GIMMINGHAM, Trimmingham, Knapton and Trunch, North Repps and South Repps are all of a bunch
• G117 To give up his GIRDLE
• G118 GIRN¹ when ye knit (bind) and laugh when ye loose
• G119 Better to GIVE than take (receive)
• G120 GIVE and be blessed, take away and be accursed
• G121 GIVE and take
• G122 I shall GIVE you (You shall have) as good as you bring
• G123 To GIVE (tell) one his own
• G124 He that GIVES discreetly gains directly
• G125 He that GIVES quickly (in a trice) gives twice
• G126 That which is GIVEN shines, that which is eaten stinks
• G127 GIVING is dead nowadays and restoring very sick
• G128 GIVING much to the poor does increase a man's store
• G129 He that's long a GIVING knows not how to give
• G130 What you spare from GIVING for God's sake the devil will carry another way
• G131 To stick in one's GIZZARD
• G132 His GLASS is run
• G133 What your GLASS tells you will not be told by counsel
• G134 As brittle as GLASS
• G135 As clear (bright) as GLASS
• G136 As smooth as GLASS
• G137 To carry GLASSES to Venice
• G138 He that loves GLASS without G, take away L and that is he
• G139 As old as GLASTONBURY Tor
• G140 He goes a GLEANING before the cart has carried
• G141 There's a GLIMMER in the touchbox¹
• G142 You are as supple as a GLOVE
• G143 You will make me believe that GLOWWORMS are lanterns
• G144 None sighs so sore as the GLUTTON that may no more
• G145 Who hastens a GLUTTON chokes him
• G146 Better fill a GLUTTON's belly than his eye
• G147 GLUTTONY is the sin of England
• G148 GLUTTONY (Surfeit) kills more than the sword
• G149 Not worth a GNAT
• G150 To strain at a GNAT and swallow a camel
• G151 The farther we GO the farther behind
• G152 GO forward and fall, go backward and mar all
• G153 GO where you will, die where you ought
• G154 He can GO invisible
• G155 If thou be hungry I am angry, let us GO fight
• G156 They that cannot GO before must come behind
• G157 To GO (stand) a high-lone¹
• G158 To GO clean cam¹
• G159 You GO not handsomely to work
• G160 You may GO farther and fare worse
• G161 As fast as one GOES another comes
• G162 As fast as one GOES another comes
• G163 He that GOES far gains much
• G164 He that GOES far to marry will either deceive or be deceived
• G165 He that GOES softly goes safely
• G166 As GOOD as ever went endways
• G167 As lecherous as a GOAT
• G168 The GOAT must browse where she is tied
• G169 An old GOAT is never the more reverend for his beard
• G170 You go to a GOAT to buy wool
• G171 To give one the GO-BY
• G172 Above GOD there is no lord, above black there is no color, and above salt there is no savor
• G173 As false as GOD is true
• G174 As sure as GOD is in Gloucestershire
• G175 As true (sure) as GOD is in heaven
• G176 Better GOD than gold
• G177 Beware of him whom GOD has marked
• G178 Call GOD near when you do sneeze
• G179 First serve GOD and then serve me
• G180 GOD comes at last (is at the end) when we think he is farthest off
• G181 GOD comes to see without a bell
• G182 GOD comes with leaden (woolen) feet but strikes with iron hands
• G183 GOD complains not but does what is fitting
• G184 GOD defend me from the still water and I'll keep myself from the rough
• G185 GOD deprives him of bread who likes not his drink
• G186 GOD gives his wrath by weight and without weight his mercy
• G187 GOD grant your early rising do you no harm
• G188 GOD has done his part
• G189 GOD has provided a remedy for every disease
• G190 GOD heals and the physician has the thanks (takes the fee)
• G191 GOD help the fool, quoth Pedley
• G192 GOD help the poor, for the rich can help themselves
• G193 GOD help the rich, the poor can beg
• G194 GOD in the tongue (hand) and the devil in the heart
• G195 GOD is a good man
• G196 GOD is a potter and we are the clay
• G197 GOD is a sure paymaster
• G198 GOD is better pleased with adverbs than with nouns
• G199 GOD (Nature) is no botcher
• G200 GOD is no changeling
• G201 GOD is still in heaven
• G202 GOD is where he was
• G203 GOD keep me from four houses: a usurer's, a tavern, a spittle, and a prison
• G204 GOD knows well which are the best pilgrims
• G205 GOD make you an honester man than your father
• G206 GOD makes and apparel shapes but money makes the man
• G207 GOD never sends mouth but he sends meat
• G208 GOD often has a great share in a little house
• G209 GOD only knows (Men know not) who shall enjoy men's (their) gettings
• G210 GOD, our parents, and our master can never be requited
• G211 GOD provides for him that trusts
• G212 GOD send me a friend that may tell me my faults; if not, an enemy, and to be sure he will
• G213 GOD send us of our own when rich men go to dinner
• G214 GOD send water in that well that people think will never go dry
• G215 GOD send you joy, for sorrow will come fast enough
• G216 GOD send you more wit and me more money
• G217 GOD sends a curst (shrewd) cow short horns
• G218 GOD sends cold after (according to) clothes
• G219 GOD sends corn and the devil mars the sack
• G220 GOD sends fortune to fools
• G221 GOD sends good luck and God sends bad
• G222 GOD sends meat and the devil sends cooks
• G223 GOD speed the plow
• G224 GOD stays long but strikes at last
• G225 GOD stint all strife
• G226 GOD strikes not with both hands, for to the sea he made havens and to rivers fords
• G227 GOD strikes with his finger and not with all his arm
• G228 GOD will send time to provide for time
• G229 Have GOD and have all
• G230 He is either a GOD or a painter, for he makes faces
• G231 He is poor that GOD hates
• G232 He that errs and mends to GOD himself commends
• G233 He that is without GOD has nothing
• G234 He that serves GOD for money will serve the devil for better wages
• G235 He that serves GOD serves a good master
• G236 Help thyself and GOD will help thee
• G237 I owe GOD a death
• G238 If GOD be with us who will be against us?
• G239 It that GOD will give the devil cannot reave¹
• G240 Like me, GOD bless the example
• G241 Not GOD above gets all men's love
• G242 One GOD, no more, but friends good store
• G243 Pray to GOD to help you and put your hand to work
• G244 Put GOD before you, you need not care who comes behind you
• G245 Serve GOD in your calling, 'tis better than praying
• G246 Soon todd¹ soon with GOD
• G247 Spend and GOD will send
• G248 That GOD will have see shall not wink
• G249 There is GOD in the ambry¹
• G250 There is GOD when all is done
• G251 Those that GOD loves do not live long (The good die young)
• G252 Though GOD takes the sun out of heaven yet we must have patience
• G253 We cannot serve GOD and Mammon
• G254 What GOD will no frost can kill
• G255 When GOD is made master of a family he orders (disorders) the disorderly
• G256 When GOD will all winds bring rain (no wind but brings rain)
• G257 When GOD will punish he will first take away the understanding
• G258 When it pleases not GOD the saint can do little
• G259 Where GOD has (builds) his church the devil has (builds) his chapel
• G260 While they think they have GOD by the toe they have the devil by the fist
• G261 Whom GOD loves, his bitch brings forth pigs
• G262 Whom GOD loves, his house is savory to him
• G263 Whom GOD will help no man can hinder (hurt)
• G264 You are one of them to whom GOD bade ho¹
• G265 Go in GOD's name, so ride no witches
• G266 GOD's blessing on your heart for it
• G267 GOD's grace and Pilling Moss are boundless
• G268 GOD's help is better than early rising
• G269 GOD's help is nearer than the fair even
• G270 GOD's mill grinds slow but sure
• G271 He would spend GOD's cope¹ if he had it
• G272 Out of GOD's blessing into the warm sun
• G273 That never ends ill which begins in GOD's name
• G274 There are GOD's poor and the devil's poor
• G275 Who hopes in GOD's help his help cannot start
• G276 GOD-A-MERCY (Gramercy), horse
• G277 GODFATHERS (Mothers) oft give their blessings¹ in a clout²
• G278 GOD-HAVE-MERCY fills not the physician's purse
• G279 Both bade me GODSPEED but neither bade me welcome
• G280 As yellow (shining) as GOLD
• G281 GOLD expounds the law and the gloss
• G282 GOLD goes in at any gate except heaven's
• G283 GOLD is the fruit that is always ripe
• G284 GOLD is tried in the fire
• G285 GOLD must be beaten and a child scourged
• G285a GOLD speaks
• G286 He that has GOLD may buy land
• G287 He that labors and thrives spins GOLD
• G288 If GOLD knew what gold is, gold would get gold iwis
• G289 No GOLD without dross
• G290 Pour GOLD on him and he'll never thrive
• G291 The purest GOLD is most ductile
• G292 That is GOLD which is worth gold
• G293 When we have GOLD we are in fear, when we have none we are in danger (trouble)
• G294 Win GOLD and wear gold
• G295 You may speak with your GOLD and make other tongues dumb (Where gold speaks every tongue is silent)
• G296 You may trust him with untold GOLD (money)
• G297 In GOLGOTHA there are skulls of all sizes
• G298 As rises my GOOD so rises my blood
• G299 Little GOOD soon spent
• G300 Conceited¹ GOODS are quickly spent
• G301 Evil-gotten (Ill-gotten) GOODS never prove well (prosper, endure)
• G302 GOODS are theirs that enjoy them
• G303 The GOODS of fortune pass away with the moon
• G304 He that loses his GOODS loses his sense
• G305 Ill-gotten GOODS thrive not to the third heir
• G306 The more GOODS the more evils (greed)
• G307 Stolen GOODS thrive accordingly
• G308 Who gives away his GOODS before he is dead take a beetle¹ and knock him on the head
• G309 Better GOOD afar off than evil at hand
• G310 Do GOOD and regard not to whom, do evil and take heed of thyself
• G311 GOOD and quickly seldom meet
• G312 GOOD finds good
• G313 GOOD is good but better carries it
• G314 GOOD is to be sought out and evil attended
• G315 GOOD though long stayed for is good
• G316 He that any GOOD would win, at his mouth must first begin
• G317 He that hopes not for GOOD fears not evil
• G318 Set GOOD against evil (Do good for evil)
• G319 That's my GOOD that does me good
• G320 To come from little GOOD (ought) to stark nought
• G321 To know one's (one's own) GOOD
• G322 To requite GOOD for evil is charity, evil for good is cruelty
• G323 Who fasts and does no other GOOD spares his bread and goes to hell
• G324 GOOD to be merry and wise
• G325 For GOOD AND ALL
• G326 GOOD ENOUGH is never aught
• G327 A GOOD FELLOW¹ is a costly name
• G328 A GOOD FELLOW¹ lights his candle at both ends
• G329 A GOOD FELLOW¹ never lost but at an ill fellow's hand
• G330 Longer lives a GOOD FELLOW than a dear year
• G331 As the GOODMAN says so say we, but as the good-wife says so it must be
• G332 The GOODMAN is the last that knows what's amiss at home
• G333 When the GOODMAN is from home the goodwife's table is soon spread (the board cloth is tint¹)
• G334 To brag of many GOOD MORROWS
• G335 Well GOOD MOTHER DAUGHTER
• G336 GOODNESS is not tied to greatness
• G337 It is more your GOODNESS than my desert
• G338 GOOD WILL and welcome is your best cheer
• G339 The GOOD WILL is all
• G340 GOOD WILL should be taken in part of payment
• G341 I killed her for GOOD WILL, said Scot when he killed his neighbor's mare
• G342 I will do my GOOD WILL (endeavor), as he said that threshed in his cloak
• G343 Like GOODYER's pig, never well but when he is doing mischief
• G344 They'll come again as GOODYER's pigs did
• G345 As deep drinks the GOOSE as the gander
• G346 As dizzy as a GOOSE
• G347 As fierce as a GOOSE
• G348 As wise as a GOOSE (gander)
• G349 Good GOOSE, bite not
• G350 A good GOOSE indeed but she has an ill gansel
• G351 GOOSE and gander and gosling are three sounds but one thing
• G352 A GOOSE cannot graze after him
• G353 He hopes to eat of the GOOSE that shall graze on your grave
• G354 He may shoe the GOOSE
• G355 He that turns the GOOSE should have the neck
• G356 If I may not keep¹ GOOSE I shall keep gosling
• G357 If I may not keep¹ GOOSE I shall keep gosling
• G358 It is a blind GOOSE that comes to a fox's sermon
• G359 It is a blind GOOSE that knows not a fox from a fern bush
• G360 It is a good GOOSE that drops aye
• G361 It is a sorry GOOSE that will not baste herself
• G362 There's no GOOSE so gray in the lake that cannot find a gander for her make¹
• G363 To kill the GOOSE that lays the golden eggs
• G364 To steal a GOOSE and give the giblets in alms
• G365 To steal a GOOSE and stick down a feather
• G366 A Winchester GOOSE
• G367 You will be good when the GOOSE pisses
• G368 Young (Old) is the GOOSE that will eat no oats
• G369 All his GEESE are swans
• G370 Go flay the GEESE
• G371 As open as a GOOSE EYE
• G372 The GOOSE PAN is above the roast
• G373 As good as GOOSE SKINS that never man had enough of
• G374 I care no more for it than a GOOSE TURD for the Thames
• G375 To cut the GORDIAN KNOT
• G376 A GOSHAWK beats¹ not at a bunting
• G377 The GOSLINGS lead the geese to water
• G378 As true as the GOSPEL
• G379 The GOSPEL is in your mouth
• G380 The GOSPEL makes heretics
• G381 GOSSIPS and frogs, they drink and talk
• G382 It is merry when GOSSIPS (gentlefolks) meet
• G383 My GOSSIPS wish me ill because I tell them truth
• G384 You breed of¹ the GOUK,² you have aye but one rhyme (song)
• G385 He is pleased with GOURDS and his wife with cucumbers
• G386 To the GOUT all physicians are blind
• G387 The GOWN is his that wears it and the world his that enjoys it
• G388 He that puts on a public GOWN must put off a private person
• G389 That's the best GOWN that goes up and down the house
• G390 Divine GRACE was never slow
• G391 GRACE (Nurture) and manners make a man
• G392 GRACE is best for the man
• G393 The GRACE of God is gear enough
• G394 The GRACE of God is worth a fair
• G395 GRACE will last, favor (beauty) will blast
• G396 You seek GRACE at a graceless face
• G397 It is good GRAFTING on a good stock
• G398 GRAIN by grain and the hen (ant) fills her belly (his barn)
• G399 One GRAIN fills not a sack but helps his fellows
• G400 One GRAIN of sharp pepper is better than a basketful of gourds
• G401 Sift him GRAIN by grain you'll find him chaff
• G402 To take with a GRAIN of salt
• G403 He must have his GRAINS of allowance
• G404 It goes against the GRAIN
• G405 Of evil GRAIN no good seed can come
• G406 Go teach your GRANDAME to get children
• G407 Teach your GRANDAME (grannam) to grope her ducks
• G408 Teach your GRANDAME to spin
• G409 Teach your GRANDAME to sup sour milk
• G410 Let your GRANDCHILD buy wax and do not you trouble yourself
• G411 One cannot gather GRAPES of thorns or figs of thistles
• G412 As green as GRASS
• G413 GRASS and hay, we are all mortal
• G414 GRASS grows not in hot ovens
• G415 GRASS grows not upon the highway (in the market)
• G416 He that fears every GRASS must not piss (walk) in a meadow
• G417 If GRASS grows in Janiveer it grows the worse all the year
• G418 March GRASS never did good
• G419 To cut the GRASS from under your feet
• G420 To cut the GRASS whereof another meant to make hay
• G421 To let no GRASS (moss) grow on one's heel
• G422 To pluck the GRASS to know where the wind sits
• G423 While the GRASS grows the horse (steed) starves
• G424 You must look for GRASS on the top of the oak tree
• G425 To hold a GRASSHOPPER by the wing
• G426 To be married rather to one's GRAVE
• G427 To the GRAVE with the dead and let them that live to the bread
• G428 We shall lie all alike in our GRAVES
• G429 He would live in a GRAVEL PIT
• G430 GRAY and green make the worst medley
• G431 He is GRAY before he is good
• G432 GRAY's INN for walks, Lincoln's Inn for a wall, the Inner Temple for a garden, and the Middle for a hall
• G433 He fries (stews) in his own GREASE
• G434 The GREAT put the little on the hook
• G435 The GREAT would have none great and the little all little
• G436 To work by the GREAT
• G437 The GREATER embraces (includes, hides) the less
• G438 At GREAT GLEN there are more great dogs than honest men
• G439 It is GREEK to me
• G440 When GREEK joins Greek then is the tug of war
• G441 At the GREEK CALENDS
• G442 I have seen as light a GREEN
• G443 The more you GREET¹ you'll piss the less
• G444 As gaunt as a GREYHOUND
• G445 Go not for every GRIEF to the physician nor for every quarrel to the lawyer nor for every thirst to the pot
• G446 The greater GRIEF (sorrow) drives out the less
• G447 GRIEF is lessened when imparted to others
• G448 The GRIEF of the head is the grief of griefs
• G449 GRIEF pent up will break the heart
• G450 That GRIEF is light which is capable of counsel
• G451 Whither goest, GRIEF? Where I am wont
• G452 All GRIEFS with bread are less
• G453 Never GRIEVE for that you cannot help
• G454 A merry GRIG
• G455 I will either GRIND or find
• G456 As patient as GRISSEL
• G457 The GROAT is ill saved that shames the master
• G458 Not worth a GROAT (gray groat)
• G459 He knows his GROATS among other folks' kale
• G460 Then I'll thatch GROBY POOL with pancakes
• G461 The best GROUND is the dirtiest
• G462 He is not worth the GROUND he goes on
• G463 He is on the GROUND
• G464 He that lies upon the GROUND can fall no lower
• G465 He that runs fastest gets most GROUND
• G466 He thinks that the GROUND carries him not
• G467 Stand to thy GROUND, old Harry
• G468 To love (hate) the GROUND another treads on
• G469 Today above GROUND tomorrow under
• G470 Who builds upon another's GROUND loses both mortar and stones
• G471 The GROUNDSEL¹ speaks not save what it heard of the hinges
• G472 Grantham GRUEL, nine grits and a gallon of water
• G473 To swallow (gape for) a GUDGEON
• G474 It is an ill GUEST that never drinks to his host
• G475 An unbidden GUEST is welcome when gone
• G476 An unbidden GUEST knows not where to sit (must bring his stool with him)
• G477 Bad GUIDES may soon mislead
• G478 The GULL comes against a tempest (the rain)
• G479 As hollow as a GUN
• G480 As sure (right, true) as a GUN
• G481 Bounce, quoth the GUN
• G482 Out of GUNSHOT
• G483 A greedy GUT would all get
• G484 He has GUTS (no guts) in his brains
• G485 He has more GUTS than brains
• G486 Not worthy to carry GUTS to a bear
• H1 A holy HABIT¹ cleanses not a foul soul
• H2 A halfpenny HACKNEY
• H3 As witty as a HADDOCK
• H4 Not worth a HADDOCK
• H5 To bring HADDOCK to paddock
• H6 To have been at HADDUM
• H7 HAD I FISH is good without mustard (was never good with garlic)
• H8 Beware of HAD I WIST
• H9 HAD I WIST comes too late
• H10 HAD I WIST was a fool
• H11 As thick as HAIL
• H12 HAIL brings frost in the tail
• H13 He uses HAIL when he has no thunder
• H14 Be not HAIL FELLOW WELL MET with everyone
• H15 HAIL FELLOW WELL MET
• H16 For one HAIR Martin lost his ass
• H17 His HAIR grows through his hood
• H18 It goes against the HAIR
• H19 Not worth a HAIR
• H20 One HAIR of a woman (Nature) draws more than a hundred yoke of oxen (ten oxen)
• H21 Pull HAIR and hair and you'll make the carl (the horse's tail) bare
• H22 Take a HAIR from his beard
• H23 Take a HAIR of the dog that bit you
• H24 There is but a HAIR between
• H25 There is no HAIR so small but has its shadow
• H26 To hit (fit) it to a HAIR
• H27 To look like a strained HAIR in a can
• H28 Not to stir a HAIR's breadth
• H29 Within a HAIR's breadth
• H30 As many as there are HAIRS on the head
• H31 Gray HAIRS are death's blossoms
• H32 To split HAIRS
• H33 What we lost in HAKE (salt fish) we shall have in herring
• H34 Believe HALF of what you hear of money and health (wisdom) and good faith
• H35 Believe HALF of what you see and nothing of what you see not
• H36 Better HALF a loaf than no bread
• H37 Better HALF an egg than an empty shell
• H38 HALF a pea a day will serve a lady
• H39 HALF a word (tale) to a wise man (a good understander) is enough
• H40 HALF an acre is good land
• H41 HALF an hour past three quarters and ready to strike again
• H42 HALF an hour's hanging hinders five miles' riding
• H43 The HALF is more than the whole
• H44 The HALF shows what the whole means
• H45 HALF the way to know the way
• H46 HALF (One half of) the world knows not how the other half lives
• H47 He that has but HALF an eye may see it
• H48 It is best to take HALF in hand and the rest by and by
• H49 My better HALF
• H50 He drank till he gave up his HALFPENNY
• H51 They will know by a HALFPENNY if a priest will take offering
• H52 As nice as a HALFPENNYWORTH of silver spoons
• H53 To be HALF-SEAS over
• H54 HALF-WARNED (Forewarned) is half-armed (fore-armed)
• H55 It is merry in HALL when beards wag all
• H56 Out of the HALL into the kitchen
• H57 You HALT before you are lame
• H58 He has made a HALTER to hang himself
• H59 Mention not a HALTER (rope) in the house of him that was hanged (that hanged himself)
• H60 It is hard (ill) HALTING before a cripple
• H61 A trout HAMLET with four legs
• H62 Between the HAMMER and the anvil
• H63 HAMPSHIRE GROUND requires every day of the week a shower of rain and on Sunday twain
• H64 As easy as to kiss one's HAND
• H65 At HAND, quoth pickpurse
• H66 Better HAND loose than bound to an ill baikie¹
• H67 For one's HAND to be in
• H68 Give not your right HAND to every man
• H69 Good HAND (servant) good hire (wages)
• H70 HAND over head
• H71 HAND over head as men took the covenant
• H72 The HAND that gives gathers
• H73 He is his right HAND
• H74 He knows not (knows) his right HAND from his left
• H75 He puts his HAND between two millstones
• H76 He that is fed at another's HAND may stay long ere he be full
• H77 A hearty HAND to give a hungry melteth¹
• H78 His HAND is in the creel
• H79 His one HAND wots not what the other is doing
• H80 I will lay my HAND on my halfpenny ere I part with it
• H81 If you be not pleased (content) put your HAND in your pocket and please yourself
• H82 If your HAND be in a lion's mouth get it out as fast as you can
• H83 Lay thy HAND on thy heart and speak the truth
• H84 The left HAND is the hand of the heart
• H85 Many kiss the HAND they wish cut off
• H86 A moist HAND argues an amorous nature (fruitfulness)
• H87 One HAND washes another and both (both wash) the face
• H88 Put not your HAND between the bark and the tree
• H89 Put your HAND into the creel and you will get either an adder or an eel
• H90 The same HAND that gave must heal the wound
• H91 Sow with the HAND and not with the whole sack
• H92 They are HAND and glove
• H93 To be on the mending HAND
• H94 To bear one in HAND
• H95 To get (have) the upper HAND
• H96 To have had one's HAND in the salt box
• H97 To lend a helping HAND
• H98 To live (have) from HAND to mouth
• H99 To make a HAND (fair hand) of a thing
• H100 To refuse with the right HAND and take with the left
• H101 A wet HAND will hold a dead herring
• H102 Whatever is made by the HAND of man, by the hand of man may be overturned
• H103 Where every HAND fleeces, the sheep go naked
• H104 Who can hold that they have not in their HAND?
• H105 The wise HAND does not all the foolish mouth speaks
• H106 Wish in one HAND and shit in the other and see which will be full first
• H107 Withhold not thine HAND from showing mercy to the poor
• H108 Your HAND is never worse for doing your own work
• H109 Both HANDS are cleansed when the one is washed with the other
• H110 Empty HANDS deserve no prayer
• H111 Empty Hands no hawks allure
• H112 HANDS off is fair play
• H113 Happier are the HANDS compassed with iron than a heart with thoughts
• H114 He has both his HANDS full
• H115 He plays on both HANDS
• H116 Help, HANDS, for I have no lands
• H117 I will not foul my HANDS with him
• H118 I will wash my HANDS and wait upon you
• H119 Many HANDS make light work
• H120 Spit in your HANDS and take better hold
• H121 Spit in your HANDS and take better hold
• H122 To wash one's HANDS of a thing
• H123 Two HANDS in a dish and one in a purse
• H124 Wash your HANDS often, your feet seldom, and your head never
• H125 With unwashed HANDS
• H126 A HANDFUL of good life is better than a bushel of learning
• H127 A HANDFUL of nature is better than an armful of science¹
• H128 As idle as one may HANG together
• H129 Better to HANG than to hold
• H130 Better be half HANGED than ill wed
• H131 HANGING is stretching, mocking is catching
• H132 HANGING is the worst use you can put a man to
• H133 A HANGMAN is a good trade, he does his work by daylight
• H134 The HANGMAN leads the dance
• H135 HAP and a halfpenny is world's gear enough
• H136 Some have the HAP, some stick in the gap
• H137 HAP good hap ill (evil)
• H138 HAPPINESS cannot be attained in this world
• H139 He that talks much of his HAPPINESS summons grief
• H140 It is better to be HAPPY (fortunate) than wise
• H141 HAPPY-GO-LUCKY
• H142 He that is ill of his HARBERIE¹ is good of his way-kenning
• H143 I will throw you into HARBOROUGH FIELD
• H144 The HARD gives more (no more) than he that has nothing
• H145 HARD with hard never made good wall
• H146 He that eats the HARD shall eat the ripe
• H147 As fearful as a HARE
• H148 As mad as a March HARE
• H149 A HARE and a mare go one year
• H150 A HARE has crossed your way
• H151 HARE is melancholy meat
• H152 The HARE runs well but the dog that catches her better
• H153 A HARE sleeps with his eyes open
• H154 He that will have a HARE to breakfast must hunt overnight
• H155 If you could run as you drink you might catch a HARE
• H156 Take a HARE without a meuse and a woman without a 'scuse
• H157 There goes the HARE away
• H158 To hold (run) with the HARE and run (hold, hunt) with the hound
• H159 Who eats a HARE laughs seven days after (will look fair)
• H160 You shall as soon catch a HARE with a tabor
• H161 Set the HARE's head (foot) against the goose giblets
• H162 To kiss the HARE's foot
• H163 He that hunts two HARES loses both
• H164 He will make you believe that HARES lay eggs
• H165 So HARES may pull dead lions by the beard
• H166 Better the HARM I know than that I know not
• H167 HARM watch harm catch
• H168 Hate not at the first HARM
• H169 He that drinks well sleeps well and he that sleeps well thinks no HARM
• H170 To be able to do HARM and not to do it is noble
• H171 To be (keep) out of HARM's way
• H172 He grows warm in his HARNESS
• H173 They agree like HARP and harrow
• H174 To hang one's HARP on the willow
• H175 As blind as a HARPER
• H176 Have among you, blind HARPERS
• H177 To be a HARPOCRATES
• H178 Not worth a HARRINGTON
• H179 He is drinking at the HARROW¹ when he should be following the plow
• H180 They draw a light HARROW
• H181 HARRY's children of Leigh, never a one like another
• H182 HARVEST follows seedtime
• H183 He that has a good HARVEST may be content with some thistles
• H184 A long HARVEST of a little corn
• H185 Good HARVESTS make men prodigal, bad ones provident
• H186 You have on your HARVEST EARS
• H187 In HARVEST TIME ladies are chambermaids
• H188 HASTE comes not alone
• H189 HASTE makes waste
• H190 HASTE makes waste and waste makes want and want makes strife between the goodman and his wife
• H191 He that resolves in HASTE repents at leisure
• H192 Make HASTE Slowly
• H193 Make HASTE to an ill way that you may get out of it
• H194 Make HASTE when you are purchasing a field but when you are to marry a wife be slow
• H195 Make no more HASTE when you come down than when you went up
• H196 Marry in HASTE and repent at leisure
• H197 More HASTE than good speed
• H198 The more HASTE the less (worse) speed
• H199 No HASTE but good
• H200 No HASTE but good speed
• H201 NO HASTE to hang true men
• H202 Who has no HASTE in his business, mountains to him seem valleys
• H203 He is none of the HASTINGS
• H204 A HAT is not made for one shower
• H205 My old HAT must have a new band
• H206 Pull down your HAT on the wind's side
• H207 It is good to have a HATCH¹ before the door
• H208 Afraid of the HATCHET lest the helve stick in his ass
• H209 I have hung up my HATCHET
• H210 The greatest HATE proceeds from the greatest love
• H211 No HATE like to brothers' if they fall at debate
• H212 HATRED with friends is succor to foes
• H213 Better HAVE it than hear of it
• H214 Better to HAVE than wish
• H214a HAVE is half full (enough)
• H215 HAVE is have
• H216 He that would HAVE what he has not should do what he does not
• H217 He that HAS of his own needs not to borrow
• H218 Not what is she but what HAS she
• H219 To shipwreck in the HAVEN (harbor)
• H220 To make HAVOC and set cock on the hoop
• H221 Not worth a HAW¹
• H222 As hungry as a HAWK (horse)
• H223 Between HAWK and buzzard
• H224 By HAWK and hound small profit is found
• H225 The gentle HAWK half mans herself
• H226 He knows not a HAWK from a handsaw
• H227 Ware the HAWK
• H228 Whiles the HAWK has and whiles he hunger has
• H229 High-flying HAWKS are fit for princes
• H230 Unmanned HAWKS forsake the lure
• H231 He has been out a HAWKING for butterflies
• H232 Be sure of HAY till the end of May
• H233 He has HAY on his horn
• H234 It goes down like chopped HAY
• H235 Make HAY while the sun shines
• H236 HEA¹ will gar² a deaf man hear
• H237 A bald HEAD is soon shaven
• H238 Better be the HEAD of a lizard (mouse) than the tail of a lion
• H239 Better be the HEAD of an ass than the tail of a horse
• H240 Better be the HEAD of the yeomanry than the tail of the gentry
• H241 Break my HEAD and draw on my hoo¹
• H242 Cover your HEAD by day as much as you will, by night as much as you can
• H243 Cut off the HEAD and tail and throw the rest away
• H244 A great HEAD and thin neck is a sign of a fool
• H245 Great (Mickle) HEAD little wit
• H246 He dares not show his HEAD (himself) for debt
• H247 He has a leaden HEAD and wooden wit
• H248 He has thy HEAD under his girdle
• H249 He that has a HEAD of wax must not walk in the sun
• H250 He that has no HEAD needs no hat (cap, hood)
• H251 He that will be a HEAD let him be a bridge
• H252 He will not give his HEAD for the washing
• H253 The HEAD and feet keep warm, the rest will take no harm
• H254 A HEAD that's white to maids brings no delight
• H255 His HEAD is full of bees
• H256 His HEAD is full of proclamations
• H257 An idle HEAD is a box for the wind
• H258 It has neither HEAD nor tail
• H259 It is better to be the HEAD of a pike than the tail of a sturgeon
• H260 It is good to keep one HEAD for the reckoning
• H261 Little HEAD great wit
• H262 No sooner up but HEAD in the ambry¹ and nose in the cup
• H263 Old HEAD and young hands
• H264 The scabby HEAD loves not the comb
• H265 A scald¹ HEAD (A scald man's head) is soon broken
• H266 Sup with your HEAD, the horner¹ is dead
• H267 That which is good for the HEAD is ill for the neck and shoulders (That which is good for the back is bad for the head)
• H268 To be over HEAD and ears (up to the ears) in a thing
• H269 To break one's HEAD and give him a plaster
• H270 To comb one's HEAD with a three-legged stool
• H271 To come to a HEAD
• H272 To hold up his HEAD like a steed of ten pounds
• H273 To run one's HEAD against a stone wall
• H274 To thrust out (in) by the HEAD and shoulders
• H275 When the HEAD aches all the body is the worse
• H276 A wise HEAD makes a close mouth
• H277 You have a handsome HEAD of hair, pray give me a tester¹
• H278 As many HEADS as Hydra
• H279 So many HEADS so many wits
• H280 They laid their HEADS together
• H281 TWO HEADS (wits) are better than one
• H282 To have a good HEADPIECE
• H283 It is ill HEALING an old sore
• H284 As welcome as HEALTH to sick men
• H285 Better in HEALTH than in good conditions
• H286 HEALTH and money go far
• H287 HEALTH and sickness surely are men's double enemies
• H288 HEALTH is a jewel (great riches)
• H289 HEALTH is better than wealth
• H290 HEALTH is not valued till sickness comes
• H291 HEALTH without money is half an ague (half a sickness)
• H292 To drink HEALTH is to drink sickness
• H293 You must not pledge your own HEALTH
• H294 Some HEAR and see him whom he hears and sees not
• H295 Who so deaf as he that will not HEAR?
• H296 He may be HEARD where he is not seen
• H297 Were there no HEARERS there would be no backbiters (none to rail)
• H298 HEARING much increases knowledge
• H299 Ill (Wrong) HEARING makes wrong rehearsing
• H300 It is worth the HEARING
• H301 A blithe HEART makes a blooming visage
• H302 Faint HEART ne'er won fair lady
• H303 A full HEART lied never
• H304 A gentle HEART is tied with an easy thread
• H305 A good HEART conquers ill fortune (overcomes all)
• H306 A good HEART may do well anywhere
• H307 A good HEART overcomes many sorrows
• H308 He is a velvet true HEART
• H309 He is HEART of oak
• H310 He may weep till his HEART ache that has nobody to comfort him
• H311 A HEART as hard as a stone (flint, marble)
• H312 The HEART of a fool is in his tongue (mouth)
• H313 The HEART of an Englishman towards a Welshman
• H314 His HEART is in his hose (heels)
• H315 His HEART (mind, hand) is on his halfpenny
• H316 An honest HEART cannot dissemble
• H317 I will not set at my HEART what I should set at my heel (what you set at your heel)
• H318 It goes as much in his HEART as his heel
• H319 A kind HEART loses nought at last
• H320 A loyal HEART may be landed under Traitors' Bridge
• H320a A merry HEART lives long
• H321 Nearest the HEART nearest the mouth
• H322 Piss and fart, a sound HEART
• H323 Pluck up your HEART
• H324 A proud (A lord's) HEART (mind) and a beggar's purse agree not
• H325 A proud HEART in a poor breast has mickle dolor¹ to dree²
• H326 Set hard (stout) HEART against hard hap (stay¹ brea²)
• H327 Set your HEART at rest
• H328 A small (humble) HEART has small (humble) desires
• H329 That which comes from the HEART returns to the heart
• H330 To eat one's HEART out
• H331 To have one's HEART at (in) one's mouth
• H332 To take HEART of grace
• H333 What is in the HEART of the sober man is in the tongue (mouth) of the drunkard
• H334 What the HEART thinks the tongue speaks
• H335 Where the HEART is past hope the face is past shame
• H336 Who has not a HEART let him have legs (heels)
• H337 A willing HEART performs his part
• H338 With all my HEART and a piece of my liver
• H339 With HEART and hand
• H340 Your kind HEART will be your death
• H341 HEARTS may agree though heads differ
• H342 Kind HEARTS are soonest wronged
• H343 Neither HEAT nor cold abides always in the sky
• H344 There is no HEAT of affection but is joined with some idleness of brain
• H345 To HEAVE and theave
• H346 To pay one home with HEAVE AND HO
• H347 He is well since he is in HEAVEN
• H348 HEAVEN (God) is above all
• H349 HEAVEN is not so soon gotten as wished for
• H350 To be in HEAVEN
• H351 To be in the ninth (second, third) HEAVEN
• H352 To go to HEAVEN in a feather bed
• H353 To go to HEAVEN in a string
• H354 To go to HEAVEN in a wheelbarrow
• H355 To spit against HEAVEN (in heaven's face)
• H356 Who spits against HEAVEN, it falls in his face
• H357 To take HECTOR's cloak
• H358 Better shelter under an old HEDGE than a young furze bush
• H359 He has made many a white HEDGE black
• H360 If you would a good HEDGE have carry the leaves to the grave
• H361 A low HEDGE is easily leaped over
• H362 To hang on the HEDGE
• H363 To leap over the HEDGE before you come at the stile
• H364 Where the HEDGE is lowest men may soonest over
• H365 He is ready to leap over nine HEDGES
• H366 I would it were in again with the HEDGEHOG after it
• H367 Trim up a HEDGEHOG and he will look like a lord
• H368 HEDGEHOGS lodge among thorns because themselves are prickly
• H369 Hertfordshire HEDGEHOGS
• H370 Good HEED has good hap
• H371 Much HEED does no harm
• H372 Take HEED of a person marked and a widow thrice married
• H373 Take HEED (Beware) of a reconciled enemy (friend)
• H374 Take HEED of a stepmother, the very name of her suffices
• H375 Take HEED of a young wench, a prophetess, and a Latin woman
• H376 Take HEED of an ox before, a horse (an ass) behind, of a monk (parson) on all sides
• H377 Take HEED of credit decayed and people which have nothing
• H378 Take HEED of enemies (friends) reconciled and of meat twice boiled
• H379 Take HEED of foul dirty ways and long sickness
• H380 Take HEED of lightning at both ends
• H381 Take HEED of mad fools (folks) in a narrow place
• H382 Take HEED of the vinegar of sweet wine
• H383 Take HEED of the wrath of a mighty man and the tumult of the people
• H384 Take HEED of wind that comes in at a hole and a reconciled enemy
• H385 Take HEED you find not that you do not seek
• H386 When you go to dance take HEED whom you take by the hand
• H387 Touch me not on the sore HEEL
• H388 Let him hang by the HEELS
• H389 Out at HEELS
• H390 To beat his HEELS against the ground
• H391 To cool one's HEELS
• H392 To kick up one's HEELS
• H393 To run down his HEELS
• H394 To take to one's HEELS
• H395 To plow with another's HEIFER
• H396 It is HEIGHT makes Grantham¹ steeple stand awry
• H397 As black (dark) as HELL
• H398 As false as HELL
• H399 From HELL, Hull, and Halifax, good Lord deliver us
• H400 Harrow (Rake) HELL and scum the devil
• H401 He that gains HELL has made an ill market
• H402 He will go to HELL for the house profit
• H403 HELL is broke loose
• H404 HELL is full of good meanings and wishings (intentions)
• H405 HELL is paved with priests' shaven crowns and great men's headpieces
• H406 HELL is wherever heaven is not
• H407 If HELL were not full the lawyer could not be saved
• H408 No HELL like a bad conscience
• H409 There is nobody will go to HELL for company
• H410 They that be in HELL ween there is no other heaven
• H411 HELP never comes too late
• H412 He HELPS little that helps not himself
• H413 To throw the HELVE after the hatchet
• H414 When HEMPE is spun England is done
• H415 As busy as a HEN with one (two, ten) chicken (chickens)
• H416 As fat as a HEN in the forehead
• H417 Better a laying HEN than a lying crown¹
• H418 A black HEN lays a white egg
• H419 He looks like a HEN drinking water
• H420 He that comes of a HEN must scrape
• H421 The HEN lays as well upon one egg as many
• H422 If one knew how good it were to eat a HEN in January, had he twenty in the flock he'd leave but one to go with the cock
• H423 Let a HEN live though she has a pip
• H424 Like HEN like chicken
• H425 Nor HEN without bacon, nor sermon without Saint Austin
• H426 Not worth a HEN
• H427 You will not sell your HEN in a rainy day
• H428 You are like the HENS, you go aye to the heap
• H429 From HENCE to (Between this and) --[some distant place]
• H430 HENGSTEN DOWN well wrought is worth London Town dear bought
• H431 In HENRY¹ was the union of the roses,² in James³ of the kingdoms
• H432 HENRY CHICK never slew a man till he came to him
• H433 A HENRY SOPHISTER
• H434 HENRY THE EIGHTH pulled down monks and their cells, Henry the Ninth should pull down bishops and their bells
• H435 Fie upon HEPS, quoth the fox because he could not reach them
• H436 HERCULES himself cannot deal with two
• H437 Ill HERDS make fat wolves
• H438 It is neither HERE nor there
• H439 HEREAFTER comes not yet
• H440 HERESY and beer (turkey, carp) came into England in one year
• H441 HERESY and frenzy go together
• H442 HERESY is the school of pride
• H443 HERESY may be easier kept out than shaken off
• H444 The HERMIT thinks the sun shines nowhere but in his cell
• H445 As close as red HERRING in a barrel
• H446 As dead as a HERRING
• H447 As lean (lank) as a shotten HERRING
• H448 Every HERRING must hang by its own gill
• H449 Red HERRING ne'er spake word but een,¹ Broil my back but not my weamb²
• H450 To fish for a HERRING and catch a sprat
• H451 They are lightly HERRIT¹ that have their own
• H452 HICKLEDY-PICKLEDY, one among another
• H453 They that HIDE can find
• H454 To be HIDEBOUND
• H455 HIGH and heavenly
• H456 Over HIGH over low
• H457 As common as the HIGHWAY
• H458 He that sows in the HIGHWAY wearies his oxen and loses his labor
• H459 The HIGHWAY is never about
• H460 You are in the HIGHWAY to Needham
• H461 To keep HILARY TERM
• H462 Do on the HILL as you would do in the hall
• H463 He that comes first to the HILL may sit where he will
• H464 The higher the HILL the lower the grass
• H465 It is easy to bowl down the HILL
• H466 Praise a HILL but keep below (on the plain)
• H467 There is no HILL without its valley
• H468 This was a HILL in King Harry's days
• H469 To hop against the HILL
• H470 Up the HILL favor me, down the hill beware thee
• H471 When the HILL wears a cap it means mischief
• H472 She is loose in the HILTS (haft)
• H473 To be off (on) the HINGES
• H474 To have one on the HIP
• H475 HIT or miss
• H476 He that once HITS is ever bending (shooting)
• H477 He has (There is) no HO with him (Beyond all ho)
• H478 He that has two HOARDS is able to get the third
• H479 HOB nob (Hab nab, Hab or nab)
• H480 HOBBLEDEHOY, half a man and half a boy
• H481 HOBSON's choice
• H482 As straight as НOCKLEY BROOK
• H483 As fat as a HOG
• H484 As high as a HOG all but the bristles
• H485 Better my HOG dirty home than no hog at all
• H486 Every HOG has his Saint Martin
• H487 Everyone bastes the fat HOG, while the lean one burns
• H488 A Hampshire HOG
• H489 He looks like a HOG in armor
• H490 He that has one HOG makes him fat and he that has one son makes him a fool
• H491 The HOG (dog) is got into the honeypot (porridge pot)
• H492 The HOG never looks up to him that threshes down the acorns
• H493 A HOG of a month, a goose of three, are food for a king
• H494 It is hard to break a HOG of an ill custom
• H495 Lose not a HOG¹ (sheep) for a halfpennyworth of tar²
• H496 To make a HOG or a dog of it
• H497 To rout¹ like a HOG
• H498 To steal the HOG and give the feet for alms
• H499 All asiden¹ as HOGS fighten
• H500 It is ill to drive black HOGS in the dark
• H501 To drive one's HOGS to market
• H502 To hear as HOGS do in harvest, or with your harvest ears
• H503 You have brought your HOGS (eggs) to a fair (fine, wrong) market
• H504 To couch a HOGSHEAD
• H505 You were born at HOGS NORTON, where pigs play on organs
• H506 You are all for the HOISTINGS or Hustings
• H507 To go up HOLBORN¹ backwards
• H508 As much HOLD of his word as of a wet eel by the tail
• H509 There is no more HOLD of a new friend than of a new fashion
• H510 As good HOLD as draw
• H511 Better HOLD out than put out
• H512 He is wise that when he is well can HOLD him so
• H513 HOLD fast when you have it
• H514 Too hot to HOLD
• H515 Who can HOLD that will away?
• H516 HOLDING an eel too fast is the way to let her escape
• H517 He has a HOLE under his nose that all his money runs into
• H518 He will find some HOLE to creep out at
• H519 The HOLE calls the thief
• H520 Not to have a HOLE to put one's head in
• H521 There is a HOLE in the house
• H522 To pick a HOLE in a man's coat
• H523 He is blind enough who sees not through the HOLES of a sieve
• H524 You tell how many HOLES be in a scummer
• H525 Pretended HOLINESS is double iniquity
• H526 He never lies but when the HOLLEN¹ is green
• H527 He never lies but when the HOLLEN¹ is green
• H528 I will be HOLY, ay, marry will I
• H529 The HOLY GHOST comes many times from Rome to Trent in a mail¹
• H530 On HOLYROOD DAY the devil goes a nutting
• H531 The HOLY SCRIPTURE is made a nose of wax
• H532 Court HOLY WATER
• H533 He is gone to his long (last) HOME
• H534 HOME is home be it never so homely
• H535 I come from HOME, I have neither gained nor lost
• H536 HOMER nods sometimes
• H537 Let HOMER yield to such as presents bring
• H538 All the HONESTY is in the parting
• H539 He that loses his HONESTY has nothing else to lose
• H540 HONESTY is best at long run
• H541 HONESTY is ill for thriving
• H542 HONESTY is no pride
• H543 HONESTY is the best policy
• H544 As sweet as HONEY
• H545 Cover yourself with HONEY and the flies will have you
• H546 He has bought HONEY too dear who hurts his hands in the getting of it
• H547 He has HONEY in his mouth and the razor at his girdle
• H548 He is all HONEY or all turd
• H549 He that handles HONEY shall feel it cling to his fingers
• H550 He that has no HONEY in his pot let him have it in his mouth
• H551 He who shares HONEY with a bear has the least part of it
• H552 HONEY is not for the ass's mouth
• H553 HONEY is sweet but the bee stings
• H554 It is dear-bought HONEY that is licked off a thorn
• H555 Lick HONEY with your little finger
• H556 No HONEY without gall
• H557 Of HONEY and gall in love there is store
• H558 Seeking HONEY I caught the bee by the tail
• H559 To lick HONEY through a cleft stick
• H560 Too much HONEY cloys the stomach
• H561 Under HONEY ofttime lies bitter gall (poison)
• H562 You will (cannot) make HONEY of a dog's turd
• H563 It is but HONEYMOON with them
• H564 It will not always be HONEYMOON
• H565 Either live or die with HONOR
• H566 He is least worthy of HONOR that seeks it
• H567 He that gives HONOR to his enemy is like to an ass
• H568 HONOR and ease are seldom bedfellows
• H569 HONOR and profit lie not in one sack
• H570 HONOR bought is temporal simony
• H571 HONOR is the reward of virtue
• H572 HONOR is unseemly for a fool
• H573 HONOR will buy no beef
• H574 HONOR without maintenance is like a blue coat¹ without a badge
• H575 HONOR without profit is a ring on the finger
• H576 It is better to die with HONOR than to live with shame
• H577 The more rich the more HONOR
• H578 The more rich the more HONOR
• H579 We cannot come to HONOR under coverlet
• H580 Where HONOR ceases there knowledge decreases
• H581 Where there is no HONOR there is no grief (sorrow)
• H582 Great HONORS are great burdens
• H583 HONORS change manners
• H584 HONORS nourish arts
• H585 A HOOD for this fool
• H586 The HOOD (habit, cowl) makes not the monk
• H587 To beat it on the HOOF
• H588 By HOOK or crook
• H589 Hold HOOK and line
• H590 A HOOK well lost to catch a salmon
• H591 To fish with a golden (silver) НOOK
• H592 To be off the HOOKS
• H593 As round as a HOOP
• H594 When the HOP grows high it must have a pole
• H595 As fast (thick) as HOPS
• H596 A good HOPE is better than a bad possession
• H597 He that lives in HOPE dances without music
• H598 He that lives on HOPE has a slender diet
• H599 He who lives in HOPE does dance in a hoop
• H600 HOPE delayed afflicts the heart
• H601 HOPE is a good breakfast but a bad supper
• H602 HOPE is the last thing that man has to flee unto
• H603 HOPE is the poor man's bread
• H604 HOPE keeps him alive
• H605 If it were not for HOPE (Without hope) the heart would break (burst)
• H606 It is HOPE holds up his chin
• H607 There is more HOPE of a fool than of him that is wise in his own eyes
• H608 Too much HOPE deceives
• H609 Who lives by HOPE dies breaking of wind backwards
• H610 With HOPE, a halfpenny, and a lambskin
• H611 HOPE well and have well
• H612 As welcome as HOPKIN that came to jail overnight and was hanged the next morning
• H613 HOP-O'-MY-THUMB
• H614 HOPTON, Horner, Smyth, and Thynne, when abbots went out, they came in
• H615 As loud as a HORN
• H616 He that blows best bears away the HORN
• H617 A HORN heard soon though hardly seen
• H618 Wear a HORN and blow it not
• H619 You cannot make a HORN (pipe, whistle) of a pig's (ape's, tod's¹) tail
• H620 Pluck (Pull) in your HORNS
• H621 As hard as HORN
• H622 To wear a HORN (To be a cuckold) and not know it will do one no more harm than to eat a fly and not see it
• H623 He had better put his HORNS in his pocket than wind them
• H624 He that has HORNS in his bosom let him not put them on his head
• H625 He wears the HORNS
• H626 HORNS and gray hairs do not come by years
• H627 He is as mild as a HORNET
• H628 He is HORN-MAD
• H629 As holy as a HORSE
• H630 As shortly as a HORSE will lick his ear
• H631 Behind before, before behind, a HORSE is in danger to be pricked
• H632 The best HORSE needs breaking and the aptest child needs teaching
• H633 The best-shod HORSE does slip sometimes
• H634 The blind HORSE is hardiest¹
• H635 Choose a HORSE made, a servant to be made
• H636 Choose a HORSE made and a wife to make
• H637 The common HORSE is worst shod
• H638 Do not spur a free HORSE
• H639 Either win the HORSE or lose the saddle
• H640 A flea-bitten HORSE never tires
• H641 A four white-foot HORSE is a horse for a fool, a three white-foot horse is a horse for a king, and if he has but one I'll give him to none
• H642 A free HORSE will soon tire
• H643 A gentle HORSE should not be oversore (should be seldom) spurred
• H644 Give your HORSE a Welsh bait
• H645 A good HORSE becomes never a jade
• H646 A good HORSE cannot be of a bad color
• H647 A good HORSE draws himself and his master out of the mire
• H648 A good HORSE oft needs a good spur
• H649 A grunting HORSE and a groaning wife never fail their master
• H650 Have a HORSE of your own, you may borrow another
• H651 He has eaten a HORSE and the tail hangs out at his mouth
• H652 He has taken my HORSE and left me the tether
• H653 He is a weak HORSE that may not bear the saddle
• H654 He is so hungry he could eat a HORSE behind the saddle
• H655 He is undone, HORSE and man (foot)
• H656 He that cannot beat the HORSE (ass) beats the saddle (packsaddle)
• H657 He that has a white HORSE and a fair wife never wants trouble
• H658 He that has neither HORSE nor cart cannot always load
• H659 He that hires the HORSE must ride before
• H660 He will lie as fast as a HORSE (dog) will trot
• H661 A hired HORSE tired never
• H662 The HORSE looks not on the hedge but the corn (hay)
• H663 A HORSE may stumble (snapper¹) on four feet
• H664 The HORSE next the mill carries all the grist
• H665 A HORSE of another (that) color
• H666 The HORSE that draws after him his halter is not altogether escaped
• H667 The HORSE (ass) thinks one thing and he that saddles him another
• H668 A hungry HORSE makes a clean manger
• H669 I will make him water his HORSE at Highgate
• H670 It is a good HORSE that never stumbles
• H671 It is an ill HORSE that can neither whinny nor wag his tail
• H672 It is good to ride on the sure HORSE
• H673 It would make a HORSE break his bridle or a dog his halter (It would make a horse [dog] laugh)
• H674 Lend not HORSE nor wife nor sword
• H675 Lend your HORSE for a long journey, you may have him return with his skin
• H676 Let a HORSE drink when he will, not what he will
• H677 Let the quick HORSE draw the dead horse out of the mire
• H678 Look not a given HORSE in the mouth
• H679 My HORSE pisses whey, my man pisses amber, my horse is for my way, my man is for my chamber
• H680 The old HORSE must die in some man's hand
• H681 An old HORSE to a young soldier
• H682 One may lead a HORSE to the water but four and twenty cannot gar¹ him drink
• H683 A proud HORSE that will not carry (bear) his own provender
• H684 A resty (boisterous) HORSE must have a sharp spur (a rough bridle)
• H685 Ride a HORSE and mare on the shoulders, an ass and mule on the buttocks
• H686 A Royston HORSE and a Cambridge master of arts will give way to nobody
• H687 A running HORSE is an open grave
• H688 A running HORSE needs no spur
• H689 A scabbed (galled) HORSE cannot abide the comb
• H690 A scald (scabbed) HORSE is good enough for a scabbed (scald) squire
• H691 A short HORSE is soon curried
• H692 Some may better steal a HORSE than others look on (look over the hedge)
• H693 Steal the HORSE and carry home the bridle
• H694 That HORSE is troubled with corns
• H695 They are good willy¹ of their HORSE that have none
• H696 To a greedy eating HORSE a short halter
• H697 To go round like a blind HORSE in a mill
• H698 To stay as one HORSE stays for another
• H699 To work for a dead HORSE
• H700 Touch (Rub) a galled HORSE on the back and he will wince (kick)
• H701 A weand¹ HORSE and a rotten harrow are soon parted
• H702 Well, HORSE, winter will come
• H703 Where stands your great HORSE
• H704 Where the HORSE lies down, there some hair will be found
• H705 You bridle the HORSE by the tail
• H706 You may beat a HORSE till he be sad and a cow till she be mad
• H707 You may (may not) know the HORSE by his harness
• H708 You will ride on a HORSE that was foaled of an acorn (You will ride on a wooden horse)
• H709 Your HORSE cast a shoe
• H710 His HORSE's head is swollen so big that he cannot come out of the stable
• H711 Trust not a HORSE's heel nor a dog's tooth
• H712 You may break a HORSE's back be he never so strong
• H713 From the HORSES to the asses
• H714 Good HORSES make short miles
• H715 HORSES, dogs, and servants devour many
• H716 They are scarce of HORSES where two ride on a dog
• H717 They cannot set (To set) their HORSES together
• H718 When one is on HORSEBACK he knows all things
• H719 To give HORSE KISSES
• H720 To fall away from a HORSELOAD to a cartload
• H721 As high as three (two) HORSE LOAVES¹
• H722 He wears short HOSE
• H723 In my (your) t'other HOSE
• H724 He has sneezed thrice, turn him out of the HOSPITAL
• H725 Ask mine HOST whether he have good wine
• H726 He that reckons without his (Reckoners without their) HOST must reckon twice
• H727 Like HOST like guest
• H728 To reckon without one's HOST (hostess)
• H729 A HOST of harts is more to be feared that is ruled by a lion than a host of lions by a hart
• H730 The fairer the HOSTESS the fouler the reckoning
• H731 Over HOT over cold
• H732 Soon HOT soon cold
• H733 He is a HOT SHOT in a mustard pot when both his heels stand right up
• H734 You are a HOT SHOT
• H735 A foisting HOUND
• H736 An ill (evil) HOUND (dog) comes halting home
• H737 We HOUNDS slew the hare, quoth the messan¹
• H738 He is born in a good HOUR who gets a good name
• H739 He never broke his HOUR that kept his day
• H740 He was born in an ill HOUR who gets an ill name
• H741 It happens in one HOUR that happens not in seven years
• H742 There is an HOUR wherein a man might be happy all his life could he find it
• H743 There is but an HOUR in a day between a good housewife and a bad
• H744 One HOUR's sleep before midnight is worth three (two) after
• H745 Better be two HOURS before time than three behind it
• H746 Five HOURS sleeps a traveler, seven a scholar, eight a merchant, and eleven every knave
• H747 HOURS of pleasure are short
• H748 After the HOUSE is finished leave it
• H749 Before thou marry be sure of a HOUSE wherein to tarry
• H750 Better one HOUSE filled than two spilled
• H751 Better one's HOUSE too little one day than too big all the year after
• H752 Burn not your HOUSE to fright away the mice
• H753 Choose not a HOUSE near an inn, for noise, or in a corner, for filth
• H754 He keeps open HOUSE
• H755 He must take a HOUSE in Turnagain Lane
• H756 He pulls an old HOUSE on his head
• H757 He set my HOUSE on fire only to roast his eggs
• H758 He that burns his HOUSE warms himself for once
• H759 He that buys a HOUSE ready wrought has many a pin and nail for nought
• H760 He that has no HOUSE must lie in the yard
• H761 He that thatches his HOUSE with turds shall have more teachers than reachers
• H762 He that would be well needs not go from his own HOUSE
• H763 He will burn his HOUSE to warm his hands
• H764 His HOUSE stands on my lady's ground
• H765 A HOUSE and a woman suit excellently
• H766 A HOUSE built by the wayside is either too high or too low
• H767 A HOUSE dry overhead is happy
• H768 A HOUSE easier burnt (broken down) than built
• H769 The HOUSE is a fine house when good folks are within
• H770 A HOUSE pulled down is half built up
• H771 A HOUSE ready made and a wife to make
• H772 The HOUSE shows the owner
• H773 A HOUSE well-furnished makes a good housewife
• H774 I will mend this HOUSE and pair¹ another
• H775 If he were as long as he is lither¹ he might thatch a HOUSE without a ladder
• H776 In a good (plentiful) HOUSE all (supper) is quickly ready
• H777 In the HOUSE of a fiddler all fiddle (are dancers)
• H778 It is a sad HOUSE where the hen crows louder than the cock
• H779 A little HOUSE well filled, a little land (ground) well tilled, and a little wife well willed
• H780 My HOUSE, my house, though thou art small thou art to me the Escorial
• H781 A smoking HOUSE and a chiding wife make a man run out of doors (Smoke, rain, and a cursed wife drive a man out of his house)
• H782 There is no HOUSE but has something not to be spoken of
• H783 To burn the HOUSE and run away by the light of it
• H784 To eat one out of HOUSE and home
• H785 To throw the HOUSE out at the windows
• H786 What better is the HOUSE that the daw¹ rises in the morning?
• H787 When I have thatched his HOUSE he would throw me down
• H788 When you enter into a HOUSE leave the anger at the door
• H789 Whose HOUSE (head) is of glass must not throw stones at another
• H790 You will be sent to a stronger HOUSE than ever your father built for you
• H791 There are more HOUSES than parish churches
• H792 He may be trusted with a HOUSEFUL of unbored millstones
• H793 A fat HOUSEKEEPER makes lean executors
• H794 A great HOUSEKEEPER is sure of nothing for his
• H795 Noble HOUSEKEEPERS need no doors
• H796 HOUSEKEEPING is a privy thief
• H797 To be up on the HOUSETOP in anger
• H798 A clean-fingered HOUSEWIFE and an idle
• H799 A gentle HOUSEWIFE mars the household
• H800 A good HOUSEWIFE is a jewel (worth a diadem)
• H801 A liquorish HOUSEWIFE seldom makes thick pottage
• H802 She is not a good HOUSEWIFE that will not wind up her bottom
• H803 To be in HUCKSTERS' handling (hands)
• H804 To give one a Cornish HUG
• H805 In HUGGERMUGGER
• H806 An HUMBLEBEE in a cow turd thinks himself a king
• H807 The stillest HUMORS are always the worst
• H808 Who has a HUNDRED and owes a hundred and one needs not fear; who has a hundred and one and owes one hundred and two, I recommend him to God
• H809 What some win (lose) in the HUNDRED they lose (win) in the shire
• H810 He is hidebound, he is an HUNGARIAN
• H811 HUNGER breaks down (pierces) stone walls
• H812 HUNGER drives the wolf out of the wood
• H813 HUNGER drops out of his nose
• H814 HUNGER has always a good cook
• H815 HUNGER is good kitchen meat¹
• H816 HUNGER is hard in a hale¹ maw
• H817 HUNGER is not dainty (ambitious)
• H818 HUNGER is sharper than thorn
• H819 HUNGER is the best sauce
• H820 HUNGER makes a man leap at a crust
• H821 HUNGER makes dinners, pastime suppers
• H822 HUNGER makes hard beans sweet (hard bones sweet beans)
• H823 Like HUNT's (Wood's) dog, that will neither go to church nor stay at home
• H824 HUNTING, hawking, and paramours, for one joy a hundred displeasures
• H825 HUNTING is for kings
• H826 The HUNTSMAN's breakfast, the lawyer's dinner
• H827 Better is March HURDS¹ than April flax
• H828 Of HURDS¹ is never made a good shirt
• H829 He that has done so much HURT he can do no more may sit down and rest him
• H830 He that HURTS another hurts himself
• H831 A good HUSBAND makes a good wife
• H832 He is an ill HUSBAND that is not missed
• H833 Heigh-ho for a HUSBAND
• H834 A HUSBAND must be deaf and the wife blind to have quietness
• H835 HUSBAND, you are a cuckold. Wife, who told you so?
• H836 If the HUSBAND be not at home there is nobody
• H837 In the HUSBAND wisdom, in the wife gentleness
• H838 When the HUSBAND drinks to the wife all would be well, when the wife drinks to the husband all is well
• H839 When the HUSBAND is sad (merry) the wife will be merry (sad)
• H840 The calmest HUSBANDS make the stormiest wives
• H841 HUSBANDS are in heaven whose wives chide not
• H842 The HUSBANDMAN ought first to taste of the new-grown fruit
• H843 A reckless (careless) HUSSY makes many thieves
• H844 To laugh like a HYENA
• I1 As chaste as ICE (snow)
• I2 As cold as ICE (snow)
• I3 To break the ICE
• I4 Sick of the IDLES
• I5 You'll soon learn to shape IDLE a coat
• I6 Be not IDLE and you shall not be longing
• I7 Better to be IDLE than not well occupied
• I8 Neither IDLE nor well occupied
• I9 IDLENESS begets lust
• I10 IDLENESS is the devil's cushion
• I11 IDLENESS is the greatest prodigality in the world
• I12 IDLENESS is the key of beggary
• I13 IDLENESS is the mother (nurse, root) of all evil (vice, sin)
• I14 IDLENESS turns the edge of wit (makes the wit rust)
• I15 Of IDLENESS comes no goodness
• I16 IF's and and's
• I17 IGNORANCE is the mother of devotion
• I18 IGNORANCE is the mother of impudence
• I19 IGNORANCE of the law excuses no man
• I20 The IGNORANT have an eagle's wings and an owl's eyes
• I21 All ILCHESTER is jail
• I22 ILIADS of woe
• I23 Better suffer ILL (wrong) than do ill (wrong)
• I24 For ILL do well, then fear not hell
• I25 He may do much ILL ere he can do worse
• I26 He that does ILL (evil) hates the light
• I27 He that speaks ILL of another let him first think of himself
• I28 He that will none ILL (evil) do must do nothing that belongs thereto
• I29 If you do no ILL do no ill like
• I30 ILL comes in by ells and goes out by inches
• I31 The ILL (evil) that comes out of our mouth falls into our bosom
• I32 It is a good ILL that comes alone
• I33 Say no ILL of the year till it be past
• I34 There came never ILL of good advisement
• I35 There is no ILL but may turn to one's good
• I36 To speak ILL of others is the fifth element
• I37 Who would do ILL never wants occasion
• I38 Three ILLS (evils) come from the North, a cold wind, a shrinking cloth, and a dissembling man
• I39 He that is ILL to himself will be good to nobody
• I40 ILL today and worse tomorrow
• I41 ILL WILL (Evil will) never speaks (said) well
• I42 She looks like an IMAGE of rye dough
• I43 All IMMODERATIONS are enemies to health
• I44 No one (No man) is tied to IMPOSSIBILITIES
• I45 The first IMPRESSION is hard to cancel
• I46 We IN diversely but end alike
• I47 As good is an INCH as an ell
• I48 Drive out the INCH as you have done the span
• I49 Give an INCH and he will take an ell
• I50 He prefers an INCH of his pleasure (will) before an ell of his profit
• I51 He sees an INCH before his nose
• I52 He will not yield (budge) an INCH
• I53 An INCH an hour, a foot a day
• I54 An INCH breaks no square
• I55 An INCH in a man's nose is much
• I56 An INCH in a miss is as good as an ell
• I57 An INCH of a nag is worth a span of an aver¹
• I58 Ready (Waiting) at an INCH
• I59 She does not (cannot) leap an INCH from a shrew (slut)
• I60 You shall ride an INCH behind the tail
• I61 He will swear (look) through an INCH BOARD
• I62 Better an INCONVENIENCE than a mischief
• I63 He makes INDENTURES with his legs
• I64 INDUSTRY is fortune's right hand and frugality her left
• I65 INFANTS' manners are molded more by the example of parents than by stars at their nativity
• I66 INGRATITUDE comprehends (is the worst of) all faults (vices)
• I67 INGRATITUDE is the daughter of pride
• I68 He invites a new INJURY who bears the old patiently
• I69 An INJURY which thou dost intend to revenge never divulge
• I70 To pocket up an INJURY (wrong)
• I71 INJURIES are written in brass
• I72 INJURIES slighted become none at all
• I73 As black as INK
• I74 Black INK is ill meat
• I75 He has no INK in his pen
• I76 You wash out INK with ink
• I77 To smell of the INKHORN
• I78 As great as INKLE-WEAVERS¹ (beggars)
• I79 To get an INKLING of a thing
• I80 As white as INNOCENCE
• I81 INNOCENCE bears its defense with it
• I82 INNOCENCE is bold
• I83 Wear the INSIDE of thy stockings outward to scare the witches
• I84 To be high in the INSTEP
• I85 INTEMPERANCE is a cutthroat
• I86 INTEREST will not lie
• I87 Little INTERMEDDLING makes good friends (fair parting)
• I88 You are IPSE (he, the man)
• I89 The IRISHMAN for his hand, Welshman for a leg, the Englishman for a face, and the Dutchman for beard
• I90 The IRON entered into his soul
• I91 IRON not used soon rusts
• I91a IRON whets iron
• I92 IRON (Gold) with often handling is worn to nothing
• I93 IRON (Brass) with use grows bright
• I94 It is good to strike while the IRON is hot
• I95 Laden with IRON laden with fear
• I96 The more you beat IRON (the stone of Sicilia) the harder it grows
• I97 To digest IRON (To have a stomach), like an ostrich
• I98 To hammer on cold IRON
• I99 He has many (other) IRONS in the fire
• I100 He that has many IRONS in the fire, some will cool (burn)
• I101 As poor as IRUS
• I102 The ISLE OF WIGHT has no monks, lawyers, or foxes
• I103 The ITALIANS are wise before the deed (fact), the Germans in the deed (fact), the French after the deed (fact)
• I104 When ITALY shall be without poison, France without treason, England without war, the world shall be without earth
• I105 He that will not bear the ITCH must endure the smart
• I106 ITCH and ease can no man please
• I107 An ITCH is worse than a smart
• I108 The ITCH of disputing is the scab of the church
• I109 As white as IVORY
• I110 He may go pipe in an IVY LEAF
• J1 A good JACK makes a good Jill
• J2 JACK (Jackanapes) will never make a gentleman
• J3 JACK would be a gentleman
• J4 JACK would be a gentleman if he could speak French
• J5 JACK would be a gentleman if he had money
• J6 There is not so bad a JACK (Jill) but there is as bad a Jill (Jack)
• J7 To be common JACK to all
• J8 To play the JACK with one
• J9 A JACK-A-LENT
• J10 Can JACKANAPES (an ape) be merry when his clog is at his heel?
• J11 JACK-AT-A-PINCH
• J12 JACK DRUM's entertainment
• J13 To baste (curry, dust, pay, thrash) one's JACKET
• J14 No more like than JACK FLETCHER and his bolt
• J15 JACK-HOLD-MY-STAFF (John-hold-my-staff)
• J16 JACK-IN-A-BOX
• J17 To be JACK-IN-AN-OFFICE
• J18 JACK-IN-THE-CELLAR
• J19 JACK-OF-ALL-TRADES (John-of-all-trades)
• J20 JACK OF DOVER
• J21 To be JACK-ON-BOTH-SIDES
• J22 Not JACK-OUT-OF-DOORS nor yet gentleman
• J23 He is JACK-OUT-OF-OFFICE
• J24 To fly up with JACKSON's hens
• J25 JACK SPRAT he loved no fat and his wife she loved no lean, and yet betwixt them both they licked the platters clean
• J26 JACK SPRAT would teach his grandame
• J27 As full as a JADE, quoth the bride
• J28 Better a lean JADE than an empty halter
• J29 A JADE eats as much as a good horse
• J30 To have a JAG (load)
• J31 Look to him, JAILER, there is a frog in the stocks
• J32 A JAILER's conscience and his fetters made both of one metal
• J33 In JANUARY though sun appear March and February pay home full dear
• J34 JANUARY freezes the pot by the fire
• J35 Who in JANUARY sows oats gets gold and groats, who sows in May gets little that way
• J36 If JANUARY's calends be summerly gay it will be winterly weather till the calends of May
• J37 Like JANUS, two-faced
• J38 The JAY is unmeet for a fiddle
• J39 To JERICHO with him
• J40 Better lose a JEST than a friend
• J41 He will not lose his JEST for his guest, if he be a Jew
• J42 Who is nettled at a JEST seems to be touched in earnest
• J43 True JESTS are the worst
• J44 The truest JESTS sound worst in guilty ears
• J45 It is ill (no, not good) JESTING (meddling) with edged tools
• J46 Leave JESTING while it pleases lest it turn to earnest
• J47 Long JESTING was never good
• J48 No JESTING with bell ropes
• J49 As black as JET
• J50 Invite not a JEW either to pig or pork
• J51 To look like a JEW
• J52 To use one like a JEW
• J53 To be worth a JEW's eye
• J54 The JEWS spend at Easter, the Moors at marriages, and the Christians in suits of law
• J55 None can guess the JEWEL by the casket (cabinet)
• J56 To dance the Tyburn JIG
• J57 JOAN is as good as my lady in the dark
• J58 JOAN's ale is new
• J59 As patient as JOB
• J60 As poor (bare) as JOB
• J61 Out of JOB
• J62 A JOB's comforter
• J63 JOHN (Jack, Nick) would wipe his nose if he had one (it)
• J64 JOHN-A-DREAMS (John-a-nods)
• J65 JOHN-A-DROYNES
• J66 JOHN-A-NOKES and John-a-Stiles
• J67 JOHN BARLEYCORN
• J68 JOHN DRAWLATCH
• J69 Like JOHN GRAY's bird
• J70 He is JOHN Herb in the pottage, that will do neither good nor harm
• J71 To send (To come) by JOHN LONG (Tom Long) the carrier
• J72 I will venture it as JOHNSON did his wife and she did well
• J73 He is JOHN THOMSON's man
• J74 I will jeopard (venture) a JOINT (limb)
• J75 To be out of JOINT
• J76 There is no JOLLITY but has a smack of folly
• J77 In a long JOURNEY straw weighs
• J78 It is a great JOURNEY to the world's (to life's) end
• J79 One JOURNEY and two errands
• J80 Little JOURNEYS and good cost bring safe home
• J81 Far from JOVE (Jupiter) far from thunder (lightning)
• J82 JOVE laughs at lovers' perjuries
• J83 All JOY has sad effects in a troubled heart
• J84 The JOY of the heart makes the face fair (a fair color)
• J85 No JOY without annoy
• J86 Sudden JOY kills sooner than excessive grief
• J87 To weep for JOY is a kind of manna
• J88 When shared, JOY is doubled and sorrow halved
• J89 Your JOY is that of the Pyrausta (Pyralis)
• J90 The JOYS of the world dure but little
• J91 JUDAS might have repented before he could have found a tree to have hanged himself upon had he betrayed Christ in Scotland
• J92 To give one a JUDAS KISS
• J93 As sober (grave) as a JUDGE
• J94 From a foolish JUDGE a quick sentence
• J95 A good JUDGE conceives quickly, judges slowly
• J96 He has a good JUDGMENT that relies not wholly on his own
• J97 He that passes a JUDGMENT as he runs overtakes repentance
• J98 To know how JUDICARE came into the creed
• J99 As plum as a JUGGLEMEAR
• J100 As sure as a JUGGLER's box
• J101 To drink the JUICE of mandrake (mandragora)
• J102 JUNE, July, and August, wife, I know thee not
• J103 JUPITER himself cannot please all
• J104 A London (Kentish, Middlesex) JURY, hang half and save half
• J105 JUSTICE comprises all other (is the most commendable of all) virtues
• J106 JUSTICE is the best keeper of kings
• J107 JUSTICE pleases few in their own house
• K1 KA¹ me ka thee
• K2 Good KALE¹ is half a meal (half meat)
• K3 He plaints¹ early that plaints on his KALE²
• K4 If thou steal not my KALE¹ break not my dike
• K5 KALE¹ spares bread
• K6 Keek¹ in the KALE-POT² and glower³ in the ambry⁴
• K7 KAMESTERS¹ are aye creeshie²
• K8 Well guessed, KATE, here is neither to lack nor to leave
• K9 Better KEEP now than seek anon (than ask)
• K10 He is wise enough that can KEEP himself warm
• K11 KEEP some till furthermore come
• K12 A wary KEEPER is better than a careful getter
• K13 Who shall keep the KEEPERS?
• K14 A KENNEL is lodging good enough for a dog
• K15 In KENT is found health and no wealth, wealth and no health, and health and wealth
• K16 Neither in KENT nor Christendome
• K17 KENTISH LONGTAILS
• K18 He has lost the KERNEL and leaps at the shell
• K19 He that will eat the KERNEL let him crack the nut
• K20 But when, quoth KETTLE to his mare
• K21 The KETTLE calls the pot black ass
• K22 As dry (hollow) as a KEX¹
• K23 As cold as a KEY
• K24 A silver KEY can open an iron lock
• K25 To lay the KEY under the door and be gone
• K26 The used KEY is always bright
• K27 Your KEY fits not that (fits every) lock
• K28 He tries all the KEYS in the bunch
• K29 The KEYS hang not all at one man's girdle
• K30 The KICK of the dam (mare) hurts not the colt
• K31 He is of the same (a strange) KIDNEY
• K32 It is ill KILLING a crow with an empty sling
• K33 Ill may the KILN call the oven burnt-house (burnt-tail)
• K34 My KILN of malt is on fire
• K35 KIM-KAM
• K36 It is a good KIN that none do amiss in
• K37 It is good to be near of KIN to an estate
• K38 The nearer in KIN the less in kindness
• K39 The nearer the KIN the further in
• K40 Of KIN to the owl, who thinks herself fairest
• K41 He is come of the right KIND
• K42 It comes by KIND,¹ it cost him nothing
• K43 KIND today cross tomorrow
• K44 Hertfordshire KINDNESS
• K45 KINDNESS cannot be bought for gear¹
• K46 KINDNESS comes of will
• K47 KINDNESS is lost that is done to an old man and young child
• K48 KINDNESS lies not aye in one side of the house
• K49 KINDNESS (Love, Kind) will creep where it cannot go
• K50 One KINDNESS is the price of another
• K51 To kill with KINDNESS
• K52 He has KINDRED enough that has a good wife
• K53 Wheresoever you see your KINDRED make much of your friends
• K54 As merry (happy) as a KING
• K55 Better to be KING of a molehill than a kaiser's slave
• K56 He fears nor KING nor kaiser
• K57 He that is drunk is as great as a KING
• K58 It belongs to a KING to do well and hear ill
• K59 It shall be done when the KING comes to Wogan
• K60 The KING and the pope, the lion and the wolf
• K61 The KING can do no wrong
• K62 The KING knew not his friends from his foes
• K63 The KING knew not his friends from his foes
• K64 A KING (prince) loves the treason but hates the traitor
• K65 The KING must be subject to (must do nothing against) the law
• K66 The KING of good fellows is appointed for the queen of beggars
• K67 A KING or a beggar
• K68 The KING wills, the bishop preaches
• K69 A KING without learning is but a crowned ass
• K70 Like KING (prince) like people
• K71 Nearest the KING (Highest in court) nearest the widdy¹
• K72 What the KING wills, that the law wills
• K73 Whosoever is KING you will be his man
• K74 You should be a KING of your word
• K75 He clips the KING's English
• K76 He shall have the KING's horse
• K77 He that eats the KING's goose shall be choked with the feathers
• K78 KING's chaff is worth other men's corn
• K79 The KING's cheese goes half away in parings
• K80 The KING's English
• K81 A KING's favor is no inheritance
• K82 The KING's word is more than another man's oath
• K83 A KING's word must stand
• K84 Ill KINGS make many good laws
• K85 KINGS and bears often worry their keepers
• K86 Kings are out of play
• K87 KINGS have long arms (ears, hands)
• K88 KING ARTHUR did never violate the refuge of a woman
• K89 Every KINGDOM divided soon falls
• K90 For a KINGDOM any law may be broken
• K91 In the KINGDOM of a cheater the wallet is carried before
• K92 KING HARRY loved a man
• K93 KING HARRY¹ robbed the church and died a beggar
• K94 A KING HARRY's face
• K95 The KING OF ENGLAND is the king of devils
• K96 Like KING PETAUD's court, where everyone is master
• K97 Many KINSFOLK few friends
• K98 KINSMAN with kinsman, woe be to him that has nothing
• K99 The KINSMAN's ear will hear it
• K100 KIRBIE's castle and Megse's glory, Spinola's pleasure and Fisher's folly
• K101 He rives¹ the KIRK to theek² the quire³
• K102 The KIRK is aye greedy
• K103 I'll make one, quoth KIRKHAM when he danced in his clogs
• K104 Wanton KISSES are keys of sin
• K105 She had rather KISS than spin
• K106 You must not KISS and tell
• K107 After KISSING comes more kindness
• K108 KISSING goes by favor
• K109 KIT¹ has lost her key
• K110 A fat KITCHEN a lean will (testament)
• K111 A little KITCHEN makes a large house
• K112 Who frequents the KITCHEN will smell of smoke
• K113 As kind as a KITE
• K114 A carrion KITE (bittern) will never be a good hawk
• K115 As yellow as a KITE's foot (claw)
• K116 KITES of Cressid's kind
• K117 Neither KITH (kiff) nor kin
• K118 He has many KNACKS in his budget
• K119 As good a KNAVE I know as a knave I know not
• K120 As very a KNAVE as ever pissed
• K121 Better kiss a KNAVE than be troubled with him
• K122 A crafty KNAVE needs no broker
• K123 Gall a KNAVE and he will grease you
• K124 He that sends a KNAVE to sea is sure to lose his venture
• K125 If you would know a KNAVE give him a staff
• K126 It is as hard to please a KNAVE as a knight
• K127 A KNAVE and a fool never take thought
• K128 A KNAVE in grain
• K129 More KNAVE than fool
• K130 The more KNAVE the better luck
• K131 No KNAVE to¹ the learned (old) knave
• K132 An old KNAVE is no babe (child)
• K133 Once a KNAVE and ever a knave
• K134 One false KNAVE accuses (disdains) another
• K135 One KNAVE seeks out (will favor) another
• K136 Peep, I see a KNAVE
• K137 Set a KNAVE on horseback and you shall see him shoulder a knight
• K138 There I caught a KNAVE in a purse net
• K139 There is no KNAVE like an abbot that was a monk
• K140 Walk, KNAVE, walk
• K141 When a KNAVE is in a plum tree he has neither friend nor kin
• K142 You fray¹ an old KNAVE with a bugbear
• K143 It is merry when KNAVES meet
• K144 KNAVES and fools divide the world
• K145 KNAVES (Thieves) and whores go by the clock
• K146 The more KNAVES the worse company
• K147 Two false KNAVES need no broker
• K148 Two KNAVES well met
• K149 As full of KNAVERY (As full) as an egg is full of meat
• K150 KNAVERY may serve a turn but honesty never fails
• K151 Their own KNAVERY will pay them home at length
• K152 There is KNAVERY in all trades
• K153 There is more KNAVERY by sea and land than all the world beside
• K154 He may whet his KNIFE on the threshold of the Fleet
• K155 It is a good KNIFE, it will cut butter when it is melted (it was made at Dull-edge, it was made five miles beyond Cutwell)
• K156 One KNIFE whets another
• K157 The same KNIFE cuts both bread and the finger
• K158 You say true, will you swallow my KNIFE?
• K159 Oxford KNIVES and London wives
• K160 A KNIGHT or a knitter of caps
• K161 It does me KNIGHT's service
• K162 As KNIGHTS grow poor, ladies grow proud
• K163 A KNIGHT OF CALES,¹ a gentleman of Wales, and a laird of the North Country, a yeoman of Kent with his yearly rent will buy them out all three
• K164 A KNIGHT OF THE POST
• K165 It is better to KNIT¹ (knot¹) than to blossom
• K166 He got a KNOCK in the cradle
• K167 He has tied a KNOT with his tongue that he can't untie with all his teeth
• K168 To seek a KNOT in a rush (bulrush)
• K169 Where the KNOT is loose the string slips
• K170 He that would KNOW what shall be must consider what has been
• K171 I KNOW him well (as well as if I had gone through him with a lighted link)
• K172 I KNOW what I do when I drink
• K173 I KNOW (wot) what I know (wot)
• K174 If you KNOW not me you know nobody
• K175 KNOW thyself
• K176 KNOW when to spend and when to spare and you need not be busy, you'll ne'er be bare
• K177 They that KNOW one another salute afar off
• K178 To KNOW what is what
• K179 We KNOW not who lives or dies
• K180 You KNOW not what may happen to you
• K181 He cannot be good that KNOWS not why he is good
• K182 He is not happy that KNOWS not himself happy
• K183 He KNOWS (knows not) when he is well
• K184 He that KNOWS himself well despises himself
• K185 He that KNOWS thee will never buy thee
• K186 One KNOWS not where to have you
• K187 Better KNOWN than trusted
• K188 In KNOWING nothing is the sweetest life
• K189 KNOWLEDGE is folly except grace guide it
• K190 KNOWLEDGE makes one laugh but wealth makes one dance
• K191 KNOWLEDGE without practice is nothing
• 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
• M1 You might carry (have) an M under your girdle
• M2 A MACKEREL SKY
• M3 MADAM PARNELL, crack the nut and eat the kernel
• M4 Go here away, go there away, quoth MADGE WHITWORTH when she rode the mare in the tedder
• M5 When the MAGGOT bites
• M6 To have MAGGOTS in the brain
• M7 The MAGICIAN mutters and knows not what he mutters
• M8 He that buys MAGISTRACY must sell justice
• M9 As proper as the MAGNIFICAT in the morning (at matins)
• M10 Some correct MAGNIFICAT that know not Te Deum (Quid significat)
• M11 You correct MAGNIFICAT
• M12 MAGNITUDE is no virtue
• M13 To be suspended like MAHOMET's tomb between heaven and earth
• M14 As good a MAID as her mother
• M15 Every MAID is undone
• M16 A gazing and gadding MAID seldom proves good housewife
• M17 He that woos a MAID must come seldom in her sight but he that woos a widow must woo her day and night
• M18 He that woos a MAID must feign, lie, and flatter; but he that woos a widow must down with his breeches and at her
• M19 A MAID and a virgin is not all one
• M20 A MAID oft seen, a gown oft worn, are dis-esteemed and held in scorn
• M21 A MAID that gives yields
• M22 A MAID that laughs is half taken
• M23 A MAID that loves too soon will repent too late
• M24 The MAID which takes, sells herself; the maid which gives, forsakes herself
• M25 She is a good MAID, but for thought, word, and deed
• M26 She is neither MAID, wife, nor widow
• M27 This MAID was born odd
• M28 To speak with a MAID
• M29 While the tall MAID (a tall Meg of Westminster¹) is stooping the little one (a short wench) sweeps the house
• M30 Who knows who's a good MAID?
• M31 A young MAID married to an old man is like a new house thatched with old straw
• M32 All the MAIDS in Wanswell may dance in an egg-shell
• M33 As merry as the MAIDS
• M34 MAIDS say nay and take it
• M35 MAIDS want nothing but husbands and when they have them they want everything
• M36 Meeterly,¹ as MAIDS are in fairness
• M37 Old MAIDS lead apes in hell
• M38 Suffolk fair MAIDS
• M39 There are more MAIDS than Malkin
• M40 There are never the fewer MAIDS for her
• M41 He that invented the MAIDEN first hanselled¹ it
• M42 A tear-eyed MAIDEN was aye thrice greedy
• M43 You are like an old MAIDEN, you look aloft
• M44 MAIDENS should be meek till they be married
• M45 MAIDENS should be seen and not heard
• M46 The MAIN lost, cast the bye¹ away
• M47 If you MAKE it not better make it not worse
• M48 To MAKE or mar
• M49 You MAKE me scratch (claw) where it does not itch.
• M50 MALICE has a sharp sight and a strong memory
• M51 MALICE hurts itself most
• M52 MALICE is mindful
• M53 MALICE never speaks well
• M54 More MALICE than matter
• M55 More MALLETS than anvils
• M56 As the MALT is so will the drink be, strong or small, good or bad
• M57 The MALT is above the water
• M58 MALT is above the wheat (meal) with him
• M59 The MALTMAN comes on Monday
• M60 It is merry when MALTMEN meet
• M61 I stand in a MAMMERING
• M62 An active MAN can never be idle
• M63 As a MAN is friended so the law is ended
• M64 As a MAN lives so shall he die, as a tree falls so shall it lie
• M65 As a MAN must take a wife, for better or for worse
• M66 As good a MAN as ever trod on shoe (neat's) leather (as ever went on legs)
• M67 As honest a MAN as any is in the cards when the kings are out
• M68 As honest a MAN as ever broke bread
• M69 As honest a MAN as the sun shone on
• M70 As if a MAN that is killed should come home upon his feet
• M71 As long lives a merry MAN as a sad
• M72 As near to other as MAN and wife
• M73 As soon as MAN is born he begins to die
• M74 As the blind MAN casts his staff (shoots the crow)
• M75 As the MAN is so is his talk
• M76 Ask not a sick MAN if he would be sound
• M77 The best MAN in the company when there is no more
• M78 Beware of a silent MAN (dog) and still water
• M79 A black MAN is a pearl (jewel) in a fair woman's eye
• M80 A blind MAN can (should) judge no colors
• M81 A blind MAN may sometimes catch (hit, shoot) a hare (crow, the mark)
• M82 A blind MAN might see that
• M83 Brave MAN at arms but weak to Balthasar
• M84 Command your MAN and do it yourself
• M85 A covetous MAN does nothing good until he dies
• M86 A covetous MAN is good to none but worst to himself
• M87 A covetous MAN is like a dog in a wheel, that roasts meat for others
• M88 A covetous MAN is never rich
• M89 The deceitful MAN falls oft into the snares of deceit
• M90 A discontented MAN knows not where to sit easy
• M91 Do well and doubt no MAN (all men)
• M92 A drowning MAN will catch at a twig (rush, straw)
• M93 A drunken MAN (wife) gets aye a drunken penny
• M94 A drunken MAN (Drunken folk) seldom catches (take) harm
• M95 A dumb MAN holds all
• M96 An envious MAN grows lean
• M97 An envious MAN will pluck out one of his own eyes to pull out both of his neighbor's
• M98 Every ill MAN has his ill day
• M99 Every MAN a little beyond himself is a fool
• M100 Every MAN (one) after his fashion
• M101 Every MAN (one) as he loves (likes)
• M102 Every MAN as he loves, let him send to the cooks
• M103 Every MAN (one) as he loves, quoth the good man when he kissed his cow
• M104 Every MAN as his business lies
• M105 Every MAN before he dies shall see the devil
• M106 Every MAN (one) can rule a shrew but he that has her
• M107 Every MAN cannot be a master (lord)
• M108 Every MAN cannot be Vicar of Bowden
• M109 Every MAN cannot go to the price
• M110 Every MAN cannot hit the nail on the head
• M111 Every MAN cannot speak with the king
• M112 Every MAN for himself (for one)
• M113 Every MAN for himself and God for us all
• M114 Every MAN for himself and the devil for all
• M115 Every MAN has his delight
• M116 Every MAN has (No man is without) his faults
• M117 Every MAN has his proper gift
• M118 Every MAN has his weak side
• M119 Every MAN has his wife
• M120 Every MAN has his wife
• M121 Every MAN in his humor
• M122 Every MAN in his way
• M123 Every MAN is a king (master) in his own house
• M124 Every MAN is best known to himself
• M125 Every MAN is either a fool or a physician to himself
• M126 Every MAN is the architect of his own fortune
• M127 Every MAN is wise in his own conceit
• M128 Every MAN keeps not his promise
• M129 Every MAN (The wearer) knows best where the shoe wrings (pinches)
• M130 Every MAN knows what is best for himself
• M131 Every MAN likes his own thing best
• M132 Every MAN loves himself best
• M133 Every MAN may not wear a furred hood
• M134 Every MAN must choose and use his own wife
• M135 Every MAN must eat a peck of dirt (ashes, salt) before he dies
• M136 Every MAN must have something to bring him to his end
• M137 Every MAN must see by his own eyes
• M138 Every MAN must suffer his afflictions
• M139 Every MAN will have his own turn served
• M140 Every MAN will have his vie
• M141 Every MAN will shoot at an enemy but few will go to fetch the shaft
• M142 Every MAN will shoot at an enemy but few will go to fetch the shaft
• M143 Find me a true MAN Trent northward and I will find you an honest whore
• M144 For the same MAN to be a heretic and a good subject is impossible
• M145 From a choleric MAN withdraw a little, from him that says nothing, forever
• M146 Give a MAN luck (fortune) and throw him into the sea
• M147 Give a MAN (dog) roast meat and beat him with the spit
• M148 A good honest MAN nowadays is but a better word for a fool
• M149 A good MAN (She) can no more harm than a sheep (she-ape)
• M150 A good MAN is never in danger but when he is in the danger of a coward
• M151 Good to fetch a sick MAN sorrow or a dead man woe
• M152 The great MAN is the spider, the poor man is the fly
• M153 The greater the MAN the greater the crime
• M154 A greedy MAN God hates
• M155 Greet a red MAN and a bearded woman three miles off
• M156 A handsome-bodied MAN in the face
• M157 Happy MAN happy cavil
• M158 Happy MAN happy dole (be his dole)
• M159 A hasty (angry) MAN never wants woe
• M160 He commands enough that obeys a wise MAN
• M161 He is a MAN, every inch of him
• M162 He is (is not) a MAN of God's making
• M163 He is a tall MAN of his hands
• M164 He is a wise MAN who can make a friend of a foe
• M165 He is as good a MAN as bears hands (hair, hide on his face)
• M166 He is as good a MAN as belts him in a belt
• M167 He is as good a MAN as ever drew sword
• M168 He is as good a MAN as lives (breathes)
• M169 He is as good a MAN as the earth bears (as steps, as treads the grass down)
• M170 He is now become a new MAN
• M171 He that can catch and hold, he is the MAN of gold
• M172 He that cannot be angry is no MAN (a fool)
• M173 He that is a wise MAN by day is no fool by night
• M174 He that is beholden to another MAN is not himself
• M175 He that kills a MAN when he is drunk shall be hanged when he is sober
• M176 He that swears till no MAN trust him, he that lies till no man believe him, he that borrows till no man will lend him, let him go where no man knows him
• M177 He that would take a Lancashire MAN at any time or tide must bait his hook with a good egg pie¹ or an apple with a red side
• M178 He was a bold MAN that first ate an oyster
• M179 He will be a MAN before his mother
• M180 He will kill a MAN for a mess of mustard
• M181 He wrongs not an old MAN that steals his supper from him
• M182 The healthful MAN can give good counsel to the sick
• M183 An honest MAN and a good bowler
• M184 An honest MAN is as good as his word
• M185 An honest plain MAN without pleats
• M186 A houndless MAN comes to the best hunting
• M187 A hungry MAN an angry man
• M188 A hungry MAN sees far
• M189 I hope that a MAN may live by you
• M190 I hope to see him an honest MAN
• M191 I love not that any MAN should play with my apple lest he should bite out a piece
• M192 If a MAN live not well he will soon enough be ill spoken of
• M193 If a MAN look not to his horse his halter will strangle him
• M194 If a MAN once fall all will tread on him
• M195 If a MAN will have his business well done he must do it himself
• M196 If every MAN mend one all shall be mended
• M197 If the young MAN knew and the old man could there is nothing but would be done
• M198 It is good to know what a MAN is to trust to
• M199 It is good to work wisely lest a MAN be prevented
• M200 It is hard for one (any) MAN to amend all faults
• M201 It is meet that every MAN be at his own bridal
• M202 It is not given to every MAN to go to Corinth
• M203 It is not good for a MAN to be alone
• M204 It is true that every MAN says
• M205 It would make a MAN scratch where it does not itch to see a man live poor to die rich
• M206 The last MAN that he killed keeps hogs in Hinckley field
• M207 A learned MAN carries his treasure about with him
• M208 Let an ill MAN lie in thy straw and he looks to be thy heir
• M209 Let every MAN have his own
• M210 Let every MAN praise the bridge he goes over
• M211 Like a MAN in a dropsy, the more he drinks the more he may
• M212 A little (low) MAN can fell a great oak
• M213 The lone MAN is wolves' meat
• M214 A long-nosed MAN is seldom a cuckold
• M215 A MAN after one's own heart
• M216 A MAN alone is either a saint or a devil
• M217 A MAN (One) among a thousand
• M218 A MAN assaulted (surprised) is half taken
• M219 A MAN can die but once
• M220 A MAN can do no more than he can
• M221 A MAN cannot be in two places at once
• M222 A MAN cannot be robbed of his learning
• M223 A MAN cannot be too wary
• M224 A MAN cannot be warm without clothes
• M225 A MAN cannot hate music except he be deaf
• M226 A MAN cannot live on air like a chameleon
• M227 A MAN cannot spin and reel at the same time
• M228 A MAN cannot tell where to have him
• M229 A MAN condemned is half beheaded
• M230 A MAN dies of the ill he fears
• M231 MAN does what he can and God what he will
• M232 A MAN far from his good is nigh his harm
• M233 A MAN for all companies
• M234 A MAN has free choice to begin love but not to end it
• M235 A MAN has many enemies when his back is to the wall
• M236 The MAN has no more goods than he gets good of (has need of)
• M237 A MAN heats his iron until it be red hot
• M238 MAN honors the place, not the place the man
• M239 A MAN (thing) in print
• M240 The MAN in the moon
• M241 MAN is a god to man
• M242 A MAN is a lion in his own cause
• M243 A MAN is a man
• M244 A MAN is a man though he have but a hose on his head
• M245 MAN is a wolf to man
• M246 MAN is but a bubble
• M247 MAN is either a god (saint) or a wolf (devil) to man
• M248 A MAN is known by the company he keeps
• M249 A MAN is known to be mortal by sleep and lust
• M250 A MAN is never enriched by another man's goods
• M251 A MAN is never the better for going to Rome
• M252 A MAN is not so soon healed as hurt
• M253 A MAN is nothing but worms' meat
• M254 A MAN is weal or woe as he thinks himself so
• M255 A MAN may as well turn the wind as a woman
• M256 A MAN may bear until his back break
• M257 A MAN may buy gold too dear
• M258 A MAN may cause his own dog to bite him
• M259 A MAN may come soon enough to an ill bargain
• M260 A MAN may hold his peace (tongue) in an ill time
• M261 A MAN may know by his color what is his dolor
• M262 A MAN may lead a horse to the water but he cannot make him drink unless he will
• M263 A MAN may learn wit every day
• M264 A MAN may lose his goods (Many things are lost) for want of demanding (asking) them
• M265 A MAN may lose more in an hour than he can get in seven
• M266 A MAN may love his house (the kirk) well though he ride not on the ridge
• M267 A MAN may soon see what is in him
• M268 A MAN may speer¹ the gate² to Rome
• M269 A MAN may spit in his hand and do full ill
• M270 A MAN may strain his nose until it bleed
• M271 A MAN may woo where he will but he must wed where his hap is
• M272 A MAN must ask excessively to get a little
• M273 A MAN must come to the court as Job and abide there as Ulysses
• M274 A MAN must fear a woman and thunder
• M275 A MAN must go old to the court and young to a cloister that would go from thence to heaven
• M276 A MAN must have an eye in the field and an-other in the village
• M277 A MAN must hear and see in the court and for the rest be blind
• M278 A MAN must keep an even hand
• M279 A MAN must not be too venturous
• M280 A MAN must not leave his way for a little rain
• M281 A MAN must not leave the king's highway for a pathway
• M282 A MAN must not roam above his reach
• M283 A MAN must not shape an answer before that he know the question (errand)
• M284 A MAN must sell his wares according to the rates of the market
• M285 A MAN must take all well in worth that God has sent
• M286 A MAN must yield to the tempest
• M287 A MAN need not look in your mouth to know how old you are (your age)
• M288 A MAN never surfeits of too much honesty
• M289 A MAN of courage (A man who will fight) never wants weapons
• M290 A MAN of gladness seldom falls into madness
• M291 The MAN of God is better for having his bows and arrows about him
• M292 A MAN of great memory without learning has a rock and a spindle and no stuff to spin
• M293 A MAN of many trades begs his bread on Sunday (thrives by none)
• M294 A MAN of straw is worth a woman of gold
• M295 A MAN of three letters
• M296 A MAN of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds
• M297 A MAN or a mouse
• M298 MAN proposes, God disposes
• M299 A MAN should hear all parts ere he judge any
• M300 A MAN that breaks his word bids others be false to him
• M301 A MAN that cannot sit still in his chamber is not fit for business
• M302 A MAN well mounted is ever choleric
• M303 A MAN were better be half blind than have both his eyes out
• M304 A MAN will rather hurt his body than displeas his palate
• M305 A MAN without money is a body without the soul
• M306 A MAN without reason is a beast in season
• M307 A MAN without religion is like a horse without a bridle
• M308 A MAN would live in Italy but he would choose to die in Spain
• M309 Many a MAN makes an errand to the hall to bid the lady good day
• M310 Many MAN serves a thankless master
• M311 Many MAN speers¹ the gate² he knows full well
• M312 A married MAN turns his staff into a stake
• M313 The miserable MAN makes a penny of a farthing, and the liberal, of a farthing sixpence
• M314 Never speak to a fasting MAN
• M315 No living MAN all things can
• M316 No MAN becomes worst at the first dash
• M317 No MAN better knows what is good than he who has endured evil
• M318 No MAN can do two things at once
• M319 No MAN can have every man's good word
• M320 No MAN can make his own hap
• M321 No MAN can play the fool so well as the wise man
• M322 No MAN can serve two masters
• M323 No MAN can thrive heir for¹ throng
• M324 No MAN dies of an ague or without it
• M325 No MAN ever cried stinking fish
• M326 No MAN ever lost his credit (honor) but he that had it not
• M327 No MAN has a lease of his life
• M328 No MAN holds you
• M329 No MAN is a prophet in his own country
• M330 No MAN is a prophet in his own country
• M331 No MAN is born wise
• M332 No MAN is content with his lot
• M333 No MAN is happy before his death
• M334 No MAN is his craft's master the first day
• M335 No MAN is wise at all times
• M336 No MAN knows so well what wealth is as he that has been poor
• M337 No MAN loses (wins) but another wins (loses)
• M338 No MAN loves his fetters though made of gold
• M339 No MAN makes haste to the market where there's nothing to be bought but blows
• M340 No MAN may puind¹ for unkindness
• M341 No MAN ought to be judge in his own cause
• M342 No MAN proves famous but by labor
• M343 No MAN so good (stout) but another may be as good (stout) as he
• M344 No MAN so wise but he may be deceived
• M345 No naked MAN is sought after to be rifled
• M346 An old MAN has one foot in the grave
• M347 An old MAN in a house is a good sign in a house
• M348 An old MAN in love hugs death
• M349 An old MAN is a bed full of bones
• M350 Old MAN, when thou diest give me thy doublet
• M351 One MAN is better than another
• M352 One MAN is better than three
• M353 One MAN (body) is no man (body)
• M354 One MAN is worth a hundred and a hundred are not worth one
• M355 A poor MAN gets a poor marriage
• M356 A poor MAN is fain of little
• M357 The poor MAN pays for all
• M358 The poor MAN turns his cake and another comes and takes it away
• M359 A poor MAN wants some things, a covetous man all things
• M360 The properer (honester) MAN the worse luck
• M361 Rather a MAN without money than money without a man
• M362 Respect a MAN, he will do the more
• M363 A rich MAN and a miserable
• M364 A rich MAN is either wicked himself or the heir of a wicked man
• M365 The rich MAN may dine when he will, the poor man when he may
• M366 The rich MAN walks to get a stomach to his meat, the poor man to get meat for his stomach.
• M367 A Scottish MAN and a Newcastle grindstone travel all the world over
• M368 A Scottish MAN is wise behind the hand
• M369 A scrupulous MAN stumbles and staggers among quicksands and flint stones
• M370 Seldom is a long MAN wise or a low man lowly
• M371 Send a wise MAN on an errand and say nothing unto him
• M372 Shake a Leicestershire MAN by the collar and you shall hear the beans rattle in his belly
• M373 A short MAN needs no stool to give a great lubber a box on the ear
• M374 Show a good MAN his error and he turns it to a virtue; but an ill, it doubles his fault
• M375 Show me the MAN and I will show you the law
• M376 The singing MAN keeps his shop in his throat
• M377 A sleeping MAN is no better than a dead man
• M378 A slothful MAN is a beggar's brother
• M379 A sober MAN a soft answer
• M380 A solitary MAN is either a beast (brute, devil) or an angel (saint, god)
• M381 Speak not of a dead MAN at the table
• M382 Such a MAN as thou would be draw thee to such company
• M383 Such a MAN is one of Saint Paul's mariners
• M384 Such MAN such master
• M385 Take a MAN by his word and a cow by her horn
• M386 That MAN falls low that never again does rise
• M387 That which a MAN causes to be done he does himself
• M388 That which comes from above let no MAN question
• M389 There is no MAN though never so little but sometimes he can hurt
• M390 Therefore a MAN is a cuckold because two can do more than one
• M391 This is that must needs be, quoth the good MAN when he made his wife pin the basket
• M392 A till¹ MAN a will man
• M393 To a crafty MAN a crafty and a half
• M394 To a grateful MAN give money when he asks
• M395 To a red MAN read thy rede, with a brown man break thy bread, at a pale man draw thy knife, from a black man keep thy wife
• M396 To beat a MAN of straw
• M397 To grease a MAN in the fist
• M398 To kill a MAN with a cushion
• M399 To stagger like a drunken MAN
• M400 To take a MAN up as short as a dog in a halter
• M401 To tell a MAN a lie and give him a reason for it
• M402 Today a MAN tomorrow a cuckold
• M403 Today a MAN tomorrow a mouse
• M404 Today a MAN tomorrow none
• M405 What's a MAN but his mind?
• M406 Whatsoever chances to one MAN may happen likewise to all men
• M407 When a MAN is full of lust his womb is full of leasing¹
• M408 When a MAN loses his wife he loses his earthly treasure
• M409 When a MAN sleeps his head is in his stomach
• M410 When an old MAN will not drink go to see him in another world
• M411 Where a MAN does force veins he draws too much blood
• M412 Where every MAN is master the world goes to wrack
• M413 Where shall a MAN have a worse friend than he brings from home?
• M414 Where there is a MAN, there do not thou show thyself a man
• M415 Wherever a MAN dwells he shall be sure to have a thornbush near his door
• M416 Why should a rich MAN steal?
• M417 A wicked MAN is his own hell
• M418 A wight¹ MAN never wanted a weapon
• M419 A willful MAN should be very wise
• M420 A wise MAN changes his mind, a fool never will
• M421 A wise MAN commonly has a fool to his heir (has foolish children)
• M422 Wise MAN if thou art, of thy God take part
• M423 A wise MAN is a wonder
• M424 The wise MAN is deceived but once, the fool twice
• M425 The wise MAN knows himself to be a fool, the fool thinks he is wise
• M426 A wise (valiant) MAN makes every country his own
• M427 A wise MAN makes more opportunities than he finds
• M428 A wise MAN may sometimes (He is not wise who cannot) play the fool
• M429 A wise MAN must bear with many faults
• M430 The wise MAN must carry the fool upon his shoulders
• M431 A wise MAN ought not to be ashamed (need not blush) to change his purpose
• M432 The wisest MAN may be overseen¹
• M433 You are a MAN among the geese when the gander is away
• M434 You are a MAN of a gruellie¹ spirit
• M435 You can call a MAN no worse than unthankful
• M436 You dare as well take a dead MAN by the toe
• M437 You live well when no MAN can lay aught to your charge
• M438 You look like a Murray MAN melting brass
• M439 You may be a wise MAN though you cannot make a watch
• M440 You may know the MAN by his manners
• M441 You'll needs be a MAN before your time
• M442 You'll see the last MAN born
• M443 A young MAN and woman is a match of God's making but a young man and an old woman is of the devil's making
• M444 Better to be an old MAN's darling than a young man's warling¹ (worldling)
• M445 Better to be an old MAN's darling than a young man's warling¹ (worldling)
• M446 The blind MAN's wife needs no painting
• M447 Every MAN's censure¹ is first molded in his own nature
• M448 Every MAN's neighbor is his looking glass
• M449 Every MAN's nose will not make (He has a nose like) a shoeing-horn
• M450 He esteems each MAN's birds and jewels better than his own
• M451 He is in every MAN's debt and danger¹
• M452 He is no MAN's enemy but his own
• M453 He that fills every MAN's mouth needs much meal
• M454 He that keeps another MAN's dog shall have nothing left him but the line
• M455 He that looks in a MAN's face knows not what money is in his purse
• M456 He that meddles with another MAN's trade milks his cow in a pannier
• M457 He that waits on another MAN's trencher¹ makes many a late dinner
• M458 An honest MAN's word is as good as his bond
• M459 An honest MAN's word is his master
• M460 I am no MAN's wife
• M461 In the wise MAN's mouth what is public (manifest) is secret
• M462 It is best to use another MAN's madness
• M463 It is dangerous to feed another MAN's dog
• M464 It is every MAN's case
• M465 A jealous MAN's horns hang in his eyes
• M466 The liberal MAN's bags are always ready
• M467 A MAN's best fortune or his worst is a wife
• M468 A MAN's country is where he does well
• M469 A MAN's destiny is always dark
• M470 A MAN's discontent is his worst evil
• M471 MAN's extremity is God's opportunity
• M472 A MAN's gift makes room for him
• M473 A MAN's house is his castle
• M474 A MAN's liberty is his paradise
• M475 A MAN's mind often gives him warning of evil to come
• M476 A MAN's praise in his own mouth does stink
• M477 A MAN's wisdom is his sobriety
• M478 An old MAN's best praise is his prayer
• M479 An old MAN's end is to keep sheep
• M480 The old MAN's staff is the rapper at death's door
• M481 An old wise MAN's shadow is better than a young buzzard's sword
• M482 One MAN's breath is another man's death
• M483 One MAN's meat is another man's poison
• M484 A poor MAN's cow dies, a rich man's child
• M485 A poor MAN's table is soon spread
• M486 A poor MAN's tale cannot (may now) be heard
• M487 Put another MAN's child in your bosom and he'll creep out at your elbow (sleeve)
• M488 Ready to dance to (run at) every MAN's pipe (whistle)
• M489 A rich MAN's money hangs him oftentimes (is his enemy)
• M490 To be MAN's meat
• M491 To go on a dead MAN's errand
• M492 To kiss a MAN's wife or wipe his knife is a thankless office
• M493 To meddle (Meddle not) with another MAN's matter
• M494 To play at blind MAN's buffet
• M495 An unhappy MAN's cart is easy to tumble
• M496 A valiant MAN's look is more than a coward's sword
• M497 When a MAN's house burns it's not good playing at chess
• M498 A wicked MAN's gift has a touch of his master
• M499 You knock (sing) at a deaf MAN's door
• M500 You set an old MAN's head on a young man's shoulders
• M501 All MEN are made of the same metal
• M502 All Men are mortal
• M503 All MEN be not true
• M504 All MEN cannot abide to hear the truth
• M505 All MEN must die
• M506 Amongst good MEN two men suffice
• M507 Barefooted MEN need not tread on thorns
• M508 Better spare to have of thine own than ask of other MEN
• M509 Charitable MEN lose nothing
• M510 Dead MEN bite not (do no harm)
• M511 Dead MEN tell no tales
• M512 Do as most MEn do and fewest will speak evil of you
• M513 Do well and let MEN say what they will
• M514 Dying MEN speak true (prophesy)
• M515 Feared MEN be fearful
• M516 Few MEN and much meat make a feast
• M517 Few MEN have been admired by their domes-tics (familiars)
• M518 From good MEN comes goodness
• M519 Good MEN are a public good
• M520 Good MEN are pitiful¹
• M521 Good MEN are scarce
• M522 Good MEN find not their country kind
• M523 Great MEN are great idols
• M524 Great MEN have great faults
• M525 Great MEN have their ends when they countenance the poor
• M526 He that all MEN will please shall never find ease
• M527 He that converses not with MEN knows nothing
• M528 Honest MEN and knaves may possibly wear the same cloth
• M529 Honest MEN marry soon, wise men not at all
• M530 Hooly¹ and fair, MEN ride far journeys
• M531 If all MEN may say that thou art an ass then bray
• M532 If great MEN would have care of little ones both would last long
• M533 In young MEN to err is less shame
• M534 It is not good to trust to all MEN
• M535 Keep good MEN company and you shall be of the number
• M536 Keep not ill MEN company lest you increase the number
• M537 Many MEN do lack¹ what they would fain have in their pack
• M538 Married MEN need (need not) many eyes
• M539 MEN are best loved farthest off
• M540 MEN are blind in their own cause
• M541 MEN are but men
• M542 MEN are made of clay but women are made of men
• M543 MEN are never wise but returning from law
• M544 MEN are not angels
• M545 MEN are not made of steel
• M546 MEN are not measured by the yard or ell (by inches)
• M547 MEN fear death as children fear to go in the dark
• M548 MEN get wealth and women keep it
• M549 MEN go over the dike at the lowest
• M550 MEN know when they were born but not where they shall die
• M551 MEN love to hear well of themselves
• M552 MEN make the wolf worse than he is
• M553 MEN (Women) may blush to hear what they were not ashamed to act (do)
• M554 MEN must do as they may (can), not as they would
• M555 MEN (Men's love), not walls, make the city (prince) safe
• M556 MEN of his hair are seen oftener at the B- court than at the gallows
• M557 MEN speak of the fair as things went with them there
• M558 MEN take bitter potions for sweet health
• M559 MEN use him ill that has ill luck
• M560 MEN use to do as their betters
• M561 MEN will strain hard for profit
• M562 MEN will talk on it when we be dead, do what we can
• M563 Mind other MEN but most yourself
• M564 Most MEN are great braggers
• M565 Never speak ill of MEN behind their backs
• M566 Of young MEN die many, of old men scape not any
• M567 Old MEN and far travelers may lie by authority
• M568 Old MEN are covetous by nature
• M569 Old MEN are forgetful
• M570 Old MEN are twice children (bairns)
• M571 Old MeN carry an almanac in their bones
• M572 Old MEN go to death, death comes to young men
• M573 Old MEN when they scorn (seem) young make much of death
• M574 Old MEN wish, wise men warn, and young men work
• M575 Passionate MEN, like fleet hounds, are apt to overrun the scent
• M576 Poor MEN go to heaven as soon as rich
• M577 Poor MEN have no souls
• M578 Rich MEN are stewards for the poor
• M579 Rich MEN may do anything
• M580 Rich MEN may have what they will
• M581 Say as MEN say but think to yourself
• M582 So many MEN in court and so many strangers
• M583 So many MEN so many minds
• M584 Some MEN plant an opinion they seem to eradicate
• M585 Temperate MEN are the wisest
• M586 There are more MEN threatened than struck
• M587 There be many witty MEN yet their brains cannot fill their bellies
• M588 Think well of all MEN
• M589 Threatened MEN eat bread
• M590 Three merry MEN and three merry men and three merry men be we
• M591 To dead MEN and absent there are no friends left
• M592 Two MEN bear a feather
• M593 We are but MEN, not gods
• M594 Weak MEN had need be witty
• M595 When all MEN have what belongs to them it cannot be much
• M596 When all MEN speak no MAN hears
• M597 Where MEN are well used they will frequent there
• M598 Whom great MEN wrong they hate
• M599 Wise MEN are caught in wiles
• M600 Wise MEN care not for what they cannot have
• M601 Wise MEN do the work and fools brag of it
• M602 Wise MEN have their mouth (tongue) in their heart, fools their heart in their mouth (tongue)
• M603 Wise MEN labor, good men grieve, knaves invent, and fools believe
• M604 Wise MEN make proverbs and fools repeat them
• M605 Wise MEN propose and fools dispose
• M606 Wise MEN silent, fools talk
• M607 Worthy MEN shall be remembered
• M608 You go as if nine MEN held you
• M609 Young MEN may die, old men must die
• M610 Young MEN think old men fools but old men know that young men be fools
• M611 Great MEN's sons seldom do well
• M612 Happy is he whom other MEN's harms make beware
• M613 He fares well of other MEN's cost
• M614 He lives upon other MEN's death
• M615 It is good to (He is wise who can) beware by other MEN's harms
• M616 Old MEN's counsel and young men's actions
• M617 They are wise in other MEN's matters and fools in their own
• M618 Who can hold MEN's tongues?
• M619 Who waits for dead MEN's shoes shall go long barefoot
• M620 Young MEN's knocks old men feel
• M621 He has stolen a MANCHET¹ out of the brewer's basket
• M622 As full of good MANNERS as an egg is of oatmeal
• M623 Good MANNERS are durable but beauty is per-ishing
• M624 Good MANNERS to except my Lord Mayor of London
• M625 Ill MANNERS (lives) produce good laws
• M626 It is not good MANNERS to offer salt or brains
• M627 It is not good MANNERS to show your learning before ladies
• M628 Let him mend his MANNERS, it will be his own another day
• M629 MANNERS make a man, quoth William of Wickham
• M630 MANNERS make often fortunes
• M631 You know good MANNERS but you use but a few
• M632 Thou wilt lie all MANNER of colors but blue and that is gone to the litting¹
• M633 To take one with the MANNER
• M634 He that works after his own MANNER his head aches not at the matter
• M635 You are a MAN OF DURSLEY
• M636 As wise as a MAN OF GOTHAM¹
• M637 Between MAN OF WAR and man of war there's nothing got but dry blows
• M638 Too MANY to be good
• M639 The fine MARBLE needs no painting
• M640 He is as sure as MARCH in Lent
• M641 MARCH comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb
• M642 MARCH in Janiveer, Janiveer in March I fear
• M643 MARCH many weathers
• M644 A windy MARCH and a rainy April make a beau-tiful May
• M645 He is MARCHED off
• M646 Away the MARE
• M647 The gray MARE is the better horse
• M648 He that speaks ill of the MARE will buy her
• M649 I will not go (run) before my MARE to market
• M650 The MARE lame, the colt the like
• M651 My old MARE would have a new crupper
• M652 Ride who will, the MARE is shod
• M653 She simpers as a MARE when she eats thistles
• M654 This (Thus) bit the MARE by the thumb
• M655 To ride (shoe) the wild MARE
• M656 When the MARE has a bald face the filly will have a blaze
• M657 Whose MARE is dead?
• M658 He has found a MARE's nest and laughs at the eggs
• M659 A MARE's shoe and a horse's shoe are both alike
• M660 There are more MARES in the wood than Grissel
• M661 MARGERY, good cow, gives a good meal (pail) of milk but throws it down with her heels
• M662 To water the MARIGOLDS
• M663 MARINERS' craft is the grossest and the subtlest handicraft that is
• M664 Well remembered, MARION
• M665 She has a MARK after her mother
• M666 To make one to toe his MARK
• M667 He shoots well that hits the MARK
• M668 He shoots wide of the MARK
• M669 To miss his MARK (aim)
• M670 As the MARKET goes wives must sell
• M671 Forsake not (He loses) the MARKET for the toll
• M672 He has made a good MARKET
• M673 He that cannot abide a bad MARKET deserves not a good one
• M674 He that means to make a good MARKET of his ware must watch an opportunity to open his shop
• M675 The MARKET is the best garden
• M676 You may know how the MARKET goes by the market folks
• M677 To make our own MARKETS
• M678 To walk penniless in MARK LANE¹
• M679 An ill MARRIAGE is a spring of ill fortune
• M680 MARRIAGE and magistrate be destinies of heaven
• M681 MARRIAGE is a lottery
• M682 MARRIAGE is destiny
• M683 MARRIAGE is honorable
• M684 MARRIAGE is honorable but housekeeping is a shrew
• M685 MARRIAGE rides upon the saddle and repentance on the crupper
• M686 This is a goodly MARRIAGE (match) were the woman away
• M687 At MARRIAGES and burials friends and kinsfolk be known
• M688 MARRIAGES are made in heaven
• M689 Blow out the MARROW and throw the bone to the dogs
• M690 He is blind that eats his MARROW but far blinder that lets him
• M691 The MARROWBONE of the matter
• M692 It is better to MARRY than to burn
• M693 It is good to MARRY late or never
• M694 MARRY today repent tomorrow
• M695 They who MARRY where they do not love will love where they do not marry
• M696 To MARRY young is too early, to marry old is too late
• M697 He that MARRIES late marries ill
• M698 Who MARRIES does well, who marries not does better
• M699 He that is needy when he is MARRIED shall be rich when he is buried
• M700 It is dangerous MARRYING a widow because she has cast her rider
• M701 MARRYING is marring
• M702 MARTIN said to his man, Who is the fool now?
• M703 It is better to be a MARTYR (confessor) than a confessor (martyr)
• M704 No MARVEL if old men be sick
• M705 No MARVEL if water be lue¹
• M706 No MARVEL it is if the imps follow when the devil goes before
• M707 He is an ill MASON that refuses any stone
• M708 Neither MASS nor matins
• M709 Short MASS and long dinner
• M710 Better speak to the MASTER than the man
• M711 Do as thy MASTER commands thee and sit down at table
• M712 Early MASTER long knave¹
• M713 Everyone is MASTER and servant
• M714 He can ill be MASTER that never was scholar
• M715 He is MASTER of another man's life who contemns his own
• M716 He never thrives who with his MASTER strives
• M717 He that is a MASTER must serve another
• M718 He that serves a good MASTER shall have good wages
• M719 If the MASTER bid go the servant must run
• M720 If the MASTER say the crow is white the servant must not say 'tis black
• M721 An ill MASTER makes bad scholars
• M722 It is better to be a MASTER than a servant
• M723 Like (Such a) MASTER like (such a) man (ser-vant)
• M724 Like MASTER like scholar
• M725 The MASTER absent and the house dead
• M726 A MASTER of straw eats a servant of steel
• M727 Most MASTER wears no breech
• M728 None is born a MASTER
• M729 One MASTER in a house is enough
• M730 Right, MASTER, right; four nobles a year is a crown a quarter
• M731 A sleepy MASTER makes his servant a lout
• M732 You challenge him that may be your MASTER
• M733 The MASTER's eye makes the horse fat
• M734 The MASTER's footsteps fatten the soil
• M735 Many MASTERS, quoth the paddock¹ to the harrow when every tine took her a knock
• M736 MASTERS love services and not the servants
• M737 MASTERS should be sometimes blind and sometimes deaf
• M738 He is like the MASTER BEE that leads forth the swarm
• M739 Blurt, MASTER CONSTABLE
• M740 O MASTER VIER, we cannot pay you your rent, for we had no grace of God this year, no ship-wreck upon our coast
• M741 MASTERY mows the meadow down
• M742 A MASTIFF grows the fiercer for being tied up
• M743 The MASTIFF never loves the greyhound (A churl never cares for a gentleman)
• M744 Though the MASTIFF be gentle yet bite him not by the lip
• M745 He has met with his MATCH
• M746 A MATCH, quoth Jack (Hatch, John) when he kissed his dame (when he got his wife by the breech )
• M747 Meddle with your MATCH
• M748 They are well MATCHED
• M749 As comfortable as MATRIMONY
• M750 All the MATTER is not in my Lord Judge's hand
• M751 He would carry the MATTER invisibly in a cloud (not be seen in the matter)
• M752 It is an easy MATTER to kiss a man's tail when the breeches be down
• M753 The MATTER itself will lie for neither of us both
• M754 Much MATTER of a wooden platter
• M755 To mince the MATTER
• M756 Do not speak of secret MATTERS in a field that is full of little hills
• M757 Great MATTERS are not compassed in a moment
• M758 Let him meddle with his own MATTERS
• M759 No MATTER how but whether
• M760 No MATTER what's the disease when God is the physician
• M761 It is not the MATTER (words) but the mind
• M762 Go dig at MAVORN¹ HILL
• M763 As fresh as MAY
• M764 A cold MAY and a windy makes a full barn and a findy¹
• M765 Come it early, come it late, in MAY comes the cowquake
• M766 A hot MAY makes a fat churchyard
• M767 A red gay MAY is best in any year, February full snow is to the ground most dear, a whistling March that makes the plowman blithe, and moist April that fits him for the scythe
• M768 To match MAY with December (January)
• M769 Who that MAY not as they would, will as they may
• M770 Every MAYBE has a may not be
• M771 A MAY FLOOD never did good
• M772 To do what one can to get up MAY HILL
• M773 The MAYOR OF ALTRINGHAM and the Mayor of Over, the one is a thatcher, the other a dauber
• M774 The MAYOR OF ALTRINGHAM lies in bed while his breeches are mending
• M775 He is to be summoned before the MAYOR OF HALGAVER
• M776 Like the MAYOR OF HARTLEPOOL, you cannot do that
• M777 The MAYOR OF NORTHAMPTON opens oysters with his dagger
• M778 As tall as a MAYPOLE
• M779 Little MEAD little need
• M780 He will hide himself in a mown MEADOW
• M781 A thin MEADOW is soon mowed
• M782 He can hold MEAL in his mouth and blow
• M783 Many care for MEAL that have baked bread enough
• M784 The MEAL of the devil turns half to bran
• M785 To leave the MEAL and take the bran
• M786 A good MEAL, a bad meal, and a middling meal preserves a man in health
• M787 He fasts enough that has a bad MEAL
• M788 Better are MEALS many than one too merry
• M789 Two hungry (ill) MEALS make the third a glutton
• M790 Poor be your MEAL-POKE and aye your neive¹ in the nook of it
• M791 He is MEALYMOUTHED
• M792 The golden MEAN is best
• M793 The MEAN (The merry mean) is the best
• M794 Fair MEANS prevail more than foul
• M795 Many MEANS to get money
• M796 Use the MEANS and God will give the blessing
• M797 One may know your MEANING by your gaping (mumping)
• M798 London¹ (Water, Billingsgate) MEASURE
• M799 Macclesfield (Maxfield) MEASURE, heap and thrust
• M800 MEASURE for measure
• M801 With what MEASURE you mete it shall be measured unto you
• M802 Feed by MEASURE (sparingly) and defy the physician
• M803 He that forsakes MEASURE, measure forsakes him
• M804 MEASURE is a merry mean
• M805 MEASURE is treasure
• M806 There is a MEASURE (mean) in all things
• M807 MEASURE thrice what thou buyest and cut it but once
• M808 He that MEASURES not himself is measured
• M809 After MEAT comes mustard
• M810 All MEAT pleases not all mouths
• M811 Better have MEAT than fine clothes
• M812 Dear MEAT is a thief
• M813 Eat thy MEAT and drink thy drink and stand thy ground, old Harry
• M814 Eaten MEAT is good to pay
• M815 Good to be merry at MEAT
• M816 He brings (carries) MEAT in his mouth
• M817 He has eaten his roast MEAT first
• M818 He hides his MEAT and seeks more
• M819 He loves roast MEAT well that licks the spit
• M820 I never loved MEAT that crowed in my crop
• M821 If you wanted me and your MEAT you would want one good friend
• M822 It is better to want MEAT than guests or company
• M823 It is not MEAT for every mouth
• M824 MEAT and drink and leisure is good for work-folks
• M825 MEAT (Oats) and mass (matins) never hindered man (hinder no man's journey)
• M826 MEAT is much (good) but manners (mense¹) is more (better)
• M827 MEAT makes and cloth shapes but manners make a man
• M828 MEAT was made for mouths
• M829 Much MEAT much malady
• M830 Never be ashamed to eat your MEAT
• M831 New MEAT begets a new appetite
• M832 No MEAT for mowers (your mowing)
• M833 Of all the MEAT in the world drink goes best down
• M834 Put not thy MEAT in an unclean dish
• M835 Quick at MEAT quick at work
• M836 Salt MEAT draws down drink apace
• M837 She is MEAT for your master
• M838 Show me not (Look not on) the MEAT but show me (look on) the man
• M839 Sweet MEAT must have sour sauce
• M840 There is MEAT in a goose eye¹
• M841 They that have no other MEAT, bread and butter are glad to eat
• M842 To be MEAT and drink to one
• M843 To mar good MEAT by ill cooking
• M844 To measure the MEAT by the man
• M845 What they want in MEAT let them take in drink
• M846 When MEAT is in anger is out
• M847 The wholesomest MEAT is at another man's cost
• M848 You are in your roast MEAT when others are in their sod
• M849 You cannot fare well but you must cry roast MEAT
• M850 All MEATS to be eaten, all maids to be wed
• M851 Every MEDAL has its reverse
• M852 I will neither MEDDLE nor make
• M853 I will not MEDDLE with him hot or cold
• M854 MEDDLE with what you have to do
• M855 A MEDDLER is as he that takes a wolf by the ears
• M856 It is no MEDDLING with our betters
• M857 It is no MEDDLING with short daggers
• M858 Of little MEDDLING comes great rest (ease)
• M859 Of much MEDDLING comes no sound sleeping
• M860 There is no MEDICINE (remedy) for fear
• M861 MEDICINES be not meat to live by
• M862 Unskillful MEDICINERS and horse marshals slay both man and beast
• M863 MEDLARS¹ are never good till they be rotten
• M864 Merry MEET and merry part
• M865 As long as MEG OF WESTMINSTER
• M866 MELANCHOLY is the pathway to madness
• M867 A MELON and a woman are hard to be known
• M868 A MELTETH¹ of meat is the best gift ever a man gave
• M869 He that has a good MEMORY gives few alms
• M870 MEMORY is the treasure of the mind
• M871 Who has no MEMORY (understanding) let him have legs
• M872 The MENDS¹ is in his own hands
• M873 MENDS¹ is worth misdeeds
• M874 Either MEND or end
• M875 It is never too late to MEND (repent)
• M876 They hold together as the MEN OF MARHAM when they lost their common
• M877 The MEN OF TIVIDALE have likers, lemans, and lier-bys
• M878 MERCHANDISE will have neither friends nor kindred
• M879 There is no MERCHANDISE but usury
• M880 As good MERCHANT tines¹ as wins
• M881 Either a MERCHANT or a thief
• M882 He is a MERCHANT of eelskins
• M883 He is a MERCHANT without money or ware
• M884 He is not a MERCHANT bare that has money, worth, or ware
• M885 He promises like a MERCHANT but pays like a man of war
• M886 He that buys and sells is called a MERCHANT
• M887 He that could know what would be dear need be a MERCHANT but one year
• M888 He that loses is MERCHANT as well as he that gains
• M889 A MERCHANT that gains not, loses
• M890 The MERCHANT that loses cannot laugh
• M891 To play the MERCHANT with us
• M892 Today a MERCHANT tomorrow a miscreant
• M893 A MERCURY is not made of every wood
• M894 Be thou sick or whole, put MERCURY in thy coal
• M895 He shall find MERCY that merciful is
• M896 I cry you MERCY, I killed your cushion
• M897 I cry you MERCY, I took you for a joint stool
• M898 It is in their MERCY that kings come closest to gods
• M899 MERCY is a salve for every sore
• M900 MERRY-GO-DOWN
• M901 A MERRY GREEK
• M902 To keep yet one MESS for Alyson in store
• M903 He is a corbie¹ MESSENGER
• M904 To come before the MESSENGER
• M905 MESSENGERS should neither be headed nor hanged
• M906 METAL upon metal is false heraldry
• M907 METE and measure make men wise
• M908 As old as METHUSELAH
• M909 METTLE is dangerous in a blind horse
• M910 MEUM and tuum
• M911 As light as a MEW
• M912 Make not two MEWS of one daughter
• M913 As MICKLE up with as mickle down with
• M914 Make not MICKLE of little
• M915 MICKLE must a good heart thole¹
• M916 MICKLE spoken, part must spill
• M917 Better woo (marry) over the MIDDEN¹ than over the moor (moss)
• M918 You would marry a MIDDEN¹ for muck
• M919 As slender in the MIDDLE as a cow in the waist
• M920 You ride as if you went to fetch the MIDWIFE
• M921 Either by MIGHT or by sleight
• M922 MIGHT overcomes right
• M923 With MIGHT and main
• M924 Every MILE is two in winter
• M925 A Welsh MILE
• M926 Within a MILE of an oak
• M927 I will go twenty MILES on your errand first
• M928 You are right for the first - MILES
• M929 The MILESIANS were valiant in the days of yore
• M930 As natural to him as MILK to a calf
• M931 As white as MILK
• M932 Bristol MILK
• M933 I will have none of your flat MILK
• M934 If you would live forever you must wash the MILK from your liver
• M935 MILK is white and lies not in the dike, but all men know it good meat
• M936 MILK says to wine, Welcome, friend
• M937 Suffolk MILK
• M938 Their MILK is sod over
• M939 To cry for spilt MILK
• M940 Born in a MILL
• M941 He that comes first to the MILL grinding first
• M942 His MILL will go with all winds
• M943 I am loath to change my MILL
• M944 The MILL cannot grind with the water that is past
• M945 The MILL gets by going
• M946 The MILL stands that wants water
• M947 A new MILL does grind the corn well
• M948 No MILL no meal
• M949 Who cannot go to one MILL let him essay another
• M950 You had as lief go to MILL as to mass
• M951 MILLS and wives are ever wanting
• M952 Every MILLER draws water to his own mill
• M953 An honest MILLER has a golden thumb
• M954 The MILLER got never better moulter¹ than he took with his own hands
• M955 The MILLER is a thief
• M956 Not grind with every false MILLER
• M957 Put a MILLER, a weaver, and a tailor in a bag and shake them, the first that comes out will be a thief
• M958 Toll it again, quoth the MILLER
• M959 As stout as a MILLER's waistcoat, that takes a thief by the neck every day
• M960 Like a MILLER's mare
• M961 No bigger than a MILLER's thumb
• M962 To put out the MILLER's eye
• M963 You breed of the MILLER's dog, you lick your lips (mouth) ere the poke be open
• M964 To have thwitten¹ a MILLPOST to a pudding-prick
• M965 I can see as far into a MILLSTONE as another man
• M966 The lower MILLSTONE grinds as well as the upper
• M967 He weeps MILLSTONES
• M968 To rain MILLSTONES
• M969 A contented MIND is a continual feast
• M970 His bashful MIND hinders his good intent
• M971 His MIND is on his meat
• M972 My MIND to me a kingdom is
• M973 The resolved MIND has no cares
• M974 A sound MIND in a sound body
• M975 A willing MIND makes a light foot
• M976 Crabbed MINDS are pleased with nothing
• M977 Unsound MINDS, like unsound bodies, if you feed you poison
• M978 You will never be mad (married), you are of so many MINDS
• M979 MIND that you must live by
• M980 What is MINE is yours and what is yours is mine (your own)
• M981 MINISTERS are the chariots of souls
• M982 When the MINSTREL plays at his own charges it is meet that he have an instrument after his own mind
• M983 After long MINT never dint¹
• M984 He that takes MINT to the bed will never get bairns
• M985 New out of the MINT
• M986 MINT¹ ere you strike
• M987 The first MINUTE after noon is night
• M988 He is gotten out of the MIRE and is fallen into the river
• M989 To leave (lie) in the MIRE
• M990 The best MIRROR is an old friend
• M991 A mirk¹ MIRROR is a man's mind
• M992 The MIRROR of a prince is justice
• M993 MIRTH without measure is madness
• M994 There is no MIRTH without mourning
• M995 Better once a MISCHIEF than always an inconvenience
• M996 He that MISCHIEF hatches mischief catches
• M997 If we would avoid a MISCHIEF we must not be very kind and familiar with an evil man
• M998 MISCHIEF comes by pounds and goes away by ounces
• M999 MISCHIEF comes without calling for
• M999a One must not bemoan (wail) a MISCHIEF but find out a remedy for it
• M1000 There is no MISCHIEF but a priest at one end
• M1001 There is no MISCHIEF in the world done but a woman is always one
• M1002 To practice MISCHIEF in huggermugger
• M1003 With a MISCHIEF
• M1004 MISCHIEFS, like waves, never come alone
• M1005 A MISER, like a hog, does no good until he dies
• M1006 He bears MISERY best that hides it most
• M1007 MISERY may be the mother when one beggar begs of another
• M1008 MISERY shows the man what he is
• M1009 No MISERY to imprisonment
• M1010 Once to have been happy is MISERY enough (Remembrance of past pleasures augments present pains)
• M1011 He gains enough that loses MISFORTUNE (for-tune)
• M1012 MISFORTUNE (Evil) never (seldom) comes alone
• M1013 One MISFORTUNE comes on the neck of another
• M1014 MISRECKONING (Wrong count) is no payment
• M1015 He will be MISSED when he is gone
• M1016 A Scotch MIST will wet an Englishman to the skin
• M1017 To cast a MIST before one's eyes
• M1018 MISTER¹ makes men of craft
• M1019 Hackney¹ MISTRESS hackney maid
• M1020 He that makes (makes not) his MISTRESS (wife) a goldfinch may perhaps find her a wagtail
• M1021 If you can kiss the MISTRESS never kiss the maid
• M1022 Like MISTRESS like maid
• M1023 You cannot love both at once the MISTRESS and her maid Malkin
• M1024 The MISTRESS's eye feeds the capon
• M1025 MISUNDERSTANDING brings lies to town
• M1026 I care not (Not worth) a MITE
• M1027 No MITER no crown
• M1028 To handle without MITTENS
• M1029 The MOB has many heads but no brains
• M1030 To MOCK and mow
• M1031 He who MOCKS shall be mocked
• M1032 MODESTY sets off one newly come to honor
• M1033 She that loses her MODESTY and honesty has nothing else worth losing (never finds them again)
• M1034 As blind as a MOLE
• M1035 Of a MOLEHILL he makes a mountain
• M1036 MONDAY flit, never sit
• M1037 MONDAY is Sunday's fellow
• M1038 Dally not with MONEY or women
• M1039 He begins to build too soon that has not MONEY to finish it
• M1040 He for my MONEY
• M1041 He that has it and will not keep it, he that wants it and will not seek it, he that drinks and is not dry shall want MONEY as well as I
• M1041a He that has MONEY has most things
• M1042 He that has MONEY in his purse cannot want a head for his shoulders
• M1043 He that has no MONEY needs no purse
• M1044 He that hoards up MONEY takes pains for other men
• M1045 He that plays his MONEY ought not to value it
• M1046 He that wants MONEY wants all things
• M1047 He who has MONEY and capers is provided for Lent
• M1048 His MONEY burns in his purse (pocket)
• M1049 His MONEY comes from him like drops of blood
• M1050 If MONEY go before all ways lie open
• M1051 MONEY and good manners make the gentle-man
• M1052 MONEY answers all things
• M1053 MONEY begets money
• M1054 MONEY breeds rage; love, marriage
• M1055 MONEY does either serve as a slave (servant) or command as a master
• M1056 MONEY is a dangerous bait for soldiers
• M1057 MONEY is a great comfort
• M1058 MONEY is a great master in a market
• M1059 MONEY is a great traveler in the world
• M1060 MONEY is a monarch
• M1061 MONEY is heard everywhere
• M1062 MONEY is often lost for want of money
• M1063 MONEY is round and so quickly rolls away
• M1064 MONEY is that which art has turned up trump
• M1065 MONEY is the best lawyer
• M1066 MONEY is the principal word in this house
• M1067 MONEY is the sinews of war
• M1068 MONEY is welcome everywhere
• M1069 MONEY is welcome though it come in a dirty clout
• M1070 MONEY is wise, it knows its way
• M1071 MONEY, like dung, does no good till it is spread
• M1072 MONEY makes all right that is wrong
• M1073 MONEY makes friends enemies
• M1074 MONEY makes marriage
• M1075 MONEY makes masteries (masters)
• M1076 MONEY makes the man
• M1077 MONEY makes the mare to go (the old wife trot)
• M1078 MONEY makes the merchant
• M1079 MONEY never comes out of season
• M1080 MONEY refused loses its brightness
• M1081 MONEY stands always with cap in hand to take exchange
• M1082 MONEY wants no followers
• M1083 MONEY wants no followers
• M1084 MONEY will do anything
• M1085 MONEY will do more than my lord's letter
• M1086 MONEY will make the pot boil
• M1087 Much MONEY makes a country poor, for it sets a dearer price on everything
• M1088 No MONEY (chink) no drink
• M1089 No MONEY no Swiss
• M1090 Put MONEY in thy purse
• M1091 Ready MONEY is a ready medicine
• M1092 Ready MONEY will away
• M1093 Tell¹ MONEY after your own father
• M1094 They can find MONEY for mischief when they can find none to buy corn
• M1095 They left him as bare of MONEY as an ape of a tail
• M1096 They that take MONEY must pay all the charges
• M1097 To get MONEY from him is like pulling teeth
• M1098 To have MONEY is a fear, not to have it a grief
• M1099 To make MONEY with one's teeth
• M1100 To send good MONEY after bad
• M1101 Too much MONEY makes one mad
• M1102 What will not (cannot) MONEY (gold) do?
• M1103 When the MONEY is paid the arms are broken
• M1104 Would you know what MONEY is? Go borrow some
• M1105 MONMOUTH CAPS
• M1106 The merry MONTH of May
• M1107 Who intends to have a good MONTH, let him to the bath; a good year, let him marry; a good week, let him kill a hog; who will be happy always, let him turn priest
• M1108 Better is one MONTH's cheer than a churl's whole life
• M1109 To have a MONTH's mind to a person (thing)
• M1110 All the MONTHS in the year curse a fair February
• M1111 As changeful (inconstant) as the MOON
• M1112 As full as the MOON
• M1113 A fine MOON, God bless her
• M1114 He casts beyond the MOON
• M1115 He will shoot higher that shoots at the MOON (sun) than he who aims at the tree
• M1116 He would make him believe that the MOON is made of green cheese
• M1117 It is midsummer MOON with you
• M1118 The MOON directs more than the sun
• M1119 The MOON does not heed the barking dog
• M1120 The MOON is not seen where the sun shines
• M1121 Once in a MOON
• M1122 Pale MOON does rain, red moon does blow
• M1123 To bark against the MOON
• M1124 To take the MOON between one's teeth
• M1125 To watch in the MOON and sleep in the sun is neither profit nor honor
• M1126 White MOON does neither rain nor snow
• M1127 Old MOON-MIST never dies of thirst
• M1128 He strives for the MOONSHINE in the water
• M1129 Thou shalt have MOONSHINE in the mustard pot (water pot) for it
• M1130 As tawny (black) as a MOOR¹
• M1131 The more MOORS the better victory (the more gain)
• M1132 Three MOORS to a Portuguese, three Portuguese to an Englishman
• M1133 It is a bare MOOR he goes over and gets not a cow
• M1134 As melancholy as MOORDITCH¹
• M1135 Good is the MORA¹ that makes all sure
• M1136 He is up with the MORE and down with the less
• M1137 He knew no MORE than the Pope of Rome
• M1138 He owes MORE than he is worth
• M1139 He that does kiss and do no MORE may kiss behind and not before
• M1140 He that is suffered to do MORE than is fitting will do more than is lawful
• M1141 He that is suffered to do MORE than is fitting will do more than is lawful
• M1142 I will say no MORE till the day be longer
• M1143 It costs MORE to do ill than to do well
• M1144 The MORE a man has the more he desires
• M1145 The MORE a man loses the less he has
• M1146 MORE belongs to marriage than four bare legs in a bed
• M1147 MORE favor lusty youth than crooked age
• M1148 MORE have repented speech than silence
• M1149 The MORE one drinks (eats) the more one may
• M1150 The MORE one spends the less one puts in one's will
• M1151 MORE spends the niggard than the liberal
• M1152 MORE than enough is too much
• M1153 The MORE the merrier, the fewer the better cheer (fare)
• M1154 The MORE you heap the worse you cheap
• M1155 Put no MORE in the pocket than it will hold
• M1156 There belongs MORE than whistling to going to plow
• M1157 There belongs MORE to a bed than four bare legs
• M1158 There is MORE in it than you are ware of
• M1159 They shall have no MORE of our prayers than we of their pies, quoth the Vicar of Layton
• M1160 To be MORE than he can answer
• M1161 To do MORE than the priest spoke of on Sunday
• M1162 To have MORE of the serpent than the dove
• M1163 We can have no MORE of the fox but the skin
• M1164 We leave MORE to do when we die than we have done
• M1165 Who MORE than he is worth does spend, he makes a rope his life to end
• M1166 Who spends MORE than he should shall not have to spend when he would
• M1167 You can have no MORE of a cat than her skin
• M1168 You pay MORE for your schooling than your learning is worth
• M1169 By the MORNING one knows the day
• M1170 Drink in the MORNING staring, then all the day be sparing
• M1171 A fine MORNING to catch herrings on New-market heath
• M1172 He who sleeps all the MORNING may go a begging all the day after
• M1173 In the MORNING mountains, in the evening fountains
• M1174 In the MORNING the heights, in the evening the depths
• M1175 A red MORNING foretells a stormy day
• M1176 Some laugh in the MORNING that weep at night
• M1177 Tomorrow MORNING I found a horseshoe
• M1178 Cloudy MORNINGS turn to clear evenings (days)
• M1179 I was taken by a MORSEL, says the fish
• M1180 An upbraided MORSEL never choked any
• M1181 No more MORTAR no more brick
• M1182 The MORTAR smells always of the garlic
• M1183 Backare,¹ quoth MORTIMER to his sow
• M1184 He may remove MORT STONE
• M1185 To take one napping, as MOSSE took his mare
• M1186 MOST takes all
• M1187 Who knows MOST speaks least
• M1188 Every MOTE is a beam in his eye
• M1189 He is a MOTE in their eyes
• M1190 A MOTE may choke a man
• M1191 You can see a MOTE in another man's eye but cannot see a beam in your own
• M1192 As many as there are MOTES in the sun
• M1193 Ask the MOTHER if the child be like his father
• M1194 Better a thigging¹ MOTHER than a riding father
• M1195 The good MOTHER says not, Will you? but gives
• M1196 If your MOTHER had not lost her virginity you would not have been born
• M1197 It is not as thy MOTHER says but as thy neighbors say
• M1198 A light-heeled MOTHER makes a heavy-heeled daughter
• M1199 Like MOTHER like daughter
• M1200 The MOTHER of mischief is no more¹ than a midge wing
• M1201 A pitiful MOTHER makes a scabby daughter (a scald¹ head)
• M1202 Every MOTHER's son (child)
• M1203 He was lapped (wrapped) in his MOTHER's smock
• M1204 His MOTHER's milk is not out of his nose
• M1205 The MOTHER's side is the surer side
• M1206 Four good MOTHERS beget four bad daughters: great familiarity, contempt; truth, hatred; virtue, envy; riches, ignorance
• M1207 He that will not hear MOTHERHOOD shall hear stepmotherhood
• M1208 The MOTHER-IN-LAW does not remember that she has been a daughter-in-law
• M1209 He scorns the MOTION
• M1210 MOTIONS are not marriages
• M1211 He that MOUNTS (climbs) higher than he ought falls lower than he would
• M1212 The higher MOUNTAIN the greater descent
• M1213 If the MOUNTAIN will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the mountain
• M1214 A MOUNTAIN and a river are good neighbors
• M1215 The MOUNTAIN was in labor and brought forth a mouse
• M1216 He promises MOUNTAINS (golden hills) and performs molehills (dirty dales)
• M1217 To promise MOUNTAINS (golden mountains)
• M1218 That MOURNING is well bestowed that helps the mourner
• M1219 As drunk as a MOUSE (rat)
• M1220 As dun as a MOUSE
• M1221 As safe (snug) as a MOUSE in a cheese
• M1222 As safe as a MOUSE in a malt heap
• M1223 As safe as a MOUSE in a mill
• M1224 As still (mute, silent) as a MOUSE
• M1225 As sure as a MOUSE tied with a thread
• M1226 As warm as a MOUSE in a churn
• M1227 A dead MOUSE feels no cold
• M1228 The escaped MOUSE ever feels the taste of the bait
• M1229 Every MOUSE has its shadow
• M1230 I gave the MOUSE a hole and she is become my heir
• M1231 It is a bold (wily) MOUSE that breeds (nestles) in the cat's ear
• M1232 The MOUSE goes abroad where the cat is not lord
• M1233 A MOUSE in a bag, a serpent in your lap, and fire in your bosom
• M1234 A MOUSE in pitch
• M1235 A MOUSE in time may bite in two a cable
• M1236 The MOUSE that has but one hole is quickly taken
• M1237 To look like (As wet as) a drowned MOUSE (rat)
• M1238 To speak like a MOUSE in a cheese
• M1239 Well kens the MOUSE that the cat is out of the house
• M1240 Whist (Peace), and catch a MOUSE
• M1241 You are like a MOUSE under a firloť¹
• M1242 As merry as MICE in malt
• M1243 MICE (Rats) quit a falling house (sinking ship)
• M1244 He will beat him into a MOUSEHOLE
• M1245 You must not let your MOUSETRAP smell of cheese
• M1246 As like him as if he had been spit out of his MOUTH
• M1247 A close MOUTH catches no flies
• M1248 A cool MOUTH and warm feet live long
• M1249 He never speaks but his MOUTH opens
• M1250 He speaks as if he would creep into one's MOUTH
• M1251 He that has a MOUTH of his own must not say to another, Blow
• M1252 His MOUTH runs over
• M1253 Into the MOUTH of a bad dog often falls a good bone
• M1254 It will melt in your MOUTH like a mare's turd
• M1255 Let me spit in your MOUTH
• M1256 The MOUTH that lies slays the soul
• M1257 One MOUTH does nothing without another
• M1258 Out of one MOUTH to blow hot and cold
• M1259 Spit in his MOUTH and make him a mastiff (as men do with dogs)
• M1260 They mense¹ little the MOUTH that bite off the nose
• M1261 To drop in one's MOUTH
• M1262 To fill the MOUTH with empty spoons
• M1263 To make up one's MOUTH
• M1264 To stop one's MOUTH
• M1265 What is sweet in the MOUTH is oft sour (bitter) in the maw (stomach)
• M1266 Whoso has but a MOUTH will never in England suffer drought
• M1267 You have a ready MOUTH for a ripe cherry
• M1268 Your MOUTH has beguiled your hands
• M1269 To stop two MOUTHS with one morsel
• M1270 It is good MOWS¹ that fills the wamb (belly)
• M1271 Drink as MUCH after an egg as after an ox
• M1272 He has as MUCH as he can turn him to
• M1273 He is not rich that has MUCH but he that covets least
• M1274 He that hears MUCH and speaks not all shall be welcome both in bower and hall
• M1275 He that spends MUCH and gets nought, he that owes much and has nought, he that looks in his purse and finds nought, he may be sorry and say nought
• M1276 He that travels far knows MUCH
• M1277 Hear MUCH but speak little
• M1278 If you make not MUCH of a threepence you'll never be worth a groat¹
• M1279 If you may spend MUCH put the more to the fire
• M1280 Make MUCH of nought
• M1281 Make MUCH of one, good men are scarce
• M1282 Make MUCH of what you have
• M1283 MUCH abides behind what a fool thinks
• M1284 MUCH in little
• M1285 MUCH on earth, little in heaven
• M1286 MUCH on earth, little in heaven
• M1287 MUCH would have more
• M1288 One must live long to learn MUCH
• M1289 One must live long to see MUCH
• M1290 So MUCH is mine as I possess and give for God's sake
• M1291 They need MUCH whom nothing will content
• M1292 To offer MUCH is a kind of denial
• M1293 To speak MUCH and to the matter is two men's labor
• M1294 Too MUCH spoils, too little does not satisfy
• M1295 Who too MUCH grips (grasps, embraces) the less he holds (holds nothing fast)
• M1296 Whoso makes MUCH of thee that was not wont either will deceive or stands in need of thee
• M1297 MUCK and money go together
• M1298 MUCK of the world
• M1299 Not worth his MUCK
• M1300 You will have his MUCK for his meat
• M1301 He has a good MUCKHILL at his door
• M1302 You make a MUCKHILL on my trencher, quoth the bride
• M1303 Old MUCKILLS will bloom
• M1304 A good MULE, a good goat, and a good woman are three unhappy creatures
• M1305 Neither a MULE with a black muzzle, nor a maid that has passed the sea, nor a knavish parasitical servant, nor a neighbor abbot, nor a well at the door is ever good
• M1306 One MULE (ass, horse) does scrub (scratch, claw) another
• M1307 Sick of the MULLIGRUBS with eating chopped hay
• M1308 A MULTITUDE of people is a beast of many heads
• M1309 Where there is a MULTITUDE there is confusion
• M1310 MUM is counsel (the word)
• M1311 MUMBUDGET
• M1312 He looks (stands) like MUMCHANCE (Mumhazard), who was hanged for saying nothing
• M1313 Mock not, quoth MUMFORD when his wife called him cuckold
• M1314 He will not change his old MUMPSIMUS for the new sumpsimus
• M1315 MURDER will out
• M1316 He that lives with the MUSES shall die in the straw (Learning ever dies in beggary)
• M1317 Nought (Ill, Sad) is that MUSE that finds no excuse
• M1318 You MUSE as you use
• M1319 A MUSHROOM grows in a night
• M1320 MUSIC helps not the toothache
• M1321 MUSIC is a sweet folly
• M1322 MUSIC is the eye of the ear
• M1323 You may make as good MUSIC on (as) a wheel-barrow
• M1324 He is a bad MUSICIAN that can sing but one song
• M1325 When a MUSICIAN has forgot his note he makes as though a crumb stuck in his throat
• M1326 MUSICIANS are magicians
• M1327 MUSICIANS are the parrots of paradise
• M1328 MUSICIANS (Singers) know no means to be entreated either to begin or end
• M1329 Look not for MUSK in a dog's kennel
• M1330 MUST is for the king
• M1331 What MUST (shall, will) be must (shall, will) be
• M1332 As strong (keen, hot) as MUSTARD
• M1333 He looks as if he lived on Tewkesbury MUSTARD¹
• M1334 MUSTARD takes one by the nose
• M1335 He that will not live long let him dwell at MUSTON, Tenham, or Tong
• M1336 MUTABILITY is the badge of infirmity
• M1337 A MUTE among the vowels
• M1338 He loves laced MUTTON
• M1339 He loves MUTTON (sheep's flesh) well that dips (wets) his bread in the wool
• M1340 It is hard to make MUTTON of a sow
• M1341 MUTTON is meat for a glutton
• M1342 To put on MUTTON-TAFFETY (beggar's velvet)
• M1343 He can say MY JO¹ and think it not
• M1344 A MYRTLE among thorns (nettles) is a myrtle still
• M1345 There is a MYSTERY¹ in the meanest trade
• N1 NAB me, I'll nab thee
• N2 If you bleed your NAG on St. Stephen's Day he will work your work for ever and aye
• N3 A NAG with a weamb¹ and a mare with nean²
• N4 As naked (bare) as my NAIL
• N5 As white (clear) as my NAIL
• N6 He has not a whole NAIL to claw him with
• N7 Not to stir a NAIL's breadth
• N8 From their tender NAILS
• N9 He must have iron NAILS that scratches a bear
• N10 It is unlucky to pare one's NAILS on Sunday (Friday)
• N11 To have long NAILS with which to dig one's grandmother out of her grave
• N12 To pare one's (the devil's) NAILS
• N13 You had as good eat your NAILS
• N14 Drive the NAIL that will go
• N15 Drive the NAIL to the head
• N16 He has hit the NAIL on the head
• N17 One NAIL drives out another
• N18 To pay down upon the NAIL
• N19 Hungry enough to eat NAILS (horse nails)
• N20 To have more NAILS to drive than one
• N21 Do not take my NAME in vain
• N22 A good NAME is better than riches (gold)
• N23 A good NAME keeps its luster in the dark
• N24 He has not his NAME for nought (nothing)
• N25 He that has an ill (evil) NAME is half hanged
• N26 He that has the NAME (fame¹) to be an early riser may sleep till noon
• N27 He who but once a good NAME gets may piss abed and say he sweats
• N28 If one's NAME be up he may lie in bed
• N29 My NAME is Twyford, I know nothing of the matter
• N30 They seek to get them a NAME by pissing against the holy waterstock
• N31 I name no NAMES (nobody)
• N32 NAMES and natures do often agree
• N33 Sooner NAMED sooner come
• N34 Not worth the NAMING
• N35 You take a NAP of a night long
• N36 To take one NAPPING
• N37 To take one NAPPING
• N38 It is the NATURE of the beast
• N39 Ill NATURES, the more you ask them the more they stick
• N40 Kind NATURES win most
• N41 He that follows NATURE is never out of his way
• N42 NATURE abhors a vacuum
• N43 NATURE does nothing in vain
• N44 NATURE has given us two ears (eyes) and but one tongue
• N45 NATURE is content with a little
• N46 NATURE is the true law
• N47 NATURE passes nurture
• N48 NATURE will have her course
• N49 That which NATURE gives no man can take away
• N50 Though you cast out NATURE with a fork it will still return
• N51 To go against NATURE (Invita Minerva)
• N52 Proo,¹ NAUNT,² your mare puts
• N53 He goes early to steal that cannot say NAY
• N54 He that will not when he may, when he would he shall have NAY (shall not when he will)
• N55 You may mend three NAYS with one yea
• N56 O thou NAZARITE, go about, go about, and do not come near the vineyard
• N57 I am NEAREST to myself
• N58 NECESSITY is a hard weapon
• N59 NECESSITY is coal-black
• N60 NECESSITY is the best schoolmistress
• N61 NECESSITY is the mother of invention
• N62 NECESSITY makes the coward grow courageous
• N63 NECESSITY never made a good bargain
• N64 I will first see thy NECK as long as my arm
• N65 NECK and heels
• N66 NECK or nothing, for the king loves no cripples
• N67 One may as soon break his NECK as his fast there
• N68 To break one's NECK going upstairs
• N69 To slip one's NECK out of the collar
• N70 He is a great NECROMANCER, for he asks counsel of the dead
• N71 He has as much NEED of it as I have of the cough
• N72 He has great NEED of a fool that plays the fool himself
• N73 He stands in great NEED that borrows the cat dish
• N74 He that has NEED of nobody is a king in himself
• N75 NEED and night make the lame to trot
• N76 NEED (Necessity) has no law
• N77 NEED makes the naked man run and sorrow makes websters spin
• N78 NEED makes the naked quean spin
• N79 NEED makes the old wife trot
• N80 NEED makes virtue
• N81 NEED will have its course
• N82 They have NEED of a besom that sweep the house with a turf
• N83 They have NEED of a blessing that kneel to a thistle
• N84 To give and keep there is NEED of wit
• N85 Who buys has NEED of a hundred eyes, who sells has enough of one
• N86 He had NEED rise betimes that would please everybody
• N87 It had NEED be dainty, it cost him so dear
• N88 You NEED not be so crusty, you are not so hard-baked
• N89 He may well be contented who NEEDS neither borrow nor flatter
• N90 He NEEDS to be beholden to nobody
• N91 It comes from NEEDINGWORTH
• N92 By the NEEDLE you shall draw the thread and by that which is past see how that which is to come will be drawn on
• N93 Here I left a NEEDLE and here I will find it
• N94 Naked as a NEEDLE
• N95 Sharp as a NEEDLE
• N96 To break the NEEDLE in one's knee
• N97 To seek a NEEDLE in a bottle¹ of hay
• N98 You put it together with a hot NEEDLE and burnt thread
• N99 Begin with NEEDLES and pins and leave off with horse and horned nowt¹
• N100 To walk (stand) on NEEDLES' points
• N101 Two NEGATIVES make an affirmative
• N102 NEGLECT will kill an injury sooner than revenge
• N103 One stiff NEGO is one good point of law
• N104 He is an ill NEIGHBOR that is not missed
• N105 He is my NEIGHBOR who grinds at my mill
• N106 He that has a good NEIGHBOR has a good morrow
• N107 He that has an ill NEIGHBOR has oftentimes an ill morning
• N108 An ill NEIGHBOR is an ill thing
• N109 Love your NEIGHBOR, yet pull not down your hedge
• N110 A near NEIGHBOR is better than a far friend (kinsman)
• N111 NEIGHBOR, we are sure of fair weather, each has beheld this morn Abergainy Hill
• N112 Who more ready to call her NEIGHBOR scold than the arrantest scold in the parish?
• N113 You must ask your NEIGHBOR if you shall live in peace
• N114 Better learn from your NEIGHBOR's scathe¹ than your own
• N115 Our NEIGHBOR's ground yields better corn than our own
• N116 When thy NEIGHBOR's house does burn be careful of thine own
• N117 He dwells far from NEIGHBORS (has ill neighbors) that is fain to praise himself
• N118 He that does as his NEIGHBORS do shall be beloved
• N119 One may need one's NEIGHBORS sometime
• N120 Think not better of yourself than all your NEIGHBORS do
• N121 NEIGHBOR QUART is good quart
• N122 Fast and welcome, NELLA Booth's medicine
• N123 Dead in the NEST
• N124 Destroy the NEST and the rooks will flee away
• N125 To feather one's NEST
• N126 To feather one's NEST
• N127 He that fishes afore the NET, long ere he fish get
• N128 The NET of the sleeper catches fish
• N129 The rough NET is not the best catcher of birds
• N130 You dance in a NET and think nobody sees you
• N131 As angry (surly) as if he had pissed on a NETTLE
• N132 He has pissed on a NETTLE
• N133 He that handles a NETTLE tenderly is soonest stung
• N134 It is better to be stung by a NETTLE than pricked by a rose
• N135 The NETTLE grows where the rose was expected
• N136 At NEVERMASS
• N137 NEWER is truer
• N138 A NEWGATE BIRD¹
• N139 Good NEWS may be told at any time, but ill, in the morning
• N140 He that brings good NEWS knocks boldly
• N141 He that has told good NEWS needs tell no more
• N142 He was scarce of NEWS that told his father was hanged
• N143 If you will learn NEWS you must go to the oven or the mill
• N144 Ill NEWS are commonly true
• N145 Ill NEWS comes too soon
• N146 Ill NEWS comes unsent for
• N147 Ill NEWS flies faster than good
• N148 Ill NEWS has wings (comes apace)
• N149 NEWS are like fish
• N150 NEWS, like a snowball, is more by telling
• N151 NEWS, news, the skin of your ass will make a new pair of shoes
• N152 No NEWS is good (the best) news
• N153 Simondsall NEWS
• N154 Tell me NEWS (what I know not)
• N155 This is NEWS, quoth the fox when he let a fart in the morning
• N156 This NEWS is too good to be true
• N157 I will thank you for the NEXT, for this I am sure of
• N158 More NICE (precise) than wise
• N159 NICHILS (Nifles) in nine pokes (in a bag)
• N160 In the NICK (nick of time)
• N161 Old NICK
• N162 NICK AND FROTH
• N163 The NIGGARD has never enough (is never rich)
• N164 After NIGHT comes the day
• N165 As secret (silent) as the NIGHT
• N166 A blustering NIGHT a fair day
• N167 Dark NIGHT is Cupid's day
• N168 A drunken NIGHT makes a cloudy (misty) morning
• N169 A fine (fit) NIGHT to run away with another man's wife (to steal away a fair lady)
• N170 Good NIGHT, Nicholas, the moon is in the flock bed¹
• N171 He that runs in the NIGHT stumbles
• N172 He that will be rich before NIGHT may be hanged before noon
• N173 He thinks that it will never be NIGHT with him
• N174 NIGHT is the mother of counsels
• N175 The NIGHT is the time of rest for all creatures
• N176 This grew by NIGHT
• N177 To a great NIGHT a great lantern
• N178 To make a NIGHT of it
• N179 What is done by NIGHT appears by day
• N180 Trust not one NIGHT's ice
• N181 The NIGHTINGALE and the cuckoo sing both in one month
• N182 The NIGHTINGALE sings clear
• N183 To sit (sing) like a NIGHTINGALE, with a thorn against one's breast
• N184 NIGHTWORK
• N185 NIMROD was a hunter, even to a proverb
• N186 As like as NINEPENCE to nothing
• N187 As neat as NINEPENCE
• N188 NINEPENCE, no pence, half a groat¹ wanting two pence
• N189 To give him a privy NIP
• N190 As small as a NIT
• N191 NITS will be lice
• N192 NOBILITY is the spear's point
• N193 As yellow as the golden NOBLE
• N194 To bring a NOBLE (shilling) to ninepence
• N195 The more NOBLE the more humble
• N196 He is NOBODY
• N197 Beyond the NOCK
• N198 A NOD for a wise man and a rod for a fool
• N199 To play at NODDY
• N200 The NOISE is greater than the nuts
• N201 Would NO I THANK YOU had never been made
• N202 NOLI ME TANGERE
• N203 NO MAN's LAND
• N204 NON EST INVENTUS
• N205 NON PLACET
• N206 He is put to a NONPLUS
• N207 He is a very NONSUCH
• N208 He rises over soon who is hanged ere NOON
• N209 To have run beyond NOON
• N210 To ring NOON on one's head
• N211 The NORTH for greatness, the East for health, the South for neatness, the West for wealth
• N212 The NORTH of England for an ox, the South for a sheep, and the middle part for a man
• N213 Out of the NORTH all ill comes forth
• N214 NORTHAMPTON stands on other men's legs
• N215 As plain as the NOSE on a man's face
• N216 He cannot tell where to turn his NOSE
• N217 He has a good NOSE to make a poor man's sow
• N218 He holds his NOSE to the grindstone
• N219 He puts his NOSE out of joint
• N220 He sees no farther than his NOSE
• N221 He that wipes his NOSE and has it not forfeits his face to the king
• N222 He would wipe his NOSE if he had one
• N223 His NOSE will abide no jests
• N224 If your NOSE itches you will kiss a fool
• N225 My NOSE runs like a soap wife's arse
• N226 A NOSE of wax
• N227 One may know by his NOSE (looks, face) what pottage (porridge) he loves
• N228 They may wipe their NOSE that have it
• N229 To bore one's NOSE
• N230 To follow one's NOSE
• N231 To hang a NOSE
• N232 To hold up one's NOSE at anything
• N233 To lead one by the NOSE
• N234 To make one pay through the NOSE
• N235 To make one's NOSE swell
• N236 To play with the NOSE
• N237 To pull oneself by the NOSE
• N238 To put one's NOSE into everything
• N239 To run him through the NOSE with a cushion
• N240 To slit one's NOSE
• N241 To snap (bite) off one's NOSE
• N242 To speak in the NOSE
• N243 To wipe one's NOSE on one's sleeve
• N244 To wipe the NOSE of someone
• N245 You make his NOSE warp
• N246 It will be a NOSEGAY to him as long as he lives
• N247 To cry one NOTCHEL
• N248 To change one's NOTE
• N249 Who can sing so merry a NOTE as he that cannot change a groat?¹
• N250 Better say NOTHING than nothing to the purpose (To speak to no purpose)
• N251 Do NOTHING hastily but catching of fleas
• N252 Fear NOTHING but sin
• N253 A fine new NOTHING
• N254 Happy is he that owes NOTHING
• N255 He can say NOTHING that cannot speak well of his own trade
• N256 He cares for NOTHING
• N257 He has NOTHING that is not content
• N258 He is good for NOTHING
• N259 He is not full that has NOTHING to eat
• N260 He is NOTHING but skin and bone
• N261 He is poor that can promise NOTHING
• N262 He is rich enough who wants NOTHING
• N263 He loses NOTHING that keeps God for his friend (loses not God)
• N264 He need not borrow nor NOTHING will lend
• N265 He that does NOTHING does not (does ever) amiss
• N266 He that has NOTHING is not contented
• N267 He that is always unfortunate must enterprise NOTHING
• N268 He that knows NOTHING doubts nothing
• N269 He that knows NOTHING is nothing worth
• N270 He that NOTHING has nothing shall be set by
• N271 He that owes NOTHING, if he makes not mouths at us, is courteous
• N272 He that promises too much (all) means NOTHING
• N273 He that sleeps much gets NOTHING
• N274 He who still keeps home knows NOTHING
• N275 Hear and see and say NOTHING (little, the best)
• N276 I know NOTHING except that I know not
• N277 I thank you for NOTHING
• N278 I will foreheet¹ NOTHING but building churches and louping² over them
• N279 I will say NOTHING (nought) but mum
• N280 If you put NOTHING into your purse you can take nothing out
• N281 It is better to be idle than to work for NOTHING
• N282 It is NOTHING to me what others do
• N283 NOTHING but money is money worth
• N284 NOTHING but up and ride?
• N284a NOTHING can be said that has not been said before
• N285 NOTHING can come of nothing
• N286 NOTHING comes sooner to light than that which is long hid
• N287 NOTHING down nothing up
• N288 NOTHING dries sooner than tears
• N289 NOTHING enters in a close hand
• N290 NOTHING has no savor
• N291 NOTHING have nothing crave
• N292 NOTHING hurts the stomach more than surfeiting
• N293 NOTHING ill in Spain but that which speaks
• N294 NOTHING is better than a contented mind
• N295 NOTHING is easier than to deceive oneself
• N296 NOTHING is given us in this life without much labor
• N297 NOTHING is good but what is gainful
• N298 NOTHING is good or bad but by comparison
• N299 NOTHING is impossible (hard, difficult) to a willing heart (mind)
• N300 NOTHING is impossible to God
• N301 NOTHING is more easily blotted out than a good turn
• N302 NOTHING is more precious (dearer) than time
• N303 NOTHING is our own but time only
• N304 NOTHING is stolen without hands
• N305 NOTHING is to be gotten without pains (labor)
• N306 NOTHING is to be presumed on or despaired of
• N307 NOTHING is well said or done in a passion (in anger)
• N308 NOTHING kindles sooner than fire
• N309 NOTHING lasts but the Church
• N310 NOTHING like leather
• N311 NOTHING more certain than death and nothing more uncertain than the time of its coming
• N312 NOTHING more proud than basest blood when it does rise aloft
• N313 NOTHING proves well unless it be plied
• N314 NOTHING secure unless suspected
• N315 NOTHING seek nothing find
• N316 NOTHING so certain (sure) as death
• N317 NOTHING so good but it (The best things, Everything) may be abused
• N318 NOTHING so necessary for travelers as languages
• N319 NOTHING (Nought) venture nothing (nought) have
• N320 NOTHING venture nothing win
• N321 NOTHING violent can be permanent
• N322 NOTHING was too hot or too heavy for him
• N323 Say NOTHING when you are dead
• N324 So good that he is good for NOTHING
• N325 Tell NOTHING to a woman and a pie¹ unless thou wouldst have all the world to know it
• N326 There came NOTHING (nought) out of the sack but what was in it (there)
• N327 There is NOTHING but is good for something
• N328 There is NOTHING so bad in which there is not something of good
• N329 There is NOTHING so crouse¹ as a new-washen louse
• N330 There is NOTHING so secret but it may be discovered
• N331 They that have NOTHING need fear to lose nothing
• N332 To lose NOTHING by telling
• N333 To promise and give NOTHING (nought) is a comfort to (is to comfort) a fool
• N334 Too much of NOTHING but of fools and asses
• N335 Well fare NOTHING (nought) once a (by the) year
• N336 Where NOTHING is, a little does ease
• N337 Where NOTHING is, nothing can be had
• N338 Where NOTHING (nought) is (is to be had) the king must lose his right¹
• N339 Who practices NOTHING shall have nothing
• N340 As good play for NOUGHT (nothing) as work for nought (nothing)
• N341 As good seek NOUGHT as seek and find nought
• N342 NOUGHT is never in danger
• N343 NOUGHT lay down nought take up (Nothing stake nothing draw)
• N344 NOUGHT will be nought
• N345 NOUGHT won by the one, nought won by the other
• N346 An old NOUGHT will never be aught
• N347 Where NOUGHT is to wed with, wise men flee the clog
• N348 NOVEMBER take flail, let ships no more sail
• N349 A doltish NOVICE proves a professed fool
• N350 NOW is now and Yule's in winter
• N351 NOW or never
• N352 The NUN of Sion¹ with the friar of Shean¹ went under the water to play the quean
• N353 As nice as a NUN's hen¹
• N354 A NURSE spoils a housewife
• N355 A NURSE's tongue is privileged to talk
• N356 NURSES put one bit in the child's mouth and two in their own
• N357 NURTURE is above (passes) nature
• N358 As sweet as a NUT
• N359 Crack me that NUT, quoth Bumstead
• N360 Sweet is the NUT but bitter (hard) is the shell
• N361 To have a NUT to crack
• N362 You are a sweet NUT, the devil crack you (if you were well cracked)
• N363 It is NUTS to him
• N364 She goes as if she cracked NUTS with her tail
• N365 To be fed on (live upon) deaf NUTS¹
• N366 Not worth a NUTSHELL (a couple of nuts)
• N367 The foolish NYAS¹ will never away
• O1 As close as OAK
• O2 To cut down an OAK and set up a strawberry (thistle)
• O3 OAKS may fall when reeds stand the storm
• O4 He will have an OAR in every man's boat
• O5 It is not good to have an OAR in every man's boat
• O6 To sow his wild OATS
• O7 An unlawful OATH is better broken than kept
• O8 He that takes away the OCCASION takes away the offense
• O9 To drink the OCEAN dry
• O9a To ask what it is O'CLOCK
• O10 To know what it is O'CLOCK
• O11 Good OCTOBER, a good blast to blow the hog acorn and mast
• O12 ODDS will beat anybody
• O13 Bad ODORS attract the vulture (beetle), perfumes repel him
• O14 None is OFFENDED but by himself
• O15 The OFFENDER never pardons
• O16 He never loved well that will hate for a little OFFENSE
• O17 It is good to take (Never refuse) a good OFFER
• O18 Put not all your OFFERING in one stock¹
• O19 Be good in your OFFICE
• O20 He has a good OFFICE, he must needs thrive
• O21 He that has an OFFICE let him wait on it
• O22 A new OFFICE, like a new garment, straight at first putting on
• O23 OFFICES may well be given but not discretion
• O24 The OFFSPRING of those that are very young or very old lasts not
• O25 As smooth as OIL
• O26 He that measures OIL shall anoint his fingers
• O27 OIL of angels¹
• O28 OIL of whip
• O29 There is OIL (no oil) left in the lamp
• O30 To add OIL to (pour oil on) the fire
• O31 To burn the midnight OIL
• O32 To pour (cast) OIL into the fire is not the way to quench it
• O33 In the OLD of the moon a cloudy morning bodes a fair afternoon
• O34 He that would be OLD long (well old) must be old betimes (Old young and old long)
• O35 OLD and tough, young and tender
• O36 OLD young, young old
• O37 OLDER and wiser
• O38 The OLDER the worse
• O39 Call me not an OLIVE till you see me ripe and gathered
• O40 Sweet OLIVER
• O41 ONCE out and always out
• O42 Better ONE die (perish, suffer) than all
• O43 By ONE and one the spindles are made
• O44 He that chastens ONE chastens twenty
• O45 He that chastises ONE amends many
• O46 I will give you ONE and lend you another
• O47 I will give you ONE and lend you another
• O48 If ONE, two, or three tell you you are an ass, put on a tail (bridle)
• O49 It is better to be spoken of ill by ONE before all than by all before one
• O50 It is good to save ONE
• O51 ONE and all
• O52 ONE and none is all ONE (ONE is as good as none, ONE is none)
• O53 ONE, but that one is a lion
• O54 ONE is no number
• O55 ONE is not smelled where all stink
• O56 ONE is too few, three too many
• O57 ONE of the four and twenty qualities of a knave is to stay long at his errand
• O58 ONE, two, three, four are just half a score
• O59 Still he fishes that catches ONE
• O60 That is a loud ONE
• O61 That ONE is bad makes hundreds sad
• O62 That (If) ONE will not another will
• O63 There would be no great ONES if there were no little ones
• O64 He is ONE-AND-THIRTY
• O65 As spruce as an ONION
• O66 Not worth an ONION (a leek)
• O67 To weep (It may serve) with an ONION
• O68 OPINION sways the world
• O69 Our own OPINION is never wrong
• O70 OPPORTUNITY (Night, Midnight) is woredom's bawd
• O71 OPPORTUNITY makes the thief
• O72 OPPRESSION causes rebellion
• O73 OPPRESSION makes the wise man mad
• O74 To speak like an ORACLE
• O75 His ORCHARD is his shambles
• O76 It's easy to rob an ORCHARD when none keep it
• O77 An ORDER is to be observed in all things
• O78 You breed of the four and twenty ORDERS of knaves, you tell your errand ere you go
• O79 Evening ORTS¹ (oats) are good morning fodder
• O80 Make not ORTS¹ of good hay
• O81 To heap OSSA upon Pelion
• O82 OSSING comes to bossing
• O83 The foolish OSTRICH (woodcock) buries his head in the sand and thinks he is not seen
• O84 More cruel than the OSTRICH
• O85 An OUNCE of fortune (good fortune) is worth a pound of forecast (wit)
• O86 An OUNCE of mirth is better than (is worth) a pound of sorrow
• O87 An OUNCE of mother wit (discretion, wit) is worth a pOUND of clergy (learning, wit, folly)
• O88 An OUNCE of state requires a pound of gold
• O88a No OUT is good but out of prison
• O89 Be not too hasty to OUTBID another
• O90 To quake like an OVEN
• O91 All OVERS¹ are ill but OVER the water (ferry)
• O92 As blind as an OWL (bat)
• O93 The OWL flies
• O94 An OWL is the king of the night
• O95 To fly with the OWL
• O96 To look (whoop) like an OWL in an ivy bush
• O97 You bring OWLS to Athens
• O98 To walk by OWL-LIGHT
• O99 May we not do with our OWN what we list?
• O100 OWN is own
• O101 OWN is own at the reckoning's end
• O102 As much dungs one OX as a thousand flies
• O103 The black OX never trod on his foot
• O104 If the OX fall whet your knife
• O105 An old OX makes a straight furrow
• O106 The OX is never woe till he to the harrow go
• O107 An OX is taken by the horns and a man by the tongue (word)
• O108 The OX when he is weary treads surest
• O109 To plow (till) with an OX and an ass together
• O110 To swallow an OX and be choked with the tail
• O111 Where shall the OX go but he must labor?
• O112 You must plow with such OXEN as you have
• O113 Muzzle not the OXEN's mouth
• O114 To gape like an OYSTER for the tide
• O115 To give a stopping (choking) OYSTER
• O116 Undone as you would undo an OYSTER
• O117 OYSTERS are not good in the month that has not an R in it
• O118 OYSTERS are ungodly meat, uncharitable meat, and unprofitable (cruel) meat
• P1 To remember one's P's and Q's
• P2 He that stumbles and falls not mends his PACE (goes the faster)
• P3 Soft PACE goes far
• P4 He has brought his PACK to a fit speed
• P5 He has brought his PACK to a pack pin
• P6 It is a silly PACK that may not pay the custom
• P7 A small (little) PACK becomes a small (little) peddler
• P8 As plain as a PACKSADDLE
• P9 There is a PAD¹ in the straw
• P10 Go pipe at PADLEY (Colston), there's a peasecod feast
• P11 Make a PAGE of your own age
• P12 He thinks himself no PAGE's peer
• P13 As blake¹ as a PAIGLE²
• P14 I know by my PAIL who milks my cow
• P15 To come down by PAILFULS
• P16 Great PAIN and little gain will make a man soon weary
• P17 It is more PAIN (painful) to do nothing than something
• P18 No PAIN to¹ the gout and toothache
• P19 PAIN is forgotten where gain follows
• P20 Great PAINS but all in vain (to no purpose)
• P21 Great PAINS quickly find ease
• P22 PAINS are the price that God puts upon all things
• P23 PAINS to get, care to keep, fear to lose
• P24 Without (No) PAINS no gains (profit)
• P25 PAINFULNESS is something¹ eased by hoping for rest
• P26 As it pleases the PAINTER
• P27 A good PAINTER can draw a devil as well as an angel
• P28 PAINTERS (Travelers) and poets have leave to lie
• P29 On PAINTING and fighting look aloof
• P30 Better a fair PAIR of heels than die at the gallows
• P31 He shows a fair PAIR of heels
• P32 I would not touch him with a PAIR of tongs
• P33 One PAIR of ears draws dry a hundred tongues
• P34 One PAIR of heels (legs, feet) is worth two pair of hands
• P35 A PAIR of good spurs to a borrowed horse is better than a peck of haver¹
• P36 There went but a PAIR of shears between them
• P37 The straighter (higher) grows the PALM the heavier the weight it bears
• P38 He has the PALSY in his hand
• P39 As flat as a PANCAKE
• P40 PANDORA's BOX
• P41 Mock no PANNIERMAN, your father was a fisher
• P42 To stand to one's PAN PUDDING
• P43 To stand on one's PANTOLFLES¹
• P44 As soft as PAP
• P45 PAP with a hatchet
• P46 PAPER and ink cost money
• P47 He that will enter into PARADISE must have a good key
• P48 I would not be alone in PARADISE
• P49 A PARAGON of price (A peerless paragon)
• P50 PARDON makes offenders
• P51 PARDONS and pleasantness are great revenges of slanders
• P52 He will not part with the PARINGS of his nails
• P53 A mad PARISH must have a mad priest
• P54 Think not better of yourself than all the PARISH
• P55 He is too hasty to be a PARISH PRIEST (parish clerk)
• P56 The PARISH PRIEST forgets that ever he was clerk
• P57 Like a PARISH TOP
• P58 As tender as PARNELL, that broke her finger in a posset curd
• P59 As melancholy as a sick PARROT
• P60 To speak (prate) like a PARROT
• P61 PARSIMONY is the best revenue
• P62 PARSLEY before it is born is seen by the devil nine times
• P63 PARSLEY fried will bring a man to his saddle and a woman to her grave
• P64 It is good enough for the PARSON unless the parish were better
• P65 A Pancridge PARSON¹ (earl¹)
• P66 As happy as the PARSON's wife during her husband's life
• P67 Pinch on the PARSON's side
• P68 She is as tender as a PARSON's leman
• P69 To come home like the PARSON's cow, with a calf at her foot
• P70 PARSONS are souls' wagoners
• P71 Like the PARSON OF SADDLEWORTH, who could read in no book but his own
• P72 There or thereabouts, as PARSON SMITH says
• P73 The big PART of her body is her bum
• P74 For my PART, burn the kiln boldly
• P75 He may his PART on Good Friday eat and fast never the worse for ought he shall get
• P76 He that repairs not a PART builds all
• P77 It is the PART of a fool (It is a shame for a wise man) to say, I had not thought
• P78 Take PART of the pelf when the pack is a dealing
• P79 The worst PART is within
• P80 The PARTHIANS fight flying away
• P81 One PARTICULARITY concludes no generality
• P82 It is tedious PARTING with a thing we love
• P83 Praise at PARTING
• P84 As plump as a PARTRIDGE (plover)
• P85 If the PARTRIDGE had the woodcock's thigh, 'twould be the best bird that ever did fly
• P86 The absent PARTY is still faulty
• P87 Hear all PARTIES
• P88 It is hard to please all PARTIES (men)
• P89 At an ill PASSAGE honor thy companion
• P90 Bridle PASSIONS and be yourself a free man
• P91 You are not one of our PASTE
• P92 Hang yourself for a PASTIME
• P93 There never was a PASTON poor, a Heyden a coward, nor a Cornwallis a fool
• P94 PATCH by patch is good husbandry but patch upon patch is plain beggary
• P95 He cannot say his PATERNOSTER
• P96 He may be in my PATERNOSTER but he shall never come in my creed
• P97 PATERNOSTER built churches and Our Father pulled them down
• P98 To know it as well as one knows his PATERNOSTER
• P99 A PATERNOSTER WHILE
• P100 Every PATH has a puddle
• P101 Not to go forward on the PATH (way) of virtue is to go backward
• P102 He that can have PATIENCE can have what he will
• P103 He that has no PATIENCE has nothing
• P104 He that has PATIENCE has fat thrushes for a farthing
• P105 PATIENCE and shuffle
• P106 PATIENCE in adversity brings a man to the Three Cranes¹ in the Vintry
• P107 PATIENCE is a plaster for all sores
• P108 PATIENCE is a remedy for every grief (sorrow)
• P109 PATIENCE is a virtue
• P110 PATIENCE passes science¹
• P111 PATIENCE perforce
• P112 PATIENCE perforce is a medicine for a mad dog
• P113 PATIENCE provoked turns to fury
• P114 PATIENCE, time, and money accommodate all things
• P115 PATIENCE with poverty is all a poor man's remedy
• P116 Let PATIENCE grow in your garden
• P117 PATIENCE is a flower that grows not in every garden
• P118 What again? quoth PAUL when his wife made him cuckold the second time
• P119 As old as PAUL's (Paul's steeple, Charing Cross)
• P120 PAUL's pigeons
• P121 PAUL's will not always stand
• P122 To make PAUL's work of it
• P123 Fat PAUNCHES make lean pates
• P124 A fair (good) PAWN never shamed his master
• P125 He that cannot PAY let him pray
• P126 It is hard to PAY and pray too
• P127 He that PAYS last never pays twice
• P128 Once PAID never craved
• P129 An ill PAYER makes a sore craver
• P130 A good PAYMASTER (payer) is lord (master) of another man's purse
• P131 A good PAYMASTER needs no surety
• P132 A good PAYMASTER starts not at assurances
• P133 As small (big) as a PEA
• P134 Every PEA[SE] has its vease and a bean fifteen
• P135 Not worth a PEA (two peas)
• P136 As like as two PEAS (as one PEA is like another)
• P137 The smaller PEAS the more to the pot, the fairer woman the more giglot¹
• P138 Who has many PEAS may put the more in the pot
• P139 By PEACE plenty
• P140 He that will live in PEACE and rest must hear and see and say the best
• P141 He that will not have PEACE God gives him war
• P142 PEACE and patience and death with repentance
• P143 Where there is PEACE God is
• P144 Although I hold my PEACE I gather up stones
• P145 He is wise that can hold his PEACE
• P146 He that knows not how to hold his PEACE (tongue) knows not how to speak (talk)
• P147 He that speaks, sows, and he that holds his PEACE, gathers
• P148 Hold thy PEACE to keep the peace
• P149 Who can live and hold his PEACE can do enough
• P150 Better a lean PEACE than a fat victory
• P151 A disarmed PEACE is weak
• P152 PEACE is better than victory (war)
• P153 To make PEACE with a sword in his hand
• P154 An unjust PEACE is (is not) to be preferred to a just war
• P155 Blessed are the PEACEMAKERS
• P156 The PEACH will have wine, the fig water
• P157 As proud as a PEACOCK
• P158 The PEACOCK has fair feathers but foul feet
• P159 After a PEAR, wine or a priest
• P160 As rotten as a PEAR
• P161 Not worth a PEAR
• P162 The ripest PEARS fall to swine
• P163 Share not PEARS with your master either in jest or in earnest
• P164 Make a PEARL on your nail
• P165 Cast not PEARLS before swine
• P166 PEARLS are restorative
• P167 As pert as a PEARMONGER
• P168 PEASE POTTAGE and tawny never made good medley
• P169 They hang together like PEBBLES in a halter
• P170 To cry PECCAVI
• P171 For my PECK of malt, set the kiln on fire
• P172 To be in a PECK of troubles
• P173 Every PEDDLER thinks well of his pack
• P174 Let every PEDDLER carry his own burden
• P175 PEDDLER's French
• P176 As long as a Welsh PEDIGREE
• P177 Never inquire the PEDIGREE of a good man
• P178 In great PEDIGREES there are governors and chandlers
• P179 I was by, quoth PEDLEY, when my eye was put out
• P180 Play with your PEERS
• P181 I will take you a PEG (buttonhole, hole) lower
• P182 PEN and ink is wit's plow
• P183 PENS may blot but they cannot blush
• P184 PENDLE, Ingleborough, and Penigent are the three highest hills between Scotland and Trent
• P185 As old as PENDLE HILL
• P186 PENELOPE's WEB
• P187 To sit on PENNILESS BENCH¹
• P188 As clean as a PENNY
• P189 A better PENNY
• P190 Better PENNY in silver than any brother
• P191 Every PENNY that is saved is not gotten
• P192 Everyone has a PENNY for the new alehouse
• P193 He has not a PENNY to buy his dog a loaf
• P194 He thinks his PENNY (farthing, halfpenny) good silver
• P195 An ill-won PENNY will cast down a pound
• P196 In for a PENNY in for a pound
• P197 Lay your PENNY to mine
• P198 No PENNY no pardon
• P199 No PENNY no paternoster
• P200 One PENNY is worth another
• P201 PENNY and penny laid up will be many
• P202 A PENNY at a pinch is worth a pound
• P203 A PENNY for your thought
• P204 The PENNY in pocket is a good companion
• P205 A PENNY in purse will bid me drink when all the friends I have will not
• P206 A PENNY saved is a penny got
• P207 A PENNY spared (saved) is twice (twopence) got
• P208 A PENNY to serve one's need
• P209 Sometime a PENNY well spent is better than a penny ill spared
• P210 That PENNY (halfpenny) is well spent that saves a groat¹ (penny)
• P211 To turn the PENNY (an honest penny)
• P212 Who buys by the PENNY finds¹ not only himself but others
• P213 Who will not keep a PENNY shall never have many (a pound)
• P214 You may know by a PENNY how a shilling spends
• P215 Put two PENNIES (halfpennies) in a purse and they will draw together
• P216 A PENNY FATHER
• P217 To be PENNY-WHITE
• P218 PENNY-WISE and pound-foolish
• P219 A PENNYWORTH of ease is worth a penny in a man's purse
• P220 He pays him with PEN POWDER
• P221 PENSION never enriched young man
• P222 Among the common PEOPLE Scoggin¹ is a doctor
• P223 The common PEOPLE look at the steeple
• P224 Hasty PEOPLE will never make good midwives
• P225 He that builds on the PEOPLE builds on the mud (dirt)
• P226 He that serves the PEOPLE (commonalty) serves nothing
• P227 So I be warm let the PEOPLE laugh
• P228 The worst PEOPLE have most laws
• P229 You cannot make PEOPLE honest by an act of Parliament
• P230 Old PEOPLE's frisking does presage their ending
• P231 He takes PEPPER in the nose
• P232 I would I had as mickle PEPPER as he counts himself worthy mice dirt
• P233 PEPPER is black and snow white
• P234 PEPPER is hot in the mouth but cold in operation
• P235 To put PEPPER upon strawberries
• P236 To be PEPPERED
• P237 He is not PEPPER-PROOF
• P238 Hate not the PERSON but the vice
• P239 He has put off the PERSON of a judge that puts on the person of a friend (accuser)
• P240 To feel a PERSON's pulse
• P241 The PERSUASION of the fortunate sways the doubtful
• P242 PERVERSENESS makes one squint-eyed
• P243 There is no worse PESTILENCE than a familiar enemy
• P244 He robs PETER to pay Paul
• P245 PETER in and Paul out
• P246 PETER is so much God's that God gets him not
• P247 PETER of Wood, church and mills are all his
• P248 When you have a PETITION to make buy your paper of Mr. Humble
• P249 As red as a PETTICOAT
• P250 Near is my PETTICOAT (kirtle, coat) but nearer is my smock (sark)
• P251 PHILIP and Cheiny,¹ more than a good meinie²
• P252 To appeal from PHILIP drunk to Philip sober
• P253 PHILOSOPHERS must be captains (kings) and captains (kings) philosophers
• P254 It is the PHILOSOPHY of the distaff
• P255 The PHILOSOPHY of princes is to dive into the secrets of men, leaving the secrets of nature to those that have spare time
• P256 As rare as the PHOENIX
• P257 He takes PHYSIC before he is sick
• P258 He that lives by PHYSIC lives miserably
• P259 If PHYSIC does not work prepare for the kirk
• P260 Kitchen PHYSIC is the best physic
• P261 Deceive not your PHYSICIAN, confessor, or lawyer
• P262 He is a good PHYSICIAN who cures himself
• P263 He is purse-sick and lacks a PHYSICIAN
• P264 Honor a PHYSICIAN before thou hast need of him
• P265 An old PHYSICIAN and a young lawyer
• P266 The PHYSICIAN gleans and the lawyer reaps
• P267 PHYSICIAN, heal thyself
• P267a The PHYSICIAN is more dangerous than the disease
• P268 The PHYSICIAN owes all to the patient but the patient owes nothing to him but a little money
• P269 Piss clear and defy the PHYSICIAN
• P270 A pitiful PHYSICIAN (chirurgeon, surgeon) makes a deadly wound (sore)
• P271 They that are whole need not a PHYSICIAN, but they that are sick
• P272 Who pays the PHYSICIAN does the cure
• P273 A young PHYSICIAN fattens the churchyard
• P274 There are more PHYSICIANS in health than drunkards
• P275 The PHYSICIANS OF VALENCIA have long robes and little skill
• P276 To be in a sad (sweet) PICKLE
• P277 Purgatory PICKPURSE
• P278 To look like the PICTURE of ill luck
• P279 Painted PICTURES are dead speakers
• P280 PICTURES are the books of the unlearned
• P281 As merry as a PIE (magpie)
• P282 Fly at a PIE and catch a daw
• P283 Not too high for the PIE nor too low for the crow
• P284 Not too high for the PIE nor too low for the crow
• P285 To chatter like a PIE
• P286 Better no PIES than pies made with scabby hands
• P287 A good PIECE steel is worth a penny
• P288 He has a PIECE of bread and cheese in his head
• P289 A knotty PIECE of timber must have sharp wedges
• P290 A PIECE of a churchyard fits everybody
• P291 A PIECE of a kid is worth two of a cat
• P292 The worst PIECE is in the midst
• P293 You have gotten a PIECE of Kitty Sleitchock's¹ bannock²
• P294 He is all to PIECES
• P295 PIE LID makes people wise
• P296 As snug as a PIG in pease straw
• P297 As subtle (wise) as a dead PIG (sow)
• P298 As willful as a PIG, he'll neither lead nor drive
• P299 A brinded PIG will make a good brawn to breed on
• P300 The first PIG, but the last whelp, of the litter is the best
• P301 He has a PIG of the worse pannier sure
• P302 He knows not a PIG from a dog
• P303 I desire not a PIG with a bell about his neck
• P304 I will not buy a PIG in a poke
• P305 A PIG of your (my) own sow
• P306 A PIG plays on the organs¹
• P307 To stare like a stuck PIG
• P308 When the PIG is proffered (offered) hold up (open) the poke
• P309 The young PIG grunts like the old sow
• P310 Some cannot abide to see a PIG's head gaping
• P311 PIGS can see the wind
• P312 PIGS fly in the air with their tails forward
• P313 PIGS love that lie together
• P314 Where the PIG breaks let the shells¹ lie
• P315 Here is a PIGEON (goose, pig) so finely roasted it cries, Come eat me
• P316 The PIGEON never knows woe but when she does a benting¹ go
• P317 Shoot at a PIGEON and kill a crow
• P318 Full PIGEONS find cherries bitter
• P319 To take (catch) two PIGEONS (doves) with one bean
• P320 Witham PIKE, England has none like
• P321 To pass the PIKES
• P322 As plain as a PIKESTAFF (packstaff)
• P323 To speak out in PILATE's voice
• P324 PILGARLIC
• P325 To sugar (gild) the PILL
• P326 To swallow (digest) a bitter PILL
• P327 Bitter PILLS may have wholesome effects
• P328 To be tossed from PILLAR (post) to post (pillar, pillory)
• P329 To sew PILLOWS under one's elbows
• P330 He that takes not up a PIN slights his wife
• P331 He that will not stoop for a PIN will never be worth a pound (point)
• P332 He that will steal a PIN will steal a better thing (will be hanged for a pound)
• P333 Not to care a PIN
• P334 Not worth a PIN
• P335 To be on a merry PIN
• P336 To cleave the PIN
• P337 Hang PINCHING
• P338 A notable PINCHPENNY
• P339 The PINE wishes herself a shrub when the ax is at her root
• P340 To bring PINNOCK to pannock
• P341 The first PINT is the dearest
• P342 A PINT of wine to a vintner is but a pippin to a costermonger
• P343 I will make him dance without a PIPE (fiddle)
• P344 No PIPE no pudding
• P345 To put up one's PIPES
• P346 No longer PIPE no longer dance
• P347 He is an evil PIPER but a good fiddler
• P348 The PIPER wants mickle that wants the under chaffs¹
• P349 To pay the PIPER
• P350 As full as a PIPER's bag
• P351 PIPING HOT
• P352 She has broken her PIPKIN
• P353 One PIRATE gets nothing of another but his cask
• P354 The one cannot PISS but the other must fart
• P355 To stay a PISSING-WHILE
• P356 He falls into the PIT he digs for another
• P357 As dark (black) as PITCH
• P358 He that touches PITCH shall be defiled
• P359 To be spotted with one PITCH
• P360 PITCH and pay
• P361 To bang the PITCHER
• P362 Whether the PITCHER (pot) strikes the stone or the stone the pitcher (pot) it will be bad for the pitcher (ill for the pot, ill for the stone)
• P363 Small (Little) PITCHERS have wide ears
• P364 PITH is good in all plays but threading of needles
• P365 As great a PITY to see a woman weep as a goose go barefoot
• P366 Foolish (Peevish) PITY mars a city
• P367 He deserves no PITY that chooses to do amiss twice
• P368 It is PITY fair weather should do any harm
• P369 It is PITY to part three things: the lawyer and his client, the physician and his patient, and a pot of good ale and a toast
• P370 PITY is akin to love
• P371 It is better to PITY than revenge
• P372 He that PITIES another remembers himself
• P373 He quits his PLACE well that leaves his friend there
• P374 One may change PLACE but not change the grief (mind)
• P375 Sit in your PLACE and none can make you rise
• P376 To have a soft PLACE in one's head
• P377 To have a soft PLACE in one's head
• P378 To sing PLACEBO
• P379 Not worth a PLACK¹
• P380 To graze on the PLAIN
• P381 PLAIN DEALING is a jewel
• P382 PLAIN DEALING is a jewel but they that use it die beggars
• P383 PLAIN DEALING is best
• P384 PLAIN DEALING is dead and died without issue
• P385 PLAIN DEALING is praised more than practiced
• P386 Born under an unlucky PLANET
• P387 He that is born under a threepenny (three-halfpenny) PLANET will never be worth a groat¹
• P388 It rains by PLANETS
• P389 To be PLANET-STRUCK
• P390 Noble PLANTS suit not with a stubborn soil
• P391 To water one's PLANTS
• P392 As good as a PLAY
• P393 There can be no PLAY without a fool
• P394 The best PLAY on the board (at dice) is not to play at all (is to cast them quite away)
• P395 He who swears when he is at PLAY may challenge his damnation by way of purchase
• P396 The less PLAY the better
• P397 PLAY, women, and wine undo men laughing
• P398 It is no PLAY where one greets¹ and another laughs
• P399 When PLAY (game, jest) is best it is time to leave
• P400 PLAY with me and hurt me not, jest with me and shame me not
• P401 To PLAY fast and loose
• P402 To PLAY underboard
• P403 We should PLAY to live, not live to play
• P404 He PLAYS well (best) that wins
• P405 It is ill PLAYING with short daggers
• P406 No PLAYING with (It is ill to draw) a straw before an old cat
• P407 No PLEA¹ is best
• P408 After PLEASURE (joy) comes pain (sorrow)
• P409 Eat at PLEASURE, drink by measure
• P410 Fly the PLEASURE that bites (brings sorrow) to-morrow
• P411 For one PLEASURE a thousand woes (sorrows)
• P412 He that will have the PLEASURE must endure the pain
• P413 Never PLEASURE without repentance
• P414 PLEASURE and joy soon come and soon go
• P415 PLEASURE is not pleasant unless it cost dear
• P416 A PLEASURE long expected is dear enough sold (bought)
• P417 PLEASURE the rarer used the more commendable
• P418 Say to PLEASURE, Gentle Eve, I will none of your apple
• P419 Short PLEASURE long lament (repentance, pains)
• P420 There is no PLEASURE without pain
• P421 To woo is a PLEASURE in a young man, a fault in an old man
• P422 The PLEASURES of the mighty are the tears of the poor
• P423 Stolen PLEASURES are sweetest
• P424 He that has PLENTY of goods shall have more, he that has but a little he shall have less, and he that has right nought right nought shall possess
• P425 PLENTY is no dainty
• P426 PLENTY makes dainty
• P427 PLENTY makes poor
• P428 A gray PLOVER cannot please him
• P429 A Leicestershire PLOVER
• P430 Better to have one PLOW going than two cradles
• P431 He that by the PLOW would thrive himself must either hold or drive
• P432 If your PLOW be jogging you may have meat for your horses
• P433 Let (Never let) the PLOW stand to catch a mouse
• P434 The PLOW goes before the oxen
• P435 The PLOW goes not well if the plowman holds it not
• P436 He that lippens¹ to bon² PLOWS his land will lie ley³
• P437 To spoil a PLOWMAN to make a scholar of him
• P438 PLUCK not where you never planted
• P439 A black PLUM¹ (grape, raisin) is as sweet (good) as a white
• P440 Every PLUMMET is not for every sound
• P441 The higher the PLUM TREE the riper the plum, the richer the cobbler the blacker his thumb
• P442 As fearful as PLUTUS
• P443 A PLYMOUTH CLOAK
• P444 A PLYMOUTH CLOAK
• P445 He plays you as fair as if he picked your POCKET
• P446 He plays you as fair as if he picked your POCKET
• P447 Where POCKETS are full men will borrow
• P448 Everyone is not born a POET
• P449 A good POET an evil person
• P450 A POET in adversity can hardly make verses
• P451 POETS are born but orators are made
• P452 Poor POETS' heads are ever full of bees
• P453 The first POINT of hawking is hold fast
• P454 She has one POINT of a good hawk, she is hardy
• P455 He knows one POINT more than the devil
• P456 Not worth a POINT
• P457 One POISON expels another
• P458 POISON is hidden in golden cups
• P459 To hate (shun) one like POISON
• P460 It is kindly¹ that the POKE savor² of the herring
• P461 To stink like (worse than) a POLECAT
• P462 POLICY goes beyond strength
• P463 POLICY with his long nails has almost scratched out the eyes of religion
• P464 All our POMP the earth covers
• P465 Standing POOLS gather filth
• P466 Everyone is weary: the POOR in seeking, the rich in keeping, the good in learning
• P467 He serves the POOR with a thump on the back with a stone
• P468 The POOR have few friends
• P469 The POOR suffer all the wrong
• P470 She loves the POOR well but cannot abide beggars
• P471 That which is given to the POOR is lent to God
• P472 Once POOR, seldom or never rich (Once unhappy ever unhappy)
• P473 POOR and liberal, rich and covetous
• P474 POOR and proud, fie, fie
• P475 POOR and proud, still tailorlike
• P476 As long as the POPE can finger a pen he can want no pence
• P477 The POPE comes by voices, the king by nature, the emperor by force
• P478 To go where neither POPE nor emperor can send an ambassador
• P479 To have a POPE in one's belly
• P480 A POPE's bull, a dead man's skull, and an old trull are not all worth a pound of wool
• P481 An old POPINJAY cares not for the rod
• P482 The PORCUPINE has darted out his quill
• P483 The PORPOISE (dolphin) plays before a storm
• P484 I know him not though I should meet him in my PORRIDGE (pottage dish)
• P485 A Rochester PORTION, two torn smocks and what nature gave
• P486 One POSITIVE weighs more than a score of negatives
• P487 POSSESSION is eleven (nine) points of the law
• P488 POSSESSION is worth an ill charter
• P489 The lame POST brings the truest news
• P490 As deaf (dumb) as a POST
• P491 As good speak to a POST
• P492 As good trust to a rotten POST
• P493 I understand you as much as the POST
• P494 You must kiss the POST
• P495 The earthen POT must keep clear of the brass kettle
• P496 He that comes last to the POT soonest wroth
• P497 A little POT is soon hot
• P498 A mean¹ POT played² never even
• P499 Neither POT broken nor water spilt
• P500 The POT walks
• P501 So long goes the POT (pitcher) to the water (well) that at length it comes home broken
• P502 There is no POT so ugly that a cover cannot be found for it
• P503 To a boiling POT flies come not
• P504 To go to POT
• P505 To make the POT boil
• P506 Touch POT touch penny
• P507 Your POT broken seems better than my whole one
• P508 Two POTS well filled are signs of a feast
• P509 I hate a POT COMPANION with a good memory
• P510 If it should rain POTTAGE he would want¹ his dish
• P511 If you drink in your POTTAGE you'll cough in your grave
• P512 Old POTTAGE is sooner heated than new made
• P513 Every POTTER praises his own pot
• P514 The POTTER envies the potter, the smith the smith
• P515 He will commit POULTRY
• P516 Come, everyone heave a POUND
• P517 In a hundred POUND of law there is not a halfpenny weight (an ounce) of love
• P518 A POUND of care will not pay an ounce of debt
• P519 What is a POUND of butter among a kennel of hounds?
• P520 A thousand POUNDS and a bottle¹ of hay is all one thing at doomsday
• P521 He that is in POVERTY is in suspicion
• P522 Neither be daunted with POVERTY nor lifted up with riches
• P523 Plain¹ of POVERTY and die a beggar
• P524 POVERTY breeds strife
• P525 POVERTY in surety is better than riches in fear
• P526 POVERTY is no sin (vice), but an inconvenience
• P527 POVERTY is the mother of all arts
• P528 POVERTY is the mother of health
• P529 POVERTY parts fellowship (good company, friends)
• P530 POVERTY (Luxury) wants many things but covetousness (avarice) all
• P531 When POVERTY comes in at the doors love leaps out at the windows
• P532 He should have a hale POW¹ that calls his neighbor nitty know²
• P533 To send (come) with a POWDER
• P534 POWER seldom grows old at court
• P535 POWER weakens the wicked
• P536 POWYS is the paradise of Wales
• P537 A POX on these true jests
• P537a PRACTICE what you preach
• P538 Faint PRAISE is disparagement
• P539 Old PRAISE dies unless you feed it
• P540 PRAISE by evil men is dispraise
• P541 PRAISE is the reflection (shadow) of virtue
• P542 PRAISE makes good men better and bad men worse
• P543 PRAISE to the undeserving is severe satire
• P544 Too much PRAISE is a burden
• P545 True PRAISE takes root and spreads
• P546 He PRAISES who wishes to sell
• P547 He that PRAISES himself spatters himself
• P548 He that PRAISES publicly will slander privately
• P549 It is not good PRAISING a ford till a man be over
• P550 PRATE is prate but it is the duck that lays the eggs
• P551 PRAY for yourself, I am not sick
• P552 He has much PRAYER but little devotion
• P553 PRAYER brings down the first blessing and praise the second
• P554 PRAYER should be the key of the day and the lock of the night
• P555 A short PRAYER penetrates heaven
• P556 PRAYERS and provender hinder no journey
• P557 PRAYERS like petards break open heaven gate
• P558 She is at her last PRAYERS
• P559 To say his PRAYERS backward
• P560 When PRAYERS are done my lady is ready
• P561 He PREACHES well that lives well
• P562 He that will not be saved needs no PREACHER
• P563 To be in the same PREDICAMENT
• P564 The PRESBYTER's wife had rather see her husband in his shirt than in his surplice
• P565 Do not make a PRESENT of a knife, for it will cut love
• P566 PRESENTS of love fear not to be ill taken of strangers
• P567 PRETTINESS dies first (quickly)
• P568 PRETTINESS makes no pottage
• P569 PREVENTION is better than cure
• P570 The PREY entices the thief
• P571 To shoot nigh the PRICK
• P572 No PRIDE like an enriched beggar
• P573 PRIDE and laziness would have mickle upholding
• P574 PRIDE but¹ profit, wear shoon² and go barefoot
• P575 PRIDE feels no cold (frost, pain)
• P576 PRIDE goes before and shame (ambition) comes after
• P577 PRIDE in the van, beggary in the rear
• P578 PRIDE is the root of all sin
• P579 PRIDE may lurk under a threadbare cloak
• P580 The PRIDE of the rich makes the labor of the poor
• P581 PRIDE will have a fall
• P582 When PRIDE is on the saddle shame is on the crupper
• P583 Like PRIEST like people
• P584 No PRIEST no mass
• P585 Such as the PRIEST such is the clerk
• P586 Such PRIEST such offering
• P587 To be one's PRIEST
• P588 PRIESTS and pigeons (doves) make foul houses
• P589 He whom a PRINCE hates is as good as dead
• P590 Of a new PRINCE new bondage
• P591 A PRINCE overgentle shall not long reign
• P592 To live (fare) like a PRINCE (king)
• P593 PRINCES (Gentlemen, Rich men) are venison in heaven
• P594 PRINCES have no way
• P595 To break PRISCIAN's head
• P596 It is an evil (ill) PROCESSION where the devil bears (carries, holds) the cross (colors, candle)
• P597 PROCRUSTES' bed
• P598 More PROFIT and less honor
• P599 No PROFIT to¹ honor, no honor to¹ religion
• P600 The PROFIT of the commonwealth should be preferred to a private pleasure
• P601 Thou mayst PROLONG it but not escape it
• P602 Great PROMISE small performance
• P603 PROMISE is debt
• P604 All PROMISES are either broken or kept
• P605 PROMISES, like piecrust, are made to be broken
• P606 Between PROMISING and performing a man may marry his daughter
• P607 PROMISING is the eve (vigil) of giving
• P608 The PROOF of the pudding is in the eating
• P609 PROOF upon practice
• P610 He that considers in PROSPERITY will be less afflicted in adversity
• P611 PROSPERITY gets friends but adversity tries them
• P612 PROSPERITY lets go the bridle
• P613 With PROSPERITY be thou not lifted up and with adversity be not cast down
• P614 Too much PROTESTING makes the truth suspected
• P615 PROVENDER pricks him
• P616 PROVIDENCE is better than rent
• P617 Pompous PROVISION comes not all of gluttony, but of pride sometime
• P618 PROVISION in season makes a rich meason
• P619 Great PUDDER¹ to small purpose
• P620 As fit as a PUDDING for a friar's mouth
• P621 Better some of a PUDDING than none of a pie
• P622 Cold PUDDING will settle your love
• P623 I love thee like PUDDING, if thou wert pie I'd eat thee
• P624 If ever you make a lucky PUDDING I shall eat the prick¹
• P625 If you eat a PUDDING¹ at home the dog shall have the skin
• P626 Not worth a PUDDING
• P627 PUDDING is no meat with you
• P628 There is a PUDDING in the fire and my part lies therein
• P629 To ride post for a PUDDING
• P630 To run as swift as a PUDDING would creep
• P631 Who is dull let him eat no PUDDING
• P632 You are he that did eat the PUDDING and the bag
• P633 PUDDINGS and paramours would be hotly handled
• P634 To come in PUDDING TIME
• P635 It is easier to PULL down than build up
• P636 Her PULSE beats matrimony
• P637 Like PUNISHMENT and equal pain both key and keyhole do sustain
• P638 Many without PUNISHMENT but none without fault
• P639 PUNISHMENT is lame but it comes
• P640 Win PURPLE and wear purple
• P641 Everyone is witty for his own PURPOSE
• P642 To as much PURPOSE as the geese slur¹ on the ice
• P643 To as much PURPOSE as to give a goose hay
• P644 To no more PURPOSE than to beat your heels against the ground
• P645 PURPOSING without performing is mere fooling
• P646 Be it better, be it worse, do after him that bears the PURSE
• P647 Better the PURSE starve than the body
• P648 An empty PURSE fills the face with wrinkles
• P649 An empty PURSE makes one wise, but too late
• P650 A full PURSE and a fat bribe command attention
• P651 A full PURSE makes the mouth to speak
• P652 He has left his PURSE in his other hose (breeches)
• P653 He that buys and lies shall feel it in his PURSE
• P654 He that shows his PURSE longs to be rid of it
• P655 A heavy PURSE makes a light heart
• P656 His PURSE is his best friend
• P657 His PURSE is made of a toad's skin
• P658 Let your PURSE be your master
• P659 A light PURSE makes a heavy heart
• P660 Open thy PURSE and then thy sack
• P661 The PURSE is threadbare
• P662 That is but an empty PURSE that is full of other men's money
• P663 To give one's PURSE a purgation
• P664 To line one's PURSE (coat, hand)
• P665 A toom¹ PURSE makes a blate² merchant
• P666 You cannot make a silk PURSE OF a sow's ear
• P667 Many PURSES hold friends together
• P668 He is at a forced PUT
• P669 Ill PUTTING (Put not) a naked sword in a mad-man's hand
• Q1 To be in a QUANDARY
• Q2 Come and welcome, go by and no QUARREL
• Q3 To pick a QUARREL
• Q4 He'll be QUARTERMASTER wherever he comes
• Q5 Gup,¹ QUEAN, gup
• Q6 As light as the QUEEN's groat¹
• Q7 There is no QUENCHING of fire with tow
• Q8 We'll do as they do at QUERN: what we do not today we must do in the morn
• Q9 Every QUESTION requires not an answer
• Q10 Like QUESTION like answer
• Q11 To a hasty QUESTION a leisurely answer
• Q12 We must live by the QUICK (living) and not by the dead
• Q13 He touches him to the QUICK
• Q14 QUICK and quething
• Q15 QUIETNESS is a great treasure
• Q16 To get (have) one's QUIETUS
• Q17 To piss in the same QUILL
• Q18 I'll cry QUITTANCE (quits) with you
• R1 R is the dog's letter
• R2 He is like a RABBIT, fat and lean in twenty-four hours
• R3 Who will change a RABBIT for a rat?
• R4 To lie at RACK and manger
• R5 He is RADDLED
• R6 Rutland RADDLEMAN
• R7 The RAGE of a wild boar is able to spoil more than one wood
• R7a To take RAIMENT (clothes) from a naked man
• R8 After RAIN (showers) comes fair weather (the sun)
• R9 February RAIN fills the barn
• R10 For a morning RAIN leave not your journey
• R11 If the RAIN comes out of east 'twill rain twice twenty-four hours at the least
• R12 In RAIN and sunshine cuckolds go to heaven
• R13 RAIN, rain, go away, come again on Saturday
• R14 RAIN, rain, go to Spain, fair weather, come again
• R15 Small RAIN lays great dust
• R16 Small (Little) RAIN lays (allays) great winds
• R17 Some RAIN some rest
• R18 We shall have RAIN, the fleas bite
• R19 When the RAIN rains and the goose winks little wots the gosling what the goose thinks
• R20 The evening RAINBOW portends fair weather
• R21 If there be a RAINBOW in the eve it will rain and leave, but if there be a rainbow in the morrow it will neither lend nor borrow
• R22 As lean as a RAKE
• R23 He is better with a RAKE than a fork
• R24 Many bring the RAKE but few the shovel
• R25 What the RAKE gathers the fork scatters
• R26 It is possible for a RAM to kill a butcher
• R27 While the one milks the RAM (he-goat) the other holds under the sieve
• R28 As right (straight) as a RAM's horn
• R29 RAMSEY the rich
• R30 RANCOR sticks long by the ribs
• R31 I smell a RAT
• R32 Too late does the RAT repent in the cat's paws
• R33 The croaking RAVEN bodes misfortune (death)
• R34 The RAVEN chides blackness
• R35 RAWHEAD and bloodybones
• R36 As sharp as a RAZOR
• R37 The RAZOR may boldly graze on a fool's beard
• R38 READ not before you learn to spell
• R39 READING makes a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man
• R40 Often rues the REALM where children rule and women govern
• R41 The more REAPERS the less to reap
• R42 Hearken to REASON or she will be heard
• R43 Let REASON rule all your actions
• R44 REASON bound the man
• R45 REASON lies between the spur and the bridle
• R46 REASON ought to be in counsel
• R47 Such a REASON pissed my goose
• R48 There is a REASON for you with a rag about the foot of it
• R49 There is REASON in roasting of eggs
• R50 The REASONS of the poor weigh not
• R51 REAVERS¹ should not be ruers
• R52 The RECEIVER is as bad as the thief
• R53 Where be no RECEIVERS there be no thieves
• R54 Even RECKONING makes long friends
• R55 Old RECKONINGS make new quarrels
• R56 Short RECKONINGS make long friends
• R57 A good RECORDER sets all in order
• R58 To give one a RECUMBENTIBUS
• R59 Do not wear RED before a bull nor white before an elephant
• R60 There is no REDEMPTION from hell
• R61 To lean upon (trust to) a broken REED
• R62 The RELAPSE is more dangerous than the disease
• R63 RELIGION a stalking-horse to shoot other fowl
• R64 RELIGION, credit, and the eye are not to be touched
• R65 RELIGION is the rule of life
• R66 The best REMEDY against an ill man is much ground between both
• R67 If there be no REMEDY then welcome Pilvall
• R68 The REMEDY (cure) is worse than the disease
• R69 There is a REMEDY for all things but death
• R70 There is a REMEDY for everything could men find it
• R71 There is no REMEDY but patience
• R72 REMEMBER to distrust
• R73 The REMEMBRANCE of past sorrow (dangers) is joyful
• R74 A good RENOWN is better than a golden girdle
• R75 He spent Michaelmas¹ RENT in midsummer moon
• R76 If you had the RENT of Dee mills you would spend it
• R77 Late REPENTANCE is seldom true
• R78 REPENTANCE costs dear
• R79 REPENTANCE is the laundress of the conscience
• R80 REPENTANCE never comes too late
• R81 To buy REPENTANCE too dear
• R82 To buy REPENTANCE too dear
• R83 A false REPORT rides post
• R84 REPORT has a blister on her tongue
• R85 A good REPUTATION is a fair estate
• R86 He that RESPECTS not is not respected
• R87 He often kills that thinks but to hurt that which is worth the RESTORING
• R88 In a RETREAT the lame are foremost
• R89 The REVEALING of griefs is a renewing of sorrow
• R90 REVENGE is sweet
• R91 REVENGE is womanish
• R92 To pardon is a divine REVENGE
• R93 Saving your REVERENCE
• R94 The REVEREND are ever before
• R95 REWARD and punishment are the walls of a city
• R96 To play REX
• R97 More RHUBARB and less diet
• R98 Neither RHYME nor reason
• R99 It may RHYME but it accords not
• R100 To be so lean that one's RIBS may be counted
• R101 To stick by the RIBS
• R102 The RICH devour the poor, the strong the weak
• R103 The RICH have many friends
• R104 The RICH knows not who is his friend
• R105 The more that RICHES are honored the more virtue is despised
• R106 RICHES and sin are oft married together
• R107 RICHES are but the baggage of fortune
• R108 RICHES are gotten with pain, kept with care, and lost with grief
• R109 RICHES bring care and fears
• R110 RICHES got with craft are commonly lost with shame
• R111 RICHES have wings
• R112 RICHES increase by discretion
• R113 RICHES serve a wise man but command a fool
• R114 When RICHES increase the body decreases, for most men grow old before they grow RICH
• R115 RIDE softly that we may come sooner home
• R116 He RIDES sure that never fell
• R117 He that never RODE never fell
• R118 Ill for the RIDER good for the abider
• R119 Good RIDING at two anchors men have told, for if the one fail the other may hold
• R120 It is good RIDING the forehorse
• R121 It is safe RIDING in a good haven (harbor)
• R122 Extreme RIGHT (justice) is extreme wrong (injustice, injury)
• R123 He that has RIGHT, fears; he that has wrong, hopes
• R124 No RIGHT at Rome
• R125 Neither bribe nor lose thy RIGHT
• R126 He will neither do RIGHT nor suffer wrong
• R127 Little betwixt RIGHT and wrong
• R128 Better no RING than a ring of a rush
• R129 Do not wear a tight (strait) RING
• R130 He that hops best (runs fastest) gets the RING
• R131 As wise as RINGING of a pig (hog)
• R132 RING OF GYGES
• R133 Soon RIPE soon rotten
• R134 He that RISES first is first dressed
• R135 An early RISER has care of something
• R136 The RISING of one man is the falling of another
• R137 Follow the RIVER and you'll get to the sea
• R138 In a great RIVER great fish are found but take heed lest thou be drowned
• R139 A RIVER running into many brooks becomes shallow
• R140 All RIVERS (waters) run into the sea
• R141 RIVERS need a spring
• R142 If RIVING PIKE do wear a hood be sure that day will never be good
• R143 As sound (hale) as a ROACH
• R144 To rule the ROAST (roost)
• R145 He that does not rob makes not a ROBE or a gown
• R146 As blithe as a ROBIN
• R147 ROBIN GOODFELLOW
• R148 Many speak (talk) of ROBIN HOOD that never shot in his bow
• R149 He makes ROBIN HOOD's pennyworths
• R150 Thus rides the ROCK
• R151 As fixed (firm) as a ROCK
• R152 To sleep without ROCKING
• R153 He has made a ROD (staff) for his own tail (head)
• R154 The ROD breaks no bones
• R155 Spare the ROD and spoil (spill) the child (He that spares the rod hates the child)
• R156 To kiss the ROD
• R157 To have RODS in piss (pickle) for one
• R158 As swift as a ROE (deer)
• R159 Right, ROGER, your sow is good mutton
• R160 A rich ROGUE, two shirts and a rag
• R161 A ROGUE's wardrobe is harbor for a louse
• R162 He that goes first to ROME sees a bad man, he that goes the second time meets with him, he that goes the third time brings him home
• R163 ROME was not built in one day
• R164 To go (hop) to ROME with a mortar¹ on one's head
• R165 When you are at ROME do as they do at Rome
• R166 You may not sit in ROME and strive with the Pope
• R167 The sweet ROOD of CHESTER¹
• R168 I had rather have your ROOM than your company
• R169 As fit (meet) as a ROPE for a thief
• R170 He pulls with a long ROPE that waits for another's death
• R171 I thought I had given her ROPE enough, said Pedley when he hanged his mare
• R172 A ROPE and butter, if one slip the other may hold
• R173 Throw the ROPE in after the bucket
• R174 To twist (make) a ROPE of sand
• R175 To be on the high ROPES
• R176 As fresh as a ROSE
• R177 As red (ruddy) as a ROSE
• R178 As sweet as a ROSE
• R179 Every ROSE grows from prickles
• R180 The fairest ROSE at last (in the end, in three days) is withered (becomes a hep)
• R181 I took her for a ROSE but she proved a bur
• R182 No ROSE without a thorn (prickle)
• R183 Sing old ROSE
• R184 To pluck a ROSE
• R185 Under the ROSE
• R186 If you lie upon ROSES when young you'll lie upon thorns when old
• R187 When ROSEBERRY TOPPING (Wotton Hill) wears a cap let Cleveland (Horton town) then beware a clap
• R188 He would live as long as old ROSS OF POTTERNE, who lived till all the world was weary of him
• R189 Mihcaelmas¹ ROT comes never in the pot
• R190 Everyone cannot dwell at ROTHERAS
• R191 A ROUK-TOWN is seldom a good housewife at home
• R192 Wellington ROUNDHEADS
• R193 Better to rule than be ruled by the ROUT
• R194 To run at ROVERS
• R195 To give one a ROWLAND for an Oliver
• R196 There is the RUB
• R197 To pass the RUBICON
• R198 RUE and thyme grow both in one garden
• R199 Better RUE sit than rue flit
• R200 He is only fit for RUFFIAN's HALL
• R201 RUIN of one ravine
• R202 He bears no more RULE than a goose turd in Thames
• R203 By RULE of thumb
• R204 It is no sure RULE to fish with a crossbow
• R205 There is no general RULE without some exception
• R206 We must walk (live) by RULES (laws) and not by examples
• R207 It is a long RUN (lane) that never turns
• R208 He may ill RUN that cannot go¹
• R209 To RUN amuck
• R210 He RUNS far that never turns again
• R211 He that RUNS may read
• R212 A good RUSER was never a good rider
• R213 Strew green RUSHES¹ for the stranger
• R214 The RUSHBUSH keeps the cow
• S1 No SABBATH without sun, nor young wench without love, nor an old body without grief or ache
• S2 Bind the SACK before it be full
• S3 A broken SACK (bag) will hold no corn (meal)
• S4 Everyone thinks his SACK (pack) heaviest
• S5 A full SACK will take a clout on the side
• S6 It is a bad SACK (case) that will abide no clouting
• S7 Let every SACK stand upon its own bottom
• S8 An old SACK asks (craves) much patching (clouting)
• S9 An old SACK is aye skailing¹
• S10 A short SACK has a wide mouth
• S11 To cover oneself with a wet SACK
• S12 More SACKS to the mill
• S13 To mourn in SACK and claret
• S14 I am SAD because I cannot be glad
• S15 Better to lose the SADDLE than the horse
• S16 Set (Lay, Put) the SADDLE on the right horse
• S17 To have a SADDLE for all horses
• S18 To set one beside the SADDLE
• S19 Where SADDLES lack, better ride on a pad than. on the horse bareback
• S20 He SADDLES today and goes tomorrow
• S21 SADNESS and gladness succeed each other
• S22 He that would live for aye must eat SAGE in May
• S23 Hoist your SAIL when the wind is fair
• S24 Make not your SAIL too big for the ballast (the boat)
• S25 To set up his SAIL to (To sail with) every wind
• S26 What SAILS are to a ship the passions are to the spirits
• S27 It is not good SAILING in the top of masts
• S28 Enough to make a SAINT swear
• S29 Every SAINT will have his candle (feast, shrine)
• S30 He looks like a SAINT but the devil he is
• S31 A SAINT abroad and a devil at home
• S32 Such a SAINT such an offering (shrine)
• S33 Young SAINT old devil
• S34 Let him alone with the SAINT's bell and give him rope enough
• S35 To follow one like a SAINT ANTHONY's PIG
• S36 At SAINT BARNABAS¹ the scythe in the meadow
• S37 SAINT BARTHOLOMEW¹ brings cold dew
• S38 SAINT BENEDICT¹ sow thy peas or keep them in thy rick
• S39 Before SAINT CHAD¹ every goose lays, both good and bad
• S40 Upon SAINT DAVID's DAY¹ put oats and barley in the clay
• S41 On SAINT DISTAFF's DAY¹ partly work and partly play
• S42 Like SAINT GEORGE, who is ever on horseback yet never rides
• S43 As lame as SAINT GILES of Cripplegate¹
• S44 SAINT HUGH's bones
• S45 Till SAINT JAMES's DAY¹ be come and gone you may have hops or you may have none
• S46 Go ride upon SAINT LEONARD's saddle
• S47 SAINT LUKE was a saint and a physician and yet he died
• S48 SAINT MARTIN's ware (rings)
• S49 At SAINT MATTHEW¹ (Matthee) shut up the bee
• S50 SAINT MATTHIAS¹ (Matthie) all the year goes by
• S51 SAINT MATTHIAS¹ both leaf and grass
• S52 SAINT MATTHIAS¹ (Matthie) sends sap into the tree
• S53 SAINT MATTHIAS¹ (Mattho) take thy hopper² and sow
• S54 SAINT NICHOLAS's clerks
• S55 If SAINT PAUL¹ be fair and clear then betides a happy year
• S56 Give not SAINT PETER so much to leave Saint Paul nothing
• S57 Who praises SAINT PETER does not blame Saint Paul
• S58 SAINT PETER's in the Poor,¹ where no tavern, ale-house, or sign at the door
• S59 As freely as SAINT ROBERT gave his cow
• S60 To go to SAINT SAVIOR's
• S61 Blessed be SAINT STEPHEN, there's no fast on his even
• S62 If it rain on SAINT SWITHIN's DAY¹ expect 'twill do so forty days after more or less
• S63 SAINT THOMAS A WATERINGS
• S64 SAINT VALENTINE¹ set thy hopper² by mine
• S65 To SAINT VALENTINE¹ the spring is a neighbor
• S66 On SAINT VALENTINE's DAY¹ all the birds in couples do join
• S67 On SAINT VALENTINE's DAY¹ cast beans in clay but on Saint Chad¹ sow good and bad
• S68 Would I were young for your SAKE
• S69 A good SALAD is the beginning (prologue) of an ill (bad) supper
• S70 He picked this SALAD out of more than one garden
• S71 Better good SALE than good ale
• S72 Soking SALE is best
• S73 SALISBURY PLAIN is seldom (never) without a thief or twain
• S74 SALMON and sermon have their season in Lent
• S75 Better eat SALT with philosophers of Greece than sugar with courtesans (courtiers) of Italy
• S76 Cast brine SALT into the sea
• S77 He carries SALT to Dysart
• S78 He could eat me without SALT (garlic)
• S79 If you take away the SALT you may throw the flesh to the dogs
• S80 SALT seasons all things
• S81 It is a strange SALT FISH that no water can make fresh
• S82 He has but one SALVE for all sores
• S83 Seek your SALVE where you got your sore
• S84 There is a SALVE for every sore
• S85 As strong as SAMPSON
• S86 SAMPSON was a strong man and Solomon was a wise man but neither of them both could pay money before they had it
• S87 He sows the SAND
• S88 To build on SAND
• S89 To plow the SAND (shore)
• S90 When the SAND does feed the clay England woe and well-a-day, but when the clay does feed the sand then it is well with England
• S91 As difficult as to number the SANDS in the sea
• S92 Many SANDS will sink a ship
• S93 There is little SAP in dry pea hulls
• S94 SATURDAY is the working day and Monday the holiday of preachers
• S95 More SAUCE than meat (pig)
• S96 Simondsall SAUCE
• S97 Sweet SAUCE begins to wax sour
• S98 Though the SAUCE be good yet you need not for-sake the meat for it
• S99 To be served with the same SAUCE
• S100 To eat SAUCE
• S101 To pay SAUCE worth
• S102 What is SAUCE for a goose is sauce for a gander
• S103 Better SAUGHT¹ with little aught nor care with many cow
• S104 Is SAUL also among the prophets?
• S105 A good SAVER is a good server
• S106 Some SAVERS in a house do well
• S107 Of SAVING comes having
• S108 He that smells the first SAVOR is the fault's first father
• S109 Better SAY here it is than here it was
• S110 Do not SAY go, but gaw
• S111 SAY I told you so
• S112 SAY well or be still
• S113 SAY you saw me not
• S114 Though I SAY it that should not say it
• S115 He who SAYS (does) what he would he would not
• S116 It is sooner (easier, better) SAID than done
• S117 No sooner SAID than done (So said so done)
• S118 That is better SAID nor banned
• S119 SAYING and doing are two things
• S120 SAYING goes good cheap
• S121 SAYING is one thing and doing another
• S122 SAY WELL and do well end with one letter, say well is good but do well is better
• S123 SAY WELL is good but do well is better
• S124 It will prove (breed) a SCAB in the end
• S125 He lay in his SCABBARD, as many a good sword has done
• S126 He lay in his SCABBARD, as many a good sword has done
• S127 SCANDERBEG's sword must have Scanderbeg's arm
• S128 SCARBOROUGH WARNING¹
• S129 One does the SCATHE and another has the scorn
• S130 Better two SCATHES¹ (seils¹) than one sorrow
• S131 A SCEPTER is one thing and a ladle another
• S132 As good a SCHOLAR as my horse Ball
• S133 A diligent SCHOLAR and the master's paid
• S134 He that robs a SCHOLAR robs twenty men
• S135 A mere SCHOLAR is a mere ass
• S136 The SCHOLAR may be better than the master by a time
• S137 A SCHOLAR may be gulled thrice, a soldier owl'd¹ but once
• S138 The SCHOLAR teaches his master
• S139 SCHOOLBOYS are the reasonablest people in the world, they care not how little they have for their money
• S140 To taste of SCHOOLBUTTER
• S141 Much SCIENCE¹ much sorrow
• S142 SCIENCE¹ has no enemy but of the ignorant
• S143 SCIENCE¹ is nought worth without conscience
• S144 A SCOFF is the reward of bashfulness
• S145 Who has a SCOLD has sorrow to his sops
• S146 SCOLDS and infants never lin¹ bawling
• S147 Pay the old SCORE and fetch on the new
• S148 To cast up old SCORES
• S149 SCORE twice before you cut once
• S150 SCORN at first makes afterlove the more
• S151 SCORN comes commonly with scathe
• S152 SCORNING (Mocking) is catching
• S153 Those that are stung by the SCORPION are healed by the scorpion
• S154 As false as a SCOT
• S155 As hardhearted as a SCOT of Scotland
• S156 A SCOT on Scot's bank
• S157 We will not lose a SCOT
• S158 SCOT's vessel holds not heap
• S159 To pay SCOT AND LOT
• S160 Out of all SCOTCH AND NOTCH
• S161 The SCOTCH ORDINARY
• S162 SCOTSMEN reckon aye from an ill hour
• S163 He has escaped a SCOURING
• S164 It is brave SCRAMBLING at a rich man's dole
• S165 By SCRATCHING and biting cats and dogs come together
• S166 SCRATCHING and eating wants but a beginning
• S167 Too much SCRATCHING pains, too much talking plagues
• S168 Who expounds SCRIPTURE upon his own warrant lays together hot brands with his fingers
• S169 Between SCYLLA and Charybdis
• S170 As mad as the troubled SEA
• S171 Being on the SEA, sail; being on land, settle
• S172 He complains wrongfully on the SEA that twice suffers shipwreck
• S173 He that will learn to pray let him go to SEA
• S174 In a calm SEA every man may be a pilot
• S175 It is hard to sail over the SEA in an eggshell
• S176 Let the SEA swell and rise as high as he will, yet hath God appointed how far he shall go
• S177 Praise (Commend) the SEA but keep on land (ashore)
• S178 The SEA and the gallows refuse none
• S179 The SEA complains it wants water
• S180 The SEA has fish for every man
• S181 The SEA refuses no river (is never full)
• S182 Send him to the SEA and he will not get water
• S183 To laue (empty) the SEA with a nutshell (cockle-shell, spoon)
• S184 To plow the SEA
• S185 Who goes not by SEA knows not what the fear of God is
• S186 The greatest SEAS have the sorest storms
• S187 He promises SEAS and mountains
• S188 Many SEAMS¹ many beans
• S189 A SEAMAN, if he carries a millstone, will have a quart¹ out of it
• S190 Everything is good in its SEASON
• S191 You have not got the first SEAT on the midding¹ today
• S192 He that tells his SECRET is another's servant (slave)
• S193 A SECRET is too little for one, enough for two, too much for three
• S194 A SECRET ought to be hidden
• S195 Thy SECRET is thy prisoner, if thou let it go thou art a prisoner to it
• S196 Trust no SECRET with a woman
• S197 If you would know SECRETS look them in grief or pleasure
• S198 It is done SECUNDUM USUM SARUM
• S199 He that means to pay gives good SECURITY
• S200 Better to be blind than to SEE ill
• S201 I may SEE him need but I'll not see him bleed
• S202 It is easy to SEE, hard to foresee
• S203 SEE me and see me not
• S204 To SEE it rain is better than to be in it
• S205 We SEE sleeping that which we wish for waking
• S206 Who so blind as he that will not SEE?
• S207 I have SEEN as far come as nigh
• S208 Seldom SEEN soon forgotten
• S209 He that sows good SEED shall reap good corn
• S210 Such SEED such harvest
• S211 Of little SEEDS grow great cedars (trees)
• S212 SEEING is believing
• S213 He that SEEKS finds
• S214 Be what thou would SEEM to be
• S215 SEGGING¹ is good cope²
• S216 SEIL¹ comes not while (till) sorrow be gone (over)
• S217 SELF do self have
• S218 SELF-LOVE is a mote in every man's eye
• S219 SELF-PRESERVATION is nature's first law
• S220 Rather SELL than be poor
• S221 Better SOLD than bought
• S222 The SELVAGE shows the cloth
• S223 SEND and fetch
• S224 SEPTEMBER, blow soft till the fruit is in the loft
• S225 Whited SEPULCHERS (Women are whited sepulchers)
• S226 A SERGEANT is the spawn of some decayed shop-keeper
• S227 He that has been bitten by a SERPENT is afraid of a rope
• S228 A SERPENT must eat another serpent before he can become a dragon
• S229 When the SERPENT is dead the poison will not hurt
• S230 Choose none for thy SERVANT who has served thy betters
• S231 A common SERVANT is no man's servant
• S232 A good SERVANT must come when you call him, go when you bid him, and shut the door after him
• S233 A good SERVANT should have the back of an ass, the tongue of a sheep, and the snout of a swine
• S234 He that has one SERVANT has two, he that has two has but half a one, and he that has three has none at all
• S235 An ill SERVANT will never be a good master
• S236 Never keep a SERVANT against his will, nor kinsman, nor friend, if you intend to be well served
• S237 One must be a SERVANT before he can be a master
• S238 A SERVANT is known in the absence of his master
• S239 The SERVANT of a king is a king
• S240 A SERVANT that is diligent, honest, and good must sing at his work like a bird in the wood
• S241 To the SERVANT the bit of good manners
• S242 So many SERVANTS so many enemies (foes)
• S243 He is not free that SERVES others
• S244 He that SERVES everybody is paid by nobody
• S245 He that SERVES must serve
• S246 He that has not SERVED knows not how to command
• S247 He that will be SERVED must be patient
• S248 If you would be well SERVED serve yourself
• S249 The first SERVICE a child does his father is to make him foolish
• S250 Good SERVICE is a great enchantment
• S251 No SERVICE to the king's
• S252 Proffered SERVICE (ware) stinks
• S253 SERVICE is no inheritance (heritage)
• S254 SERVICE without reward is punishment
• S255 An old SERVINGMAN a young beggar
• S256 A young SERVINGMAN an old beggar
• S257 SEVEN at a feast, nine at a fray
• S258 Sometimes SEVERITY is better than gentleness
• S259 You may as soon sip up the SEVERN and swallow Mavern¹
• S260 The SEXTON is a fatal musician
• S261 To be afraid of his own (a) SHADOW
• S262 To fight with one's own SHADOW
• S263 To follow one like his SHADOW
• S264 To make a SHAFT (bolt) or a bolt (shaft) of it
• S265 You can never made a good SHAFT (arrow) of a pig's (sow's) tail
• S266 He that borrows must pay again with SHAME or loss
• S267 He that deceives me once SHAME fall him, if he deceives me twice shame fall me
• S268 He that wants SHAME shall never much credit win
• S269 It is a SHAME to steal (to steal a horse) but a worse to carry (bring him) home
• S270 No greater SHAME to a man than to be a cuckold
• S271 Past SHAME past amendment (Shame once found is lost)
• S272 SHAME fall the couple, quoth the crow to her feet
• S273 SHAME in a kindred cannot be avoided
• S274 SHAME is as it is taken
• S275 SHAME is past the shed of your hair
• S276 SHAME shall fall them that shame think to do themselves a good turn
• S277 SHAME take (Evil to) him that shame (evil) thinks
• S278 Single long, SHAME at length
• S279 Some thinking to redeem their SHAME redouble it
• S280 To have eaten SHAME and drunk after it
• S281 Where no SHAME is there is no fear
• S282 He that SHAMES shall be shent
• S283 The SHAPE of a good greyhound: a head like a snake, a neck like a drake, a back like a beam, a belly like a bream, a foot like a cat, a tail like a rat
• S284 To lick into SHAPE
• S285 As many SHAPES as Proteus
• S286 SHARE and share alike
• S287 It is ill SHAVING against the wool
• S288 I have taken the SHEAF from the mare
• S289 I will take as falls in the SHEAF wherever it fall
• S290 An ill SHEARER never got a good hook
• S291 To be proud (To make much) of one's painted SHEATH
• S292 As savage as a SHE-BEAR when she is robbed of her whelps
• S293 As good be hanged for an old SHEEP as a young lamb
• S294 As hasty as a SHEEP
• S295 As rich as a new-shorn SHEEP
• S296 A black SHEEP is a biting (perilous) beast
• S297 A bleating SHEEP loses her bit
• S298 The glorious SHEEP said to the goat, Give me some of your wool
• S299 He is as bare as a new-shorn SHEEP
• S300 He that makes himself a SHEEP shall be eaten by the wolf
• S301 If SHEEP run willfully among wolves they shall lose either life or fell
• S302 If you cannot tell,¹ you are nought to keep SHEEP
• S303 It is a foolish SHEEP that makes the wolf her confessor
• S304 It is a SHEEP of Berry, it is marked on the nose
• S305 Let the black SHEEP keep the white
• S306 The lone SHEEP is in danger of the wolf
• S307 Now I have a SHEEP and a cow everybody bids me good morrow
• S308 One scabbed SHEEP mars (infects) a whole flock
• S309 One SHEEP follows another
• S310 Shear SHEEP that has them
• S311 Shear your SHEEP in May and shear them all away
• S312 A SHEEP often strays if the shepherd is away
• S313 Some good, some bad, as SHEEP come to the fold
• S314 They are but SHEEP that flock together
• S315 To a close-shorn SHEEP God gives wind by measure
• S316 To know one from a black SHEEP
• S317 To run at (after) SHEEP
• S318 To seek in a SHEEP five feet where there is but four
• S319 To steal a SHEEP and give away the trotters for God's sake
• S320 Where SHEEP are wool is
• S321 Whoso keeps well SHEEP and bees, sleep or wake their thrift comes in
• S322 You have no more SHEEP to shear
• S323 He casts a SHEEP's EYE at her
• S324 I will gar¹ you girn² like a SHEEPSHEAD on a tongs
• S325 When SHEFFIELD PARK is plowed and sown then little England hold thine own
• S326 It is good to have a SHELTER against every storm
• S327 It is good SHELTERING under an old hedge
• S328 As the SHEPHERD is such is the flock (sheep)
• S329 A good SHEPHERD must fleece his sheep but not flay them
• S330 When the SHEPHERD is angry with his sheep he sends them a blind guide
• S331 A SHERIFF had he been and a countor,¹ was nowhere such a vavasor²
• S332 Cover yourself with your SHIELD and care not for cries
• S333 A good SHIFT may serve long but it will not serve ever
• S334 He went out with SHIFT and came home with shame
• S335 Hang him that has no SHIFTS
• S336 Hang him that has no SHIFTS and hang him that has too many
• S337 He is put to his SHIFTS
• S338 Better give a SHILLING (penny) than lend and lose half a crown
• S339 You will follow him long ere five SHILLINGS fall from him
• S340 Shropshire sharp SHINS
• S341 Swear by your burnt SHINS
• S342 That goes against the SHINS
• S343 He is only bright that SHINES by himself
• S344 As broken a SHIP has come to land
• S345 A dear SHIP stands long in the haven
• S346 A great SHIP asks deep waters
• S347 Like a SHIP without a helm (stern, steersman, ballast)
• S348 A little SHIP needs not but a little sail
• S349 A SHIP, a man, a bird, and a snake go an uncertain way
• S350 A SHIP and a woman are ever repairing
• S351 A SHIP under sail, a man in complete armor, a woman with a great belly are three of the handsomest sights
• S352 The SHIP which is large on the river is small on the sea
• S353 To a crazy (broken) SHIP all winds are contrary (ill)
• S354 SHIPS fear fire more than water
• S355 Let another's SHIPWRECK be your seamark
• S356 Close fits (sits) my SHIRT (coat) but closer my skin
• S357 If my SHIRT knew my secrets I would burn it
• S358 SHITTEN COME SHITES is the beginning of love
• S359 A SHIVE¹ of my own loaf
• S360 To cut a large SHIVE¹ of another man's loaf
• S361 Go fiddle for SHIVES¹ among goodwives (old wives)
• S362 The SHOATS overgo the old swine
• S363 A black SHOE makes a blithe (merry) heart
• S364 Every (One) SHOE fits not every foot
• S365 The finest SHOE often hurts the foot
• S366 A great (Hercules') SHOE will not fit a little (a child's) foot
• S367 He knows not whether his SHOE goes awry
• S368 He that makes the SHOE cannot tan the leather
• S369 If it will not be a good SHOE let it go down in the heel
• S370 Like SHOE like soles (last)
• S371 The SHOE will hold with the sole
• S372 To cast an old SHOE after one for luck
• S373 To tread one's SHOE awry
• S374 He is over SHOES at first step
• S375 He should wear iron SHOES that bides his neighbor's dead¹.
• S376 His SHOES are made of running leather
• S377 Meddle with your old SHOES
• S378 Not worthy to wipe his SHOES
• S379 Over SHOES over boots
• S380 To be over SHOES
• S381 To die in one's SHOES
• S382 Not worth SHOE BUCKLES
• S383 We play not for SHOE BUCKLES
• S384 Though SHOEING-HORNS be out of date yet horns are as plentiful as ever
• S385 In the SHOEMAKER's stocks
• S386 A SHOEMAKER's son is a prince born
• S387 Who is worse shod than the SHOEMAKER's wife (the shoemaker's wife and the smith's mare)?
• S388 He that's always SHOOTING must sometime hit
• S389 Far SHOOTING never killed bird
• S390 Short SHOOTING loses the game
• S391 He that keeps SHOP must speak to everyone
• S392 Keep thy SHOP and thy shop will keep thee
• S393 Let him set up SHOP on Goodwin's Sands
• S394 He has shut up SHOPWINDOWS
• S395 Ye lean to the wrong SHORE
• S396 SHORT and sweet
• S397 She is SHORT-HEELED
• S398 To pay the SHOT (scot)
• S399 As fit as a SHOULDER of mutton for a sick horse
• S400 He could have sung well before he broke his left SHOULDER with whistling
• S401 In a SHOULDER of veal there are twenty and two good bits
• S402 One SHOULDER of mutton draws (drives) down another
• S403 Put your SHOULDER to the wheel
• S404 SHOULDER of mutton and English beer make the Flemmings tarry here
• S405 To get over the left SHOULDER
• S406 When the SHOULDER of mutton is going it is good to take a slice
• S407 To have good broad SHOULDERS
• S408 More SHOW than substance
• S409 To make a fair SHOW in a country church
• S410 He is like an April SHOWER, that wets the stone nine times in an hour
• S411 April SHOWERS bring May flowers
• S412 It is better to be a SHREW than a sheep
• S413 One SHREW is worth two sheep
• S414 A SHREW profitable may serve a man reasonable
• S415 He has been at SHRIFT
• S416 At SHROVETIDE it will be known who has the fat hen
• S417 To give one the Neapolitan SHRUG
• S418 SICHEM marries the wife and Mifgaeus is circumcised
• S419 Seldom SICK sore sick
• S420 Put not thy SICKLE in another man's corn (harvest)
• S421 The SICKLE and the scythe, that love I not to see, but the good ale tankard, happy might it be
• S422 Who marries between the SICKLE and the scythe will never thrive
• S423 The SICKNESS of the body is the health of the soul
• S424 SICKNESS soaks the purse
• S425 He knows on which SIDE his bread is buttered
• S426 He rose on his right (wrong, left) SIDE
• S427 I will not take from my left SIDE (hand) to give to my right
• S428 To be on the safer (better) SIDE of the hedge
• S429 To have a blind SIDE
• S430 To laugh but of one SIDE (on the other side, on the wrong side) of the mouth
• S431 To set the fair (best) SIDE forward (outward)
• S432 You make the better SIDE the worse
• S433 Both SIDES are losers
• S434 As much sibbed¹ as SIEVE² and ridder³ that grew both in a wood together
• S435 To be like a SIEVE
• S436 SIGH not but send, he will come if he be unhanged
• S437 Out of SIGHT out of languor¹
• S438 Out of SIGHT out of mind
• S439 The SIGHT of a man has the force of a lion
• S440 To play least in SIGHT
• S441 He lives under the SIGN of the cat's foot
• S442 It is an ill SIGN to see a fox lick a lamb
• S443 Ecce SIGNUM
• S444 No SILENCE was ever written
• S445 SILENCE does seldom harm
• S446 SILENCE is (gives) consent
• S447 SILENCE is the best ornament of a woman
• S448 Better SILENT than saucy
• S449 As soft as SILK
• S450 The fairest SILK is soonest soiled
• S451 SILK and satin (Fine clothes) make not a gentleman
• S452 SILKS and satins put out the fire in the chimney (kitchen)
• S453 As bright (white) as SILVER
• S454 Bonny SILVER is soon spent
• S455 He that has no SILVER (money) in his purse should have silver (silk, honey) on his tongue
• S456 No SILVER no servant
• S457 No SILVER (gold) without his dross
• S458 SILVER has a silver sound
• S459 White SILVER draws black lines
• S460 No SIMILITUDE (metaphor) walks (runs) upon all four (on four wheels)
• S461 Sup, SIMON, the best is at the bottom (here is good broth)
• S462 SIMPER DE COCKET
• S463 To be cut for (of) the SIMPLES
• S464 To be sick of the SIMPLES
• S465 As ugly as SIN
• S466 Dissembled SIN is double wickedness
• S467 Every SIN brings its punishment with it
• S468 He shall sink in his own SIN
• S469 It is a SIN against hospitality to open your doors and shut up your countenance
• S470 It is a SIN to belie the devil
• S471 Old SIN breeds (makes) new shame (repentance)
• S472 A SIN unseen is half pardoned
• S473 Successful (Prosperous) SIN passes for virtue
• S474 Who swims in SIN (vice) shall drown in it (in vanity)
• S475 Compelled SINS are no sins
• S476 Our SINS and our debts (years) are often more than we think
• S477 SINS are not known till they be acted
• S478 The SINS of the offenders are the strength of the tyrants
• S479 When all SINS grow old covetousness grows young
• S480 Today we SING tomorrow we weep
• S481 Many a one SINGS that is full sorry
• S482 All good SINGERS have colds
• S483 February SINGING never stints stinging
• S484 Better be still SINGLE than ill married
• S485 SINK or swim
• S486 To call one SIR and something else
• S487 SIR JOHN BARLEYCORN is nobody with him
• S488 SIR JOHN BARLEYCORN is the strongest knight
• S489 She is a SISTER of the charterhouse¹
• S490 The three SISTERS
• S491 Better (As good) SIT still than (as) rise and fall
• S492 Poorly (Lowly) SIT richly warm
• S493 He SITS not sure that sits too high
• S494 He that SITS well thinks ill
• S495 It is as cheap SITTING as standing
• S496 If SIZE CINQUE will not and deuce ace cannot, then quatre trey must
• S497 If SKIDDAW has a cap Scruffel wots full well of that
• S498 SKIDDAW, Lauvellin, and Casticand are the highest hills in all England
• S499 He hath good SKILL in horseflesh, to buy a goose to ride on
• S500 SKILL and confidence are an unconquered army
• S501 Try your SKILL in gilt first and then in gold
• S502 You have good SKILL of roasted wool, when it stinks it is enough
• S503 The SKILLFULEST wanting money is scorned
• S504 To ride SKIMMINGTON
• S505 As near to one as one's SKIN
• S506 As true (honest) as the SKIN between your brows
• S507 He is ready to leap out of his SKIN for joy
• S508 It will be long enough ere you wish your SKIN full of holes (eyelet holes)
• S509 Pull off the SKIN in the streets and receive thy wages
• S510 To escape with the SKIN of one's teeth
• S511 Ware SKINS (shins), quoth Grubber when he flung the louse into the fire
• S512 Not worth three SKIPS of a louse (pie¹)
• S513 I will sit on your SKIRTS
• S514 Who has SKIRTS of straw needs fear the fire
• S515 A red SKY in the evening is a sign of a fair day
• S516 What if the SKY fall?
• S517 When (If) the SKY (heaven) falls we shall have (catch) larks
• S518 To praise (extol) one to the SKIES
• S519 Thou wilt strip it as SLACK stripped the cat when he pulled her out of the churn
• S520 It may be a SLANDER but it is no lie
• S521 SLANDER is a shipwreck by a dry tempest
• S522 SLANDER leaves a score¹ (scar) behind it
• S523 Base is the SLAVE that pays (is commanded)
• S524 Give a SLAVE a rod and he'll beat his master
• S525 He that SLAYS shall be slain
• S526 SLEEP is the brother (kinsman, cousin) of death
• S527 SLEEP is the image of death
• S528 SLEEP lasts half a man's life
• S529 She is never quiet but when she is SLEEPING
• S530 It is good SLEEPING in a whole skin
• S531 A broken SLEEVE holds the arm back
• S532 They had thought to have put others into a SLEEVE and they are put in themselves
• S533 To hang on one's SLEEVE
• S534 To have in one's SLEEVE
• S535 To laugh in one's SLEVE
• S536 You spit on your own SLEEVE
• S537 Three SLIPS for a tester
• S538 A SLIP of the tongue is wont to tell the truth
• S539 As black as a SLOE¹
• S540 When the SLOETREE is as white as a sheet sow your barley whether it be dry or wet
• S541 SLOTH (Idleness) breeds a scab
• S542 SLOTH turns the edge of wit
• S543 The SLOTHFUL is the servant of the counters¹
• S544 SLOW but sure
• S545 The SLUGGARD loves alife¹ things done to his hands
• S546 The SLUGGARD must be clad in rags
• S547 The SLUGGARD's guise, loath to go to bed and loath to rise
• S548 With SLUGGARDS every day is holiday
• S549 One SLUMBER (sleep) invites another
• S550 A foul SLUT under a black hat seems somewhat
• S551 A SLUT will poison thy gut
• S552 There was never a SLUT but had a slit, there was never a daw but had twa
• S553 SLUTS are good enough to make slovens' pot-tage (porridge)
• S554 Many SMALLS make a great
• S555 The best SMELL is bread, the best savor salt, the best love that of children
• S556 The SMELL of garlic takes away the stink of dunghills
• S557 Of all SMELLS bread, of all tastes salt
• S558 I SMELL him out
• S559 To go westward for SMELTS
• S560 Better is the last SMILE than the first laughter
• S561 The SMITH and his penny both are black
• S562 The SMITH has always a spark in his throat
• S563 Like the SMITH's dog, that sleeps at the noise of the hammers and wakes at the crashing of teeth
• S564 A SMITHFIELD BARGAIN¹
• S565 The little SMITH OF NOTTINGHAM, who does the work that no man can
• S566 You been like SMITHWICK, either clemmed¹ or borsten²
• S567 He that has more SMOCKS than shirts in a bucking¹ had need be a man of good forelooking
• S568 Much SMOKE little fire
• S569 No SMOKE without some fire
• S570 Shunning the SMOKE he fell into the fire
• S571 The SMOKE follows the fair
• S572 The SMOKE of a man's own house (country) is better than the fire of another's
• S573 SMOKE of Charren
• S574 SMOKE, rain, and a very curst wife make a man weary of house and life
• S575 To feed oneself with SMOKE
• S576 To sell (buy) SMOKE
• S577 I will SMOKE you
• S578 To go SNACKS
• S579 As slow as a SNAIL
• S580 Like a SNAIL, he keeps his house on his back (head)
• S581 The SNAIL in time climbs up the castle's tower
• S582 You drive a SNAIL to Rome
• S583 To go a SNAIL's gallop
• S584 He has eaten a SNAKE
• S585 SNAKE in the grass
• S586 SNAPPING so short makes you look so lean
• S587 A SNATCH and away
• S588 The SNITE need not the woodcock betwit
• S589 To throw SNOT about
• S590 As seasonable (welcome) as SNOW in summer (harvest)
• S591 As white as the driven SNOW
• S592 The SNOW for eight days is a mother to the earth, but after a stepmother
• S593 SNOW is white and lies in the dike and every man lets it lie; pepper is black and has a good smack and every man does it buy
• S594 Whether you boil SNOW or pound it you can have but water of it
• S595 Like a SNOWBALL, that rolling becomes bigger
• S596 Cease your SNOWBALLS casting
• S597 SNOWDON (Eriry) will yield sufficient pasture for all the cattle of Wales put together
• S598 To take in SNUFF
• S599 It works like SOAP (wax) in a sow's tail (ear)
• S600 What SOBERNNESS conceals drunkenness reveals
• S601 SOFT AND FAIR goes far
• S602 It is a bad SOIL (ground) where no flowers will grow
• S603 An excellent SOLDIER, he lacks nothing but a heart and a feather
• S604 A SOLDIER in a pair of sheets
• S605 SOLDIERS in peace are like chimneys in summer
• S606 SOLENESS brings sadness
• S607 To make one sing SOL-FA
• S608 She is chaste whom no one has SOLICITED (who has withstood temptation)
• S609 As wise as SOLOMON
• S610 Says SOLOMON the wise, A good wife's a goodly prize
• S611 Here SOME and there some
• S612 SOME are wise and some are otherwise
• S613 SOME wiser than some
• S614 SOME AND SOME is honest play
• S615 A SOMERTON ENDING
• S616 Give SOMETHING of thine own to the devil and turn him away
• S617 He that rises betimes has SOMETHING in his head
• S618 It is good to be doing SOMETHING
• S619 Save SOMETHING for the man that rides on the white horse
• S620 SOMETHING (Somewhat) has some savor
• S621 There is SOMETHING (somewhat) in the wind
• S622 Where SOMETHING is found, there look again
• S623 SOMEWHAT (Something) is better than nothing
• S624 Everyone is the SON of his own works
• S625 I am not sorry that my SON loses at play but that he will have a revenge
• S626 Marry your SON when you will, your daughter when you can
• S627 My SON, buy no stocks
• S628 My SON is my son till he has got him a wife, but my daughter's my daughter all the days of her life
• S629 The SON full and tattered, the daughter empty and fine
• S630 The SON of a bachelor
• S631 A SON of a whore never did well
• S632 A SON of the white hen
• S633 His evening SONG and morning song are not (are) both alike
• S634 Let him that begins the SONG make an end
• S635 Let him that begins the SONG make an end
• S636 To sell (buy) it for a SONG
• S637 To sing another SONG
• S638 To sing the same (one) SONG
• S639 He makes two SONS-IN-LAW of one daughter
• S640 SOON enough if well enough
• S641 The SOONER the better
• S642 As black as SOOT
• S643 To give a SOP to Cerberus
• S644 Good SOPS may be made in an old pot
• S645 Good SOPS may be made in an old pot
• S646 A small SORE wants not a great plaster
• S647 SORE upon sore is not a salve
• S648 Where the SORE is there is the hand
• S649 To rip up (rub) old SORES
• S650 Fat SORROW is better than lean sorrow
• S651 He is well worth SORROW that buys it with his silver
• S652 SORROW and an evil life make soon an old wife
• S653 SORROW be in the house that you're beguiled in
• S654 SORROW comes unsent for
• S655 SORROW gars¹ websters spin
• S656 SORROW is dry
• S657 SORROW is good for nothing but sin
• S658 SORROW is laughter's daughter
• S659 SORROW is soon enough when it comes
• S660 SORROW will pay no debt
• S661 To have SORROW to his sops
• S662 When SORROW is asleep wake it not
• S663 Make not two SORROWS of one
• S664 Small SORROWS (griefs) speak, great ones are silent
• S665 Who sings does scare away his SORROWS
• S666 There must be all SORTS in the world
• S667 She dares not say her SOUL is her own
• S668 The SOUL needs few things, the body many
• S669 You put a silly SOUL to be a keeper for the devil's good grace
• S670 A SOULCAKE,¹ a soulcake, have mercy on all Christian souls for a soulcake
• S671 He was born within the SOUND of Bow bell
• S672 As meet as a SOW to bear a saddle
• S673 As necessary as a SOW among young children
• S674 As the SOW fills, the draff sours
• S675 Every SOW to her own trough
• S676 Little knows the fat SOW (man) what the lean does mean
• S677 A SOW does sooner than a cow bring an ox to the plow
• S678 A SOW in a feather bed
• S679 A SOW to a fiddle
• S680 A SOW (swine) to teach Minerva
• S681 The still SOW eats up all the draff
• S682 To grease a fat SOW in the tail
• S683 A yeld¹ SOW was never good to grices²
• S684 You have the SOW by the right (wrong) ear
• S685 You take the wrong SOW by the ear
• S686 To come sailing in a SOW's ear
• S687 As they SOW so let them reap
• S688 Early SOW early mow
• S689 SOW dry and set wet
• S690 SOW thin (little) mow thin (little)
• S691 One SOWS, another reaps
• S692 Thick SOWN and (but) thin comes up
• S693 The rath¹ (early) SOWER never borrows of the late
• S694 Forbear not SOWING because of birds
• S695 It is good SOWING in a fruitful ground
• S696 It is good SOWING in a fruitful ground
• S697 In SPACE comes grace
• S698 In SPACE comes grace
• S699 To call a SPADE a spade
• S700 Would you make me trow that SPADE SHAFTS bear plums?
• S701 He that trusts much obliges much, says the SPANIARD
• S702 The SPANIARD is a bad servant but a worse master
• S703 Talk much and err much, says the SPANIARD
• S704 As flattering (fawning) as a SPANIEL
• S705 The SPANIEL, that fawns when he is beaten, will never forsake his master
• S706 Ever SPARE and ever bare
• S707 SPARE and spend
• S708 SPARE not to spend but spare to go thither
• S709 SPARE to speak spare to speed
• S710 He that SPARES when he is young may the better spend when he is old
• S711 Better SPARED than ill spent
• S712 SPARING is the first gaining (getting)
• S713 Any small SPARK shines in the dark
• S714 Of a little SPARK a great fire
• S715 As lustful as SPARROWS
• S716 Old SPARROWS are ill to tame
• S717 Two SPARROWS on one ear of corn cannot agree
• S718 Many Sᴘᴇᴀᴋ much who cannot SPEAK well
• S719 SPEAK and speed, ask and have
• S720 SPEAK fair and think what you will
• S721 SPEAK fitly or be silent wisely
• S722 SPEAK of what you understand
• S723 SPEAK when you are spoken to, come when you are called
• S724 To SPEAK as one finds
• S725 To SPEAK (Not to speak) as one thinks
• S726 He that SPEAKS lavishly shall hear as knavishly
• S727 He that SPEAKS me fair and loves me not, I'll SPEAK him fair and trust him not
• S728 He that SPEAKS much is much mistaken
• S729 Who SPEAKS not errs not
• S730 That is well SPOKEN (There is nothing ill said) that is well taken
• S731 The SPEAR of Achilles could both wound and heal
• S732 Who has a good SPEAR let him prove it against a wall
• S733 SPECTACLES are death's arquebus
• S734 He is but daft that has to do and spares for every SPEECH
• S735 SPEECH is the picture (index) of the mind
• S736 All the SPEED is in the spurs
• S737 They are as wise that SPEER¹ not
• S738 SPEND as you get
• S739 SPEND not where you may save, spare not where you must spend
• S740 Who SPENDS before he thrives will beg before he thinks
• S741 Better SPENT than spared
• S742 What we SPENT we had, what we gave we have, what we lent we lost
• S743 To a good SPENDER God is the treasurer
• S744 Great SPENDERS are bad lenders
• S745 In SPENDING lies the advantage
• S746 If you beat (pound) SPICE it will smell the sweeter
• S747 Who has SPICE enough may season his meat as he pleases
• S748 SPICK-AND-SPAN-NEW (Spick-and-span)
• S749 He has swallowed a SPIDER
• S750 Spare at the SPIGOT and let it out at the bung-hole
• S751 He SPILLS unspoken to
• S752 To go to SPILSBY
• S753 Get thy SPINDLE and distaff ready and God will send thee flax
• S754 The SPINDLE is miserable when a beard¹ is not above it
• S755 That which will not be spun let it not come between the SPINDLE and the distaff
• S756 To make a SPINDLE of a spar (spear)
• S757 The diligent SPINNER has a large shift
• S758 SPINNING out of time never made good cloth
• S759 A poor SPIRIT is poorer than a poor purse
• S760 The SPIRIT is willing but the flesh is weak
• S761 The SPIRIT of building is come upon him
• S762 Well-bred SPIRITS seldom degenerate
• S763 A SPIT and a stride
• S764 In SPITE of one's teeth (nose, heart)
• S765 I will not be your SPITTING-PLACE
• S766 To rob the SPITTLE¹
• S767 You must SPOIL before you spin
• S768 The highest SPOKE in fortune's wheel may soon turn lowest
• S769 To set (put) a SPOKE in one's cart (wheel)
• S770 The worst SPOKE in a cart breaks first
• S771 He must have a long SPOON that will eat with the devil
• S772 He was born with a silver SPOON (a penny) in his mouth
• S773 To feed with a SPOON
• S774 A SPOONFUL of skitter¹ will spill² a potful of skink³
• S775 He that cannot make SPORT should mar none
• S776 It is a poor SPORT (play) that is not worth the candle
• S777 No SPORT no pie
• S778 Some SPORT is sauce to pains
• S779 SPORT is sweetest when there be no spectators
• S780 In SPORTS and journeys men are known
• S781 A SPOT is most seen upon the finest cloth
• S782 There are SPOTS even on the sun
• S783 Yellow SPOTS on the hand (nails) presage death
• S784 That which doth blossom in the SPRING will bring forth fruit in the autumn
• S785 When there is a SPRING in winter and a winter in spring the year is never good
• S786 He has a SPRING at his elbow
• S787 Old SPRINGS give no price
• S788 A SPRINGE¹ to catch a woodcock²
• S789 He is all on the SPUR
• S790 A SPUR and a whip for a dull horse
• S791 A SPUR in the head is worth two in the heel
• S792 He has won his SPURS
• S793 Seldom rides tines¹ the SPURS
• S794 Untimeous¹ SPURRING spills² the steed
• S795 SPIES are the ears and eyes of princes
• S796 To play upon the SQUARE
• S797 As nimble as a SQUIRREL
• S798 Cast your STAFF into the air and it will fall upon its root or heavy end
• S799 He is come to the STAFF and the wallet
• S800 He that has a STAFF may beat away a knave
• S801 If the STAFF be crooked the shadow cannot be straight
• S802 To be beaten with one's own STAFF
• S803 To be not sure of his STAFF
• S804 To set up one's STAFF
• S805 Trust (Lean) not to a broken STAFF
• S806 Your STAFF stands next to the door
• S807 To hold one at STAFF's (stave's) end
• S808 STAFFORD¹ LAW
• S809 As stiff (still) as a STAKE (staff)
• S810 He has eaten (swallowed) a STAKE
• S811 An ill (poor) STAKE that cannot stand one year in a hedge (the ground)
• S812 The loath (ill, loose) STAKE stands long (longest)
• S813 The low STAKE stands long
• S814 To water a STAKE (post)
• S815 Small STAKES make cold play
• S816 To make one a STALKING-HORSE
• S817 He is at a STAND
• S818 As true as you STAND there
• S819 To STAND buff
• S820 He STANDS not surely that never slips
• S821 Long STANDERS are but short doers
• S822 STANDERS-BY (Lookers-on) see more than gamesters (players)
• S823 The higher STANDING (up) the lower (greater) fall
• S824 Long STANDING and small (little) offering makes poor parsons (priests, a poor price)
• S825 One may point (look) at a STAR but not pull (reach) at it
• S826 STARS are not seen by sunshine (at midday)
• S827 To look at the STARS and fall into a ditch
• S828 He has gotten the START of him
• S829 The greater STATE the more wisdom
• S830 The greatest STATE is the less sure
• S831 He takes STATE on him
• S832 STATES have their conversions and periods as well as natural bodies
• S833 Talk not too much of STATE AFFAIRS
• S834 As mute as a STATUE
• S835 He that can STAY obtains
• S836 It stands one in as much STEAD as a looking glass does a blind man
• S837 It is ill (hard) STEALING from a thief
• S838 When the STEED (horse) is stolen shut the stable door
• S839 As hard (stiff, strong, tough) as STEEL
• S840 As true (trusty, sure) as STEEL
• S841 As true STEEL as Ripon rowels
• S842 He is STEEL (metal) to the back
• S843 STEEL cuts steel
• S844 There is STEEL in my needle's eye though there be little of it
• S845 With a little STEEL a little man's armed
• S846 The greatest (hardest) STEP is that out of doors (over the threshold)
• S847 STEP after step goes far
• S848 STEP after step the ladder is ascended
• S849 Dress up a STICK and it does not seem to be a stick
• S850 A straight STICK is crooked in the water
• S851 Little STICKS kindle the fire but great ones put it out
• S852 Two dry STICKS will kindle a green one
• S853 He that is truly hungry will not STICK to eat anything
• S854 STICKING¹ goes not by strength but by guiding of the gully²
• S855 He that will not go over the STILE must be thrust through the gate
• S856 You would be (leap) over the STILE before you come at it
• S857 Essex STILES, Kentish miles, Norfolk wiles, many men beguiles
• S858 The STING is in the tail
• S859 There is a STING in the tail of all unlawful pleasures
• S860 He keeps a STIR but is no constable
• S861 I would I might never STIR else
• S862 The more you STIR the more (worse) you stink
• S863 There is great STIRRING in the North when old wives ride scout
• S864 As good holds the STIRRUP as he that loups¹ on
• S865 To have (take) a STITCH¹ against someone
• S866 Who lacks a STOCK his gain is not worth a chip
• S867 To beat one like a STOCKFISH¹
• S868 To wear yellow STOCKINGS and cross garters
• S869 A full STOMACH is a windmill
• S870 A good STOMACH (appetite) is the best sauce (needs no sauce)
• S871 An ill STOMACH makes all the meat bitter
• S872 My STOMACH (belly) has struck twelve (rung noon)
• S873 A sharp STOMACH makes short devotion
• S874 To go against one's STOMACH
• S875 To have a STOMACH and lack meat, to have meat and lack a stomach, to lie in bed and cannot rest are great miseries
• S876 As cold as a STONE (whetstone)
• S877 As deaf as a STONE
• S878 As hard as a STONE (flint, rock)
• S879 As still as a STONE
• S880 He has not a STONE (bone) to cast (throw) at a dog
• S881 He is twice fain¹ that sits on a STONE
• S882 He that stumbles twice at the same STONE deserves to have his shins broke
• S883 If I had not lifted up the STONE you had not found the jewel
• S884 A little STONE in the way overturns a great wain
• S885 A rolling STONE gathers no moss
• S886 A rugged STONE grows smooth from hand to hand
• S887 Spit on a STONE and it will be wet at last
• S888 A STONE in a well is not lost
• S889 The STONE you throw will fall on your own head
• S890 To leave no STONE unturned
• S891 To mark with a white STONE
• S892 To roast a STONE
• S893 To swim no more than a STONE
• S894 Under every ST0NE sleeps a scorpion
• S895 You cannot flay a STONE
• S896 To throw STONES against the wind
• S897 Who remove STONES bruise their fingers
• S898 STONE-DEAD has no fellow
• S899 Put a STOOL in the sun, when one knave rises another comes
• S900 Between two STOOLS the tail (ass) goes (comes) to ground
• S901 STOPFORD LAW, no stake no draw
• S902 He that has STORE of bread may beg his milk merrily
• S903 STORE is no sore
• S904 They that have good STORE of butter (much butter) may lay it thick on their bread
• S905 To review one's STORE is to mow twice
• S906 Where there is STORE of oatmeal you may put enough in the crock
• S907 The worst STORE, a maid unbestowed
• S908 After a STORM comes a calm (fair weather)
• S909 As welcome as a STORM
• S910 A cock-and-bull STORY (tale)
• S911 No STORY without sticklers
• S912 To be STRAIT-LACED
• S913 STRAND ON THE GREEN, thirteen houses, fourteen cuckolds, and never a house between
• S914 It is no more STRANGE than true
• S915 As weak as a STRAW
• S916 It is unlawful to tread upon a STRAW lying across
• S917 Not to care (give) a STRAW (rush)
• S918 Not worth a STRAW (rush)
• S919 There lay a STRAW
• S920 To be in the STRAW
• S921 To step over a STRAW
• S922 To stumble at a STRAW and leap over a block
• S923 Go peel STRAWS
• S924 STRAWS show which way the wind blows
• S925 To pick STRAWs
• S926 It is easy to wade the STREAM where the ford is at lowest
• S927 It is hard (folly, in vain) to strive against the STREAM
• S928 A little STREAM drives a light mill
• S929 The STREAM (current, tide) stopped swells the higher
• S930 To go (swim) with the STREAM
• S931 STREAMS back to their springs do never run
• S932 STRETCHING and yawning lead to bed
• S933 STRETTON IN THE STREET, where shrews meet
• S934 Harp no more on that STRING
• S935 He harps on that STRING that gives no melody (makes no good music)
• S936 To harp upon one (the same) STRING
• S937 It is good to have two STRINGS to one's bow
• S938 Nay, stay, quoth STRINGER when his neck was in the halter
• S939 It is good STRIVING to be the best
• S940 Great STROKES make not sweet music
• S941 Many (Little) STROKES fell great oaks
• S942 Never was STRUMPET fair
• S943 He seeks for STUBBLE in a fallow field
• S944 They thrive as New College STUDENTS,¹ who are golden scholars, silver bachelors, and leaden masters
• S945 To be in a brown STUDY
• S946 To bestir (stir) one's STUMPS
• S947 A Huntington¹ STURGEON
• S948 STURT¹ pays no debt
• S949 A STYLE¹ toward and a wife forward are uneasy companions
• S950 He that is hated of his SUBJECTS cannot be counted a king
• S951 Lose not the SUBSTANCE for the shadow
• S952 SUBTLETY is better than force
• S953 To leave one (To lie, To be) in the SUDS (sands)
• S954 SUFFER and expect
• S955 Of SUFFERANCE comes ease
• S956 It is not the SUFFERING but the cause and the patience that makes a martyr
• S957 That which SUFFICES is not little
• S958 For fair SUGAR fair ratsbane
• S959 One SUIT of good apparel is worth two of bad
• S960 That SUIT is best that best fits me
• S961 A SUIT of law and a urinal bring a man to the hospital
• S962 SUITS hang half a year in Westminster Hall, at Tyburn half an hour's hanging ends all
• S963 The last SUITOR wins the maid
• S964 To be sick of the SULLENS
• S965 A small SUM will serve to pay a short reckoning
• S966 You dream of a dry SUMMER
• S967 As good as one shall see in a SUMMER's day
• S968 Although the SUN shines leave not your cloak at home
• S969 As clear as the SUN
• S970 He has been in the SUN
• S971 He has the SUN on his face and the wind on his back
• S972 He that walks much in the SUN will be tanned at last
• S973 If it rains when the SUN is shining the devil is beating his wife
• S974 The March SUN causes dust and the wind blows it about
• S975 The March SUN raises but dissolves not
• S976 March SUN sticks like a lock of wool
• S977 A morning SUN and a wine-bred child and a Latin-bred woman seldom end well
• S978 The morning SUN never lasts a day
• S979 The rising, not the setting, SUN is worshiped by most men
• S980 The same SUN softens (melts) wax and hardens clay
• S981 The SUN is comfortable
• S982 The SUN is never the worse for shining on a dunghill
• S983 The SUN never sets on the Spanish dominion
• S984 The SUN sees all things and discovers all things
• S985 The SUN shines upon all alike
• S986 The SUN together with man generates man
• S987 To get the SUN of one
• S988 To set forth the SUN with a candle (lantern, taper)
• S989 When the SUN is highest he casts the least shadow
• S990 When the SUN rises the disease will abate
• S991 Where the SUN shines there resort
• S992 Two SUNS cannot shine in one sphere
• S993 He that hangs himself on SUNDAY shall hang still uncut down on Monday
• S994 When SUNDAY comes it will be holy day
• S995 When two SUNDAYS come together
• S996 No SUNSHINE but has some shadow
• S997 Hot SUP hot swallow
• S998 It is impossible to SUP and blow together (with one breath)
• S999 Who SUPS well sleeps well
• S1000 To drink SUPERNACULUM
• S1001 I never fared worse than when I wished for my SUPPER
• S1002 If I were abed I would not rise for my SUPPER
• S1003 Light SUPPER makes long life
• S1003a To sing for one's SUPPER
• S1004 By SUPPERS more have been killed than Galen (Avicen) ever cured
• S1005 Light SUPPERS make clean sheets
• S1006 Sleep without SUPPING and wake without owing
• S1007 SURE and unsure are not all one
• S1008 I am here as SURE as you are there
• S1009 He that will be a SURETY shall pay
• S1010 Your SURETY wants a surety
• S1011 Every SURFEIT foreruns a fast
• S1012 The best SURGEON is he that has been well hacked (slashed) himself
• S1013 A good SURGEON (chirurgeon) must have an eagle's eye, a lion's heart, and a lady's hand
• S1014 An ill SURGEON without store of plasters
• S1015 SURGEONS ought not to be full of sores themselves
• S1016 SURLY and sour
• S1017 SUSPICION has double eyes
• S1018 SUSPICION is a virtue where a man holds his enemy in his bosom
• S1019 SUSPICION (Accusation) is no proof
• S1020 SUSPICION makes many to sin
• S1021 SUTTON WALL and Kenchester Hill are able to buy London were it to sell
• S1022 He is no good SWAIN that lets¹ his journey for the rain
• S1023 As swift as a SWALLOW
• S1024 Fly and you will catch the SWALLOW
• S1025 One SWALLOW makes not summer
• S1026 SWALLOWS, like false friends, fly away upon the approach of winter
• S1027 As rare as a black SWAN
• S1028 Like a SWAN, he sings before his death
• S1029 A SWARM of bees in May is worth a load of hay but a swarm in July is not worth a fly
• S1030 He that will SWEAR will lie
• S1031 To live by the SWEAT of one's brows
• S1032 To live by the SWEAT of other men's brows
• S1033 He never SWEAT for what he has
• S1034 To go into SWEATLAND, or into Cornelius' tub
• S1035 He deserves not the SWEET that will not taste of the sour
• S1036 No SWEET without some sweat
• S1037 SWEET appears sour when we pay
• S1038 Take (Mingle) the SWEET with the sour
• S1039 SWEETHEART and bag pudding
• S1040 SWEETHEART and honey bird keeps no house
• S1041 Good SWIMMERS at length are drowned
• S1042 As drunk as a SWINE (sow, David's sow)
• S1043 A SWINE overfat is cause of his own bane
• S1044 SWINE, women, and bees cannot be turned
• S1045 To have one's full SWING
• S1046 SWITCH and spur
• S1047 He that strikes with the SWORD shall be beaten (stricken) with the scabbard
• S1048 A leaden (wooden) SWORD (dagger) in an ivory (golden, painted) sheath (scabbard)
• S1049 One SWORD keeps another in the sheath (scabbard)
• S1050 Put not a SWORD in the hand of a child
• S1051 The rusty SWORD and empty purse plead performance of covenants
• S1052 The SWORD is tried on the anvil
• S1053 There is no SWORD made of steel but has iron
• S1054 To slay (cut one's throat) with a leaden SWORD
• S1055 Who draws his SWORD against his prince must throw away the scabbard
• S1056 SYMPATHY (Similitude) of manners makes the conjunction of minds
• 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
• U1 Better (A child is better) UNBORN than untaught
• U2 An UNCH¹ is a feast of bread and cheese
• U3 He is my true UNCLE who fills my belly
• U4 That is as true as I am his UNCLE.
• U5 I am going to my UNCLE JOHN's house
• U6 Who UNDERSTANDS ill answers ill
• U7 UNDERSTANDING and reason cannot conclude out of mood and figure
• U8 To be utterly UNDONE
• U9 Better UNFED than untaught
• U10 UNGIRT unblessed
• U11 In UNION (concord) is strength
• U12 UNITY (Union) is the strongest building (bulwark) of cities
• U13 UNKISSED unkind
• U14 UNKNOWN (Uncouth) unkissed
• U15 Better be UNMANNERLY than troublesome
• U16 UNMINDED unmoaned
• U17 UNSIGHT unseen
• U18 Better UNTAUGHT than ill taught
• U19 To have many UPS and downs
• U20 Better is the USE of riches than the possessing of them
• U21 Everything is of USE to a housekeeper
• U22 Once a USE and ever a custom
• U23 USE is all
• U24 USE (Practice) makes mastery (perfectness)
• U25 Once and USE it not
• U26 Who USES me better than he was used (was wont), by him I am or shall be abused (betrayed)
• U27 To speak of a USURER at the table mars the wine
• U28 An USURER is one that puts his money to the unnatural act of generation, and the scrivener is his bawd
• U29 An USURER is one that torments men for their good conditions
• U30 USURERS are always good husbands¹
• U31 USURERS' purses and women's plackets are never satisfied
• U32 To borrow on USURY brings sudden beggary
• U33 Let UTHER PENDRAGON do what he can, the River Eden will run as it ran
• V1 In VAIN does the mill clack if the miller his hearing lack
• V2 In VAIN he craves advice that will not follow it
• V3 In VAIN the net is spread in the sight of the birds
• V4 In VAIN they rise early that use to rise late
• V5 To labor in VAIN
• V6 VAINGLORY is a flower that bears no corn
• V7 The VALE best discovers the hill
• V8 The VALE OF HOLMSDALE never won nor never shall
• V9 On VALENTINE's DAY will a good goose lay; if she be a good goose, her dame well to pay, she will lay two eggs before Valentine's Day
• V10 Assail who will, the VALIANT attends
• V11 He that stays in the VALLEY shall never get over the hill
• V12 VALOR can do little without discretion
• V13 VALOR cannot harbor in base minds
• V14 VALOR (A castle, A city) that parleys is near yielding
• V15 VALOR would fight but discretion would run away
• V16 He turns like a VANE on the housetop (with the wind)
• V17 VANITY will prove vexation
• V18 VARIETY takes away satiety
• V19 A VAUNTER (boaster) and a liar are both one thing
• V20 Raw VEAL and chickens make fat churchyards
• V21 VEAL will be cheap: calves fall
• V22 I will VEASE¹ thee
• V23 As true as VELVET
• V24 VENGEANCE belongs only to God
• V25 VENGEANCE (Divine vengeance) comes slowly but surely
• V26 VENICE, he that does not see thee does not esteem thee
• V27 Never inquire whence VENISON comes
• V28 He has spit his VENOM
• V29 There is no VENOM to¹ that of the tongue
• V30 Many VENTURES make a full freight
• V30a VENUS always leaves an exquisite perfume behind her
• V31 VENUS was choice, yet a wart (mole) on her cheek
• V32 As sour as VERJUICE
• V33 VERVAIN and dill hinder witches of their will
• V34 Do not look upon the VESSEL but upon that which it contains
• V35 The VESSEL of an apothecary has oftentimes poison in the bottom
• V36 Empty VESSELS sound most
• V37 Full VESSELS sound least
• V38 Ill VESSELS seldom miscarry
• V39 Old VESSELS must leak
• V40 The VICAR OF BRAY will be Vicar of Bray still
• V41 The VICAR OF FOOLS (of Saint Fools) be your ghostly¹ father
• V42 No VICE but has its patron
• V43 VICE corrects sin
• V44 VICE is often clothed in virtue's habit
• V45 VICE is slippery like ice
• V46 VICE rules where gold reigns
• V47 VICE the more it is hid the more it increases
• V48 Where VICE is vengeance follows
• V49 VICES are learned without a master
• V50 Do not triumph before the VICTORY
• V51 He gets a double VICTORY who conquers himself
• V52 It is a great VICTORY that comes without blood
• V53 There is more good VICTUALS in England than in seven other kingdoms
• V54 The VIEW of merchandise will cost a man nothing
• V55 Better to be first in a VILLAGE than second at Rome
• V56 Set a VILLEIN on a mule and he knows neither God nor the world
• V57 A VILLEIN made a gentleman knows neither father nor mother
• V58 Make the VINE poor and it will make you rich
• V59 Plant your VINE in a good soil and take a wife of a good race
• V60 The VINE brings forth three grapes: the first of pleasure, the second of drunkenness, the third of sorrow
• V61 The VINE embraces the elm
• V62 The young VINE yields the most but the old one yields the best
• V63 As sharp (keen) as VINEGAR
• V64 It is VINEGAR to the teeth
• V65 A VINEGAR CLOAK
• V66 The VINTNER fears false measure
• V67 No VIPER so little but has its venom
• V68 To nourish a VIPER (snake) in one's bosom
• V69 VIRGINS are angel-like creatures
• V70 He that sows VIRTUE reaps fame
• V71 It is a VIRTUE to abstain from pleasures
• V72 It is a VIRTUE to hate vice
• V73 Make a VIRTUE of necessity
• V74 Only VIRTUE (True fame) never dies
• V75 There is no VIRTUE which poverty destroys not
• V76 VIRTUE and a trade are the best portion for children
• V77 VIRTUE flies from the heart of a mercenary man
• V78 VIRTUE has all things in itself
• V79 VIRTUE is a jewel of great price
• V80 VIRTUE is found in the middle (mean)
• V81 VIRTUE is its own reward
• V82 VIRTUE is more important than blood
• V83 VIRTUE (Valor) is the beauty (nobleness) of the soul (mind)
• V84 VIRTUE is the only ground for friendship to be built upon
• V85 VIRTUE is the true nobility
• V86 VIRTUE (Counsel) must be practiced (honored) not praised
• V87 VIRTUE never grows old
• V88 VIRTUE now is in herbs and stones and words only
• V89 The VIRTUE of a coward is suspicion
• V90 VIRTUE praised increases
• V91 He cannot be VIRTUOUS that is not rigorous
• V92 A well-favored VISOR will hide her ill-favored face
• V93 He has a good VOICE to beg bacon
• V94 The VOICE is the best music
• V95 The VOICE of the people is the voice of God
• V96 Most VOICES carry it
• V97 VOWS made in storms are forgotten in calms
• V98 He that goes and comes makes a good VOYAGE
• V99 That VOYAGE never has luck where each one has one vote
• V100 Long VOYAGES depart friendship
• W1 No safe WADING in an unknown water
• W2 He who serves well needs not be afraid to ask his WAGES
• W3 Mend my WAGES and I'll mend my work
• W4 A WAGER is a fool's argument
• W5 To be angry at (laugh at, be afraid of) the WAGGING of a straw
• W6 Merry WAKEFIELD¹
• W7 It is evil (ill, not good) WAKING of a sleeping dog
• W8 It is not good WAKING of care when it is asleep
• W9 He that WALKS plainly walks safely
• W10 It is good WALKING with a horse in one's hand
• W11 The WALKING STAFF has caught warmth in your hand
• W12 Farther than the WALL we cannot go
• W13 It is written upon a WALL in Rome, Ribchester was as rich as any town in Christendom
• W14 Look on the WALL and it will not bite you
• W15 To be driven (To go) to the WALL
• W16 To look upon a WALL
• W17 A white WALL is a fool's paper
• W18 Bare WALLS make giddy housewives
• W19 WALLS (Hedges), have ears (eyes)
• W20 We see not what is in the WALLET behind
• W21 To swear WALSINGHAM
• W22 As wise as WALTHAM's calf
• W23 As small¹ as a WAND
• W24 He is sorest dung¹ whom his own WAND dings
• W25 He wags a WAND in the water
• W26 Let his own WAND ding¹ him
• W27 Thraw¹ the WAND while it is green
• W28 Born in the WANE of the moon
• W29 For WANT of a nail the shoe is lost, for want of a shoe the horse is lost, for want of a horse the rider is lost
• W30 For WANT of a wise man a fool is set in the chair
• W31 For WANT of company welcome trumpery
• W32 He is in great WANT of a bird that will give a groat¹ for an owl
• W33 He that bewails his WANT has begged sufficiently
• W34 WANT goes by such a one's door.
• W35 WANT of money want of comfort
• W36 I will not WANT when I have and when I have not too
• W37 It is not good to WANT and to have
• W38 What you WANT up and down you have to and fro (in roundabout)
• W39 Advise none to marry or go to WAR
• W40 Clothe thee in WAR, arm thee in peace
• W41 He that keeps his own makes WAR
• W42 He that makes a good WAR makes a good peace
• W43 In WAR it is not permitted twice to err
• W44 No WAR without a woman
• W45 WAR and physic are governed by the eye
• W46 WAR, hunting, and law (love) are as full of trouble as pleasure
• W47 WAR is death's feast
• W48 The WAR is not done so long as my enemy lives
• W49 WAR makes thieves and peace hangs them
• W50 WAR must be waged by waking men
• W51 When WAR begins hell opens
• W52 Who preaches WAR is the devil's chaplain
• W53 Civil WARS of France made a million of atheists and thirty thousand witches
• W54 He that is not in the WARS is not out of danger
• W55 Of all WARS peace is the final end
• W56 WARS are good to talk of, not to try
• W57 WARS are pleasant in the ear, not in the eye
• W58 WARs are sweet to them who know them not
• W59 WARS bring scars
• W60 When as WARS are (When all England is) aloft, safe is he that is at Christ's croft, and where should this Christ's croft be but betwixt Ribble and Mersey
• W61 All his WARDROBE is on his back
• W62 Good WARE makes quick markets
• W63 Good WARE will never want a chapman
• W64 Ill WARE is never cheap
• W65 One cannot live by selling WARE for words
• W66 Pleasing WARE is half sold
• W67 WARES overbought are seldom returned without loss
• W68 When the WARES be gone shut up the shop-windows (shop)
• W69 WARE¹ and Wadesmill¹ are worth all London
• W70 He WARMS too near that burns
• W71 A Scotch WARMING PAN
• W72 He was slain that had WARNING, not he that took it
• W73 To have a fair WARNING
• W74 A WARRANT sealed with butter
• W75 For WASHING his hands none sells his lands
• W76 As angry as a WASP
• W77 She is as quiet as a WASP in one's nose
• W78 To anger a WASP
• W79 To stir a WASP's nest
• W80 Spend and be free but make no WASTE
• W81 Willful WASTE makes woeful want
• W82 It is well warit¹ that WASTERS want gear
• W83 Good WATCH prevents misfortune
• W84 A WATCHMAN must never be unprovided of a weapon for fear of the worst
• W85 All the WATER in the sea cannot wash out this stain
• W86 As good (false, unstable) as ever WATER wet
• W87 As WATER in a smith's forge, that serves rather to kindle than quench
• W88 As weak as WATER
• W89 As welcome as WATER into a ship
• W90 Cast not out your foul WATER till you have clean
• W91 Fair WATER makes all clean
• W92 Foul WATER as soon as fair will quench hot fire
• W93 Foul WATER is thrown down the sink
• W94 He was christened with pump WATER
• W95 If you have increased your WATER you must also increase your meal (malt)
• W96 In the deepest WATER is the best fishing
• W97 It will cost hot WATER
• W98 Let none say, I will not drink of this WATER
• W99 Much WATER goes by the mill that the miller knows not of
• W100 Muddy WATER is a bad looking glass
• W101 Often to the WATER, often to the tatter
• W102 Pour not WATER on a drowned mouse (rat)
• W103 Running WATER is better than standing
• W104 There was no more WATER than the ship drew
• W105 To beat WATER in a mortar
• W106 To cast WATER into the sea (Thames)
• W107 To fetch (wring) WATER (blood) out of a stone (flint)
• W108 To lay a WATER
• W109 To look to one's WATER
• W110 To mix WATER with fire
• W111 To pour WATER into a sieve
• W112 To put WATER in one's wine
• W113 To seek WATER in the sea
• W114 To write in WATER (sand)
• W115 Under WATER famine, under snow bread
• W116 WATER afar off quenches not fire
• W117 WATER after figs and wine after pears
• W118 WATER bewitched
• W119 WATER, fire, and soldiers (war) quickly make room
• W120 WATER in May, bread for all the year
• W121 WATER is a waster
• W122 WATER makes one ill, wine makes one sing
• W123 WATER runs smoothest where it is deepest
• W124 WATER trotted is as good as oats
• W125 Where the WATER is shallow no vessel will ride
• W126 You are as welcome as WATER in one's shoes
• W127 You have dived deep into the WATER and have brought up a potsherd
• W128 You seek hot W ATER under cold ice
• W129 He would find WATERS with the first stroke of his spade
• W130 Shallow WATERS make the greatest sound
• W131 Stolen WATERS are sweet
• W132 A falser WATER-DRINKER there lives not
• W133 Although it rain throw not away your WATERING POT
• W134 As close as WAX
• W135 As pliable as WAX
• W136 Soft WAX will take any impression
• W137 To melt like WAX
• W138 To work upon one (anything) like WAX
• W139 WAX, linen cloth, and fustian, a fair shop and little gain
• W140 The best WAY to travel is towards heaven
• W141 He knows not which WAY to turn him
• W142 I am for which WAY the staff falls
• W143 They look one WAY and row another
• W144 To know which WAY the wind blows
• W145 To look nine WAYS at once
• W146 It is a great WAY to the bottom of the sea
• W147 The old WAY (fashion) is best
• W148 There is no WAY but one
• W149 This is the WAY (trick) to catch the old one
• W150 To go another WAY to work
• W151 The WAY to be gone is not to stay here
• W152 The WAY to be safe is never to be secure¹ (He that is secure is not safe)
• W153 The WAY to make a woman a fool is to commend her beauty
• W154 The wholesomest WAY to get a good stomach is to walk on your own ground
• W155 Yours to command in the WAY of honesty
• W156 There are more WAYS to kill a dog than hanging
• W157 To him that wills WAYS are not wanting
• W158 The farthest WAY about is the nearest way home
• W159 He goes not out of his WAY that goes to a good inn
• W160 He tells me my WAY and does not know it himself
• W161 He that for the new leaves the old WAY oftentimes is found to go astray
• W162 Next WAY, roundabout, in at the far door
• W163 The plainest WAY has the surest footing
• W164 There is no safer (surer) WAY to follow than that of the old fox
• W165 This is the WAY (He is brought) to Beggar's Bush
• W166 To go the WAY of all flesh
• W167 To go the wrong WAY to the wood
• W168 To go the wrong WAY to work
• W169 The WAY is an ill neighbor
• W170 The WAY to bliss lies not on beds of down
• W171 The WAY to heaven is as ready by water as by land (alike in every place)
• W172 The WAY to heaven is not spread with rushes but set with thorns
• W173 Whether I would not, I cannot the WAY
• W174 Which WAY (How many miles) to London? A pokeful of plums
• W175 Long WAYS long lies
• W176 Many WAYS meet in one town (city)
• W177 There are many WAYS to fame
• W178 There are three WAYS, the university (church), the sea, the court
• W179 There be more WAYS to the wood than one
• W180 You try all the WAYs to the wood
• W181 A Yorkshire WAY-BIT
• W182 The WEAK may stand the strong in stead
• W183 The WEAKER goes to the pot
• W184 The WEAKER has the worse
• W185 The WEAKEST goes to the wall
• W186 Be it WEAL or be it woe, beans blow before May does go
• W187 He is worth no WEAL that can bide no woe
• W188 No WEAL without woe
• W189 WEAL and women cannot pan¹ but woe and women can
• W190 Whom WEAL pricks sorrow comes after and licks
• W191 Bear WEALTH, poverty will bear itself
• W192 Either WEALTH is much increased or moderation is much decayed
• W193 Farewell WEALTH and welcome health
• W194 The greatest WEALTH is contentment with a little
• W195 He that marries for WEALTH sells his liberty
• W196 In WEALTH (weal) beware of woe
• W197 Little avails WEALTH where there is no health
• W198 Little WEALTH (goods) little care
• W199 WEALTH is like rheum, it falls on the weakest parts
• W200 WEALTH is not his who has it but his who enjoys it
• W201 WEALTH makes (gars¹) wit waver
• W202 WEALTH makes worship
• W203 There is no such conquering WEAPON as the necessity of conquering
• W204 To beat one at his own WEAPON
• W205 All the WEAPONS (arms) of war (Brescia, England) cannot arm fear
• W206 WEAPONS bode peace
• W207 Everything is the worse for the WEARING
• W208 They win by WEARING their enemies out
• W209 It is better to WEAR out than rust out
• W210 Never WEARY of that which is good
• W211 He is very WEARY
• W212 When the WEASEL and the cat make a marriage it is a very ill presage
• W213 Calm WEATHER in June sets corn in tune
• W214 Cold WEATHER and crafty knaves come out of the North
• W215 Expect not fair WEATHER in winter on one night's ice
• W216 Fair is the WEATHER where cup and cover do hold together
• W217 Fair WEATHER after you
• W218 It will be fair WEATHER when the shrews have dined
• W219 Like ill WEATHER, you come (sorrow comes) unsent for
• W220 There is no WEATHER ill when the wind is still
• W221 To make fair WEATHER
• W222 WEATHER meet to set paddocks¹ abroad in
• W223 As wavering (variable) as the WEATHERCOCK
• W224 The WEAVERS' beef of Colchester
• W225 It is hard to make a good WEB of a bottle¹ of hay
• W226 It will be an ill WEB to bleach
• W227 As the WEBSTERS¹ stealing through the world
• W228 You will be wiser now you are WED
• W229 Who WEDS (marries) ere he be wise shall die ere he thrive
• W230 Never but once at a WEDDING (coronation)
• W231 One WEDDING begets another
• W232 WEDDING and hanging go by destiny
• W233 As your WEDDING RING wears, your cares will wear away
• W234 One WEDGE drives out another
• W235 There goes the WEDGE where the beetle¹ drives it
• W236 WEDLOCK is a padlock
• W237 He that bites on every WEED must needs light on poison
• W238 An ill WEED grows apace (fast, well)
• W239 Neither WEED amongst corn nor suspicion in friendship
• W240 One ill WEED (turd) mars a whole pot of pottage (porridge)
• W241 WEEDS come forth on the fattest soil if it is untilled
• W242 The WEEDS overgrow the corn
• W243 WEEDS want no sowing
• W244 He is in by the WEEK
• W245 Before I WEENED but now I wot
• W246 WEENING is not measure
• W247 To WEEP Irish
• W248 To come home by WEEPING CROSS¹
• W249 An ill-spun WEFT will out either now or eft¹
• W250 WEIGH justly and sell dearly
• W251 WEIGH not what you give but what is given you
• W252 None knows the WEIGHT of another's burden
• W253 To be worth one's WEIGHT in gold
• W254 WEIGHT and measure take away strife
• W255 Great WEIGHTS hang on small wires
• W256 Such WELCOME such farewell
• W257 To bid one WELCOME to the fields
• W258 WELCOME is the best cheer
• W259 WELCOME when you go
• W260 Let WELL alone
• W261 When the WELL is full it will run over
• W262 Drawn WELLS are seldom dry
• W263 Drawn WELLS have sweetest water
• W264 Many WELLS many buckets
• W265 Never WELL, full nor fasting
• W266 WELLAND¹ shall drown all Holland² with his excrement
• W267 If WELL AND THEM cannot then ill and them can
• W268 Never be weary of WELL-DOING
• W269 WELL, WELL is a word of malice
• W270 The older the WELSHMAN the more madman
• W271 A WELSHMAN had rather see his dam on her bier than see a fair Februeer
• W272 The WELSHMAN keeps nothing until he has lost it
• W273 WELSH PARSLEY
• W274 Without WELT¹ or guard²
• W275 Young WENCHES make old wrenches
• W276 Who goes to WESTMINSTER¹ for a wife, to Paul's² for a man, and to Smithfield³ for a horse may meet with a whore, a knave, and a jade
• W277 When WESTRIDGE WOOD is motley then it's time to sow barley
• W278 He shrinks in the WETTING
• W279 As white as WHALE's-BONE
• W280 Carleton WHARLERS
• W281 If WHEAT comes not up weeds will
• W282 No WHEAT (corn) without its chaff
• W283 Sow WHEAT in dirt and rye in dust
• W284 WHEAT will not have two praises
• W285 When WHEAT lies long in bed it rises with an heavy head
• W286 A fifth WHEEL to a coach
• W287 The worst WHEEL of the cart makes most noise
• W288 He who greases his WHEELS helps his oxen
• W289 WHEELS within wheels
• W290 As drunk as a WHEELBARROW
• W291 As wanton as a WHELP (calf)
• W292 We may not expect a good WHELP from an ill dog
• W293 A WHELP of the same litter
• W294 When the WHELP games the old dog grins
• W295 He is WHERE he would be
• W296 A WHET is no let
• W297 A dry WHETSTONE does not its office
• W298 He lies for (He deserves) the WHETSTONE
• W299 A WHETSTONE cannot itself cut but yet it makes tools cut
• W300 Sit a WHILE and go a mile
• W301 Stay a WHILE (a little) that we may make an end the sooner
• W302 Many tine¹ the half-mark WHINGER² for the halfpenny thong (whang³)
• W303 A WHIP and a bell
• W304 WHIP and whir never made good fur
• W305 A WHIP for a fool and a rod for a school are always in good season
• W306 The WHIP with six strings
• W307 To have the WHIP HAND of one
• W308 You shall have WHIPPING CHEER
• W309 March WHISKER¹ was never a good fisher
• W310 Where there is WHISPERING there is lying
• W311 Not worth a WHISTLE
• W312 To wet one's WHISTLE
• W313 You may WHISTLE (go whistle) for it
• W314 As good never a WHITT as never the better
• W315 He is very good at a WHITEPOT
• W316 How does your WHITHER GO YOU?
• W317 You are as fine as if you had a WHITING hanging at your side or girdle
• W318 You have leaped a WHITING
• W319 Call her WHORE first
• W320 Hop WHORE, pipe thief
• W321 Once a WHORE and ever a whore
• W322 She plays the WHORE for apples and then bestows them upon the sick
• W323 A WHORE is like a crow, the more she washes the blacker she is
• W324 A young WHORE an old saint
• W325 Two WHORES in a house will never agree
• W326 WHORES affect not you but your money (purse)
• W327 WHORES and dogs fawn upon a man no longer than they are fed
• W328 WHOREDOM and grace can never abide in one place
• W329 WHORING and bawdry do often end in beggary
• W330 It will not be WHY for thy¹
• W331 There is never a WHY but there is a wherefore
• W332 The WHY and the wherefore
• W333 The WICKED flee when no man pursues
• W334 WIDE will wear but narrow will tear
• W335 He that marries a WIDOW and three children marries four thieves
• W336 He who marries a WIDOW will often have a dead man's head (death's-head) thrown in his dish
• W337 Long a WIDOW weds with shame
• W338 Marry a WIDOW before she leaves mourning
• W339 A rich WIDOW a quiet house
• W340 The rich WIDOW weeps with one eye and casts glances with the other
• W341 To make a WIDOW's fire (a crow's nest)
• W342 WIDOWS are always rich (Wooers and widows are never poor)
• W343 As busy as a good WIFE at oven
• W344 Choose a WIFE rather by your ear than your eye
• W345 Commend not your WIFE, wine, nor horse (house)
• W346 The cunning WIFE makes her husband her apron
• W347 A dead WIFE is the best goods in a man's house
• W347a Do not tell your WIFE all you know
• W348 A fair WIFE and a frontier castle breed quarrels
• W349 A fat WIFE never loved a faint husband
• W350 The first WIFE is matrimony, the second company, the third heresy
• W351 A good WIFE makes a good husband
• W352 The good WIFE of a willful man has many a woeful day
• W353 The good WIFE would not (No woman would) seek her daughter in the oven if she had not been there before
• W354 He that fetches a WIFE from Shrewsbury¹ must carry her into Staffordshire² or else shall live in Cumberland³
• W355 He that has a WIFE and children wants not business
• W356 He that has a WIFE has strife (care)
• W357 He that has no WIFE beats her often
• W358 He that kisses his WIFE in the market place shall have many teachers
• W359 He that lets his WIFE go to every feast and his horse drink at every water shall neither have good wife nor good horse
• W360 He that loses his WIFE and sixpence (a farthing) has lost a tester¹
• W361 He that makes his WIFE his master had need to be set a grazing
• W362 He that tells his WIFE news is but newly married
• W363 He that will put away his WIFE 'cause she farts and his horse 'cause he stumbles will be badly horsed and worse wived
• W364 He that would an old WIFE wed must eat an apple before he goes to bed
• W365 An ill WIFE that grows not worse is not of wives the worst
• W366 Little kens the WIFE that sits by the fire how the wind blows cold in Hurly-burly Swire
• W367 Little wots the ill willy WIFE what a dinner may hold in
• W368 My WIFE cries five loaves a penny
• W369 Next to no WIFE a good wife is best
• W370 A nice WIFE and a back door do often make a rich man poor
• W371 Refuse a WIFE with one fault and take one with two
• W372 The second WIFE is best beloved
• W373 Show me thy WIFE and I will tell thee what a husband thou art
• W374 There is one good WIFE in the country and every man thinks he has her
• W375 When the good WIFE is away the keys are tint¹
• W376 When the WIFE commands, thunderbolts fly about the house
• W377 Who has a fair WIFE needs more than two eyes
• W378 Who will have a handsome WIFE let him choose her upon Saturday and not upon Sunday
• W379 WIFE and children are bills of charges
• W380 WIFE and children are hostages given to fortune
• W381 The WIFE and the sword may be showed but not lent
• W382 A WIFE brings but two good days, her wedding day and death day
• W383 The WIFE (woman) is the key of the house
• W384 The WIFE that bites her lips and treads askew is to her husband or herself untrue
• W385 Long-tongued WIVES go long with bairn
• W386 WIVES must be had, be they good or bad
• W387 WIVES of clouts
• W388 Old WIVES' tales
• W389 The most WILD are in least danger to be stark mad
• W390 To run the WILD-GOOSE CHASE
• W391 WILES help weak folk
• W392 To be wedded to one's WILL
• W393 To take the WILL for the deed
• W394 Where the WILL is ready the feet are light
• W395 WILL buys and money pays
• W396 WILL is the cause of woe
• W397 WILL will have will (wilt) though will woe win
• W398 With as good a WILL as ever I came from school
• W399 WILL is a good boy when Will is at home
• W400 He must neither WILL nor choose
• W401 WILL he nill he
• W402 He is more WILLFUL than wise
• W403 To wear the WILLOW
• W404 WILLOWS are weak yet they bind other wood
• W405 WILLOWS will buy the owner a horse before other trees will pay for his saddle
• W406 He has played WILY-BEGUILED with himself
• W407 The little WIMBLE¹ will let in the great auger
• W408 WIN it and wear it
• W409 Ill WON, ill ward¹
• W410 All this WIND shakes no corn
• W411 As swift as the WIND
• W412 As wavering (changeable, fickle, inconstant) as the WIND
• W413 Blow the WIND ne'er so fast it will lown¹ at the last
• W414 Come WIND come weather
• W415 Every WIND blows not down the corn
• W416 He catches the WIND in a net
• W417 He that weighs the WIND must have a steady hand
• W418 If there be any WIND stirring it is most evident about the church
• W419 Is the WIND in that door (corner)?
• W420 It is a good WIND that blows a man to the wine
• W421 It is an ill (evil) WIND that blows no man good (to good)
• W422 Keep (Save) your WIND (breath) to cool your pottage (porridge, broth)
• W423 Let this WIND overblow
• W424 A little WIND kindles, much puts out the fire
• W425 March WIND and May sun make clothes white and maids dun
• W426 March WIND is a salt that seasons all pulse
• W427 Piss not against the WIND
• W428 Puff not against the WIND
• W429 Sail with the WIND and tide
• W430 That which comes with the WIND goes with the water
• W431 To fight against the WIND
• W432 To go down the WIND
• W433 To grind with every WIND
• W434 To have one in the WIND
• W435 To live by the WIND
• W436 To shoot between WIND and water
• W437 To sow the WIND and reap the whirlwind
• W438 To talk to the WIND
• W439 To turn with the WIND (tide)
• W440 To whistle after the WIND
• W441 What WIND blew (brought) you hither?
• W442 When the WIND is in the east it is good for neither man nor beast
• W443 When the WIND is in the south it blows the bait into the fish's mouth
• W444 When the WIND is in the south it is in the rain's mouth
• W445 When the WIND is in the west the weather is at the best
• W446 WIND and weather, do your worst
• W447 The WIND in one's face makes one wise
• W448 The WIND keeps not always in one quarter
• W449 You may as well turn the WIND as a woman
• W450 Huge (High) WINDS blow on high hills
• W451 To plow the WINDS
• W452 He that is redd¹ for WINDLESTRAWS² should not sleep in leas
• W453 You cannot make a WINDMILL go with a pair of bellows
• W454 Your WINDMILL is dwindled into a nutcracker
• W455 He has WINDMILLS in his head
• W456 To come in at the WINDOW (o'er the hatch)
• W457 To look through a hempen WINDOW
• W458 Drink WINE and have the gout and drink no wine and have the gout too
• W459 Drink WINE like a king, drink water like an ox
• W460 Good WINE makes a merry heart
• W461 Good WINE makes good blood
• W462 Good WINE needs no bush (ivy bush, sign)
• W463 He cries WINE and sells vinegar
• W464 He that drinks not WINE after salad is in danger to be sick
• W465 In WINE there is truth
• W466 No WINE without lees
• W467 Of WINE the middle, of oil the top, and of honey the bottom is best
• W468 Put not good WINE into an ill bottle (vessel)
• W469 Spilt (Puddled) WINE is worse than water
• W470 The sweetest WINE makes the sharpest vinegar
• W471 When WINE (ale) is in wit is out
• W472 WINE and wealth change wise men's manners
• W473 WINE and wenches empty men's purses
• W474 WINE and women make men runagates
• W475 WINE by the savor, bread (cloth) by the color
• W476 WINE ever pays for his lodging
• W477 WINE has drowned more men than the sea
• W478 WINE has no stern
• W479 WINE in the bottle does not quench thirst
• W480 WINE is a turncoat, first a friend then an enemy
• W481 WINE is the glass of the mind
• W482 WINE is the master's but the goodness is the drawer's
• W483 WINE is the old man's milk
• W484 WINE makes all sorts of creatures at table
• W485 WINE makes old wives wenches
• W486 WINE makes one have courage
• W487 WINE neither keeps secrets nor fulfills promises
• W488 WINE of one ear, wine of two ears
• W489 WINE that costs nothing is digested before it be drunk
• W490 WINE wears no breeches
• W491 WINE whets the wit (valor)
• W492 You cannot know WINE by the barrel
• W493 You praise the WINE before you taste of the grape
• W494 A great WINEBIBBER will buy no land
• W495 To be under another's (mother's) WING
• W496 He covers me with his WINGS and bites me with his bill
• W497 It is better to have WINGS than horns
• W498 To clip one's WINGS
• W499 To spread WINGS greater than the nest
• W500 Although I WINK I am not blind
• W501 You may WINK and choose
• W502 WINKABANK and Temple Brough will buy all England through and through
• W503 All the WINNING is in the first buying
• W504 Light (Small) WINNING makes a heavy purse
• W505 Your WINNING is not my tinsel¹
• W506 I might put my WINNINGS in my eye and see never the worse
• W507 A good WINTER brings a good summer
• W508 A green WINTER (Christmas) makes a fat churchyard
• W509 It is a hard WINTER (The hunger must be great) when one wolf eats another
• W510 WINTER eats that summer gets
• W511 WINTER is summer's heir
• W512 WINTER never rots in the sky
• W513 He that passes a WINTER's day escapes an enemy
• W514 WINTER's thunder and summer's flood never boded Englishman good
• W515 WINTER's thunder is (makes) summer's wonder
• W516 To WINTER one and to summer one for to know him perfectly
• W517 To sit like a WIREDRAWER under his work
• W518 By WISDOM peace, by peace plenty
• W519 No WISDOM to¹ silence
• W520 There is no WISDOM (law) below the girdle
• W521 What is not WISDOM (discretion) is danger
• W522 Who weens himself wise, WISDOM wots him a fool
• W523 WISDOM and haste may vary
• W524 WISDOM consists not in a beard
• W525 WISDOM has one foot on land and another on sea
• W526 WISDOM (Knowledge) is better than riches
• W527 WISDOM is better than strength
• W528 WISDOM is wealth to a poor man (He that is wise is rich)
• W529 If the WISE erred not it would go hard with fools
• W530 Think (Write) with the WISE (learned) but talk with the vulgar
• W531 To the WISE it is no shame to enter (come out of) a bawdyhouse, but not to know the way out on it (but to go in)
• W532 He is not WISE that is not wise for himself
• W533 He is WISE that is honest
• W534 He is WISE that is rich
• W535 If WISHES might prevail beggars (shepherds) would be kings
• W536 If WISHES were butter cakes beggars might bite
• W537 If WISHES were truths (thrushes) beggars would eat birds
• W538 If WISHES would bide (were horses) beggars would ride
• W539 WISHERS and woulders are never good householders
• W540 As wise as a WISP
• W541 He would fain be forward if he WIST how
• W542 As much WIT as three folks, two fools and a madman
• W543 Better a WIT cof't¹ than two for nought
• W544 Better WIT than wealth
• W545 Bought WIT is best
• W546 Bought WIT is dear
• W547 Do not set your WIT against a fool's (a child)
• W548 He has more WIT in his head than you in both your shoulders
• W549 He has more WIT in his little finger than you have in your whole hand (body)
• W550 He has no more WIT than a stone
• W551 He has some WIT but a fool has the guiding of it
• W552 He has WIT at will
• W553 He has WIT (wisdom) at will that with angry heart can hold him still
• W554 He shows all his WIT at once
• W555 His WIT is in the wane
• W556 It is good to buy WIT with other men's money
• W557 It is WIT to pick a lock and steal a horse but wisdom to let them alone
• W558 Leave WIT before it leave you
• W559 Little WIT makes mickle travel¹
• W560 Little WIT serves unto whom fortune pipes
• W561 No more WIT than a coot
• W562 Such a one has a good WIT if a wise man had the keeping of it
• W563 They talk as their WIT serves them
• W564 To have WIT (no wit) in one's noddle
• W565 WIT bought is better than wit taught
• W566 WIT in a poor man's head and moss in a mountain avail nothing
• W567 WIT is never good till it be bought (dearly bought)
• W568 The WIT of a woman is a great matter
• W569 The WIT (thrift) of you and the wool of a blue dog will make a good medley (web)
• W570 WIT, whither wilt thou?
• W571 You have a little WIT and it does you good sometimes
• W572 You have WIT enough to drown ships in
• W573 You may truss up all his WIT in an eggshell
• W574 You were born when WIT was scarce
• W575 He is at his WIT's end
• W576 The finest WITS are soonest subject to love
• W577 Good WITS have short (bad) memories
• W578 Good WITS jump¹
• W579 Great WITS (Poets) to madness sure are near allied
• W580 He always has his WITS about him
• W581 He lives by his WITS
• W582 His WITS go a woolgathering
• W583 To be frightened (scared) out of one's WITS (five wits and seven senses)
• W584 Aroint¹ thee, WITCH, quoth Besse Locket to her mother
• W585 I think you are a WITCH
• W586 They that burn you for a WITCH lose all their coals
• W587 To be no WITCH at anything
• W588 There is WITCHCRAFT in fair words
• W589 The old WITHY¹ TREE would have a new gate hung at it
• W590 There is a WITNESS everywhere
• W591 With a WITNESS
• W592 In WIVING and thriving a man should take counsel of all the world
• W593 He works his own WOE
• W594 There is no WOE to¹ want
• W595 WOE be to him that reads but one book
• W596 WOE be to him whose advocate becomes his accuser
• W597 WOE be to the wicked and woe be to them that cleave to them or to their neighbors that live near them
• W598 WOE to him that is alone
• W599 WOE to the house where there is no chiding
• W600 WOE to the land (kingdom) whose king is a child
• W601 As hungry as a WOLF
• W602 Give not the WOLF (fox) the wether (sheep) to keep (Make not the wolf your shepherd)
• W603 He holds a WOLF by the ears
• W604 It never troubles a WOLF how many the sheep be
• W605 Keep the WOLF from the door
• W606 One WOLF (bear) will not eat (bite, prey upon) another
• W607 Speak of the WOLF and he will appear
• W608 Speak of the WOLF and you will see his tail
• W609 To cry WOLF
• W610 Who has a WOLF for his mate needs a dog for his man
• W611 The WOLF and the fox are both of the same mind
• W612 The WOLF eats oft of the sheep that have been told¹
• W613 The WOLF goes to Rome and there leaves his hairs and not his manners (conditions)
• W614 A WOLF in a lamb's (sheep's) skin
• W615 The WOLF knows what the ill beast thinks
• W616 A WOLF (fox) may change his hair but not his heart (nature, malice)
• W617 The WOLF must die in his own skin
• W618 The WOLF never wants for a pretense against a lamb
• W619 Two WOLVES may worry one sheep
• W620 WOLVES lose their teeth but not their memory
• W621 The WOLVES saw him first
• W622 A dead WOMAN will have four to carry her forth
• W623 A dishonest WOMAN cannot be kept in and an honest one will not
• W624 A fair WOMAN and a slashed gown find always some nail in the way
• W625 A fair WOMAN and a slashed gown find always some nail in the way
• W626 Give a WOMAN her will and she will live the longer
• W627 He that does not love a WOMAN sucked a sow
• W628 An honest WOMAN is worth much (a crown of gold)
• W629 I am very wheamow,¹ said the old WOMAN when she stepped into the milk bowl
• W630 If a WOMAN were as little as she is good a peasecod would make her a gown and a hood
• W631 If she (he) were the only WOMAN (man) in the world
• W632 In a black WOMAN there is turpentine
• W633 A journeying WOMAN speaks much of all and all of her
• W634 An old WOMAN can do that the devil himself cannot do
• W635 An old WOMAN in a wooden ruff
• W636 A silent WOMAN better than a double-tongued man
• W637 To be born of WOMAN
• W638 Trust not a WOMAN when she weeps
• W639 What should be done with an old WOMAN (wife) but make gunpowder of her?
• W640 Who has a WOMAN has an eel by the tail
• W641 A wicked WOMAN and an evil is three halfpence worse than the devil
• W642 A wise (virtuous) WOMAN is the ornament of her house
• W643 A wise¹ WOMAN is twice a fool
• W644 A WOMAN, a spaniel (an ass), and a walnut tree (nut), the more they're beaten the better they be
• W645 A WOMAN and a cherry paint themselves for their hurt
• W646 A WOMAN and a glass are ever in danger
• W647 A WOMAN at a window as grapes on the highway
• W648 A WOMAN can do more than the devil
• W649 A WOMAN conceals what she knows not
• W650 A WOMAN does that which is forbidden her
• W651 A WOMAN either loves or hates to extremes
• W652 A WOMAN has nine lives, like a cat
• W653 A WOMAN is a weathercock
• W654 A WOMAN is never without an excuse
• W655 A WOMAN is the weaker vessel
• W656 WOMAN is the woe of man
• W657 A WOMAN kissed is half won
• W658 A WOMAN, like a German clock, is still¹ repairing (never goes true)
• W659 A WOMAN needs but to look on her apron string to find an excuse
• W660 A WOMAN says nay (no) and means aye
• W661 A WOMAN that has an ill husband has sorrow enough
• W662 A WOMAN that has lost her shame has lost her respect and her good name
• W663 A WOMAN that paints puts up a bill that she is to be let
• W664 The WOMAN that smells of nothing smells best
• W665 He has a WOMAN's tongue in his head
• W666 Let no WOMAN's painting breed thy stomach's fainting
• W667 Like an old WOMAN's breech, at no certainty
• W668 Take a WOMAN's first counsel and not her second
• W669 A WOMAN's advice (wit) helps at a pinch (is best at a dead lift)
• W670 A WOMAN's answer is never to seek
• W671 A WOMAN's counsel is sometimes good
• W672 A WOMAN's heart and her tongue are not relatives
• W673 A WOMAN's mind and winter wind (Winter weather and women's thoughts) change oft
• W674 A WOMAN's mind (A woman) is always mutable
• W675 A WOMAN's strength is in (A woman's weapon is) her tongue
• W676 A WOMAN's tongue is the last thing about her that dies
• W677 A WOMAN's tongue, like an aspen leaf, is always in motion
• W678 A WOMAN's tongue wags like a lamb's tail
• W679 A WOMAN's work is never done (at an end)
• W680 All WOMEN are good-either good for something or good for nothing
• W681 All WOMEN may be won
• W682 Choose neither WOMEN nor linen by candle-light (candle)
• W683 Discreet WOMEN have neither eyes nor ears
• W684 From WOMEN light and liquorish good fortune still deliver us
• W685 He is mad that quarrels with WOMEN or beasts
• W686 Many WOMEN many words
• W687 Many WOMEN many words, many geese many turds
• W688 The more WOMEN look in their glass the less they look to their house
• W689 Of WOMEN and fish the middle is best
• W690 Three WOMEN (Three women and a goose) make a market
• W691 Where there are WOMEN and geese there wants no noise
• W692 Without WOMEN we men cannot be
• W693 Witty WOMEN are sweet companions
• W694 WOMEN and dogs set men together by the ears
• W695 WOMEN and hens are lost by gadding
• W696 WOMEN and wine make men out of their wits
• W697 WOMEN are ambitious
• W698 WOMEN are as wavering (changeable, inconstant) as the wind
• W699 WOMEN are born in Wiltshire,¹ brought up in Cumberland,²lead their lives in Bedfordshire,³ bring their husbands to Buckingham,⁴ and die in Shrewsbury⁵
• W700 WOMEN are forgetful, children unkind, executors covetous and take what they find
• W701 WOMEN are great talkers
• W702 WOMEN are in church saints, abroad angels, at home devils
• W703 WOMEN are necessary evils
• W704 WOMEN are tempted by gifts
• W705 WOMEN are wasps if angered
• W706 WOMEN are young men's mistresses, middle-aged men's companions, and old men's nurses
• W707 WOMEN be the devil's nets
• W708 WOMEN have but two faults, they can neither do well nor say well
• W709 WOMEN have no souls
• W710 WOMEN have tears of dissimulation as well as sorrow
• W711 WOMEN in mischief (in things ill) are wiser than men
• W712 WOMEN in state affairs are like monkeys in glass shops
• W713 WOMEN laugh when they can and weep when they will
• W714 WOMEN, money, and wine have their good and their pine¹
• W715 WOMEN must have their wills while they live because they make none when they die
• W716 WOMEN naturally deceive, weep, and spin
• W717 WOMEN, priests, and poultry have never enough
• W718 WOMEN receive perfection by men
• W719 WOMEN think place¹ a sweet fish
• W720 WOMEN weep and sicken when they list
• W721 WOMEN will be quiet when they are well pleased
• W722 WOMEN will have the last word
• W723 WOMEN will have their wills
• W724 WOMEN's passions are natural and can never heal themselves
• W725 Better plays (pleases) a full WOMB than a new coat
• W726 From the WOMB to the tomb
• W727 WONDER (Marvel, Admiration) is the daughter of ignorance
• W728 A WONDER lasts but nine days
• W729 Three WONDERS of England: the churches, the women, the wool
• W730 WONT beguiled the lady
• W731 WOO, wed, and bed (wear) her
• W732 He has lost himself in a WOOD
• W733 Not to be able to see WOOD for trees
• W734 Every WOOD has its worm
• W735 Green WOOD makes a hot fire
• W736 He knows not of what WOOD to make his arrows
• W737 He that lives longest must fetch his WOOD farthest
• W738 Lay on more WOOD, ashes yield money
• W739 Like WOOD like arrows
• W740 Old WOOD best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read
• W741 There is no WOOD so green but it will set itself on fire
• W742 WOOD half-burned is easily kindled
• W743 WOOD in wilderness and strength in a fool
• W744 I will tent¹ thee, quoth WOOD; if I can't rule my daughter, I'll rule my good
• W745 Once WOOD,¹ aye the worse (never wise)
• W746 As wise as a WOODCOCK
• W747 One WOODCOCK does not make a winter
• W748 To play the WOODCOCK
• W749 Happy (Blessed) is the WOOING that is not long a doing
• W750 The WOOING was a day after the wedding
• W751 As warm as WOOL
• W752 He is not worth the WOOL of a dog
• W752a I have other WOOL to toze¹
• W753 Lemster WOOL (ore¹)
• W754 Many go out for WOOL and come home shorn
• W755 There is no WOOL so white but a dyer can make it black
• W756 You were better give the WOOL than the sheep
• W757 A WOOL SELLER knows a wool buyer
• W758 After WORD comes weird
• W759 Every WORD requires not an answer
• W760 A good WORD is as soon said as an ill (a bad)
• W761 He has his saying WORD and his denaying word
• W762 He has not a WORD to cast at a dog
• W763 He is but a WORD and a blow
• W764 He will have the last WORD though he talk bilk for it
• W765 If a WORD be worth one shekel silence is worth two
• W766 An ill WORD is always ready (never to seek)
• W767 No WORD but mum
• W768 Not a WORD of Penzance
• W769 Not a WORD of the pudding
• W770 One ill WORD asks another
• W771 One ill WORD meets another and it were at the Bridge of London
• W772 There is many a true WORD spoken in jest
• W773 There was never a fair WORD in flyting¹
• W774 To speak a cold (cool) WORD with one
• W775 To speak a good WORD for one
• W776 While the WORD is in your mouth it is your own, when it is once spoken it is another's
• W777 A WORD and a stone let go (A word spoken) cannot be called back
• W778 A WORD before (in time) is worth two behind (afterwards)
• W779 A WORD is the shade (shadow) of an action
• W780 A WORD spoken is an arrow let fly
• W781 A WORD to a wise man is enough (Few words to the wise suffice)
• W782 He is (is not) his WORD's master
• W783 At three WORDS he is at the top of the house
• W784 Bad WORDS find bad acceptance
• W785 Bad WORDS make a woman worse
• W786 Bare WORDS are no lawful (good) bargain
• W787 Evening WORDS are not like to morning
• W788 Fair WORDS and ill deeds deceive both wise and fools
• W789 Fair (Soft, Good) WORDS break no bones
• W790 Fair WORDs broke never bone, foul words break many one
• W791 Fair WORDS butter no parsnips
• W792 Fair WORDS did fet gromwell seed plenty
• W793 Fair WORDS hurt not the mouth (tongue)
• W794 Fair WORDS (promises) make fools fain
• W795 Fair WORDS make me look to my purse
• W796 Few WORDS among friends are best
• W797 Few WORDS and many deeds
• W798 Few WORDS are best
• W799 Few WORDS show men wise
• W800 Fine WORDS dress ill deeds
• W801 Foul (High) WORDS break no bones
• W802 From WORDS to deeds is a great space (distance)
• W803 Good WORDS anoint us and ill do unjoint us
• W804 Good WORDS are good cheap
• W805 Good WORDS are worth much and cost little
• W806 Good WORDS cool (quench) more than cold (a bucket of, a cauldron of) water
• W807 Good WORDS cost no more than bad
• W808 Good WORDS cost nought (nothing)
• W809 Good WORDS fill not a sack
• W810 Good WORDS help sick minds
• W811 Good WORDS make some amends for ill deeds
• W812 Good WORDS without deeds are rushes and reeds
• W813 He spares no WORDS that brings good news
• W814 It is good to find modest WORDS to express immodest things
• W815 Many WORDS breed a brawl
• W816 Many WORDS many buffets
• W817 Many WORDS will not fill a bushel (fill not the firlot¹)
• W818 Many WORDS would have mickle drink
• W819 More WORDS than one go to a bargain
• W820 Not WORDS but deeds
• W821 Soft WORDS and hard arguments
• W822 Soft (Fair, Gentle) WORDS pacify (appease) wrath
• W823 There are many fair WORDS in the marriage making but few in the tochergood1 paying
• W824 To come from WORDS to blows
• W825 To eat one's WORDS
• W826 To speak nine WORDS at once
• W827 Two WORDS to a bargain
• W828 Where many WORDS are, the truth goes by
• W829 Who gives good WORDS feeds with an empty spoon
• W830 Wise WORDS and great seldom agree
• W831 WORDS and feathers the wind carries away
• W832 WORDS are but sands (words), it is money buys lands
• W833 WORDS are but wind
• W834 WORDS are but wind, but blows are unkind (but dunts¹ are the devil)
• W835 WORDS are wise men's counters but the money of fools
• W836 The WORDS ending in -ic do mock the physician, as hectic, paralytic, apoplectic, lethargic
• W837 WORDS have long tails and have no tails
• W838 WORDS have wings and cannot be recalled
• W839 WORDS hurt (cut) more than swords
• W840 WORDS may pass but blows fall heavy
• W841 Account not that WORK slavery that brings in penny savory
• W842 All WORK and no play makes Jack a dull boy
• W843 Everybody's WORK is nobody's work
• W844 He begins his WORK today but God knows when he will end
• W845 He that pays beforehand has his WORK ill done
• W846 If anything stay let WORK stay
• W847 One's own WORK fouls not one's fingers
• W848 Some WORK in the morning may trimly be done that all the day after can hardly be won
• W849 They that can cobble and clout shall have WORK when others go without
• W850 WORK bears witness who well does
• W851 A WORK ill done must be twice done
• W852 The last WORKS of men (God) are best
• W853 He that kills himself with WORKING must be buried under the gallows
• W854 WORKING and making a fire do discretion require
• W855 As is the WORKMAN so is the work
• W856 The better WORKMAN the worse husband¹
• W857 An ill WORKMAN quarrels with his tools
• W858 Never had ill WORKMAN good tools
• W859 What is a WORKMAN without his tools?
• W860 The WORKMAN is known by his work
• W861 Good WORKMEN are seldom rich
• W862 There be more WORKMEN than masters (skillfull workmen)
• W863 The WORKMANSHIP is better than the stuff
• W864 All the WORLD cannot save him
• W865 All the WORLD is too little for him
• W866 As good be out of the WORLD (Better be dead) as out of fashion
• W867 Had you the WORLD on your chessboard you could not fill all to your mind
• W868 He that deals in the WORLD needs four sieves
• W869 He that has the WORLD at will seems wise (To have the world at will)
• W870 He that is giddy thinks the WORLD turns round
• W871 He that trusts to the WORLD is sure to be deceived
• W872 He will find it in another WORLD
• W873 I hate no one but love all the WORLD
• W874 I wot well how the WORLD wags, he is most loved that has most bags
• W875 If the whole WORLD does not enter yet half of it will
• W876 If the WORLD will be gulled let it be gulled
• W877 In the WORLD who knows not to swim goes (The world is round and he that cannot swim sinks) to the bottom
• W878 It is a WORLD¹ to see
• W879 Let the WORLD wag (slide, pass)
• W880 A mad WORLD, my masters
• W881 This is the WORLD and the other is the country
• W882 This WORLD is a stage and every man plays his part
• W883 This WORLD is nothing except it tend to another
• W884 This WORLD will not last aye
• W885 To be beforehand with the WORLD
• W886 To have the WORLD (fortune) in a string
• W887 To think that all the WORLD is oatmeal
• W888 To traverse (travel through) the WORLD safely one must have the eye of a falcon, the ears of an ass, the countenance of an ape, the tongue of a mountebank, the shoulders of a camel, the mouth of a hog, and the feet of a hind
• W889 We weeping come into the WORLD and weeping hence we go
• W890 When all the WORLD shall be aloft then Hallamshire¹ shall be God's croft
• W891 When I die the WORLD dies with me
• W892 When the WORLD is at the worst it will mend
• W893 The WORLD goes (runs) on wheels
• W894 The WORLD is a long journey
• W895 The WORLD is a wide parish
• W896 The WORLD is full of fools (knaves)
• W897 The WORLD is like a ladder, one goes up, the other down
• W898 The WORLD is not always at a stay
• W899 The WORLD is nought
• W900 The WORLD is nowadays, God save the conqueror
• W901 The WORLD is round (turns as a ball)
• W902 The WORLD is well amended with him
• W903 The WORLD may be topsy-turvy in an hour
• W904 The WORLD still he keeps at his staff's end that needs not to borrow and never will lend
• W905 The worst WORLD that ever was, some man won
• W906 The worst WORLD that ever was, the maltman got his sack again
• W907 He has a WORM in his brain
• W908 A little WORM may lie under a great stone
• W909 Tread on a WORM and it will turn
• W910 There cannot lightly come a WORSE except the devil come himself
• W911 If the WORST come to the worst
• W912 It is good to fear the WORST
• W913 It is good to fear (Provide for) the WORST, the best will save itself
• W914 Let him do his WORST
• W915 To know the WORST is good
• W916 The WORST can fall is but a denial
• W917 The WORST goes foremost
• W918 The WORST is behind
• W919 The WORST of law is that one suit breeds twenty
• W920 Hot WORTS¹ make soft crusts
• W921 Great WORTH is often found in things of small appearance (in little boxes)
• W922 We never know the WORTH of water till the well goes dry
• W923 The WORTH of a thing is as it is esteemed (valued)
• W924 The WORTH of a thing is best known by the want
• W925 The WORTH of a thing is the money it will bring
• W926 WOTTON UNDER WEAVER where God came never
• W927 A green WOUND is soon healed
• W928 An ill WOUND is cured, not an ill name
• W929 Though the WOUND be healed yet the scar remains
• W930 The WOUND that bleeds inwardly is most dangerous
• W931 Green WOUNDS will not be touched
• W932 He that is afraid of WOUNDS must not come nigh a battle
• W933 WRANGLERS never want words
• W934 Where WRATH is joined with power there are thunderbolts
• W935 Everything helps, quoth the WREN when she pissed in the sea
• W936 The WREN is Our Lady's hen
• W937 It is fair before the WREN's door where there is nothing within
• W938 As sore fight WRENS as cranes
• W939 He is not the best WRIGHT that hews the maniest¹ speals²
• W940 Before you WRITE receive and before you give write
• W941 You may WRITE on it if he say it
• W942 All WRONG comes to wrack
• W943 Do WRONG (ill) once and you will never hear the end of it
• W944 He that wreaks himself at every WRONG shall never sing the rich man's song
• W945 If I had revenged all WRONG I had not worn my skirts so long
• W946 To forget a WRONG is best revenge (remedy)
• W947 WRONG has no warrant
• W948 WRONG hears, wrong answer gives
• W949 The WRONGS of a husband or master are not reproached
• W950 To scold like a WYCH-WALLER¹
• 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
• Z1 Banbury¹ ZEAL (veal), cheese, and cakes
• Z2 ZEAL has wings (will fly)
• Z3 ZEAL without knowledge is the sister of folly