Chapter D: Damage suffered makes you wise (or knowing), but seldom rich, 346 (1)

Darkness and night are mothers of thought, 322

Daughter-in-law hates mother-in-law, 169

Daughters are easy to rear, but hard to marry, 170

Daughters are brittle ware, 311

Daughters may be seen but not heard, 311

Daylight will come, though the cock do not crow, 358

Dead dogs don’t bite, 170, 312

Dear is cheap, and cheap is dear, 288

Dear physic always does good, if not to the patient, at least to the
apothecary, 170

Dearness gluts, 13

Dearth foreseen never came, 77

Death does not blow a trumpet, 363

Death is in the pot, 322

Death keeps no almanack, 304

Death spares neither Pope nor beggar, 294

Deceit and treachery make no man rich, 346

Deceive not thy physician, confessor, or lawyer, 197

Deeds are love, and not sweet words (or fine phrases), 238, 287

Deep draughts, and long morning slumbers, soon make a man poor, 399

Deep swimmers and high climbers seldom die in their beds, 310

Deferred is not annulled (Forbearance is no acquittance), 172

Delays are dangerous, 109

Desire beautifies what is ugly, 217

Desperate ills require desperate remedies, 7

Despise not a small wound, a poor kinsman, or an humble enemy, 381

Despise your enemy and you will soon be beaten, 275

Devils must be driven out with devils, 170

Diamond cut diamond, 18

Different times different manners, 70

Diligent work makes a skilful workman, 380

Dirty water does not wash clean, 67

Discover not your silent money (_i.e._ your hoarded money) to
anybody, 260

Disputing and borrowing cause grief and sorrowing, 166

Distrust is poison to friendship, 390

Do as others do, and few will mock you, 368

Do good, and care not to whom, 98, 277

Do good to a knave, and pray God he may not do the same to thee, 370

Do ill, and expect the like, 277

Do not abstain from sowing for fear of the pigeons, 23

Do not buy a carrier’s ass, or marry an innkeeper’s daughter, 230

Do not divide the spoil till the victory is won, 140

Do not fret for news, it will grow old and you will know it, 241

Do not give a dog bread every time he wags his tail, 112

Do not hang all on one nail, 152

Do not judge of the ship from the land, 113

Do not judge the dog by his hairs, 389

Do not lend your money to a great man, 40

Do not lose honour through fear, 242

Do not make two devils of one, 23

Do not put in more warp than you can weave, 403

Do not rear a bird of a bad breed, 274

Do not rejoice at my grief, for when mine is old yours will be new,
237

Do not ship all in one bottom, 158

Do not spread your corn to dry at an enemy’s door (Asturian), 230

Do not steal a loaf from him that kneads and bakes, 197

Do not strip before bedtime, 24

Do not stuff your servant with bread, and he won’t ask for cheese, 203

Do not talk Arabic in the house of a Moor, 221

Do not tell your secrets behind a wall or a hedge, 259

Do not wade where you see no bottom, 402

Don’t be a baker if your head is made of butter, 285 (_See_ He that
_and_ He who)

Don’t believe in the saint unless he works miracles, 112

Don’t believe what you see, husband, but only what I tell you, 230

Don’t bite till you know whether it is bread or a stone, 113

Don’t budge, if you sit at ease, 166

Don’t buy a cat in a bag (Don’t buy a pig in a poke), 160, 331

Don’t carry your head too high, the door is low, 159

Don’t cross the water unless you see the bottom, 84

Don’t cry fried fish before they are caught, 113

Don’t cry herrings till they are in the net, 337

Don’t cry holloa! till you’re out of the bush, 337

Don’t cry hurra! till you’re over the bridge (or ditch, or hedge),
167, 168, 337

Don’t divide the spoil before the victory is won, 160

Don’t find fault with what you don’t understand, 40

Don’t fly till your wings are feathered, 148

Don’t go a-fishing to a famous stream, 68

Don’t kill the man at the count’s desire, 222

Don’t learn too much, Jack, else you must do a great deal, 151

Don’t leave the high road for a short cut, 284

Don’t make an oven of your cap or a garden of your belly, 40

Don’t make yourself poor to one who won’t make you rich, 286

Don’t mention the cross to the devil, 114

Don’t play with the bear if you don’t want to be bit, 113

Don’t pull hard enough to break the rope, 286

Don’t put your finger into too tight a ring, 40, 115

Don’t reckon your eggs before they are laid, 98

Don’t reckon without your host, 160

Don’t rely on the label of the bag, 24

Don’t scuffle with the potter, for he makes money by the damage, 237

Don’t sell the bearskin before the bear is dead, 333

Don’t sell the bearskin before you have caught (or killed) the bear,
115, 140, 341

Don’t sell the skin till you have caught the fox, 397

Don’t send away your cat for being a thief, 196

Don’t show your teeth if you can’t bite, 51

Don’t snap your fingers at the dogs before you are out of the
village, 24

Don’t stop the way of a bull or of a current of air, 198

Don’t talk Latin before the Franciscans, 23

Don’t teach fishes to swim, 23

Don’t throw away your dirty water till you have got clean, 160

Don’t throw away your old shoes till you have got new ones, 318

Don’t throw the handle after the bill, 333

Don’t yoke the plough before the horses, 333

Do what I say well, and not what I do ill, 224

Do what the friar says, and not what he does, 224

Do what thou doest (Age quod agis), 170

Do what you ought, come what may, 18, 98

Do you carry the trough, husband, and I will carry the sieve, which
is as heavy as the devil, 228

Do you speak English? (_Meaning_, Have you got any money? _We used to
say in England_, Have you got any Spanish?), 338

Do you want better bread than wheaten? 63

Do you want to buy cheap? Buy of a needy fool, 253

Do you want to see a wolf with young (_i.e._ an insatiable
plunderer)? Marry your daughter, 254

Doctor Luther’s shoes do not fit every parish priest, 141

Does your neighbour bore you? Lend him a sequin, 127

Dogs bark at those they don’t know, 101

Dogs have teeth in all countries, 328

Dogs that bark much don’t bite, 153

Doing nothing teaches doing ill, 164

Dominies come for your wine, and officers for your daughters, 312

Dread the anger of the dove, 14

Dreams are froth (or lies), 57, 171

Dress slowly when you are in a hurry, 19

Dressed like a windmill, 19

Drink nothing without seeing it, sign nothing without reading it, 284

Drink upon salad costs the doctor a ducat; drink upon eggs costs him
two, 144

Drink wine and let water go to the mill, 75

Drink wine upon figs, 258

Drive not away what never came near you, 370

Drop by drop fills the tub, 19

Drop by drop wears away the stone, 19, 68

Drop the jest when it is most amusing, 107

Dry wood makes a quick fire, 401

Ducats are clipped, pence are not, 141

Dull scissors make crooked-mouthed tailors, 365

Dumb dogs and still water are dangerous, 170

Dung is no saint, but where it falls it works miracles, 217

E.

Eagles catch no fleas, 299

Eagles do not breed doves, 133, 299

Early marriage, long love, 148

Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and
wise, 148

Early to rise and late to bed, lifts again the debtor’s head, 148

Earnestness and sport go well together, 347

East or west, home is best, 165, 336

Easy to say is hard to do, 2

Eat bread at pleasure, drink wine by measure, 44

Eat bread that’s light, and cheese by weight, 302

Eat of your own, and call yourself mine (_i. e._ Be my servant and
find yourself), 272

Eat with him, and beware of him, 272

Eaten bread is soon forgotten, 103

Eating sets the head to rights, 195

Eating teaches drinking, 102

Economy is a great revenue, 345

Eggs and oaths are easily broken, 364

Eggs are put to hatch on chance, 3

Either fight not with priests or beat them to death, 160

Either rich or hanged, 238

Either the ass will die, or he that goads it, 238

Empty casks (or vessels) make the most noise, 36, 158, 331, 401

Empty rooms make giddy housewives, 63

Empty waggons make most noise, 401

Enjoy your little whilst the fool is seeking for more, 223

Enough is as good as a feast, 319

Enough is better than a sackful, 149

Enough is better than too much, 38, 319

Enough is enough, and too much spoils, 73

Enough is great riches, 393

Entreat him in jackass fashion; if he won’t carry the sack, give him
a whack, 188

Entreat the churl and the bargain is broken off, 121

Entreaties to get him to sing, and entreaties to leave off, 254

Entreaty and right do the deed, 254

Envy crieth of spite where honour rideth, 335

Envy does not enter an empty house, 348

Envy envies itself, 163

Envy goes beyond avarice, 17

Envy is its own torturer, 348

Envy was never a good spokesman, 348

Erring is not cheating (A mistake is no fraud), 154

Error is no payment, 97

Escaping from the smoke he falls into the fire, 306

Even a fly has its anger (or spleen), 71, 106

Even a frog would bite if it had teeth, 71

Even a hair casts its shadow, 134, 206, 270 (_See_ Every hair)

Even a horse, though he has four feet, stumbles, 72, 76, 134, 315

Even among the apostles there was a Judas, 72

Even clever hens sometimes lay their eggs among nettles, 383

Even counted sheep are eaten by the wolf, 9, 71, 140

Even crumbs are bread, 398

Even foxes are caught, 71

Even hares pull a lion by the beard when he is dead, 336

Even he gets on who is drawn by oxen, 373

Even old foxes are caught in the snare, 72

Even that fish may be caught that strives the hardest against it, 388

Even the best hack stumbles once, 134 (_See_ Even a horse)

Even the dog gets bread by wagging his tail, 72

Even the fool says a wise word sometimes, 71

Even the just has need of help, 71

Even the lion must defend himself against the flies, 134

Even the sea, great as it is, grows calm, 71

Even woods have ears, 71

Ever one hair, only one, and the man is bald at last, 154

Every ant has its ire, 270 (_See_ Even a fly)

Every beginning is hard, said the thief, when he began by stealing an
anvil, 133, 296

Every bird needs its own feathers, 366

Every bird sings as it is beaked, 317

Every bird thinks its own nest beautiful, 68

Everybody is wise after the thing has happened, 59

Everybody knows best where his own shoe pinches (_Also Scotch_), 156
(_See_ Every one)

Everybody knows good counsel except him that has need of it, 133

Everybody must live, 22

Everybody must wear out one pair of fool’s shoes, if he wear no more,
156

Everybody says it, nobody does it, 156, 375

Everybody thinks his own cuckoo sings better than another’s
nightingale, 155

Everybody’s business is nobody’s business, 175

Everybody’s companion is nobody’s friend, 156

Everybody’s friend and nobody’s friend is all one, 199, 265

Everybody’s friend is everybody’s fool, 156, 297, 375

Everybody’s friend, nobody’s friend, 71

Every cask smells of the wine it contains, 207, 270

Every clown can find fault, though it would puzzle him to do better,
170

Every cock crows on his own dunghill, 207

Every cock is valiant on his own dunghill, 284, 314

Every country has its custom, 221

Every day a thread makes a skein in the year, 297

Every day has its night, 116, 366

Every day is not a holiday, 113, 116, 324

Every ditch is full of after-wit, 91

Every dog is not a lion at home, 116

Every dog is valiant in his own kennel, 13

Every flood hath its ebb, 297

Every fly has its shadow, 271

Every foal is not like its sire, 368

Every fool is pleased with his bauble, 193

Every fool is wise when he holds his tongue, 116

Every fool thinks he is clever enough, 366

Every fool wants to give advice, 116

Every fox likes a henroost, 68

Every fox looks after his own skin, 375

Every glowworm is not fire (Every light is not the sun), 116, 163

Every hair casts its shadow, 134, 206, 270 (_See_ Even a hair)

Every hare may pluck the dead lion’s mane, 137 (_See_ Even hares)

Every hill has its valley, 116

Every hooked beak is maintained by prey, 59

Every house has its cross, 317

Every labourer is worthy of his hire, 155

Every land its own custom, every wheel its own spindle, 271

Every law is broken to become a king, 241

Every life has its joy, every joy its law, 376

Every little fish expects to become a whale, 356

Every little helps, 296

Every little helps, said the sow, when she snapped at a gnat, 347

Every little helps to lighten the freight, said the captain, as he
threw his wife overboard, 296

Every man carries an enemy in his own bosom, 365

Every man for himself, and God for us all, 155 (_See_ Every one)

Every man has a fool in his sleeve, 12, 88

Every man has a good wife and a bad trade, 117

Every man has his liking, 375

Every man has his lot, and a wide world before him, 368

Every man has his value, 12

Every man his own is not too much, 317

Every man is dearest to himself, 155

Every man is master in his own house, 314

Every man is the architect of his own fortune, 155, 366

Every man is the best interpreter of his own words, 155

Every man is the son of his own works, 207

Every man likes his own praise best, 375

Every man must carry his own sack to the mill, 118, 375

Every man rides his own hobby, 147

Every man thinks his own copper gold, 155, 366

Every man thinks his own owl a falcon, 317

Every man to his taste, 12

Every man to his trade, 271

Every medal has its reverse, 13, 116

Every mother’s child is handsome, 156

Every one bears his cross, 12

Every one can navigate in fine weather, 117

Every one counts for as much as he has, 155

Every one draws the water to his own mill, 12, 117

Every one feels his own burden heavy, 1

Every one feels the cold according as he is clad, 207

Every one finds fault with his own trade, 117

Every one finds sin sweet and repentance bitter, 375

Every one for himself and God for us all, 12, 117, 155, 207, 271, 317

Every one gives himself credit for more brains than he has, and less
money, 117

Every one goes with his own sack to the mill, 118, 375

Every one has his master, 145

Every one his own is but fair, 12

Every one in his own house, and God in all men’s, 207

Every one is a king in his own house, 270

Every one is a preacher under the gallows, 314

Every one is a thief in his own craft, 317

Every one is emperor on his own ground, 143

Every one is wise after the event (or when the mischief is done),
163, 213

Every one is wise for his own profit, 271

Every one knows best where the shoe pinches him, 12, 117, 156, 207,
271

Every one likes justice in another’s house, none in his own, 117

Every one likes to wipe his shoes on poverty, 134

Every one must pay his debt to nature, 155

Every one must row with the oars he has, 317

Every one praises his own saint, 117

Every one preaches for his own saint, 12

Every one rakes the fire under his own pot, 366

Every one reaps as he sows, 270

Every one says: My right is good, 12

Every one sees his smart coat, no one sees his shrunken belly, 347

Every one should sweep before his own door, 12

Every one sings as he has the gift, and marries as he has the luck,
270

Every one sneezes as God pleases, 207

Every one speaks as he is, 271

Every one speaks of the feast (or fair) as he finds it, 207, 271

Every one stretches his legs according to the length of his coverlet
(Cut your coat according to your cloth), 207, 271

Every one takes his flogging in his own way, 12

Every one takes his pleasure where he finds it, 12

Every one thinks he has more than his own share of brains, 91

Every one thinks himself without sin because he has not that of
others, 117

Every one thinks his owl a falcon, 155

Every one thinks his own cross the heaviest, 68

Every one thinks that all the bells echo his own thoughts, 155

Every one to his equal, 271

Every one to his own calling, and the Ox to the plough, 117

Every one tries to cross the fence where it is lowest, 366

Every one wishes to bring water to his own mill, and leave his
neighbour’s dry, 207 (_See_ Every one draws)

Every pedlar praises his own needles, 206, 270

Every pig has its Martinmas, 271

Every potter praises his pot, and the more if it is cracked, 116, 207

Every potter vaunts his own pot, 13

Every priestling conceals a popeling, 154

Every promise is a debt, 117

Every road leads to Rome, 59, 259

Every rose has its thorn, 117

Every saint has his festival, 68

Every shop has its trick (There are tricks in all trades), 116

Every shot does not bring down a bird, 317

Every ten years one man has need of another, 116

Everything comes in time to him who can wait, 59

Everything does not fall that totters, 59

Everything goes by favour and cousinship, 59

Everything goes to him who does not want it, 59

Everything has an end—except a sausage, which has two, 347

Everything has an end excepting God, 297

Everything has its time, 270

Everything has two handles (or two sides), 297

Everything in its season, and turnips in Advent, 207

Everything is good for something, 116

Everything is good in its season, 90

Everything is of every year, 116

Everything may be borne except good fortune, 116

Everything may be bought except day and night, 41

Everything may be repaired except the neckbone, 129

Everything must have a beginning, 6, 116, 292

Everything new is beautiful, 92

Everything passes, everything breaks, everything wearies, 59

Everything would be well were there not a “but,” 133

Every to-morrow brings its bread, 13

Every truth is not to be told, 117

Every tub must stand on its own bottom, 367

Every vine must have its stake, 117

Every why has its wherefore, 297

Every wind does not shake down the nut, 117

Every wind is against a leaky ship, 366

Every woman would rather be handsome than good, 156

Evil be to him who evil thinks, 82

Evil is soon done, but slowly mended, 395

Evil must be driven out by evil, 390

Evil wastes itself, 395

Evil words corrupt good manners, 302

Exchange is no robbery, 170

Expect not at another’s hand what you can do by your own, 197

Experience is the best teacher, 145

Extravagant offers are a kind of denial, 116

Extremes meet, 34

Eye-service is the courtier’s art, 394

F.

Faint heart is always in danger, 273

Faint heart never won fair lady, 27, 136, 173, 348

Faint praise is akin to abuse, 372

Fair and softly goes far, 45, 283

Fair flowers do not remain long by the wayside, 168

Fair, good, rich, and wise, is a woman four stories high, 8

Fair is he that comes, but fairer he that brings, 54

Fair money can cover much that’s foul, 337

Fair promises bind fools, 74

Fair things are soon snatched away, 8

Fair words and rotten apples, 74

Fair words, but look to your purse, 74

Fair words don’t butter the cabbage, 168

Fair words don’t fill the pocket, 168

Fair words please the fool, and sometimes the wise, 367

Fair words won’t feed a cat, 74

Fair words won’t fill the sack, 337, 398

Fall sick, and you will see who is your friend and who not, 215

Falsehood is the Devil’s daughter, and speaks her father’s tongue, 385

Falsehood never tires of going round about, 385

Falsehood travels and grows, 385

Falseness often lurks beneath fair hair, 367

Fame and repute follow a man to the door, 396

Fancy requires much, necessity but little, 174

Far fetched and dear bought is meat for ladies, 340

Far from the eyes, far from the heart, 109

Farewell baskets, the vintage is ended, 2

Fast as the hare runs, the greyhound outruns her, since he catches
her, 241

Fat broth cannot be made of nothing, 42

Fat head, lean brains, 77

Fat hens lay few eggs, 148

Fat pastures make fat venison, 8

Father and mother are kind, but God is kinder, 367

Favour and gifts disturb justice, 372

Fear guards the vineyard, 107, 232

Fear is a great inventor, 30

Feather by feather the goose is plucked, 72

Feet accustomed to go cannot be still, 291

Feet that are used to move cannot remain quiet, 240

Feign death and the bull will leave you, 278

Few have luck, all have death, 367

Few women turn grey because their husbands die, 367

Fie upon a cloak in fair weather, 18

“Fie upon thee, how black thou art!” said the kettle to the sauce
pan, 369

Fine and fine make but a slender doublet, 18

Fine birds are commonly plucked, 19

Fine feathers make fine birds, 28, 307

Fine linen often conceals a foul skin, 402

Fine words don’t fill the belly, 277, 336

Fine words without deeds go not far, 367

Fire and love do not say, “Go to your work,” 217

Fire and straw soon make a flame, 380

Fire and water are good servants but bad masters, 148, 380

Fire drives the wasp out of its nest, 102

Fire is not quenched with fire, 102

Fire in the heart sends smoke into the head, 148

First a turnip, then a sheep; next a cow, and then the gallows, 318

First come, first served, 36

First look at home, then censure me, 169

First weigh, then venture, 145

Fish and guests smell at three days old, 365

Fish begin to stink at the head, 138

Fit the foot to the shoe, not the shoe to the foot, 264

Five fingers hold more than two forks, 148

Flatterers are cats that lick before and scratch behind, 168

Flattery is sweet food for those who can swallow it, 398

Flies are easier caught with honey than with vinegar, 43

Flies don’t light on a boiling pot, 3, 69

Flies flock to the lean horse, 66

Flowers are the pledges of fruit, 351

Flying from the bull he fell into the river, 225

Folks say there is a lack of four sorts of people on earth: of
priests, else one would not have six or seven benefices; of
gentlemen, else every boor would not want to be a squire; of whores,
else married women and nuns would not carry on the trade; of Jews,
else Christians would not practise usury (_Trench quotes this as the
longest Proverb known_), 160

Follow the customs, or fly the country, 389

Follow the river and you will reach the sea, 57

Follow the road and you will reach an inn, 271

Folly hath eagle’s wings, but the eyes of an owl, 304

Folly is the most incurable of maladies, 218

Fond of lawsuits, little wealth; fond of doctors, little health; fond
of friars, little honour, 198

Fools and the perverse fill the lawyer’s purse, 233

Fools are free all the world over, 312

Fools ask what’s o’clock, but wise men know their time, 305

Fools build houses, wise men buy them, 163

Fools go in throngs, 3

Fools grow without watering, 104

Fools invent fashions and wise men follow them, 34

Fools make feasts, and wise men eat them, 104

Fools must not be set on eggs, 163

Fools sometimes give wise men counsel, 279

Foot firm till death, 268

For a bad tongue, scissors, 265

For a good companion good company, 193

For a good dinner and a gentle wife you can afford to wait, 365

For a stubborn ass a hard goad, 2

For a stubborn ass a stubborn driver, 5

For a voracious beast pebbles in his feed, 263

For a web begun God sends thread, 6, 73

For a wife and a horse go to your neighbour, 106

For all one’s early rising, it dawns none the sooner, 241

For an honest man half his wits are enough; the whole is too little
for a knave, 68

For better for worse they have married me, 205

For evil tongues, scissors, 195

For extreme ills extreme remedies, 69

For great evils strong remedies, 341

For lack of men (or good men) they made my father a justice, 241, 292

For love of the ox the wolf licks the yoke (Catalan), 240

For love the wolf eats the sheep, 174

For one pleasure a thousand pains, 46

For overbuying there’s no help but selling again, 6

For poor people small coin, 264

For sake of the knight the lady kisses the squire, 46

For the buyer a hundred eyes are too few, for the seller one is
enough, 66

For the flying enemy a golden bridge, 70

For the last comer, the bones, 6

For the upright there are no laws, 148

For want of a nail the shoe is lost, 242

For whom does the blind man’s wife adorn herself? 227

For whom sword and courage are not enough, corslet and lance will not
be enough, 201

Forbear a quarrel with a friend to move: anger breeds hatred, concord
sweetens love, 334

Forbearance is no acquittance, 134

Forbidden fruit is sweet (or the sweetest), 101, 172

Forced love does not last, 318

Fore-talk spares after-talk, 174

Forewarned, forearmed, 49

Forgive and forget, 172

Forgive thyself nothing and others much, 173

Forgiven is not forgotten, 172

Fortune aids the bold, 197

Fortune and glass soon break, alas! 319

Fortune, and go to sleep, 99

Fortune and misfortune are two buckets in a well, 150

Fortune and women are partial to fools, 150

Fortune can take from us only what she has given us, 29

Fortune comes to him who seeks her, 132

Fortune does not stand waiting at any one’s door, 322

Fortune gives many too much, but no one enough, 137

Fortune helps fools, 106

Fortune is a woman; if you neglect her to-day, expect not to regain
her to-morrow, 29

Fortune is like women: loves youth and is fickle, 137

Fortune is round; it makes one a king, another a dunghill, 322

Fortune lost, nothing lost; courage lost, much lost; honour lost,
more lost; soul lost, all lost, 320

Fortune often knocks at the door, but the fool does not invite her
in, 385

Foster a raven and it will peck out your eyes, 210

Foul linen should be washed at home, 22

Four eyes see more than two, 131, 173, 232, 282

Four things put a man beside himself—women, tobacco, cards, and wine,
245

Foxes come at last to the furrier’s, 17

Fox’s broth, cold and scalding, 207

Free man, free goods (_So_: Free ships, free goods—_American_), 148

Fresh pork and new wine kill a man before his time, 242

Friar Modest never was prior (A modest friar never was prior), 99

Friends and mules fail us at hard passes (Galician), 199, 265

Friends are known in adversity, 287

Friends are known in time of need (Friends in need are friends
indeed), 65, 329

Friendship broken may be soldered, but never made whole, 199

Friendship should be unpicked, not rent, 106

Friendships are cheap when they can be bought by doffing the hat, 108

From a bad paymaster take straw (_i.e._ any trifle), 90

From a closed door the devil turns away, 275

From a praying young man, and a fasting old one, God preserve my
cloak, 212

From a silent man, and a dog that does not bark, deliver us, 211

From a silent person remove your dwelling, 212

From a spark the house is burnt, 340

From bishop to turn miller, 56

From children expect childish acts, 362

From confessors, doctors, and lawyers, do not conceal the truth of
your case, 2

From great rivers come great fish, 274

From little things men go on to great, 340

From long journeys, long lies, 212

From my gossip’s bread a large piece for my godson, 212

From saying to doing is a long way, 90

From short pleasure long repentance, 14

From small beginnings come great things, 340

From smooth (or still) water God preserve me, from rough (or running)
I will preserve myself, 90, 211

From snow, whether baked or boiled, you will get nothing but water,
90, 211

From that dust comes this mud, 210

From the boat we get to the ship, 340

From the father comes honour, from the mother comfort, 340

From the same flower the bee extracts honey and the wasp gall, 90

From the soldier who has no cloak, keep your own in your chest, 276

From those I trust God guard me, from those I mistrust I will guard
myself, 90

From to-morrow till to-morrow time goes a long journey, 14

From trivial things great contests oft arise, 340

Froth is not beer, 337

Full bottles and glasses make swearers and asses, 341

Full vessels give the least sound, 174

Funeral sermon, lying sermon, 158

G.

Gain has a pleasant odour, come whence it will, 269

Geese are plucked as long as they have any feathers, 333

Gentleness does more than violence, 45

Get a good name, and go to sleep, 67, 208, 272

Get out of that place and let me take it, 43

Gifts are according to the giver, 140

Gifts are often losses, 127

Gifts break (or dissolve) rocks, 210, 273

Gifts make friendship lasting, 390

Give a clown your finger, and he’ll grasp your fist, 70, 299

Give a clown your foot, and he’ll take your hand, 198

Give a grateful man more than he asks, 266

Give a hint to the man of sense, and consider the thing done (A word
to the wise is enough), 264

Give a rogue an inch, and he will take an ell, 371

Give a traitor good words and you make him loyal, 213

Give an ass oats and he runs after thistles, 318

Give at first asking what you safely can; ’tis certain gain to help
an honest man, 322

Give him a foot and he’ll take four, 57

Give him an inch and he’ll take an ell, 318

Give him your finger and he will seize your hand, 70, 299

Give me a seat, and I will make myself room to lie down, 210

Give me the rhubarb and you may take the senna, 45

Give me money, not advice, 273

Give me the ass that carries me in preference to the horse that
throws me, 240

Give orders, and do it yourself, and you will be rid of anxiety, 282

Give orders, and do no more, and nothing will be done, 230, 282

Give out that you have many friends, and believe that you have but
few, 22

Give the priest drink, for the clerk is thirsty, 90

Give the wise man a hint and leave him to act, 66

Give time time, 90

Give to a pig when it grunts, and to a child when it cries, and you
will have a fine pig, and a bad child, 371

Give to him that has, 90

Give unto the king what is the king’s, and unto God what is God’s, 149

Give your wife the short knife, and keep the long one yourself, 384

Giving alms never lessens the purse, 217

Giving is fishing, 93

Glowworms are not lanterns, 108

Gluttony kills more than the sword, 29, 111

Go in God’s name, for he takes a loaf of mine, 261

Go not every evening to your brother’s house, 194

Go not with every ailment to the doctor, with every plaint to the
lawyer, or with every thirst to the can, 230, 286

Go not with every hunger to the cupboard, nor with every thirst to
the pitcher, 286

Go softly and look afar, 344

Go softly over bad bits of road, 67

Go to bed late, rise early, you will see your own harm and that of
others, 274

Go to bed without supper, and you will rise without debt, 194, 274

Go to the sea if you would fish well, 131

Go to your aunt’s house, but not every day, 194

Go to your rich friend’s house when invited; to your poor friend’s
without invitation, 264

God alone understands fools, 15

God comes at last, when we think he is farthest off, 372

God cures, and the doctor takes the fee (or gets the money; or God
healeth, and the physician hath the thanks), 92, 150, 214, 275, 323

God deliver me from a man of one book, 214, 319

God deliver us from a gentleman by day and a friar by night, 214

God does not pay weekly, but pays at the end, 319

God does not smite with both hands, 236

God give you luck, my son, for little wit must serve your turn, 261,
295

God gives a curst cow short horns, 65

God gives almonds to some who have no teeth, 210

God gives birds their food, but they must fly for it, 319

God gives clothes according to the cold, 273 (See God sends cold)

God gives every bird its food, but does not throw it into the nest,
372

God gives little folks small gifts, 372

God gives the will, necessity gives the law, 372

God gives wings to the ant that she may perish the sooner, 210

God grant, dear wife, that this son be ours, 253

God grant me to argue (or dispute) with those who understand me, 214,
275

God grant you fortune, my son, for knowledge avails you little, 214

God has given nuts to some who have no teeth, 273

God heals and the doctor has the thanks, 92 (_See_ God cures)

God help the sheep when the wolf is judge, 371

God helps the early riser, 201

God helps the strongest, 150, 319

God helps him who helps himself (or them that help themselves), 53,
85, 152, 191, 252, 274

God helps three sorts of people: fools, children, and drunkards, 15

God is everywhere, except where he has his delegate (_ironical_), 150

God keep me from my friends, from my enemies I will keep myself, 99

God keep you from “It is too late,” 223

God knows who is a good pilgrim, 15

God made us, and we admire ourselves, 224

God never sends mouths but he sends meat, 371

God permits, but not for ever, 274

God puts a good root in the little pig’s way, 6

God save me from one who does not drink, 92

God save me from the man of one book, 92

God save me from the man of one occupation, 92

God save me from those I trust in (or in whom I confide), 15

God save you from a bad neighbour, and from a beginner on the fiddle,
92

God save you from a man who has but one business, 16

God saves the moon from the wolves, 15

God sells knowledge for labour, honour for risk, 320

God sends cold according to the clothes, 15, 92, 372

God sends meat and the devil sends cooks, 92

God sends nothing but what can be borne, 92

God sent him meat, but the devil cooked it, 320

God take you, pound (of flax), drunk out and not yet spun, 194

God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb, 1

God will provide, but a good bundle of straw will not be amiss, 214

God’s friend, the priest’s foe, 150

God’s mill goes slowly, but it grinds well, 150

God’s work is soon done, 17

Gold does not buy everything, 109

Gold is gold, though it be in a rogue’s purse, 372

Gold is proved in the fire, friendship in need, 380

Gold lies deep in the mountain, dirt on the highway, 150

Golden bishop, wooden crosier; wooden bishop, golden crosier, 17

Gone is gone; no Jew will lend upon it, 152

Good and bad make up a city, 270

Good bargains are ruinous, 34

Good bargains empty the purse, 108, 151

Good blood will never lie, 9

Good comes to better, and better to bad, 8

Good company makes short miles, 320

Good corn is not reaped from a bad field, 397

Good counsel comes overnight, 151

Good counsel is no better than bad counsel, if it be not taken in
time, 395

Good counsel never comes too late, 151

Good counsel will not rot, if it be got in dry, 371

Good day to you all! said the fox, when he got into the goose-pen, 320

Good drink drives out bad thoughts, 320

Good faith is a seldom guest, when you have him, hold him fast, 171

Good faith stole the cow, 170

Good fruit never comes from a bad tree, 287

Good, good, good, but God keep my ass out of his rye, 206

Good hunters track narrowly, 320

Good is good, but better beats it, 101

Good is the delay which makes sure, 269

Good is the fowl which another rears, 205

Good land should not be quitted for a bad landlord, 42

Good leading makes good following, 343

Good luck makes its way by elbowing, 201

Good management is better than good income, 281

Good manners and plenty of money will make my son a gentleman, 270

Good morrow spectacles, farewell lasses, 8

Good never comes too often, 371

Good news is rumoured, bad news flies, 216, 287

Good or bad we must all live, 115

Good people live far asunder, 148

Good repute is better than a golden belt, 9

Good repute is like the cypress: once cut, it never puts forth leaf
again, 105

Good right needs good help, 320

Good swimmers are drowned at last, 9, 100

Good table, bad will, 269

Good things require time, 320

Good thongs may be cut out of other people’s hides, 134

Good tree, good fruit, 320

Good ware was never dear, 105

Good watching drives away ill-luck, 8

Good wine is milk for the aged, 151

Good wine makes good blood, 76

Good wine makes the horse go, 4

Good wine needs no crier, 65, 151, 221, 261, 287, 320

Good wine needs no sign, 1

Good wine praises itself, 320

Good wine ruins the purse, and bad the stomach, 151

Good wine sells itself, 151, 216

Good words and bad deeds deceive both wise and simple, 206, 269

Got with the fife, spent with the drum, 161

Govern a horse with a bit, and a shrew with a stick, 399

Grain by grain the hen fills her crop, 223, 278

Grass grows not upon the highway, 336

Grease a churl’s boots and he’ll say you are burning them, 19

Grease the wheels, 130

Great boast, little roast, 321

Great boaster, little doer, 19

Great cry and little wool, 340

Great cry and little wool, as the man said who shaved the sow, 73

Great cry and little wool, said the fool, when he sheared his hogs,
173, 340

Great disputing repels truth, 19

Great fish are caught in great waters, 150

Great fishes break the net, 321

Great fools must have great bells, 320

Great griefs are mute, 101

Great lords have long hands, but they do not reach to heaven, 399

Great lords will have much, and poor folk can give but little, 399

Great men may jest with saints, 150

Great men’s requests are commands, 151, 374

Great men’s servants don’t think little of themselves, 151

Great promisers, bad paymasters, 151, 320

Great scholars are not the shrewdest men, 34

Great smoke, little roast, 100

Great talkers are commonly liars, 151

Great talkers are not great doers, 34, 321

Great thieves always have their sleeves full of gags, 34

Great thieves hang little ones, 34, 150

Great trees give more shade than fruit, 150

Great wealth, great care, 321

Great wits meet, 33

Greater fools than they of Zago, who dunged the steeple to make it
grow, 120

Greatness alone is not enough, or the cow would outrun the hare, 150

Green Christmas, a white Easter, 151

Grey hairs are death’s blossoms, 371

Grief for a dead wife lasts to the door, 93, 276

Guessing is missing, 319

H.

“Had I known” is a poor man, 151

Had it not been for an if, the old woman would have bitten a wolf, 374

Hair by hair, and the head gets bald, 364

Half a brain is enough for him who says little, 66

Half a house is half a hell, 151

Half a word to the wise is enough, 314

Half figs, half raisins, 39

Handsome apples are sometimes sour, 168, 337

Handsome is not what is handsome, but what pleases, 112

Handsome is that handsome does, 168

Handsome women generally fall to the lot of ugly men, 69

Handsomely asked, handsomely refused, 1

Hang the young thief, and the old one will not steal, 373

Hannibal is at the gate, 321

Happy he who can take warning from the mishaps of others, 397

Happy is she who is in love with an old dotard, 74

Happy is the man who has a handsome wife close to an abbey, 37

Happy the child whose father goes to the devil, 20

Happy the house in which there is no shaven crown, 205

Hard against hard never was good, 151

Hard is a new law imposed on old licence, 95

Hard upon hard never made a good wall, 95, 276

Hares are caught with hounds, fools with praise, and women with gold,
162

Hares are not caught with drums, 42, 333

Harm watch harm catch, 49, 78

Haste makes waste, 321

Hasten at leisure, 20, 142

Hastiness is the beginning of wrath, and its end repentance, 321

Hasty questions require slow answers, 336

Hasty speed don’t oft succeed, 321

Hat in hand goes through the land, 153

Hatred renewed is worse than at first, 116

Have a bill to pay at Easter, and your Lent will be short, 213

Have luck and sleep, 126 (_See_ Fortune and go to sleep)

Having is having, come whence it may, 151

He asks advice in vain who will not follow it, 46

He avoided the fly and swallowed the spider, 278

He beat the bushes and another caught the birds, 20

He begins to grow bad who believes himself good, 88

He burns the candle at both ends, 325

He buys honey dear who has to lick it off thorns, 327

He buys very dear who begs, 268

He buys well who is not called a donkey, 205

He came time enough who was hung by candlelight, 373

He can do but little who cannot threaten another, 203

He cannot find water in the sea, 235

He cannot lead a good life who serves without wages, 75

He cannot lay eggs, but he can cackle, 327

He carries fire and water, 26

He counts his chickens before they are hatched, 327

He cries out before he is hurt, 96

He dances well to whom fortune pipes, 73, 177

He did not invent gunpowder, 236

He does a good day’s work who rids himself of a fool, 9

He does not a little who burns his house: he frightens the rats and
warms himself, 235

He does not guard himself well who is not always on his guard, 24

He does not live in this world that can skin a grindstone, 354

He doubts nothing who knows nothing, 284

He drives a good waggonful into his farm who gets a good wife, 372

He earns a farthing and has a penn’orth of thirst, 327

He expects that larks will fall ready roasted into his mouth, 20

He expects to find water at the first stroke of the spade, 195

He falls into the pit who leads another into it, 207

He falls on his back and breaks his nose, 26

He fears the sack who has been in it, 355

He fishes on who catches one, 59

He forgot nothing except to say farewell, 23

He flays enough who holds the foot, 5

He gains enough who loses sorrow, 5

He gains much who loses a vain hope, 73

He gapes like a clown at a fair, 326

He gathers up ashes and scatters flour, 197

He gives twice who gives in a trice, 53, 79, 179, 247

He goes about it like a cat round hot milk, 145

He goes as willingly as a thief to the gallows, 145

He goes safely to trial whose father is a judge, 251

He goes safely who has nothing, 57

He got out of the mud and fell into the river, 131

He had need rise betimes who who would please everybody, 54, 355

He hangs the May-branch at every door. (Alluding to the Italian
custom of young men hanging out May-branches overnight before the
door of their mistress), 73

He has a good pledge of the cat who has her skin, 9

He has a head, and so has a pin, 276

He has a ton of knowledge, but the bottom is out, 326

He has a wolf-conscience, 326

He has beans in his ears. (Who so deaf as he that will not hear?) 145

He has command of the sack who is seated on it, 373

He has done like the Perugian who, when his head was broken, ran home
for his helmet, 95

He has eaten his corn in the blade, 20

He has enough to do who holds the handle of the frying-pan, 8

He has enough who is content, 5

He has given the hen for the egg, 145

He has great need of a fool who makes himself one, 19

He has him under his thumb, 326

He has lost the nest-egg, 326

He has much to do who would please everybody, 233

He has not done who who is beginning, 40

He has nothing, for whom nothing is enough, 55, 286

He has put all his eggs into one basket, 20

He has seen the wolf, 326

He has the Bible on his lips, but not in his heart, 326

He hauls at a long rope who expects another’s death, 70

He howls with the wolves, and bleats with the sheep, 326

He is a bad shot who cannot find an excuse, 143

He is a bad smith who cannot bear smoke, 143

He is a bad workman who cannot talk of work, 146

He is a fool that praises himself, and a madman that speaks ill of
himself, 353

He is a fool who boasts of four things: that he has good wine, a good
horse, a handsome wife, and plenty of money, 118

He is a fool who does not know from what quarter the wind blows, 118

He is a fool who loses the flight for the leap, 118

He is a fool who makes his physician his heir, 11

He is a fool who makes a mallet of his fist, 11

He is a fool who thinks that another does not think, 125, 233, 286

He is a great fool who forgets himself, 21

He is a great simpleton who starves himself to feed another, 224

He is a horse with four white feet (_i. e._ he is unlucky), 12

He is a man like a book, 303

He is a man who acts like a man, 353

He is a poor smith who is afraid of sparks, 359

He is a sorry barber who has but one comb, 128

He is a thief indeed who robs a thief, 8

He is a very bad manager of honey who leaves nothing to lick off his
fingers, 9

He is an essence of scoundrels, 326

He is an aristocrat in folio, 323

He is an old saint, and may leave it in the hands of God, 274

He is as easily caught as a hare with drums, 326 (_See_ Hares are not
caught, &c.)

He is as good a Catholic as Duke Alva’s dog, who ate flesh in Lent,
327

He is as good a divine as Judas was an apostle, 323

He is as poor as Job, 326

He is as sharp as a leaden dagger, 326

He is as welcome as the first day in Lent (alluding to fast-day), 327

He is blind enough who cannot see through a sieve, 224

He is called clever who cheats and plunders his friend, 21

He is easy to lure, who is ready to follow, 353

He is nowhere who is everywhere, 112

He is in safety who rings the tocsin, 202, 222

He is in search of a ram with five feet, 77

He is like a cat, he always falls on his feet, 21

He is like a singed cat, better than he looks, 26

He is like Jean de Nivelle’s dog, that runs away when he is called, 11

He is like the anchor that is always in the sea, yet does not learn
to swim, 95

He is like the gardener’s dog, who don’t eat cabbages and will let no
one else eat them, 21

He is lucky who forgets what cannot be mended, 150

He is master of another man’s life who is indifferent to his own, 97

He is most likely to spill who holds the vessel in his hand, 354

He is most cheated who cheats himself, 356

He is my friend who grinds at my mill, 222, 277

He is nearest to God who has the fewest wants, 353

He is nearest a thing who has it in his hands, 353

He is no friend that eats his own by himself, and mine with me, 285

He is no merchant who always gains, 323

He is no small knave who knows a great one, 361

He is noble who performs noble deeds, 326

He is not a bad driver who knows how to turn, 373

He is not a good mason who refuses any stone, 112

He is not a man who cannot say no, 112

He is not a thorough wise man who cannot play the fool on occasion, 90

He is not fit to be a baker whose head is made of butter, 353

He is not free who drags his chain after him, 24, 112

He is not happy who knows it not, 98

He is not so much of a devil as he is black, 24

He is not yet born who can please everybody, 355

He is of the race of Johnny Van Cleeve, who would always much rather
have than give, 326

He is out of danger who rings the alarm-bell, 202, 222

He is past preaching to who does not care to do well, 21

He is rich enough who is contented, 166

He is rich enough who owes nothing, 17, 97

He is rich enough who does not want, 73

He is so wise, that he goes upon the ice three days before it
freezes, 327

He is the devil’s valet, he does more than he is ordered, 11

He is the wisest man who does not think himself so, 33

He is the world’s master who despises it, its slave who prizes it, 97

He is too idle to fetch his breath, 326

He is too stupid to be trusted alone by the fire, 326

He is very blind who cannot see the sun, 75

He is wise who learns at another’s cost, 125

He is worthy of sweets who has tasted bitters, 353

He is young enough who has health, and he rich enough who has no
debts, 353

He is your friend who gets you out of a scrape, 201, 267

He keeps his word, as the sun keeps butter, 325

He knocks boldly at the door who brings good news, 19, 72, 373

He knows best where the shoe pinches who wears it, 356, 373