Chapter M: Mad dogs get their coats torn, 369 (3)

The world is like a staircase; some go up, others go down, 103

The world likes to be cheated, 307

The world likes to have night-owls, that it may have matter for
wonder, 141

The world wags on with three things: doing, undoing, and pretending,
103

The world’s a stage; each plays his part, and takes his share, 307

The worse service, the better luck, 328

The worse the carpenter, the more the chips, 328

The worse the dun, the worse the paymaster, 154

The worst clothed go to windward, 35

The worst ewe dungs in the milking-pail, 227

The worst jests are those that are true, 11

The worst of a lawsuit is that out of one there grow a hundred, 229

The worst pig eats the best acorn (or pear), 70, 197, 289

The worst wheel creaks most (or makes the most noise), 12, 96, 137,
325, 328

The worth of a thing is what it will bring, 295

The wrath of brothers is the wrath of devils, 225, 280

The wrong-doer never lacks a pretext, 66, 197

The year has a wide mouth and a big belly, 346

The young may die, the old must die, 138, 330

The young pig must often suffer for what the old sow did, 394

The young ravens are beaked like the old, 305

Their dogs don’t hunt in couples, 36

There are calumnies against which even innocence loses courage, 27

There are eyes that fall in love with bleared ones (Fancy surpasses
beauty), 238

There are fagots and fagots (all are not alike), 27

There are good and bad everywhere, 119

There are good dogs of all sizes, 15

There are ills that happen for good, 279

There are many days in the year, and still more meals, 356

There are many preachers who don’t hear themselves, 173

There are many roads to Rome, 119

There are more asses than carry sacks, 126

There are more foolish buyers than foolish sellers, 27

There are more old drunkards than old doctors, 43, 145

There are more thieves than are hanged, 302

There are more thieves than gibbets, 126

There are more threatened than hurt, 121, 231

There are no children now-a-days, 25

There are no foolish trades, there are only foolish people, 25

There are only two good women in the world: the one is dead, the
other not to be found, 146

There are some who despise pride with greater pride, 127

There are some who see ill, and would like to see worse, 88

There are three bad neighbours: great rivers, great lords, and great
roads, 356

There are three things from which no good can be got without a
beating: a walnut-tree, a donkey, and a shrew, 401

There are toys for all ages, 27

There come just as many calf-skins to market as cow-skins, 146, 302

There die as many lambs as wethers, 294

There goes more than one ass to market, 98

There is a cause for all things, 116

There is a fool at every feast, 301

There is a remedy for everything but death, 27, 43, 203, 317, 356

There is always a Pharaoh who does not know Joseph, 146

There is little peace in that house where the hen crows and the cock
is mute, 104

There is little use in watching a bad woman, 199

There is more disputing about the shell than the kernel, 159

There is never a cry of “Wolf!” but the wolf is in the district, 97

There is never a great dunghill at a sportsman’s door, 200

There is never enmity between the cook and the butler, 128

There is never enough where nought is left, 115

There is never wanting a dog to bark at you, 287

There is no answer for Get out of my house, and What have you to do
with my wife?, 195

There is no appeal from time past, 91

There is no beard so well shaven but another barber will find
something more to shave from it, 115

There is no beast so savage but sports with its mate, 236

There is no better patch than one off the same cloth, 236

There is no bush so small but casts its shadow, 26

There is no chapel so small but has its saint, 25

There is no choicer morsel than that which is stolen, 236

There is no cure against a slanderer’s bite, 356

There is no day without its night, 285

There is no disputing about taste, 258

There is no dog, be he ever so wicked, but wags his tail, 115

There is no fire without smoke, 356

There is no flavour in a swallowed morsel, 39

There is no fool like a learned fool, 105

There is no getting blood from a turnip, 90

There is no good in preaching to the hungry, 137

There is no helping him who will not be advised, 66

There is no house without its hush! hush!, 236

There is no hunting but with old hounds, 24

There is no joy without alloy, 318

There is no law but has a hole in it, for those who can find it out,
146

There is no lock if the pick is of gold, 236

There is no love without jealousy, 25, 112

There is no making pancakes without breaking the eggs, 84

There is no mother like the mother that bore us, 236

There is no need to bind up one’s head before it is broken, 111

There is no need to blow what does not burn you, 358

There is no need to fasten a bell to a fool, he is sure to tell his
own tale, 390

There is no occasion for priests to marry while peasants have wives,
146

There is no pleasure but palls, and the more so if it costs nothing,
236, 285

There is no pot so bad (or ugly) but finds its cover, 26, 236

There is no pride like that of a beggar grown rich, 24

There is no saint so petty but claims his own candle, 146

There is no spite like that of a proud beggar, 25

There is no stripping a naked man, 142

There is no such thing as an insignificant enemy, 25

There is no such witness as a good measure of wine, 236

There is no tax upon lying, 219

There is no thief without a receiver, 230

There is no use in blowing a fire that burns well, 362

There is no use in saying, I will not go such a way, nor drink of
such a water, 113

There is no virtue in a promise unless it be kept, 380

There is no worse fruit than that which never ripens, 112

There is no worse joke than a true one, 112, 115, 236

There is no worse thief than a bad book, 115

There is no worse water than that which sleeps, 24

There is not a pair of ears for every Jew, 239

There is nothing for which the boors pray so much to God as that the
horses of the squirearchy may not die, for otherwise they would ride
the boors with spurs, 140

There is nothing so bad but may be of some use, 156

There is nothing so secret but it transpires, 317

There is nothing so well done but may be mended, 25

There is plenty of corn in Castile, but he who has none starves, 284

There is some distance between Peter and Peter, 196

There never was a banquet so sumptuous but some one dined ill at it,
25

There never was a looking-glass that told a woman she was ugly, 25

There never was a shoe, however handsome, that did not become an ugly
slipper, 113

There were never fewer nobles than when all would be so, 346

There would be no ill word if it were not ill taken, 235

There’s cunning in—a pointed chin, 169

There’s many a knave concealed under a surplice, 366

There’s neither rhyme nor reason in him, 25

There’s no argument like that of the stick, 236

There’s no catching trouts with dry breeches, 286

There’s no disputing about tastes, 91

There’s no getting to heaven in a coach, 114

There’s no guarding against the privy thief, 16

There’s no handsome woman on the wedding-day, except the bride, 285

There’s no living without friends, 285

There’s no making a donkey drink against his will, 112, 332

There’s no making a good cloak of bad cloth, 212

There’s no making a silk purse of a sow’s ear, 332

There’s no making apples of plums, 165

There’s no need to grease the fat pig’s rump, 42

There’s no putting off a lie upon the belly, 138

There’s no showing the wolf to a bad dog, 3

There’s no smoke without fire, 112

There’s no turning a windmill with a pair of bellows, 114

There’s not enough if there’s not too much, 5

There’s nothing like being bespattered for making a man defy the
gutter, 25

There’s nothing like having the key of the fields, 25

There’s nothing new under the sun, 145

There’s virtue in a man’s face (_i. e._ presence carries weight), 17

They agree like cats and dogs, 345

They are all honest men, but my cloak is not to be found, 259

They are rich who have friends, 201, 267

They may whip me in the market-place, so it be not known at home, 259

They must be strong legs that can support prosperous days, 147

They must hunger in frost who spring-time have lost, 182

“They say” is a fool (or a liar), 41, 126

They took away the mirror from me because I was ugly, and gave it to
the blind woman, 254

They understand one another like thieves in a fair, 345

They whip the cat if our mistress does not spin, 204

They who are often at the looking-glass seldom spin, 344

They who come from afar have leave to lie, 173, 311

They who deserve honour fail of it, and they who obtain it do not
deserve it, 181

They who do not wash well do not bleach well, 378

They who don’t keep goats and yet sell kids, where do they get them?,
230

They who don’t kill pigs must not expect black-puddings, 201

They who eat cherries with the great are like to have the stones and
stalks flung in their face, 162

They who fight with golden weapons are pretty sure to prove their
right, 310

They who shun the smoke often fall into the fire, 126

They wrangle about an egg and let the hens fly away, 169

Thick wine is better than clear water, 97

Things are not as they are, but as they are regarded, 108

Things promised are things due, 13 (_See_ Promises make debts)

Think much, say little, write less, 45, 119

Think of many things, do one, 273

Thinking is not knowing, 273

Thinking of where you are going, you forget whence you came, 273

Thirst comes from drinking, 75

Thirteen nuns, fourteen children!, 141

Thistles and thorns prick sore, but evil tongues prick more, 311

Those besoms can be sold cheapest which are stolen ready made, 140

Those who climb high often have a fall, 378

Though a lie be swift, truth overtakes it, 75

Though my father-in-law is a good man, I do not like a dog with a
bell, 203

Though the ass may carry a sack of gold, it feeds on thistles, 348

Though the bird may fly over your head, let it not make its nest in
your hair, 368

Though the fool waits, the day does not, 54

Though the fox runs, the pullets have wings, 75

Though the heron flies high the falcon kills it, 264

Though the speaker be a fool, let the hearer be wise, 203

Though we are negroes, we are men, and have souls, 264

Though you are a prudent old man, do not despise counsel, 204

Though you seat the frog on a golden stool, he’ll soon jump off and
into the pool, 168

Though you see me with this coat, I have another up the mountain, 203

Though you teach a wolf the pater-noster, he will say, “Lamb! lamb!”,
383

Though your bloodhound (or mastiff) be gentle, don’t bite him on the
lip, 203, 264

Thought when sober, said when drunk, 164

Thoughts are toll-free, but not hell-free, 149

Thousands drink themselves to death before one dies of thirst, 147

Threads do not break for being fine, but for being gouty and
ill-spun, 285

Threatened folks eat bread, 229, 294

Threats are arms for the threatened, 108

Threats don’t kill (Men don’t die of threats), 340

Three brothers, three castles, 60, 128, 295

Three daughters and a mother, four devils for the father, 260

Three know it, all know it, 128

Three or four daily will bring you to the bottom of the sack, 270

Three removals are as bad as a fire, 60, 141

Three things drive a man out of doors: smoke, dropping water (or a
leaky roof), and a shrew, 128

Three things kill a man: a scorching sun, suppers, and cares, 260

Three who help each other are as good as six, 204

Three women and a goose make a market, 128, 312, 401

Three women, three geese, and three frogs, make a fair, 141

Thrift is better than an annuity, 39

Through being too knowing the fox lost his tail, 119

Through not spending enough, we spend too much, 241

Throw no stones at a sleeping dog, 389

Throw not the child out with the bath, 382

Throw not thy hatchet at the Lord, He will turn the sharp edge
against thee, 382

Throw that bone to another dog, 200, 266

Thrust not thy finger into a fool’s mouth, 338

Thunder-showers and great men’s favour are always partial, 401

Tie me hand and foot and throw me among my own people, 108

Time and opportunity are in no man’s sleeve, 191

Time and place make the thief, 170, 338

Time and straw make medlars ripe, 334

Time and the hour are not to be tied with a rope, 295

Time and the hour run through the roughest day, 191

Time and tide wait for no man, 190

Time betrays and hangs the thief, 191

Time brings everything, to those who can wait for it, 190

Time brings roses, 190, 307

Time covers and discovers everything, 191

Time destroys all things, 307

Time gained, much gained, 339

Time goes, death comes, 307

Time is anger’s medicine, 190

Time is an inaudible file, 104

Time is God’s and ours, 307

Time is money, 339

Time is not tied to a post, like a horse to the manger, 400

Time is the best counsellor (or preacher), 138, 190

Time is the herald of truth, 190

Time makes hay, 190

Time passes like the wind, 295

Time past never returns, 307

Time waits for no man, 400

Time, wind, women, and fortune, are ever changing, 191

Timid dogs bark most, 173

Tired folks are quarrelsome, 34

Tired oxen tread hard, 162

’Tis a fat bird that bastes itself, 323

’Tis a good farthing that saves a penny, 9

’Tis a good horse that has no fault, 24

’Tis a long day, a day without bread, 12

’Tis a silly sheep that makes the wolf her confessor, 18, 110

’Tis a wise child that knows its own father, 323

’Tis as necessary to him as gold weights are to a beggar, 303

’Tis best to woo where you can see the smoke, 322

’Tis easier to hurt than heal, 172

’Tis everywhere the same as here, 11

’Tis good feasting in other men’s houses, 108

’Tis hard to swim against the stream, 187

’Tis possible if true, 56

’Tis the mind ennobles, not the blood, 141

’Tis too late to spare when the pocket (or cask) is bare, 191, 324

’Tis well that wicked cows have short horns, 323

’Tis written, “What’s not your own, that let alone,”, 146

To a bold man fortune holds out her hand, 2

To a crazy ship every wind is contrary, 71

To a depraved taste sweet is bitter, 196

To a friend’s house the road is never long, 360

To a good cat a good rat, 1

To a hard knot a hard wedge, 198

To a hasty demand a leisure reply, 200, 263

To a quick ear half a word, 190

To a rogue a rogue and a half, 2

To a son-in-law and a hog you need show the way but once, 198

To a woman and a magpie tell your secrets in the market-place, 195

To a young heart everything is sport, 68

To ask wool of an ass, 15

To bait and to grease does not retard a journey, 348

To be a merchant, the art consists more in getting paid than in
making sales, 256

To be content to let twelve pennies pass for a shilling, 132

To be led by the nose, 345

To be like a bunch of nettles, 256

To be like a fish in the water, 277

To be like a leek, a grey head and the rest green, 256

To be like a louse in a seam, 256

To be like a tailor’s pattern-book, 256

To be like the esquire of Guadalaxara, who knew nothing in the
morning of what he said at night, 256

To be like the tailor of Campillo, who worked for nothing and found
thread, 256

To be slow to give, and to refuse, are the same thing, 58, 295

To beards with money cavaliers pay respect, 195

To beat the dog in presence of the lion, 7

To become rich in this world, it needs only to turn one’s back on
God, 119

To begin skinning the eel at the tail, 16

To blow hot and cold, 57

To break the constable’s head, and take refuge with the sheriff, 212

To bring down two apples with one stick, 339

To build castles in the air, 18, 330

To burn out a candle in search of a pin, 19

To buy a cat in a poke, 2

To cackle and lay no egg, 206, 270

To carry a lantern in mid-day, 46

To carry fir-trees to Norway (To carry coals to Newcastle), 338

To carry water to the sea (or river), 46, 176, 280, 343

To cast pearls before swine, 99, 336

To catch a hare with a cart, 120

To catch two pigeons with one bean, 12

To change and to better are two different things, 133

To change one’s habits smacks of death, 284

To circumstances and custom the law must yield, 368

To commit the sheep to the care of the wolf, 221

To cover the well after the child has been drowned in it, 137

To cry famine on a heap of corn, 14

To cry up wine, and sell vinegar, 242

To cut broad thongs from another man’s leather, 18 (_See_ Broad
thongs)

To cut into another man’s ear is like cutting into a felt hat, 348

To-day for money, to-morrow for nothing, 152, 339

To-day in finery, to-morrow in filth, 152

To-day in gold, to-morrow in the mould, 380

To-day must borrow nothing of to-morrow, 152

To-day red, to-morrow dead, 152, 321

To-day stately and brave, to-morrow in the grave, 321

To-day’s sorrow brings nought to-morrow (Sorrow will pay no debts),
325

To discover truth by telling a falsehood, 255

To do like the monkey, get the chesnuts out of the fire with the
cat’s paw, 17

To do nothing teacheth to do evil, 335

To do, one must be doing, 42

To draw the foot out of the mire, 255

To draw the snake out of the hole with another’s hand, 209

To eat and to scratch, one has but to begin, 209

To eat, drink, and sleep together, is marriage, methinks, 8

To err is human (to forgive, divine), 154, 312

To every bird its nest seems fair, 6

To every evil-doer his evil day, 193

To every fool his cap, 329

To every lord every honour, 6

To every one his own is not too much, 155

To every saint his candle, 2, 68

To exchange a one-eyed horse for a blind one, 12

To expect what never comes, to lie in bed and not sleep, to serve
well and not be advanced, are three things to die of, 73

To fall from the wall into the ditch (Out of the frying-pan into the
fire), 340

To fall out of the frying-pan into the fire, 76, 340

To fawn with the tail and bite with the mouth, 223

To fetch water after the house is burned, 226

To find oneself in tight breeches (Ill at ease—_we say_, In tight
boots), 261

To flay the flayed dog, 125

To flee and to run are not all one, 224

To get out of one muck into another, 255

To get out of the mire and fall into the river, 278

To get out of the rain under the spout, 134

To get out of the smoke and fall into the fire, 278

To get the chicks one must coax the hen, 21

To give a pea for a bean (A Rowland for an Oliver), 55

To give an egg to get an ox, 16, 313

To give change out for his coin, 55

To give counsel to a fool is like throwing water on a goose, 348

To give court holy-water, 16

To give is honour, to beg is dishonour, 274

To give is honour, to lose is grief, 217

To give one the sack, 329

To give quickly is to give doubly, 135

To give tardily is to refuse, 58, 295

To go for wool and come back shorn, 225

To go mulberry-gathering without a crook, 3

To go rabbit-catching with a dead ferret, 199

To go safely through the world you must have the eye of a falcon, the
ear of an ass, the face of an ape, the mouth of a pig, the shoulders
of a camel, and the legs of a deer, 87

To go to the vintage without baskets, 3

To God’s council-chamber there is no key, 372

To good eating belongs good drinking, 134

To grease the fat pig’s tail, 197

To grow rich one has only to turn his back on God, 24

To hang your sickle on another man’s corn, 307

To harness the horses behind the cart (To put the cart before the
horse), 306

To have a belly up to one’s mouth, 259

To have friends both in heaven and hell, 7

To have hairs on his heart (Hard-hearted), 259

To have “heard say” is half a lie, 74

To have it written on his forehead, 259

To have luck needs little wit, 132

To have one eye on the cat and another on the frying-pan, 74

To have one’s brains in one’s heels, 259

To have the foot in two shoes, 259

To him who can take all you have, give what he asks, 67

To him who gives you a capon you may spare a leg and a wing, 197, 252

To him who gives you a pig you may well give a rasher, 67

To him who is determined it remains only to act, 67

To him who watches, everything is revealed, 67, 201

To hold the wolf by the ears, 58

To jump into the water for fear of the rain, 56

To jump out of the frying-pan into the fire, 55, 255

To keep one upon hot coals, 258

To kick against the pricks, 259

To kill a mercer for a comb, 60

To kill the hen by way of getting the egg, 60

To kill two birds with one stone, 282, 339

To know a man well one must have eaten a bushel of salt with him, 46

To know everything is to know nothing, 129

To know the law and do the right are two things, 348

To lather an ass’s head is only wasting soap, 262, 277

To laugh in one’s sleeve, 330

To live from hand to mouth, 64

To live long is to suffer long, 383

To lock the stable after the horses are stolen, 93

To look for a needle in a bundle (or bottle) of hay, 13, 143

To look for five feet in a cat, 206

To look for noon at fourteen o’clock, 13

To lose one eye that you may deprive another of two, 245

To love and to be wise are two different things (or impossible), 2,
198, 265

To mad words deaf ears, 200

To make a happy couple, the husband must be deaf and the wife blind,
46

To make a virtue of necessity, 18, 340

To make an elephant of a fly (To make a mountain of a molehill), 98

To make coqs-à-l’âne, 340

To make of a flea a knight cap-à-pie, 277

To make one hole by way of stopping another, 18

To make the cart go you must grease the wheels, 119

To make two hits with one stone, 18

To make two nails at one heat, 98

To marry once is a duty; twice a folly; thrice is madness, 316

To-morrow will be another day, 230

To-morrow’s remedy will not ward off the evil of to-day, 239

To offer one candle to God and another to the devil, 16

To one who has a pie in the oven you may give a bit of your cake, 1

To parade the gallows before the town, 233

To pay one in his own coin, 118, 291, 329

To piece the lion’s skin with that of the fox, 325

To pluck the goose without making it cry out, 45

To pray to the saint until the danger is past, 254

To preserve friendship one must build walls, 119

To promise is easy, to keep is troublesome, 385

To promise more butter than bread, 47

To promise more carts than oxen, 121

To promise much means giving little, 284

To protest and knock one’s head against the wall is what everybody
can do, 122

To pull down the house for the sake of the mortar, 124

To put a good face on a bad game, 17

To put in a needle and take out a bar, 232

To put on one’s doublet before one’s shirt, 110

To put out the fire with tow, 126

To put the plough before the oxen (or cart before the horse), 38

To put water into a basket (To pour water into a sieve), 342

To quarrel over a straw, 336

To quench fire with fire, 255

To rain upon the wet, 272

To reckon without the hostess, 223, 277

To rise at five, dine at nine, sup at five, go to bed at nine, makes
a man live to ninety-nine, 36

To rise at six, eat at ten, sup at six, go to bed at ten, makes a man
live years ten times ten, 36

To rob a robber is not robbing, 64

To rude words deaf ears, 4

To save at the spiggot, and let it run out at the bung-hole (_Also
Scotch_), 160

To save for old age, earning one maravedi and drinking three, 195

To scare a bird is not the way to catch it, 54

To see the sky through a funnel, 261

To see the mote in another’s eye and not the beam in your own, 307

To sell a cat for a hare, 261, 295

To sell honey to a bee-keeper, 131, 261, 295

To sell the bird in the bush, 131

To sell the skin of the bear before it is caught, 131

To send one arrow after another, 215

To sew the fox’s skin to the lion’s, 14

To shave an egg, 313

To shiver at work, and sweat at meals, 196

To show the sun with a torch, 39

To sign for both parties, 56

To sing out of tune and persist in it, 208

To sink a well by the river side, 163

To spend much and gain little is the sure road to ruin, 173

To spur a horse on level ground, 122

To squeeze an eel too hard is the way to lose it, 44

To start the hare for another’s profit, 280

To steal the leather, and give away the shoes for God’s sake, 137

To steal the pig, and give away the pettitoes for God’s sake, 124,
225, 278

To stop the hole after the mischief is done, 254

To strip one altar to cover another, 125

To strip Peter to clothe Paul, 14, 127 (To rob Peter to pay Paul)

To swallow a camel, and strain at a gnat, 259

To swallow both sea and fish, 307

To swim and swim more, and be drowned on shore, 233

To swim between two waters, 40

To take one foot out of the mire and put the other into it, 255

To take opportunity by the forelock, 46, 259

To take out a burning coal with another’s hand (To make a cat’s-paw
of one), 255

To take the chesnuts out of the fire with the cat’s paw, 58

To take Villadiego’s boots (To take to your heels), 259

To the bold man fortune gives her hand, 196, 266

To the devil with so many masters, said the toad to the harrow, 6

To the fallen tree, hatchets! hatchets!, 67

To the grateful man give more than he asks, 195

To the jaundiced all things seem yellow, 59

To the lean pig a fat acorn (_See_ The worst pig), 265

To the looker-on no work is too hard, 137

To thrash one’s jacket, 262

To throw oil on the fire, 336

To throw in a smelt to catch a codfish, 316

To throw the halter after the ass, 128

To throw the helve after the hatchet, 28, 215

To throw the rope after the bucket, 99

To throw the stone and conceal the hand, 259

To throw up a feather in the air, and see where it falls, 215

To turn fishmonger on Easter-eve, 56

To undo crosses in a straw-loft (_i. e._ to part all the straws that
they may not lie crosswise; to be over nice), 213

To wait and be patient soothes many a pang, 348

To wash a blackamoor white, 323

To wash an ass’s head is but loss of time and soap (To reprove a fool
is but lost labour), 3

To whom do you offer your shells for sale? To people who come from
Saint Michel (where shells abound), 5

To whom you tell your secret you surrender your freedom, 66

To wipe up the sea with a sponge, 308

To withhold truth is to bury gold, 348

To wolf’s flesh dog’s teeth, 193, 264

To work for the bishop (Prayers, but no pay), 259

To your son give a good name and a trade, 203

Too keen an edge does not cut, too fine a point does not pierce, 60

Too late the bird cries out when it is caught, 6

Too little and too much spoils everything, 368

Too many cooks oversalt the porridge, 341

Too many sacks are the death of the ass, 173

Too much bursts the bag, 133

Too much familiarity breeds contempt, 266

Too much humility is pride, 191

Too much is not enough, 133

Too much of one thing is good for nothing, 338

Too much scratching smarts, too much talking harms, 60

Too much wax burns the church, 266

Too much will soon break, 191

Too much wisdom is folly, 191

Too much zeal spoils all, 60

Touch a galled horse and he’ll wince, 337

Touch not another man’s money, for the most honest never added to it,
40

Translators, traitors, 128

Travel east or travel west, a man’s own house is still the best, 339

Treachery and slander are long lived, 399

Treachery lurks in honeyed words, 402

Tread on a worm and it will turn, 63

Trees often transplanted seldom prosper, 302

Trick against trick, 159

Trickery comes back to its master, 60

Trim my beard and I will trim your topknot, 18

Tripe broth, you make much of yourself, 207

Trouts are not caught with dry breeches, 237

True jokes never please, 9

True love never grows old, 71

True love suffers no concealment, 215

True nobility is invulnerable, 64

Trueman’s house stands the longest, 174

Trust, beware whom!, 171

Trust, but not too much, 171

Trust everybody, but thyself most, 401

Trust in God upon good security, 40, 222

Trust no one till you have eaten a bushel of salt with him, 171

Trust not a dog that limps, 285

Trust not a skittish horse, nor a great lord, when they shake their
heads, 389

Trust not still water nor a silent man, 401

Trust not tow with firebrands, nor a woman with men, 286

Trust not your gossip to a priest who has been a friar, 194

Trust not your money to one whose eyes are bent on the ground, 212

Trust was a good man, Trust-not was a better, 98

Trust-well rides away with the horse, 170

Truth and folly dwell in the wine-cask, 397

Truth and oil always come to the surface, 228, 268

Truth creeps not into corners, 174

Truth finds no asylum, 174

Truth gives a short answer, lies go round about, 174

Truth ill-timed is as bad as a lie (Truth should not always be
revealed), 172

Truth is bitter food, 397

Truth is lost with too much debating, 333

Truth is the club that knocks down and kills everybody, 31

Truth is the daughter of time, 174, 307

Truth makes the tongue smart, 174

Truth may be suppressed, but not strangled, 174

Truth must be seasoned to make it palatable, 357

Truth’s cloak is often lined with lies, 400

Turn your tongue seven times before speaking, 23

’Twixt the spoon and the lip the morsel may slip, 339 (_See_ Between,
&c.)

’Twixt the word and the deed there’s a long step, 16

Two are the masters of one, 401

Two birds of prey do not keep each other company, 215

Two cannot fall out if one does not choose, 245

Two cats and one mouse, two women in one house, two dogs to one bone,
will not agree long, 192

Two cocks in one house, a eat and a mouse, an old man and a young
wife, are always in strife, 339

Two cocks in one yard do not agree, 113

Two dogs over one bone seldom agree, 191, 339

Two eyes see more than one, 282

Two eyes, two ears, only one mouth, 191

Two false men to one traitor, 204

Two hard flints never grind well, 191

Two heads are better than one, 95

Two may lie so as to hang a third, 401

Two men may meet, but never two mountains, 15

Two of a trade never agree, 249

Two sparrows on one ear of corn never agree, 15, 194

Two women and a goose make a market, 94

U.

Unbending the bow does not heal the wound, 14, 72, 120

Under a gold sheath a leaden knife, 258

Under a good cloak may be a bad man, 210

Under a shabby cloak may be a smart drinker, 210, 274

Under fair words beware of fraud, 274

Under my cloak I command (or kill) the king, 210, 258

Under the sackcloth there is something else, 258, 274

Under white ashes are often glowing embers, 126, 402

Union is strength, 317

Unlaid eggs are uncertain chickens, 135, 171, 336

Unlooked-for, often comes, 172

Until death there is no knowing what may befal, 99

Until hell is full no lawyer will ever be saved, 56

Unwilling service earns no thanks, 402

Unworthy offspring brag the most of their worthy descent, 394

Upbraiding makes a benefit an injury, 60

Upon a slight pretext the wolf takes the sheep, 4

Upon an egg the hen lays an egg, 57