God. 
 Rome. 
 Peter. 
 Easter. 
 Scotch_). 
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 Who has, is. 
 Men are rare. 
 An amen clerk. 
 Extremes meet. 
 Slow and sure. 
 Time is money. 
 Will is power. 
 Bite the biter. 
 Dearness gluts. 
 Friezeland cow. 
 Give time time. 
 Live and learn. 
 Money is power. 
 Time makes hay. 
 Great wits meet. 
 Love has no law. 
 One man, no man. 
 Self is the man. 
 So got, so gone. 
 To shave an egg. 
 Weeds never die. 
 Who sows, reaps. 
 Arms carry peace. 
 Better is better. 
 I’ll sleep on it. 
 Money burns many. 
 Money gets money. 
 Rest makes rusty. 
 Store is no sore. 
 Who loves, fears. 
 Bad bird, bad egg. 
 Froth is not beer. 
 Giving is fishing. 
 Grease the wheels. 
 Haste makes waste. 
 Hasten at leisure. 
 Let the dead rest. 
 Like will to like. 
 Love knows no law. 
 Lying pays no tax. 
 Many can help one. 
 Money gets money). 
 New come, welcome. 
 Once is no custom. 
 Poverty is no sin. 
 Saving is getting. 
 So begun, so done. 
 Supple as a glove. 
 Time brings roses. 
 Union is strength. 
 Virtue never dies. 
 As old as the itch. 
 Bad egg, bad chick. 
 Bad news has wings. 
 Begun is half done. 
 Custom becomes law. 
 Envy envies itself. 
 Every little helps. 
 Evil wastes itself. 
 Forgive and forget. 
 He who loses, sins. 
 Ill got, ill spent. 
 Man loves but once. 
 Might is not right. 
 More luck than wit. 
 Must is a hard nut. 
 No money, no Swiss. 
 Poverty has no kin. 
 Repute hangs a man. 
 Self-love is blind. 
 The maw costs much. 
 Who lives will see. 
 Who refuses, muses. 
 Yielding stays war. 
 After me the deluge. 
 All covet, all lose. 
 Almost kills no man. 
 A promise is a debt. 
 Asking costs little. 
 Bargains are costly. 
 Cabbage for cabbage. 
 Death is in the pot. 
 Diamond cut diamond. 
 Error is no payment. 
 Everybody must live. 
 Fools go in throngs. 
 Fortune helps fools. 
 Guessing is missing. 
 He who saves, finds. 
 He who seeks, finds. 
 Ill begun, ill done. 
 Jesting costs money. 
 Laws have wax noses. 
 Lies melt like snow. 
 Live and let live. 
 Love begins at home. 
 Marry and grow tame. 
 Money makes the man. 
 Night has no friend. 
 No relation is poor. 
 Not every ball hits. 
 Old oxen tread hard. 
 One lost, two found. 
 One voice, no voice. 
 Promises make debts. 
 Seeing is believing. 
 The two make a pair. 
 Trick against trick. 
 Trust, beware whom!. 
 Vipers breed vipers. 
 Walls have ears. 
 Who has not, cannot. 
 Who has not, is not. 
 Who loves, believes. 
 A lie has short legs. 
 Anger increases love. 
 A peg for every hole. 
 Big head, little wit. 
 Clothes make the man. 
 Cowards have no luck. 
 Dead dogs don’t bite. 
 Delays are dangerous. 
 Drink wine upon figs. 
 Even woods have ears. 
 Foot firm till death. 
 French after the act. 
 Give to him that has. 
 Good table, bad will. 
 Hearsay is half lies. 
 He has seen the wolf. 
 He is as poor as Job. 
 Lies have short legs. 
 Like pot, like cover. 
 Long is not for ever. 
 Look before you leap. 
 Love expels jealousy. 
 No jealousy, no love. 
 No news is good news. 
 Paper does not blush. 
 Poison quells poison. 
 Revenge is new wrong. 
 Safe bind, safe find. 
 Sense comes with age. 
 Silence answers much. 
 Soon grass, soon hay. 
 Timid dogs bark most. 
 To blow hot and cold. 
 To give one the sack. 
 To make coqs-à-l’âne. 
 To rain upon the wet. 
 Truth is bitter food. 
 Virtue subdues power. 
 We learn by teaching. 
 What smarts, teaches. 
 Who doubts, errs not. 
 Who runs is followed. 
 Who threatens, warns. 
 All leaf and no fruit. 
 Assertion is no proof. 
 Better beg than steal. 
 Better envy than pity. 
 Better mine than ours. 
 Biding makes thriving. 
 Counsel before action. 
 Eagles catch no fleas. 
 Either rich or hanged. 
 Even crumbs are bread. 
 Even foxes are caught. 
 Fat head, lean brains. 
 Fat hens lay few eggs. 
 Forewarned, forearmed. 
 Fortune aids the bold. 
 Good tree, good fruit. 
 Great griefs are mute. 
 Harm watch harm catch. 
 He who whispers, lies. 
 Jest with your equals. 
 Kings have long hands. 
 Late fruit keeps well. 
 Like father, like son. 
 Like well like bucket. 
 Love knows not labour. 
 Money rules the world. 
 Much talk little work. 
 Necessity breaks iron. 
 New laws, new roguery. 
 No corn without chaff. 
 No fire without smoke. 
 No smoke without fire. 
 One learns by failing. 
 Repentance costs dear. 
 Singed eats live long. 
 Soon fire, soon ashes. 
 Time waits for no man. 
 Tired oxen tread hard. 
 To ask wool of an ass. 
 To be led by the nose. 
 To every fool his cap. 
 Translators, traitors. 
 Truth finds no asylum. 
 What will be, will be. 
 Woe be to an evil eye. 
 Words won’t feed cats. 
 A bad thing never dies. 
 A bargain is a bargain. 
 After death the doctor. 
 A full man is no eater. 
 All clouds do not rain. 
 Anger hears no counsel. 
 Avarice bursts the bag. 
 Better fed than taught. 
 Better once than never. 
 By beating love decays. 
 Charity begins at home. 
 Common goods, no goods. 
 Enough is great riches. 
 Every man to his taste. 
 Every man to his trade. 
 Every one to his equal. 
 Exchange is no robbery. 
 Gifts are often losses. 
 Good wine sells itself. 
 He plays best who wins. 
 He that hides can find. 
 He was bom with a caul. 
 He who delays, gathers. 
 He who envies, suffers. 
 Hungry flies bite sore. 
 I will preserve myself. 
 Love rules without law. 
 Many heads, many minds. 
 Money makes dogs dance. 
 Much never cost little. 
 Necessity becomes will. 
 No one is always right. 
 No sauce like appetite. 
 Old love does not rust. 
 Ox, keep to your grass. 
 Praising is not loving. 
 Pride will have a fall. 
 Princes have long arms. 
 Reward sweetens labour. 
 Saints appear to fools. 
 Soon ripe, soon rotten. 
 The heart does not lie. 
 The will is everything. 
 Time goes, death comes. 
 Time is God’s and ours. 
 To buy a cat in a poke. 
 To flay the flayed dog. 
 To mad words deaf ears. 
 Too much is not enough. 
 To thrash one’s jacket. 
 Who buys land buys war. 
 Wine wears no breeches. 
 A calm portends a storm. 
 A cur’s tail grows fast. 
 Advisers are not givers. 
 A good cause needs help. 
 A horse grown fat kicks. 
 A litigious man, a liar. 
 All bite the bitten dog. 
 Among thorns grow roses. 
 An enemy does not sleep. 
 A stick is a peacemaker. 
 At Rome do as Rome does. 
 Bad news is always true. 
 Bad ware is never cheap. 
 Bitter pills are gilded. 
 Blossoms are not fruits. 
 Cold hand, a warm heart. 
 Comparison is not proof. 
 Death keeps no almanack. 
 Dressed like a windmill. 
 Eating teaches drinking. 
 Every day has its night. 
 Every man has his value. 
 Every promise is a debt. 
 Everything has its time. 
 God helps the strongest. 
 God’s work is soon done. 
 Good wine needs no sign. 
 Go softly and look afar. 
 Half figs, half raisins. 
 Hannibal is at the gate. 
 He is a man like a book. 
 He that stands may fall. 
 He who has land has war. 
 He who swears is a liar. 
 He wriggles like an eel. 
 Hunger is the best cook. 
 Like lips, like lettuce. 
 Little wood, much fruit. 
 Long tongue, short hand. 
 Love knows hidden paths. 
 Love makes labour light. 
 Money advances meacocks. 
 Much worship, much cost. 
 Necessity unites hearts. 
 No feast like a miser’s. 
 No purchase like a gift. 
 Old wounds easily bleed. 
 One bite brings another. 
 One devil knows another. 
 One knife whets another. 
 Only one can be emperor. 
 Other times, other folk. 
 Pay-day comes every day. 
 Physician, heal thyself. 
 Plenty makes daintiness. 
 See Naples and then die. 
 Small profits are sweet. 
 Soft and fair goeth far. 
 Still waters run deep. 
 Sweat makes good mortar. 
 Swim on and don’t trust. 
 The beaten pay the fine. 
 The heart is no traitor. 
 The last shuts the door. 
 The last stole the sack. 
 The nearest the dearest. 
 Thinking is not knowing. 
 Time past never returns. 
 Too much bursts the bag. 
 To quarrel over a straw. 
 To rude words deaf ears. 
 True jokes never please. 
 Trust, but not too much. 
 Water washes everything. 
 Well fed but ill taught. 
 What you do, do quickly. 
 Who is to bell the cat?. 
 Who sows ill, reaps ill. 
 Witticisms spare no one. 
 Work done expects money. 
 A bellyful is a bellyful. 
 A cat may look at a king. 
 Advice is not compulsion. 
 After meat comes mustard. 
 After one loss come many. 
 A gaunt brute bites sore. 
 A good name covers theft. 
 A little pot is soon hot. 
 All but saves many a man. 
 All flesh is not venison. 
 A man’s face is a lion’s. 
 Anger is a short madness. 
 A wise man, a strong man. 
 Better aught than nought. 
 Better is rule than rent. 
 Blood boils without fire. 
 Comparisons are odious. 
 Crazy wheels run longest. 
 Envy goes beyond avarice. 
 Envy is its own torturer. 
 Every flood hath its ebb. 
 Every fly has its shadow. 
 Every man has his liking. 
 Every one has his master. 
 Every road leads to Rome. 
 Every rose has its thorn. 
 Fair and softly goes far. 
 Fair promises bind fools. 
 Fear guards the vineyard. 
 Fear is a great inventor. 
 First come, first served. 
 Fortune, and go to sleep. 
 Good faith stole the cow. 
 Good things require time. 
 Good ware was never dear. 
 Good wine praises itself. 
 Great wealth, great care. 
 He has a wolf-conscience. 
 He has lost the nest-egg. 
 He that jokes, confesses. 
 He who brings is welcome. 
 He who can lick can bite. 
 Honours change manners. 
 Ill weeds grow apace. 
 Iron not used soon rusts. 
 Justice has a waxen nose. 
 Kindness breaks no bones. 
 Lean meat from a fat pig. 
 Leave no nail unclenched. 
 Lightly come, lightly go. 
 Little bird, little nest. 
 Money is money’s brother. 
 Month shut and eyes open. 
 Much chatter, little wit. 
 Old signs do not deceive. 
 One bell serves a parish. 
 One fool praises another. 
 Opportunity makes desire. 
 Penny is penny’s brother. 
 Practice makes perfect. 
 Reasonings banish reason. 
 Second thoughts are best. 
 Security is nowhere safe. 
 Set a fox to catch a fox. 
 Sickly body, sickly mind. 
 Skilled hands eat trouts. 
 The best is the cheapest. 
 The hen lays upon an egg. 
 The night brings counsel. 
 The sow prefers the mire. 
 The venom is in the tail. 
 Time destroys all things. 
 Time gained, much gained. 
 Time is anger’s medicine. 
 To a good cat a good rat. 
 To cackle and lay no egg. 
 To do, one must be doing. 
 To give court holy-water. 
 To laugh in one’s sleeve. 
 Too much will soon break. 
 Too much wisdom is folly. 
 Too much zeal spoils all. 
 To quench fire with fire. 
 To sell a cat for a hare. 
 To sign for both parties. 
 To throw oil on the fire. 
 Vainglory bears no grain. 
 Virtue is its own reward. 
 Well-done outlives death. 
 What has horns will gore. 
 Who faints not, achieves. 
 Who glows not, burns not. 
 Whoso hath land hath war. 
 A good cock was never fat. 
 All that’s fair must fade. 
 All water runs to the sea. 
 Almost never killed a fly. 
 Anything for a quiet life. 
 A poor man is all schemes. 
 Appearances are deceitful. 
 As poor as a church mouse. 
 As the tree, so the fruit. 
 A thief makes opportunity. 
 Bad ware must be cried up. 
 Barking dogs don’t bite. 
 Baskets after the vintage. 
 Better ask than go astray. 
 Beware, froth is not beer. 
 Big mouthfuls often choke. 
 Birds of prey do not sing. 
 Black hens lay white eggs. 
 Correction bringeth fruit. 
 Cunning has little honour. 
 Eagles do not breed doves. 
 Early marriage, long love. 
 Easy to say is hard to do. 
 Every hill has its valley. 
 Every house has its cross. 
 Every one bears his cross. 
 Every one speaks as he is. 
 First weigh, then venture. 
 Forced love does not last. 
 Forgiven is not forgotten. 
 Give me money, not advice. 
 God helps the early riser. 
 Good bargains are ruinous. 
 Good blood will never lie. 
 Great boast, little roast. 
 Great cry and little wool. 
 Great smoke, little roast. 
 He carries fire and water. 
 He who serves is not free. 
 Hour by hour time departs. 
 If one won’t another will. 
 In marriage cheat who can. 
 Labour warms, sloth harms. 
 Laughter makes good blood. 
 Laws were made for rogues. 
 Like master, like man. 
 Like plays best with like. 
 Money is round, and rolls. 
 Money is the sinew of war. 
 Money lent, an enemy made. 
 Money turns bad into good. 
 Much caution does no harm. 
 Much laughter, little wit. 
 Much talking, much erring. 
 Never give advice unasked. 
 Never refuse a good offer. 
 No one has seen to-morrow. 
 No penny, no pater-noster. 
 No rose without a thorn. 
 Old oxen have stiff horns. 
 Old pigs have hard snouts. 
 One barber shaves another. 
 One hand washes the other. 
 Open hand makes open hand. 
 Others’ bread is too salt. 
 Other towns, other lasses. 
 Practice makes the master. 
 Rust wastes more than use. 
 Service is no inheritance. 
 Sight goes before hearsay. 
 Small beer comes the last. 
 Sorrow seldom comes alone. 
 Still water breeds vermin. 
 The belly gives no credit. 
 The gallows takes its own. 
 The lean dog is all fleas. 
 Time is an inaudible file. 
 Time passes like the wind. 
 To every saint his candle. 
 True love never grows old. 
 Unlooked-for, often comes. 
 Virtue consists in action. 
 War begun, hell unchained. 
 What has not been, may be. 
 Who talks much, errs much. 
 Words don’t fill the sack. 
 Young gambler, old beggar. 
 Your enemy makes you wise. 
 A dog may look at a bishop. 
 Adversity makes a man wise. 
 A fool is always beginning. 
 A fool’s bolt is soon shot. 
 After Christmas comes Lent. 
 After the vintage, baskets. 
 A full belly counsels well. 
 A hungry clown is half mad. 
 A lean horse does not kick. 
 A little thing often helps. 
 All cocks must have a comb. 
 A mad dog cannot live long. 
 A mad parish, a mad priest. 
 A man’s will is his heaven. 
 A man’s word is his honour. 
 A man warned is half saved. 
 Another’s bread costs dear. 
 A pet child has many names. 
 Appetite comes with eating. 
 Ask too much to get enough. 
 As the master, so the work. 
 As useless as monkey’s fat. 
 As you sow, you shall reap. 
 Bear and bull catch no fox. 
 Bees do not become hornets. 
 Better a patch than a hole. 
 Better bend than break. 
 Better is an enemy to good. 
 Better lose than lose more. 
 Better straw, than nothing. 
 Beware of a poor alchemist. 
 Black cows give white milk. 
 Buy when it is market time. 
 Cunning surpasses strength. 
 Daughters are brittle ware. 
 Dearth foreseen never came. 
 Don’t teach fishes to swim. 
 Dreams are froth (or lies). 
 Drop by drop fills the tub. 
 East or west, home is best. 
 Economy is a great revenue. 
 Every fox likes a henroost. 
 Every one reaps as he sows. 
 For a bad tongue, scissors. 
 For evil tongues, scissors. 
 For poor people small coin. 
 From bishop to turn miller. 
 Glowworms are not lanterns. 
 Good never comes too often. 
 Good right needs good help. 
 Good wine makes good blood. 
 Great boaster, little doer. 
 Great fishes break the net. 
 He buys very dear who begs. 
 He has him under his thumb. 
 He who has loaves has dogs. 
 He who threatens is afraid. 
 In the tail lies the venom. 
 Lawyers are bad Christians. 
 Leave the jest at its best. 
 Less advice and more hands. 
 Let the injurer not forget. 
 Light is bad for sore eyes. 
 Long borrowed is not given. 
 Long life to the conqueror. 
 Long talk makes short days. 
 Love Bertrand love his dog. 
 Love is master of all arts. 
 Many cooks spoil the broth. 
 Many hands make quick work. 
 Many littles make a mickle. 
 Mischief comes soon enough. 
 Misreckoning is no payment. 
 Much kindred, much trouble. 
 Much straw and little corn. 
 Never did capon love a hen. 
 Never limp before the lame. 
 Never repent a good action. 
 Never spur a willing horse. 
 New brooms sweep clean. 
 New doctor, new churchyard. 
 No day but has its evening. 
 No house without its cross. 
 No one is too old to learn. 
 No one sees his own faults. 
 Nothing is had for nothing. 
 Of evils, choose the least. 
 One lie draws ten after it. 
 One man is another’s devil. 
 One nail drives in another. 
 One word brings on another. 
 Other times, other manners. 
 Peacock, look at your legs. 
 Poverty is the sixth sense. 
 Praise a fine day at night. 
 Profit is better than fame. 
 Pull gently at a weak rope. 
 Rent and taxes never sleep. 
 Saint’s words, cat’s claws. 
 Savings are the first gain. 
 Short hair is soon brushed. 
 Softly, don’t raise a dust. 
 Soon enough if well enough. 
 Speak, that I may see thee. 
 Spur not a willing horse. 
 Suit yourself to the times. 
 Tall trees catch much wind. 
 The anvil is used to noise. 
 The belly is a bad adviser. 
 The best always goes first. 
 The best pilots are ashore. 
 The best wine has its lees. 
 The biter is sometimes bit. 
 The hole invites the thief. 
 The injurer never forgives. 
 The office teaches the man. 
 There is no tax upon lying. 
 The rich have many friends. 
 Thirst comes from drinking. 
 Threatened folks eat bread. 
 Three know it, all know it. 
 To a quick ear half a word. 
 To-day red, to-morrow dead. 
 To every lord every honour. 
 To keep one upon hot coals. 
 To kick against the pricks. 
 To live from hand to mouth. 
 Too much humility is pride. 
 To swim between two waters. 
 To wash a blackamoor white. 
 Trust not a dog that limps. 
 Two are the masters of one. 
 Two eyes see more than one. 
 Two of a trade never agree. 
 What is new is always fine. 
 What you can’t have, abuse. 
 Where the Pope is, Rome is. 
 White hands are no offence. 
 Who accepts, sells himself. 
 Who often changes, suffers. 
 Without debt, without care. 
 Words don’t fill the belly. 
 A barking cur does not bite. 
 A bashful dog never fattens. 
 A better seldom comes after. 
 Advisers are not the payers. 
 A fair promise binds a fool. 
 A fool’s head never whitens. 
 A full stomach praises Lent. 
 A good life defers wrinkles. 
 A good thing lost is valued. 
 A heavy shower is soon over. 
 A hungry ass eats any straw. 
 A lean calf forgets to skip. 
 All threateners don’t fight. 
 A loving man, a jealous man. 
 An art requires a whole man. 
 A necessary lie is harmless. 
 An evil eye can see no good. 
 An open door tempts a saint. 
 Any water will put out fire. 
 A short rest is always good. 
 Ask my chum if I am a thief. 
 A sow prefers bran to roses. 
 A stingy man is always poor. 
 A young angel, an old devil. 
 Bad eyes never see any good. 
 Bad money always comes back. 
 Better squinting than blind. 
 Big churches, little saints. 
 Bite not the dog that bites. 
 Blood is thicker than water. 
 Boldly ventured is half won. 
 Chairs sink and stools rise. 
 Covetousness bursts the bag. 
 Do ill, and expect the like. 
 Do not hang all on one nail. 
 Do not strip before bedtime. 
 Dread the anger of the dove. 
 Dry wood makes a quick fire. 
 Every medal has its reverse. 
 Every pig has its Martinmas. 
 Everything is of every year. 
 Everything new is beautiful. 
 Every why has its wherefore. 
 Fair words won’t feed a cat. 
 Falsehood travels and grows. 
 Fools grow without watering. 
 Fore-talk spares after-talk. 
 God alone understands fools. 
 Good and bad make up a city. 
 Good hunters track narrowly. 
 Half a house is half a hell. 
 He did not invent gunpowder. 
 He lies like a tooth-drawer. 
 He runs far who never turns. 
 He swims on his own bulrush. 
 He who does not gain, loses. 
 He who has drunk will drink. 
 He who has money has capers. 
 He who reforms, God assists. 
 He who would rest must work. 
 He would bite a cent in two. 
 In my own house I am a king. 
 Jacob’s voice, Esau’s hands. 
 Look for the hog at the oak. 
 Love teaches asses to dance. 
 Marriage is heaven and hell. 
 Master’s hints are commands. 
 Much smoke and little roast. 
 New loves drive out the old. 
 No answer is also an answer. 
 Nobody’s sweetheart is ugly. 
 No jesting with edged tools. 
 No Jew a fool, no hare lazy. 
 No mad dog runs seven years. 
 Nothing happens for nothing. 
 Old birds are hard to pluck. 
 Old crows are hard to catch. 
 Old foxes are hard to catch. 
 Once a thief always a thief. 
 One cannot be and have been. 
 One love drives out another. 
 One may buy gold too dear. 
 One trick is met by another. 
 Other times, other counsels. 
 Patience surpasses learning. 
 Perseverance brings success. 
 Perseverance kills the game. 
 Policy goes beyond strength. 
 Right is with the strongest. 
 Silence gives consent. 
 Some sell and don’t deliver. 
 Some sing who are not merry. 
 Strew no roses before swine. 
 Tell no tales out of school. 
 That which must be, will be. 
 The dead are soon forgotten. 
 The end crowns the work. 
 There are toys for all ages. 
 The shovel scouts the poker. 
 Time is the herald of truth. 
 Tired folks are quarrelsome. 
 To a hard knot a hard wedge. 
 To build castles in the air. 
 To cast pearls before swine. 
 To catch a hare with a cart. 
 To give an egg to get an ox. 
 To kill a mercer for a comb. 
 To wolf’s flesh dog’s teeth. 
 What is no sin, is no shame. 
 Where friends, there riches. 
 Who begins amiss ends amiss. 
 Who cannot sing may whistle. 
 Who comes seldom is welcome. 
 Who gives, teaches a return. 
 Who has nothing, is nothing. 
 Who serves well asks enough. 
 Who sings, drives away care. 
 Wishes never filled the bag. 
 With wishing comes grieving. 
 Young dogs have sharp teeth. 
 A black hen lays a white egg. 
 A cat pent up becomes a lion. 
 A dead man does not make war. 
 A goaded ass must needs trot. 
 A good dog hunts by instinct. 
 A good man is a man of goods. 
 A great book is a great evil. 
 A headless army fights badly. 
 A hungry wolf is not at rest. 
 A light belly, a heavy heart. 
 All do not beg for one saint. 
 All who snore are not asleep. 
 A man, a word; a word, a man. 
 Argus at home, a mole abroad. 
 A scabby head fears the comb. 
 A sharp tooth for hard bread. 
 A stepmother has a hard hand. 
 A table friend is changeable. 
 At night all cats are grey. 
 A well-wisher sees from afar. 
 A word is enough to the wise. 
 Beggars must not be choosers. 
 Belles are not for the beaux. 
 Be not ashamed of your craft. 
 Better keep than have to beg. 
 Beware of a pledge that eats. 
 Confidence begets confidence. 
 Enough is as good as a feast. 
 Every country has its custom. 
 Every day is not a holiday. 
 Every saint has his festival. 
 Fair words and rotten apples. 
 Funeral sermon, lying sermon. 
 Gold does not buy everything. 
 Good counsel comes overnight. 
 Good or bad we must all live. 
 Good people live far asunder. 
 Good wine makes the horse go. 
 Great disputing repels truth. 
 He fishes on who catches one. 
 He has enough who is content. 
 He is an aristocrat in folio. 
 He said devil, but meant you. 
 He that creepeth falleth not. 
 He who has sheep has fleeces. 
 He who has victory has right. 
 He who is silent gains store. 
 He who sows well, reaps well. 
 He who would take, must give. 
 Honour blossoms on the grave. 
 Hunger is the best sauce. 
 I am not here to catch flies. 
 Ill tidings come soon enough. 
 Laws go the way kings direct. 
 Laws go where dollars please. 
 Little beard, little modesty. 
 Live according to your means. 
 Long absence changes friends. 
 Lords and fools speak freely. 
 Love is blind, but sees afar. 
 Love levels all inequalities. 
 Love’s anger is fuel to love. 
 My No is as good as your Yes. 
 Near the church far from God. 
 New trappings to an old mule. 
 No living man all things can. 
 No man can serve two masters. 
 No one likes to bell the cat. 
 Not too little, not too much. 
 Often shooting hits the mark. 
 Old trees are not to be bent. 
 One bad eye spoils the other. 
 One deceit brings on another. 
 One devil does not make hell. 
 One devil drives out another. 
 One may tire of eating tarts. 
 Paris was not built in a day. 
 Penny wise and pound foolish. 
 People lend only to the rich. 
 Poverty is a sort of leprosy. 
 Quick at meat, quick at work. 
 Quick enough, if good enough. 
 Ride on, but look before you. 
 Saint cannot if God will not. 
 Self-love nobody else’s love. 
 Short flax makes long thread. 
 Small rain lays a great wind. 
 So many heads, so many minds. 
 So many men, so many minds. 
 Soon gained, soon squandered. 
 Strength avails not a coward. 
 Sweet song has betrayed many. 
 The belly overrules the head. 
 The devil will tempt Lucifer. 
 The dogs bite the hindermost. 
 The flawed pot lasts longest. 
 The gentle hawk mans herself. 
 The good time comes but once. 
 The late comer is ill lodged. 
 The letter enters with blood. 
 The mad dog bites its master. 
 The nest made, the bird dead. 
 The ox spoke and said “Moo,”. 
 The priest errs at the altar. 
 There are many roads to Rome. 
 The weakest goes to the wall. 
 The work praises the workman. 
 Think of many things, do one. 
 To be like a louse in a seam. 
 To give tardily is to refuse. 
 To grease the fat pig’s tail. 
 To hold the wolf by the ears. 
 To pay one in his own coin. 
 To put out the fire with tow. 
 To sell the bird in the bush. 
 To show the sun with a torch. 
 To swallow both sea and fish. 
 Truth makes the tongue smart. 
 Two false men to one traitor. 
 What a monk thinks, he dares. 
 When wisdom fails luck helps. 
 Who comes first grinds first. 
 Who could live without hope?. 
 Who knows most, says least. 
 Who saves, saves for the cat. 
 Who watches not, catches not. 
 With the good we become good. 
 A bad penny always comes back. 
 A braying ass eats little hay. 
 A burnt child dreads the fire. 
 Advice should precede the act. 
 A friend, and look to thyself. 
 A friend’s meat is soon ready. 
 A full sack pricks up its ear. 
 A gilt bridle for an old mule. 
 A girl draws more than a rope. 
 A glutton young, a beggar old. 
 A golden key opens every door. 
 A good gaper makes two gapers. 
 A greased mouth cannot say no. 
 All heads are not sense-boxes. 
 All’s well that ends well. 
 All the fingers are not alike. 
 Always in love, never married. 
 A modest dog seldom grows fat. 
 An angry man heeds no counsel. 
 A penny saved is twopence got. 
 A pig’s life, short and sweet. 
 A sad bride makes a glad wife. 
 A scald head needs strong lye. 
 A short sword for a brave man. 
 A slothful man never has time. 
 A thing lost is a thing known. 
 A timid man has little chance. 
 Bad news is the first to come. 
 Be my enemy and go to my mill. 
 Better give than have to give. 
 Blame is the lazy man’s wages. 
 Borrowing does well only once. 
 Buying is cheaper than asking. 
 Buy the bed of a great debtor. 
 Christians have no neighbours. 
 Custom is second nature. 
 Death does not blow a trumpet. 
 Do good, and care not to whom. 
 Do not make two devils of one. 
 Do not ship all in one bottom. 
 Eaten bread is soon forgotten. 
 Empty waggons make most noise. 
 Every man rides his own hobby. 
 Every one his own is but fair. 
 Every truth is not to be told. 
 Faint praise is akin to abuse. 
 Fat pastures make fat venison. 
 Few have luck, all have death. 
 Fine feathers make fine birds. 
 Flies flock to the lean horse. 
 Fools must not be set on eggs. 
 Forbearance is no acquittance. 
 For the last comer, the bones. 
 From long journeys, long lies. 
 From that dust comes this mud. 
 Gifts make friendship lasting. 
 God permits, but not for ever. 
 Good bargains empty the purse. 
 Hasty speed don’t oft succeed. 
 He who buys a horse buys care. 
 He who cannot help may hinder. 
 He who does nothing, does ill. 
 He who loves well, obeys well. 
 He who prates much, lies much. 
 He who promises incurs a debt. 
 He who sleeps catches no fish. 
 Hired horses make short miles. 
 His bread fell into the honey. 
 Honest poverty is thinly sown. 
 Ill-matched horses draw badly. 
 I never saw a silent rich man. 
 In prosperity no altars smoke. 
 It hangs upon a silken thread. 
 Jack gets on by his stupidity. 
 Jack is as good as his master. 
 Leave the minster where it is. 
 Let people talk and dogs bark. 
 Little by little one goes far. 
 Mad dogs get their coats torn. 
 Make hay while the sun shines. 
 Many trades, begging the best. 
 Men go not laughing to heaven. 
 Money taken, freedom forsaken. 
 Mouth of honey, heart of gall. 
 My chest locked, my soul safe. 
 Not every one may pluck roses. 
 Nothing venture, nothing have. 
 One fool is enough in a house. 
 One knavery is met by another. 
 One nail drives out another. 
 Painted flowers have no scent. 
 Pleasures steal away the mind. 
 Presents keep friendship warm. 
 Promises don’t fill the belly. 
 Rage avails less than courage. 
 Ready money works great cures. 
 Rome was not built in a day. 
 Sloth is the key to poverty. 
 Stagnant water grows stinking. 
 Starved lice bite the hardest. 
 Stay a while, and lose a mile. 
 Sweet wine makes sour vinegar. 
 That brings water to the mill. 
 The cow licks no strange calf. 
 The debts go to the next heir. 
 The fool hunts for misfortune. 
 The miser’s bag is never full. 
 The mouth and the purse, shut. 
 The old branch breaks if bent. 
 The old monkey gets the apple. 
 There is no joy without alloy. 
 There’s no smoke without fire. 
 The wolf is not always a wolf. 
 The wolf will die in his skin. 
 The world likes to be cheated. 
 They agree like cats and dogs. 
 Time and place make the thief. 
 Time and tide wait for no man. 
 To a rogue a rogue and a half. 
 To be like a bunch of nettles. 
 To carry a lantern in mid-day. 
 To have luck needs little wit. 
 To have the foot in two shoes. 
 To make a virtue of necessity. 
 To make two nails at one heat. 
 To-morrow will be another day. 
 Too much wax burns the church. 
 To reckon without the hostess. 
 True nobility is invulnerable. 
 Truth creeps not into corners. 
 Truth is the daughter of time. 
 Two heads are better than one. 
 Various are the roads to fame. 
 Walls sink and dunghills rise. 
 We cannot all be Pope of Rome. 
 What a woman wills, God wills. 
 What does not poison, fattens. 
 Who answers for another, pays. 
 Who knows most, forgives most. 
 Whoso is well let him keep so. 
 Worldly good is ebb and flood. 
 A bad heart and a good stomach. 
 A bold attempt is half success. 
 A clear bargain, a dear friend. 
 A drop of water breaks a stone. 
 After one pope another is made. 
 After the sour comes the sweet. 
 A good beast heats with eating. 
 A good fire makes a quick cook. 
 A good lawyer, a bad neighbour. 
 A great talker is a great liar. 
 A liar must have a good memory. 
 A little man fells a great oak. 
 All wool is hair, more or less. 
 A lover’s anger is short-lived. 
 A morsel eaten gains no friend. 
 An ambassador beareth no blame. 
 An old rat easily finds a hole. 
 Another’s care hangs by a hair. 
 A short mass and a long dinner. 
 A wise man may learn of a fool. 
 Bad news always comes too soon. 
 Bad watch often feeds the wolf. 
 Better be silent than talk ill. 
 Beware of the man of two faces. 
 Borrowers must not be choosers. 
 By night all cats are grey. 
 By the living we bury the dead. 
 Cap in hand never did any harm. 
 Common fame is seldom to blame. 
 Desire beautifies what is ugly. 
 Dogs that bark much don’t bite. 
 Don’t reckon without your host. 
 Eating sets the head to rights. 
 Enough is better than too much. 
 Entreaty and right do the deed. 
 Even the just has need of help. 
 Every vine must have its stake. 
 Evil be to him who evil thinks. 
 Experience is the best teacher. 
 Fair words won’t fill the sack. 
 Fire is not quenched with fire. 
 For a stubborn ass a hard goad. 
 Fox’s broth, cold and scalding. 
 Friends are known in adversity. 
 God’s friend, the priest’s foe. 
 Good company makes short miles. 
 Good wine is milk for the aged. 
 Great men may jest with saints. 
 Great thieves hang little ones. 
 Handsome is that handsome does. 
 He cries out before he is hurt. 
 He goes safely who has nothing. 
 He is an essence of scoundrels. 
 He who does not tire, achieves. 
 He who has a mate has a master. 
 He who says nothing never lies. 
 Honour once lost never returns. 
 I have a good jacket in France. 
 Ill-gotten goods never prosper. 
 Ill luck is good for something. 
 It is best to play with equals. 
 It is hard to please every one. 
 It never thunders but it rains. 
 Kings’ entreaties are commands. 
 Light gains make a heavy purse. 
 Little pitchers have long ears. 
 Little strokes fell great oaks. 
 Many a good cow has a bad calf. 
 Many heirs make small portions. 
 Mouth and heart are wide apart. 
 No and yes cause long disputes. 
 No comforter’s head ever aches. 
 No one is content with his lot. 
 No one so sure but he may miss. 
 Not every dog that barks bites. 
 Not every land has all at hand. 
 Old churches have dark windows. 
 Old friends and new reckonings. 
 One can’t shoe a running horse. 
 One flea does not hinder sleep. 
 One must glean at harvest time. 
 One wolf does not kill another. 
 Others’ bread has seven crusts. 
 Power often goes before talent. 
 Priests and women never forget. 
 Priests bless themselves first. 
 Revenge remains not unrevenged. 
 Scratch people where they itch. 
 Set a thief to catch a thief. 
 Shoemaker stick to your last. 
 Sickness is every man’s master. 
 Sloth is the beginning of vice. 
 Small gains bring great wealth. 
 Sweet meat requires sour sauce. 
 The beast dead, the venom dead. 
 The belly does not accept bail. 
 The blade wears out the sheath. 
 The doctor seldom takes physio. 
 The dog barks and the ox feeds. 
 The end of all things is death. 
 The ill year comes in swimming. 
 The lion had need of the mouse. 
 The lion is known by his claws. 
 The more cooks the worse broth. 
 The more law, the less justice. 
 There is a fool at every feast. 
 There is no fire without smoke. 
 The silent man is most trusted. 
 The Trojans were wise too late. 
 The will is taken for the deed. 
 They are rich who have friends. 
 Throw that bone to another dog. 
 To be like a fish in the water. 
 To live long is to suffer long. 
 To look for five feet in a cat. 
 To rob a robber is not robbing. 
 What comes seldom, comes sharp. 
 What is too high, that let fly. 
 What ripens fast does not last. 
 When two Sundays come together. 
 Who has nothing, fears nothing. 
 Who knows most, believes least. 
 Without knowledge, without sin. 
 Words often do more than blows. 
 Wounds heal, but not ill words. 
 A beard lathered is half shaved. 
 A beggar’s wallet is never full. 
 A blind man swallows many a fly. 
 A bold onset is half the battle. 
 A child’s sorrow is short-lived. 
 A crooked log makes a good fire. 
 Act honestly, and answer boldly. 
 Advising is easier than helping. 
 A fat kitchen, a lean testament. 
 A fat kitchen makes a lean will. 
 A fine cage won’t feed the bird. 
 A fine shot never killed a bird. 
 A fool laughs when others laugh. 
 A fool only wins the first game. 
 After high floods come low ebbs. 
 After rain comes sunshine. 
 A full belly sets a man jigging. 
 A good dog never barks at fault. 
 A good heart breaks bad fortune. 
 A little absence does much good. 
 A little help does a great deal. 
 All is not lost that is delayed. 
 All saints do not work miracles. 
 A man assailed is half overcome. 
 A merry host makes merry guests. 
 Another man’s trade costs money. 
 A penny saved is a penny gained. 
 A penny spared is a penny saved. 
 A poor man’s joy has much alloy. 
 A scalded cat dreads cold water. 
 As is the master, so is his dog. 
 As the man is, so is his speech. 
 At evening the sluggard is busy. 
 A thief thinks every man steals. 
 A wicked dog must be tied short. 
 A wound foreseen pains the less. 
 Better go about than be drowned. 
 Big fish devour the little ones. 
 Children and fools are prophets. 
 Children are what they are made. 
 Christmas comes but once a year. 
 Claw me, and I’ll claw thee. 
 Clay and lime conceal much evil. 
 Counsel is nothing against love. 
 Coupled sheep drown one another. 
 Creaking carts last the longest. 
 Dirty water does not wash clean. 
 Doing nothing teaches doing ill. 
 Do not lose honour through fear. 
 Don’t budge, if you sit at ease. 
 Eat with him, and beware of him. 
 Eggs are put to hatch on chance. 
 Enough is better than a sackful. 
 Envy was never a good spokesman. 
 Every dog is not a lion at home. 
 Every foal is not like its sire. 
 Every fool wants to give advice. 
 Every man is dearest to himself. 
 Every one praises his own saint. 
 Every potter vaunts his own pot. 
 Evil must be driven out by evil. 
 Evil words corrupt good manners. 
 Faint heart is always in danger. 
 Fine birds are commonly plucked. 
 Fine words don’t fill the belly. 
 Fish begin to stink at the head. 
 For great evils strong remedies. 
 Four eyes see more than two. 
 From a spark the house is burnt. 
 Gifts break (or dissolve) rocks. 
 God knows who is a good pilgrim. 
 Go softly over bad bits of road. 
 Great promisers, bad paymasters. 
 Green Christmas, a white Easter. 
 Grey hairs are death’s blossoms. 
 Hares are not caught with drums. 
 He cannot find water in the sea. 
 He gapes like a clown at a fair. 
 He has a head, and so has a pin. 
 He is a man who acts like a man. 
 He is nowhere who is everywhere. 
 He lives in the land of promise. 
 He preaches well who lives well. 
 He sells the bird on the branch. 
 He that says A, must also say B. 
 He that ventures not, fails not. 
 He that won’t listen, must feel. 
 He who begins badly, ends badly. 
 He who comes first grinds first. 
 He who demands does not command. 
 He who denies all confesses all. 
 He who has no head wants no hat. 
 He who is everywhere is nowhere. 
 He who loses is always in fault. 
 He who pays well is well served. 
 He who quits his place loses it. 
 He who rides the mule shoes her. 
 He who sings drives away sorrow. 
 He who succeeds is reputed wise. 
 Honour the old, teach the young. 
 Hope is the dream of the waking. 
 Hunger eats through stone walls. 
 Idleness is the devil’s bolster. 
 Ill in kine and worse in beeves. 
 Ill weeds are not hurt by frost. 
 Ingratitude sickens benevolence. 
 In the fray the weak are strong. 
 It is a hard morsel that chokes. 
 It is better to bend than break. 
 It is good rowing with set sail. 
 It’s a bad mouthful that chokes. 
 It won’t do to trifle with fire. 
 Liars should have good memories. 
 Liberal hands make many friends. 
 Lion-skins were never had cheap. 
 Little brooks make great rivers. 
 Longer than a day without bread. 
 Marriages are written in heaven. 
 Misfortunes never come single. 
 Money borrowed is soon sorrowed. 
 Much memory and little judgment. 
 No flies light on a boiling pot. 
 No grass grows on a beaten road. 
 No pear falls into a shut mouth. 
 Not all words require an answer. 
 Nothing dries sooner than tears. 
 One briar does not make a hedge. 
 One crow does not make a winter. 
 Other folks’ cares kill the ass. 
 Out before day, in before night. 
 Patience is the virtue of asses. 
 Peter pinches me, and I like it. 
 Plants oft removed never thrive. 
 Poverty never sped well in love. 
 Prudent men choose frugal wives. 
 Running water carries no poison. 
 Said in sport, meant in earnest. 
 Saying and doing are two things. 
 See, hear, and hold your tongue. 
 Sell publicly and buy privately. 
 Shame lasts longer than poverty. 
 Stolen bread stirs the appetite. 
 The best goods are the cheapest. 
 The bow must not be always bent. 
 The golden key opens every door. 
 The heart leads whither it goes. 
 The honest man enjoys the theft. 
 The kettle smuts the frying-pan. 
 The last come is the best liked. 
 The less said the sooner mended. 
 The more knave, the better luck. 
 The pike grows big on small fry. 
 There is a cause for all things. 
 The rich widow’s tears soon dry. 
 The sick man is free to say all. 
 The steps at court are slippery. 
 The thirteenth man brings death. 
 Three brothers, three castles. 
 To cry famine on a heap of corn. 
 To every evil-doer his evil day. 
 To give change out for his coin. 
 To make two hits with one stone. 
 To promise more carts than oxen. 
 To see the sky through a funnel. 
 To sell honey to a bee-keeper. 
 To send one arrow after another. 
 To spur a horse on level ground. 
 Trust in God upon good security. 
 Upon an egg the hen lays an egg. 
 Virtue flourishes in misfortune. 
 What is done cannot be undone. 
 What is enough was never little. 
 What is in use, wants no excuse. 
 What three know everybody knows. 
 When the pear is ripe, it falls. 
 Where love is, there the eye is. 
 While there’s life there’s hope. 
 Who has something, is something. 
 Who loves well chastises well. 
 Who pays a debt creates capital. 
 Who steals a calf, steals a cow. 
 With law must the land be built. 
 A bold man has luck in his train. 
 A boy’s love is water in a sieve. 
 A fair exchange bring no quarrel. 
 A farthing saved is twice earned. 
 After one vice a greater follows. 
 After the act wishing is in vain. 
 A good horse is worth his fodder. 
 A good meal is worth hanging for. 
 A great leap gives a great shake. 
 A hair of the dog cures the bite. 
 A handsome man is not quite poor. 
 A little too late, much too late. 
 A man may threaten yet be afraid. 
 A man warned is as good as two. 
 An ass’s trot does not last long. 
 An honest man’s word is his bond. 
 An oak is not felled at one blow. 
 An old horse for a young soldier. 
 An old quarrel is easily renewed. 
 An open box tempts an honest man. 
 A poor man has few acquaintances. 
 A runaway horse punishes himself. 
 A short cut is often a wrong cut. 
 A sin confessed is half forgiven. 
 A soft answer turneth away wrath. 
 A sow is always dreaming of bran. 
 As soon dies the calf as the cow. 
 As they pipe to me, I will dance. 
 At the end the Gloria is chanted. 
 A vicious dog must be tied short. 
 A white wall is the fool’s paper. 
 A word once out flies everywhere. 
 Bad grass does not make good hay. 
 Beginning and ending shake hands. 
 Better a ruined than a lost land. 
 Better be envied than pitied. 
 Better late than never. 
 Better one-eyed than stone blind. 
 Between the hammer and the anvil. 
 Big flies break the spider’s web. 
 By falling we learn to go safely. 
 Contrivance is better than force. 
 Dear is cheap, and cheap is dear. 
 Distrust is poison to friendship. 
 Dogs have teeth in all countries. 
 Do what you ought, come what may. 
 Eggs and oaths are easily broken. 
 Every bird sings as it is beaked. 
 Every ditch is full of after-wit. 
 Every mother’s child is handsome. 
 Every one says: My right is good. 
 Every one sneezes as God pleases. 
 Everything is good for something. 
 Everything is good in its season. 
 Every to-morrow brings its bread. 
 Fair words don’t fill the pocket. 
 Favour and gifts disturb justice. 
 Fie upon a cloak in fair weather. 
 Fire and straw soon make a flame. 
 Flowers are the pledges of fruit. 
 For a web begun God sends thread. 
 For love the wolf eats the sheep. 
 From the boat we get to the ship. 
 Gifts are according to the giver. 
 Good wine needs no crier. 
 Grass grows not upon the highway. 
 Great talkers are commonly liars. 
 Hard against hard never was good. 
 Hear first, and speak afterwards. 
 He burns the candle at both ends. 
 He gains enough who loses sorrow. 
 He has given the hen for the egg. 
 He is not happy who knows it not. 
 He lays his eggs beside his nest. 
 He that has a choice has trouble. 
 He that has no head needs no hat. 
 He who begins ill finishes worse. 
 He who buys betimes buys cheaply. 
 He who has nothing fears nothing. 
 He who sows little, reaps little. 
 He who spares vice wrongs virtue. 
 He who turns aside avoids danger. 
 His hens lay eggs with two yolks. 
 Idleness is the root of all evil. 
 In prosperity think of adversity. 
 It is bad preaching to deaf ears. 
 It is folly to drown on dry land. 
 It is not all gold that glitters. 
 It is not always good to be wise. 
 It is only the bashful that lose. 
 Justice, but not in my own house. 
 Knowing hens lay even in nettles. 
 Let every bird sing its own note. 
 Let no one take a pawn that eats. 
 Long fasting is no bread sparing. 
 Love and faith are seen in works. 
 Love your friend with his faults. 
 Luck has but a slender anchorage. 
 Make way for a madman and a bull. 
 Manual jokes are clowns’ jokes. 
 Married to-day, marred to-morrow. 
 My shirt is nearer than my cloak. 
 Need makes the old wife trot. 
 No good doctor ever takes physic. 
 No lock avails against a hatchet. 
 No man’s master, no master’s man. 
 Office without pay makes thieves. 
 Old thanks are not for new gifts. 
 One can speak and seven can sing. 
 One good turn deserves another. 
 One is never soiled but by filth. 
 One misfortune brings on another. 
 One shoe will not fit every foot. 
 One to one, and two to the devil. 
 Paper and ink and little justice. 
 Pilgrims seldom come home saints. 
 Pills must be bolted, not chewed. 
 Possession is as good as a title. 
 Praise the sea, and keep on land. 
 Priests pay each other no tithes. 
 Salt spilt is never all gathered. 
 Secret gifts are openly rewarded. 
 Short hose must have long points. 
 Small saints, too, work miracles. 
 Softly, barber, the water scalds. 
 Take help of many, advice of few. 
 Tender surgeons make foul wounds. 
 Ten noes are better than one lie. 
 The belly warm, the foot at rest. 
 The better day the better deed. 
 The big fish eat the little ones. 
 The coalheaver is master at home. 
 The executioner is a keen shaver. 
 The eye is bigger than the belly. 
 The first blow is as good as two. 
 The first dish pleases every one. 
 The game is not worth the candle. 
 The golden ass passes everywhere. 
 The handsomest snuffs the candle. 
 Their dogs don’t hunt in couples. 
 The listener makes the backbiter. 
 The list is worse than the cloth. 
 The middle path is the safe path. 
 The more fools the more laughter. 
 The more shepherds the less care. 
 The mouth that says yes, says no. 
 The paunch warm, the foot sleepy. 
 The poor man eats at double cost. 
 There are good dogs of all sizes. 
 There are no children now-a-days. 
 The sun shines for all the world. 
 The sweetest grapes hang highest. 
 The weakest must hold the candle. 
 The will gives the work its name. 
 The will is the soul of the work. 
 The worst clothed go to windward. 
 Thrift is better than an annuity. 
 Time and straw make medlars ripe. 
 Time betrays and hangs the thief. 
 To cry up wine, and sell vinegar. 
 To draw the foot out of the mire. 
 To kill two birds with one stone. 
 To put a good face on a bad game. 
 To sink a well by the river side. 
 To turn fishmonger on Easter-eve. 
 To wipe up the sea with a sponge. 
 Treachery lurks in honeyed words. 
 Tread on a worm and it will turn. 
 True love suffers no concealment. 
 Two hard flints never grind well. 
 Under fair words beware of fraud. 
 We must suffer much or die young. 
 When glory comes, memory departs. 
 When had comes, have is too late. 
 When one goose drinks, all drink. 
 When wine enters modesty departs. 
 Where there’s fire there’s smoke. 
 Who has no head should have legs. 
 Who loves well is slow to forget. 
 Wind and fortune are not lasting. 
 Words are female, deeds are male. 
 Words are good when works follow. 
 Wounds pain most when grown cool. 
 You cannot damage a wrecked ship. 
 You cannot get oil out of a wall. 
 A beggar is never out of his road. 
 A child’s back must be bent early. 
 A dog with a bone knows no friend. 
 A fault denied is twice committed. 
 A friend is known in time of need. 
 A friend’s dinner is soon dressed. 
 After mischance every one is wise. 
 A good dog never gets a good bone. 
 A good horse never lacks a saddle. 
 A good name is a rich inheritance. 
 A lame goat will not sleep by day. 
 A little rain stills a great wind. 
 A little sheep always seems young. 
 A little spark shines in the dark. 
 All is not lost that is in danger. 
 Alone in counsel, alone in sorrow. 
 A man overboard, a mouth the less. 
 An empty sack won’t stand upright. 
 A new net won’t catch an old bird. 
 An old rat won’t go into the trap. 
 A poor man is hungry after eating. 
 A ragged coat finds little credit. 
 Arms and money require good hands. 
 A saddle fits more backs than one. 
 A short halter for a greedy horse. 
 A short tail won’t keep off flies. 
 As is the king, so are his people. 
 A small hatchet fells a great oak. 
 A still sow eats up all the draff. 
 A stout heart tempers adversity. 
 A voluntary burthen is no burthen. 
 Behind every mountain lies a vale. 
 Bend the willow while it is young. 
 Better a leg broken than the neck. 
 Better be a coward than foolhardy. 
 Better keep peace than make peace. 
 Big fish spring out of the kettle. 
 Birds of a feather flock together. 
 Blow, smith, and you’ll get money. 
 By the thread we unwind the skein. 
 Children married, cares increased. 
 Chop, and you will have splinters. 
 Constant dropping wears the stone. 
 Credit is better than ready money. 
 Credit is dead, bad pay killed it. 
 Crows do not peck out crows’ eyes. 
 Curses on accounts with relations. 
 Different times different manners. 
 Do not judge the dog by his hairs. 
 Do not rear a bird of a bad breed. 
 Drop by drop wears away the stone. 
 Ducats are clipped, pence are not. 
 Empty rooms make giddy housewives. 
 Every bird needs its own feathers. 
 Everybody says it, nobody does it. 
 Every man his own is not too much. 
 Every one thinks his owl a falcon. 
 Eye-service is the courtier’s art. 
 Fools are free all the world over. 
 For a good companion good company. 
 For extreme ills extreme remedies. 
 For one pleasure a thousand pains. 
 For the upright there are no laws. 
 Frenchman to accept the challenge. 
 From great rivers come great fish. 
 Full vessels give the least sound. 
 God gives a curst cow short horns. 
 Good counsel never comes too late. 
 Good is good, but better beats it. 
 Good leading makes good following. 
 Good swimmers are drowned at last. 
 Great fools must have great bells. 
 Great men’s requests are commands. 
 Great talkers are not great doers. 
 Half a word to the wise is enough. 
 Hat in hand goes through the land. 
 He is as sharp as a leaden dagger. 
 He is not a man who cannot say no. 
 He loves well who never forgets. 
 He must stoop that has a low door. 
 Herod and Pilate are good friends. 
 He that climbs high falls heavily. 
 He who has not health has nothing. 
 He who knows nothing never doubts. 
 He who makes a law should keep it. 
 He who pays well may borrow again. 
 He who shoots often, hits at last. 
 He who sleeps much, learns little. 
 Honest Nobody is to blame for all. 
 Hunger changes beans into almonds. 
 In a golden sheath a leaden knife. 
 Industry is the parent of fortune. 
 Ingratitude is the world’s reward. 
 It is bad to be between two fires. 
 It’s ill jesting with edged tools. 
 Keep not two tongues in one mouth. 
 Kisses are the messengers of love. 
 Let him who is cold blow the fire. 
 Let lie what is too heavy to lift. 
 Lies and Latin go round the world. 
 Little is done where many command. 
 Love me little and love me long. 
 Many open a door to shut a window. 
 Merchant to-day, beggar to-morrow. 
 More unlucky than a dog in church. 
 Muddy water won’t do for a mirror. 
 No one betrays himself by silence. 
 No one is wise in his own affairs. 
 Not every one that dances is glad. 
 Not every word requires an answer. 
 No tree falls at the first stroke. 
 Of little cloth but a short cloak. 
 Of two evils choose the least. 
 One has only to die to be praised. 
 One knows not for whom he gathers. 
 Out of sight, out of mind. 
 Poor relations have little honour. 
 Poverty is the reward of idleness. 
 Precipitate counsel—perilous deed. 
 Pretty children sing pretty songs. 
 Reason does not come before years. 
 Right overstrained turns to wrong. 
 Roses fall, but the thorns remain. 
 Sell me dear, and measure me fair. 
 Services unrequired go unrequited. 
 Spare to speak and spare to speed. 
 Straying shepherd, straying sheep. 
 Strong folks have strong maladies. 
 The beggar’s wallet has no bottom. 
 The best cloth has uneven threads. 
 The dress does not make the friar. 
 The fox said the grapes were sour. 
 The greatest step is out of doors. 
 The hasty man was never a traitor. 
 The key that is used grows bright. 
 The king of the bees has no sting. 
 The light is painful to sore eyes. 
 The little alms are the good alms. 
 There are good and bad everywhere. 
 There is no appeal from time past. 
 There is no day without its night. 
 There is no disputing about taste. 
 There is no love without jealousy. 
 There is no stripping a naked man. 
 There’s cunning in—a pointed chin. 
 There’s no disputing about tastes. 
 There’s no living without friends. 
 There’s no making apples of plums. 
 There’s nothing new under the sun. 
 The righteous pays for the sinner. 
 The shortest follies are the best. 
 The skin is nearer than the shirt. 
 The unbidden guest is ever a pest. 
 The wise drunkard is a sober fool. 
 The workman is worthy of his hire. 
 Thirteen nuns, fourteen children!. 
 Throw no stones at a sleeping dog. 
 To a hasty demand a leisure reply. 
 To do nothing teacheth to do evil. 
 To every bird its nest seems fair. 
 To give quickly is to give doubly. 
 To have a belly up to one’s mouth. 
 To have “heard say” is half a lie. 
 To promise more butter than bread. 
 To throw the halter after the ass. 
 To withhold truth is to bury gold. 
 Trickery comes back to its master. 
 Trust everybody, but thyself most. 
 Two may lie so as to hang a third. 
 Unwilling service earns no thanks. 
 Wait is a hard word to the hungry. 
 Water past will not turn the mill. 
 What the lion cannot, the fox can. 
 What you do yourself is well done. 
 When drink enters, wisdom departs. 
 Where two fall out the third wins. 
 Who bows to might loses his right. 
 Who changes country, changes luck. 
 Who has patience sees his revenge. 
 Who is born a fool is never cured. 
 Who would win, must learn to bear. 
 With time and straw medlars ripen. 
 Word by word great books are made. 
 You may know the lion by his claw. 
 A barren sow is never kind to pigs. 
 A blind horse goes straightforward. 
 A blind man is no judge of colours. 
 A contented ass enjoys a long life. 
 A cracked bell will never be sound. 
 A devotee’s face and a cat’s claws. 
 A dog is a dog whatever his colour. 
 A door must either be open or shut. 
 A fault confessed is half forgiven. 
 A good conscience is a soft pillow. 
 A good head does not want for hats. 
 A good paymaster needs no security. 
 A goose drinks as much as a gander. 
 A great church and little devotion. 
 A hearth of your own is worth gold. 
 A hungry belly has no ears. 
 All are brave when the enemy flies. 
 All hairy skins must not be singed. 
 All the brains are not in one head. 
 All the sheep are not for the wolf. 
 A man’s own opinion is never wrong. 
 A man well mounted is always proud. 
 A measly hog infects the whole sty. 
 A muffled cat never caught a mouse. 
 A new broom is good for three days. 
 An idle man is the devil’s bolster. 
 Any excuse is good if it hold good. 
 A rich wife is a source of quarrel. 
 A rod is better than a fox’s brush. 
 As a man dresses so is he esteemed. 
 A single stroke don’t fell the oak. 
 As is the lover, so is the beloved. 
 At a good bargain pause and ponder. 
 At an auction keep your mouth shut. 
 A threatened man lives seven years. 
 Between two sharpers, the sharpest. 
 Buy your greyhound, don’t rear him. 
 By their marks the bales are known. 
 Children and fools speak the truth. 
 Dogs bark at those they don’t know. 
 Don’t rely on the label of the bag. 
 Do what thou doest (Age quod agis). 
 Envy does not enter an empty house. 
 Every fox looks after his own skin. 
 Every man has a fool in his sleeve. 
 Everything must have a beginning. 
 Every wind is against a leaky ship. 
 Fair things are soon snatched away. 
 Fair words, but look to your purse. 
 Flies don’t light on a boiling pot. 
 Fortune comes to him who seeks her. 
 From children expect childish acts. 
 From saying to doing is a long way. 
 Gentleness does more than violence. 
 Get a good name, and go to sleep. 
 Gluttony kills more than the sword. 
 God does not smite with both hands. 
 God gives little folks small gifts. 
 God saves the moon from the wolves. 
 Good drink drives out bad thoughts. 
 Good is the delay which makes sure. 
 Good watching drives away ill-luck. 
 Handsome apples are sometimes sour. 
 He flays enough who holds the foot. 
 He has eaten his corn in the blade. 
 He is no merchant who always gains. 
 He is rich enough who is contented. 
 He is rich enough who owes nothing. 
 He is too idle to fetch his breath. 
 He that inquires much, learns much. 
 He threatens many who affronts one. 
 He who begins much finishes little. 
 He who is not for me is against me. 
 He who is unable is always willing. 
 He who laughs last laughs best. 
 He who steals once is never trusty. 
 He who suspects is seldom at fault. 
 He who takes a wife takes a master. 
 Hide not your light under a bushel. 
 Honey is sweet, but the bee stings. 
 Husband, don’t see; wife, be blind. 
 In a calm sea every man is a pilot. 
 In still water the worms are worst. 
 It is a bad game where nobody wins. 
 It is better to leave than to lack. 
 It is difficult to trap an old fox. 
 It is only good bargains that ruin. 
 It is prophet-drink (_i.e._ water). 
 It is truth that makes a man angry. 
 It takes many words to fill a sack. 
 Let them talk of me, and beg of me. 
 Let what is lost go for God’s sake. 
 Love does much, money everything. 
 Many a true word is spoken in jest. 
 Many stop their noses at ambergris. 
 Measure thrice before you cut once. 
 Merchants’ goods are ebb and flood. 
 Misers’ money goes twice to market. 
 Money is an epitome of human power. 
 Money is not gained by losing time. 
 Money is the measure of all things. 
 Nature requires little, fancy much. 
 Never challenge a fool to do wrong. 
 No flies get into a shut mouth. 
 No one can guard against treachery. 
 Nothing so good as forbidden fruit. 
 Of the malady a man fears, he dies. 
 Old birds are not caught with cats. 
 Once resolved, the trouble is over. 
 One cannot wash a blackamoor white. 
 One foot is better than two stilts. 
 One grows used to love and to fire. 
 One must be either anvil or hammer. 
 One never wept but another laughed. 
 One swallow does not make a spring. 
 Out of the mire and into the brook. 
 Patience! said the wolf to the ass. 
 Peace with a cudgel in hand is war. 
 Poor folk’s wisdom goes for little. 
 Praise paves the way to friendship. 
 Repentance is the heart’s medicine. 
 Riches breed care, poverty is safe. 
 Rich people are everywhere at home. 
 Rosary in hand, the devil at heart. 
 Saint Michel (where shells abound). 
 Salt and bread make the cheeks red. 
 Saying is one thing, doing another. 
 Serve as a serf or fly like a deer. 
 Snarling curs never want sore ears. 
 Soft words don’t scotch the tongue. 
 Spilt salt is never well collected. 
 Talking is silver, silence is gold. 
 The absent are always in the wrong. 
 The absent were never in the right. 
 The ass’s son brays one hour daily. 
 The best trees are the most beaten. 
 The blind man has picked up a coin. 
 The danger past, the saint cheated. 
 The devil is bad because he is old. 
 The end of the corsair is to drown. 
 The eyes are bigger than the belly. 
 The first at the mill grinds first. 
 The gentle calf sucks all the cows. 
 The land a man knows is his mother. 
 The law says what the king pleases. 
 The man in the moon stole the wood. 
 The more by law, the less by right. 
 The Mother of God appears to fools. 
 The ox without a bell is soon lost. 
 There die as many lambs as wethers. 
 The tail is the hardest to scourge. 
 The thief becomes the gallows well. 
 The tree is not felled at one blow. 
 The wine is not known by the hoops. 
 The workman is known by his work. 
 The worse service, the better luck. 
 Think much, say little, write less. 
 To be like a tailor’s pattern-book. 
 To catch two pigeons with one bean. 
 To flee and to run are not all one. 
 To go for wool and come back shorn. 
 To have it written on his forehead. 
 To throw the rope after the bucket. 
 Trueman’s house stands the longest. 
 Two cocks in one yard do not agree. 
 Two eyes, two ears, only one mouth. 
 Under a gold sheath a leaden knife. 
 Watching a woman is labour in vain. 
 What force cannot do ingenuity may. 
 What man has made, man can destroy. 
 What water gives, water takes away. 
 When bulls fight, woe to the frogs. 
 When fortune knocks, open the door. 
 When mistrust enters, love departs. 
 When the cat sleeps, the mice play. 
 Where there’s a will there’s a way. 
 Where you lost your cloak, seek it. 
 Who eats capon, capon comes to him. 
 Who hath no courage must have legs. 
 Who lends to a friend loses doubly. 
 Who rides slow must saddle betimes. 
 Whose bread I eat, his song I sing. 
 Wipe your sore eye with your elbow. 
 With the fox one must play the fox. 
 Woman impromptu, man on reflection. 
 Words are good, but fowls lay eggs. 
 You want better bread than wheaten. 
 A bad man’s gift is like his master. 
 A beggar’s estate lies in all lands. 
 A clear conscience is a good pillow. 
 A fast horse does not want the spur. 
 A fool sometimes gives good counsel. 
 A friend in need is a friend indeed. 
 Age is a sorry travelling companion. 
 A good appetite does not want sauce. 
 A good cavalier never lacks a lance. 
 A great lance-thrust to a dead Moor. 
 A great man’s entreaty is a command. 
 A jade eats as much as a good horse. 
 All are not saints who go to church. 
 All state, and nothing on the plate. 
 A long tongue betokens a short hand. 
 A mewing cat is never a good mouser. 
 An ass’s tail will not make a sieve. 
 An innocent heart suspects no guile. 
 A resolute heart endures no counsel. 
 As a thing is used, so it brightens. 
 A scabby colt may make a good horse. 
 A scalded dog thinks cold water hot. 
 A shut mouth keeps me out of strife. 
 A sick man sleeps, but not a debtor. 
 A silver hammer breaks an iron door. 
 Ask not after a good man’s pedigree. 
 A stick is soon found to beat a dog. 
 At an open chest the righteous sins. 
 A well-formed figure needs no cloak. 
 A woman’s first counsel is the best. 
 A woman’s vengeance knows no bounds. 
 A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea. 
 Bad is the wool that cannot be died. 
 Before you mount, look to the girth. 
 Better be one-eyed than quite blind. 
 Better blow hard than burn yourself. 
 Better give the wool than the sheep. 
 Better lose the wool than the sheep. 
 Better weak beer than an empty cask. 
 Better whole than patched with gold. 
 Beware of a door that has many keys. 
 Beware of the vinegar of sweet wine. 
 Big words seldom go with good deeds. 
 Birds of prey do not flock together. 
 Blows are not given upon conditions. 
 Cheerful company shortens the miles. 
 Children are the riches of the poor. 
 Christmas, and foal in harvest-time. 
 Counted sheep are eaten by the wolf. 
 Cunning men’s cloaks sometimes fall. 
 Daughter-in-law hates mother-in-law. 
 Daughters may be seen but not heard. 
 Do not wade where you see no bottom. 
 Everybody’s friend, nobody’s friend. 
 Every man likes his own praise best. 
 Everything has an end excepting God. 
 Faint heart never won fair lady. 
 Fair words don’t butter the cabbage. 
 Fat broth cannot be made of nothing. 
 Fine words without deeds go not far. 
 First look at home, then censure me. 
 For want of a nail the shoe is lost. 
 Foul linen should be washed at home. 
 Foxes come at last to the furrier’s. 
 From short pleasure long repentance. 
 Give him a foot and he’ll take four. 
 Giving alms never lessens the purse. 
 Good luck makes its way by elbowing. 
 He doubts nothing who knows nothing. 
 He gains much who loses a vain hope. 
 He is rich enough who does not want. 
 Help yourself and God will help you. 
 He sets the wolf to guard the sheep. 
 He slumbers enough who does nothing. 
 He that hears much, hears many lies. 
 He that is in fault is in suspicion. 
 He that wants should not be bashful. 
 He wants to fly before he has wings. 
 He who divides gets the worst share. 
 He who doubts nothing knows nothing. 
 He who flees, proves himself guilty. 
 He who guesses well prophesies well. 
 He who has a companion has a master. 
 He who has a tongue, may go to Rome. 
 He who helps everybody helps nobody. 
 He who is feared by many fears many. 
 He who lives on hope dies of hunger. 
 He who loves well is slow to forget. 
 He who sows hatred shall gather rue. 
 His money takes the place of wisdom. 
 I broke my leg, perhaps for my good. 
 In a wood don’t walk behind another. 
 In still water are the largest fish. 
 In too much disputing truth is lost. 
 It is folly to gape against an oven. 
 It is ill catching hares with drums. 
 It is the tone that makes the music. 
 It is very savoury to eat scot free. 
 Kind words heal friendship’s wounds. 
 Let him that itches scratch himself. 
 Let me go warm, and folks may laugh. 
 Little pots soon run (or boil) over. 
 Little presents maintain friendship. 
 Little saints also perform miracles. 
 Lovers’ quarrels are love redoubled. 
 Luck is better than a hundred marks. 
 Lying and gossiping go hand in hand. 
 Make use of the sun while it shines. 
 Many are brave when the enemy flies. 
 Many dogs are the death of the hare. 
 Marrying in the blood is never good. 
 Mother’s love is ever in its spring. 
 Mother’s truth keeps constant youth. 
 My teeth are nearer than my kindred. 
 Necessity teaches the lame to dance. 
 Needle and thread are half clothing. 
 No man knoweth fortune till he dies. 
 Not he gives who likes, but who has. 
 Nothing in haste but catching fleas. 
 Old birds are not caught with chaff. 
 Old people see best in the distance. 
 Old reckonings breed new disputes. 
 One God, one wife, but many friends. 
 One swallow don’t make a summer. 
 Open thy mouth that I may know thee. 
 Opportunity makes the thief. 
 Out of the frying-pan into the fire. 
 Out of yes and no comes all dispute. 
 Pluck the rose and leave the thorns. 
 Rather lose the wool than the sheep. 
 Ravens do not peck out ravens’ eyes. 
 Reason lies between bridle and spur. 
 Rest is good after the work is done. 
 Right or wrong, God aid our purpose. 
 Set your sail according to the wind. 
 Shear the sheep but don’t flay them. 
 Silly sheep, where one goes, all go. 
 Silver and gold are all men’s dears. 
 Smooth words do not flay the tongue. 
 So good that he is good for nothing. 
 Sometimes an egg is given for an ox. 
 Speaking is silver, silence is gold. 
 Strong is the vinegar of sweet wine. 
 That which burns thee not, cool not. 
 The ass’s hide is used to the stick. 
 The bad man always suspects knavery. 
 The best friends are in one’s purse. 
 The bow may be bent until it breaks. 
 The busy fly is in every man’s dish. 
 The devil has his martyrs among men. 
 The devil’s meal turns half to bran. 
 The first bird gets the first grain. 
 The flame is not far from the smoke. 
 The fox does not prey near his hole. 
 The good shepherd shears, not flays. 
 The goose hisses, but does not bite. 
 The hare always returns to her form. 
 The laggard cow gets the sour grass. 
 The magpie cannot leave her hopping. 
 The more one has the more one wants. 
 The more servants the worse service. 
 The most learned are not the wisest. 
 The people’s voice, God’s voice. 
 There are ills that happen for good. 
 There are more thieves than gibbets. 
 There are more threatened than hurt. 
 The right hand is slave to the left. 
 The she-bear thinks her cubs pretty. 
 The silent dog is the first to bite. 
 The son-in-law’s sack is never full. 
 The son of an ass brays twice a day. 
 The talker sows, the listener reaps. 
 The third person makes good company. 
 The tired ox plants his foot firmly. 
 The tongue wounds more than a lance. 
 The world belongs to the phlegmatic. 
 The young may die, the old must die. 
 Thought when sober, said when drunk. 
 Threats are arms for the threatened. 
 Three removals are as bad as a fire. 
 To a depraved taste sweet is bitter. 
 To get out of one muck into another. 
 To give is honour, to lose is grief. 
 To have one’s brains in one’s heels. 
 To promise much means giving little. 
 To sew the fox’s skin to the lion’s. 
 To strip one altar to cover another. 
 To take opportunity by the forelock. 
 Two dogs over one bone seldom agree. 
 Two women and a goose make a market. 
 Under a good cloak may be a bad man. 
 Weight and measures save a man toil. 
 We shall see, as the blind man said. 
 What can’t be cured must be endured. 
 What costs nothing is worth nothing. 
 What cures Sancho makes Martha sick. 
 What is done, is done for this time. 
 What is true is not always probable. 
 When one door shuts, a hundred open. 
 When the door is low one must stoop. 
 Where the sea goes let the sands go. 
 Where the ship goes the brig can go. 
 Who does all he may never does well. 
 Who does too much often does little. 
 Who gives to me, teaches me to give. 
 Who has a head won’t want for a hat. 
 Who is over nice, loses many a shoe. 
 Who is well seated should not budge. 
 Who judges others, condemns himself. 
 Who loves the tree loves the branch. 
 Who proves too much, proves nothing. 
 Windmills are not driven by bellows. 
 Wine will not keep in a foul vessel. 
 Women are never at a loss for words. 
 Women rouge that they may not blush. 
 Words of snow, which fell last year. 
 You cannot draw blood from a turnip. 
 You cannot make a hawk of a buzzard. 
 A beard well lathered is half shaved. 
 According to the arm be the bleeding. 
 A church stone drops gold—(Galician). 
 A cow from afar gives plenty of milk. 
 A drowning man would catch at razors. 
 A fast day is the eve of a feast day. 
 A fence between makes love more keen. 
 A fool and his money are soon parted. 
 A good beginning makes a good ending. 
 A good driver turns in a small space. 
 A hungry dog does not fear the stick. 
 A little pack serves a little pedlar. 
 All are not friends who smile on you. 
 All truths are not fit to be uttered. 
 A man of straw needs a woman of gold. 
 A mild sheep is sucked by every lamb. 
 Among men of honour a word is a bond. 
 An eel escapes from a good fisherman. 
 An old dog does not bark for nothing. 
 An old wolf is used to be shouted at. 
 Another man’s burden is always light. 
 Another’s misfortune is only a dream. 
 An ounce of state to a pound of gold. 
 Arrange your cloak as the wind blows. 
 Art holds fast when all else is lost. 
 Art is art, even though unsuccessful. 
 As are the times, so are the manners. 
 At a great river be the last to pass. 
 At table bashfulness is out of place. 
 A vicious colt may make a good horse. 
 Beauty carries its dower in its face. 
 Better a living dog than a dead lion. 
 Better a red face than a black heart. 
 Better gain in mud than lose in gold. 
 Better give nothing than stolen alms. 
 Better half an egg than empty shells. 
 Better have to give than have to beg. 
 Better no law, than law not enforced. 
 Better poor on land than rich at sea. 
 Better something than nothing at all. 
 Beware of him who makes you presents. 
 Beware of the dog that does not bark. 
 Brackish water is sweet in a drought. 
 By labour fire is got out of a stone. 
 Cheese and bread make the cheeks red. 
 Death spares neither Pope nor beggar. 
 Don’t mention the cross to the devil. 
 Dress slowly when you are in a hurry. 
 Even a fly has its anger (or spleen). 
 Even he gets on who is drawn by oxen. 
 Every cock crows on his own dunghill. 
 Every labourer is worthy of his hire. 
 Every law is broken to become a king. 
 Every man is master in his own house. 
 Every man thinks his own copper gold. 
 Every one feels his own burden heavy. 
 Every one is a king in his own house. 
 Every one is wise for his own profit. 
 Every one preaches for his own saint. 
 Every pedlar praises his own needles. 
 Every priestling conceals a popeling. 
 Evil is soon done, but slowly mended. 
 Fire drives the wasp out of its nest. 
 For a stubborn ass a stubborn driver. 
 For the flying enemy a golden bridge. 
 God made us, and we admire ourselves. 
 God save me from the man of one book. 
 Good is the fowl which another rears. 
 Go to the sea if you would fish well. 
 Hair by hair, and the head gets bald. 
 Handsomely asked, handsomely refused. 
 Hasty questions require slow answers. 
 Having is having, come whence it may. 
 He dances well to whom fortune pipes. 
 He fears the sack who has been in it. 
 He has not done who who is beginning. 
 He is in safety who rings the tocsin. 
 He is noble who performs noble deeds. 
 He runs heavily who is forced to run. 
 He that abideth low cannot fall hard. 
 He that courts injury will obtain it. 
 He that never fails never grows rich. 
 He who carries nothing loses nothing. 
 He who has a bad name is half hanged. 
 He who lives long knows what pain is. 
 He who rides the horse is his master. 
 He who sows money, will reap poverty. 
 He who stands high is seen from afar. 
 He who talks much is sometimes right. 
 He who touches pitch defiles himself. 
 If the sky falls, hold up your hands. 
 In at one ear and out at the other. 
 It is easier to blame than do better. 
 It is hard to blow with a full mouth. 
 It is hard to find a pin in the dark. 
 It is hard to teach old dogs to bark. 
 It is loving too much to die of love. 
 It’s good feasting in another’s hall. 
 Keep your nose out of another’s mess. 
 Kind words don’t wear out the tongue. 
 Late repentance is seldom worth much. 
 Let the dog bark so he don’t bite me. 
 Light burdens borne far become heavy. 
 Listeners hear no good of themselves. 
 Love and poverty are hard to conceal. 
 Love is an excuse for its own faults. 
 Lovers’ purses are tied with cobwebs. 
 Love, thieves, and fear, make ghosts. 
 Many grains of sand will sink a ship. 
 Men must sail while the wind serveth. 
 Money is lost only for want of money. 
 Never was a mewing eat a good mouser. 
 No man learneth but by pain or shame. 
 No man limps because another is hurt. 
 None so busy as those who do nothing. 
 Not all flowers are fit for nosegays. 
 Nothing is so burdensome as a secret. 
 No wonder lasts more than three days. 
 On a fool’s beard all learn to shave. 
 One flower does not make a garland. 
 One grievance borne, another follows. 
 One log does not burn long by itself. 
 One mangy sheep spoils a whole flock. 
 Paper bears anything (or is patient). 
 Prosperity forgets father and mother. 
 Rats do not play tricks with kittens. 
 Saving is a greater art than gaining. 
 Shoemakers are always the worst shod. 
 So many countries, so many customs. 
 Strike while the iron is hot. 
 Sugared words generally prove bitter. 
 Talk of the wolf and behold his skin. 
 Tell a lie and you’ll hear the truth. 
 That is gold which is worth gold. 
 The ass dead, the barley at his tail. 
 The ass that is hungry eats thistles. 
 The best cast at dice is not to play. 
 The best driver will sometimes upset. 
 The best is what one has in his hand. 
 The concealer is as bad as the thief. 
 The corn falls out of a shaken sheaf. 
 The cow gives milk through her mouth. 
 The dead open the eyes of the living. 
 The eagle does not war against frogs. 
 The envious will die, but envy never. 
 The gallows was made for the unlucky. 
 The hen’s eyes are with her chickens. 
 The lame goat does not take a siesta. 
 The lazy pig does not eat ripe pears. 
 The merchant that loses cannot laugh. 
 The only victory over love is flight. 
 The poor must dance as the rich pipe. 
 There is no fool like a learned fool. 
 There is no thief without a receiver. 
 The river passed the saint forgotten. 
 The strongest is always in the right. 
 The wrong-doer never lacks a pretext. 
 Time covers and discovers everything. 
 To a young heart everything is sport. 
 To-day in finery, to-morrow in filth. 
 To err is human (to forgive, divine). 
 To every one his own is not too much. 
 To good eating belongs good drinking. 
 To go to the vintage without baskets. 
 To look for noon at fourteen o’clock. 
 To make of a flea a knight cap-à-pie. 
 Too many cooks oversalt the porridge. 
 Too much familiarity breeds contempt. 
 To the looker-on no work is too hard. 
 To throw the helve after the hatchet. 
 Touch a galled horse and he’ll wince. 
 Treachery and slander are long lived. 
 Trust-well rides away with the horse. 
 Truth is lost with too much debating. 
 Unlaid eggs are uncertain chickens. 
 Upbraiding makes a benefit an injury. 
 Wake not a sleeping cat (or dog). 
 We beat the sack and mean the miller. 
 We must sow even after a bad harvest. 
 What costs little is little esteemed. 
 When a man is rich he begins to save. 
 When eats are mousing they don’t mew. 
 When woman reigns, the devil governs. 
 Where force prevails, right perishes. 
 Where one door is shut another opens. 
 Where will is right, law is banished. 
 Where wine goes in, modesty goes out. 
 Where you smart there I will hit you. 
 Who builds on the mob builds on sand. 
 Who comes unbidden departs unthanked. 
 Who does not punish evil, invites it. 
 Who has no money must have no wishes. 
 Who makes friends of all, keeps none. 
 Who punishes one threatens a hundred. 
 Who speaks, sows; who listens, reaps. 
 Women and glass are always in danger. 
 Women are as fickle as April weather. 
 Women are watches that keep bad time. 
 Woods have ears and fields have eyes. 
 Woo the widow whilst she is in weeds. 
 A bad tree does not yield good apples. 
 A bad workman never finds a good tool. 
 A barking dog was never a good hunter. 
 A cock is valiant on his own dunghill. 
 A cracked pot never fell off the hook. 
 A crown is no cure for the headache. 
 A deaf auditor makes a crazy answerer. 
 A father’s love, for all other is air. 
 A fat kitchen is next door to poverty. 
 A fool may chance to say a wise thing. 
 A friend is not known till he is lost. 
 After great droughts come great rains. 
 A good anvil does not fear the hammer. 
 A good king is better than an old law. 
 A good swordsman is never quarrelsome. 
 A good thing is known when it is lost. 
 A hair casts its shadow on the ground. 
 A honeyed tongue with a heart of gall. 
 A house ready made and a wife to make. 
 A kick from a mare never hurt a horse. 
 A little spark kindles a great fire. 
 A little stone may upset a large cart. 
 All do not bite that show their teeth. 
 All is luck or ill luck in this world. 
 All is not gold that glitters. 
 A load of March dust is worth a ducat. 
 A lordly taste makes a beggar’s purse. 
 An ass let him be who brays at an ass. 
 A neighbour’s eye is full of jealousy. 
 An idle brain is the devil’s workshop. 
 An inch too short is as bad as an ell. 
 An old ox makes a straight furrow. 
 A pleasant thing never comes too soon. 
 A restive morsel needs a spur of wine. 
 A sack is best tied before it is full. 
 A silly song may be sung in many ways. 
 A spot shows most on the finest cloth. 
 Asses must not be tied up with horses. 
 A thief seldom grows rich by thieving. 
 A thing is not bad if well understood. 
 A truth-telling woman has few friends. 
 At the wars do as they do at the wars. 
 Bad is never good until worse happens. 
 Bashfulness is of no use to the needy. 
 Beauty and folly are often companions. 
 Before you marry consider what you do. 
 Believe a boaster as you would a liar. 
 Bells call to church but do not enter. 
 Be not a baker if your head is butter. 
 Better a good dinner than a fine coat. 
 Better anticipate than be anticipated. 
 Better coarse cloth than naked thighs. 
 Better come late to church than never. 
 Better deny at once than promise long. 
 Better lose the saddle than the horse. 
 Better the child cry than the old man. 
 Better twice measured than once wrong. 
 Beware of one who has nothing to lose. 
 Charity well regulated begins at home. 
 Cut your coat according to your cloth. 
 Deceit and treachery make no man rich. 
 Devils must be driven out with devils. 
 Diligent work makes a skilful workman. 
 Do not lend your money to a great man. 
 Don’t go a-fishing to a famous stream. 
 Don’t throw the handle after the bill. 
 Drop the jest when it is most amusing. 
 Enough is enough, and too much spoils. 
 Every fool is pleased with his bauble. 
 Every fool thinks he is clever enough. 
 Every man is the son of his own works. 
 Every man thinks his own owl a falcon. 
 Every one is a thief in his own craft. 
 Every one must pay his debt to nature. 
 Every shot does not bring down a bird. 
 Everything does not fall that totters. 
 Fair money can cover much that’s foul. 
 Far from the eyes, far from the heart. 
 Feet accustomed to go cannot be still. 
 Fine linen often conceals a foul skin. 
 Five fingers hold more than two forks. 
 Fools build houses, wise men buy them. 
 Fools sometimes give wise men counsel. 
 From little things men go on to great. 
 Give a grateful man more than he asks. 
 God deliver me from a man of one book. 
 Good news is rumoured, bad news flies. 
 Grain by grain the hen fills her crop. 
 Great fish are caught in great waters. 
 Hard upon hard never made a good wall. 
 Hatred renewed is worse than at first. 
 Health without money is a half-malady. 
 He cannot lay eggs, but he can cackle. 
 He is a thief indeed who robs a thief. 
 He is most cheated who cheats himself. 
 He is my friend who grinds at my mill. 
 He may lie boldly who comes from afar. 
 He sups ill who eats up all at dinner. 
 He takes out a nail and puts in a pin. 
 He that comes unbidden goes unthanked. 
 He that hath a wife is sure of strife. 
 He that hunts others must run himself. 
 He that is thrown would still wrestle. 
 He that loves his child chastises him. 
 He who climbs too high is near a fall. 
 He who does not tire, tires adversity. 
 He who grasps too much lets much fall. 
 He who has enemies, let him not sleep. 
 He who loves Peter won’t harm his dog. 
 He who measures oil greases his hands. 
 He who rises early will gather wisdom. 
 He who sows iniquity shall reap shame. 
 He would drown in a spoonful of water. 
 Hobby horses are dearer than Arabians. 
 Horse, don’t die yet, grass is coming. 
 If I went to sea I should find it dry. 
 If you are a mouse don’t follow frogs. 
 I hate fetters though they be of gold. 
 In the evening one may praise the day. 
 In the war of love who flies conquers. 
 It is a long lane that has no turning. 
 It is easy to poke another man’s fire. 
 It is good sailing with wind and tide. 
 It is good to have friends everywhere. 
 It is good to sleep in a whole skin. 
 It is hard to swim against the stream. 
 It is hard to teach an old dog tricks. 
 It is not enough to aim, you must hit. 
 It is useless to gape against an oven. 
 It needs a high wall to keep out fear. 
 It’s good steering with wind and tide. 
 It will all come out in the soap-suds. 
 Keep your mouth, and keep your friend. 
 Let God’s waters run over God’s acres. 
 Let him who does not know you buy you. 
 Like box-makers, more noise than work. 
 Link by link the coat of mail is made. 
 Little and often makes a heap in time. 
 Luck comes to those who look after it. 
 Many friends, and few helpers in need. 
 Many hounds are the death of the hare. 
 Money in the purse dispels melancholy. 
 National customs are national honours. 
 Nature draws stronger than seven oxen. 
 Necessity knows (or has) no law. 
 Never heed the colour of a gift horse. 
 No need to say “trot” to a good horse. 
 No need to seek shelter for an old ox. 
 No one ever saw a goat dead of hunger. 
 No one is bound to do impossibilities. 
 Not every wood will make wooden shoes. 
 Nothing weighs lighter than a promise. 
 Of oil, wine, and friends, the oldest. 
 On a hot day muffle yourself the more. 
 One daughter helps to marry the other. 
 One knife keeps another in its sheath. 
 Princes have long hands and many ears. 
 Put not all your eggs into one basket. 
 Raise no more devils than you can lay. 
 Rather hat in hand than hand in purse. 
 Small undertakings give great comfort. 
 Strangers’ meat is the greatest treat. 
 Suspicion is the poison of friendship. 
 Talk of the devil and his imp appears. 
 Talk of the wolf and his tail appears. 
 That which covers thee discovers thee. 
 The accomplice is as bad as the thief. 
 The anvil is not afraid of the hammer. 
 The bread eaten, the company departed. 
 The cask always smells of the herring. 
 The dog that means to bite don’t bark. 
 The eye is never satiated with seeing. 
 The feast passes and the fool remains. 
 The fire well knows whose cloak burns. 
 The fruit falls not far from the stem. 
 The last comers are often the masters. 
 The lawyer’s pouch is a mouth of hell. 
 The monk responds as the abbot chants. 
 The most cunning are the first caught. 
 The poor man’s corn always grows thin. 
 The pot boils best on your own hearth. 
 The pride of the poor does not endure. 
 There are more asses than carry sacks. 
 The repeated stroke will fell the oak. 
 The roses fall, and the thorns remain. 
 The rotten apple spoils its companion. 
 The same shoe does not fit every foot. 
 The ship does not go without the boat. 
 The spot will come out in the washing. 
 The sword keeps the peace of the land. 
 The tender surgeon makes a foul wound. 
 The wit one wants spoils what one has. 
 The wood has ears, the field has eyes. 
 The world is for him who has patience. 
 Thick wine is better than clear water. 
 Throw not the child out with the bath. 
 To begin skinning the eel at the tail. 
 To know everything is to know nothing. 
 To parade the gallows before the town. 
 To put in a needle and take out a bar. 
 To shiver at work, and sweat at meals. 
 To sing out of tune and persist in it. 
 Vanity has no greater foe than vanity. 
 Very good corn grows in little fields. 
 Vice is learnt without a schoolmaster. 
 What is bought is cheaper than a gift. 
 What one does not bake, another brews. 
 What the eyes see, the heart believes. 
 What youth learns age does not forget. 
 When God will not the saints cannot. 
 Where the bird was hatched, it haunts. 
 Where there is shame, there is virtue. 
 Where the thread is weakest it breaks. 
 While the pot boils friendship blooms. 
 Who cannot fight wins nought by right. 
 Who excuses himself accuses himself. 
 Who has no plagues makes himself some. 
 Who is to carry the cat to the water?. 
 Wine poured out is not wine swallowed. 
 Women’s tears are a fountain of craft. 
 Women, wind, and fortune, soon change. 
 Would you be strong, conquer yourself. 
 You will not see many with green eyes. 
 A bad beginning may make a good ending. 
 A bad horse eats as much as a good one. 
 A bad labour, and a daughter after all. 
 A beggar’s hand is a bottomless basket. 
 A blind man may sometimes shoot a crow. 
 Advising is often better than fighting. 
 A flying crow always catches something. 
 A foolish woman is known by her finery. 
 After a feast a man scratches his head. 
 After a thrifty father, a prodigal son. 
 A great liar has need of a good memory. 
 A greedy mill grinds all kinds of corn. 
 A handsome shoe often pinches the foot. 
 A little man often casts a long shadow. 
 All are not free who mock their chains. 
 A lovelorn cook oversalts the porridge. 
 A merry life forgets father and mother. 
 A naughty child must be roughly rocked. 
 An estate inherited is the less valued. 
 An ill-tempered dog has a scarred nose. 
 An old ape never made a pretty grimace. 
 An old man’s sayings are seldom untrue. 
 An unasked excuse infers transgression. 
 A penny in time is as good as a dollar. 
 A priest’s pocket is not easily filled. 
 A reconciled friend is a twofold enemy. 
 As princes fiddle, subjects must dance. 
 As the man is worth, his land is worth. 
 A thing too much seen is little prized. 
 A tottering man must lean upon a staff. 
 At the end of the game we see who wins. 
 A woman and a melon are hard to choose. 
 Beauty is but dross if honesty be lost. 
 Better a distant good than a near evil. 
 Better alone than in bad company. 
 Better is my neighbour’s hen than mine. 
 Blessings on him that said, Face about. 
 Bread is better than the song of birds. 
 Company in distress makes trouble less. 
 Cover up the pot, there’s an eel in it. 
 Do as others do, and few will mock you. 
 Do not judge of the ship from the land. 
 Earnestness and sport go well together. 
 Even a frog would bite if it had teeth. 
 Even old foxes are caught in the snare. 
 Every dog is valiant in his own kennel. 
 Every one can navigate in fine weather. 
 Every one counts for as much as he has. 
 Every one is emperor on his own ground. 
 Every tub must stand on its own bottom. 
 Every wind does not shake down the nut. 
 Farewell baskets, the vintage is ended. 
 Follow the customs, or fly the country. 
 Fortune and women are partial to fools. 
 Give him an inch and he’ll take an ell. 
 God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb. 
 Gone is gone; no Jew will lend upon it. 
 Good fruit never comes from a bad tree. 
 Got with the fife, spent with the drum. 
 Great trees give more shade than fruit. 
 He gathers up ashes and scatters flour. 
 He is a great fool who forgets himself. 
 He measures others by his own standard. 
 Hens like to lay where they see an egg. 
 He scolds most that can hurt the least. 
 He sits well who can rise without help. 
 He who begins many things finishes few. 
 He who can wait obtains what he wishes. 
 He who catches one fish is a fisherman. 
 He who goes to the mill gets befloured. 
 He who goes with wolves learns to howl. 
 He who handles pitch, besmears himself. 
 He who has a head won’t want for a hat. 
 He who has but one coat cannot lend it. 
 He who hath ears to hear, let him hear. 
 He who holds the thread holds the ball. 
 He who hunts with cats will catch mice. 
 He who praises himself befouls himself. 
 High birth is a poor dish on the table. 
 High trees give more shadow than fruit. 
 Honour the tree that gives you shelter. 
 How we apples swim! said the horse-t—d. 
 Ill news comes apace (or travels fast). 
 In a smith’s house the knife is wooden. 
 Intemperance is the doctor’s wet-nurse. 
 I saw you at Lucca, I knew you at Pisa. 
 It is a good horse that never stumbles. 
 It is a poor fox that has but one hole. 
 It is bad marketing with empty pockets. 
 It is of no use making shoes for geese. 
 Large trees give more shade than fruit. 
 Like saint, like incense (or offering). 
 Love and lordship like no fellowship. 
 Love demands faith, and faith firmness. 
 Love rules his kingdom without a sword. 
 Lying is the first step to the gallows. 
 Many love to praise right and do wrong. 
 Men make wealth, and women preserve it. 
 Much wit is lost in a poor man’s purse. 
 Neither women nor linen by candlelight. 
 Never do evil that good may come of it. 
 Never let fools see half-finished work. 
 No armour is proof against the gallows. 
 Nobody sows a thing that will not sell. 
 No is a good answer when given in time. 
 No man is a prophet in his own country. 
 Nothing is difficult to a willing mind. 
 Nothing passes between asses but kicks. 
 Nothing so bad but it finds its master. 
 Old birds are not caught with new nets. 
 One always returns to one’s first love. 
 One can’t hinder the wind from blowing. 
 One door never shuts but another opens. 
 One fool makes a hundred (or many). 
 One half the world laughs at the other. 
 One may have good eyes and see nothing. 
 Plenty of words when the cause is lost. 
 Prison and Lent were made for the poor. 
 Rise early and watch, labour and catch. 
 See that you tie so that you can untie. 
 Set thy expense according to thy trade. 
 Short reckonings make long friends. 
 Skill or fortune will efface the spots. 
 Slander expires at a good woman’s door. 
 Some have bread who have no teeth left. 
 Some who jest tell tales of themselves. 
 Sow not money on the sea, lest it sink. 
 Speech is oft repented, silence seldom. 
 The anvil lasts longer than the hammer. 
 The best cause requires a good pleader. 
 The better lawyer, the worse Christian. 
 The cask full, the mother-in-law drunk. 
 The churl knows not the worth of spurs. 
 The cock often crows without a victory. 
 The elephant does not feel a flea-bite. 
 The eye is blind if the mind is absent. 
 The fatter the flea the leaner the dog. 
 The first step binds one to the second. 
 The fisherman fishes in troubled water. 
 The fool who is silent passes for wise. 
 The gutter by dropping wears the stone. 
 The hardest step is over the threshold. 
 The law devised, its evasion contrived. 
 The master derives honour from his art. 
 The mortar always smells of the garlic. 
 There are more thieves than are hanged. 
 There goes more than one ass to market. 
 The shirt is nearer than the doublet. 
 The soldier’s blood exalts the captain. 
 The stew that boils much loses flavour. 
 The thief’s wife does not always laugh. 
 The thread breaks where it is thinnest. 
 The tired mare goes willingly to grass. 
 The upright never grow rich in a hurry. 
 The water runs while the miller sleeps. 
 Those who climb high often have a fall. 
 To a crazy ship every wind is contrary. 
 To change one’s habits smacks of death. 
 To-day in gold, to-morrow in the mould. 
 To get out of the rain under the spout. 
 To give is honour, to beg is dishonour. 
 To start the hare for another’s profit. 
 To the bold man fortune gives her hand. 
 To throw in a smelt to catch a codfish. 
 Tripe broth, you make much of yourself. 
 Trust not still water nor a silent man. 
 Truth and folly dwell in the wine-cask. 
 Truth’s cloak is often lined with lies. 
 Vainglory blossoms, and bears no fruit. 
 What’s of no use is too dear at a gift. 
 When goods increase the body decreases. 
 When need is greatest, help is nearest. 
 When the head aches all the limbs ache. 
 When the measure is full, it runs over. 
 When there is nothing the church loses. 
 When two quarrel both are in the wrong. 
 When you are well off, keep as you are. 
 Where the goat is tied she must browse. 
 Where there is little bread, cut first. 
 Where there’s no fire there’s no smoke. 
 Who has many servants has many thieves. 
 Who honours not age, is unworthy of it. 
 Whom God loves, his bitch litters pigs. 
 Who pays promptly borrows when he will. 
 Who sows thorns should not go barefoot. 
 Wine and women make fools of everybody. 
 Women, fortune, and gold, favour fools. 
 Women know a point more than the devil. 
 Yesterday a cowherd, to-day a cavalier. 
 You must shift your sail with the wind. 
 A blind hen can sometimes find her corn. 
 According to his pinions the bird flies. 
 A drunken man may soon be made to dance. 
 A fair skin often covers a crooked mind. 
 A friend at one’s back is a safe bridge. 
 A friend is to be taken with his faults. 
 A full vessel must be carried carefully. 
 A little truth makes the whole lie pass. 
 All are not soldiers who go to the wars. 
 A man of straw is worth a woman of gold. 
 A man that has had his fill is no eater. 
 An evil deed has a witness in the bosom. 
 An old flag is an honour to its captain. 
 An old wolf is not scared by loud cries. 
 A ragged colt may make a handsome horse. 
 A rolling stone gathers no moss. 
 A secret imparted is no longer a secret. 
 As soon as man is born he begins to die. 
 At a dangerous passage yield precedence. 
 A threatened buffet is never well given. 
 Beauty is a good letter of introduction. 
 Be not an esquire where you were a page. 
 Better badly mounted than proud on foot. 
 Between smith and smith no money passes. 
 Bread in one hand, a stone in the other. 
 Build golden bridges for the flying foe. 
 By candlelight a goat looks like a lady. 
 Cowards’ weapons neither cut nor pierce. 
 Don’t fly till your wings are feathered. 
 Don’t show your teeth if you can’t bite. 
 Don’t talk Latin before the Franciscans. 
 Don’t yoke the plough before the horses. 
 Drink wine and let water go to the mill. 
 Drive not away what never came near you. 
 Dumb dogs and still water are dangerous. 
 Every hooked beak is maintained by prey. 
 Every one must row with the oars he has. 
 Extravagant offers are a kind of denial. 
 Falseness often lurks beneath fair hair. 
 Feather by feather the goose is plucked. 
 Feign death and the bull will leave you. 
 Fish and guests smell at three days old. 
 Folly is the most incurable of maladies. 
 Forgive thyself nothing and others much. 
 Friendship should be unpicked, not rent. 
 From a closed door the devil turns away. 
 From small beginnings come great things. 
 God save me from one who does not drink. 
 God sends nothing but what can be borne. 
 Good comes to better, and better to bad. 
 Good morrow spectacles, farewell lasses. 
 Grief for a dead wife lasts to the door. 
 Hear the other side, and believe little. 
 He buys well who is not called a donkey. 
 Hedges have no eyes, but they have ears. 
 He gives twice who gives in a trice. 
 He has put all his eggs into one basket. 
 He is a bad smith who cannot bear smoke. 
 He is in search of a ram with five feet. 
 He is very blind who cannot see the sun. 
 He is wise who learns at another’s cost. 
 He knows it as well as his Pater-noster. 
 He must be pure who would blame another. 
 He pays for the glasses who breaks them. 
 He that hath an ill name is half hanged. 
 He that will does more than he that can. 
 He who does as he likes has no headache. 
 He who goes everywhere gains everywhere. 
 He who is far from home is near to harm. 
 He who is feared gets more than his own. 
 He who lies in the grave is well lodged. 
 He who loses his temper is in the wrong. 
 He who pledges or promises runs in debt. 
 He would break his neck against a straw. 
 He would sell even his share of the sun. 
 How easily a hair gets into the butter!. 
 I am neither at the ford nor the bridge. 
 It is folly to sing twice to a deaf man. 
 It is good fishing in troubled waters. 
 It is good spinning from another’s yarn. 
 It is ill sailing against wind and tide. 
 It is not the cowl that makes the friar. 
 It’s bad combing where there is no hair. 
 It takes a good many mice to kill a cat. 
 I will win the horse or lose the saddle. 
 Jest so that it may not turn to earnest. 
 Judges should have two ears, both alike. 
 Lasses and glasses are always in danger. 
 Let every fox take care of his own tail. 
 Let every one sweep before his own door. 
 Let him who is well off hold his tongue. 
 Like will to like, be they poor or rich. 
 Lose no rights and commit no extortions. 
 Loving and singing are not to be forced. 
 Mad love—I for you, and you for another. 
 Make a silver bridge for a flying enemy. 
 Many little rivulets make a great river. 
 Money wins the battle, not the long arm. 
 More is done with words than with hands. 
 Neither a dumb barber nor a deaf singer. 
 No better masters than poverty and want. 
 No good lawyer ever goes to law himself. 
 No one is a good judge in his own cause. 
 No one is wise enough to advise himself. 
 Not all that shakes (or trembles) falls. 
 Nothing is impossible to a willing mind. 
 Nothing is so liberally given as advice. 
 No woman is ugly if she is well dressed. 
 Of soup and love, the first is the best. 
 On a long journey even a straw is heavy. 
 On dry land even brackish water is good. 
 One good morsel and a hundred vexations. 
 One hunts the hare, and another eats it. 
 One living pope is better than ten dead. 
 One must plough with the horses one has. 
 One rotten egg spoils the whole pudding. 
 One starts the game and another bags it. 
 One starts the hare, another catches it. 
 One sword keeps another in the scabbard. 
 One would not be alone even in Paradise. 
 One wrong submitted to, another follows. 
 Out of a little grass comes a great ass. 
 Poor men do penance for rich men’s sins. 
 Promising and performing are two things. 
 Report makes the wolf bigger than he is. 
 Roast pigeons don’t fly through the air. 
 Roses and maidens soon lose their bloom. 
 Some have fine eyes and can’t see a jot. 
 Something to every one is good division. 
 Talk as you go, husband, to the gallows. 
 The aged in council—the young in action. 
 The beard does not make the philosopher. 
 The bird ought not to soil its own nest. 
 The cask smells of the wine it contains. 
 The cat is a good friend, but scratches. 
 The dead and the absent have no friends. 
 The devil is civil when he is flattered. 
 The devil is fond of his own (Galician). 
 The devil turns away from a closed door. 
 The farther from Rome the nearer to God. 
 The good seaman is known in bad weather. 
 The man of your own trade is your enemy. 
 The nearer the inn, the longer the road. 
 The nobler the blood the less the pride. 
 The older one grows the more one learns. 
 The old saints are forgotten in the new. 
 The owl thinks her children the fairest. 
 There is no getting blood from a turnip. 
 There is no hunting but with old hounds. 
 There is no lock if the pick is of gold. 
 There is no worse thief than a bad book. 
 There’s neither rhyme nor reason in him. 
 There’s no getting to heaven in a coach. 
 The thief is frightened even by a mouse. 
 The tree must be bent while it is young. 
 The weeping bride makes a laughing wife. 
 The white coat does not make the miller. 
 The worst ewe dungs in the milking-pail. 
 The worst jests are those that are true. 
 Though the fool waits, the day does not. 
 Three women and a goose make a market. 
 To beat the dog in presence of the lion. 
 To bring down two apples with one stick. 
 To burn out a candle in search of a pin. 
 To-day for money, to-morrow for nothing. 
 To-day must borrow nothing of to-morrow. 
 To get the chicks one must coax the hen. 
 To have friends both in heaven and hell. 
 Too many sacks are the death of the ass. 
 To the fallen tree, hatchets! hatchets!. 
 To the jaundiced all things seem yellow. 
 To throw the stone and conceal the hand. 
 Trees often transplanted seldom prosper. 
 Trouts are not caught with dry breeches. 
 War makes robbers, and peace hangs them. 
 Well begun is half done. 
 What is bad for one is good for another. 
 What is got by begging is dearly bought. 
 What much is worth comes from the earth. 
 What we want in hay we make up in straw. 
 When a dog runs away, hit him! hit him!. 
 When gold speaks every tongue is silent. 
 When the old dog barks he gives counsel. 
 Where a man feels pain he lays his hand. 
 Where misfortune befals injuries follow. 
 Where the cock is the hen does not crow. 
 Where the hedge is lowest men leap over. 
 Where there’s no might there’s no right. 
 Where you were a page be not an esquire. 
 Whom fortune favours, the world favours. 
 Who troubles others has no rest himself. 
 Who undertakes too much seldom succeeds. 
 With the Gospel men may become heretics. 
 Words fine and bold are goods half sold. 
 You cannot pull hard with a broken rope. 
 Youth may stray afar yet return at last. 
 A brain is worth little without a tongue. 
 A crazy vessel never falls from the hand. 
 A fortress on its guard is not surprised. 
 After shaving there’s nothing to shear. 
 A golden bit makes none the better horse. 
 A good repast ought to begin with hunger. 
 A good thing lost is a good thing valued. 
 A green Christmas makes a fat churchyard. 
 A handsome woman is either silly or vain. 
 A liar is sooner caught than a cripple. 
 All are not hunters that blow the horn. 
 A man takes his own wherever he finds it. 
 A man who is not spoken of is not abused. 
 An apothecary need not be long a cuckold. 
 Art and knowledge bring bread and honour. 
 A small cloud may hide both sun and moon. 
 A sow may find an acorn as well as a hog. 
 Asses carry the oats and horses eat them. 
 A woman and a glass are always in danger. 
 Better an open enemy than a false friend. 
 Better ask twice than lose your way once. 
 Better have one bee than a host of flies. 
 By slow degrees the bird builds his nest. 
 Children and drunken men speak the truth. 
 Counterfeit coin passes current at night. 
 Cut off the dog’s tail, he remains a dog. 
 Don’t kill the man at the count’s desire. 
 Don’t pull hard enough to break the rope. 
 Envy crieth of spite where honour rideth. 
 Even the fool says a wise word sometimes. 
 Even the sea, great as it is, grows calm. 
 Every bird thinks its own nest beautiful. 
 Everybody’s companion is nobody’s friend. 
 Everybody’s friend is everybody’s fool. 
 Every one finds fault with his own trade. 
 Everything goes by favour and cousinship. 
 Fame and repute follow a man to the door. 
 Fine and fine make but a slender doublet. 
 Fools make feasts, and wise men eat them. 
 Get out of that place and let me take it. 
 God never sends mouths but he sends meat. 
 God sends meat and the devil sends cooks. 
 Good corn is not reaped from a bad field. 
 Good repute is better than a golden belt. 
 Great scholars are not the shrewdest men. 
 Hard is a new law imposed on old licence. 
 He falls on his back and breaks his nose. 
 He forgot nothing except to say farewell. 
 He knows well where the thorn pricks him. 
 He that does ill never wants for excuses. 
 He that would cheat a Jew, must be a Jew. 
 He wears the mourning of his washerwoman. 
 He who chastises one threatens a hundred. 
 He who does not speak, God does not hear. 
 He who excuses himself accuses himself. 
 He who gets out of debt enriches himself. 
 He who gives, must take (meaning a joke). 
 He who has a good wife can bear any evil. 
 He who has no falcon must hunt with owls. 
 He who is without debt is without credit. 
 He who knows the road can ride full trot. 
 He who makes himself nothing, is nothing. 
 He who sees leather cut asks for a thong. 
 He who won’t be advised, can’t be helped. 
 He would be a good one to send for death. 
 Hope and expectation are a fool’s income. 
 If you can’t bite, don’t show your teeth. 
 If you would be healthy, be wise betimes. 
 I know by my own pot how the others boil. 
 In default of bread, meal cakes are good. 
 In small woods may be caught large hares. 
 In war time there is pay for every horse. 
 It is a poor mouse that has but one hole. 
 It is bad baking without flour and water. 
 It is bad to lean against a falling wall. 
 It is better to turn back than go astray. 
 It is bitter fare to eat one’s own words. 
 It is easy to find a stick to beat a dog. 
 It is fair and just to cheat the cheater. 
 It is hard to labour with an empty belly. 
 It is not every flower that smells sweet. 
 It is only the first bottle that is dear. 
 It’s good dancing on another man’s floor. 
 Let him who is well off stay where he is. 
 Let the guest go before the storm bursts. 
 Many go out for wool and come home shorn. 
 Many have too much, but none have enough. 
 Many seek good nights and lose good days. 
 Marry in haste and repent at leisure. 
 Marry, marry, sounds well but tastes ill. 
 Men can bear all things except good days. 
 Money is a good servant but a bad master. 
 Much wisdom is lost in poor men’s mouths. 
 Nothing grows old sooner than a kindness. 
 One catches the hare and another eats it. 
 One does not always hit what one aims at. 
 One may go a long way after one is tired. 
 One must lose a minnow to catch a salmon. 
 One to-day is better than ten to-morrows. 
 Our last garment is made without pockets. 
 Poor people’s words go many to a sackful. 
 Princes will not be served on conditions. 
 Rich garments weep on unworthy shoulders. 
 Self-love is bad, and makes the eyes sad. 
 Silk and velvet put out the kitchen fire. 
 Since the wine is drawn it must be drunk. 
 Sooner or later the truth comes to light. 
 Step by step one goes far (or to Rome). 
 The cat well knows whose beard she licks. 
 The devil was handsome when he was young. 
 The dog that bites does not bark in vain. 
 The earth is always frozen to lazy swine. 
 The fear of war is worse than war itself. 
 The fool cuts himself with his own knife. 
 The foot of the farmer manures the field. 
 The fugitive finds everything impede him. 
 The horse is not judged of by the saddle. 
 The horseshoe that clatters wants a nail. 
 The house completed, possession defeated. 
 The husband’s mother is the wife’s devil. 
 The king cannot always rule as he wishes. 
 The mare’s kick does not harm the colt. 
 The meaning is best known to the speaker. 
 The morning hour has gold in its mouth. 
 The most prudent yields to the strongest. 
 The nearer the minster the later to mass. 
 There is no worse joke than a true one. 
 There’s no showing the wolf to a bad dog. 
 The saint’s-day over, farewell the saint. 
 The scoffer’s own house is often on fire. 
 The shadow of a lord is a cap for a fool. 
 The stronger the seam the worse the rent. 
 The threatener sometimes gets a drubbing. 
 The world is governed with little brains. 
 The young ravens are beaked like the old. 
 To a bold man fortune holds out her hand. 
 To carry water to the sea (or river). 
 To discover truth by telling a falsehood. 
 To fetch water after the house is burned. 
 To God’s council-chamber there is no key. 
 To go mulberry-gathering without a crook. 
 To go rabbit-catching with a dead ferret. 
 To swallow a camel, and strain at a gnat. 
 To your son give a good name and a trade. 
 Truth and oil always come to the surface. 
 Want and necessity break faith and oaths. 
 Weighty work must be done with few words. 
 When David grew old he sang pious psalms. 
 When every one says you are an ass, bray. 
 When God gives light he gives it for all. 
 When one is dead, it is for a long while. 
 When poor, liberal; when rich, penurious. 
 When the cage is ready the bird is flown. 
 When the devil grows old he turns hermit. 
 When the fox preaches, look to the geese. 
 When the hen has laid an egg she cackles. 
 When things go well it is easy to advise. 
 When you eat new bread don’t drink water. 
 Where friars abound, keep your eyes open. 
 Where might is right, right is not might. 
 Whilst the grass grows the steed starves. 
 White meal is not got out of a coal-sack. 
 Who is born of a cat will run after mice. 
 Who paints me before, blackens me behind. 
 Who pays beforehand is served behindhand. 
 You cannot make a sieve of an ass’s tail. 
 A baptised Jew is a circumcised Christian. 
 About the King and the Inquisition, hush!. 
 A brilliant daughter makes a brittle wife. 
 A determined heart will not be counselled. 
 A drowning man clings to a blade of grass. 
 After breaking my head you bring plaister. 
 A girl unemployed is thinking of mischief. 
 A good handicraft has a golden foundation. 
 A handsome hostess is bad for the purse. 
 A happy heart is better than a full purse. 
 A hard bit does not make the better horse. 
 A lawyer and a cart-wheel must be greased. 
 A little makes a debtor and much an enemy. 
 A living ass is better than a dead doctor. 
 All are not cooks who carry long knives. 
 All are not thieves whom the dogs bark at. 
 All is not butter that comes from the cow. 
 All the keys don’t hang at one girdle. 
 A lord of straw devours a vassal of steel. 
 An easy shepherd makes the wolf void wood. 
 An old fox doesn’t go twice into the trap. 
 Another year will bring another Christmas. 
 A pig’s tail will never make a good arrow. 
 A Sunday’s child never dies of the plague. 
 At the king’s court every one for himself. 
 Be a horse ever so well shod, he may slip. 
 Beat the churl and he will be your friend. 
 Better a blind horse than an empty halter. 
 Better a slip of the foot than the tongue. 
 Better be a free bird than a captive king. 
 Better fall from the window than the roof. 
 Better return half way than lose yourself. 
 Borderers are either thieves or murderers. 
 By telling our woes we often assuage them. 
 Cheating is more honourable than stealing. 
 Cheating is the chapman’s cart and plough. 
 Darkness and night are mothers of thought. 
 Desperate ills require desperate remedies. 
 Do not talk Arabic in the house of a Moor. 
 Don’t leave the high road for a short cut. 
 Do what I say well, and not what I do ill. 
 Even among the apostles there was a Judas. 
 Everybody’s business is nobody’s business. 
 Every cask smells of the wine it contains. 
 Every cock is valiant on his own dunghill. 
 Every life has its joy, every joy its law. 
 Every man has a good wife and a bad trade. 
 Every one draws the water to his own mill. 
 Every one is a preacher under the gallows. 
 Everything has two handles (or two sides). 
 Fancy requires much, necessity but little. 
 Follow the road and you will reach an inn. 
 For a voracious beast pebbles in his feed. 
 For better for worse they have married me. 
 From a silent person remove your dwelling. 
 God help the sheep when the wolf is judge. 
 God sends cold according to the clothes. 
 He is a sorry barber who has but one comb. 
 He knows where the devil carries his tail. 
 He laughs at scars who never felt a wound. 
 He looks for his ass and sits on its back. 
 He struts as valiantly as an English cock. 
 He that has but one pig easily fattens it. 
 He that has good legs has often bad boots. 
 He that sings himself is the best pleased. 
 He who can give has many a good neighbour. 
 He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear. 
 He who has daughters is always a shepherd. 
 He who has the luck brings home the bride. 
 He who is surety for another pays for him. 
 He who knows a knave makes no bid for him. 
 He whose mistress squints, says she ogles. 
 He who serves the people has a bad master. 
 He who sows brambles must not go barefoot. 
 He who treads on eggs, must tread lightly. 
 Hush, brideswoman, I knew all that before. 
 I being satisfied, the world is satisfied. 
 If the landlady is fair, the wind is fair. 
 If there be a hell, Rome is built over it. 
 In frosty weather a nail is worth a horse. 
 In time a mouse will gnaw through a cable. 
 It is a poor roast that gives no dripping. 
 It is bad iron in which there is no steel. 
 It is better to blow than burn your mouth. 
 It is easy to manage when fortune favours. 
 It is folly to fear what one cannot avoid. 
 It is hard to lure hawks with empty hands. 
 Kind words and few are a woman’s ornament. 
 Kin or no kin, woe to him who has nothing. 
 Lawyers’ houses are built of fools’ heads. 
 Let him not be a lover who has no courage. 
 Let him play the instrument who knows how. 
 Lies and gossip have a wretched offspring. 
 Little by little the bird builds its nest. 
 Man proposes and God disposes. 
 Many a one suffers for what he can’t help. 
 Meddle not with what you don’t understand. 
 My friend’s enemy is often my best friend. 
 No man is a hero in the eyes of his valet. 
 No one knows where another’s shoe pinches. 
 Open your purse, and I will open my mouth. 
 Peace must be bought even at a high price. 
 Poverty is cunning; it catches even a fox. 
 Precious ointments are put in small boxes. 
 Riches cause arrogance; poverty, meekness. 
 Rich gamblers and old trumpeters are rare. 
 Security is the first cause of misfortune. 
 She hangs out the broom (wants a husband). 
 Silence and reflection cause no dejection. 
 Sow corn in clay, and plant vines in sand. 
 Take an ox by his horn, a man by his word. 
 Thaw reveals what has been hidden by snow. 
 The ass and his driver do not think alike. 
 The ass of many owners is eaten by wolves. 
 The best pears fall into the pigs’ mouths. 
 The branch is seldom better than the stem. 
 The chamois climbs high and yet is caught. 
 The egg will be more knowing than the hen. 
 The fewer the words the better the prayer. 
 The fortress that parleys soon surrenders. 
 The frog does not bite, because it cannot. 
 The full belly does not believe in hunger. 
 The fuller the cask, the duller its sound. 
 The hen’s eyes follow her eggs (Galician). 
 The month loses its own, but not the year. 
 The moon does not heed the baying of dogs. 
 The nearer the bone the sweeter the flesh. 
 The proof of the pudding is in the eating. 
 The raven is fair when the rook is not by. 
 There is no flavour in a swallowed morsel. 
 There is no house without its hush! hush!. 
 There is not a pair of ears for every Jew. 
 The river does not swell with clear water. 
 The sun-dial counts only the bright hours. 
 The town that parleys is half surrendered. 
 The year has a wide mouth and a big belly. 
 They who come from afar have leave to lie. 
 Though a lie be swift, truth overtakes it. 
 Thoughts are toll-free, but not hell-free. 
 Thrust not thy finger into a fool’s mouth. 
 Time is the best counsellor (or preacher). 
 To hang your sickle on another man’s corn. 
 To have hairs on his heart (Hard-hearted). 
 To kill the hen by way of getting the egg. 
 Too little and too much spoils everything. 
 Too much of one thing is good for nothing. 
 Two men may meet, but never two mountains. 
 Water afar does not quench a fire at hand. 
 Welcome, misfortune, if thou comest alone. 
 When God pleases it rains in fair weather. 
 When God pleases it rains with every wind. 
 When ill-luck sleeps, let no one wake her. 
 When the manger is empty the horses fight. 
 When the rabbit has escaped, comes advice. 
 When the shepherd strays, the sheep stray. 
 Where law lacks, honour should eke it out. 
 Where might is master, justice is servant. 
 Where there are no dogs the fox is a king. 
 Where there’s no shame, there’s no honour. 
 Who accepts nothing has nothing to return. 
 Who changes his condition changes fortune. 
 Who frequents the kitchen smells of smoke. 
 Who goes and returns makes a good journey. 
 Who has no shame all the world is his own. 
 Who lives on the score has shame evermore. 
 Who makes no promises has none to perform. 
 Who says little, has little to answer for. 
 With honour in store, what would you more. 
 With houses and gold, men are rarely bold. 
 Years and sins are always more than owned. 
 You need not find a shelter for an old ox. 
 A bad wound may be cured, bad repute kills. 
 A buffeting threatened is never well given. 
 A cake and a bad custom ought to be broken. 
 A child must creep until it learns to walk. 
 A clean hand moves freely through the land. 
 After one that earns comes one that wastes. 
 After the house is finished, he deserts it. 
 A galled horse does not want to be curried. 
 A guest and a fish stink in three days. 
 A hundred years hence we shall all be bald. 
 A kitchen dog never was good for the chase. 
 A little loss frightens, a great one tames. 
 A little man sometimes casts a long shadow. 
 All wooers are rich, and all captives poor. 
 A man cannot carry all his kin on his back. 
 Another’s misfortune does not cure my pain. 
 A pack of cards is the devil’s prayer-book. 
 A pig bought on credit grunts all the year. 
 A starved town is soon forced to surrender. 
 As the abbot sings, the sacristan responds. 
 A thankless man never does a thankful deed. 
 Better be convinced by words than by blows. 
 Better have a bad ass than be your own ass. 
 Better lose the anchor than the whole ship. 
 Better the child cry, than the mother sigh. 
 Better, There he goes, than There he hangs. 
 Better walk before a hen than behind an ox. 
 Between wording and working is a long road. 
 Blessed is the misfortune that comes alone. 
 By dint of going wrong all will come right. 
 Call me not olive till you see me gathered. 
 Cheat me in the price and not in the goods. 
 Coffee has two virtues, it is wet and warm. 
 Do not put in more warp than you can weave. 
 Don’t send away your cat for being a thief. 
 Dull scissors make crooked-mouthed tailors. 
 Even counted sheep are eaten by the wolf. 
 Every one rakes the fire under his own pot. 
 Every one should sweep before his own door. 
 Falsehood never tires of going round about. 
 Forbidden fruit is sweet (or the sweetest). 
 God save me from the man of one occupation. 
 God sent him meat, but the devil cooked it. 
 God’s mill goes slowly, but it grinds well. 
 Good management is better than good income. 
 Go to your aunt’s house, but not every day. 
 He goes about it like a cat round hot milk. 
 He has nothing, for whom nothing is enough. 
 He is a bad shot who cannot find an excuse. 
 He is a poor smith who is afraid of sparks. 
 He is easy to lure, who is ready to follow. 
 He is no small knave who knows a great one. 
 He keeps his word, as the sun keeps butter. 
 He must cry loud who would scare the devil. 
 Herring in the land, the doctor at a stand. 
 He sleeps securely who has nothing to lose. 
 He that laughs on Friday may cry on Sunday. 
 He that lives with cripples learns to limp. 
 He that shows his money shows his judgment. 
 He thinks to catch shell-fish in the trees. 
 He who cannot paint must grind the colours. 
 He who eats the meat let him pick the bone. 
 He who feeds a wolf, strengthens his enemy. 
 He who feeds the hen ought to have the egg. 
 He who has a good nest, finds good friends. 
 He who is at sea does not direct the winds. 
 He who is in hell knows not what heaven is. 
 He who looks on has two-thirds of the game. 
 He who makes one basket can make a hundred. 
 He who sleeps well does not feel the fleas. 
 He who torments others does not sleep well. 
 He who would be everywhere will be nowhere. 
 He who would cheat the fox must rise early. 
 Hunger drives the wolf out of the wood. 
 If fools ate no bread, corn would be cheap. 
 If the sky falls there will be pots broken. 
 If you want fire, look for it in the ashes. 
 In borrowing an angel, in repaying a devil. 
 It flows like a fountain from a broomstick. 
 It is easy robbing when the dog is quieted. 
 It is hard to make a fire on a cold hearth. 
 It is not good to be the poet of a village. 
 Life at court is often a short cut to hell. 
 Like king, like law; like law, like people. 
 Like to like, Jack to Gill, a penny a pair. 
 Little sorrows are loud, great ones silent. 
 Look not a gift horse in the mouth. 
 Marrying is easy, but housekeeping is hard. 
 Milk the cow, but don’t pull off the udder. 
 Misfortune seldom comes alone to the house. 
 Much water runs by while the miller sleeps. 
 Never put your thumbs between two grinders. 
 No one would be an innkeeper but for money. 
 Nothing is ill said if it is not ill taken. 
 Not to wish to recover is a mortal symptom. 
 No woman marries an old man for God’s sake. 
 One ass among monkeys is grinned at by all. 
 One blind man leads another into the ditch. 
 One link broken, the whole chain is broken. 
 One man is not bad because another is good. 
 One must needs like what one cannot hinder. 
 One must step back to make the better leap. 
 One raven does not peck out another’s eyes. 
 One should be born either a king or a fool. 
 People make the bells say what they please. 
 Places are God’s; placemen are the devil’s. 
 Pluck the magpie and don’t make her scream. 
 Praise a fool, and you may make him useful. 
 Promising is one thing, performing another. 
 Put the light out, and all women are alike. 
 Ragged colts make the handsomest stallions. 
 Riches and favour go before wisdom and art. 
 Riches are often abused, but never refused. 
 Serve a lord and you’ll know what is grief. 
 She who is born a beauty is born betrothed. 
 Show me a liar and I’ll show you a thief. 
 Slander! slander! some of it always sticks. 
 Stock-fish are made tender by much beating. 
 Sufficient for the day is the evil thereof. 
 Supper is soon served in a plentiful house. 
 Take not your sickle to another man’s corn. 
 That’s quickly done which is long repented. 
 That which is customary requires no excuse. 
 The arms of Bruges: an ass in an arm-chair. 
 The ass well knows in whose house he brays. 
 The best manure is under the farmer’s shoe. 
 The bud becomes a rose, and the rose a hip. 
 The cows that low most give the least milk. 
 The curse on the hearth wounds the deepest. 
 The day you marry ’tis either kill or cure. 
 The fingers of the same hand are not alike. 
 The fire heeds little whose cloak it burns. 
 The full-fed cow makes company of her tail. 
 The gown does not make the friar (or monk). 
 The higher the rise the greater the fall. 
 The liar is sooner caught than the cripple. 
 The lion is not so fierce as he is painted. 
 The malady that is most incurable is folly. 
 The mare’s kicks are caresses to the horse. 
 The master’s foot is manure for the estate. 
 The nearer the church the farther from God. 
 There is never enough where nought is left. 
 There’s no argument like that of the stick. 
 There’s not enough if there’s not too much. 
 The scalded cat (or dog) dreads cold water. 
 The sheep that bleats loses a mouthful. 
 The sick man sleeps when the debtor cannot. 
 The treason approved, the traitor abhorred. 
 The wolf and the fox are both in one story. 
 The worse the dun, the worse the paymaster. 
 The worth of a thing is what it will bring. 
 To a friend’s house the road is never long. 
 To beards with money cavaliers pay respect. 
 To him who watches, everything is revealed. 
 To promise is easy, to keep is troublesome. 
 To put on one’s doublet before one’s shirt. 
 To scare a bird is not the way to catch it. 
 To the grateful man give more than he asks. 
 To wait and be patient soothes many a pang. 
 Trim my beard and I will trim your topknot. 
 Truth may be suppressed, but not strangled. 
 Two cannot fall out if one does not choose. 
 Under white ashes are often glowing embers. 
 Wax, flax, and tin; much out and little in. 
 We give to the rich and take from the poor. 
 Were fools silent they would pass for wise. 
 What keeps out the cold keeps out the heat. 
 What the gauntlet wins the gorget consumes. 
 What was hard to bear is sweet to remember. 
 What you do, do thoroughly (Age quod agis). 
 When a man is down everybody runs over him. 
 When a thing is done advice comes too late. 
 When it thunders, the thief becomes honest. 
 When there is no wind every man is a pilot. 
 When the root is worthless, so is the tree. 
 When the stomach is full the heart is glad. 
 When the wolf grows old the crows ride him. 
 Where there’s no jealousy, there’s no love. 
 Where there’s no love, all faults are seen. 
 Who blows his nose too hard makes it bleed. 
 Who errs in the tens errs in the thousands. 
 Whoever brings finds the door open for him. 
 Who hears but one bell hears but one sound. 
 Who is your enemy? A man of your own trade. 
 With the hide of the dog its bite is cured. 
 Young twigs may be bent, but not old trees. 
 A bustling mother makes a slothful daughter. 
 A fair-weather friend changes with the wind. 
 After honour and state follow envy and hate. 
 A full belly dances better than a fine coat. 
 Age makes many a man whiter, but not better. 
 A good swimmer is not safe against drowning. 
 A great estate is not gotten in a few hours. 
 A kitchen-dog is never a good rabbit-hunter. 
 A lame man won’t walk with one who is lamer. 
 A large fire often comes from a small spark. 
 A lazy ox is little the better for the goad. 
 All are not asleep who have their eyes shut. 
 All cats are not to be set down for witches. 
 Always something new, seldom something good. 
 A man is not known till he cometh to honour. 
 A man who wants bread is ready for anything. 
 An ape’s an ape, though he wear a gold ring. 
 An old coachman loves the crack of the whip. 
 An old dog does not grow used to the collar. 
 An old fool is worse than a young simpleton. 
 An ounce of luck is worth a pound of wisdom. 
 A sheep’s bite is never more than skin deep. 
 A smooth tongue is better than smooth locks. 
 A son-in-law’s friendship is a winter’s sun. 
 As won, so spent (Lightly come, lightly go). 
 A thorn comes into the world point foremost. 
 At last the foxes all meet at the furrier’s. 
 A used plough shines, standing water stinks. 
 Bad is the sack that will not bear patching. 
 Before a man learns to hang he is half dead. 
 Be truly what thou wouldst be thought to be. 
 Better belly burst than good victuals spoil. 
 Better spare at the brim than at the bottom. 
 Better twice remembered than once forgotten. 
 By gnawing skin a dog learns to eat leather. 
 Communities begin by building their kitchen. 
 Don’t cry fried fish before they are caught. 
 Don’t cry herrings till they are in the net. 
 Don’t put your finger into too tight a ring. 
 Don’t reckon your eggs before they are laid. 
 Even the dog gets bread by wagging his tail. 
 Every fool is wise when he holds his tongue. 
 Every little fish expects to become a whale. 
 Every man carries an enemy in his own bosom. 
 Every one takes his flogging in his own way. 
 Every one thinks his own cross the heaviest. 
 Every ten years one man has need of another. 
 Everything goes to him who does not want it. 
 Everything may be borne except good fortune. 
 Fire in the heart sends smoke into the head. 
 Flying from the bull he fell into the river. 
 Follow the river and you will reach the sea. 
 For a wife and a horse go to your neighbour. 
 Give an ass oats and he runs after thistles. 
 God gives almonds to some who have no teeth. 
 God gives the will, necessity gives the law. 
 God grant, dear wife, that this son be ours. 
 He avoided the fly and swallowed the spider. 
 He is a bad workman who cannot talk of work. 
 He is a fool who makes a mallet of his fist. 
 He is not so much of a devil as he is black. 
 He is not yet born who can please everybody. 
 He loses his market who has nothing to sell. 
 He must shoot well who always hits the mark. 
 He that corrects not youth controls not age. 
 He that makes one basket can make a hundred. 
 He that plays at racket must watch the ball. 
 He that will have fire must bear with smoke. 
 He that will not be saved needs no preacher. 
 He who avoids the temptation avoids the sin. 
 He who brings bad tidings comes soon enough. 
 He who does not show himself, is overlooked. 
 He who gives to the poor, lends to the Lord. 
 He who gives to the public, gives to no one. 
 He who has servants has unavoidable enemies. 
 He who stops half way is only half in error. 
 He who would leap high must take a long run. 
 He would slaughter a bug to drink its blood. 
 Him who errs, forgive once, but never twice. 
 Honour and profit will not keep in one sack. 
 If I am a fool, put your finger in my mouth. 
 If you would make a thief honest, trust him. 
 I know well what I say when I ask for bread. 
 It is a loss of soap to wash the ass’s head. 
 It is an ill bird that fouls its own nest. 
 It is easy to stride a tree when it is down. 
 It is easy to threaten a bull from a window. 
 It is not easy to sting a bear with a straw. 
 It is not easy to walk upon the devil’s ice. 
 It is not every hog that the crow will ride. 
 It is nothing at all, only a woman drowning. 
 Labour has a bitter root, but a sweet taste. 
 Learned fools are the greatest of all fools. 
 Let it be a husband, though it be but a log. 
 Loaves put awry into the oven come out awry. 
 Love does wonders, but money makes marriage. 
 Make me a prophet, and I will make you rich. 
 Many shun the brook and fall into the river. 
 Many shun the sword and come to the gallows. 
 Martha sings well when she has had her fill. 
 Misfortune upon misfortune is not wholesome. 
 More belongs to riding than a pair of boots. 
 My neighbour’s hen lays more eggs than mine. 
 My sister’s son is a kinsman beyond dispute. 
 No one ever became poor through giving alms. 
 No one is poor but he who thinks himself so. 
 Not all are asleep who have their eyes shut. 
 No word is ill spoken that is not ill taken. 
 Of bad debtors you may take spoilt herrings. 
 One always knocks oneself in the sore place. 
 One may steal nothing save a lawyer’s purse. 
 One often has need of a lesser than oneself. 
 One’s prog does not clog (Store is no sore). 
 Praying to God, and hitting with the hammer. 
 Princes use men as the husbandman uses bees. 
 Put the belfry in the middle of the village. 
 Reconciled friendship is a wound ill salved. 
 Short pleasure often brings long repentance. 
 Since I wronged you, I have never liked you. 
 Soldiers must be well paid, and well hanged. 
 Sometimes the lees are better than the wine. 
 Some who mean only to warm, burn themselves. 
 That is done soon enough which is well done. 
 That which comes with sin, goes with sorrow. 
 The bad barber leaves neither hair nor skin. 
 The braying of an ass does not reach heaven. 
 The end of mirth is the beginning of sorrow. 
 The eye of the master fattens the steed. 
 The fault is as great as he that commits it. 
 The flatterer’s throat is an open sepulchre. 
 The forest has ears, and the field has eyes. 
 The gardener’s dog, neither full nor hungry. 
 The greater the fear, the nearer the danger. 
 The greatest cunning is to have none at all. 
 The headache is mine, and the cows are ours. 
 The heart does not think all the mouth says. 
 The money paid, the workman’s arm is broken. 
 There is little use in watching a bad woman. 
 There is never wanting a dog to bark at you. 
 There is no cure against a slanderer’s bite. 
 There is no good in preaching to the hungry. 
 There’s no guarding against the privy thief. 
 There’s no making a good cloak of bad cloth. 
 There’s no putting off a lie upon the belly. 
 The righteous man sins before an open chest. 
 The scabbier the sheep the harder it bleats. 
 The soldier is well paid for doing mischief. 
 The tree is not to be judged of by its bark. 
 The well-fed man does not believe in hunger. 
 The wolf picks the ass’s fleas by moonlight. 
 The worse the carpenter, the more the chips. 
 Though the fox runs, the pullets have wings. 
 Time and opportunity are in no man’s sleeve. 
 To commit the sheep to the care of the wolf. 
 To eat and to scratch, one has but to begin. 
 To fall out of the frying-pan into the fire. 
 To jump into the water for fear of the rain. 
 To jump out of the frying-pan into the fire. 
 To make one hole by way of stopping another. 
 To preserve friendship one must build walls. 
 To stop the hole after the mischief is done. 
 Truth must be seasoned to make it palatable. 
 Two sparrows on one ear of corn never agree. 
 Unbending the bow does not heal the wound. 
 Under a shabby cloak may be a smart drinker. 
 Under my cloak I command (or kill) the king. 
 Under the sackcloth there is something else. 
 What belongs to the ravens is never drowned. 
 What the eye sees not, the heart craves not. 
 What the eye sees not, the heart rues not. 
 What you lend to a friend an enemy sues for. 
 When anger blinds the eyes truth disappears. 
 When Christ was alone the devil tempted him. 
 When the sack is full it pricks up its ears. 
 When the will is prompt the legs are nimble. 
 Where every one goes, the grass never grows. 
 Where luck is wanting, diligence is useless. 
 Where water has been, water will come again. 
 Who blackens others does not whiten himself. 
 Who demands justice must administer justice. 
 Who knows the tongues is at home everywhere. 
 Without bread and wine, even love will pine. 
 Wolves do not eat wolves (or one another). 
 Women and hens are lost by too much gadding. 
 You can have no more of a fox than his skin. 
 Young folk, silly folk; old folk, cold folk. 
 A bespattered hog tries to bespatter another. 
 Abstinence and fasting cure many a complaint. 
 A cat that meweth much catcheth but few mice. 
 A crow is never the whiter for often washing. 
 A dead man has neither relations nor friends. 
 A dull ass near home trots without the stick. 
 After ebb comes flood, and friends with good. 
 A good friend is better than silver and gold. 
 Alas for the son whose father went to heaven. 
 A little leaven leavens (sours) a great mass. 
 Always say no, and you will never be married. 
 Always to be sparing is always to be in want. 
 An old oven is easier to heat than a new one. 
 A single day grants what a whole year denies. 
 Ask which was born first, the hen or the egg. 
 A slight suspicion may destroy a good repute. 
 A solitary man is either a brute or an angel. 
 As the virtue in the tree, such is the fruit. 
 As you began the dance you may pay the piper. 
 A woman conceals only what she does not know. 
 Better a sparrow in the hand than two flying. 
 Better cross an angry man than a fasting man. 
 Better go to bed supperless than run in debt. 
 Better in an old carriage than in a new ship. 
 Better poor with honour than rich with shame. 
 Better stumble once than be always tottering. 
 Better to be a free bird than a captive king. 
 Beware of laughing hosts and weeping priests. 
 Buyers want a hundred eyes, sellers only one. 
 By working in the smithy one becomes a smith. 
 Call me not fortunate till you see me buried. 
 Caution is the mother of tender beer-glasses. 
 Cheerfulness and good-will make labour light. 
 Cherries are bitter to the glutted blackbird. 
 Correction is good when administered in time. 
 Crooked wood burns quite as well as straight. 
 Do what the friar says, and not what he does. 
 Eat bread at pleasure, drink wine by measure. 
 Eat bread that’s light, and cheese by weight. 
 Either the ass will die, or he that goads it. 
 Every day a thread makes a skein in the year. 
 Every one goes with his own sack to the mill. 
 Every one likes to wipe his shoes on poverty. 
 Everything comes in time to him who can wait. 
 From trivial things great contests oft arise. 
 God does not pay weekly, but pays at the end. 
 God has given nuts to some who have no teeth. 
 God puts a good root in the little pig’s way. 
 Go not every evening to your brother’s house. 
 Hedgehogs are not to be killed with the fist. 
 He has much to do who would please everybody. 
 He is not a bad driver who knows how to turn. 
 He is not a good mason who refuses any stone. 
 He is not free who drags his chain after him. 
 He is out of danger who rings the alarm-bell. 
 He must be ill-favoured who scares the devil. 
 He that is ashamed to eat is ashamed to live. 
 He that would be old long must begin betimes. 
 He who always tells me a lie never cheats me. 
 He who follows the crowd has many companions. 
 He who has three enemies must agree with two. 
 He who looks not before finds himself behind. 
 He who pays his debts, betters his condition. 
 He who serves many masters must neglect some. 
 Hunger and cold surrender a man to his enemy. 
 If the beard were all, the goat might preach. 
 If the eyes don’t see, the heart won’t break. 
 If you want to be revenged, hold your tongue. 
 I have nothing for dinner, sit down to table. 
 Ill befal the belly that forgets eaten bread. 
 In prosperity caution, in adversity patience. 
 In the long run the greyhound kills the hare. 
 It is bad for puppies to play with bear-cubs. 
 It is better to be the hammer than the anvil. 
 It is difficult to hide what everybody knows. 
 It is easy to give advice when all goes well. 
 It is good to buy when another wants to sell. 
 It is good to warm oneself by another’s fire. 
 It is hard to catch birds with an empty hand. 
 It is not all who turn their backs that flee. 
 It is vain to fish if the hook is not baited. 
 It little avails the unfortunate to be brave. 
 It needs a light spirit to bear a heavy fate. 
 Long-talked-of (or looked-for) comes at last. 
 Love, grief, and money cannot be kept secret. 
 Make your son your heir and not your steward. 
 Might and courage require wit in their suite. 
 More are drowned in the bowl than in the sea. 
 My money your money, let us go to the tavern. 
 Near is my petticoat, but nearer is my smock. 
 Never seemed a prison fair, or mistress foul. 
 No one can blow and swallow at the same time. 
 Of brothers-in-law and red dogs few are good. 
 On a fool’s beard the barber learns to shave. 
 One basket of grapes does not make a vintage. 
 One cannot blow and swallow at the same time. 
 One cannot please everybody and one’s father. 
 One must pass through the door or the window. 
 Out of a great evil often comes a great good. 
 Out of a white egg often comes a black chick. 
 Peace and patience, and death with penitence. 
 Plough deep and you will have plenty of corn. 
 Plough or not plough, you must pay your rent. 
 Practise not your art and ’twill soon depart. 
 Priests even smile pleasantly on young women. 
 Promises make debts, and debts make promises. 
 Rather the egg to-day than the hen to-morrow. 
 Rest comes from unrest, and unrest from rest. 
 Roast geese don’t come flying into the mouth. 
 Rust consumes iron, and envy consumes itself. 
 Seven brothers in a council make wrong right. 
 Sickness comes in haste, and goes at leisure. 
 Some have the fame, and others card the wool. 
 Speak not ill of the year until it is past. 
 Starlings are lean because they go in flocks. 
 Talk of sporting, and buy game in the market. 
 That costs dear which is bought with begging. 
 That priest is a fool who decries his relics. 
 That’s all well and good, but gold is better. 
 That’s as much as a bean in a brewing copper. 
 The abbey does not fail for want of one monk. 
 The archer that shoots badly has a lie ready. 
 The back door is the one that robs the house. 
 The beadle’s cow may graze in the churchyard. 
 The best feed of a horse is his master’s eye. 
 The bird once out of hand is hard to recover. 
 The counterfeit image of a pot with two ears. 
 The days follow each other and are not alike. 
 The devil is not always at a poor man’s door. 
 The devil likes to souse what is already wet. 
 The earth covers the errors of the physician. 
 The fierce ox becomes tame on strange ground. 
 The fire burns brightest on one’s own hearth. 
 The first in the boat has the choice of oars. 
 The fox does not go twice into the same trap. 
 The fox knows well with whom he plays tricks. 
 The gardener’s feet do no harm to the garden. 
 The Germans carry their wit in their fingers. 
 The greatest burdens are not the gainfullest. 
 The later the evening the fairer the company. 
 The most cautious passes for the most chaste. 
 The nobler the tree the more pliant the twig. 
 The pot upbraids the kettle that it is black. 
 There is nothing so secret but it transpires. 
 There’s no catching trouts with dry breeches. 
 There’s no need to grease the fat pig’s rump. 
 The sun passes over filth and is not defiled. 
 The well-fed sheep makes a cloak of its tail. 
 The wolf bemoans the sheep, and then eats it. 
 The wolf is always left out of the reckoning. 
 The wrath of brothers is the wrath of devils. 
 They who do not wash well do not bleach well. 
 Three who help each other are as good as six. 
 To exchange a one-eyed horse for a blind one. 
 To lather an ass’s head is only wasting soap. 
 To pluck the goose without making it cry out. 
 To work for the bishop (Prayers, but no pay). 
 Trust was a good man, Trust-not was a better. 
 Turn your tongue seven times before speaking. 
 We knock in jest and it is opened in earnest. 
 What comes from the heart, goes to the heart. 
 What three know will soon be known to thirty. 
 When prosperity smiles, beware of its guiles. 
 When the calf is drowned they cover the well. 
 When the cat’s away the mice (or rats) dance. 
 When the cat’s away the mice will play. 
 When the dog is awake the shepherd may sleep. 
 When the head is sick the whole body is sick. 
 Who are ready to believe are easy to deceive. 
 Who has a bad wife, his hell begins on earth. 
 Who ventures to lend, loses money and friend. 
 Who wives for a dower, resigns his own power. 
 Will he nill he, the ass must go to the fair. 
 With a little wrong a man comes by his right. 
 Women, asses, and nuts, require strong hands. 
 You cannot make a good archbishop of a rogue. 
 Young cats will mouse, young apes will louse. 
 A covetous woman deserves a swindling gallant. 
 A daily guest is a great thief in the kitchen. 
 A dog never bit me but I had some of his hair. 
 A fifth wheel to a cart is but an incumbrance. 
 A good fox does not eat his neighbour’s fowls. 
 A hawk’s marriage: the hen is the better bird. 
 A horse may stumble, though he have four legs. 
 Alas! father, another daughter is born to you. 
 All are not princes who ride with the emperor. 
 An honest man’s word is as good as the king’s. 
 An indulgent mother makes a sluttish daughter. 
 A penny spared is better than a florin gained. 
 A rickety chair will not long serve as a seat. 
 A shock dog is starved and nobody believes it. 
 A smart coat is a good letter of introduction. 
 As the old birds sing, the young ones twitter. 
 As you would have a daughter so choose a wife. 
 At a little fountain one drinks at one’s ease. 
 At court there are many hands, but few hearts. 
 Better a bird in the hand than ten in the air. 
 Better a friend’s bite than an enemy’s caress. 
 Better a near neighbour than a distant cousin. 
 Better repair the gutter than the whole house. 
 Better where birds sing than where irons ring. 
 Between saying and doing there is a long road. 
 Between wrangling and disputing truth is lost. 
 Beware of a reconciled friend as of the devil. 
 Caress your dog, and he’ll spoil your clothes. 
 Conscience is as good as a thousand witnesses. 
 Coward against coward, the assailant conquers. 
 Daughters are easy to rear, but hard to marry. 
 Don’t cry holloa! till you’re out of the bush. 
 Do you want to buy cheap? Buy of a needy fool. 
 Every man is the architect of his own fortune. 
 Every man must carry his own sack to the mill. 
 Everything may be bought except day and night. 
 Father and mother are kind, but God is kinder. 
 Foster a raven and it will peck out your eyes. 
 Give a rogue an inch, and he will take an ell. 
 Give the wise man a hint and leave him to act. 
 Go in God’s name, for he takes a loaf of mine. 
 Gold is gold, though it be in a rogue’s purse. 
 He asks advice in vain who will not follow it. 
 He got out of the mud and fell into the river. 
 He is a fool who makes his physician his heir. 
 He is like a cat, he always falls on his feet. 
 He is like a singed cat, better than he looks. 
 He is lucky who forgets what cannot be mended. 
 He is nearest a thing who has it in his hands. 
 He is nearest to God who has the fewest wants. 
 He is worthy of sweets who has tasted bitters. 
 He may swim boldly who is held up by the chin. 
 He puts his sickle into another man’s harvest. 
 He that wants the kernel must crack the nut. 
 He that would heal a wound must not handle it. 
 He who blows upon dust fills his eyes with it. 
 He who buys the broom can also buy the handle. 
 He who greases his cart-wheels helps his oxen. 
 He who has a bad wife can expect no happiness. 
 He who is of the craft can discourse about it. 
 He who laid a snare for me has fallen into it. 
 He who would save should begin with the mouth. 
 He will not lose his oats for want of braying. 
 Honeyed speech often conceals poison and gall. 
 Honey is not for asses (or the ass’s mouth). 
 If the wife sins, the husband is not innocent. 
 If you wish to be well served, serve yourself. 
 Ill fares the young bird in the urchin’s hand. 
 Injurious is the gift that takes away freedom. 
 In the end it will be known who ate the bacon. 
 It is a poor horse that is not worth its oats. 
 It is easier to stem the brook than the river. 
 It is easy to sit at the helm in fine weather. 
 It is not easy to show the way to a blind man. 
 It is safe to lend barley to him who has oats. 
 It is the petty expenses that empty the purse. 
 John has been to school to learn to be a fool. 
 Let a child have its will and it will not cry. 
 Let him stay at the oar who has learnt to row. 
 Let him who feels he has a dirty nose wipe it. 
 Let us have florins and we shall find cousins. 
 Look with suspicion on the flight of an enemy. 
 Luck has much for many, but enough for no one. 
 Many a one threatens while he quakes for fear. 
 Marry, marry, and what about the housekeeping. 
 Much broth is sometimes made with little meat. 
 Much wisdom is smothered in a poor man’s head. 
 My neighbour’s goat gives more milk than mine. 
 Necessity seeks bread where it is to be found. 
 Never speak of a rope in the house of a thief. 
 New churches and new taverns are seldom empty. 
 No one gets into trouble without his own help. 
 No one knows the parson better than the clerk. 
 No one will get a bargain he does not ask for. 
 Old love and old brands kindle at all seasons. 
 One fool always finds a greater to admire him. 
 One must sometimes hold a candle to the devil. 
 Our neighbour’s children are always the worst. 
 Possession and good right, with lance in hand. 
 Render unto Cæsar the things that are Cæsar’s. 
 Right or wrong, ’tis our house up to the roof. 
 She is fond of greens who kisses the gardener. 
 She who loves an ugly man thinks him handsome. 
 Take advice of a red-bearded man, and be gone. 
 Take care of your geese when the fox preaches. 
 The dog will not get free by biting his chain. 
 The drunken mouth reveals the heart’s secrets. 
 The fox changes his skin, but keeps the rogue. 
 The horse that draws best is the most whipped. 
 The keys at the girdle, the dog in the larder. 
 The magistrate’s son gets out of every scrape. 
 The miser and the pig are of no use till dead. 
 The more haste, the less (or worse) speed. 
 The most friendly fortune trips up your heels. 
 The poor man wants much, the miser everything. 
 The pot that boils too much loses its flavour. 
 There are more old drunkards than old doctors. 
 There is no chapel so small but has its saint. 
 There is no spite like that of a proud beggar. 
 There’s no making a silk purse of a sow’s ear. 
 The rich man has more relations than he knows. 
 The sheep that bleat most give the least milk. 
 The thorn comes into the world point foremost. 
 The waggon must go whither the horses draw it. 
 The water breaks out where it is not expected. 
 The wise man has long ears and a short tongue. 
 The worst pig eats the best acorn (or pear). 
 Threats don’t kill (Men don’t die of threats). 
 To fawn with the tail and bite with the mouth. 
 Too late the bird cries out when it is caught. 
 To piece the lion’s skin with that of the fox. 
 To pray to the saint until the danger is past. 
 Wasting is a bad habit, sparing a sure income. 
 Water is the strongest drink; it drives mills. 
 We have no son, and yet are giving him a name. 
 Were it a wolf it would spring at your throat. 
 What is another’s always pines for its master. 
 What is wrong to-day won’t be right to-morrow. 
 What the sober man thinks, the drunkard tells. 
 What you learn to your cost you remember long. 
 When his head is broken he puts on his helmet. 
 When the Frenchman sleeps the devil rocks him. 
 Where honour grows a span, folly grows an ell. 
 Where remedies are needed, sighing avails not. 
 Where the best wine grows, the worst is drunk. 
 Where the carrion is, there the eagles gather. 
 Where there is great love there is great pain. 
 Where the wasp has passed the fly sticks fast. 
 Who has but one eye must take good care of it. 
 Who has plenty of pepper may pepper his beans. 
 Who moves picks up, who stands still dries up. 
 Women are wise impromptu, fools on reflection. 
 You cannot take a cow from a man who has none. 
 You can’t make pancakes without breaking eggs. 
 A bird in the cage is worth a hundred at large. 
 Abroad one has a hundred eyes, at home not one. 
 A cat has nine lives, as the onion seven skins. 
 A child of a year old sucks milk from the heel. 
 A good advice is as good as an eye in the hand. 
 A guest and a fish after three days are poison. 
 A mule and a woman do what is expected of them. 
 An ill-tempered woman is the devil’s door-nail. 
 A rich child often sits in a poor mother’s lap. 
 A rich man is never ugly in the eyes of a girl. 
 A seat in the council is honour without profit. 
 A servant and a cock must be kept but one year. 
 As the labour, so the pay (No pains, no gains). 
 As you make your bed so you must lie on it. 
 A thousand probabilities do not make one truth. 
 A woman strong in flounces is weak in the head. 
 Better have an egg to-day than a hen to-morrow. 
 Better make a short circuit than wet your hose. 
 Better slip with the foot than with the tongue. 
 Blacksmith’s children are not afraid of sparks. 
 Bleed him, purge him, and if he dies, bury him. 
 Care, and not fine stables, makes a good horse. 
 Children are certain sorrow, but uncertain joy. 
 Crooked iron may be straightened with a hammer. 
 Despise your enemy and you will soon be beaten. 
 Erring is not cheating (A mistake is no fraud). 
 Escaping from the smoke he falls into the fire. 
 Everybody is wise after the thing has happened. 
 Every one takes his pleasure where he finds it. 
 Everything may be repaired except the neckbone. 
 Every woman would rather be handsome than good. 
 Fair flowers do not remain long by the wayside. 
 Far fetched and dear bought is meat for ladies. 
 Feet that are used to move cannot remain quiet. 
 Few women turn grey because their husbands die. 
 Fools and the perverse fill the lawyer’s purse. 
 Fools invent fashions and wise men follow them. 
 Fortune gives many too much, but no one enough. 
 Gain has a pleasant odour, come whence it will. 
 Give me the rhubarb and you may take the senna. 
 Gold is proved in the fire, friendship in need. 
 Good counsel will not rot, if it be got in dry. 
 Good wine ruins the purse, and bad the stomach. 
 Half a brain is enough for him who says little. 
 Happy is she who is in love with an old dotard. 
 Happy the child whose father goes to the devil. 
 Heavy purses and light hearts can sustain much. 
 He counts his chickens before they are hatched. 
 He goes as willingly as a thief to the gallows. 
 He has command of the sack who is seated on it. 
 He is a fool who loses the flight for the leap. 
 He is as good a divine as Judas was an apostle. 
 He is your friend who gets you out of a scrape. 
 He lords it (or swaggers) like an eel in a tub. 
 He means well, but has a bad way of showing it. 
 He must indeed be a good master who never errs. 
 He never was a friend who has ceased to be one. 
 He runs as fast as if he had eggs in his shoes. 
 He that bears the cross, blesses himself first. 
 He that has an hour’s start will not be hanged. 
 He that has the luck leads the bride to church. 
 He that hides is no better than he that steals. 
 He that stumbles and falls not, mends his pace. 
 He wastes his tears who weeps before the judge. 
 He who comes first to the mill is first served. 
 He who despises small things seldom grows rich. 
 He who has a bad tongue should have good loins. 
 He who holds the ladder is as bad as the thief. 
 He who is quick at borrowing is slow in paying. 
 He who tickles himself, laughs when he likes. 
 He who trifles with his enemy dies by his hand. 
 Horses run after benefices, and asses get them. 
 How can the cat help it if the maid be a fool?. 
 Hussars pray for war, and the doctor for fever. 
 In old houses many mice, in old furs many lice. 
 In the land of promise a man may die of hunger. 
 Iron may be rubbed so long that it gets heated. 
 It is an ill turn that does no good to any one. 
 It is a wise child that knows its own father. 
 It is easy to preach fasting with a full belly. 
 It is good speaking that improves good silence. 
 It is no child’s play when an old woman dances. 
 It is not easy to pluck hairs from a bald pate. 
 It is not the load but the overload that kills. 
 It is safest sailing within reach of the shore. 
 It is the raised stick that makes the dog obey. 
 It is well to have clean bread in one’s wallet. 
 It needs a cunning hand to shave a fool’s head. 
 I want more for my teeth than for my relations. 
 I would rather have a dog my friend than enemy. 
 Let no shovel-beaked bird ever enter your yard. 
 Let the giver be silent and the receiver speak. 
 Locks and keys are not made for honest fingers. 
 Love is the true price at which love is bought. 
 Love subdues everything except the felon heart. 
 Men’s ignorance makes the pot boil for priests. 
 Money and friendship break the arms of justice. 
 Neutrals think to tread on eggs and break none. 
 Nobody so wise but has a little folly to spare. 
 No office so humble but is better than nothing. 
 No one ever repented of having held his tongue. 
 Not every sort of wood is fit to make an arrow. 
 Nothing is done while something remains undone. 
 No wind can do him good who steers for no port. 
 Of big words and feathers many go to the pound. 
 Of this world each man has as much as he takes. 
 Old as is the boat it may cross the ferry once. 
 On a small pretence the wolf devours the sheep. 
 One kisses the nurse for the sake of the child. 
 One may as well be well beaten as badly beaten. 
 People often change, and seldom for the better. 
 Poverty and hunger have many learned disciples. 
 Promises and undressed cloth are apt to shrink. 
 Proverbs are the daughters of daily experience. 
 Rather go rob with good men than pray with bad. 
 See how he has risen from a mayor to a hangman. 
 Sickness comes uninvited—no need to bespeak it. 
 Since we have loaves let us not look for cakes. 
 Take a woman’s first advice and not her second. 
 Take nothing in hand that may bring repentance. 
 Take the world as it is, not as it ought to be. 
 That is good wisdom which is wisdom in the end. 
 The best swimmer is the first to drown himself. 
 The bow that is always bent slackens or breaks. 
 The cat always leaves her mark upon her friend. 
 The court of Rome likes not sheep without wool. 
 The devil lurks (or sits) behind the cross. 
 The dog that kills wolves, is killed by wolves. 
 The farthest way about is the nearest way home. 
 The fertile field becomes sterile without rest. 
 The fox may lose his hair, but not his cunning. 
 The goslings would lead the geese out to grass. 
 The hen lives by pickings, as the lion by prey. 
 The hen that stays at home picks up the crumbs. 
 The longest way round is the shortest way home. 
 The master’s eye does more than both his hands. 
 The mouse is knowing, but the cat more knowing. 
 There is no bush so small but casts its shadow. 
 There is nothing so bad but may be of some use. 
 There is no worse water than that which sleeps. 
 There is some distance between Peter and Peter. 
 The road to ruin is paved with good intentions. 
 The same fire purifies gold and consumes straw. 
 The strong man’s sport is the weak man’s death. 
 The tailor ill-dressed, the shoemaker ill-shod. 
 The thief thinks that all men are like himself. 
 The tree does not fall at the first stroke. 
 The wet branch burns better than the dry stone. 
 Through not spending enough, we spend too much. 
 Time and the hour run through the roughest day. 
 To circumstances and custom the law must yield. 
 To get out of the mire and fall into the river. 
 To get out of the smoke and fall into the fire. 
 To lock the stable after the horses are stolen. 
 To make the cart go you must grease the wheels. 
 To swim and swim more, and be drowned on shore. 
 Until death there is no knowing what may befal. 
 Upon a slight pretext the wolf takes the sheep. 
 Vetches seem bitter to the full-cropped pigeon. 
 War with all the world, and peace with England. 
 Were there no fools there would be no wise men. 
 What my neighbour eats does my stomach no good. 
 When everybody says you are drunk, go to sleep. 
 When God says To-day, the devil says To-morrow. 
 When it rains porridge the beggar has no spoon. 
 When the fields yield not, the saints have not. 
 When the spleen increases, the body diminishes. 
 When the wound is healed the pain is forgotten. 
 When we think to catch we are sometimes caught. 
 Where ghosts walk, there is loving or thieving. 
 Where shall the ox go, and not have to plough?. 
 Where the hostess is handsome the wine is good. 
 Where there is no honour there is no dishonour. 
 Where there is no sore there needs no plaister. 
 While the dogs yelp the hare flies to the wood. 
 While the grass is growing the steed starves. 
 Who goes fasting to bed will sleep but lightly. 
 Who has never done thinking never begins doing. 
 Who has no children does not know what love is. 
 Whoredom and thieving are never long concealed. 
 Who spits against heaven, it falls on his head. 
 Wisdom is the least burdensome travelling pack. 
 Wolves are often hidden under sheep’s clothing. 
 Women, priests, and poultry, never have enough. 
 Your friend lends, and your enemy asks payment. 
 A big (long) nose never spoiled a handsome face. 
 A cloak is not made for a single shower of rain. 
 A coward often deals a mortal blow to the brave. 
 A dealer in onions is a good judge of scallions. 
 A dram of discretion is worth a pound of wisdom. 
 A fool, if he holds his tongue, passes for wise. 
 A good name is better than oil (_i. e._ riches). 
 A husband with one eye rather than with one son. 
 A lazy boy and a warm bed are difficult to part. 
 A little injury dismays, and a great one stills. 
 All in the way of joke the wolf goes to the ass. 
 All wish to live long, but not to be called old. 
 Always talk big and you will never be forgotten. 
 A man who wants to drown his dog says he is mad. 
 A morsel eaten selfishly does not gain a friend. 
 An ounce of patience is worth a pound of brains. 
 A runaway monk never speaks well of his convent. 
 A silent man’s words are not brought into court. 
 A tender-hearted mother makes a scabby daughter. 
 A vagabond monk never spoke well of his convent. 
 A woman and a hen are soon lost through gadding. 
 Be silent, or say something better than silence. 
 Be the horse good or bad always wear your spurs. 
 Better one living word than a hundred dead ones. 
 Better reap two days too soon than one too late. 
 Better there should be too much than too little. 
 Between two friends, a notary and two witnesses. 
 Bring up a raven and he will peck out your eyes. 
 By lamplight every country wench seems handsome. 
 Choose neither a woman nor linen by candlelight. 
 Counsel after action is like rain after harvest. 
 Daylight will come, though the cock do not crow. 
 Deceive not thy physician, confessor, or lawyer. 
 Does your neighbour bore you? Lend him a sequin. 
 Do not divide the spoil till the victory is won. 
 Don’t carry your head too high, the door is low. 
 Don’t cross the water unless you see the bottom. 
 Don’t find fault with what you don’t understand. 
 Don’t sell the bearskin before the bear is dead. 
 Entreat the churl and the bargain is broken off. 
 Every one finds sin sweet and repentance bitter. 
 Everything in its season, and turnips in Advent. 
 Give the priest drink, for the clerk is thirsty. 
 God sells knowledge for labour, honour for risk. 
 He beat the bushes and another caught the birds. 
 He begins to grow bad who believes himself good. 
 He came time enough who was hung by candlelight. 
 He falls into the pit who leads another into it. 
 He goes safely to trial whose father is a judge. 
 He must rise betimes who would please everybody. 
 He that is out at sea, must either sail or sink. 
 He that will have eggs, must bear with cackling. 
 He who dances well goes from wedding to wedding. 
 He who goes to collect wool may come back shorn. 
 He who has a trade may travel through the world. 
 He who holds his tongue does not commit himself. 
 He who is well prepared has half won the battle. 
 He who laughs overmuch may have an aching heart. 
 He who likes drinking is always talking of wine. 
 He who looks demurely trust not with your money. 
 He who marries ill, is long in becoming widowed. 
 He who praises himself must have bad neighbours. 
 He who would enjoy the fire must bear the smoke. 
 He who would gather roses, must not fear thorns. 
 He would be wise who knew all things beforehand. 
 High houses are mostly empty in the upper story. 
 If God gives not bushelfuls, he gives spoonfuls. 
 If it only depends on swearing, the cow is ours. 
 If the sun shines on me I care not for the moon. 
 If you love me, John, your acts will tell me so. 
 If you want to beat a dog, say he eat your iron. 
 Ill weeds grow the fastest and last the longest. 
 In the garden more grows than the gardener sows. 
 In the land of the blind the one-eyed is a king. 
 It is a bad hand that refuses to guard the head. 
 It is a bad hen that lays in neighbours’ houses. 
 It is a bad horse that does not earn his fodder. 
 It is dear honey that must be licked off thorns. 
 It is difficult to get many heads under one hat. 
 It is good to beat a proud man when he is alone. 
 It is hard to catch hares with unwilling hounds. 
 It is hard to pay for bread that has been eaten. 
 It is no honour for an eagle to vanquish a dove. 
 It is not enough to run; one must start in time. 
 It is not for the swan to teach eaglets to sing. 
 I too can lead the geese to water when it rains. 
 Let him eat the tough morsel who eat the tender. 
 Let not him who has a mouth ask another to blow. 
 Light is light, though the blind man see it not. 
 Lovers think others are blind (or have no eyes). 
 Love’s merchandise is jealousy and broken faith. 
 Many a man is a good friend but a bad neighbour. 
 Many see more with one eye than others with two. 
 Many take by the bushel and give with the spoon. 
 No sheep runs into the mouth of a sleeping wolf. 
 Nothing is more like an honest man than a rogue. 
 Once upon a time, no time (or Some day, no day). 
 One beats the bush and another catches the bird. 
 One can’t enter Paradise in spite of the saints. 
 One hair of a woman draws more than a bell-rope. 
 One penny is better on land than ten on the sea. 
 Order and do it, and you will be rid of anxiety. 
 Praise yourself, basket, for I want to sell you. 
 Put out the fire betimes, ere it reach the roof. 
 Rather a husband with one eye than with one son. 
 Reason not with the great, ’tis a perilous gate. 
 Say before they say (Tell your own story first). 
 She is good and honoured who is dead and buried. 
 Show me a poor man, I will show you a flatterer. 
 Sickness comes on horseback and departs on foot. 
 Some thinking to avenge their shame increase it. 
 Soon ripe, soon rotten; soon wise, soon foolish. 
 Talk of the devil and you hear his bones rattle. 
 That miller is honest who has hair on his teeth. 
 The bath has sworn not to whiten the blackamoor. 
 The benefice must be taken with its liabilities. 
 The cat loves fish, but is loth to wet her feet. 
 The crow will find its mate (Like will to like). 
 The end of wrath is the beginning of repentance. 
 The fly that bites the tortoise breaks its beak. 
 The goat can’t well cover herself with her tail. 
 The goose that has a good gander cackles loudly. 
 The gossips fall out and tell each other truths. 
 The greyhound that starts many hares kills none. 
 The handsomest woman can only give what she has. 
 The Italianised Englishman is a devil incarnate. 
 The lazy servant takes eight steps to avoid one. 
 The lucky man has a daughter for his first-born. 
 The man of sense does not hang up his knowledge. 
 The only way to keep a secret is to say nothing. 
 There are fagots and fagots (all are not alike). 
 There is no helping him who will not be advised. 
 There is no mother like the mother that bore us. 
 There is no need to blow what does not burn you. 
 There is nothing so well done but may be mended. 
 There’s many a knave concealed under a surplice. 
 The sound of the bell does not drive away rooks. 
 The unfortunate know who are their real friends. 
 The wise hand does not all that the tongue says. 
 They whip the cat if our mistress does not spin. 
 Though the heron flies high the falcon kills it. 
 Through being too knowing the fox lost his tail. 
 To bait and to grease does not retard a journey. 
 To him who is determined it remains only to act. 
 To know the law and do the right are two things. 
 Truth gives a short answer, lies go round about. 
 Until hell is full no lawyer will ever be saved. 
 We know what we have, but not what we shall get. 
 What is bred in the bone won’t out of the flesh. 
 What is play to the strong is death to the weak. 
 When a fox is in his hole smoke fetches him out. 
 When an old man cannot drink, prepare his grave. 
 When blind leads blind both fall into the ditch. 
 When one sheep is over the dam, the rest follow. 
 When the devil finds the door shut he goes away. 
 When the husband earns well the wife spins well. 
 When the words are said, the holy water is made. 
 Where the hedge is lowest, the devil leaps over. 
 Where there is least heart there is most tongue. 
 Where there’s no good within, no good comes out. 
 Who has no bread to spare should not keep a dog. 
 Who’s the man that was never fooled by a woman?. 
 Willows are weak, yet serve to bind bigger wood. 
 With an old husband’s hide one buys a young one. 
 You cannot shear the sheep closer than the skin. 
 A cow-year, a sad year; a bull-year, a glad year. 
 A fool is like other men as long as he is silent. 
 A foul mouth must be provided with a strong back. 
 A friend’s faults may be noticed, but not blamed. 
 A good paymaster is keeper of other men’s purses. 
 A head is not to be cut off because it is scabby. 
 A house ready built and a vineyard ready planted. 
 A lord without land, is like a cask without wine. 
 A man must eat, though every tree were a gallows. 
 A man’s character reaches town before his person. 
 A man without money is like a ship without sails. 
 A melon and a woman are hard to know (or choose). 
 A near neighbour is better than a distant cousin. 
 An ennobled peasant does not know his own father. 
 Arms, women, and books should be looked at daily. 
 Ask my comrade, who is as great a liar as myself. 
 A threatened man lives long, if he can get bread. 
 A willing helper does not wait until he is asked. 
 A woman’s tears and a dog’s limping are not real. 
 Better be mad with all the world than wise alone. 
 Better once in heaven than ten times at the gate. 
 Between neighbours’ gardens a hedge is not amiss. 
 Broad thongs may be cut from other men’s leather. 
 Care brings on grey hairs, and age without years. 
 Carry bread in your hood to Don Garcia’s wedding. 
 Don’t divide the spoil before the victory is won. 
 Don’t sell the skin till you have caught the fox. 
 Empty casks (or vessels) make the most noise. 
 Every one feels the cold according as he is clad. 
 Every one for himself and God for us all. 
 Every one in his own house, and God in all men’s. 
 Fair is he that comes, but fairer he that brings. 
 Fire and water are good servants but bad masters. 
 Folly hath eagle’s wings, but the eyes of an owl. 
 For overbuying there’s no help but selling again. 
 Fortune and misfortune are two buckets in a well. 
 Fortune does not stand waiting at any one’s door. 
 Fortune is like women: loves youth and is fickle. 
 Full bottles and glasses make swearers and asses. 
 Give a clown your foot, and he’ll take your hand. 
 Give a traitor good words and you make him loyal. 
 Give him your finger and he will seize your hand. 
 God save you from a man who has but one business. 
 He buys honey dear who has to lick it off thorns. 
 He can do but little who cannot threaten another. 
 He has a good pledge of the cat who has her skin. 
 He has a ton of knowledge, but the bottom is out. 
 He is too stupid to be trusted alone by the fire. 
 He knows the water best who has waded through it. 
 He must gape wide who would gape against an oven. 
 He that can be patient finds his foe at his feet. 
 He that has lost his credit is dead to the world. 
 He that has no ill luck grows weary of good luck. 
 He that holds is no better than he that scourges. 
 He that paints a flower does not give it perfume. 
 He that seeks to have many friends never has any. 
 He waits long that waits for another man’s death. 
 He who burns his posteriors must sit on blisters. 
 He who does good to you either dies or goes away. 
 He who does not mix with the crowd knows nothing. 
 He who eats the king’s cow lean, pays for it fat. 
 He who hangs out a branch wants to sell his wine. 
 He who has a good neighbour has a good morning. 
 He who has crossed the ford knows how deep it is. 
 He who has lost his oxen is always hearing bells. 
 He who hunts two hares at once catches neither. 
 He who is scared by words has no heart for deeds. 
 He who keeps his own secret avoids much mischief. 
 He who makes himself a dove is eaten by the hawk. 
 He who makes light of his enemy dies by his hand. 
 He who pays is fairly entitled to speak his mind. 
 He who would hang himself is sure to find a rope. 
 If envy were a fever, all the world would be ill. 
 If I have lost the ring I still have the fingers. 
 If you want clear water, draw it from the spring. 
 Ill luck comes by pounds and goes away by ounces. 
 Ill luck enters by fathoms and departs by inches. 
 Ill luck upon ill luck, and a stone for a pillow. 
 I may go over my reckoning, but not over my time. 
 Incense intoxicates, and every one wishes for it. 
 In time of war the devil makes more room in hell. 
 It is a bad well into which one must put water. 
 It is as well to be naked as to have no covering. 
 It is better to buy dearly than to hunger direly. 
 It is better to irritate a dog than an old woman. 
 It is good living under the shadow of the belfry. 
 It is harder work getting to hell than to heaven. 
 It is hard to glean after a niggardly husbandman. 
 It is in vain to lay a net in sight of the birds. 
 It is well to fly low on account of the branches. 
 It will not do to keep holidays before they come. 
 Keep good company and you shall be of the number. 
 Life is half spent before one knows what life is. 
 Make yourself honey and the flies will eat you. 
 Many a one is good because he can do no mischief. 
 No ape but swears he has the handsomest children. 
 No one can be caught in places he does not visit. 
 No one falls low unless he attempt to climb high. 
 No one should take in an eating pawn (or pledge). 
 Nothing can come out of a sack but what is in it. 
 Of two lookers-on one is sure to become a player. 
 One pair of ears would exhaust a hundred tongues. 
 Pay what you owe, and be cured of your complaint. 
 Poverty is no sin, but it is a branch of roguery. 
 Pride went out on horseback and returned on foot. 
 Priests should not prate out of the confessional. 
 Safe over the bridge, one laughs at St. Nepomuck. 
 Secret fire is discovered by its smoke (Catalan). 
 Silken tongue and hempen heart often go together. 
 Singers, lovers, and poets, are privileged liars. 
 Sleep over it, and you will come to a resolution. 
 Speaking silence is better than senseless speech. 
 Take a horse by his bridle and a man by his word. 
 Thank you, pretty pussy, was the death of my cat. 
 The bites of priests and wolves are hard to heal. 
 The candle that goes before gives the best light. 
 The empty waggon must make room for the full one. 
 The first wife is a broom, and the second a lady. 
 The full-fed sheep is frightened at her own tail. 
 The most covered fire is always the most glowing. 
 The mouse that has but one hole is soon caught. 
 The oft-moved (or rolling) stone gathers no moss. 
 The ox that tossed me threw me into a good place. 
 There is a remedy for everything but death. 
 There is no such thing as an insignificant enemy. 
 The sick man is vexed with the flies on the wall. 
 They who shun the smoke often fall into the fire. 
 Time and the hour are not to be tied with a rope. 
 To change and to better are two different things. 
 To-day stately and brave, to-morrow in the grave. 
 To sell the skin of the bear before it is caught. 
 To squeeze an eel too hard is the way to lose it. 
 Two birds of prey do not keep each other company. 
 We are both carriers, and shall meet on the road. 
 What does the moon care if the dogs bark at her?. 
 What’s everybody’s business is nobody’s business. 
 What you dislike for yourself do not like for me. 
 When I’m dead, everybody’s dead, and the pig too. 
 When it rains in August, it rains honey and wine. 
 When the beer (or wine) goes in the wit goes out. 
 When the cat’s away, it is jubilee with the mice. 
 When the cord is tightest it is nearest snapping. 
 When the iron is hot, then is the time to strike. 
 When they offer you a ring, hold out your finger. 
 When you go to a strange house knock at the door. 
 When you see the wolf, do not look for his track. 
 Where the goat leaps, leaps that which sucks her. 
 Where the hedge is lowest, every one goes over. 
 Where they eat your meat let them pick the bones. 
 Where you cannot climb over you must creep under. 
 Who has love in his heart has spurs in his sides. 
 Who wants fire, let him look for it in the ashes. 
 Who would be young in age, must in youth be sage. 
 Who would have many friends let him test but few. 
 Would you know your daughter? See her in company. 
 You may as well give a good beating as a bad one. 
 Young pigs grunt as old hogs grunted before them. 
 A covetous abbot for one offering loses a hundred. 
 A cow is not called dappled unless she has a spot. 
 Adam must have an Eve to blame for his own faults. 
 A doctor and a boor know more than a doctor alone. 
 A friend’s fault should be known but not abhorred. 
 A golden key opens every door save that of heaven. 
 A good neighbour is better than a brother far off. 
 A good word quenches more than a caldron of water. 
 A goose, a woman, and a goat, are bad things lean. 
 A man does not always aim at what he means to hit. 
 A monkey remains a monkey, though dressed in silk. 
 An ass does not stumble twice over the same stone. 
 A royal heart is often hid under a tattered cloak. 
 Ask advice of your equals, help of your superiors. 
 A truth-teller finds the doors closed against him. 
 At the wedding-feast the least eater is the bride. 
 A word and a stone once let go cannot be recalled. 
 Better free in a foreign land than a serf at home. 
 Better one eye-witness than ten hearsay witnesses. 
 Between two stools the breech comes to the ground. 
 Beware of a white Spaniard and a black Englishman. 
 Change yourself, and fortune will change with you. 
 Could a man foresee events he would never be poor. 
 Courtesy that is all on one side cannot last long. 
 Disputing and borrowing cause grief and sorrowing. 
 Do not tell your secrets behind a wall or a hedge. 
 Everybody’s friend and nobody’s friend is all one. 
 For sake of the knight the lady kisses the squire. 
 Happy the house in which there is no shaven crown. 
 He earns a farthing and has a penn’orth of thirst. 
 He has great need of a fool who makes himself one. 
 He is blind enough who cannot see through a sieve. 
 He knows best where the shoe pinches who wears it. 
 Hell is paved with (or full of) good intentions. 
 He that chases another does not sit still himself. 
 He that does not lie, does not come of good blood. 
 He that is afraid of the devil does not grow rich. 
 He that is drowning shouts though he be not heard. 
 He that tickles himself, may laugh when he will. 
 He was born on a Sunday, he likes work ready done. 
 He who does not open his eyes must open his purse. 
 He who does what he likes, does not what he ought. 
 He who has a head of wax must not walk in the sun. 
 He who never budges from Paris will never be Pope. 
 He who puts by for the night, puts by for the cat. 
 He who serves two masters must lie to one of them. 
 He who speaks ill of himself is praised by no one. 
 He who will have eggs must bear with the cackling. 
 He who would have good cabbage must pay its price. 
 He who would not go to hell, must not go to court. 
 I a lazy lout, you a lazy lout, marry me, Antonia. 
 I can see as far into a mill-stone as another man. 
 If a beard were all, the goat would be the winner. 
 If every one were wise, a fool would be the prize. 
 If I am to be drowned, it shall be in clean water. 
 If there were no receiver there would be no thief. 
 If the rings are lost, here are the fingers still. 
 If we pay for the music we will join in the dance. 
 If you cannot heal the wound, do not tear it open. 
 If you would catch a fox you must hunt with geese. 
 I know what I know, but will say nothing about it. 
 I saw a man, who saw another man, who saw the sea. 
 I thought I had no husband, and I eat up the stew. 
 It is all one whether you die of sickness or love. 
 It is always good to have two strings to your bow. 
 It is better the child should cry than the father. 
 It is better to scrape the cheese than to peel it. 
 It is not the surplice that makes parson or clerk. 
 Know, cabbages, that there is spinach in the stew. 
 Let him that has a mouth not say to another, Blow. 
 Let no one say, “Of this water I will not drink,”. 
 Many a sheep goes out woolly and comes home shorn. 
 Mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, storm and hail. 
 Never advise a man to go to the wars, or to marry. 
 None so deaf as he (or those) that won’t hear. 
 No one is rich enough to do without his neighbour. 
 No one likes justice brought home to his own door. 
 Nothing is so new as what has long been forgotten. 
 One beggar likes not that another has two wallets. 
 One dog growls to see another go into the kitchen. 
 One word beforehand is better than ten afterwards. 
 Shoemakers go to mass and pray that sheep may die. 
 Since the house is on fire, let us warm ourselves. 
 Some day Peter will command as much as his master. 
 Speak little, speak truth. Spend little, pay cash. 
 Take counsel before it goes ill, lest it go worse. 
 Take the middle of the way and thou wilt not fall. 
 The art is not in making money, but in keeping it. 
 The dearer the child, the sharper must be the rod. 
 The devil may die without my inheriting his horns. 
 The difficult thing is to get foot in the stirrup. 
 The dog gets into the mill under cover of the ass. 
 The dog that barks much is never good for hunting. 
 The fairer the hostess, the heavier the reckoning. 
 The false friend is like the shadow of a sun-dial. 
 The father a saint, the son a sinner (or devil). 
 The fat sow knows not what the hungry sow suffers. 
 The friar (or monk) who begs for God begs for two. 
 The greatest conqueror is he who conquers himself. 
 The hare starts from where it is least expected. 
 The heron blames the water because he cannot swim. 
 The horse thinks one thing, and his rider another. 
 The king likes the treachery, but not the traitor. 
 The king’s chaff is better than other folk’s corn. 
 The liar is not believed when he speaks the truth. 
 The more you court a clown the statelier he grows. 
 The moth does most mischief to the finest garment. 
 The noise is so great one cannot hear God thunder. 
 The priest to his book, the peasant to his plough. 
 There is no use in blowing a fire that burns well. 
 There is no virtue in a promise unless it be kept. 
 There’s no making a donkey drink against his will. 
 There’s nothing like having the key of the fields. 
 The threatener loses the opportunity of vengeance. 
 The tongue of a bad friend cuts more than a knife. 
 The wedding feast is not made with mushrooms only. 
 Though we are negroes, we are men, and have souls. 
 Time, wind, women, and fortune, are ever changing. 
 To be like a leek, a grey head and the rest green. 
 To grow rich one has only to turn his back on God. 
 To pull down the house for the sake of the mortar. 
 To the lean pig a fat acorn (_See_ The worst pig). 
 Vile let him be who thinks himself vile (or base). 
 Wash a dog, comb a dog, still a dog remains a dog. 
 What’s the use of putting honey in an ass’s mouth. 
 When cat and mouse agree the farmer has no chance. 
 When dirt comes to honour it knows not what to be. 
 When one foot stumbles, the other is near falling. 
 When the rooks are silent the swans begin to sing. 
 When the tree is down everybody runs for branches. 
 When you can’t get bread, oat-cakes are not amiss. 
 Where the river is deepest it makes least noise. 
 Who cannot beat the horse let him beat the saddle. 
 Who has no thirst has no business at the fountain. 
 Who knows not how to pray let him go sail the sea. 
 Whoso is tired of happy days, let him take a wife. 
 Who the daughter would win, with mamma must begin. 
 Wise men sue for offices, and blockheads get them. 
 You cannot make an ass drink if he is not thirsty. 
 You must contrive to bake with the flour you have. 
 Young people must be taught, old ones be honoured. 
 A bad knife cuts one’s finger instead of the stick. 
 A blind pigeon may sometimes find a grain of wheat. 
 Absence is a foe to love; out of sight out of mind. 
 A capon eight months old is fit for a king’s table. 
 A close mouth and open eyes never did any one harm. 
 A clown enriched knows neither relation nor friend. 
 A dead man does not speak (Dead men tell no tales). 
 A dog is never offended at being pelted with bones. 
 A hired horse and one’s own spurs make short miles. 
 A hungry man discovers more than a hundred lawyers. 
 An ass with her colt goes not straight to the mill. 
 A north wind has no corn, and a poor man no friend. 
 Apes remain apes, though you clothe them in velvet. 
 At Shrovetide every one has need of his frying-pan. 
 Beauty without virtue is like a rose without scent. 
 Better afield with the birds than hanging on lords. 
 Better be carried by an ass than thrown by a horse. 
 Better lose your labour than your time in idleness. 
 Better suffer for truth, than prosper by falsehood. 
 By going gains the mill, and not by standing still. 
 Colts by falling, and lads by losing, grow prudent. 
 Do not abstain from sowing for fear of the pigeons. 
 Do not steal a loaf from him that kneads and bakes. 
 Every man has his lot, and a wide world before him. 
 Every man is the best interpreter of his own words. 
 Fair words please the fool, and sometimes the wise. 
 Fit the foot to the shoe, not the shoe to the foot. 
 Fresh pork and new wine kill a man before his time. 
 From my gossip’s bread a large piece for my godson. 
 Good land should not be quitted for a bad landlord. 
 Good thongs may be cut out of other people’s hides. 
 Handsome is not what is handsome, but what pleases. 
 He has the Bible on his lips, but not in his heart. 
 He is the wisest man who does not think himself so. 
 He must have iron fingers who would flay the devil. 
 He that hunts two hares at once will catch neither. 
 He that makes himself dirt is trod on by the swine. 
 He who begins and does not finish loses his labour. 
 He who buys and sells does not feel what he spends. 
 He who digs a pit for others falls into it himself. 
 He who does not go (or look) forward, stays behind. 
 He who goes abroad by day has no need of a lantern. 
 He who has his purse full preaches to the poor man. 
 He who is ashamed of asking is ashamed of learning. 
 He who is fed by another’s hand seldom gets enough. 
 He who is his own teacher has a fool for his pupil. 
 He who is in the mud likes to pull another into it. 
 He who listens at doors hears more than he desires. 
 He who lives by the church should serve the church. 
 He who pitches too high won’t get through his song. 
 He who wants a good deal must not ask for a little. 
 He who wants to catch fish must not mind a wetting. 
 He who wants to travel far takes care of his beast. 
 He who would be long an old man must begin betimes. 
 He who would seek revenge must be on his own guard. 
 He would rather have a bumper in hand than a Bible. 
 Honesty lasts longest (Honesty is the best policy). 
 Husband, you are a cuckold: wife, who told you so?. 
 I am like you and you like me, the devil united us. 
 If he waits long enough, the world will be his own. 
 If you cannot say it, point to it with your finger. 
 I neither give nor take, like a Jew on the Sabbath. 
 In less than a thousand years we shall all be bald. 
 It is a great art to laugh at your own misfortunes. 
 It is a lazy bird that will not build its own nest. 
 It is easier to fill a rogue’s belly than his eyes. 
 It is easy to help him who is willing to be helped. 
 It is good to go afoot when one is tired of riding. 
 It is not the big oxen that do the best day’s work. 
 Lend to your friend, and ask payment of your enemy. 
 Let every one keep off the flies with his own tail. 
 Let us first catch the bear and then sell its skin. 
 Like will to like—a scabbed horse and a sandy dike. 
 Love your neighbour, but don’t pull down the fence. 
 Many kiss the hand they would fain see chopped off. 
 More people are slain by suppers than by the sword. 
 Never give the skin when you can pay with the wool. 
 Never say, Fountain, I will not drink of thy water. 
 New songs are eagerly sung (or are liked the best). 
 No king was ever a traitor, or pope excommunicated. 
 No one can see into another further than his teeth. 
 No one is so liberal as he who has nothing to give. 
 Nothing falls into the mouth of a sleeping fox. 
 Of judgment every one has a stock on hand for sale. 
 Old friends and old ways ought not to be disdained. 
 One eye on the frying-pan and the other on the cat. 
 One hand washes the other, and both the face. 
 One must howl with the wolves (_See_ He who herds). 
 One piece of good advice is better than a bag full. 
 One “Take this” is better than ten “God help you!”. 
 One would rather be bitten by wolves than by sheep. 
 Peel a fig for your friend, a peach for your enemy. 
 Pound the garlic, Pedro, whilst I grate the cheese. 
 Praise borrowed from ancestors is but sorry praise. 
 Pray to the saint until you have passed the slough. 
 Quick and well don’t agree (or seldom go together). 
 Revenge converts a little right into a great wrong. 
 Slaughter (or kill) no more than you can well salt. 
 Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding. 
 Spinner, spin softly, you disturb me; I am praying. 
 Strain not your bow beyond its bent, lest it break. 
 That may be soon done which brings long repentance. 
 The account is correct, but not a sixpence appears. 
 The ass carries corn to the mill and gets thistles. 
 The best of the mill is that the sacks can’t speak. 
 The cross on his breast, and the devil in his acts. 
 The eyes believe themselves, the ears other people. 
 The fox that tarries long is on the watch for prey. 
 The fox thinks everybody eats poultry like himself. 
 The goose that has lost its head no longer cackles. 
 The guests will go away, and we will eat the pasty. 
 The mill gains by going, and not by standing still. 
 The more the well is used the more water it yields. 
 The ox comes to the yoke at the call of his feeder. 
 There are many preachers who don’t hear themselves. 
 There are more foolish buyers than foolish sellers. 
 There is always a Pharaoh who does not know Joseph. 
 There is no pride like that of a beggar grown rich. 
 There is no such witness as a good measure of wine. 
 The wise man does not hang his knowledge on a hook. 
 They understand one another like thieves in a fair. 
 To give a pea for a bean (A Rowland for an Oliver). 
 Too much scratching smarts, too much talking harms. 
 To take Villadiego’s boots (To take to your heels). 
 What is learned in the cradle lasts till the grave. 
 What is much desired is not believed when it comes. 
 When all other sins are old avarice is still young. 
 When every man gets his own the devil gets nothing. 
 When the goose trusts the fox then woe to her neck. 
 When the wine is in the man, the wit is in the can. 
 When your devil was born, mine was going to school. 
 Where the bee sucks honey, the spider sucks poison. 
 Where there is no wit within, no wit will come out. 
 Who knows not how to flatter knows not how to talk. 
 You notice what I drink, and not the thirst I feel. 
 You used to be a baker, though now you wear gloves. 
 A beautiful woman smiling, bespeaks a purse weeping. 
 A fool, unless he know Latin, is never a great fool. 
 A friend to my table and wine, is no good neighbour. 
 After pleasant scratching comes unpleasant smarting. 
 A joyous evening often leads to a sorrowful morning. 
 A man who has but one eye must take good care of it. 
 An ox and an ass don’t yoke well to the same plough. 
 Associate with the good and you will be one of them. 
 As the wind so the sail (Set your sail to the wind). 
 A tree often transplanted neither grows nor thrives. 
 Better be the head of a cat than the tail of a lion. 
 Better be the head of a dog than the tail of a lion. 
 Better something on the arm than all in the stomach. 
 Beware of the dog himself, his shadow does not bite. 
 Do not give a dog bread every time he wags his tail. 
 Don’t believe in the saint unless he works miracles. 
 Don’t stop the way of a bull or of a current of air. 
 Either fight not with priests or beat them to death. 
 Even a horse, though he has four feet, stumbles. 
 Even hares pull a lion by the beard when he is dead. 
 Even the lion must defend himself against the flies. 
 Flattery is sweet food for those who can swallow it. 
 Fortune can take from us only what she has given us. 
 Friends and mules fail us at hard passes (Galician). 
 From a bad paymaster take straw (_i.e._ any trifle). 
 Geese are plucked as long as they have any feathers. 
 Give a clown your finger, and he’ll grasp your fist. 
 God comes at last, when we think he is farthest off. 
 Gold lies deep in the mountain, dirt on the highway. 
 Govern a horse with a bit, and a shrew with a stick. 
 He cannot lead a good life who serves without wages. 
 He hauls at a long rope who expects another’s death. 
 He howls with the wolves, and bleats with the sheep. 
 He knocks boldly at the door who brings good news. 
 He pulls at a long rope who desires another’s death. 
 He that sits among reeds cuts pipes when he pleases. 
 He that wants to hang a dog, is sure to find a rope. 
 He who asks the fewest favours is the best received. 
 He who can’t get bacon must be content with cabbage. 
 He who carries one burden will soon carry a hundred. 
 He who does not honour his wife, dishonours himself. 
 He who fain would marry, in choice should not tarry. 
 He who has bad neighbours is fain to praise himself. 
 He who has scalded himself once blows the next time. 
 He who knows how to beg may leave his money at home. 
 He who pays well is master of another man’s purse. 
 He who threatens to strike, and does not, is afraid. 
 He who wants a mule without fault must walk on foot. 
 He who would enjoy the feast should fast on the eve. 
 He who would relish his food must not see it cooked. 
 If lies were Latin, there would be many learned men. 
 If you cannot get the bird, get one of its feathers. 
 If you pull one pig by the tail all the rest squeak. 
 I mistress and you miss, who is to sweep the house?. 
 I say it to you, daughter; hear it, daughter-in-law. 
 Italian devotion and German fasting have no meaning. 
 It dawns none the sooner for all one’s early rising. 
 It is easy to swim, when another holds up your head. 
 It is just that the priest should live by the altar. 
 It is the master-wheel that makes the mill go round. 
 Justice oft leans to the side where the purse pulls. 
 Lambs don’t run into the mouth of the sleeping wolf. 
 Law helps the waking, luck may come to the sleeping. 
 Lawyers and painters can soon change white to black. 
 Let not the tongue utter what the head must pay for. 
 Like a collier’s sack, bad without and worse within. 
 Like King Petaud’s court, where every one is master. 
 Make yourself a sheep and the wolves will eat you. 
 Men are as old as they feel, and women as they look. 
 Misfortune comes on horseback and goes away on foot. 
 More grows in a garden than the gardener sows there. 
 My gossips don’t like me because I tell them truths. 
 Never put your finger between the tree and the bark. 
 No one can do nothing, and no one can do everything. 
 One hand must wash the other, or both will be dirty. 
 One may see through a wall, if there’s a hole in it. 
 Peace feeds, war wastes; peace breeds, war consumes. 
 Rather an ass that carries than a horse that throws. 
 Speak little and well, they will think you somebody. 
 Stoop, and let it pass; the storm will have its way. 
 That which is stamped a penny will never be a pound. 
 The blunders of physicians are covered by the earth. 
 The dog’s kennel is not the place to keep a sausage. 
 The dog that has its bitch in town never barks well. 
 The dog wags his tail, not for you but your bread. 
 The envious man’s face grows sharp and his eyes big. 
 The hen ought not to cackle in presence of the cock. 
 The higher the bell is hung, the shriller it sounds. 
 The mountaineer’s ass carries wine and drinks water. 
 The mountain is in labour, and brings forth a mouse. 
 The one-eyed is a king in the land of the blind. 
 There are some who despise pride with greater pride. 
 There would be no ill word if it were not ill taken. 
 The saint has no believers unless he works miracles. 
 The sun will bring to light what lay under the snow. 
 The unrighteous penny consumes the righteous dollar. 
 The virtue of silence is a great piece of knowledge. 
 The wind does not always blow from the same quarter. 
 The wine-skin has its reasons for smelling of pitch. 
 They must hunger in frost who spring-time have lost. 
 They who are often at the looking-glass seldom spin. 
 They wrangle about an egg and let the hens fly away. 
 To him who can take all you have, give what he asks. 
 To look for a needle in a bundle (or bottle) of hay. 
 To lose one eye that you may deprive another of two. 
 To offer one candle to God and another to the devil. 
 Trust not tow with firebrands, nor a woman with men. 
 Whatever way you take there is a league of bad road. 
 What harm is there in a good word? It costs nothing. 
 What I see with my eyes I can guess with my fingers. 
 What is said is said, and no sponge can wipe it out. 
 When flies swarm in March sheep come to their death. 
 When God sends flour the devil carries off the sack. 
 When nought comes to aught, it does not know itself. 
 When shepherds quarrel, the wolf has a winning game. 
 When the child is christened come godfathers enough. 
 When the dog is drowning every one brings him water. 
 When the fox wants to catch geese, he wags his tail. 
 When the helm is gone the ship will soon be wrecked. 
 When the prior plays cards, what will the monks do?. 
 When you can’t get meat chickens and bacon are good. 
 Where God builds a church the devil builds a chapel. 
 Where the wolf gets one lamb he looks for another. 
 Whither goest thou, sorrow? Whither I am used to go. 
 Who avoids small sins does not fall into great ones. 
 Who serves well and says nothing makes claim enough. 
 Whoso hunteth with cats will catch nothing but rats. 
 Who takes a lion at a distance fears a mole present. 
 Words once spoken cannot be wiped out with a sponge. 
 You cannot sail as you would, but as the wind blows. 
 You may cook in small pots as well as in large ones. 
 A blow from a frying-pan, if it does not hurt, smuts. 
 A borrowed horse and your own spurs make short miles. 
 A buxom widow must be married, buried, or cloistered. 
 A churl knows not the worth of spurs (_i.e._ honour). 
 A clever man’s inheritance is found in every country. 
 A full belly is neither good for flight nor fighting. 
 A gosling flew over the Rhine, and came home a goose. 
 A handful of motherwit is worth a bushel of learning. 
 A hundred years of regret pay not a farthing of debt. 
 A jackfish does more than a letter of recommendation. 
 A man is bound by his word, an ox with a hempen cord. 
 A man is not a lord because he feeds off fine dishes. 
 A pig on credit makes a good winter and a bad spring. 
 A sack full of fleas is easier to watch than a woman. 
 A small bolt to the house is better than none at all. 
 At court they sell a good deal of smoke without fire. 
 A tree often transplanted is never loaded with fruit. 
 A wise man does at first what a fool must do at last. 
 A woman who looks much in the glass spins but little. 
 A young foal and an old horse draw not well together. 
 A young wife is an old man’s post-horse to the grave. 
 Believe that, and drink some water (to wash it down). 
 Better be a bird of the wood than a bird in the cage. 
 Better one “Take this,” than two “I will give you,” . 
 Christmas is talked of so long that it comes at last. 
 Doctor Luther’s shoes do not fit every parish priest. 
 Don’t buy a cat in a bag (Don’t buy a pig in a poke). 
 Don’t play with the bear if you don’t want to be bit. 
 Ever one hair, only one, and the man is bald at last. 
 Flies are easier caught with honey than with vinegar. 
 For all one’s early rising, it dawns none the sooner. 
 For love of the ox the wolf licks the yoke (Catalan). 
 God gives birds their food, but they must fly for it. 
 Good, good, good, but God keep my ass out of his rye. 
 Great thieves always have their sleeves full of gags. 
 Handsome women generally fall to the lot of ugly men. 
 Hang the young thief, and the old one will not steal. 
 He does a good day’s work who rids himself of a fool. 
 He is past preaching to who does not care to do well. 
 Help is good everywhere, except in the porridge-bowl. 
 He that does not save pennies will never have pounds. 
 He that has the devil on his neck must find him work. 
 He that is born to be hanged will never be drowned. 
 He that reckons without his host must reckon again. 
 He who blows in the fire will get sparks in his eyes. 
 He who has a good horse in his stable may go on foot. 
 He who has no house of his own is everywhere at home. 
 He who has not tasted bitter knows not what sweet is. 
 He who is afraid of leaves must not go into the wood. 
 He who knows but little tells it quickly (or soon). 
 He who lends to the poor, gets his interest from God. 
 He who lives in hopes, breakfasts ill and sups worse. 
 He who marries for love has good nights and bad days. 
 He who ploughs with young oxen makes crooked furrows. 
 He who prizes little things, is worthy of great ones. 
 He who receives the offerings let him ring the bells. 
 He who wants his dog killed has only to say he’s mad. 
 He who would cheat a peasant, must take one with him. 
 He who would serve everybody gets thanks from nobody. 
 He who would steal honey, must not be afraid of bees. 
 Hold your dog in readiness before you start the hare. 
 If a man would learn to pray let him go often to sea. 
 If I am seen, I am joking; if I am not seen, I steal. 
 If one, two, three say you are an ass, put on a tail. 
 If you can’t get it in bushels, take it in spoonfuls. 
 If you want to be dead, wash your head and go to bed. 
 If you would have the dog follow you, give him bread. 
 If you would have your work ill done, pay beforehand. 
 I kiss thee, hide, because thou art to be a wine-bag. 
 It is difficult to tie an unborn horse to the manger. 
 It is easy to be generous out of another man’s purse. 
 It is the old cow’s notion that she never was a calf. 
 It’s a very proud horse that will not carry his oats. 
 Let every one be content with what God has given him. 
 Let not thy right hand know what thy left hand doeth. 
 Let the sun shine on me, for I care not for the moon. 
 Many desire the tree who pretend to refuse the fruit. 
 Misfortune, wood, and hair, grow throughout the year. 
 More belongs to dancing than a pair of dancing-shoes. 
 One cannot ring the bells and walk in the procession. 
 Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. 
 People take more pains to be damned than to be saved. 
 Pigs in the cold and men in drink make a great noise. 
 Promising is not giving, but serves to content fools. 
 Revenge a hundred years old has still its milk-teeth. 
 Should the heavens fall, many pipkins will be broken. 
 The beginning hot, the middle lukewarm, the end cold. 
 The devil gets into the belfry by the vicar’s skirts. 
 The dog rages at the stone, not at him who throws it. 
 The fire is welcome within when icicles hang without. 
 The friendship of the great is fraternity with lions. 
 The girl as she is taught, the flax as it is wrought. 
 The hen flies not far unless the cock flies with her. 
 The higher the ape climbs the more he shows his rump. 
 The month often utters what the head must answer for. 
 The more the fox is cursed, the more prey he catches. 
 The mule long keeps a kick in reserve for its master. 
 The poor-houses are filled with the honestest people. 
 The pope and a peasant know more than the pope alone. 
 There is no beast so savage but sports with its mate. 
 There is no better patch than one off the same cloth. 
 There is no choicer morsel than that which is stolen. 
 There is no pot so bad (or ugly) but finds its cover. 
 There is no saint so petty but claims his own candle. 
 There is no worse fruit than that which never ripens. 
 There’s no turning a windmill with a pair of bellows. 
 The road to heaven is equally short, where’er we die. 
 The sharper soon (or easily) cheats the covetous man. 
 The wolf loses his teeth, but not his inclinations. 
 Things are not as they are, but as they are regarded. 
 Though the speaker be a fool, let the hearer be wise. 
 Time brings everything, to those who can wait for it. 
 What God hath joined together let no man put asunder. 
 What is lost in the fire must be sought in the ashes. 
 When joy is in the parlour, sorrow is in the passage. 
 When the calf is stolen, the peasant mends the stall. 
 When the child cuts its teeth, death is on the watch. 
 When the dog is down, every one is ready to bite him. 
 When the pig has had a bellyful it upsets the trough. 
 When the tale of bricks is doubled, then comes Moses. 
 When the wolf’s ears appear, his body is not far off. 
 When they give you the calf be ready with the halter. 
 When you are on the road speak not ill of your enemy. 
 Where the devil cannot put his head he puts his tail. 
 Where the lion’s skin falls short, borrow of the fox. 
 Who don’t keep faith with God won’t keep it with man. 
 Who eats his fowl alone, must saddle his horse alone. 
 Who goes not, sees not; who proves not, believes not. 
 Who is in the right fears, who is in the wrong hopes. 
 Who would wish to be valued must make himself scarce. 
 Wise lads and old fools were never good for anything. 
 You have married a beauty? So much the worse for you. 
 You must be strong to pull a rope against a stronger. 
 A good word extinguishes more than a pailful of water. 
 A hundred years of wrong do not make an hour of right. 
 A man often kisses the hand he would fain see cut off. 
 An ounce of mother-wit is worth a pound of school-wit. 
 A plough that worketh, shines; but still water stinks. 
 A threatened man lives longer than one that is hanged. 
 Before you make a friend, eat a peck of salt with him. 
 Better a friendly denial than an unwilling compliance. 
 Better be wrong with the many than right with the few. 
 Beware of a bad woman, and put no trust in a good one. 
 But for all that the honest man has not got his purse. 
 Call not the devil, he will come fast enough unbidden. 
 Deeds are love, and not sweet words (or fine phrases). 
 Enjoy your little whilst the fool is seeking for more. 
 Every one tries to cross the fence where it is lowest. 
 Everything has an end—except a sausage, which has two. 
 From the father comes honour, from the mother comfort. 
 Give orders, and do no more, and nothing will be done. 
 Good words and bad deeds deceive both wise and simple. 
 Great men’s servants don’t think little of themselves. 
 He is a fool who thinks that another does not think. 
 He needs say nothing about the score who pays nothing. 
 He that has swallowed the devil may swallow his horns. 
 He that hath a head of wax must not approach the fire. 
 He that is embarked with the devil must sail with him. 
 He that stirs honey will have some of it stick to him. 
 He that ties well, unties well (Safe bind, safe find). 
 He that would keep his eye sound must tie up his hand. 
 He to whom God gives no sons, the devil gives nephews. 
 He who conceits himself wise, has an ass near at hand. 
 He who doth his own business defileth not his fingers. 
 He who eats and puts by, has sufficient for two meals. 
 He who esteems none but himself is as happy as a king. 
 He who goes to bed with dogs, will wake up with fleas. 
 He who has been bitten by a snake is afraid of an eel. 
 He who has once burnt his mouth always blows his soup. 
 He who is judge between two friends loses one of them. 
 He who slanders his neighbour makes a rod for himself. 
 He who tastes every man’s broth often burns his mouth. 
 He who would catch a rogue must watch behind the door. 
 He who would catch fish must not mind wetting himself. 
 He who would prosper in peace, must suffer in silence. 
 He would not give the devil a knife to cut his throat. 
 If a poor man gives to you, he expects more in return. 
 If pride were an art, how many doctors we should have. 
 If you will stir up the mire, you must bear the smell. 
 It is a bad hen that lays her eggs away from the farm. 
 It is all one whether you are bit by a dog or a bitch. 
 It is always well to keep hold of your horse’s bridle. 
 It is good to hold the clothes of one who is swimming. 
 It is hard to steal where the host himself is a thief. 
 It is no time to play chess when the house is on fire. 
 Let the miracle be wrought, though it be by the devil. 
 Little chips kindle the fire, and big logs sustain it. 
 Michael is quits; he lost a ducat and gained a rabbit. 
 Millers and bakers do not steal, people bring to them. 
 Money saved is money got (or as good as money gained). 
 Much money, many friends (Where money, there friends). 
 Neutrals are soused from above, and singed from below. 
 Never sell the bearskin till you have killed the bear. 
 Of what does not concern you say nothing, good or bad. 
 Once in people’s mouths, ’tis hard to get out of them. 
 One candle for St. Michael, and another for his devil. 
 One half the world knows not how the other half lives. 
 One ploughs, another sows, who will reap no one knows. 
 One stroke on the nail and a hundred on the horseshoe. 
 Princes keep good reckoning, they never lose anything. 
 Renounce the devil and thou shalt wear a shabby cloak. 
 She is fond of him—on the side where the pocket hangs. 
 Speedy rise, speedy fall (Sudden glory soon goes out). 
 Spit not in the well, you may have to drink its water. 
 That is pleasant to remember which was hard to endure. 
 The boor looks after a cent as the devil after a soul. 
 The cask can give no other wine than what it contains. 
 The day is never so holy that the pot refuses to boil. 
 The drunken man’s joy is often the sober man’s sorrow. 
 The early riser is healthy, cheerful, and industrious. 
 The Frenchman sings well when his throat is moistened. 
 The herb patience does not grow in every man’s garden. 
 The millstone that lies undermost also helps to grind. 
 The more a man exposes his nakedness the colder he is. 
 The mother reckons well, but the child reckons better. 
 There are many days in the year, and still more meals. 
 There is never a great dunghill at a sportsman’s door. 
 There is never enmity between the cook and the butler. 
 There is no making pancakes without breaking the eggs. 
 Tie me hand and foot and throw me among my own people. 
 To be slow to give, and to refuse, are the same thing. 
 To draw the snake out of the hole with another’s hand. 
 To him who gives you a pig you may well give a rasher. 
 Wealth is not his who makes it, but his who enjoys it. 
 What does not happen in a year may happen in a moment. 
 What is right for the one is reasonable for the other. 
 What the fool does at last the wise man does at first. 
 When a man is not used to breeches the seams gall him. 
 When a tree is falling, every one cries, Down with it. 
 When old horses get warm, they are not easily held in. 
 When the fool has made up his mind the market is over. 
 When the lion is dead the hares jump upon his carcase. 
 When the waggon is tilting everybody gives it a shove. 
 When thieves fall out, honest men come to their goods. 
 Where there are too many workmen there is little work. 
 Where you tell your secret you surrender your freedom. 
 Whoever falls sick of folly, is long in getting cured. 
 Who is righteous overmuch is a morsel for the Old One. 
 Who knows not how to dissemble knows not how to reign. 
 Who readily borrows, readily lies (Debtors are liars). 
 Women always speak the truth, but not the whole truth. 
 Your cracked jug seems better to me than my sound one. 
 Advice after the mischief is like medicine after death. 
 After dinner stand a while, or walk nearly half a mile. 
 A grain does not fill a sieve, but it helps its fellow. 
 A handful of might is better than a sack full of right. 
 A hundred years is not much, but never is a long while. 
 A hungry dog and a thirsty horse take no heed of blows. 
 A landmark is well placed between two brothers’ fields. 
 Another man’s horse and your own spurs outrun the wind. 
 As the field, so the crops; as the father, so the sons. 
 At borrowing cousin german, at repaying son of a whore. 
 Be merry, Shrovetide, for to-morrow thou wilt be ashes. 
 Better be killed by robbers than by the kick of an ass. 
 Better have something yourself than beg of your sister. 
 Both legs in the stocks or only one, ’tis all the same. 
 Butter spoils no meat, and moderation injures no cause. 
 Dung is no saint, but where it falls it works miracles. 
 Every land its own custom, every wheel its own spindle. 
 Every one speaks of the feast (or fair) as he finds it. 
 Every one to his own calling, and the Ox to the plough. 
 Fools ask what’s o’clock, but wise men know their time. 
 From to-morrow till to-morrow time goes a long journey. 
 He is called clever who cheats and plunders his friend. 
 He must have keen eyes that would know a maid at sight. 
 He that despises the little is not worthy of the great. 
 He that eats his fowl alone may saddle his horse alone. 
 He that is bitten by a dog must apply some of its hair. 
 He that is good for something is the ass of the public. 
 He that lies down with dogs will get up with fleas. 
 He that picks up all sorts of wood soon gets an armful. 
 He that stays in the valley will not get over the hill. 
 He who does not whip the child does not mend the youth. 
 He who is of no use to himself is of no use to any one. 
 He who lies on the ground must expect to be trodden on. 
 He who tells his own secret will hardly keep another’s. 
 He who travels with hope, has poverty for his coachman. 
 He who will not serve one master must needs serve many. 
 He who would climb the ladder must begin at the bottom. 
 He who would gather honey must brave the sting of bees. 
 If it rained maccaroni, what a fine time for gluttons!. 
 If you have learnt to wait, you may be Queen of Sweden. 
 If you pay what you owe, what you’re worth you’ll know. 
 If you would be a good judge, hear what every one says. 
 I stubborn and you stubborn, who is to carry the load?. 
 It is dear-bought butter that is licked off a woolcomb. 
 It is easier to get away from the bank than the bottom. 
 It is more necessary to guard the mouth than the chest. 
 It is not every one who takes the right sow by the ear. 
 It is the nature of the greyhound to carry a long tail. 
 It must be a hard winter when one wolf devours another. 
 It’s pleasant to look on the rain, when one stands dry. 
 Keep well with your neighbours, whether right or wrong. 
 Lawyers’ robes are lined with the obstinacy of suitors. 
 Let every one look to himself, and no one will be lost. 
 Lip courtesy avails (or pleases) much and costs little. 
 Maidens say no, and mean yes (Maids say nay, and take). 
 May God not so prosper our friends that they forget us. 
 Neighbour once over the hedge, neighbour over it again. 
 Of two cowards, the one who attacks conquers the other. 
 One man is born to the money, and another to the purse. 
 One never gets more than the money’s worth of anything. 
 Priests, friars, nuns, and chickens, never have enough. 
 Satiety causes disgust (Abundance begets indifference). 
 Set a beggar on horseback, and he’ll outride the devil. 
 She is good who is close to the fire and does not burn. 
 Some think they have done when they are only beginning. 
 Sour wine, old bacon, and rye bread, keep a house rich. 
 Taking out without putting in soon comes to the bottom. 
 Tell no one what you would have known only to yourself. 
 That beer’s of your own brewing, and you must drink it. 
 The act of treachery is liked, but not he that does it. 
 The bagpipe never utters a word till its belly is full. 
 The child who gets a stepmother also gets a stepfather. 
 The doctor is often more to be feared than the disease. 
 The dog does not get bread every time he wags his tail. 
 The earth hides, as it takes, the physician’s mistakes. 
 The king goes as far as he can, not so far as he would. 
 The kite’s malady, its wings broken and its beak sound. 
 The loyal man lives no longer than the traitor pleases. 
 The pan says to the pot, Keep off, or you’ll smutch me. 
 The poor man has his crop destroyed by hail every year. 
 The poor man seeks for food, the rich man for appetite. 
 The rat does not leave the cat’s house with a bellyful. 
 The sheep that is too tame is sucked by too many lambs. 
 The wicked shun the light as the devil shuns the cross. 
 Three women, three geese, and three frogs, make a fair. 
 Time is not tied to a post, like a horse to the manger. 
 To spend much and gain little is the sure road to ruin. 
 Trust not your gossip to a priest who has been a friar. 
 Truth is the club that knocks down and kills everybody. 
 We must eat and drink though every tree were a gallows. 
 What is whispered in your ear tell not to your husband. 
 What lay hidden under the snow cometh to light at last. 
 What Master Jacky does not learn, Mr. John never knows. 
 When every one minds his own business the work is done. 
 When I have money in my purse, I have food in my mouth. 
 When it pours upon the parson, it drops upon the clerk. 
 When the ass is too happy he begins dancing on the ice. 
 When the game is most thriving it is time to leave off. 
 Where a woman rules the house the devil is serving-man. 
 Whither goest thou, misfortune? To where there is more. 
 Who falls short in the head, must be long in the heels. 
 Who is in fear of every leaf must not go into the wood. 
 Who offends writes on sand; who is offended, on marble. 
 Women, money, and wine, have their balm and their harm. 
 You have broken my head, and now you bring me plaister. 
 You must not throw stones into your neighbour’s garden. 
 A courtier should be without feeling and without honour. 
 A good trade will carry farther than a thousand florins. 
 A house full of daughters is a cellar full of sour beer. 
 A hundred years cannot repair a moment’s loss of honour. 
 An unpleasant guest is as welcome as salt to a sore eye. 
 A proud pauper and a rich miser are contemptible beings. 
 As fast as laws are devised, their evasion is contrived. 
 As is the master so are his men (Like master, like man). 
 As the tree, so the fruit; as the mistress; so the maid. 
 A woman laughs when she can, and weeps when she pleases. 
 Bachelor, a peacock; betrothed, a lion; married, an ass. 
 Corsair against corsair, nothing to win but empty casks. 
 Don’t bite till you know whether it is bread or a stone. 
 Don’t make yourself poor to one who won’t make you rich. 
 Even clever hens sometimes lay their eggs among nettles. 
 Every glowworm is not fire (Every light is not the sun). 
 Flatterers are cats that lick before and scratch behind. 
 Friendship broken may be soldered, but never made whole. 
 Give me a seat, and I will make myself room to lie down. 
 Hear, see, and say nothing if you would live in peace. 
 He had need rise betimes who who would please everybody. 
 He must keep a sharp look-out who would speak the truth. 
 He who cannot pay with his purse must pay with his hide. 
 He who grasps at all, holds nothing fast (or loses all). 
 He who grasps too much holds little (or nothing) fast. 
 He who has four and spends five, has no need of a purse. 
 He who has plenty of butter may put some in his cabbage. 
 He who has two masters to serve must lie to one of them. 
 He who is guilty believes that all men speak ill of him. 
 He who lives without restraint, will die without honour. 
 He who plants fruit-trees must not count upon the fruit. 
 He who serves the public has a sorry (or fickle) master. 
 He who takes the wrong road must make his journey again. 
 If the sky were to fall we should catch plenty of larks. 
 In the looking-glass we see the form, in wine the heart. 
 In the rich woman’s house she always commands; he never. 
 In war it is best to tie your horse to a strange manger. 
 It is a bold mouse that makes her nest in the cat’s ear. 
 It is a good file that cuts iron without making a noise. 
 It is bad to have a servant, but worse to have a master. 
 It is better to deal with a whole fool than half a fool. 
 It is not every man that can carry a falcon on his hand. 
 It is the bait that lures, not the fisherman or the rod. 
 It is too late for the bird to scream when it is caught. 
 Jealousy is a pain which eagerly seeks what causes pain. 
 Joy is like the ague; one good day between two bad ones. 
 Little enemies and little wounds are not to be despised. 
 No one can have peace longer than his neighbour pleases. 
 Nothing should be done in a hurry except catching fleas. 
 One good word quenches more heat than a bucket of water. 
 One “Take this” is better than two “You-shall-haves!”. 
 Saying well causes a laugh; doing well produces silence. 
 Snivelling folks always want to wipe other folks’ noses. 
 Take care you don’t let your tail be caught in the door. 
 The day is sure to come when the cow will want her tail. 
 The devil is so fond of his son that he put out his eye. 
 The devil tempts all, but the idle man tempts the devil. 
 The first comer grinds first (First come, first served). 
 The fox is knowing, but more knowing he who catches him. 
 The Italians cry, the Germans bawl, and the French sing. 
 The new is always liked, though the old is often better. 
 The owl does not praise the light, nor the wolf the dog. 
 There are some who see ill, and would like to see worse. 
 There is more disputing about the shell than the kernel. 
 There were never fewer nobles than when all would be so. 
 The still swine eat the mash, the wild ones run past it. 
 The stone that everybody spits upon will be wet at last. 
 They who don’t kill pigs must not expect black-puddings. 
 To be content to let twelve pennies pass for a shilling. 
 To-morrow’s remedy will not ward off the evil of to-day. 
 To put water into a basket (To pour water into a sieve). 
 To take the chesnuts out of the fire with the cat’s paw. 
 To whom you tell your secret you surrender your freedom. 
 Weather, wind, women, and fortune, change like the moon. 
 When the fox preaches, take care of yourselves, poultry. 
 Where the devil can’t go himself, he sends an old woman. 
 Who laughs at others’ ills, has his own behind the door. 
 Who receives, should thank; who gives, should be silent. 
 Who will not feed the cats, must feed the mice and rats. 
 With great men one must allow five to be an even number. 
 You may light another’s candle at your own without loss. 
 You will not be loved if you think of none but yourself. 
 Absent, none without blame; present, none without excuse. 
 Advice to a fool goes in at one ear and out at the other. 
 A good paymaster does not hesitate to give good security. 
 A house filled with guests is eaten up and ill spoken of. 
 A man is valued according to his own estimate of himself. 
 A man may hap to bring home with him what makes him weep. 
 An ass does not hit himself twice against the same stone. 
 A noble prince or king never has a coin to bless himself. 
 A sack was never so full but it could hold another grain. 
 A sparrow in the hand is better than a crane on the wing. 
 A wound never heals so well that the scar cannot be seen. 
 Better be the head of a lizard than the tail of a dragon. 
 Deep swimmers and high climbers seldom die in their beds. 
 Deferred is not annulled (Forbearance is no acquittance). 
 Don’t make an oven of your cap or a garden of your belly. 
 Everything passes, everything breaks, everything wearies. 
 Expect not at another’s hand what you can do by your own. 
 Fair, good, rich, and wise, is a woman four stories high. 
 God save me from those I trust in (or in whom I confide). 
 Go to bed without supper, and you will rise without debt. 
 Happy he who can take warning from the mishaps of others. 
 He is an old saint, and may leave it in the hands of God. 
 He is not fit to be a baker whose head is made of butter. 
 He is the devil’s valet, he does more than he is ordered. 
 He must have clean fingers who would blow another’s nose. 
 He sins as much who holds the bag as he who puts into it. 
 He that cuts above himself will get splinters in his eye. 
 He that is too much in haste, may stumble on a good road. 
 He that marries for love has good nights, but sorry days. 
 He who does not improve to-day will grow worse to-morrow. 
 He who does not pick up a pin cares nothing for his wife. 
 He who has been stung by a serpent is afraid of a lizard. 
 He who looks on knows more of the game than he who plays. 
 He who rides behind another does not saddle when he will. 
 He who would live at Rome must not quarrel with the Pope. 
 However high a bird may soar, it seeks its food on earth. 
 If the prince wants an apple, his servants take the tree. 
 If wood-hewing were an order, there would be fewer monks. 
 I have a mouth which I feed, it must speak what I please. 
 In the division of inheritance friendship standeth still. 
 In the land of the blind blessed is he that hath one eye. 
 It does not depend upon the dog when the horse shall die. 
 I thought to cross (or bless) myself, and put out my eye. 
 It is better to have a husband without love than jealous. 
 It is better to have to do with God than with his saints. 
 It is easy to find the rod when another finds the bottom. 
 It is not the hen which cackles most that lays most eggs. 
 It is not the long day, but the heart that does the work. 
 Let the guts be full, for it is they that carry the legs. 
 Love makes time pass away, and time makes love pass away. 
 Love without return is like a question without an answer. 
 Many a man labours for the day he will never live to see. 
 Marriages are not as they are made, but as they turn out. 
 Necessity is the mother of invention (or teaches arts). 
 Neither a good friar for friend, nor a bad one for enemy. 
 No greater promisers than those who have nothing to give. 
 No sooner is the law made than its evasion is discovered. 
 One’s own spurs and another’s horse make the miles short. 
 Onions, smoke, and a shrew, make a good man’s eyes water. 
 Peace and a well-built house cannot be bought too dearly. 
 Play with an ass and he will whisk his tail in your face. 
 Prepare a nest for the hen and she will lay eggs for you. 
 Silence and look out, we shall catch both hen and chicks. 
 The dog that licks ashes is not to be trusted with flour. 
 The fish lead a pleasant life, they drink when they like. 
 The key at the girdle keeps me good and my neighbour too. 
 The mouse does not leave the cat’s house with a bellyful. 
 The pope eats peasants, gulps gentlemen, and voids monks. 
 There is no dog, be he ever so wicked, but wags his tail. 
 The spider’s web lets the rat escape and catches the fly. 
 They are all honest men, but my cloak is not to be found. 
 The young pig must often suffer for what the old sow did. 
 Though you are a prudent old man, do not despise counsel. 
 Three daughters and a mother, four devils for the father. 
 To a son-in-law and a hog you need show the way but once. 
 To cover the well after the child has been drowned in it. 
 To eat, drink, and sleep together, is marriage, methinks. 
 To have one eye on the cat and another on the frying-pan. 
 To throw up a feather in the air, and see where it falls. 
 Unworthy offspring brag the most of their worthy descent. 
 What is sport (or play) to the cat is death to the mouse. 
 When gnats swarm in January the peasant becomes a beggar. 
 When rogues go in procession the devil carries the cross. 
 When the fox preaches to the goose her neck is in danger. 
 When the guest is in most favour he will do well to quit. 
 When we least expect it, the hare darts out of the ditch. 
 Who goes himself is in earnest, who sends is indifferent. 
 You must grease the wheels if you would have the car run. 
 You surrender your freedom where you deposit your secret. 
 A boor remains a boor, though he sleep on silken bolsters. 
 A deaf husband and a blind wife are always a happy couple. 
 A lawsuit for a maravedi consumes a real’s worth of paper. 
 All tastes are tastes (There’s no disputing about tastes). 
 A man that is lean, not from hunger, is harder than brass. 
 An egg is an egg, said the boor, and took the goose’s egg. 
 An honest man is not the worse because a dog barks at him. 
 Another man’s horse and your own whip can do a great deal. 
 A rich widow weeps with one eye and laughs with the other. 
 As a man eats, so he works (Quick at meat, quick at work). 
 A sparrow in the hand is better than a pigeon on the roof. 
 A sparrow in the hand is better than a pigeon on the wing. 
 Asses sing badly because they pitch their voices too high. 
 A young ewe and an old ram, every year bring forth a lamb. 
 Better an ass that carries me than a horse that throws me. 
 Better suffer a known evil than change for uncertain good. 
 Between saying and doing many a pair of shoes is worn out. 
 Don’t learn too much, Jack, else you must do a great deal. 
 Don’t throw away your dirty water till you have got clean. 
 Every one thinks he has more than his own share of brains. 
 Every one thinks that all the bells echo his own thoughts. 
 Every shop has its trick (There are tricks in all trades). 
 Fortune is round; it makes one a king, another a dunghill. 
 God gives wings to the ant that she may perish the sooner. 
 God take you, pound (of flax), drunk out and not yet spun. 
 Grease a churl’s boots and he’ll say you are burning them. 
 Have a bill to pay at Easter, and your Lent will be short. 
 He does not live in this world that can skin a grindstone. 
 He expects to find water at the first stroke of the spade. 
 He loses least in a quarrel who keeps his tongue in check. 
 He must have crept out of hell while the devil was asleep. 
 He that examines every bush will hardly get into the wood. 
 He that keeps out of harm’s way will gather goodly riches. 
 He that wants to hang a dog, says that it bites the sheep. 
 He that will not when he may, when he will shall have nay. 
 He who has a son grown up should not call another a thief. 
 He who has the Pope for his cousin may soon be a Cardinal. 
 He who has to do with foxes must look after his hen-roost. 
 He who is afraid of doing too much always does too little. 
 He who plays with a sword plays with the devil (Galician). 
 He who recovers but the tail of his cow does not lose all. 
 He who strives to do, does more than he who has the power. 
 He who will not obey father, will have to obey stepfather. 
 He who would the daughter win, with the mother must begin. 
 I don’t want it, I don’t want it, but put it into my hood. 
 If you have no arrows in your quiver, go not with archers. 
 I left what I knew for what I heard praised, and repented. 
 In the report of riches and goodness always bate one half. 
 I renounce the golden basin in which I have to spit blood. 
 It grieveth one dog that the other goeth into the kitchen. 
 It is difficult to spit honey out of a mouth full of gall. 
 It is not easy to guard the hen that lays her eggs abroad. 
 Large thongs of another man’s leather (_See_ Good thongs). 
 Lent, which seems so long, is short at other men’s tables. 
 Let a saint be ever so humble, he will have his wax taper. 
 Let every man look to the bread upon which he must depend. 
 Let me get over the lake, and I have no fear of the brook. 
 Little fish are sweet (All is fish that comes to the net). 
 Love grows with obstacles (A wall between increases love). 
 Men after the modern fashion, and asses after the ancient. 
 Money is more eloquent than a dozen members of parliament. 
 My life and soul at your service, but not the pack-saddle. 
 One bee is better than a thousand (or a handful of) flies. 
 One rotten apple in the basket infects the whole quantity. 
 On poor people’s beards the young barber learns his trade. 
 People count up the faults of those who keep them waiting. 
 Peter is so godly that God does not improve his condition. 
 Scratching and borrowing do well enough, but not for long. 
 Set a beggar on horseback, and he don’t trot, but gallops. 
 The beadle of the parish is always of the vicar’s opinion. 
 The corn that is taken to a bad mill will be badly ground. 
 The deceived sheep that went for wool and came back shorn. 
 The evil which issues from thy mouth falls into thy bosom. 
 The hen is ill off when the egg teaches her how to cackle. 
 The monk (or friar) that begs for God’s sake begs for two. 
 The myrtle is always a myrtle, though it be among nettles. 
 The oaths of one who loves a woman are not to be believed. 
 There come just as many calf-skins to market as cow-skins. 
 The threshold says nothing but what it hears of the hinge. 
 The tree is sure to be pruned before it reaches the skies. 
 The world is like a staircase; some go up, others go down. 
 They must be strong legs that can support prosperous days. 
 Thunder-showers and great men’s favour are always partial. 
 To marry once is a duty; twice a folly; thrice is madness. 
 Wedlock rides in the saddle and repentance on the crupper. 
 What is mine is my own; my brother Juan’s is his and mine. 
 What is not taken by the Church is taken by the Exchequer. 
 When Adam delved and Eve span, who was then the gentleman. 
 When I was born I wept, and every day brings a reason why. 
 When the Spaniard sings, he is either mad or has no money. 
 When the sword is in the mouth you must caress the sheath. 
 When you go to dance, take heed whom you take by the hand. 
 Who serves the public, serves no one (or a fickle master). 
 With the help of an If, you might put Paris into a bottle. 
 You may call that your own which no one can take from you. 
 You may get something off a bone, but nothing off a stone. 
 According to the worth of the man is the worth of his land. 
 A colt is good for nothing if it does not break its halter. 
 A dog in the manger, that neither eats nor lets others eat. 
 After stuffing pears within, drink old wine till they swim. 
 A gossiping woman talks of everybody, and everybody of her. 
 A meagre (or lean) compromise is better than a fat lawsuit. 
 An hour of play discovers more than a year of conversation. 
 An ounce of discretion is better than a pound of knowledge. 
 A sparrow in the hand is better than a bustard on the wing. 
 A turn of the key is better than the conscience of a friar. 
 A woman may be ever so old, if she take fire she will jump. 
 A woman’s tongue is her sword and she does not let it rust. 
 Buy your neighbour’s ox, and woo your neighbour’s daughter. 
 Don’t throw away your old shoes till you have got new ones. 
 Entreaties to get him to sing, and entreaties to leave off. 
 Fall sick, and you will see who is your friend and who not. 
 For a good dinner and a gentle wife you can afford to wait. 
 Happy is the man who has a handsome wife close to an abbey. 
 He has enough to do who holds the handle of the frying-pan. 
 He is a horse with four white feet (_i. e._ he is unlucky). 
 He studies the Bible of fifty-two leaves (a pack of cards). 
 He that performs his own errand saves the messenger’s hire. 
 He that would be ill served should keep plenty of servants. 
 He that would stop everybody’s mouth needs plenty of flour. 
 He who buys a house gets many a plank and nail for nothing. 
 He who does no more than another is no better than another. 
 He who loves Bertrand loves his dog (Love me, love my dog). 
 He who would eat the kernel, must crack the shell (or nut). 
 He who would rule, must hear and be deaf, see and be blind. 
 If it is to be luck, the bull may as well calve as the cow. 
 If you would have the lamp burn, you must pour oil into it. 
 It is a bad sheep that is too lazy to carry its own fleece. 
 It is approved alchemy to have an income and spend nothing. 
 It is better to make conditions in the bush than in prison. 
 It is courage that vanquishes in war, and not good weapons. 
 It is hard to track the path the ship follows in the ocean. 
 It is too late to cover the well when the child is drowned. 
 Jest not in earnest (Motto of the Margrave of Brandenburg). 
 Little folks are fond of talking about what great folks do. 
 Many have good intentions, but something comes across them. 
 Never let the bottom of your purse or of your mind be seen. 
 No meat ever remains in the shambles however bad it may be. 
 No one can complain of the sea who twice suffers shipwreck. 
 Poor men’s money and cowards’ weapons are often flourished. 
 Poverty does not destroy virtue, nor does wealth bestow it. 
 Rather a single grape for me than a brace of figs for thee. 
 Said the frying-pan to the kettle, Stand off, black bottom. 
 Sail while the breeze blows, wind and tide wait for no man. 
 See a pin and let it lie, you’ll want a pin before you die. 
 Shame comes to no man unless he himself help it on the way. 
 Take down a thief from the gallows and he will hang you up. 
 Tell it her once, and the devil will tell it her ten times. 
 The arguments of the strongest have always the most weight. 
 The bad neighbour gives a needle without thread (Galician). 
 The bailiff’s cow and another’s cow are two different cows. 
 The bowels support the heart, and not the heart the bowels. 
 The branch must be bent early that is to make a good crook. 
 The most disorderly students make the most pious preachers. 
 The official who can’t lie may as well be out of the world. 
 There are no foolish trades, there are only foolish people. 
 There is no need to bind up one’s head before it is broken. 
 The richest man carries nothing away with him but a shroud. 
 To carry fir-trees to Norway (To carry coals to Newcastle). 
 To take one foot out of the mire and put the other into it. 
 Trust no one till you have eaten a bushel of salt with him. 
 Very hard times in the wood when the wolves eat each other. 
 We hang little thieves and take off our hats to great ones. 
 Well-regulated charity begins with one’s self (or at home). 
 What is worth receiving is worth returning (Give and take). 
 When fools go to market, pedlars (or hucksters) make money. 
 When there is room in the heart there is room in the house. 
 When thou seest thy house in flames, go warm thyself by it. 
 When you are an anvil, bear; when you are a hammer, strike. 
 Where God bestows an office, he provides brains to fill it. 
 Who buys wants a hundred eyes, who sells need have but one. 
 Who gives well, sells dear, if the receiver be not a churl. 
 Who has no money in his purse must have honey in his mouth. 
 Who has patience may get fat thrushes at a farthing apiece. 
 Who would not have feet set on his neck, let him not stoop. 
 You may gain by fair words what may fail you by angry ones. 
 Your wife and the sauce at the lance hand (the right hand). 
 A dainty stomach beggars the purse (Much taste, much waste). 
 A man conducts himself abroad as he has been taught at home. 
 A man travels as far in a day as a snail in a hundred years. 
 A pair of light shoes is not all that is wanted for dancing. 
 A single penny fairly got, is worth a thousand that are not. 
 Bear patiently that which thou sufferest by thine own fault. 
 Before you marry reflect, for it is a knot you cannot untie. 
 Better walk on wooden legs than be carried on a wooden bier. 
 Cent-wisdom and dollar-folly (Penny wise and pound foolish). 
 Children tell in the highway what they hear by the fireside. 
 Do not fret for news, it will grow old and you will know it. 
 Everybody knows good counsel except him that has need of it. 
 Every one likes justice in another’s house, none in his own. 
 Every potter praises his pot, and the more if it is cracked. 
 For lack of men (or good men) they made my father a justice. 
 From a silent man, and a dog that does not bark, deliver us. 
 God deliver us from a gentleman by day and a friar by night. 
 Hastiness is the beginning of wrath, and its end repentance. 
 He is a great simpleton who starves himself to feed another. 
 He is most likely to spill who holds the vessel in his hand. 
 He who bestirs himself sucks up, he who lies still dries up. 
 He who has been stung by a scorpion is afraid of its shadow. 
 He who has to deal with a blockhead has need of much brains. 
 He who hunts after bargains will scratch his head (Catalan). 
 He who inherits a farthing is expected to disburse a dollar. 
 He who saves in little things, can be liberal in great ones. 
 He who stops at every stone never gets to his journey’s end. 
 He who was born to pennies, will never be master of dollars. 
 Home, dear home, small as thou art, to me thou art a palace. 
 How shall the enemy of the bride speak well of the wedding?. 
 I do not tell thee what thou art, thou wilt tell it thyself. 
 If lies are to find belief, they must be patched with truth. 
 If you eat it up at supper, you cannot have it at breakfast. 
 In eating ’tis good to begin, one morsel helps the other in. 
 In war, hunting, and love, for one pleasure a hundred pains. 
 It is a grief to one beggar that another stands at the door. 
 It is hard to sail without wind, and to grind without water. 
 It is not easy to know your butter in another man’s cabbage. 
 It is not the fine, but the coarse and ill-spun that breaks. 
 It is no use hiding from a friend what is known to an enemy. 
 It is time enough to take off your hat when you see the man. 
 Keep to the little ones, and the big ones will not bite you. 
 Make yourself an ass and every one will lay his sack on you. 
 Michael, Michael, you have no bees, and yet you sell honey!. 
 Much water passes by the mill that the miller perceives not. 
 One does it for love, another for honour, a third for money. 
 One man knocks in the nail, and another hangs his hat on it. 
 Peralvillo justice: hang a man first and try him afterwards. 
 Play with the fool at home and he will play with you abroad. 
 Set a peasant on horseback, and he forgets both God and man. 
 Talking is easier than doing, and promising than performing. 
 The ass that is common property is always the worst saddled. 
 The balance in doing its office knows neither gold nor lead. 
 The bell does not go to mass, and yet calls every one to it. 
 The dog that is quarrelsome and not strong, woe to his hide. 
 The election of the abbot is not stopped for want of a monk. 
 The hen likes to lay in a nest where there are eggs already. 
 The loss which your neighbour does not know is no real loss. 
 The master’s eye and foot are the best manure for the field. 
 The mouse may find a hole, be the room ever so full of cats. 
 The raven always thinks that her young ones are the whitest. 
 The saint who works no cures has few pilgrims to his shrine. 
 The smoke of my own house is better than another man’s fire. 
 The thief cannot find any tree that suits him for a gallows. 
 Thinking of where you are going, you forget whence you came. 
 Thistles and thorns prick sore, but evil tongues prick more. 
 To give counsel to a fool is like throwing water on a goose. 
 To him who gives you a capon you may spare a leg and a wing. 
 When one has not what one likes, one must like what one has. 
 When the bee sucks, it makes honey, when the spider, poison. 
 When the jest is at its best, ’twill be well to let it rest. 
 When two dogs fight for a bone, the third runs away with it. 
 Where there is not equality there never can be perfect love. 
 Who throws a stone at the sky, may have it fall on his head. 
 Women and maidens must be praised, whether truly or falsely. 
 Abbot of Carçuela, you eat up the pot and ask for the pipkin. 
 A blind man’s stroke, which raises a dust from beneath water. 
 According to the custom of Aragon, good service, bad guerdon. 
 A fool can ask more questions than seven wise men can answer. 
 A Montgomery division: all on one side, nothing on the other. 
 An ape, a priest, and a louse, are three devils in one house. 
 A pleasant companion on a journey is as good as a postchaise. 
 A scorpion never stung me but I cured myself with its grease. 
 Before the time great courage; when at the point, great fear. 
 Better is the branch that bends, than the branch that breaks. 
 Between promising and giving a man should marry his daughter. 
 Cheese from the ewe, milk from the goat, butter from the cow. 
 Curses are like processions: they return to whence they came. 
 Damage suffered makes you wise (or knowing), but seldom rich. 
 Dominies come for your wine, and officers for your daughters. 
 Do not buy a carrier’s ass, or marry an innkeeper’s daughter. 
 Do not spread your corn to dry at an enemy’s door (Asturian). 
 Early to rise and late to bed, lifts again the debtor’s head. 
 Every little helps, said the sow, when she snapped at a gnat. 
 Golden bishop, wooden crosier; wooden bishop, golden crosier. 
 Great lords have long hands, but they do not reach to heaven. 
 He expects that larks will fall ready roasted into his mouth. 
 He must stand high that would see the end of his own destiny. 
 He never was a friend who ceased to be so for a slight cause. 
 He that says what he should not, will hear what he would not. 
 He that seeks, finds, and sometimes what he would rather not. 
 He who builds a house, or marries, is left with a lank purse. 
 He who builds on another’s ground loses his stone and mortar. 
 He who cannot speak well of his trade does not understand it. 
 He who can sit upon a stone and feed himself should not move. 
 He who does the wrong forgets it, but not he who receives it. 
 He who eats pears with his master should not choose the best. 
 He who has many irons in the fire will let some of them burn. 
 He who heeds not the lost shoe-nail will soon lose the horse. 
 He who marries does well, but who remains single does better. 
 He who waits for another’s platter has a cold meal (Catalan). 
 He who would have clear water should go to the fountain head. 
 His horse’s head is too big, it cannot get out of the stable. 
 Idleness is hunger’s mother, and of theft it is full brother. 
 If a man would know what he is, let him anger his neighbours. 
 If folly were a pain, there would be groaning in every house. 
 I’ll marry, and eat the prime of the pot, and sit down first. 
 In the fiddler’s (or bagpiper’s) house every one is a dancer. 
 It is easier to guard against a bushel of fleas than a woman. 
 It is only the blind who ask why they are loved who are fair. 
 It is pleasant driving where there is no danger of upsetting. 
 It is well to know how to be silent till it is time to speak. 
 It is well to leave off playing when the game is at its best. 
 Little children and headaches, great children and heartaches. 
 Little children, little sorrows; big children, great sorrows. 
 Little thieves have iron chains, and great thieves gold ones. 
 Love, fire, a cough, the itch, and gout, are hard to conceal. 
 Monks, mice, rats, and vermin, seldom sunder without harming. 
 Neither handsome enough to kill, nor ugly enough to frighten. 
 One marriage is never celebrated but another grows out of it. 
 One must talk soothingly to the dog until one has passed him. 
 Pulling the devil by the tail does not lead far young or old. 
 That’s but an empty purse which is full of other men’s money. 
 The earthen pan gains nothing by contact with the copper pot. 
 The fly flutters about the candle till at last it gets burnt. 
 The older, the colder; the more avaricious, the more vicious. 
 The tooth often bites the tongue, and yet they keep together. 
 Three or four daily will bring you to the bottom of the sack. 
 Three things kill a man: a scorching sun, suppers, and cares. 
 To put the plough before the oxen (or cart before the horse). 
 To save for old age, earning one maravedi and drinking three. 
 To steal the leather, and give away the shoes for God’s sake. 
 We have not yet saddled, and are already mounted (or riding). 
 Were I a hatter, men would come into the world without heads. 
 Were the sky to fall, not an earthen pot would be left whole. 
 What is sweet in the mouth is not always good in the stomach. 
 What the she-wolf does (or brings forth) pleases the he-wolf. 
 When it rains in February, it will be temperate all the year. 
 When there is little bread at table put plenty on your plate. 
 When the wine runs to waste in the cellar, he mends the cask. 
 Where the dike (or dam) is lowest, the water first runs over. 
 Whore or thief, young or old, welcome so you’ve got the gold. 
 Who undertakes many things at once seldom does anything well. 
 Win a bet (or game) of your friend, and drink it on the spot. 
 With patience and time the mulberry-leaf becomes a silk gown. 
 Women are supernumerary when present, and missed when absent. 
 You may keep yourself safe from fire, but not from a bad man. 
 A curse will not strike out an eye unless the fist go with it. 
 A drop of honey catches more flies than a hogshead of vinegar. 
 A fair face will get its praise, though the owner keep silent. 
 A glad heart seldom sighs, but a sorrowful mouth often laughs. 
 A hundred waggonsful of sorrow will not pay a handful of debt. 
 As the mistress, so the maid (Hackney mistress, Hackney maid). 
 A thing is never much talked of but there is some truth in it. 
 Before you marry, beware, for it is a knot difficult to untie. 
 Be the thing you would be called (Be as you would seem to be). 
 Broken friendship may be soldered but can never be made sound. 
 Despise not a small wound, a poor kinsman, or an humble enemy. 
 Don’t believe what you see, husband, but only what I tell you. 
 Every one sees his smart coat, no one sees his shrunken belly. 
 Friar Modest never was prior (A modest friar never was prior). 
 From the same flower the bee extracts honey and the wasp gall. 
 Good manners and plenty of money will make my son a gentleman. 
 Great cry and little wool, as the man said who shaved the sow. 
 Great lords will have much, and poor folk can give but little. 
 He does not guard himself well who is not always on his guard. 
 He drives a good waggonful into his farm who gets a good wife. 
 He that spares something to-day will have something to-morrow. 
 He that would be healthy, must eat temperately, and sup early. 
 He was born upon St. Galtpert’s night, three days before luck. 
 He who always thinks it is too soon, is sure to come too late. 
 He who at thirty has no brains, will never purchase an estate. 
 He who does not repair his gutter has a whole house to repair. 
 He who has daughters to marry, let him give them silk to spin. 
 He who has lost his reputation is a dead man among the living. 
 He who has one foot in a brothel has the other in an hospital. 
 He who is everybody’s friend is either very poor or very rich. 
 He who loves sorrow, will always find something to mourn over. 
 He who passes a winter’s day passes one of his mortal enemies. 
 He who remains in the mill grinds, not he who goes to and fro. 
 He who sleeps alone keeps long cold, two soon warm each other. 
 However foul it be, never say, Of this water I will not drink. 
 I am on good terms with the friend who eats his bread with me. 
 If a man has folly in his sleeve, it will be sure to peep out. 
 It is a bad hen that eats at your house and lays at another’s. 
 It is better to hear the nightingale sing than the mouse gnaw. 
 It is in vain to cast nets in a river where there are no fish. 
 It takes four living men to carry one dead man out of a house. 
 Kill no more than you can salt, or you will have tainted meat. 
 Mother, marry me, marry me, or the gull will fly away with me. 
 Never ask of him who has, but of him you know wishes you well. 
 Of the great and of the dead either speak well or say nothing. 
 Proffered service is little valued (Proffered service stinks). 
 Speak well of your friend; of your enemy neither well nor ill. 
 Stones or bread, one must have something in hand for the dogs. 
 Take the horse to the knacker, and throw in bridle and saddle. 
 Talk little and well, and you will be looked upon as somebody. 
 Tell everybody your business and the devil will do it for you. 
 That bench is well adorned that is filled with virtuous women. 
 The dog that is forced into the woods will not hunt many deer. 
 The miller is never so drunk that he forgets to take his dues. 
 The world’s a stage; each plays his part, and takes his share. 
 Those besoms can be sold cheapest which are stolen ready made. 
 Though the ass may carry a sack of gold, it feeds on thistles. 
 Thousands drink themselves to death before one dies of thirst. 
 To a woman and a magpie tell your secrets in the market-place. 
 To cut into another man’s ear is like cutting into a felt hat. 
 To see the mote in another’s eye and not the beam in your own. 
 Trust not your money to one whose eyes are bent on the ground. 
 Water, smoke, and a vicious woman, drive men out of the house. 
 When the word is out it belongs to another (or some one else). 
 Where shall the ox go but he must labour, since he knows how?. 
 Who excuses himself without being accused proclaims his fault. 
 Who goes softly goes safely, and he that goes safely goes far. 
 Who is tender in everything is a fool in everything (Catalan). 
 Woman’s beauty, the forest echo, and rainbows, soon pass away. 
 Wounds from the knife are healed, but not those of the tongue. 
 A bird may be ever so small, it always seeks a nest of its own. 
 A burnt child dreads the fire, and a bitten child dreads a dog. 
 A cat that licks the spit is not to be trusted with roast meat. 
 After the daughter is married, then come sons-in-law in plenty. 
 A gift delayed, and long expected, is not given, but sold dear. 
 A golden hammer breaks an iron gate (Gold goes in at any gate). 
 An inch in a sword, or a palm in a lance, is a great advantage. 
 Better is the smoke of my own house than the fire of another’s. 
 Better on the heath with an old cart than at sea in a new ship. 
 Better ride a good horse for a year, than an ass all your life. 
 Between evil tongues and evil ears, there is nothing to choose. 
 Chastise one that is worthless, and he will presently hate you. 
 Deep draughts, and long morning slumbers, soon make a man poor. 
 First a turnip, then a sheep; next a cow, and then the gallows. 
 Free man, free goods (_So_: Free ships, free goods—_American_). 
 From the soldier who has no cloak, keep your own in your chest. 
 Give your wife the short knife, and keep the long one yourself. 
 God grant you fortune, my son, for knowledge avails you little. 
 God will provide, but a good bundle of straw will not be amiss. 
 Good faith is a seldom guest, when you have him, hold him fast. 
 Hear one man before you answer; hear several before you decide. 
 He is no friend that eats his own by himself, and mine with me. 
 He knows enough who knows how to live and keep his own counsel. 
 He must have plenty of butter who would stop everybody’s mouth. 
 He who has a straw tail is always in fear of its catching fire. 
 He who makes himself a servant is expected to remain a servant. 
 He who would make a fool of himself will find many to help him. 
 However bright the sun may shine, leave not your cloak at home. 
 If I sleep, I sleep for myself; if I work, I know not for whom. 
 It is a bad thing to be a knave, but worse to be known for one. 
 It is better to leave the child’s nose dirty than wring it off. 
 It is in vain to lead the ox to the water if he is not thirsty. 
 It is too late to come with water when the house is burnt down. 
 It sticks to his fingers, like the charity-money to the matron. 
 Let the blood be ever so thin, it is always thicker than water. 
 Let the devil get into the church, and he will mount the altar. 
 Love’s plant must be watered with tears and tendered with care. 
 Many words go to a sackful (Many words will not fill a bushel). 
 Never spread your corn to dry before the door of a saintly man. 
 One eye of the master sees more than four eyes of his servants. 
 One hair of a maiden’s head pulls harder than ten yoke of oxen. 
 Public money is like holy water, every one helps himself to it. 
 Put a beggar into your barn and he will make himself your heir. 
 Speak little of your ill luck, and boast not of your good luck. 
 The bacon of paradise for the married man that does not repent. 
 The devil leads him by the nose, who the dice too often throws. 
 The green burns for the dry, and the righteous pay for sinners. 
 There are calumnies against which even innocence loses courage. 
 There never was a looking-glass that told a woman she was ugly. 
 There’s no handsome woman on the wedding-day, except the bride. 
 The sheep on the mountain is higher than the bull on the plain. 
 The woman in finery, the house in filth, but the doorway swept. 
 The worst of a lawsuit is that out of one there grow a hundred. 
 To the devil with so many masters, said the toad to the harrow. 
 Were all adulterers to wear grey coats the cloth would be dear. 
 Were it not for “if” and “but,” we should all be rich for ever. 
 What is the use of running, when we are not on the right road?. 
 When the blind man carries the banner, woe to those who follow. 
 When the fox licks his paw let the farmer look after his geese. 
 Where you think there is bacon there are not even hooks for it. 
 While the great bells are ringing no one hears the little ones. 
 With a staircase before you, you look for a rope to go down by. 
 A cross-grained woman and a snappish dog take care of the house. 
 A fish should swim three times: in water, in sauce, and in wine. 
 A handful of good life is better than seven bushels of learning. 
 A man dances all the same, though he may dance against his will. 
 A Portuguese apprentice who can’t sew, yet would be cutting out. 
 A true gentleman would rather have his clothes torn than mended. 
 A wise man and a fool together, know more than a wise man alone. 
 Better is a leap over the ditch than the entreaties of good men. 
 Better stretch your hand than your neck (Better beg than steal). 
 Beware of a reconciled enemy (Take heed of an enemy reconciled). 
 Could everything be done twice, everything would be done better. 
 Do good to a knave, and pray God he may not do the same to thee. 
 Don’t scuffle with the potter, for he makes money by the damage. 
 Everybody knows best where his own shoe pinches (_Also Scotch_). 
 Give orders, and do it yourself, and you will be rid of anxiety. 
 God helps three sorts of people: fools, children, and drunkards. 
 God keep me from my friends, from my enemies I will keep myself. 
 Greatness alone is not enough, or the cow would outrun the hare. 
 He is a fool who does not know from what quarter the wind blows. 
 He that would be healthy must wear his winter clothes in summer. 
 He who has no voice in the valley will have none in the council. 
 He who is the cause of his own misfortune may bewail it himself. 
 He who is under cover when it rains is a great fool if he stirs. 
 He who throws himself under the bench will be left to lie there. 
 He who wipes the child’s nose, means to kiss the mother’s cheek. 
 If you’ve money, take a seat; if you’ve none, take to your feet. 
 It is in putting it into the oven that the loaf is made crooked. 
 It is not in the pilot’s power to prevent the wind from blowing. 
 Let every man mind his own business, and leave others to theirs. 
 Many scruple to spit in church, and afterwards defile the altar. 
 Marry me without delay, mother, for my face is growing wrinkled. 
 Mastiff never liked greyhound (A churl never liked a gentleman). 
 Moses (_i.e._ a Jew) does not play because he has not the means. 
 Mother, I must have a husband, or I shall set fire to the house. 
 Never was hood so holy but the devil could get his head into it. 
 Of hasty counsel take good heed, for haste is very rarely speed. 
 One grain does not fill the granary, but it helps its companion. 
 One hand full of money is stronger than two hands full of truth. 
 Soft water constantly striking the hard stone, wears it at last. 
 Sparrows should not dance with cranes, their legs are too short. 
 Take care of your plough, and your plough will take care of you. 
 The ass does not know the worth of his tail till he has lost it. 
 The best company must part, as King Dagobert said to his hounds. 
 The fox that sleeps in the morning has not his tongue feathered. 
 The more a woman admires her face, the more she ruins her house. 
 The priest loves his flock, but the lambs more than the wethers. 
 There is never a cry of “Wolf!” but the wolf is in the district. 
 There is plenty of corn in Castile, but he who has none starves. 
 The rich man transgresses the law, and the poor man is punished. 
 The snail, to be rid of annoyances, bartered its eyes for horns. 
 The trade of thick-headed Michael: eating, drinking, and idling. 
 To break the constable’s head, and take refuge with the sheriff. 
 To make an elephant of a fly (To make a mountain of a molehill). 
 Too keen an edge does not cut, too fine a point does not pierce. 
 Travel east or travel west, a man’s own house is still the best. 
 When one wolf eats another, there is nothing to eat in the wood. 
 When the sun shines on thee, thou needest not care for the moon. 
 Where money and counsel are wanting, it is best not to make war. 
 Who does not wish to be like the wolf let him not wear its skin. 
 Who has time, yet waits for time, comes to a time of repentance. 
 Who heeds not little things, will be troubled about lesser ones. 
 Who to-day was a haughty knight, is to-morrow a penniless wight. 
 You may shut your doors against a thief, but not against a liar. 
 A cow does not know what her tail is worth until she has lost it. 
 Always taking out, and never putting in, soon reaches the bottom. 
 An honest man does not make himself a dog for the sake of a bone. 
 Cheese is gold in the morning, silver at noon, and lead at night. 
 Drink nothing without seeing it, sign nothing without reading it. 
 Even that fish may be caught that strives the hardest against it. 
 Friendships are cheap when they can be bought by doffing the hat. 
 God is everywhere, except where he has his delegate (_ironical_). 
 He is as welcome as the first day in Lent (alluding to fast-day). 
 He is master of another man’s life who is indifferent to his own. 
 He that pelts every barking dog must pick up a great many stones. 
 He who gives bread to others’ dogs is often barked at by his own. 
 He who has left a rogue behind him has made a good day’s journey. 
 He who has teeth has no bread, and he who has bread has no teeth. 
 He who holds the handle of the frying-pan turns it as he pleases. 
 He who knows nothing knows enough, if he knows when to be silent. 
 He who marries a widow with three children, marries four thieves. 
 I don’t count them to you, wife, but a hog makes twelve puddings. 
 It does not become the sparrow to mix in the dance of the cranes. 
 It is better to lose than lose more (The first loss is the best). 
 It is good to lend to God and to the soil—they pay good interest. 
 It needs but slight provocation to make the wolf devour the lamb. 
 Keep yourself from opportunities and God will keep you from sins. 
 Like blood, like means, and like age, make the happiest marriage. 
 Many a one would like to lay his own shame on another man’s back. 
 Many a thing whispered into one ear is heard over the whole town. 
 Mules make a great fuss about their ancestors having been horses. 
 One quill is better in the hand than seven geese upon the strand. 
 Tell me with whom thou goest, and I’ll tell thee what thou doest. 
 That which has been thrown away has often to be begged for again. 
 The cow is milked, not the ox; the sheep is shorn, not the horse. 
 The horse must go to the manger, and not the manger to the horse. 
 The more you stroke the cat’s back the more she sets up her tail. 
 There’s virtue in a man’s face (_i. e._ presence carries weight). 
 The word of honour of a gentleman—another pledge would be better. 
 They may whip me in the market-place, so it be not known at home. 
 Though you see me with this coat, I have another up the mountain. 
 To know a man well one must have eaten a bushel of salt with him. 
 To one who has a pie in the oven you may give a bit of your cake. 
 Were he to throw a groat on the roof it would come down a dollar. 
 When a peasant gets rich, he knows neither relations nor friends. 
 Where poverty comes in at the door, love flies out at the window. 
 Who ventures nothing has no luck (Nothing venture, nothing have). 
 You may always find an opportunity in your sleeve, if you choose. 
 Absence is a foe to love; away from the eyes, away from the heart. 
 All roads lead to Rome (There are more ways to the wood than one). 
 All ships leak: some midships, some in the bows, some in the hold. 
 A woman who accepts, sells herself; a woman who gives, surrenders. 
 Be a custom good or bad, a peasant will have it continue in force. 
 Better have friends in the market-place than money in your coffer. 
 Bird never flew so high but it had to come to the ground for food. 
 Borrowing brings care (He that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing). 
 Do not stuff your servant with bread, and he won’t ask for cheese. 
 Falsehood is the Devil’s daughter, and speaks her father’s tongue. 
 Give unto the king what is the king’s, and unto God what is God’s. 
 Good day to you all! said the fox, when he got into the goose-pen. 
 Had it not been for an if, the old woman would have bitten a wolf. 
 He is the world’s master who despises it, its slave who prizes it. 
 He sticks his nose in everything (He has his finger in every pie). 
 He that exceeds his commission must answer for it at his own cost. 
 He that has not money in his purse should have honey in his mouth. 
 He that trusts a faithless friend, has a good witness against him. 
 He who pours water hastily into a bottle spills more than goes in. 
 Hunger looks in at the industrious man’s door but dares not enter. 
 If the hen had not cackled we should not know she had laid an egg. 
 If you are an anvil, be patient; if you are a hammer, strike hard. 
 Invite your son-in-law to a fowl, and he will take away the lemon. 
 It has been blowing hard—the dirt has been blown into high places. 
 It is cowardly to fly from a living enemy, or to abuse a dead one. 
 It is only at the tree loaded with fruit that people throw stones. 
 Lay your hand on your bosom and you will not speak ill of another. 
 Let there be writing before you pay, and receipt before you write. 
 Long choosing and cheapening ends in buying nothing, or bad wares. 
 Many a cow stands in the meadow and looks wistfully at the common. 
 Many return from the war who cannot give an account of the battle. 
 No one so hard upon the poor as the pauper who has got into power. 
 No wonder if he breaks his head who stumbles twice over one stone. 
 One never goes so far as when one don’t know whither one is going. 
 Rain comes oft after sunshine, and after a dark cloud a clear sky. 
 Send a man of sense on the embassy, and you need not instruct him. 
 Seven is company, and nine confusion (Alluding to a dinner party). 
 Smoke, rain, and a scolding wife, are three bad things in a house. 
 Sweep before your own door before you look after your neighbour’s. 
 The ass embraced the thistle, and they found themselves relations. 
 The candle that goes before is better than that which comes after. 
 The dog that has been beaten with a stick is afraid of its shadow. 
 The fool knows more in his own house than the sage in other men’s. 
 The miller’s hen and widower’s maid, of want need never be afraid. 
 The old wife, if she does not serve for a pot, serves for a cover. 
 When he was born, Solomon passed by his door, and would not go in. 
 When the devil gets into the church he seats himself on the altar. 
 Who cannot work out his salvation by heart will not do it by book. 
 Who refuses to submit to justice, must not complain of oppression. 
 Who weds a sot to get his cot, will lose the cot and keep the sot. 
 Who would be rich, must keep his soul under cover of his cash-box. 
 With lightning and with love, the clothes sound, the heart burned. 
 A fine girl and a tattered gown always find something to hook them. 
 Better have a friend on the road than gold or silver in your purse. 
 He is like Jean de Nivelle’s dog, that runs away when he is called. 
 He is not a thorough wise man who cannot play the fool on occasion. 
 He ruins himself in promises, and clears himself by giving nothing. 
 He that spends more than he is worth spins a rope for his own neck. 
 He that will not strive in this world should not have come into it. 
 He who throws away money with his hands will seek it with his feet. 
 It is better to be the first of one’s race than the last (meanest). 
 One day is as good as two for him who does everything in its place. 
 The friendship of great men is like the shadow of a bush, soon gone.