=Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones.=
In Timbs's "Things not Generally Known" it is related that, "In the
reign of James I., the Scotch adventurers who came over with that
monarch were greatly annoyed by persons breaking the windows of
their houses; and among the instigators was Buckingham, the court
favourite, who lived in a large house in St. Martin's Fields, which,
from the great number of windows, was termed the Glass House. Now,
the Scotchmen, in retaliation, broke the windows of Buckingham's
mansion. The courtier complained to the king, to whom the Scotchmen
had previously applied, and the monarch replied to Buckingham, 'Those
who live in glass houses, Steenie, should be careful how they throw
stones.' _Whence arose the common saying._"
It did not arise thence, nor was King James its inventor. This is one
of a thousand instances in which a story growing out of a proverb has
been presented as that proverb's origin. "Let him that has glass tiles
[panes] not throw stones at his neighbour's house" is a maxim common
to the Spaniards[436] and Italians,[437] and older than the time of
James I. The Italians say also, "Let him that has a glass skull not
take to stone-throwing."[438]
=The kiln calls the oven burnt house.=
=The pot calls the kettle black bottom.=
When negroes quarrel they always call each other "dam niggers." "The
pan says to the pot, 'Keep off, or you'll smutch me'" (Italian).[439]
"The shovel makes game of the poker" (French).[440] "Said the raven
to the crow, 'Get out of that, blackamoor'" (Spanish).[441] "One ass
nicknames another Longears" (German).[442] "Dirty-nosed folk always
want to wipe other folks' noses" (French).[443]
="Crooked carlin!" quoth the cripple to his wife.=--_Scotch._
="God help the fool!" said the idiot.=
=Who more ready to call her neighbour "scold" than the arrantest
scold in the parish?=
"A harlot repented for one night. 'Is there no police officer,' she
exclaimed, 'to take up harlots?'" (Arab.)
=Point not at others' spots with a foul finger.=
=Physician, heal thyself.=
"Among wonderful things," say the Arabs of Egypt, "is a sore-eyed
person who is an oculist."