anybody, 260
Disputing and borrowing cause grief and sorrowing, 166
Distrust is poison to friendship, 390
Do as others do, and few will mock you, 368
Do good, and care not to whom, 98, 277
Do good to a knave, and pray God he may not do the same to thee, 370
Do ill, and expect the like, 277
Do not abstain from sowing for fear of the pigeons, 23
Do not buy a carrier’s ass, or marry an innkeeper’s daughter, 230
Do not divide the spoil till the victory is won, 140
Do not fret for news, it will grow old and you will know it, 241
Do not give a dog bread every time he wags his tail, 112
Do not hang all on one nail, 152
Do not judge of the ship from the land, 113
Do not judge the dog by his hairs, 389
Do not lend your money to a great man, 40
Do not lose honour through fear, 242
Do not make two devils of one, 23
Do not put in more warp than you can weave, 403
Do not rear a bird of a bad breed, 274
Do not rejoice at my grief, for when mine is old yours will be new,
237
Do not ship all in one bottom, 158
Do not spread your corn to dry at an enemy’s door (Asturian), 230
Do not steal a loaf from him that kneads and bakes, 197
Do not strip before bedtime, 24
Do not stuff your servant with bread, and he won’t ask for cheese, 203
Do not talk Arabic in the house of a Moor, 221
Do not tell your secrets behind a wall or a hedge, 259
Do not wade where you see no bottom, 402
Don’t be a baker if your head is made of butter, 285 (_See_ He that
_and_ He who)
Don’t believe in the saint unless he works miracles, 112
Don’t believe what you see, husband, but only what I tell you, 230
Don’t bite till you know whether it is bread or a stone, 113
Don’t budge, if you sit at ease, 166
Don’t buy a cat in a bag (Don’t buy a pig in a poke), 160, 331
Don’t carry your head too high, the door is low, 159
Don’t cross the water unless you see the bottom, 84
Don’t cry fried fish before they are caught, 113
Don’t cry herrings till they are in the net, 337
Don’t cry holloa! till you’re out of the bush, 337
Don’t cry hurra! till you’re over the bridge (or ditch, or hedge),
167, 168, 337
Don’t divide the spoil before the victory is won, 160
Don’t find fault with what you don’t understand, 40
Don’t fly till your wings are feathered, 148
Don’t go a-fishing to a famous stream, 68
Don’t kill the man at the count’s desire, 222
Don’t learn too much, Jack, else you must do a great deal, 151
Don’t leave the high road for a short cut, 284
Don’t make an oven of your cap or a garden of your belly, 40
Don’t make yourself poor to one who won’t make you rich, 286
Don’t mention the cross to the devil, 114
Don’t play with the bear if you don’t want to be bit, 113
Don’t pull hard enough to break the rope, 286
Don’t put your finger into too tight a ring, 40, 115
Don’t reckon your eggs before they are laid, 98
Don’t reckon without your host, 160
Don’t rely on the label of the bag, 24
Don’t scuffle with the potter, for he makes money by the damage, 237
Don’t sell the bearskin before the bear is dead, 333
Don’t sell the bearskin before you have caught (or killed) the bear,
115, 140, 341
Don’t sell the skin till you have caught the fox, 397
Don’t send away your cat for being a thief, 196
Don’t show your teeth if you can’t bite, 51
Don’t snap your fingers at the dogs before you are out of the
village, 24
Don’t stop the way of a bull or of a current of air, 198
Don’t talk Latin before the Franciscans, 23
Don’t teach fishes to swim, 23
Don’t throw away your dirty water till you have got clean, 160
Don’t throw away your old shoes till you have got new ones, 318
Don’t throw the handle after the bill, 333
Don’t yoke the plough before the horses, 333
Do what I say well, and not what I do ill, 224
Do what the friar says, and not what he does, 224
Do what thou doest (Age quod agis), 170
Do what you ought, come what may, 18, 98
Do you carry the trough, husband, and I will carry the sieve, which
is as heavy as the devil, 228
Do you speak English? (_Meaning_, Have you got any money? _We used to
say in England_, Have you got any Spanish?), 338
Do you want better bread than wheaten? 63
Do you want to buy cheap? Buy of a needy fool, 253
Do you want to see a wolf with young (_i.e._ an insatiable
plunderer)? Marry your daughter, 254
Doctor Luther’s shoes do not fit every parish priest, 141
Does your neighbour bore you? Lend him a sequin, 127
Dogs bark at those they don’t know, 101
Dogs have teeth in all countries, 328
Dogs that bark much don’t bite, 153
Doing nothing teaches doing ill, 164
Dominies come for your wine, and officers for your daughters, 312
Dread the anger of the dove, 14
Dreams are froth (or lies), 57, 171
Dress slowly when you are in a hurry, 19
Dressed like a windmill, 19
Drink nothing without seeing it, sign nothing without reading it, 284
Drink upon salad costs the doctor a ducat; drink upon eggs costs him
two, 144
Drink wine and let water go to the mill, 75
Drink wine upon figs, 258
Drive not away what never came near you, 370
Drop by drop fills the tub, 19
Drop by drop wears away the stone, 19, 68
Drop the jest when it is most amusing, 107
Dry wood makes a quick fire, 401
Ducats are clipped, pence are not, 141
Dull scissors make crooked-mouthed tailors, 365
Dumb dogs and still water are dangerous, 170
Dung is no saint, but where it falls it works miracles, 217
E.
Eagles catch no fleas, 299
Eagles do not breed doves, 133, 299
Early marriage, long love, 148
Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and
wise, 148
Early to rise and late to bed, lifts again the debtor’s head, 148
Earnestness and sport go well together, 347
East or west, home is best, 165, 336
Easy to say is hard to do, 2
Eat bread at pleasure, drink wine by measure, 44
Eat bread that’s light, and cheese by weight, 302
Eat of your own, and call yourself mine (_i. e._ Be my servant and
find yourself), 272
Eat with him, and beware of him, 272
Eaten bread is soon forgotten, 103
Eating sets the head to rights, 195
Eating teaches drinking, 102
Economy is a great revenue, 345
Eggs and oaths are easily broken, 364
Eggs are put to hatch on chance, 3
Either fight not with priests or beat them to death, 160
Either rich or hanged, 238
Either the ass will die, or he that goads it, 238
Empty casks (or vessels) make the most noise, 36, 158, 331, 401
Empty rooms make giddy housewives, 63
Empty waggons make most noise, 401
Enjoy your little whilst the fool is seeking for more, 223
Enough is as good as a feast, 319
Enough is better than a sackful, 149
Enough is better than too much, 38, 319
Enough is enough, and too much spoils, 73
Enough is great riches, 393
Entreat him in jackass fashion; if he won’t carry the sack, give him
a whack, 188
Entreat the churl and the bargain is broken off, 121
Entreaties to get him to sing, and entreaties to leave off, 254
Entreaty and right do the deed, 254
Envy crieth of spite where honour rideth, 335
Envy does not enter an empty house, 348
Envy envies itself, 163
Envy goes beyond avarice, 17
Envy is its own torturer, 348
Envy was never a good spokesman, 348
Erring is not cheating (A mistake is no fraud), 154
Error is no payment, 97
Escaping from the smoke he falls into the fire, 306
Even a fly has its anger (or spleen), 71, 106
Even a frog would bite if it had teeth, 71
Even a hair casts its shadow, 134, 206, 270 (_See_ Every hair)
Even a horse, though he has four feet, stumbles, 72, 76, 134, 315
Even among the apostles there was a Judas, 72
Even clever hens sometimes lay their eggs among nettles, 383
Even counted sheep are eaten by the wolf, 9, 71, 140
Even crumbs are bread, 398
Even foxes are caught, 71
Even hares pull a lion by the beard when he is dead, 336
Even he gets on who is drawn by oxen, 373
Even old foxes are caught in the snare, 72
Even that fish may be caught that strives the hardest against it, 388
Even the best hack stumbles once, 134 (_See_ Even a horse)
Even the dog gets bread by wagging his tail, 72
Even the fool says a wise word sometimes, 71
Even the just has need of help, 71
Even the lion must defend himself against the flies, 134
Even the sea, great as it is, grows calm, 71
Even woods have ears, 71
Ever one hair, only one, and the man is bald at last, 154
Every ant has its ire, 270 (_See_ Even a fly)
Every beginning is hard, said the thief, when he began by stealing an
anvil, 133, 296
Every bird needs its own feathers, 366
Every bird sings as it is beaked, 317
Every bird thinks its own nest beautiful, 68
Everybody is wise after the thing has happened, 59
Everybody knows best where his own shoe pinches (_Also Scotch_), 156
(_See_ Every one)
Everybody knows good counsel except him that has need of it, 133
Everybody must live, 22
Everybody must wear out one pair of fool’s shoes, if he wear no more,
156
Everybody says it, nobody does it, 156, 375
Everybody thinks his own cuckoo sings better than another’s
nightingale, 155
Everybody’s business is nobody’s business, 175
Everybody’s companion is nobody’s friend, 156
Everybody’s friend and nobody’s friend is all one, 199, 265
Everybody’s friend is everybody’s fool, 156, 297, 375
Everybody’s friend, nobody’s friend, 71
Every cask smells of the wine it contains, 207, 270
Every clown can find fault, though it would puzzle him to do better,
170
Every cock crows on his own dunghill, 207
Every cock is valiant on his own dunghill, 284, 314
Every country has its custom, 221
Every day a thread makes a skein in the year, 297
Every day has its night, 116, 366
Every day is not a holiday, 113, 116, 324
Every ditch is full of after-wit, 91
Every dog is not a lion at home, 116
Every dog is valiant in his own kennel, 13
Every flood hath its ebb, 297
Every fly has its shadow, 271
Every foal is not like its sire, 368
Every fool is pleased with his bauble, 193
Every fool is wise when he holds his tongue, 116
Every fool thinks he is clever enough, 366
Every fool wants to give advice, 116
Every fox likes a henroost, 68
Every fox looks after his own skin, 375
Every glowworm is not fire (Every light is not the sun), 116, 163
Every hair casts its shadow, 134, 206, 270 (_See_ Even a hair)
Every hare may pluck the dead lion’s mane, 137 (_See_ Even hares)
Every hill has its valley, 116
Every hooked beak is maintained by prey, 59
Every house has its cross, 317
Every labourer is worthy of his hire, 155
Every land its own custom, every wheel its own spindle, 271
Every law is broken to become a king, 241
Every life has its joy, every joy its law, 376
Every little fish expects to become a whale, 356
Every little helps, 296
Every little helps, said the sow, when she snapped at a gnat, 347
Every little helps to lighten the freight, said the captain, as he
threw his wife overboard, 296
Every man carries an enemy in his own bosom, 365
Every man for himself, and God for us all, 155 (_See_ Every one)
Every man has a fool in his sleeve, 12, 88
Every man has a good wife and a bad trade, 117
Every man has his liking, 375
Every man has his lot, and a wide world before him, 368
Every man has his value, 12
Every man his own is not too much, 317
Every man is dearest to himself, 155
Every man is master in his own house, 314
Every man is the architect of his own fortune, 155, 366
Every man is the best interpreter of his own words, 155
Every man is the son of his own works, 207
Every man likes his own praise best, 375
Every man must carry his own sack to the mill, 118, 375
Every man rides his own hobby, 147
Every man thinks his own copper gold, 155, 366
Every man thinks his own owl a falcon, 317
Every man to his taste, 12
Every man to his trade, 271
Every medal has its reverse, 13, 116
Every mother’s child is handsome, 156
Every one bears his cross, 12
Every one can navigate in fine weather, 117
Every one counts for as much as he has, 155
Every one draws the water to his own mill, 12, 117
Every one feels his own burden heavy, 1
Every one feels the cold according as he is clad, 207
Every one finds fault with his own trade, 117
Every one finds sin sweet and repentance bitter, 375
Every one for himself and God for us all, 12, 117, 155, 207, 271, 317
Every one gives himself credit for more brains than he has, and less
money, 117
Every one goes with his own sack to the mill, 118, 375
Every one has his master, 145
Every one his own is but fair, 12
Every one in his own house, and God in all men’s, 207
Every one is a king in his own house, 270
Every one is a preacher under the gallows, 314
Every one is a thief in his own craft, 317
Every one is emperor on his own ground, 143
Every one is wise after the event (or when the mischief is done),
163, 213
Every one is wise for his own profit, 271
Every one knows best where the shoe pinches him, 12, 117, 156, 207,
271
Every one likes justice in another’s house, none in his own, 117
Every one likes to wipe his shoes on poverty, 134
Every one must pay his debt to nature, 155
Every one must row with the oars he has, 317
Every one praises his own saint, 117
Every one preaches for his own saint, 12
Every one rakes the fire under his own pot, 366
Every one reaps as he sows, 270
Every one says: My right is good, 12
Every one sees his smart coat, no one sees his shrunken belly, 347
Every one should sweep before his own door, 12
Every one sings as he has the gift, and marries as he has the luck,
270
Every one sneezes as God pleases, 207
Every one speaks as he is, 271
Every one speaks of the feast (or fair) as he finds it, 207, 271
Every one stretches his legs according to the length of his coverlet
(Cut your coat according to your cloth), 207, 271
Every one takes his flogging in his own way, 12
Every one takes his pleasure where he finds it, 12
Every one thinks he has more than his own share of brains, 91
Every one thinks himself without sin because he has not that of
others, 117
Every one thinks his owl a falcon, 155
Every one thinks his own cross the heaviest, 68
Every one thinks that all the bells echo his own thoughts, 155
Every one to his equal, 271
Every one to his own calling, and the Ox to the plough, 117
Every one tries to cross the fence where it is lowest, 366
Every one wishes to bring water to his own mill, and leave his
neighbour’s dry, 207 (_See_ Every one draws)
Every pedlar praises his own needles, 206, 270
Every pig has its Martinmas, 271
Every potter praises his pot, and the more if it is cracked, 116, 207
Every potter vaunts his own pot, 13
Every priestling conceals a popeling, 154
Every promise is a debt, 117
Every road leads to Rome, 59, 259
Every rose has its thorn, 117
Every saint has his festival, 68
Every shop has its trick (There are tricks in all trades), 116
Every shot does not bring down a bird, 317
Every ten years one man has need of another, 116
Everything comes in time to him who can wait, 59
Everything does not fall that totters, 59
Everything goes by favour and cousinship, 59
Everything goes to him who does not want it, 59
Everything has an end—except a sausage, which has two, 347
Everything has an end excepting God, 297
Everything has its time, 270
Everything has two handles (or two sides), 297
Everything in its season, and turnips in Advent, 207
Everything is good for something, 116
Everything is good in its season, 90
Everything is of every year, 116
Everything may be borne except good fortune, 116
Everything may be bought except day and night, 41
Everything may be repaired except the neckbone, 129
Everything must have a beginning, 6, 116, 292
Everything new is beautiful, 92
Everything passes, everything breaks, everything wearies, 59
Everything would be well were there not a “but,” 133
Every to-morrow brings its bread, 13
Every truth is not to be told, 117
Every tub must stand on its own bottom, 367
Every vine must have its stake, 117
Every why has its wherefore, 297
Every wind does not shake down the nut, 117
Every wind is against a leaky ship, 366
Every woman would rather be handsome than good, 156
Evil be to him who evil thinks, 82
Evil is soon done, but slowly mended, 395
Evil must be driven out by evil, 390
Evil wastes itself, 395
Evil words corrupt good manners, 302
Exchange is no robbery, 170
Expect not at another’s hand what you can do by your own, 197
Experience is the best teacher, 145
Extravagant offers are a kind of denial, 116
Extremes meet, 34
Eye-service is the courtier’s art, 394
F.
Faint heart is always in danger, 273
Faint heart never won fair lady, 27, 136, 173, 348
Faint praise is akin to abuse, 372
Fair and softly goes far, 45, 283
Fair flowers do not remain long by the wayside, 168
Fair, good, rich, and wise, is a woman four stories high, 8
Fair is he that comes, but fairer he that brings, 54
Fair money can cover much that’s foul, 337
Fair promises bind fools, 74
Fair things are soon snatched away, 8
Fair words and rotten apples, 74
Fair words, but look to your purse, 74
Fair words don’t butter the cabbage, 168
Fair words don’t fill the pocket, 168
Fair words please the fool, and sometimes the wise, 367
Fair words won’t feed a cat, 74
Fair words won’t fill the sack, 337, 398
Fall sick, and you will see who is your friend and who not, 215
Falsehood is the Devil’s daughter, and speaks her father’s tongue, 385
Falsehood never tires of going round about, 385
Falsehood travels and grows, 385
Falseness often lurks beneath fair hair, 367
Fame and repute follow a man to the door, 396
Fancy requires much, necessity but little, 174
Far fetched and dear bought is meat for ladies, 340
Far from the eyes, far from the heart, 109
Farewell baskets, the vintage is ended, 2
Fast as the hare runs, the greyhound outruns her, since he catches
her, 241
Fat broth cannot be made of nothing, 42
Fat head, lean brains, 77
Fat hens lay few eggs, 148
Fat pastures make fat venison, 8
Father and mother are kind, but God is kinder, 367
Favour and gifts disturb justice, 372
Fear guards the vineyard, 107, 232
Fear is a great inventor, 30
Feather by feather the goose is plucked, 72
Feet accustomed to go cannot be still, 291
Feet that are used to move cannot remain quiet, 240
Feign death and the bull will leave you, 278
Few have luck, all have death, 367
Few women turn grey because their husbands die, 367
Fie upon a cloak in fair weather, 18
“Fie upon thee, how black thou art!” said the kettle to the sauce
pan, 369
Fine and fine make but a slender doublet, 18
Fine birds are commonly plucked, 19
Fine feathers make fine birds, 28, 307
Fine linen often conceals a foul skin, 402
Fine words don’t fill the belly, 277, 336
Fine words without deeds go not far, 367
Fire and love do not say, “Go to your work,” 217
Fire and straw soon make a flame, 380
Fire and water are good servants but bad masters, 148, 380
Fire drives the wasp out of its nest, 102
Fire is not quenched with fire, 102
Fire in the heart sends smoke into the head, 148
First a turnip, then a sheep; next a cow, and then the gallows, 318
First come, first served, 36
First look at home, then censure me, 169
First weigh, then venture, 145
Fish and guests smell at three days old, 365
Fish begin to stink at the head, 138
Fit the foot to the shoe, not the shoe to the foot, 264
Five fingers hold more than two forks, 148
Flatterers are cats that lick before and scratch behind, 168
Flattery is sweet food for those who can swallow it, 398
Flies are easier caught with honey than with vinegar, 43
Flies don’t light on a boiling pot, 3, 69
Flies flock to the lean horse, 66
Flowers are the pledges of fruit, 351
Flying from the bull he fell into the river, 225
Folks say there is a lack of four sorts of people on earth: of
priests, else one would not have six or seven benefices; of
gentlemen, else every boor would not want to be a squire; of whores,
else married women and nuns would not carry on the trade; of Jews,
else Christians would not practise usury (_Trench quotes this as the
longest Proverb known_), 160
Follow the customs, or fly the country, 389
Follow the river and you will reach the sea, 57
Follow the road and you will reach an inn, 271
Folly hath eagle’s wings, but the eyes of an owl, 304
Folly is the most incurable of maladies, 218
Fond of lawsuits, little wealth; fond of doctors, little health; fond
of friars, little honour, 198
Fools and the perverse fill the lawyer’s purse, 233
Fools are free all the world over, 312
Fools ask what’s o’clock, but wise men know their time, 305
Fools build houses, wise men buy them, 163
Fools go in throngs, 3
Fools grow without watering, 104
Fools invent fashions and wise men follow them, 34
Fools make feasts, and wise men eat them, 104
Fools must not be set on eggs, 163
Fools sometimes give wise men counsel, 279
Foot firm till death, 268
For a bad tongue, scissors, 265
For a good companion good company, 193
For a good dinner and a gentle wife you can afford to wait, 365
For a stubborn ass a hard goad, 2
For a stubborn ass a stubborn driver, 5
For a voracious beast pebbles in his feed, 263
For a web begun God sends thread, 6, 73
For a wife and a horse go to your neighbour, 106
For all one’s early rising, it dawns none the sooner, 241
For an honest man half his wits are enough; the whole is too little
for a knave, 68
For better for worse they have married me, 205
For evil tongues, scissors, 195
For extreme ills extreme remedies, 69
For great evils strong remedies, 341
For lack of men (or good men) they made my father a justice, 241, 292
For love of the ox the wolf licks the yoke (Catalan), 240
For love the wolf eats the sheep, 174
For one pleasure a thousand pains, 46
For overbuying there’s no help but selling again, 6
For poor people small coin, 264
For sake of the knight the lady kisses the squire, 46
For the buyer a hundred eyes are too few, for the seller one is
enough, 66
For the flying enemy a golden bridge, 70
For the last comer, the bones, 6
For the upright there are no laws, 148
For want of a nail the shoe is lost, 242
For whom does the blind man’s wife adorn herself? 227
For whom sword and courage are not enough, corslet and lance will not
be enough, 201
Forbear a quarrel with a friend to move: anger breeds hatred, concord
sweetens love, 334
Forbearance is no acquittance, 134
Forbidden fruit is sweet (or the sweetest), 101, 172
Forced love does not last, 318
Fore-talk spares after-talk, 174
Forewarned, forearmed, 49
Forgive and forget, 172
Forgive thyself nothing and others much, 173
Forgiven is not forgotten, 172
Fortune aids the bold, 197
Fortune and glass soon break, alas! 319
Fortune, and go to sleep, 99
Fortune and misfortune are two buckets in a well, 150
Fortune and women are partial to fools, 150
Fortune can take from us only what she has given us, 29
Fortune comes to him who seeks her, 132
Fortune does not stand waiting at any one’s door, 322
Fortune gives many too much, but no one enough, 137
Fortune helps fools, 106
Fortune is a woman; if you neglect her to-day, expect not to regain
her to-morrow, 29
Fortune is like women: loves youth and is fickle, 137
Fortune is round; it makes one a king, another a dunghill, 322
Fortune lost, nothing lost; courage lost, much lost; honour lost,
more lost; soul lost, all lost, 320
Fortune often knocks at the door, but the fool does not invite her
in, 385
Foster a raven and it will peck out your eyes, 210
Foul linen should be washed at home, 22
Four eyes see more than two, 131, 173, 232, 282
Four things put a man beside himself—women, tobacco, cards, and wine,
245
Foxes come at last to the furrier’s, 17
Fox’s broth, cold and scalding, 207
Free man, free goods (_So_: Free ships, free goods—_American_), 148
Fresh pork and new wine kill a man before his time, 242
Friar Modest never was prior (A modest friar never was prior), 99
Friends and mules fail us at hard passes (Galician), 199, 265
Friends are known in adversity, 287
Friends are known in time of need (Friends in need are friends
indeed), 65, 329
Friendship broken may be soldered, but never made whole, 199
Friendship should be unpicked, not rent, 106
Friendships are cheap when they can be bought by doffing the hat, 108
From a bad paymaster take straw (_i.e._ any trifle), 90
From a closed door the devil turns away, 275
From a praying young man, and a fasting old one, God preserve my
cloak, 212
From a silent man, and a dog that does not bark, deliver us, 211
From a silent person remove your dwelling, 212
From a spark the house is burnt, 340
From bishop to turn miller, 56
From children expect childish acts, 362
From confessors, doctors, and lawyers, do not conceal the truth of
your case, 2
From great rivers come great fish, 274
From little things men go on to great, 340
From long journeys, long lies, 212
From my gossip’s bread a large piece for my godson, 212
From saying to doing is a long way, 90
From short pleasure long repentance, 14
From small beginnings come great things, 340
From smooth (or still) water God preserve me, from rough (or running)
I will preserve myself, 90, 211