A dictionary of English proverbs and proverbial phrases
Part 8
Poison--weed 127
Poke--pig 183
Policy--honesty 793
Poor--beg 1358
Poor--giving to 675
Poor--honour 795
Poor man's table 1576
Pope--would be 1270
Pot--ladle 911
Pot--watched 1727
Pottage--other's 1400
Pottage--poor 1269
Pottage--prettiness 1288
Pottage--sluts 1457
Pottle--hay 1139
Pound foolish 1232
Pound--in for 1230
Pound--mischief 1086
Pounds--care of 202
Pounds--pence 1226
Pours--rains 1334
Poverty--debt 400
Poverty--sloth 1454
Powder--trust 1666
Power--knowledge 904
Praise--self 1417
Precept--example 514
Prickles--thistles 1601
Pride--ingratitude 857
Prince--sword 1575
Prince--wretch 1863
Privilege--folly 1736
Prize--wife 1765
Profit--pains 1206
Promises--pity 1251
Prosperity--friends 645
Prosperity--gold 690
Proud--black and 531
Proud--cock 285
Provender--carry 807
Provident--harvests 704
Puddings--dirty 384
Pudding--end 486
Pudding--proof 1300
Pulse--world's 1854
Purse--ask thy 43
Purse--courtesy 331
Purse--empty 484
Purse--fills 1170
Purse--heavy 960
Purse--little 968
Purse--no money 1103
Purse--penny 1228
Q
Quarrels--tools 1642
Quart--neighbour 1142
Quick--markets 1718
Quick--perform 1297
Quiet--Doctor 1240
R
R--oysters 1202
Rain--Candlemas 192
Rain--corpse 745
Raven--starling 129
Reason--bluster 139
Reason--will 1773
Reasoning--man's 860
Rebellion--oppression 1194
Reckoning--feast 561
Reckonings--short 1432
Repent--marry 1038
Repent--trust 1665
Repentance--late 309
Rest--rain 1331
Revenge--best 621
Reversion--kingdom 318
Reward--desert 407
Ribs--birchen twigs 119
Rich--adversity 5
Rich--die 1266
Rich--fifty 741
Rich--lucky 1015
Rich--shame 795
Riches--children 245
Riches--name 1130
Rider--lost 1713
Rider--time 1625
Right--two wrongs 1864
Rise--early to 463
Rise at five 1612
Road--companion 297
Roast--small 140
Roast beef 460
Roasting--eggs 1339
Robbery--exchange 515
Robs Peter 1238
Rock--ruled by 1370
Rogues--laws 930
Rolling stone 1367
Roost--curses 371
Roots--crooked 1543
Rope enough 1591
Ropes--sand 1387
Rose--thorn 1603
Roses--thorns 1605
Ruins--youth 1099
Ruins of folly 1804
Rules--woman 1348
Runs--stumbles 1551
Rushes--good words 713
S
Saddle--colt 292
Sail--Friday 640
Sail--sea 1407
Salt--advice 8
Salt of life 173
Sands--words 1834
Satins--kitchen 897
Saturday--no luck 1094
Saturday--wife 1759
Sauce--hunger 824
Save--spend 1494
Save--youth 1874
Saved--penny 1231
Saving--alchemy 21
Sawyers--top 1646
Sayings--thrifty 1611
Scarce--good men 1188
Scholar--mere 1403
Scholar--fool 1042
Scripture--quote 1327
Sea--calm 187
Sea--fish 588
Sea--lade 1164
Sea--luck 1012
Sea--pray 1287
Second nature 1692
Second thoughts 1607
Seed, good 512
Seen--seldom 1414
Send--go 443
Send--sigh 1435
Sermon--salmon 1385
Servants, good 1419
Seven--rise at 1612
Seven years 228
Shadow--crooked 355
Shadow--light 958
Shadow--sunshine 1561
Shame--devil 1672
Shame--pride 1294
Shave--hand-saw 739
Shaven--bald head 61
Sheep--buy 369
Sheep--hung 819
Sheep--scabbed 1399
Sheep--shear 1423
Sheep--shorn 1430
Shells--eggs 23
Shilling--slow 1149
Shilling--spends 1500
Ship--crazy 348
Ship--great 726
Ship--leak 936
Ship--own 197
Ship--sail 1384
Ship--stocks 877
Ship--tar 1507
Ships--November 1161
Shipwreck--complain 300
Shirt, ragged 1256
Shoe, finest 1426
Shoe fits 592
Shoe pinches 1248
Shoe, want of 1713
Shot--bolt 612
Shovel--silver 935
Shower--drops 453
Sick--devil 419
Sickness--devotion 225
Silent--man 1528
Silent--speak 1487
Silver--butter 178
Silver lining--cloud 271
Silver--white 1440
Sing--birds 1291
Sing--can 124
Sing--say 1395
Sings--Friday 638
Sin, none without 1312
Sin--sorrow 1473
Sink--leak 936
Sit--awhile 425
Sit--lowly 1011
Sit still 1445
Skin deep--beauty 88
Slander--confession 303
Slave--secret 1411
Sleep on it 1243
Sloe-tree--barley 72
Sloth--harms 910
Sloven 1457
Slow--promise 1297
Sluts, eat after 34
Smack--pepper 1233
Smell--kitchen 896
Snow--bread 544
Snow--lies 193
Snow--water 141
Soberness--conceals 459
Soft answer 1861
Soft upon soft 1537
Solomon--wife 1765
Son--like 963
Son--marries 388
Sore eye--elbow 480
Sore--store 1541
Sores--patience 1215
Sorrow--joy 875
Sorrow--lies 870
Sorrow--mirth 1084
Sorrow--time 1624
Sorrows--less 427
Soul--cleansed 317
Souls--large 972
Sour--sauce 871
Sour--sweet 1571
Sow--wrong 1865
Sow's ear--purse 1315
Spain--wine 450
Spaniel--beaten 85
Speak little 1597
Speak once--think 1596
Speak--purse 658
Speak--spare 1486
Speak--think 1595
Speak--well 1489
Speakers--dead 1241
Speed--worse 753
Spend--old 1485
Spend--spare 1486
Spending--bung-hole 1393
Spiders' webs--laws 929
Spigot--saving 1393
Spirits--raise 1335
Spite--nose 1503
Spoon--silver 1441
Spring--swallow 1567
Spur--free horse 1513
Spur--horse 806
Stable door 988
Stable door 1524
Staff--dog 83
Staggerer--lame 914
Starling--raven 129
Steed starves 720
Steed--stolen 988
Steel--tongue 1637
Steeple--bell 108
Sting you--snake 1462
Stink--bear 250
Stinking fish 1531
Stocking 167
Stolen--steed 1524
Stone--dropping 308
Stone--blood 136
Stone--rugged 1373
Stool--guest 733
Stool, own--guest 1476
Stoop for pin 1245
Storms--vows 1708
Story--re-telling 1355
Straw--drowning 449
Straw--last 919
Strength, woman's 1822
Strong--thirty 741
Strife--poverty 1275
Substance 1420
Sudden falls 265
Summer--chimneys 1466
Summer--good 1800
Summer--swallow 1566
Sun--bride 745
Sun--clouds 272
Sun--hay 762
Sun--light 959
Sun--morning 1109
Sun riseth 325
Sunday--Friday 639
Sunday--weep 638
Sunday--wife 1759
Sundays--two 1686
Sun shines--moon 1106
Sunshine--stars 1519
Supper, after 425
Supper--hope 801
Supperless--bed 1562
Sure card 307
Surely--softly 1464
Sweet--taste 1583
Sweetest water 1753
Swim--depth 406
Swine--pearls 1221
Swine--turned 1679
Swing--youth 1876
Swords--words 1835
T
Tail--salt 1386
Tale--tell 394
Talk--good 696
Talk--nurse 1163
Talks--tongue 1638
Tame Shrew 1434
Tame--wedding 1742
Tar--ship 1507
Tarry--tide 1622
Taste--kitchen 896
Tax--disease 431
Taxes--death 221
Teaching--child 161
Teeth--aching 4
Teeth--tongue 1635
Teeth--wolves 1821
Temper--tongue 1633
Tempers--God 1430
Tenant--bad 482
Tenants--ill 4
Texts--proverbs 1304
Thief of time 1295
Thief--opportunity 1192
Thief--receiver 1340
Thief--receivers 1341
Thief--thunder 1614
Think--live 1598
Thinks--says 1397
Thirty years 606
Thistles--brain 157
Thistles--harvest 752
Thorn--cuckoo 369
Thorns--barefoot 65
Thorns--dancing 382
Thread--draw 448
Thread--breaketh 1735
Three women 1033
Thrift--ruin 1501
Thrive--up at five 593
Thrive--plant 1352
Thrive--wive 1818
Thrown--wrestle 1862
Throws--horse 1361
Thrushes--beggars 1808
Thunder-bolt--pryeth 1306
Thursday--crosses 1094
Tide--tarry 1622
Timber--split 716
Time for study 1550
Time--season 1409
Time--sorrow 1474
Time--stitch 1532
Times--fault 553
Toil--pleasure 1261
Toilers--thinkers 1600
Toll--market 1031
Toll--talking 1582
Tom--play 1256
Tongue--shorter 468
Tongue--knot 901
Tongue--nurse's 1163
Tongue--slip 1452
Tongue speaketh 770
Tongue--strength 1822
Too late--advice 11
Too late--never 1064
Tools--edged 476
Tools--workmen 1849
Toothache--music 1125
Touchstone--love 1002
Trade--two of a 16
Trash--beggary 99
Tread on worm 1855
Treasurer--God 1497
Tree--crooked 355
Tree--falls 539
Tree--fruit 652
Trees--straight 1543
Trials--present 1346
Tricks--old dog 1176
Tries--time 1626
Trifles--troubles 1661
Trouble--bagpipe 57
Trouble--company in 295
Trouble--hunting 1714
Troubles--company 296
Troubles--dowry 723
Trough--own 1480
Trumpery--beggary 99
Trumpet--own 1283
Truss up wit 1813
Trust--speak fair 1491
Trust--try 1676
Trust not--water 1528
Truth--drunken folk 458
Truth--evasions 347
Truth--fools 242
Truth--libel 947
Truth--old saws 1184
Try--trust 1665
Tuesday--health 1094
Turncoat--wine 1797
Twig--bend 109
Twig--tree 110
Tyrant--cruelty 364
U
Unbidden guest 1476
Unkindness--cut 377
Unmissed--unknown 1689
Use--keep 882
Use--nature 1692
V
Valour--stratagem 1544
Venice Glass 351
Vessels--empty 485
Virtue--modesty 1093
Virtue--necessity 1135
Virtue's colour 138
Virtue--touchstone 1002
W
Wait--world 1851
Walk a mile 425
Walk--sun 1730
Wall--weakest 1734
Walls--ears 467
Walnut tree 85
Waste, wilful 1724
Want--strife 1547
Want, woeful 1724
Want not 1723
Ware--pleasing 1260
Ware--sell 1030
Washing--crow 362
Washing--face 1061
Waste--haste 755
Waste--spend 1496
Waste--want 1547
Water--cat 1401
Water--deepest 402
Water--drink 450
Water--famine 544
Water--fire 580
Water--wine 1792
Waters--deep 726
Waters--still 1530
Waters--troubled 591
Way--will 1776
Wealth--contentment 315
Wealth--marries 1037
Wealth--wife 1764
Wealth--Monday 1094
Wealthy--wise 1805
Weapon--wit 1814
Weary--well-doing 1751
Weather--bad 1470
Weather--calm 879
Weather--fair 1740
Weather--rainy 880
Weather--thunder 1613
Weather--wind 1789
Wedded life 76
Wedlock--wake 333
Wednesday--best day 1094
Weed--poison 127
Weeds--words 1833
Weight--strife 1546
Weights--words 1836
Well done--once 1187
Well--dry 1729
Well--truth 1669
Weep--Sunday 638
Weeping Cross 998
Wet--mist 1406
Whale--sprat 1512
Wickedness--woe 1819
Wife--bier 194
Wife--gentle 831
Wife--grumbles 1553
Wife--good terms 1536
Wife--key 885
Wife, little 976
Wife, one good 1762
Wife--son 1467
Wiles, caught by 1768
Will--way 1731
Will--lean 895
Will, woman's 1825
Win--laugh 921
Wind--against 1504
Wind--puff not 1308
Wind--sheep 1430
Wind--south [fishing] 589
Wind--words 1838
Window 1277
Winds--contrary 348
Winds--high 783
Winds--March 38
Winds--rain 688
Wine--barrel 75
Wine--counsels 320
Wine--old 1180
Wings--covers me 336
Wings--flying 600
Winter--Candlemas 192
Winter--green 729
Winter--warm 1720
Winter--woodcock, one 1828
Winter--woodcock 1567
Winter wind 1082
Wisdom--husband 831
Wisdom--age 905
Wise--adversity 5
Wise--some 1197
Wise--word enough 1839
Wise--forty 741
Wise--himself 785
Wise--lucky 1016
Wise--merry 1069
Wise--penny 1232
Wise--twice 1682
Wise folk 611
Wishers and woulders 814
Wist, had I 117
Wit--brevity 163
Wit, mother 1114
Wit, need of 673
Wit--pound of 430
Wit--sloth 1453
Wit is out 1796
Wit's plough 1225
Wiving--counsel 321
Wiving--destiny 411
Woe--angry men 31
Woe--hasty men 757
Woe--wilful man 1770
Wolf--growing youth 1873
Woman--beaten 85
Woman--fair 386
Woman--head 763
Woman--rules 1348
Woman--silence 1439
Woman--tongue 1639
Woman--weep 1745
Woman's mind 1082
Woman's tongue 913
Woman's work 1823
Woman's yes 1868
Women--discreet 429
Women--drive 1349
Women--England 488
Women--glasses 680
Women--turned 1679
Women--words 1837
Wood--beans 78
Wood--old 1180
Wood--out of 791
Wood--trees 1657
Woodcock--winter 1567, 1828
Woodcock's thigh 1211
Woods--ears 576
Wool--little 368
Wool--shaving 1422
Word--true 1663
Words--leaves 403
Words--soft 1465
Words--wranglers 1860
Words swim 1793
Work--all 1257
Work--play 1256
Work--quick 1324