Part 44

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

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

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

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

Thrift is better than an annuity, 39

Through being too knowing the fox lost his tail, 119

Through not spending enough, we spend too much, 241

Throw no stones at a sleeping dog, 389

Throw not the child out with the bath, 382

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

Throw that bone to another dog, 200, 266

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

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

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

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

Time and place make the thief, 170, 338

Time and straw make medlars ripe, 334

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

Time and the hour run through the roughest day, 191

Time and tide wait for no man, 190

Time betrays and hangs the thief, 191

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

Time brings roses, 190, 307

Time covers and discovers everything, 191

Time destroys all things, 307

Time gained, much gained, 339

Time goes, death comes, 307

Time is anger’s medicine, 190

Time is an inaudible file, 104

Time is God’s and ours, 307

Time is money, 339

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

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

Time is the herald of truth, 190

Time makes hay, 190

Time passes like the wind, 295

Time past never returns, 307

Time waits for no man, 400

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

Timid dogs bark most, 173

Tired folks are quarrelsome, 34

Tired oxen tread hard, 162

’Tis a fat bird that bastes itself, 323

’Tis a good farthing that saves a penny, 9

’Tis a good horse that has no fault, 24

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

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

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

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

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

’Tis easier to hurt than heal, 172

’Tis everywhere the same as here, 11

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

’Tis hard to swim against the stream, 187

’Tis possible if true, 56

’Tis the mind ennobles, not the blood, 141

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

’Tis well that wicked cows have short horns, 323

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

To a bold man fortune holds out her hand, 2

To a crazy ship every wind is contrary, 71

To a depraved taste sweet is bitter, 196

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

To a good cat a good rat, 1

To a hard knot a hard wedge, 198

To a hasty demand a leisure reply, 200, 263

To a quick ear half a word, 190

To a rogue a rogue and a half, 2

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

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

To a young heart everything is sport, 68

To ask wool of an ass, 15

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

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

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

To be led by the nose, 345

To be like a bunch of nettles, 256

To be like a fish in the water, 277

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

To be like a louse in a seam, 256

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

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

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

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

To beards with money cavaliers pay respect, 195

To beat the dog in presence of the lion, 7

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

To begin skinning the eel at the tail, 16

To blow hot and cold, 57

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

To bring down two apples with one stick, 339

To build castles in the air, 18, 330

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

To buy a cat in a poke, 2

To cackle and lay no egg, 206, 270

To carry a lantern in mid-day, 46

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

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

To cast pearls before swine, 99, 336

To catch a hare with a cart, 120

To catch two pigeons with one bean, 12

To change and to better are two different things, 133

To change one’s habits smacks of death, 284

To circumstances and custom the law must yield, 368

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

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

To cry famine on a heap of corn, 14

To cry up wine, and sell vinegar, 242

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

To discover truth by telling a falsehood, 255

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

To do nothing teacheth to do evil, 335

To do, one must be doing, 42

To draw the foot out of the mire, 255

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

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

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

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

To every bird its nest seems fair, 6

To every evil-doer his evil day, 193

To every fool his cap, 329

To every lord every honour, 6

To every one his own is not too much, 155

To every saint his candle, 2, 68

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

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

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

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

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

To fetch water after the house is burned, 226

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

To flay the flayed dog, 125

To flee and to run are not all one, 224

To get out of one muck into another, 255

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

To get out of the rain under the spout, 134

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

To get the chicks one must coax the hen, 21

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

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

To give change out for his coin, 55

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

To give court holy-water, 16

To give is honour, to beg is dishonour, 274

To give is honour, to lose is grief, 217

To give one the sack, 329

To give quickly is to give doubly, 135

To give tardily is to refuse, 58, 295

To go for wool and come back shorn, 225

To go mulberry-gathering without a crook, 3

To go rabbit-catching with a dead ferret, 199

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

To go to the vintage without baskets, 3

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

To good eating belongs good drinking, 134

To grease the fat pig’s tail, 197

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

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

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

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

To have friends both in heaven and hell, 7

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

To have “heard say” is half a lie, 74

To have it written on his forehead, 259

To have luck needs little wit, 132

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

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

To have the foot in two shoes, 259

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

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

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

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

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

To hold the wolf by the ears, 58

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

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

To keep one upon hot coals, 258

To kick against the pricks, 259

To kill a mercer for a comb, 60

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

To kill two birds with one stone, 282, 339

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

To know everything is to know nothing, 129

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

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

To laugh in one’s sleeve, 330

To live from hand to mouth, 64

To live long is to suffer long, 383

To lock the stable after the horses are stolen, 93

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

To look for five feet in a cat, 206

To look for noon at fourteen o’clock, 13

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

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

To mad words deaf ears, 200

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

To make a virtue of necessity, 18, 340

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

To make coqs-à-l’âne, 340

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

To make one hole by way of stopping another, 18

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

To make two hits with one stone, 18

To make two nails at one heat, 98

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

To-morrow will be another day, 230

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

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

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

To parade the gallows before the town, 233

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

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

To pluck the goose without making it cry out, 45

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

To preserve friendship one must build walls, 119

To promise is easy, to keep is troublesome, 385

To promise more butter than bread, 47

To promise more carts than oxen, 121

To promise much means giving little, 284

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

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

To put a good face on a bad game, 17

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

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

To put out the fire with tow, 126

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

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

To quarrel over a straw, 336

To quench fire with fire, 255

To rain upon the wet, 272

To reckon without the hostess, 223, 277

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

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

To rob a robber is not robbing, 64

To rude words deaf ears, 4

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

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

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

To see the sky through a funnel, 261

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

To sell a cat for a hare, 261, 295

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

To sell the bird in the bush, 131

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

To send one arrow after another, 215

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

To shave an egg, 313

To shiver at work, and sweat at meals, 196

To show the sun with a torch, 39

To sign for both parties, 56

To sing out of tune and persist in it, 208

To sink a well by the river side, 163

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

To spur a horse on level ground, 122

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

To start the hare for another’s profit, 280

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

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

To stop the hole after the mischief is done, 254

To strip one altar to cover another, 125

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

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

To swallow both sea and fish, 307

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

To swim between two waters, 40

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

To take opportunity by the forelock, 46, 259

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

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

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

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

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

To the fallen tree, hatchets! hatchets!, 67

To the grateful man give more than he asks, 195

To the jaundiced all things seem yellow, 59

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

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

To thrash one’s jacket, 262

To throw oil on the fire, 336

To throw in a smelt to catch a codfish, 316

To throw the halter after the ass, 128

To throw the helve after the hatchet, 28, 215

To throw the rope after the bucket, 99

To throw the stone and conceal the hand, 259

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

To turn fishmonger on Easter-eve, 56

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

To wait and be patient soothes many a pang, 348

To wash a blackamoor white, 323

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

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

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

To wipe up the sea with a sponge, 308

To withhold truth is to bury gold, 348

To wolf’s flesh dog’s teeth, 193, 264

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

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

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

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

Too little and too much spoils everything, 368

Too many cooks oversalt the porridge, 341

Too many sacks are the death of the ass, 173

Too much bursts the bag, 133

Too much familiarity breeds contempt, 266

Too much humility is pride, 191

Too much is not enough, 133

Too much of one thing is good for nothing, 338

Too much scratching smarts, too much talking harms, 60

Too much wax burns the church, 266

Too much will soon break, 191

Too much wisdom is folly, 191

Too much zeal spoils all, 60

Touch a galled horse and he’ll wince, 337

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

Translators, traitors, 128

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

Treachery and slander are long lived, 399

Treachery lurks in honeyed words, 402

Tread on a worm and it will turn, 63

Trees often transplanted seldom prosper, 302

Trick against trick, 159

Trickery comes back to its master, 60

Trim my beard and I will trim your topknot, 18

Tripe broth, you make much of yourself, 207

Trouts are not caught with dry breeches, 237

True jokes never please, 9

True love never grows old, 71

True love suffers no concealment, 215

True nobility is invulnerable, 64

Trueman’s house stands the longest, 174

Trust, beware whom!, 171

Trust, but not too much, 171

Trust everybody, but thyself most, 401

Trust in God upon good security, 40, 222

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

Trust not a dog that limps, 285

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

Trust not still water nor a silent man, 401

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

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

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

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

Trust-well rides away with the horse, 170

Truth and folly dwell in the wine-cask, 397

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

Truth creeps not into corners, 174

Truth finds no asylum, 174

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

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

Truth is bitter food, 397

Truth is lost with too much debating, 333

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

Truth is the daughter of time, 174, 307

Truth makes the tongue smart, 174

Truth may be suppressed, but not strangled, 174

Truth must be seasoned to make it palatable, 357

Truth’s cloak is often lined with lies, 400

Turn your tongue seven times before speaking, 23

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

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

Two are the masters of one, 401

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

Two cannot fall out if one does not choose, 245

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

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

Two cocks in one yard do not agree, 113

Two dogs over one bone seldom agree, 191, 339

Two eyes see more than one, 282

Two eyes, two ears, only one mouth, 191

Two false men to one traitor, 204

Two hard flints never grind well, 191

Two heads are better than one, 95

Two may lie so as to hang a third, 401

Two men may meet, but never two mountains, 15

Two of a trade never agree, 249

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

Two women and a goose make a market, 94

U.

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

Under a gold sheath a leaden knife, 258

Under a good cloak may be a bad man, 210

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

Under fair words beware of fraud, 274

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

Under the sackcloth there is something else, 258, 274

Under white ashes are often glowing embers, 126, 402

Union is strength, 317

Unlaid eggs are uncertain chickens, 135, 171, 336

Unlooked-for, often comes, 172

Until death there is no knowing what may befal, 99

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

Unwilling service earns no thanks, 402

Unworthy offspring brag the most of their worthy descent, 394

Upbraiding makes a benefit an injury, 60

Upon a slight pretext the wolf takes the sheep, 4

Upon an egg the hen lays an egg, 57

V.

Vainglory bears no grain, 29

Vainglory blossoms, and bears no fruit, 223

Vanity has no greater foe than vanity, 31

Various are the roads to fame, 69

Very good corn grows in little fields, 17

Very hard times in the wood when the wolves eat each other, 21

Vetches seem bitter to the full-cropped pigeon, 67

Vice is learnt without a schoolmaster, 401

Vile let him be who thinks himself vile (or base), 293

Vipers breed vipers, 346

Virtue consists in action, 307

Virtue flourishes in misfortune, 171

Virtue in the middle, said the devil, when seated between two lawyers, 364

Virtue is its own reward, 304

Virtue never dies, 171

Virtue subdues power, 171

W.

Wait is a hard word to the hungry, 137

Wait time and place to take your revenge, for it is never well done in a hurry, 73

Wake not a sleeping cat (or dog), 40, 115, 167, 337

Walls have ears, 35, 141, 268, 306

Walls sink and dunghills rise, 193, 263

Want and necessity break faith and oaths, 401

War begun, hell unchained, 100

War is pleasant to him who does not go to it (or who has not tried it), 139, 275

War makes robbers, and peace hangs them, 29, 106

War with all the world, and peace with England, 209

Wash a dog, comb a dog, still a dog remains a dog, 31, 401

Wasting is a bad habit, sparing a sure income, 338

Watching a woman is labour in vain, 176

Water afar does not quench a fire at hand, 67

Water is the strongest drink; it drives mills, 176

Water past will not turn the mill, 67, 195

Water, smoke, and a vicious woman, drive men out of the house, 67 (_See_ Smoke, &c.)

Water washes everything, 263

Wax, flax, and tin; much out and little in, 342

We are all well placed, said the cat, when she was seated on the bacon, 403

We are both carriers, and shall meet on the road, 202

We are not yet roasting, and already we are basting (or make sops in the pan), 203, 230

We beat the sack and mean the miller, 160

We cannot all be Pope of Rome, 188

We do in haste what we repent at leisure (Marry in haste and repent at leisure), 161

We give to the rich and take from the poor, 166

We hang little thieves and let great ones escape, 305 (_See_ Great thieves hang, &c.)

We hang little thieves and take off our hats to great ones, 157

We have no son, and yet are giving him a name, 224

We have not yet saddled, and are already mounted (or riding), 203, 264

We knock in jest and it is opened in earnest, 153

We know what we have, but not what we shall get, 161

We learn by teaching, 104

We must bear our cross with patience, said the man when he took his wife on his back, 388

We must eat and drink though every tree were a gallows, 147, 333 (_See_ A man must eat)

We must sow even after a bad harvest, 389

We must suffer much or die young, 389

We shall see, as the blind man said, 40

Wealth is not his who makes it, but his who enjoys it, 107

Weather, wind, women, and fortune, change like the moon, 58

Wedlock rides in the saddle and repentance on the crupper, 18

Weeds never die, 172, 402

Weight and measures save a man toil, 240

Weighty work must be done with few words, 403

Welcome, misfortune, if thou comest alone, 205, 221

Well begun is half done, 20, 76, 78, 151, 190, 206, 270, 287, 313, 403

Well-done outlives death, 190

Well fed but ill taught, 8

Well-regulated charity begins with one’s self (or at home), 13

Were all adulterers to wear grey coats the cloth would be dear, 169

Were every one to sweep before his own house, every street would be clean, 298

Were fools silent they would pass for wise, 345

Were he to throw a groat on the roof it would come down a dollar, 188

Were I a hatter, men would come into the world without heads, 174

Were it a wolf it would spring at your throat, 56

Were it not for “if” and “but,” we should all be rich for ever, 56

Were the devil to come from hell to fight, there would forthwith be a Frenchman to accept the challenge, 56

Were the sky to fall, not an earthen pot would be left whole, 341 (_See_ If the sky, &c.)

Were there no fools there would be no wise men, 149

Were you at the wedding, Molly? No, mother, but the bride was very fine, 230

What a monk thinks, he dares, 10

What a woman wills, God wills, 10, 229

What belongs to the ravens is never drowned, 175

What can’t be cured must be endured, 175, 290

What children hear their parents say by the fireside they repeat in the highway, 213

What Christ (or the Church) does not take the Exchequer takes, 176, 229