Part 45
What comes from the fife goes back to the drum (Lightly come, lightly go; or, what is got over the devil’s back is spent under his belly), 11
What comes from the heart, goes to the heart, 176
What comes seldom, comes sharp, 176
What costs little is little esteemed, 123
What costs nothing is worth nothing, 343
What cures Sancho makes Martha sick, 209
What does not happen in a year may happen in a moment, 229
What does not poison, fattens, 123
What does the moon care if the dogs bark at her?, 175
What force cannot do ingenuity may, 229
What God hath joined together let no man put asunder, 175
What harm is there in a good word? It costs nothing, 176
What has horns will gore, 343
What has not been, may be, 123
What I see with my eyes I can guess with my fingers, 229
What is another’s always pines for its master, 229, 294
What is bad for one is good for another, 11
What is bought is cheaper than a gift, 89, 281
What is bred in the bone won’t out of the flesh, 343
What is done cannot be undone, 102, 123, 370
What is done, is done for this time, 229
What is enough was never little, 11
What is got by begging is dearly bought, 351
What is in use, wants no excuse, 229
What is learned in the cradle lasts till the grave, 11
What is long spoken of happens at last (Long looked for comes at last), 333
What is lost in the fire must be sought in the ashes, 309
What is marriage, mother? Daughter, it is spinning, bearing children, and weeping, 281
What is mine is my own; my brother Juan’s is his and mine, 229
What is much desired is not believed when it comes, 229
What is new is always fine, 6
What is no sin, is no shame, 175
What is not taken by the Church is taken by the Exchequer, 176
What is play to the strong is death to the weak, 399
What is right for the one is reasonable for the other, 175
What is said is said, and no sponge can wipe it out, 149
What is sport (or play) to the cat is death to the mouse, 141, 382
What is sweet in the mouth is not always good in the stomach, 358
What is the use of running, when we are not on the right road?, 175
What is too high, that let fly, 175
What is true is not always probable, 36
What is whispered in your ear tell not to your husband, 229
What is worth receiving is worth returning (Give and take), 59
What is wrong to-day won’t be right to-morrow, 343
What! keep a dog and bark myself? 175
What keeps out the cold keeps out the heat, 123
What lay hidden under the snow cometh to light at last, 325
What man has made, man can destroy, 175
What Master Jacky does not learn, Mr. John never knows, 175
What much is worth comes from the earth, 229
What my neighbour eats does my stomach no good, 229
What one does not bake, another brews, 175
What ripens fast does not last, 174
What smarts, teaches, 176
What the abbot of Bamba cannot eat he gives away for the good of his soul, 215
What the child hears at the fireside is soon known at the parish church, 10
What the colt learns in youth he continues in old age, 11 (_See_ What youth learns)
What the eye sees not, the heart craves not, 343
What the eye sees not, the heart rues not, 10, 115, 174
What the eyes see, the heart believes, 175
What the fool does at last the wise man does at first, 229, 290
What the gauntlet wins the gorget consumes, 10
What the lion cannot, the fox can, 175
What the peacock has too little on his head, he has too much on his tail, 175
What the she-wolf does (or brings forth) pleases the he-wolf, 10, 229
What the sober man has in his heart, the drunken man has on his lips, 358
What the sober man thinks, the drunkard tells, 10, 342
What three know everybody knows, 229
What three know will soon be known to thirty, 175
What was hard to bear is sweet to remember, 290
What water gives, water takes away, 263
What we want in hay we make up in straw, 175
What will be, will be, 77
What you can’t have, abuse, 123
What you dislike for yourself do not like for me, 229
What you do, do quickly, 175
What you do, do thoroughly (Age quod agis), 22
What you do yourself is well done, 397
What you _give_, is written in sand; what you _take_, with an iron hand, 177
What you learn to your cost you remember long, 362
What you lend to a friend an enemy sues for, 175
What youth learns age does not forget, 363
Whatever way you take there is a league of bad road, 241
What’s everybody’s business is nobody’s business, 238, 287
What’s of no use is too dear at a gift, 176
What’s the use of putting honey in an ass’s mouth, 176
When a cow is lost it is something to recover its tail, were it only to make a handle for one’s door, 16
When a dog runs away, hit him! hit him!, 65
When a fox is in his hole smoke fetches him out, 262
When a good offer comes for your daughter, don’t wait till her father returns from market, 243
When a man has fallen into the mire, the more he flounders the more he fouls himself, 83
When a man is down everybody runs over him, 179
When a man is in a sack, he must get out at the mouth or at the bottom, 392
When a man is not used to breeches the seams gall him, 250
When a man is rich he begins to save, 178
When a mouse has fallen into a meal sack, he thinks he is the miller himself, 298
When a peasant gets rich, he knows neither relations nor friends, 244
When a thing is done advice comes too late, 2
When a thing is done, make the best of it (Make the best of a bad bargain), 191
When a tree is falling, every one cries, Down with it, 67
When Adam delved and Eve span, who was then the gentleman, 133, 339
When all other sins are old avarice is still young, 48
When an old dog barks, look out (When the old dog barks, he giveth counsel), 135, 298
When an old man cannot drink, prepare his grave, 244
When anger blinds the eyes truth disappears, 379
When apes climb high they show their naked rumps, 297 (_See_ The higher)
When blind leads blind both fall into the ditch, 178
When bulls fight, woe to the frogs, 291
When cat and mouse agree the farmer has no chance, 391
When eats are mousing they don’t mew, 297
When Christ was alone the devil tempted him, 133
When David grew old he sang pious psalms, 133
When dirt comes to honour it knows not what to be, 392
When drink enters, wisdom departs, 214
When every man gets his own the devil gets nothing, 391
When every one minds his own business the work is done, 391
When every one says you are an ass, bray, 244
When every one sees that you are a pig, why don’t you go into the sty?, 297
When everybody says you are drunk, go to sleep, 123
When flies swarm in March sheep come to their death, 298
When fools go to market, pedlars (or hucksters) make money, 298, 391
When fortune’s chariot rolls easily, envy and shame cling to the wheels, 369
When fortune knocks, open the door, 123, 177
When glory comes, memory departs, 48
When gnats swarm in January the peasant becomes a beggar, 298
When God gives light he gives it for all, 243
When God means to punish a nation, He deprives its rulers of wisdom, 178, 298
When God pleases it rains in fair weather, 243
When God pleases it rains with every wind, 243, 299
When God says To-day, the devil says To-morrow, 178
When God sends flour the devil carries off the sack, 47
When God will not the saints cannot, 122, 243, 298
When gold speaks every tongue is silent, 94
When goods increase the body decreases, 47
When had comes, have is too late, 299
When he was born, Solomon passed by his door, and would not go in, 255
When his head is broken he puts on his helmet, 124
When I have money in my purse, I have food in my mouth, 391
When I was born I wept, and every day brings a reason why, 213
When I’m dead, everybody’s dead, and the pig too, 110
When ill-luck sleeps, let no one wake her, 244
When industry goes out of the door, poverty comes in at the window, 342
When it is God’s will to plague a man, a mouse can bite him to death, 298
When it pours upon the parson, it drops upon the clerk, 391
When it rains in August, it rains honey and wine, 244
When it rains in February, it will be temperate all the year, 244
When it rains porridge the beggar has no spoon, 391
When it thunders, the thief becomes honest, 123
When joy is in the parlour, sorrow is in the passage, 391
When lazy horses begin to start, old women to dance, and white clouds to rain, there is no stopping them, 392
When many shepherds tend the sheep, they but so much the longer sleep, 340
When mistrust enters, love departs, 379
When need is greatest, help is nearest, 178
When neighbours quarrel, lookers-on are more apt to add fuel than water, 401
When nought comes to aught, it does not know itself, 299
When old horses get warm, they are not easily held in, 177
When one door shuts, a hundred open, 244
When one foot stumbles, the other is near falling, 391
When one goose drinks, all drink, 171
When one has not what one likes, one must like what one has, 48
When one is dead, it is for a long while, 48
When one sheep is over the dam, the rest follow, 298
When one wolf eats another, there is nothing to eat in the wood, 245
When (or after) our daughter is married, sons-in-law are plenty, 47, 195
When poor, liberal; when rich, penurious, 244
When poverty (or misfortune) comes in at the door, love flies out at the window, 171, 178
When prosperity smiles, beware of its guiles, 299
When rogues go in procession the devil carries the cross, 122
When shepherds quarrel, the wolf has a winning game, 178
When the ass is too happy he begins dancing on the ice, 297
When the bee sucks, it makes honey, when the spider, poison, 245
When the beer (or wine) goes in the wit goes out, 298, 392
When the blind man carries the banner, woe to those who follow, 47
When the cage is ready the bird is flown, 47
When the calf is drowned they cover the well, 332
When the calf is stolen, the peasant mends the stall, 178
When the cat sleeps, the mice play, 297
When the cat’s away, it is jubilee with the mice, 298
When the cat’s away the mice (or rats) dance, 122
When the cat’s away the mice will play, 1, 178, 261, 292, 391
When the child cuts its teeth, death is on the watch, 244
When the child is christened come godfathers enough, 11
When the cook and the steward fall out we hear who stole the butter, 298
When the cook is roasting for the butler, woe to the master’s wine-cask, 391
When the cord is tightest it is nearest snapping, 392
When the corsair promises masses and candles, it goes ill with the galley, 243
When the crane attempts to dance with the horse she gets broken bones, 393
When the devil finds the door shut he goes away, 46, 200
When the devil gets into the church he seats himself on the altar, 331
When the devil grows old he turns hermit, 47, 102
When the devil says his pater-nosters (or prayers) he means to cheat you, 47, 243
When the dog is awake the shepherd may sleep, 177
When the dog is down, every one is ready to bite him, 297
When the dog is drowning every one brings him water, 47
When the door is low one must stoop, 47
When the fields yield not, the saints have not, 244
When the fool has made up his mind the market is over, 243
When the fox licks his paw let the farmer look after his geese, 392
When the fox preaches, look to the geese, 177
When the fox preaches, take care of yourselves, poultry, 123
When the fox preaches to the goose her neck is in danger, 392
When the fox wants to catch geese, he wags his tail, 177
When the Frenchman sleeps the devil rocks him, 47
When the game is most thriving it is time to leave off, 392
When the goose trusts the fox then woe to her neck, 391
When the guest is in most favour he will do well to quit, 177
When the head aches all the limbs ache, 391
When the head is sick the whole body is sick, 299
When the helm is gone the ship will soon be wrecked, 391
When the hen has laid an egg she cackles, 152
When the host smiles most blandly he has an eye to the guest’s purse, 393
When the husband earns well the wife spins well, 298
When the iron is hot, then is the time to strike, 243
When the jest is at its best, ’twill be well to let it rest, 178
When the lion is dead the hares jump upon his carcase, 122
When the lords come out of the council-house, they are wiser than when they went in, 178
When the manger is empty the horses fight, 392
When the measure is full, it runs over, 179
When the millers are making an uproar, tie up your sacks; 122
When the mouse has had enough (or its fill) the meal is bitter, 298, 392
When the old dog barks he gives counsel, 219, 288
When the pear is ripe, it falls, 122, 178
When the pig has had a bellyful it upsets the trough, 299
When the prior plays cards, what will the monks do?, 243
When the rabbit has escaped, comes advice, 216
When the river makes no noise, it is either dried up or much swollen, 244
When the rooks are silent the swans begin to sing, 351
When the root is worthless, so is the tree, 188
When the sack is full it pricks up its ears, 178, 298
When the shepherd strays, the sheep stray, 297
When the Spaniard sings, he is either mad or has no money, 243
When the spleen increases, the body diminishes, 243
When the stomach is full the heart is glad, 297
When the summer is winter, and the winter summer, it is a sorry year, 244
When the sun shines on thee, thou needest not care for the moon, 122
When the sword is in the mouth you must caress the sheath, 392
When the tale of bricks is doubled, then comes Moses, 178
When the tree falls every one runs to cut boughs (or gather sticks), 342, 393
When the tree is down every one runs to it with a hatchet to cut wood, 88
When the tree is down everybody runs for branches, 47
When the waggon is tilting everybody gives it a shove, 393
When the will is prompt the legs are nimble, 94
When the wine is in the man, the wit is in the can, 342
When the wine is in (or goes in) the wit is (or goes) out, 94, 132, 289, 298, 392
When the wine runs to waste in the cellar, he mends the cask, 191
When the wolf grows old the crows ride him, 298
When the wolf’s ears appear, his body is not far off, 392
When the word is out it belongs to another (or some one else), 177
When the words are said, the holy water is made, 47
When the wound is healed the pain is forgotten, 392
When there are two friends to one purse, one sings, the other weeps, 215
When there is a fire in the neighbourhood carry water to your own house, 123
When there is little bread at table put plenty on your plate, 122
When there is no wind every man is a pilot, 47
When there is nothing the church loses, 123
When there is room in the heart there is room in the house, 378
When they give you the calf be ready with the halter, 244
When they offer you a ring, hold out your finger, 244
When thieves fall out, honest men come to their goods, 342
When thieves fall out, their knaveries (or thefts) come to light, 35, 239, 291, 393
When thine enemy retreateth, make him a golden bridge (For a flying enemy make a silver bridge), 299
When things go well it is easy to advise, 299
When thou seest thy house in flames, go warm thyself by it, 245
When thy neighbour’s house is on fire it’s time to look about thee, 299
When two dogs fight for a bone, the third runs away with it, 299
When two enemies blow one horn, the third will have to suffer for it, 392
When two quarrel both are in the wrong, 302
When two Sundays come together, 191
When we ask a favour we say, Madam; when we obtain it, what we please, 244
When we least expect it, the hare darts out of the ditch, 302
When we think to catch we are sometimes caught, 195
When wine enters modesty departs, 94
When wisdom fails luck helps, 357
When wise men play the fool (or pranks) they do it with a vengeance, 108
When woman reigns, the devil governs, 122
When you are an anvil, bear; when you are a hammer, strike, 243
When you are on the road speak not ill of your enemy, 244
When you are well off, keep as you are, 47
When you can’t get bread, oat-cakes are not amiss, 198
When you can’t get meat chickens and bacon are good, 198
When you eat new bread don’t drink water, 243
When you go to a strange house knock at the door, 244
When you go to dance, take heed whom you take by the hand, 376
When you see the wolf, do not look for his track, 123
When your devil was born, mine was going to school, 122
Where a man feels pain he lays his hand, 302
Where a woman rules the house the devil is serving-man, 188
Where every one goes, the grass never grows, 189
Where force prevails, right perishes, 214
Where friars abound, keep your eyes open, 222
Where friends, there riches, 189, 289
Where ghosts walk, there is loving or thieving, 190
Where God bestows an office, he provides brains to fill it, 177
Where God builds a church the devil builds a chapel, 188
Where gold chinks, arguments are of no avail (Where gold avails, argument fails), 189
Where honour grows a span, folly grows an ell, 174
Where law lacks, honour should eke it out, 357
Where love is, there the eye is, 94
Where luck is wanting, diligence is useless, 214
Where might is master, justice is servant, 189
Where might is right, right is not might, 189
Where misfortune befals injuries follow, 5
Where money and counsel are wanting, it is best not to make war, 379
Where one door is shut another opens, 215
Where poverty comes in at the door, love flies out at the window, 297
Where remedies are needed, sighing avails not, 93
Where shall the ox go, and not have to plough?, 214, 289
Where shall the ox go but he must labour, since he knows how?, 266
Where the bee sucks honey, the spider sucks poison, 342
Where the best wine grows, the worst is drunk, 188
Where the bird was hatched, it haunts, 307
Where the carrion is, there the eagles gather, 378
Where the cock is the hen does not crow, 289
Where the devil cannot put his head he puts his tail, 102
Where the devil can’t go himself, he sends an old woman, 188
Where the dike (or dam) is lowest, the water first runs over, 342
Where the goat is tied she must browse, 44
Where the goat leaps, leaps that which sucks her, 241
Where the hedge is lowest, every one goes over, 94, 188, 342
Where the hedge is lowest men leap over, 44
Where the hedge is lowest, the devil leaps over, 188
Where the hostess is handsome the wine is good, 44
Where the lion’s skin falls short, borrow of the fox, 188
Where the lion’s skin falls short, piece it out with (or join) that of the fox, 93, 94
Where the Pope is, Rome is, 94
Where the river is deepest it makes least noise, 94, 215, 289
Where the sea goes let the sands go, 241
Where the ship goes the brig can go, 94
Where the thread is weakest it breaks, 44
Where the wasp has passed the fly sticks fast, 44
Where the wolf gets one lamb he looks for another, 94, 218, 289
Where there are no dogs the fox is a king, 94
Where there are too many cooks the soup will be too salt (Too many cooks spoil the broth), 94
Where there are too many workmen there is little work, 189
Where there is discipline there is virtue; where there is peace there is plenty, 378
Where there is great love there is great pain, 94
Where there is least heart there is most tongue, 94
Where there is little bread, cut first, 267
Where there is no honour there is no dishonour, 289
Where there is no sore there needs no plaister, 44
Where there is no want of will there will be no want of opportunity, 235
Where there is no wit within, no wit will come out, 357
Where there is not equality there never can be perfect love, 94
Where there is nothing, the king (or emperor) loses his rights, 44, 189, 342
Where there is shame, there is virtue, 189
Where there’s a will there’s a way, 67, 214
Where there’s fire there’s smoke, 214
Where there’s money, there is the devil; but where there’s none, a greater evil, 189
Where there’s no fire there’s no smoke, 276, 289
Where there’s no good within, no good comes out, 302
Where there’s no jealousy, there’s no love, 189
Where there’s no love, all faults are seen, 189
Where there’s no might there’s no right, 289
Where there’s no shame, there’s no honour, 189, 308
Where they eat your meat let them pick the bones, 215
Where two fall out the third wins, 189
Where water has been, water will come again, 189
Where will is right, law is banished, 379
Where wine goes in, modesty goes out, 94, 189
Where you cannot climb over you must creep under, 379
Where you lost your cloak, seek it, 215
Where you smart there I will hit you, 204
Where you tell your secret you surrender your freedom, 267
Where you think there is bacon there are not even hooks for it, 194
Where you were a page be not an esquire, 276
Where your father has been with ink, go not you with a bag (_i.e._ what your father has sold and assigned, think not to recover with a bag of papers. In other words, don’t go to law for it), 215
Where’er an ass is crowned to fame, both town and country bear the shame, 189
Wherever there is a pretty spot, the devil plants a monastery or a lord, 189
Wherever there is mischief, there is sure to be a priest and a woman in it, 189
Wherever you are, do as you see done (When you are at Rome, do as Rome does), 214, 241
Whether it be so or not, husband, put on your hood (He had told her there was a new law that every man with horns should wear a hood), 241
Whether the pitcher strike the stone, or the stone the pitcher, woe to the pitcher, 256
While the dogs yelp the hare flies to the wood, 390
While the grass is growing the steed starves, 174, 317, 390
While the great bells are ringing no one hears the little ones, 391
While the pot boils friendship blooms, 169
While there’s life there’s hope, 99, 276
Whilst the dogs are growling at each other the wolf devours the sheep, 45
Whilst the grass grows the steed starves, 110, 154
Whilst the nurse suckles we love her; when she is of no further use she is forgotten, 222
Whilst the tall maid is stooping the little one sweeps the house, 232, 276
White hands are no offence, 228
White meal is not got out of a coal-sack, 16
Whither goest thou, misfortune? To where there is more, 194, 276
Whither goest thou, sorrow? Whither I am used to go, 194
Whither shall the ox go where he will not have to plough?, 194, 214, 289
Who accepts nothing has nothing to return, 184
Who accepts, sells himself, 85
Who answers for another, pays, 52
Who are ready to believe are easy to deceive, 183
Who arrays himself in other men’s garments is stripped on the highway, 247
Who avoids small sins does not fall into great ones, 183
Who begins amiss ends amiss, 187
Who blackens others does not whiten himself, 179
Who blows his nose too hard makes it bleed, 50
Who bows to might loses his right, 186
Who builds on the mob builds on sand, 81
Who buys land buys war, 79
Who buys wants a hundred eyes, who sells need have but one, 311
Who can escape envy and blame that speaks or writes for public fame?, 343
Who cannot beat the horse let him beat the saddle, 84
Who cannot fight wins nought by right, 184
Who cannot sing may whistle, 184
Who cannot work out his salvation by heart will not do it by book, 50
Who carries doubtful people to his house will doubtless from his carriage something lose, 187
Who changes country, changes luck, 83
Who changes his condition changes fortune, 83
Who chastises his child will be honoured by him, who chastises him not will be shamed, 344
Who comes first grinds first, 186, 309
Who comes seldom is welcome, 85
Who comes unbidden departs unthanked, 186
Who could live without hope?, 52
Who dangles after the great is the last at table and the first to be cuffed, 85
Who deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceive me twice, shame on me, 183