[FONT="]Further to my last post "Expressions from the Past" pleas check out these ancient proverbs. Some are very close to those we still use today.[/FONT]
[FONT="]ENJOY:lol: [/FONT]
[FONT="]A Dictionary of Proverbs in England in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries: " MP Tilley, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press 1950[/FONT]
[FONT="]This is a vast book containing over 11,000 proverbs and sayings out of which I have selected those below. The dates are those where the phrase is first recorded; many are of course much older. Many of the quotes include "as the proverb says" or similar.[/FONT]
[FONT="]He swears like an abbot/lord/tinker 1531[/FONT]
[FONT="]He that spends beyond his ability may hang himself with great agility 1611[/FONT]
[FONT="]There is no accord where every Jack would be a lord 1546[/FONT]
[FONT="]As owlde as Adam 1578[/FONT]
[FONT="]When Adam delved and Eve span who was then the gentleman 1530[/FONT]
[FONT="]As deaf as an adder 1605[/FONT]
[FONT="]Much ado abo26[/FONT]
[FONT="]As meek as a lamb 1520[/FONT]
[FONT="]As soon goes the young lambskin to market as the old ewe's 1527[/FONT]
[FONT="]He that buys land buys many stones, he that buys flesh buys many bones, he that buys eggs buys many shells, but he that buys good ale buys nothing else 1565[/FONT]
[FONT="]The lapwing cries most when farthest from her nest 1580[/FONT]
[FONT="]To sing like a lark 1590[/FONT]
[FONT="]As lithe as a lass of Kent 1579[/FONT]
[FONT="]Last but not least 1580[/FONT]
[FONT="]I'm not worthy to loose the latchet of his shoes 1568[/FONT]
[FONT="]Better late than never 1529[/FONT]
[FONT="]To lay in lavender[in pawn] 1600[/FONT]
[FONT="]Agree, for the law is costly 1616[/FONT]
[FONT="]Law, logic and switzers may be hired to fight for anybody 1593[/FONT]
[FONT="]To have the law in one's own hand 1599[/FONT]
[FONT="]Law catches little flies but lets great hoenets go free 1552[/FONT]
[FONT="]The more laws the more sins 1573[/FONT]
[FONT="]A lawyer will not plead but for money 1460[/FONT]
[FONT="]As heavy as lead 1553[/FONT]
[FONT="]To have lead on one's heels 1475[/FONT]
[FONT="]He quakes like an aspen leaf 1475[/FONT]
[FONT="]He that is afraid of leaves must go not to the wood 1596[/FONT]
[FONT="]To turn over a new leaf 1546[/FONT]
[FONT="]He that will thrive must ask leave of his wife 1475[/FONT]
[FONT="]A leg of a lark is better that the body of a kite 1546[/FONT]
[FONT="]To be on one's last legs 1599[/FONT]
[FONT="]A panther may not change his spots 1605[/FONT]
[FONT="]A liar is not believed when he tells the truth 1477[/FONT]
[FONT="]A liar should have a good memory 1531[/FONT]
[FONT="]You are a lick-the-widdy[you deserve hanging] 1508[/FONT]
[FONT="]Life is but a span 1578[/FONT]
[FONT="]Life is short but sweet 1576[/FONT]
[FONT="]Where there's life there's hope 1539[/FONT]
[FONT="]He is lifless that is faultless 1546[/FONT]
[FONT="]To hide one's light under a bushel 1560[/FONT]
[FONT="]Like breeds like 1560[/FONT]
[FONT="]Loke will draw to like 1509[/FONT]
[FONT="]As white as a lily [/FONT]
[FONT="]He swears like an abbot/lord/tinker 1531[/FONT]
[FONT="]He that spends beyond his ability may hang himself with great agility 1611[/FONT]
[FONT="]There is no accord where every Jack would be a lord 1546[/FONT]
[FONT="]As owlde as Adam 1578[/FONT]
[FONT="]When Adam delved and Eve span who was then the gentleman 1530[/FONT]
[FONT="]As deaf as an adder 1605[/FONT]
[FONT="]Much ado about nothing 1529[/FONT]
[FONT="]Do not add affliction to the afflicted 1550[/FONT]
[FONT="]Age and wedlock do bring a man to his night-cap 1594[/FONT]
[FONT="]Age breeds aches 1596[/FONT]
[FONT="]Where old age is evil,youth can learn no good 1535[/FONT]
[FONT="]Agues come on horseback but go away on foot 1611[/FONT]
[FONT="]Ale that would make a cat speak 1585[/FONT]
[FONT="]He mends as sour ale mends in summer 1546[/FONT]
[FONT="]Covet all, lose all 1536[/FONT]
[FONT="]All that glistens isn't gold 1536[/FONT]
[FONT="]All's well that ends well 1536[/FONT]
[FONT="]All lay load on a willing horse 1611[/FONT]
[FONT="]All shall be well and Jack shall have Jill 1517[/FONT]
[FONT="]To set all at sixes and sevens 1542[/FONT]
[FONT="]An ape is an ape though clad in scarlet 1539[/FONT]
[FONT="]As drunk as an ape 1500[/FONT]
[FONT="]As wise as an ape 1530[/FONT]
[FONT="]Apparel maketh the man 1500[/FONT]
[FONT="]The apple of my eye 1562[/FONT]
[FONT="]As like as an apple is to an oyster 1559[/FONT]
[FONT="]A rotten apple... 1577[/FONT]
[FONT="]A good archer is not known by his arrows but his aim 1580[/FONT]
[FONT="]Oftentimes the arrow hits the shooter 1536[/FONT]
[FONT="]As pale as ashes 1475[/FONT]
[FONT="]You would lose our ass if it be loose 1552[/FONT]
[FONT="]To dance attendance.. 1522[/FONT]
[FONT="]ur in vain] 1542[/FONT]
[FONT="]An evening red and a morning gray is the sign of a fair day 1586[/FONT]
[FONT="]He sucked evil from the dug 1531[/FONT]
[FONT="]He that helps evil hurts the good 1526[/FONT]
[FONT="]The least of two evils 1500[/FONT]
[FONT="]Experience is the mistress of fools 1570[/FONT]
[FONT="]Experience is the mother of wisdom 1576[/FONT]
[FONT="]Have an eye to the main chance 1578[/FONT]
[FONT="]That the eye sees not, the heart rues not 1546[/FONT]
[FONT="]To be an eyesore 1546[/FONT]
[FONT="] One eyewitness is better than twenty earwitnesses 1590[/FONT]
[FONT="]As witty as a haddock 1510[/FONT]
[FONT="]To bring haddock to paddock[to come to destitution]1546[/FONT]
[FONT="]Beware of had I wist 1500[/FONT]
[FONT="]Had I wist come too late 1565[/FONT]
[FONT="]As thick as haile 1509[/FONT]
[FONT="]Hail fellow well met 1519[/FONT]
[FONT="]His hair grows through his hood 1515[/FONT]
[FONT="]It goes against the hair 1579[/FONT]
[FONT="]Take a hair of the dog that bit you 1546[/FONT]
[FONT="]Not to stir a hair's breadth 1533[/FONT]
[FONT="]What we lost in hake we shall have in herring 1602[/FONT]
[FONT="]Better half a loaf than no bread 1546[/FONT]
[FONT="]My better half 1590[/FONT]
[FONT="]Half warned in half armed 1530[/FONT]
[FONT="]It is hard halting before a cripple 1540[/FONT]
[FONT="]Between the hammer and the anvil 1535[/FONT]
[FONT="]He knows not his right hand from his left 1535[/FONT]
[FONT="]One hand washes the other and both wash the face 1567[/FONT]
[FONT="]Put not your hand between the bark and the tree 1546[/FONT]
[FONT="]To have the upper hand 1470[/FONT]
[FONT="]To live from hand to mouth 1559[/FONT]
[FONT="]Many hands make light work 1536[/FONT]
[FONT="]To wash your hands of a thing 1554[/FONT]
[FONT="]Tis better to be happy than wise 1546[/FONT]
[FONT="]As mad as a march hare 1497[/FONT]
[FONT="]To run with the hare and hunt with the hound 1546[/FONT]
[FONT="]You shall as soon catch a hare with a tabor 1520[/FONT]
[FONT="]Set the hare's foot against the goose giblets [tit for tat] 1546[/FONT]
[FONT="]Better the harm I know than that I know not 1552[/FONT]
[FONT="]They agree like harp and arrow [not at all] 1559[/FONT]
[FONT="]A long harvest of little corn 1562[/FONT]
[FONT="]Haste makes waste 1534[/FONT]
[FONT="]Resolve in haste repent at leisure 1477[/FONT]
[FONT="]Marry in haste... 1566[/FONT]
[FONT="]More haste than good speed 1546[/FONT]
[FONT="]He is none of the Hastings [he is slow/slack] 1546[/FONT]
[FONT="]As hungry as a horse 1555[/FONT]
[FONT="]Make hay while the sun shines 1509[/FONT]
[FONT="]Better be the head of the yoemanry than the tail of the gentry 1589[/FONT]
[FONT="]His head is full of bees 1513[/FONT]
[FONT="]To be over head and ears in a thing 1534[/FONT]
[FONT="]Two heads are better than one 1530[/FONT]
[FONT="]Faint heart ne'er won the lady 1552[/FONT]
[FONT="]A heart as hard as stone 1489[/FONT]
[FONT="]His heart is in his hose 1522[/FONT]
[FONT="]A merry heart lives long 1553[/FONT]
[FONT="]To eat one's heart out 1535[/FONT]
[FONT="]Take heed of enemies reconciled and of meat twice boiled 1585[/FONT]
[FONT="]To cool one's heels 1602[/FONT]
[FONT="]As black as hell 1511[/FONT]
[FONT="]From Hell Hull and Halifax , good Lord deliver us 1595[/FONT]
[FONT="]Hell is broke loose 1573[/FONT]
[FONT="]To throw the helve after the hatchet 1577[/FONT]
[FONT="]Turkeys[/FONT][FONT="] carps hops piccarell and beer came into England all in one year 1599[/FONT]
[FONT="]Do on the hill as you would in the hall 1509[/FONT]
[FONT="]There is no hill without its valley 1583[/FONT]
[FONT="]Hit or miss 1547[/FONT]
[FONT="]Hobbledehoy, half a man and half a boy 1540[/FONT]
[FONT="]As fat as a hog 1470[/FONT]
[FONT="]The Holy scripture is made a nose of wax 1529[out of context][/FONT]
[FONT="]Home is home be it never so homely 1546[/FONT]
[FONT="]Honey is sweet but the bee stings 1576[/FONT]
[FONT="]It is but honey moon with them 1546[/FONT]
[FONT="] It is better to die in honour that live in shame 1557[/FONT]
[FONT="]Honours do change manners 1548[/FONT]
[FONT="]By hook or by crook 1525[/FONT]
[FONT="]As round as a hoop 1555[/FONT]
[FONT="]Hope well have well 1540[/FONT]
[FONT="]As shortly as a horse will lick his ear 1546[/FONT]
[FONT="]Do not spur a willing horse 1477[/FONT]
[FONT="]A grunting horse and a groaning wife never fail there master 1546[/FONT]
[FONT="]He that hath a white horse and a fair wife never wants trouble 1581[/FONT]
[FONT="]He will lie as fast as a horse will trot 1530[/FONT]
[FONT="]Look not a gift horse in the mouth 1508[/FONT]
[FONT="]A short horse is soon curried 1536[/FONT]
[FONT="]He keeps open house 1530[/FONT]
[FONT="]He will burn his house to warm his hands 1481[/FONT]
[FONT="]It is a sad house when the hen crows louder that the cock 1573[/FONT]
[FONT="]A smoking house and a chiding wife make a man run out of his house 1530[/FONT]
[FONT="]To eat out of house and home 1483[/FONT]
[FONT="]In huggermugger 1517[/FONT]
[FONT="]What some win in the hundred they lose in the shires 1520[/FONT]
[FONT="]Hunger breaks down stone walls 1546[/FONT]
[FONT="]Hunger drops out of his nose 1517[/FONT]
[FONT="]Hunger is the best sauce 1542 [/FONT]
[FONT="]Hunger makes hard beans sweet 1536[/FONT]
[FONT="]A good husband makes a good wife 1591[/FONT]
[FONT="]To laugh like a hyena 1594[/FONT]
[FONT="]To break the ice 1535[/FONT]
[FONT="]It is better to be idle than ill ocupied 1560[/FONT]
[FONT="]Idleness begets lust 1567[/FONT]
[FONT="]Idleness is the devil 's cushion 1577[/FONT]
[FONT="]Idleness is the root of all evil 1483[/FONT]
[FONT="]Ignorance of the law excuseth no man 1530[/FONT]
[FONT="]He that speaks ill of another let him think first of himself 1573[/FONT]
[FONT="]Ill will never speaks well 1558[/FONT]
[FONT="]Give an inch and he will take an ell 1546[/FONT]
[FONT="]He will not yield an inch 1588[/FONT]
[FONT="]He makes indentures with his legs 1605[zigzags about as if drunk][/FONT]
[FONT="]As black as ink 1515[/FONT]
[FONT="]To get an inkling of a thing 1546[/FONT]
[FONT="]To be high in the instep[proud] 1546[/FONT]
[FONT="]Iron not used soon rusts 1578[/FONT]
[FONT="]Strike while the iron is hot 1500[/FONT]
[FONT="]To have a stomach like an ostrich[like iron]1578[/FONT]
[FONT="]Other irons in the fire 1576[/FONT]
[FONT="]As white as ivory 1565[/FONT]
[FONT="]Jack would be a gentleman 1500[/FONT]
[FONT="]True jests are the worst 1599[/FONT]
[FONT="]Jest not with edged tools 1508[/FONT]
[FONT="]As black as jet 1510[/FONT]
[FONT="]Joan is as good as my lady in the dark 1525[/FONT]
[FONT="]He is John Herb in the pottage ,that will do niether good nor harm 1599[/FONT]
[FONT="]The times are out of joint 1591[/FONT]
[FONT="]Joy shared is sorrow halved 1583[/FONT]
[FONT="]To give a Judas kiss 1523[/FONT]
[FONT="]Jupiter himself pleaseth not at all 1581[/FONT]
[FONT="]He is wise enough that can keep himself warm 1537[/FONT]
[FONT="]He that will eat the kernel ,let him crack the nut 1500[/FONT]
[FONT="]As cold as a key 1501[/FONT]
[FONT="]The nearer in kin the less in kindness 1565[/FONT]
[FONT="]To kill with kindness 1558[/FONT]
[FONT="]Like king like people 1525[/FONT]
[FONT="]Nearest the king nearest the gallows 1536[/FONT]
[FONT="]He clips the King's English[he is drunk] 1600[/FONT]
[FONT="]The King's English 1553[/FONT]
[FONT="]Many kinsfolk few friends 1546[/FONT]
[FONT="]Who frequents the kitchen will smell of smoke 1591[/FONT]
[FONT="]Neither kith nor kin 1560[/FONT]
[FONT="]A crafty knave needs no broker 1595[/FONT]
[FONT="]The more knave the better luck 1550[/FONT]
[FONT="]One knave seeks out another 1559[/FONT]
[FONT="]The same knife cuts both bread and fingure 1579[/FONT]
[FONT="]He has tied a knot with his tongue 1580[/FONT]
[FONT="]I wot what I wot 1546[/FONT]
[FONT="]To know what is what 1522[/FONT]
[FONT="]He has his labour for his pains 1589[/FONT]
[FONT="]Past labour is present 1539[/FONT]
[FONT="]He that will not labour must not eat 1535[/FONT]
[FONT="]The laborer is worthy of his hire 1508[/FONT]
[FONT="]What do you lack? What will you buy[hucksters call] 1563[/FONT]
[FONT="]As chaste as a lamb 15 1485[/FONT]
[FONT="]A lion in the field, a lamb in the town 1557[/FONT]
[FONT="]Scald not your lips in another man's pottage 1598[/FONT]
[FONT="]With what liquor a vessel is first seasoned, it will long keep the scent of it 1509[/FONT]
[FONT="]By little and little 1548[/FONT]
[FONT="]Little said , soon amended 1550[/FONT]
[FONT="]Many a little makes a mickle 1535[/FONT]
[FONT="]Though he said little he thought the more 1475[/FONT]
[FONT="]Live and let live 1598[/FONT]
[FONT="]Live charily if not chasly 1561[/FONT]
[FONT="]Too soon wise to live long 1576[/FONT]
[FONT="]Live well, die well 1506[/FONT]
[FONT="]No lock will hold against the power of gold 1580[/FONT]
[FONT="]To keep under lock and key 1566[/FONT]
[FONT="]He is sick of the Lombard fever[is idle] 1553[/FONT]
[FONT="]The long and the short of it 1571[/FONT]
[FONT="]Look ere you leap 1528[/FONT]
[FONT="]New kings new laws 1548[/FONT]
[FONT="]I have dined so well as my Lord Mayor of London 1577[/FONT]
[FONT="]Better lost than found 1546[/FONT]
[FONT="]My gown is so bare that a lowse can get not holde on it 1530[/FONT]
[FONT="]Not worth a louse 1547[/FONT]
[FONT="]To flay a louse for the skin 1591[/FONT]
[FONT="]Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow 1562[/FONT]
[FONT="]Hot love is soon cold 1530[/FONT]
[FONT="]Not for love or money 1565[/FONT]
[FONT="]Love and an itch cannot be hid 1573[/FONT]
[FONT="]Love and lordship like no fellowship 1552[/FONT]
[FONT="]Love first enters in at the eyes 1539[/FONT]
[FONT="]Love is blind 1475[/FONT]
[FONT="]Love is potent but money is omnipotent 1611[/FONT]
[FONT="]Love lives in a cottage as well as in courts 1590[/FONT]
[FONT="]Love of lads and fire of chips is soon in and soon out 1460[/FONT]
[FONT="]Marry first and love will come after 1601[/FONT]
[FONT="]Love me little love me long 1546[/FONT]
[FONT="]Lovers live by love as larks live by leeks 156[/FONT]
[FONT="]To leave one in the lurch 1576[/FONT]
[FONT="]Maids say nay and take it 1534[/FONT]
[FONT="]Maidens should be seen and not heard 1560[/FONT]
[FONT="]To make or mar 1527[/FONT]
[FONT="]Malt is above meal[wheat] with him[drunk] 1546[/FONT]
[FONT="]As good a man as ever trod on shoe leather 1560[/FONT]
[FONT="]As honest a man as ever broke bread 1599[/FONT]
[FONT="]As long lives a merry man as a sad 1535[/FONT]
[FONT="]As the man so is his talk 1539[/FONT]
[FONT="]A blind man can judge no colours 1530[/FONT]
[FONT="]A blind man might see that 1562[/FONT]
[FONT="]Every man after his fashion 1517[/FONT]
[FONT="]Every man can rule a shrew but he that has her 1546[/FONT]
[FONT="]Every man for himself 1478[/FONT]
[FONT="]Every man is master in his own house 1596[/FONT]
[FONT="]Greet a red man and a bearded woman thre miles off 1573[/FONT]
[FONT="]An angry man never wants woe 1536[/FONT]
[FONT="]The healthful man gives good council to the sick 1539[/FONT]
[FONT="]If a man once fall, all will tread on him 1530[/FONT]
[FONT="]If a man will have his business well done he must do it himself 1611[/FONT]
[FONT="]If the young man knew and the old man could, there is nothing but would be done 1584[/FONT]
[FONT="]It is like to be true that every man sayeth 1520[/FONT]
[FONT="]A man after his own heart 1531[/FONT]
[FONT="]A man cannot be in two places at once 1509[/FONT]
[FONT="]A man cannot live on air like a chameleon 1557[/FONT]
[FONT="]Man is but a bubble 539[/FONT]
[FONT="]A man is weal or woe as he thinks himself so 1549[/FONT]
[FONT="]A man or a mouse 1542[/FONT]
[FONT="]Man proposes God disposes 1500[/FONT]
[FONT="]No man looses but another wins 1526[/FONT]
[FONT="]No man loves his fetters though made of gold 1562[/FONT]
[FONT="]One foot in the grave 1566[/FONT]
[FONT="]The rich man may dine when he will, the poor man when he may 1580[/FONT]
[FONT="]The rich man walks to get a stomach to his meat, the poor man to get meat for his stomach 1586[/FONT]
[FONT="]A wise man commonly has a fool to his heir 1552[/FONT]
[FONT="]He is not wise who sometimes cannot play the fool 1602[/FONT]
[FONT="]He has a nose like a shoeing horn[is wise/cunning] 1508[/FONT]
[FONT="]A man's countrie is where he does well 1576[/FONT]
[FONT="]A man's house is his castle 1581[/FONT]
[FONT="]One man's meat is another's poison 1587[/FONT]
[FONT="]When a man's house burns, play not at chess 1596[/FONT]
[FONT="]All men are mortal 1537[/FONT]
[FONT="]Dead men bite not 1548[/FONT]
[FONT="]Do as most men do and fewest will speak evil of you 1486[/FONT]
[FONT="]He that all men will please will never find ease 1560[/FONT]
[FONT="]Keep good men company and you shall be of the number 1477[/FONT]
[FONT="]Old men and travellers may lie by authority 1509[/FONT]
[FONT="]Poor man have no souls[no masses said for them after death] 1562[/FONT]
[FONT="]So many men so many minds 1539[/FONT]
[FONT="]Who waits for dead mens shoes shall long go barefoot 1530[/FONT]
[FONT="]As full of manners as an egg is of oatmeal 1520[/FONT]
[FONT="]Manners maketh man 1513[/FONT]
[FONT="]A fine marble needs no painting 1576[/FONT]
[FONT="]The grey mare is the better horse 1546[/FONT]
[FONT="]He has found a mare's nest and laughs the eggs[laughs with others but knows not what at] 1582[/FONT]
[FONT="]He shoots wide of the mark 1562[/FONT]
[FONT="]Marriage is destiny 1558[/FONT]
[FONT="]At marriages and burials friends and kinsfolk be known 1573[/FONT]
[FONT="]Marriages are made in heaven 1566[/FONT]
[FONT="]The marrowbone of the matter 1554[/FONT]
[FONT="]Marrying is marring 1546[/FONT]
[FONT="]It is neither mass nor matins[one or the other] 1450[/FONT]
[FONT="]Like master like servant 1530[/FONT]
[FONT="]Most masters wear no bridge. 15th century[/FONT]
[FONT="]The mater's eye makes the horse fat 1535[/FONT]
[FONT="]He has met his match 1470[/FONT]
[FONT="]As fresh as May 1600[/FONT]
[FONT="]To match May with December 1581[/FONT]
[FONT="]As tall as a Maypole 1602[/FONT]
[FONT="]To be mealymouthed 1546[/FONT]
[FONT="]With what measure you mete it shall be measured unto you 1523[/FONT]
[FONT="]After meat comes mustard[something comes too late] 1566[/FONT]
[FONT="]Meat makes and cloth shapes but manners maketh a man 1500[/FONT]
[FONT="]Of all the meat in the world drink goes best down 1525[/FONT]
[FONT="]Sweet meat must have sour sauce 1500[/FONT]
[FONT="]Either mend or end 1606[/FONT]
[FONT="]He is a merchant of eelskins[without wares] 1545[/FONT]
[FONT="]I cry you mercy, I took you for a joint stool[overlooked you]1594[/FONT]
[FONT="]Merry go down[strong ale]1475[/FONT]
[FONT="]He is a corbie messenger[does not return with the answer]1511[/FONT]
[FONT="]Better marry over the midden than over the moor 1598[/FONT]
[FONT="]Might overcomes right 1546[/FONT]
[FONT="]He that comes first to the mill. grinds first 1475[/FONT]
[FONT="]No Mill no meal 1577[/FONT]
[FONT="]Mills and wives are ever wanting 1581[/FONT]
[FONT="]An honest miller has a golden thumb 1510[/FONT]
[FONT="]The mill is a thief 1533[/FONT]
[FONT="]To have whittled[thwitten] a mill post to a pudding prick 1529[/FONT]
[FONT="]I can see as far into a millstone as any other 1540[/FONT]
[FONT="]His mind is on his meat 1578[/FONT]
[FONT="]There is no mirth without mourning 1580[/FONT]
[FONT="]Mischief comes by pounds and goes away by ounces 1573[/FONT]
[FONT="]A miser, like a hog, does no good until he dies 1560[/FONT]
[FONT="]Misfortune seldom comes alone 1475[/FONT]
[FONT="]Like Mistress like maid 1557[/FONT]
[FONT="]I care not a mite 1485[/FONT]
[FONT="]Mock and be mocked 1484[/FONT]
[FONT="]As blind as a mole 1548[/FONT]
[FONT="]Making a mountain from a molehill 1560[/FONT]
[FONT="]If money go before all ways lie open 1542[/FONT]
[FONT="]Money begets money 1587[/FONT]
[FONT="]Money is the sinews of war 1549[/FONT]
[FONT="]Money, like dung, does no good until it is spread 1564[/FONT]
[FONT="]Money makes the man 1542[/FONT]
[FONT="]Money makes the mare to go 15th century[/FONT]
[FONT="]No money no swiss 1596[/FONT]
[FONT="]To get money from him is like pulling teeth 1573[/FONT]
[FONT="]As changeful as the moon 1576[/FONT]
[FONT="]Midsummer moon[madness] 1588[/FONT]
[FONT="]Pale moon does rain, red moon does blow 1588[/FONT]
[FONT="]As black as a moor 1489[/FONT]
[FONT="]The more a man has the more he desires 1523[/FONT]
[FONT="]More belongs to marriage than four bare legs in a bed 1562[/FONT]
[FONT="]The more the merrier 1530[/FONT]
[FONT="]To have more of the serpent than the dove 1589[/FONT]
[FONT="]You can have no more of a cat than her skin 1564[can't have more than there is][/FONT]
[FONT="]By the morning one knows the day 1581[/FONT]
[FONT="]You can see a mote in another man's eye but not a beam in your own 1481[/FONT]
[FONT="]Like mother like daughter 1509[/FONT]
[FONT="]Every mother's son 1470[/FONT]
[FONT="]His Mother's milk is not out of his nose 1598[/FONT]
[FONT="]The mother's side is the surer side 1548[/FONT]
[FONT="]The mountain was in labour and brought forth a mouse 1549[/FONT]
[FONT="]He promises mountains and performs molehills 1576[/FONT]
[FONT="]As drunk as a mouse 1475[/FONT]
[FONT="]As safe as a mouse in a mill 1590[/FONT]
[FONT="]As mute as a mouse 1584[/FONT]
[FONT="]It is a wily mouse that breedeth in the cat's ear 1522[/FONT]
[FONT="]A mouse that has but one hole is quickly taken 1586[/FONT]
[FONT="]To look like a drowned rat 1500[/FONT]
[FONT="]A close mouth catches no flies 1599[/FONT]
[FONT="]To blow hot and cold 1577[/FONT]
[FONT="]A good mule, a good goat and a good woman were three unhappy creatures 1585[/FONT]
[FONT="]A multitude of people is a beast of many heads 1542[/FONT]
[FONT="]Mum is councel 1540[/FONT]
[FONT="]Murder will out 1481[/FONT]
[FONT="]A mushrump grows in a night 1573 [applied to upstarts][/FONT]
[FONT="]What must be must be 1546[/FONT]
[FONT="]He loves laced mutton[is a wencher] 1578[/FONT]
[FONT="]As naked as my nail 1533[/FONT]
[FONT="]to hit the nail on the head 1508[/FONT]
[FONT="]One nail drives out another 1539[/FONT]
[FONT="]Put down money upon the nail 1596[/FONT]
[FONT="]He that hath an evil name is half hanged 1546[/FONT]
[FONT="]He who gets a good name may piss abed and say he sweats 1591[/FONT]
[FONT="]To take one napping 1594[/FONT]
[FONT="]Nature abhores a vacuum 1551[/FONT]
[FONT="]Nature does nothing in vain 1481[/FONT]
[FONT="]Nature has given us two ears but one tongue 1535[/FONT]
[FONT="]Nature passeth nurture 1578[/FONT]
[FONT="]He that will not when he may,when he would he shall have nay 1530[/FONT]
[FONT="]Necessity is a hard weapon 1539[/FONT]
[FONT="]Necessity is the best schoolmistress 1519[/FONT]
[FONT="]Necessity is the mother of invention 1545[/FONT]
[FONT="]To seek a needle in a bundle of hay 1533[/FONT]
[FONT="]He that has a good neighbour has a good morrow 1566[/FONT]
[FONT="]A near neighbour is better than a far friend 1552[/FONT]
[FONT="]To feather ones nest 1553[/FONT]
[FONT="]He has pissed on a nettle 1546[is out of sorts][/FONT]
[FONT="]If you will learn news you must go to an oven or a mill 1611[/FONT]
[FONT="]In the nick of time 1565[/FONT]
[FONT="]As silent as night 1602[/FONT]
[FONT="]Dark night is Cupid's day 1595[/FONT]
[FONT="]To make a night of it 1602[/FONT]
[FONT="]To Bring a noble to ninepence 1546[/FONT]
[FONT="]As plain as the nose on a man's face 1581[/FONT]
[FONT="]He holds his nose to the grindstone[/FONT]
[FONT="]He puts his nose out of joint 1602[/FONT]
[FONT="]To follow one's nose 1508[/FONT]
[FONT="]Nothing but skin and bone 1548[/FONT]
[FONT="]He that knows nothing doubts nothing 1611[/FONT]
[FONT="]Nothing can come of nothing 1550[/FONT]
[FONT="]Nothing is impossible to a willing heart 1509[/FONT]
[FONT="]Nothing venture nothing win 1481[/FONT]
[FONT="]Nothing violent can be permanent 1565[/FONT]
[FONT="]As nice as a nun's hen 15th century[/FONT]
[FONT="]To have a nut to crack 1564[/FONT]
[FONT="]It touches him to the quick 1517[/FONT]
[FONT="]To lie at rack and manger[live in luxury] 1550[/FONT]
[FONT="]After the rain cometh the sun 1484[/FONT]
[FONT="]A small rain abateth a great wind 1500[/FONT]
[FONT="]As lean as a rake 1485[/FONT]
[FONT="]I smell a rat 1553[/FONT]
[FONT="]The croaking raven bodes misfortune 1589[/FONT]
[FONT="]As sharp as a razor 1519[/FONT]
[FONT="]Read not before you learn to spell 1600[/FONT]
[FONT="]Where there be no recievers there be no thieves 1546[/FONT]
[FONT="]Do not wear red before a bull or white before an elephant 1580[/FONT]
[FONT="]The relapse is worse that the disease 1576[/FONT]
[FONT="]There is a remedy for all things but death 1573[/FONT]
[FONT="]Saving your reverence ...1596[/FONT]
[FONT="]To play the Rex 1563[/FONT]
[FONT="]Neither rhyme nor reason 1529[/FONT]
[FONT="]The rich have many friends 1546[/FONT]
[FONT="]He rides sure that never fell 1470[/FONT]
[FONT="]It is good riding at two anchors[have two strings to the bow] 1562[/FONT]
[FONT="]Soon ripe soon rotten 1546[/FONT]
[FONT="]The rising of one man is the falling of another 1571[/FONT]
[FONT="]Follow the river and you will get to the sea 1594[/FONT]
[FONT="]To rule the roost 1500[/FONT]
[FONT="]Many speak of Robin Hood that never shot of his bow 1546[/FONT]
[FONT="]As firm as a rock 1558[/FONT]
[FONT="]He has made a rod for his own tail 1489[/FONT]
[FONT="]Spare the rod and spoil the child 1517[/FONT]
[FONT="]To have rods in piss for him[punishment in store] 1553[/FONT]
[FONT="]Rome[/FONT][FONT="] was not built in one day 1546[/FONT]
[FONT="]When in Rome...1536[/FONT]
[FONT="]As meet as a rope for a thief 1540[/FONT]
[FONT="]Every rose grows from prickles 1569[/FONT]
[FONT="]Under the Rose[between friends]..1546[/FONT]
[FONT="]He bears no more rule than a goose turd in the Thames 1546[/FONT]
[FONT="]There is no rule without some exception 1590[/FONT]
[FONT="]He may ill run that cannot go 1415[/FONT]
[FONT="]Strew green rushes for the sranger 1546[/FONT]
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[FONT="]To call a spade a spade 1539[/FONT]
[FONT="]Of a little spark a great fire 1509[/FONT]
[FONT="]Spick and span-new 1579[/FONT]
[FONT="]To put a spoke in one's cart 1580[/FONT]
[FONT="]He must have a long spoon that will eat with the devil 1546[/FONT]
[FONT="]He has won his spurs 1539[/FONT]
[FONT="]To set up one's staff 1573[decide to live there][/FONT]
[FONT="]As stiff as a staff 1566[/FONT]
[FONT="]As true as you stand there 1497[/FONT]
[FONT="]The higher th standing the greater the fall 1509[/FONT]
[FONT="]To look at the stars and fall into a ditch 1583[/FONT]
[FONT="]Shut the stable door before the horse be lost 1484[/FONT]
[FONT="]As hard as steel 1509[/FONT]
[FONT="]You would leap over the stile before you came at it 1546[/FONT]
[FONT="]Essex stiles, Kentish miles, Suffolk wiles, Norfolk giles. 16th century[/FONT]
[FONT="]To beat one as a stock fish[flat and dry with clubs and stocks] 1552[/FONT]
[FONT="]To wear yellow stockings and cross garters[to be jealous] 1584[/FONT]
[FONT="]My belly has rung noon 1571[/FONT]
[FONT="]It went against my stomach...1581[/FONT]
[FONT="]As cold as stone 1503[/FONT]
[FONT="]As hard as stone 1513[/FONT]
[FONT="]He has not a stone to cast at a dog 1594[/FONT]
[FONT="]He that stumbles twice at the same stone deserves to have his fingers broke 1552[/FONT]
[FONT="]A rollong stone gathers no moss 1536[/FONT]
[FONT="]To leave no stone unturned 1548[/FONT]
[FONT="]To roast a stone 1522[to labour in vain][/FONT]
[FONT="]Between two stools the ass goes to ground 1536[/FONT]
[FONT="]Store is no sore 1546[plenty does no harm][/FONT]
[FONT="]A cock and bull story 1608[/FONT]
[FONT="]To be strait laced 1546[/FONT]
[FONT="]Not to care a straw 1500[/FONT]
[FONT="]Not worth a straw 1489[/FONT]
[FONT="]They stumble at straw and leap over a block 1525[/FONT]
[FONT="]Go peel straws [contempt] 1522[/FONT]
[FONT="]It is folly to strive against the stream 1460[/FONT]
[FONT="]A little stream drives a light mill 1597[/FONT]
[FONT="]The stream stopped swells the higher 1576[/FONT]
[FONT="]To swim with the stream 1579[/FONT]
[FONT="]Harp no more on that string [change the subject] 1543[/FONT]
[FONT="]To have two strings to ones bow 1477[/FONT]
[FONT="]Many strokes fell oaks 1539[/FONT]
[FONT="]To be in a brown study 1579[/FONT]
[FONT="]To bestir one's stumps 1559[/FONT]
[FONT="]Loose not the substance for the shadow 1578[/FONT]
[FONT="]To be left in the suds 1573[/FONT]
[FONT="]To be sick of the sullens 1580[/FONT]
[FONT="]As clear as the sun 1539[/FONT]
[FONT="]The same sun melts wax and hardens clay 1579[/FONT]
[FONT="]The sun is never worse for shining on a dunghill 1578[/FONT]
[FONT="]The sun shines on all 1552[/FONT]
[FONT="]To light the sun with a candle 1540 [waste effort][/FONT]
[FONT="]When two Sundays come together 1598[/FONT]
[FONT="]No man can sup and blow together 1548[/FONT]
[FONT="]Light supper longer life 16th century[/FONT]
[FONT="]Suspicion is no proof 1546[/FONT]
[FONT="]As swift as a swallow 1551[/FONT]
[FONT="]One swallow makes not a summer 1539[/FONT]
[FONT="]To live by the sweat of one,s brows 1553[/FONT]
[FONT="]He deserves not the sweet who will not taste of the sour 1535[/FONT]
[FONT="]As drunk as a sow 1500[/FONT]
[FONT="]A swine overfat is the cause of his own bane 1562[/FONT]
[FONT="]He that strikes with the sword shall be beaten with the scabbard 1521[/FONT]
[FONT="]A wooden sword in a golden sheath 1542[/FONT]
[FONT="]Put not a sword in the hands of a child 1539[/FONT]
[FONT="]To slay with a leaden sword 1559[to convince with a weak argument][/FONT]
[FONT="]To stand to one,s tackling 1562[stand your ground][/FONT]
[FONT="]Tag rag and bobtail 1553[/FONT]
[FONT="]To turn tail 1596[/FONT]
[FONT="]Take it as you will 1580[/FONT]
[FONT="]Take it or leave it 1603[/FONT]
[FONT="]To take one as we find him 1559[/FONT]
[FONT="]Must I tell you a tale and find your ears 1546[to one who does not listen][/FONT]
[FONT="]A tale of a roasted horse 1570[nonesense][/FONT]
[FONT="]A tale of a tub 1546[ditto][/FONT]
[FONT="]Thereby hangs a tale 1523[/FONT]
[FONT="]To take the word out of one,s mouth 1530[/FONT]
[FONT="]You tell a tale to a deaf man 1538[/FONT]
[FONT="]Tales of Robin Hood[fools tales] 1509[/FONT]
[FONT="]To tell tales out of school 1530[/FONT]
[FONT="]Great talk least work 1523[/FONT]
[FONT="]To swallow a tavern token[be drunk] 1604[/FONT]
[FONT="]Tell me it snows[nonesense]1585[/FONT]
[FONT="]They came thick and threefold[plentifully] 1548[/FONT]
[FONT="]Through thick and thin 1475[/FONT]
[FONT="]As safe as a thief in a mill 1606[/FONT]
[FONT="]Save a thief from the gallows and he will cut your throat.1484[/FONT]
[FONT="]The thief knoweth the thief 1539[/FONT]
[FONT="]A staff is soon found to beat a dog 1564[/FONT]
[FONT="]There is no new thing under the sun 1594[/FONT]
[FONT="]A thing done well is ever done 1530[/FONT]
[FONT="]Too much of one thing is good for nothing 1500[/FONT]
[FONT="]Topsy turvey 1523[/FONT]
[FONT="]All things that breed in the mud are not eels 1580[/FONT]
[FONT="]Little things catch little minds 1576[/FONT]
[FONT="]Many things fall between the cup and the lip 1539[/FONT]
[FONT="]Things are not as they seem 1573[/FONT]
[FONT="]Things done cannot be undone 1539[/FONT]
[FONT="]Things that are above us are nothing to us 1539[/FONT]
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[FONT="]ENJOY:lol: [/FONT]
[FONT="]A Dictionary of Proverbs in England in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries: " MP Tilley, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press 1950[/FONT]
[FONT="]This is a vast book containing over 11,000 proverbs and sayings out of which I have selected those below. The dates are those where the phrase is first recorded; many are of course much older. Many of the quotes include "as the proverb says" or similar.[/FONT]
[FONT="]He swears like an abbot/lord/tinker 1531[/FONT]
[FONT="]He that spends beyond his ability may hang himself with great agility 1611[/FONT]
[FONT="]There is no accord where every Jack would be a lord 1546[/FONT]
[FONT="]As owlde as Adam 1578[/FONT]
[FONT="]When Adam delved and Eve span who was then the gentleman 1530[/FONT]
[FONT="]As deaf as an adder 1605[/FONT]
[FONT="]Much ado abo26[/FONT]
[FONT="]As meek as a lamb 1520[/FONT]
[FONT="]As soon goes the young lambskin to market as the old ewe's 1527[/FONT]
[FONT="]He that buys land buys many stones, he that buys flesh buys many bones, he that buys eggs buys many shells, but he that buys good ale buys nothing else 1565[/FONT]
[FONT="]The lapwing cries most when farthest from her nest 1580[/FONT]
[FONT="]To sing like a lark 1590[/FONT]
[FONT="]As lithe as a lass of Kent 1579[/FONT]
[FONT="]Last but not least 1580[/FONT]
[FONT="]I'm not worthy to loose the latchet of his shoes 1568[/FONT]
[FONT="]Better late than never 1529[/FONT]
[FONT="]To lay in lavender[in pawn] 1600[/FONT]
[FONT="]Agree, for the law is costly 1616[/FONT]
[FONT="]Law, logic and switzers may be hired to fight for anybody 1593[/FONT]
[FONT="]To have the law in one's own hand 1599[/FONT]
[FONT="]Law catches little flies but lets great hoenets go free 1552[/FONT]
[FONT="]The more laws the more sins 1573[/FONT]
[FONT="]A lawyer will not plead but for money 1460[/FONT]
[FONT="]As heavy as lead 1553[/FONT]
[FONT="]To have lead on one's heels 1475[/FONT]
[FONT="]He quakes like an aspen leaf 1475[/FONT]
[FONT="]He that is afraid of leaves must go not to the wood 1596[/FONT]
[FONT="]To turn over a new leaf 1546[/FONT]
[FONT="]He that will thrive must ask leave of his wife 1475[/FONT]
[FONT="]A leg of a lark is better that the body of a kite 1546[/FONT]
[FONT="]To be on one's last legs 1599[/FONT]
[FONT="]A panther may not change his spots 1605[/FONT]
[FONT="]A liar is not believed when he tells the truth 1477[/FONT]
[FONT="]A liar should have a good memory 1531[/FONT]
[FONT="]You are a lick-the-widdy[you deserve hanging] 1508[/FONT]
[FONT="]Life is but a span 1578[/FONT]
[FONT="]Life is short but sweet 1576[/FONT]
[FONT="]Where there's life there's hope 1539[/FONT]
[FONT="]He is lifless that is faultless 1546[/FONT]
[FONT="]To hide one's light under a bushel 1560[/FONT]
[FONT="]Like breeds like 1560[/FONT]
[FONT="]Loke will draw to like 1509[/FONT]
[FONT="]As white as a lily [/FONT]
[FONT="]He swears like an abbot/lord/tinker 1531[/FONT]
[FONT="]He that spends beyond his ability may hang himself with great agility 1611[/FONT]
[FONT="]There is no accord where every Jack would be a lord 1546[/FONT]
[FONT="]As owlde as Adam 1578[/FONT]
[FONT="]When Adam delved and Eve span who was then the gentleman 1530[/FONT]
[FONT="]As deaf as an adder 1605[/FONT]
[FONT="]Much ado about nothing 1529[/FONT]
[FONT="]Do not add affliction to the afflicted 1550[/FONT]
[FONT="]Age and wedlock do bring a man to his night-cap 1594[/FONT]
[FONT="]Age breeds aches 1596[/FONT]
[FONT="]Where old age is evil,youth can learn no good 1535[/FONT]
[FONT="]Agues come on horseback but go away on foot 1611[/FONT]
[FONT="]Ale that would make a cat speak 1585[/FONT]
[FONT="]He mends as sour ale mends in summer 1546[/FONT]
[FONT="]Covet all, lose all 1536[/FONT]
[FONT="]All that glistens isn't gold 1536[/FONT]
[FONT="]All's well that ends well 1536[/FONT]
[FONT="]All lay load on a willing horse 1611[/FONT]
[FONT="]All shall be well and Jack shall have Jill 1517[/FONT]
[FONT="]To set all at sixes and sevens 1542[/FONT]
[FONT="]An ape is an ape though clad in scarlet 1539[/FONT]
[FONT="]As drunk as an ape 1500[/FONT]
[FONT="]As wise as an ape 1530[/FONT]
[FONT="]Apparel maketh the man 1500[/FONT]
[FONT="]The apple of my eye 1562[/FONT]
[FONT="]As like as an apple is to an oyster 1559[/FONT]
[FONT="]A rotten apple... 1577[/FONT]
[FONT="]A good archer is not known by his arrows but his aim 1580[/FONT]
[FONT="]Oftentimes the arrow hits the shooter 1536[/FONT]
[FONT="]As pale as ashes 1475[/FONT]
[FONT="]You would lose our ass if it be loose 1552[/FONT]
[FONT="]To dance attendance.. 1522[/FONT]
[FONT="]ur in vain] 1542[/FONT]
[FONT="]An evening red and a morning gray is the sign of a fair day 1586[/FONT]
[FONT="]He sucked evil from the dug 1531[/FONT]
[FONT="]He that helps evil hurts the good 1526[/FONT]
[FONT="]The least of two evils 1500[/FONT]
[FONT="]Experience is the mistress of fools 1570[/FONT]
[FONT="]Experience is the mother of wisdom 1576[/FONT]
[FONT="]Have an eye to the main chance 1578[/FONT]
[FONT="]That the eye sees not, the heart rues not 1546[/FONT]
[FONT="]To be an eyesore 1546[/FONT]
[FONT="] One eyewitness is better than twenty earwitnesses 1590[/FONT]
[FONT="]As witty as a haddock 1510[/FONT]
[FONT="]To bring haddock to paddock[to come to destitution]1546[/FONT]
[FONT="]Beware of had I wist 1500[/FONT]
[FONT="]Had I wist come too late 1565[/FONT]
[FONT="]As thick as haile 1509[/FONT]
[FONT="]Hail fellow well met 1519[/FONT]
[FONT="]His hair grows through his hood 1515[/FONT]
[FONT="]It goes against the hair 1579[/FONT]
[FONT="]Take a hair of the dog that bit you 1546[/FONT]
[FONT="]Not to stir a hair's breadth 1533[/FONT]
[FONT="]What we lost in hake we shall have in herring 1602[/FONT]
[FONT="]Better half a loaf than no bread 1546[/FONT]
[FONT="]My better half 1590[/FONT]
[FONT="]Half warned in half armed 1530[/FONT]
[FONT="]It is hard halting before a cripple 1540[/FONT]
[FONT="]Between the hammer and the anvil 1535[/FONT]
[FONT="]He knows not his right hand from his left 1535[/FONT]
[FONT="]One hand washes the other and both wash the face 1567[/FONT]
[FONT="]Put not your hand between the bark and the tree 1546[/FONT]
[FONT="]To have the upper hand 1470[/FONT]
[FONT="]To live from hand to mouth 1559[/FONT]
[FONT="]Many hands make light work 1536[/FONT]
[FONT="]To wash your hands of a thing 1554[/FONT]
[FONT="]Tis better to be happy than wise 1546[/FONT]
[FONT="]As mad as a march hare 1497[/FONT]
[FONT="]To run with the hare and hunt with the hound 1546[/FONT]
[FONT="]You shall as soon catch a hare with a tabor 1520[/FONT]
[FONT="]Set the hare's foot against the goose giblets [tit for tat] 1546[/FONT]
[FONT="]Better the harm I know than that I know not 1552[/FONT]
[FONT="]They agree like harp and arrow [not at all] 1559[/FONT]
[FONT="]A long harvest of little corn 1562[/FONT]
[FONT="]Haste makes waste 1534[/FONT]
[FONT="]Resolve in haste repent at leisure 1477[/FONT]
[FONT="]Marry in haste... 1566[/FONT]
[FONT="]More haste than good speed 1546[/FONT]
[FONT="]He is none of the Hastings [he is slow/slack] 1546[/FONT]
[FONT="]As hungry as a horse 1555[/FONT]
[FONT="]Make hay while the sun shines 1509[/FONT]
[FONT="]Better be the head of the yoemanry than the tail of the gentry 1589[/FONT]
[FONT="]His head is full of bees 1513[/FONT]
[FONT="]To be over head and ears in a thing 1534[/FONT]
[FONT="]Two heads are better than one 1530[/FONT]
[FONT="]Faint heart ne'er won the lady 1552[/FONT]
[FONT="]A heart as hard as stone 1489[/FONT]
[FONT="]His heart is in his hose 1522[/FONT]
[FONT="]A merry heart lives long 1553[/FONT]
[FONT="]To eat one's heart out 1535[/FONT]
[FONT="]Take heed of enemies reconciled and of meat twice boiled 1585[/FONT]
[FONT="]To cool one's heels 1602[/FONT]
[FONT="]As black as hell 1511[/FONT]
[FONT="]From Hell Hull and Halifax , good Lord deliver us 1595[/FONT]
[FONT="]Hell is broke loose 1573[/FONT]
[FONT="]To throw the helve after the hatchet 1577[/FONT]
[FONT="]Turkeys[/FONT][FONT="] carps hops piccarell and beer came into England all in one year 1599[/FONT]
[FONT="]Do on the hill as you would in the hall 1509[/FONT]
[FONT="]There is no hill without its valley 1583[/FONT]
[FONT="]Hit or miss 1547[/FONT]
[FONT="]Hobbledehoy, half a man and half a boy 1540[/FONT]
[FONT="]As fat as a hog 1470[/FONT]
[FONT="]The Holy scripture is made a nose of wax 1529[out of context][/FONT]
[FONT="]Home is home be it never so homely 1546[/FONT]
[FONT="]Honey is sweet but the bee stings 1576[/FONT]
[FONT="]It is but honey moon with them 1546[/FONT]
[FONT="] It is better to die in honour that live in shame 1557[/FONT]
[FONT="]Honours do change manners 1548[/FONT]
[FONT="]By hook or by crook 1525[/FONT]
[FONT="]As round as a hoop 1555[/FONT]
[FONT="]Hope well have well 1540[/FONT]
[FONT="]As shortly as a horse will lick his ear 1546[/FONT]
[FONT="]Do not spur a willing horse 1477[/FONT]
[FONT="]A grunting horse and a groaning wife never fail there master 1546[/FONT]
[FONT="]He that hath a white horse and a fair wife never wants trouble 1581[/FONT]
[FONT="]He will lie as fast as a horse will trot 1530[/FONT]
[FONT="]Look not a gift horse in the mouth 1508[/FONT]
[FONT="]A short horse is soon curried 1536[/FONT]
[FONT="]He keeps open house 1530[/FONT]
[FONT="]He will burn his house to warm his hands 1481[/FONT]
[FONT="]It is a sad house when the hen crows louder that the cock 1573[/FONT]
[FONT="]A smoking house and a chiding wife make a man run out of his house 1530[/FONT]
[FONT="]To eat out of house and home 1483[/FONT]
[FONT="]In huggermugger 1517[/FONT]
[FONT="]What some win in the hundred they lose in the shires 1520[/FONT]
[FONT="]Hunger breaks down stone walls 1546[/FONT]
[FONT="]Hunger drops out of his nose 1517[/FONT]
[FONT="]Hunger is the best sauce 1542 [/FONT]
[FONT="]Hunger makes hard beans sweet 1536[/FONT]
[FONT="]A good husband makes a good wife 1591[/FONT]
[FONT="]To laugh like a hyena 1594[/FONT]
[FONT="]To break the ice 1535[/FONT]
[FONT="]It is better to be idle than ill ocupied 1560[/FONT]
[FONT="]Idleness begets lust 1567[/FONT]
[FONT="]Idleness is the devil 's cushion 1577[/FONT]
[FONT="]Idleness is the root of all evil 1483[/FONT]
[FONT="]Ignorance of the law excuseth no man 1530[/FONT]
[FONT="]He that speaks ill of another let him think first of himself 1573[/FONT]
[FONT="]Ill will never speaks well 1558[/FONT]
[FONT="]Give an inch and he will take an ell 1546[/FONT]
[FONT="]He will not yield an inch 1588[/FONT]
[FONT="]He makes indentures with his legs 1605[zigzags about as if drunk][/FONT]
[FONT="]As black as ink 1515[/FONT]
[FONT="]To get an inkling of a thing 1546[/FONT]
[FONT="]To be high in the instep[proud] 1546[/FONT]
[FONT="]Iron not used soon rusts 1578[/FONT]
[FONT="]Strike while the iron is hot 1500[/FONT]
[FONT="]To have a stomach like an ostrich[like iron]1578[/FONT]
[FONT="]Other irons in the fire 1576[/FONT]
[FONT="]As white as ivory 1565[/FONT]
[FONT="]Jack would be a gentleman 1500[/FONT]
[FONT="]True jests are the worst 1599[/FONT]
[FONT="]Jest not with edged tools 1508[/FONT]
[FONT="]As black as jet 1510[/FONT]
[FONT="]Joan is as good as my lady in the dark 1525[/FONT]
[FONT="]He is John Herb in the pottage ,that will do niether good nor harm 1599[/FONT]
[FONT="]The times are out of joint 1591[/FONT]
[FONT="]Joy shared is sorrow halved 1583[/FONT]
[FONT="]To give a Judas kiss 1523[/FONT]
[FONT="]Jupiter himself pleaseth not at all 1581[/FONT]
[FONT="]He is wise enough that can keep himself warm 1537[/FONT]
[FONT="]He that will eat the kernel ,let him crack the nut 1500[/FONT]
[FONT="]As cold as a key 1501[/FONT]
[FONT="]The nearer in kin the less in kindness 1565[/FONT]
[FONT="]To kill with kindness 1558[/FONT]
[FONT="]Like king like people 1525[/FONT]
[FONT="]Nearest the king nearest the gallows 1536[/FONT]
[FONT="]He clips the King's English[he is drunk] 1600[/FONT]
[FONT="]The King's English 1553[/FONT]
[FONT="]Many kinsfolk few friends 1546[/FONT]
[FONT="]Who frequents the kitchen will smell of smoke 1591[/FONT]
[FONT="]Neither kith nor kin 1560[/FONT]
[FONT="]A crafty knave needs no broker 1595[/FONT]
[FONT="]The more knave the better luck 1550[/FONT]
[FONT="]One knave seeks out another 1559[/FONT]
[FONT="]The same knife cuts both bread and fingure 1579[/FONT]
[FONT="]He has tied a knot with his tongue 1580[/FONT]
[FONT="]I wot what I wot 1546[/FONT]
[FONT="]To know what is what 1522[/FONT]
[FONT="]He has his labour for his pains 1589[/FONT]
[FONT="]Past labour is present 1539[/FONT]
[FONT="]He that will not labour must not eat 1535[/FONT]
[FONT="]The laborer is worthy of his hire 1508[/FONT]
[FONT="]What do you lack? What will you buy[hucksters call] 1563[/FONT]
[FONT="]As chaste as a lamb 15 1485[/FONT]
[FONT="]A lion in the field, a lamb in the town 1557[/FONT]
[FONT="]Scald not your lips in another man's pottage 1598[/FONT]
[FONT="]With what liquor a vessel is first seasoned, it will long keep the scent of it 1509[/FONT]
[FONT="]By little and little 1548[/FONT]
[FONT="]Little said , soon amended 1550[/FONT]
[FONT="]Many a little makes a mickle 1535[/FONT]
[FONT="]Though he said little he thought the more 1475[/FONT]
[FONT="]Live and let live 1598[/FONT]
[FONT="]Live charily if not chasly 1561[/FONT]
[FONT="]Too soon wise to live long 1576[/FONT]
[FONT="]Live well, die well 1506[/FONT]
[FONT="]No lock will hold against the power of gold 1580[/FONT]
[FONT="]To keep under lock and key 1566[/FONT]
[FONT="]He is sick of the Lombard fever[is idle] 1553[/FONT]
[FONT="]The long and the short of it 1571[/FONT]
[FONT="]Look ere you leap 1528[/FONT]
[FONT="]New kings new laws 1548[/FONT]
[FONT="]I have dined so well as my Lord Mayor of London 1577[/FONT]
[FONT="]Better lost than found 1546[/FONT]
[FONT="]My gown is so bare that a lowse can get not holde on it 1530[/FONT]
[FONT="]Not worth a louse 1547[/FONT]
[FONT="]To flay a louse for the skin 1591[/FONT]
[FONT="]Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow 1562[/FONT]
[FONT="]Hot love is soon cold 1530[/FONT]
[FONT="]Not for love or money 1565[/FONT]
[FONT="]Love and an itch cannot be hid 1573[/FONT]
[FONT="]Love and lordship like no fellowship 1552[/FONT]
[FONT="]Love first enters in at the eyes 1539[/FONT]
[FONT="]Love is blind 1475[/FONT]
[FONT="]Love is potent but money is omnipotent 1611[/FONT]
[FONT="]Love lives in a cottage as well as in courts 1590[/FONT]
[FONT="]Love of lads and fire of chips is soon in and soon out 1460[/FONT]
[FONT="]Marry first and love will come after 1601[/FONT]
[FONT="]Love me little love me long 1546[/FONT]
[FONT="]Lovers live by love as larks live by leeks 156[/FONT]
[FONT="]To leave one in the lurch 1576[/FONT]
[FONT="]Maids say nay and take it 1534[/FONT]
[FONT="]Maidens should be seen and not heard 1560[/FONT]
[FONT="]To make or mar 1527[/FONT]
[FONT="]Malt is above meal[wheat] with him[drunk] 1546[/FONT]
[FONT="]As good a man as ever trod on shoe leather 1560[/FONT]
[FONT="]As honest a man as ever broke bread 1599[/FONT]
[FONT="]As long lives a merry man as a sad 1535[/FONT]
[FONT="]As the man so is his talk 1539[/FONT]
[FONT="]A blind man can judge no colours 1530[/FONT]
[FONT="]A blind man might see that 1562[/FONT]
[FONT="]Every man after his fashion 1517[/FONT]
[FONT="]Every man can rule a shrew but he that has her 1546[/FONT]
[FONT="]Every man for himself 1478[/FONT]
[FONT="]Every man is master in his own house 1596[/FONT]
[FONT="]Greet a red man and a bearded woman thre miles off 1573[/FONT]
[FONT="]An angry man never wants woe 1536[/FONT]
[FONT="]The healthful man gives good council to the sick 1539[/FONT]
[FONT="]If a man once fall, all will tread on him 1530[/FONT]
[FONT="]If a man will have his business well done he must do it himself 1611[/FONT]
[FONT="]If the young man knew and the old man could, there is nothing but would be done 1584[/FONT]
[FONT="]It is like to be true that every man sayeth 1520[/FONT]
[FONT="]A man after his own heart 1531[/FONT]
[FONT="]A man cannot be in two places at once 1509[/FONT]
[FONT="]A man cannot live on air like a chameleon 1557[/FONT]
[FONT="]Man is but a bubble 539[/FONT]
[FONT="]A man is weal or woe as he thinks himself so 1549[/FONT]
[FONT="]A man or a mouse 1542[/FONT]
[FONT="]Man proposes God disposes 1500[/FONT]
[FONT="]No man looses but another wins 1526[/FONT]
[FONT="]No man loves his fetters though made of gold 1562[/FONT]
[FONT="]One foot in the grave 1566[/FONT]
[FONT="]The rich man may dine when he will, the poor man when he may 1580[/FONT]
[FONT="]The rich man walks to get a stomach to his meat, the poor man to get meat for his stomach 1586[/FONT]
[FONT="]A wise man commonly has a fool to his heir 1552[/FONT]
[FONT="]He is not wise who sometimes cannot play the fool 1602[/FONT]
[FONT="]He has a nose like a shoeing horn[is wise/cunning] 1508[/FONT]
[FONT="]A man's countrie is where he does well 1576[/FONT]
[FONT="]A man's house is his castle 1581[/FONT]
[FONT="]One man's meat is another's poison 1587[/FONT]
[FONT="]When a man's house burns, play not at chess 1596[/FONT]
[FONT="]All men are mortal 1537[/FONT]
[FONT="]Dead men bite not 1548[/FONT]
[FONT="]Do as most men do and fewest will speak evil of you 1486[/FONT]
[FONT="]He that all men will please will never find ease 1560[/FONT]
[FONT="]Keep good men company and you shall be of the number 1477[/FONT]
[FONT="]Old men and travellers may lie by authority 1509[/FONT]
[FONT="]Poor man have no souls[no masses said for them after death] 1562[/FONT]
[FONT="]So many men so many minds 1539[/FONT]
[FONT="]Who waits for dead mens shoes shall long go barefoot 1530[/FONT]
[FONT="]As full of manners as an egg is of oatmeal 1520[/FONT]
[FONT="]Manners maketh man 1513[/FONT]
[FONT="]A fine marble needs no painting 1576[/FONT]
[FONT="]The grey mare is the better horse 1546[/FONT]
[FONT="]He has found a mare's nest and laughs the eggs[laughs with others but knows not what at] 1582[/FONT]
[FONT="]He shoots wide of the mark 1562[/FONT]
[FONT="]Marriage is destiny 1558[/FONT]
[FONT="]At marriages and burials friends and kinsfolk be known 1573[/FONT]
[FONT="]Marriages are made in heaven 1566[/FONT]
[FONT="]The marrowbone of the matter 1554[/FONT]
[FONT="]Marrying is marring 1546[/FONT]
[FONT="]It is neither mass nor matins[one or the other] 1450[/FONT]
[FONT="]Like master like servant 1530[/FONT]
[FONT="]Most masters wear no bridge. 15th century[/FONT]
[FONT="]The mater's eye makes the horse fat 1535[/FONT]
[FONT="]He has met his match 1470[/FONT]
[FONT="]As fresh as May 1600[/FONT]
[FONT="]To match May with December 1581[/FONT]
[FONT="]As tall as a Maypole 1602[/FONT]
[FONT="]To be mealymouthed 1546[/FONT]
[FONT="]With what measure you mete it shall be measured unto you 1523[/FONT]
[FONT="]After meat comes mustard[something comes too late] 1566[/FONT]
[FONT="]Meat makes and cloth shapes but manners maketh a man 1500[/FONT]
[FONT="]Of all the meat in the world drink goes best down 1525[/FONT]
[FONT="]Sweet meat must have sour sauce 1500[/FONT]
[FONT="]Either mend or end 1606[/FONT]
[FONT="]He is a merchant of eelskins[without wares] 1545[/FONT]
[FONT="]I cry you mercy, I took you for a joint stool[overlooked you]1594[/FONT]
[FONT="]Merry go down[strong ale]1475[/FONT]
[FONT="]He is a corbie messenger[does not return with the answer]1511[/FONT]
[FONT="]Better marry over the midden than over the moor 1598[/FONT]
[FONT="]Might overcomes right 1546[/FONT]
[FONT="]He that comes first to the mill. grinds first 1475[/FONT]
[FONT="]No Mill no meal 1577[/FONT]
[FONT="]Mills and wives are ever wanting 1581[/FONT]
[FONT="]An honest miller has a golden thumb 1510[/FONT]
[FONT="]The mill is a thief 1533[/FONT]
[FONT="]To have whittled[thwitten] a mill post to a pudding prick 1529[/FONT]
[FONT="]I can see as far into a millstone as any other 1540[/FONT]
[FONT="]His mind is on his meat 1578[/FONT]
[FONT="]There is no mirth without mourning 1580[/FONT]
[FONT="]Mischief comes by pounds and goes away by ounces 1573[/FONT]
[FONT="]A miser, like a hog, does no good until he dies 1560[/FONT]
[FONT="]Misfortune seldom comes alone 1475[/FONT]
[FONT="]Like Mistress like maid 1557[/FONT]
[FONT="]I care not a mite 1485[/FONT]
[FONT="]Mock and be mocked 1484[/FONT]
[FONT="]As blind as a mole 1548[/FONT]
[FONT="]Making a mountain from a molehill 1560[/FONT]
[FONT="]If money go before all ways lie open 1542[/FONT]
[FONT="]Money begets money 1587[/FONT]
[FONT="]Money is the sinews of war 1549[/FONT]
[FONT="]Money, like dung, does no good until it is spread 1564[/FONT]
[FONT="]Money makes the man 1542[/FONT]
[FONT="]Money makes the mare to go 15th century[/FONT]
[FONT="]No money no swiss 1596[/FONT]
[FONT="]To get money from him is like pulling teeth 1573[/FONT]
[FONT="]As changeful as the moon 1576[/FONT]
[FONT="]Midsummer moon[madness] 1588[/FONT]
[FONT="]Pale moon does rain, red moon does blow 1588[/FONT]
[FONT="]As black as a moor 1489[/FONT]
[FONT="]The more a man has the more he desires 1523[/FONT]
[FONT="]More belongs to marriage than four bare legs in a bed 1562[/FONT]
[FONT="]The more the merrier 1530[/FONT]
[FONT="]To have more of the serpent than the dove 1589[/FONT]
[FONT="]You can have no more of a cat than her skin 1564[can't have more than there is][/FONT]
[FONT="]By the morning one knows the day 1581[/FONT]
[FONT="]You can see a mote in another man's eye but not a beam in your own 1481[/FONT]
[FONT="]Like mother like daughter 1509[/FONT]
[FONT="]Every mother's son 1470[/FONT]
[FONT="]His Mother's milk is not out of his nose 1598[/FONT]
[FONT="]The mother's side is the surer side 1548[/FONT]
[FONT="]The mountain was in labour and brought forth a mouse 1549[/FONT]
[FONT="]He promises mountains and performs molehills 1576[/FONT]
[FONT="]As drunk as a mouse 1475[/FONT]
[FONT="]As safe as a mouse in a mill 1590[/FONT]
[FONT="]As mute as a mouse 1584[/FONT]
[FONT="]It is a wily mouse that breedeth in the cat's ear 1522[/FONT]
[FONT="]A mouse that has but one hole is quickly taken 1586[/FONT]
[FONT="]To look like a drowned rat 1500[/FONT]
[FONT="]A close mouth catches no flies 1599[/FONT]
[FONT="]To blow hot and cold 1577[/FONT]
[FONT="]A good mule, a good goat and a good woman were three unhappy creatures 1585[/FONT]
[FONT="]A multitude of people is a beast of many heads 1542[/FONT]
[FONT="]Mum is councel 1540[/FONT]
[FONT="]Murder will out 1481[/FONT]
[FONT="]A mushrump grows in a night 1573 [applied to upstarts][/FONT]
[FONT="]What must be must be 1546[/FONT]
[FONT="]He loves laced mutton[is a wencher] 1578[/FONT]
[FONT="]As naked as my nail 1533[/FONT]
[FONT="]to hit the nail on the head 1508[/FONT]
[FONT="]One nail drives out another 1539[/FONT]
[FONT="]Put down money upon the nail 1596[/FONT]
[FONT="]He that hath an evil name is half hanged 1546[/FONT]
[FONT="]He who gets a good name may piss abed and say he sweats 1591[/FONT]
[FONT="]To take one napping 1594[/FONT]
[FONT="]Nature abhores a vacuum 1551[/FONT]
[FONT="]Nature does nothing in vain 1481[/FONT]
[FONT="]Nature has given us two ears but one tongue 1535[/FONT]
[FONT="]Nature passeth nurture 1578[/FONT]
[FONT="]He that will not when he may,when he would he shall have nay 1530[/FONT]
[FONT="]Necessity is a hard weapon 1539[/FONT]
[FONT="]Necessity is the best schoolmistress 1519[/FONT]
[FONT="]Necessity is the mother of invention 1545[/FONT]
[FONT="]To seek a needle in a bundle of hay 1533[/FONT]
[FONT="]He that has a good neighbour has a good morrow 1566[/FONT]
[FONT="]A near neighbour is better than a far friend 1552[/FONT]
[FONT="]To feather ones nest 1553[/FONT]
[FONT="]He has pissed on a nettle 1546[is out of sorts][/FONT]
[FONT="]If you will learn news you must go to an oven or a mill 1611[/FONT]
[FONT="]In the nick of time 1565[/FONT]
[FONT="]As silent as night 1602[/FONT]
[FONT="]Dark night is Cupid's day 1595[/FONT]
[FONT="]To make a night of it 1602[/FONT]
[FONT="]To Bring a noble to ninepence 1546[/FONT]
[FONT="]As plain as the nose on a man's face 1581[/FONT]
[FONT="]He holds his nose to the grindstone[/FONT]
[FONT="]He puts his nose out of joint 1602[/FONT]
[FONT="]To follow one's nose 1508[/FONT]
[FONT="]Nothing but skin and bone 1548[/FONT]
[FONT="]He that knows nothing doubts nothing 1611[/FONT]
[FONT="]Nothing can come of nothing 1550[/FONT]
[FONT="]Nothing is impossible to a willing heart 1509[/FONT]
[FONT="]Nothing venture nothing win 1481[/FONT]
[FONT="]Nothing violent can be permanent 1565[/FONT]
[FONT="]As nice as a nun's hen 15th century[/FONT]
[FONT="]To have a nut to crack 1564[/FONT]
[FONT="]It touches him to the quick 1517[/FONT]
[FONT="]To lie at rack and manger[live in luxury] 1550[/FONT]
[FONT="]After the rain cometh the sun 1484[/FONT]
[FONT="]A small rain abateth a great wind 1500[/FONT]
[FONT="]As lean as a rake 1485[/FONT]
[FONT="]I smell a rat 1553[/FONT]
[FONT="]The croaking raven bodes misfortune 1589[/FONT]
[FONT="]As sharp as a razor 1519[/FONT]
[FONT="]Read not before you learn to spell 1600[/FONT]
[FONT="]Where there be no recievers there be no thieves 1546[/FONT]
[FONT="]Do not wear red before a bull or white before an elephant 1580[/FONT]
[FONT="]The relapse is worse that the disease 1576[/FONT]
[FONT="]There is a remedy for all things but death 1573[/FONT]
[FONT="]Saving your reverence ...1596[/FONT]
[FONT="]To play the Rex 1563[/FONT]
[FONT="]Neither rhyme nor reason 1529[/FONT]
[FONT="]The rich have many friends 1546[/FONT]
[FONT="]He rides sure that never fell 1470[/FONT]
[FONT="]It is good riding at two anchors[have two strings to the bow] 1562[/FONT]
[FONT="]Soon ripe soon rotten 1546[/FONT]
[FONT="]The rising of one man is the falling of another 1571[/FONT]
[FONT="]Follow the river and you will get to the sea 1594[/FONT]
[FONT="]To rule the roost 1500[/FONT]
[FONT="]Many speak of Robin Hood that never shot of his bow 1546[/FONT]
[FONT="]As firm as a rock 1558[/FONT]
[FONT="]He has made a rod for his own tail 1489[/FONT]
[FONT="]Spare the rod and spoil the child 1517[/FONT]
[FONT="]To have rods in piss for him[punishment in store] 1553[/FONT]
[FONT="]Rome[/FONT][FONT="] was not built in one day 1546[/FONT]
[FONT="]When in Rome...1536[/FONT]
[FONT="]As meet as a rope for a thief 1540[/FONT]
[FONT="]Every rose grows from prickles 1569[/FONT]
[FONT="]Under the Rose[between friends]..1546[/FONT]
[FONT="]He bears no more rule than a goose turd in the Thames 1546[/FONT]
[FONT="]There is no rule without some exception 1590[/FONT]
[FONT="]He may ill run that cannot go 1415[/FONT]
[FONT="]Strew green rushes for the sranger 1546[/FONT]
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[FONT="]To call a spade a spade 1539[/FONT]
[FONT="]Of a little spark a great fire 1509[/FONT]
[FONT="]Spick and span-new 1579[/FONT]
[FONT="]To put a spoke in one's cart 1580[/FONT]
[FONT="]He must have a long spoon that will eat with the devil 1546[/FONT]
[FONT="]He has won his spurs 1539[/FONT]
[FONT="]To set up one's staff 1573[decide to live there][/FONT]
[FONT="]As stiff as a staff 1566[/FONT]
[FONT="]As true as you stand there 1497[/FONT]
[FONT="]The higher th standing the greater the fall 1509[/FONT]
[FONT="]To look at the stars and fall into a ditch 1583[/FONT]
[FONT="]Shut the stable door before the horse be lost 1484[/FONT]
[FONT="]As hard as steel 1509[/FONT]
[FONT="]You would leap over the stile before you came at it 1546[/FONT]
[FONT="]Essex stiles, Kentish miles, Suffolk wiles, Norfolk giles. 16th century[/FONT]
[FONT="]To beat one as a stock fish[flat and dry with clubs and stocks] 1552[/FONT]
[FONT="]To wear yellow stockings and cross garters[to be jealous] 1584[/FONT]
[FONT="]My belly has rung noon 1571[/FONT]
[FONT="]It went against my stomach...1581[/FONT]
[FONT="]As cold as stone 1503[/FONT]
[FONT="]As hard as stone 1513[/FONT]
[FONT="]He has not a stone to cast at a dog 1594[/FONT]
[FONT="]He that stumbles twice at the same stone deserves to have his fingers broke 1552[/FONT]
[FONT="]A rollong stone gathers no moss 1536[/FONT]
[FONT="]To leave no stone unturned 1548[/FONT]
[FONT="]To roast a stone 1522[to labour in vain][/FONT]
[FONT="]Between two stools the ass goes to ground 1536[/FONT]
[FONT="]Store is no sore 1546[plenty does no harm][/FONT]
[FONT="]A cock and bull story 1608[/FONT]
[FONT="]To be strait laced 1546[/FONT]
[FONT="]Not to care a straw 1500[/FONT]
[FONT="]Not worth a straw 1489[/FONT]
[FONT="]They stumble at straw and leap over a block 1525[/FONT]
[FONT="]Go peel straws [contempt] 1522[/FONT]
[FONT="]It is folly to strive against the stream 1460[/FONT]
[FONT="]A little stream drives a light mill 1597[/FONT]
[FONT="]The stream stopped swells the higher 1576[/FONT]
[FONT="]To swim with the stream 1579[/FONT]
[FONT="]Harp no more on that string [change the subject] 1543[/FONT]
[FONT="]To have two strings to ones bow 1477[/FONT]
[FONT="]Many strokes fell oaks 1539[/FONT]
[FONT="]To be in a brown study 1579[/FONT]
[FONT="]To bestir one's stumps 1559[/FONT]
[FONT="]Loose not the substance for the shadow 1578[/FONT]
[FONT="]To be left in the suds 1573[/FONT]
[FONT="]To be sick of the sullens 1580[/FONT]
[FONT="]As clear as the sun 1539[/FONT]
[FONT="]The same sun melts wax and hardens clay 1579[/FONT]
[FONT="]The sun is never worse for shining on a dunghill 1578[/FONT]
[FONT="]The sun shines on all 1552[/FONT]
[FONT="]To light the sun with a candle 1540 [waste effort][/FONT]
[FONT="]When two Sundays come together 1598[/FONT]
[FONT="]No man can sup and blow together 1548[/FONT]
[FONT="]Light supper longer life 16th century[/FONT]
[FONT="]Suspicion is no proof 1546[/FONT]
[FONT="]As swift as a swallow 1551[/FONT]
[FONT="]One swallow makes not a summer 1539[/FONT]
[FONT="]To live by the sweat of one,s brows 1553[/FONT]
[FONT="]He deserves not the sweet who will not taste of the sour 1535[/FONT]
[FONT="]As drunk as a sow 1500[/FONT]
[FONT="]A swine overfat is the cause of his own bane 1562[/FONT]
[FONT="]He that strikes with the sword shall be beaten with the scabbard 1521[/FONT]
[FONT="]A wooden sword in a golden sheath 1542[/FONT]
[FONT="]Put not a sword in the hands of a child 1539[/FONT]
[FONT="]To slay with a leaden sword 1559[to convince with a weak argument][/FONT]
[FONT="]To stand to one,s tackling 1562[stand your ground][/FONT]
[FONT="]Tag rag and bobtail 1553[/FONT]
[FONT="]To turn tail 1596[/FONT]
[FONT="]Take it as you will 1580[/FONT]
[FONT="]Take it or leave it 1603[/FONT]
[FONT="]To take one as we find him 1559[/FONT]
[FONT="]Must I tell you a tale and find your ears 1546[to one who does not listen][/FONT]
[FONT="]A tale of a roasted horse 1570[nonesense][/FONT]
[FONT="]A tale of a tub 1546[ditto][/FONT]
[FONT="]Thereby hangs a tale 1523[/FONT]
[FONT="]To take the word out of one,s mouth 1530[/FONT]
[FONT="]You tell a tale to a deaf man 1538[/FONT]
[FONT="]Tales of Robin Hood[fools tales] 1509[/FONT]
[FONT="]To tell tales out of school 1530[/FONT]
[FONT="]Great talk least work 1523[/FONT]
[FONT="]To swallow a tavern token[be drunk] 1604[/FONT]
[FONT="]Tell me it snows[nonesense]1585[/FONT]
[FONT="]They came thick and threefold[plentifully] 1548[/FONT]
[FONT="]Through thick and thin 1475[/FONT]
[FONT="]As safe as a thief in a mill 1606[/FONT]
[FONT="]Save a thief from the gallows and he will cut your throat.1484[/FONT]
[FONT="]The thief knoweth the thief 1539[/FONT]
[FONT="]A staff is soon found to beat a dog 1564[/FONT]
[FONT="]There is no new thing under the sun 1594[/FONT]
[FONT="]A thing done well is ever done 1530[/FONT]
[FONT="]Too much of one thing is good for nothing 1500[/FONT]
[FONT="]Topsy turvey 1523[/FONT]
[FONT="]All things that breed in the mud are not eels 1580[/FONT]
[FONT="]Little things catch little minds 1576[/FONT]
[FONT="]Many things fall between the cup and the lip 1539[/FONT]
[FONT="]Things are not as they seem 1573[/FONT]
[FONT="]Things done cannot be undone 1539[/FONT]
[FONT="]Things that are above us are nothing to us 1539[/FONT]
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