PROVERBS PROVERBS
Les raaximes des hommes decelent leur coeur.
The maxims of men reveal their characters.
PROVERBS AND POPULAR PHRASES
(Alphabetically arranged)
A baker's dozen.
Rabelais—Works. Bk.V. Ch.XXII.
Add to golden numbers golden numbers.
Thos. Dekker—Patient Grissett. Act I. Sc. 1.
A flea in his ear.
R. Abmin—Nest of Ninnies. (1608) T. Nash—Pierce Penniless. (1592) R. Greene—Quip for an upstart Courier. (1592) Teuton—Tragicall Discourses. (1579) Francis de l'Isle—Legendarie Life and Behavior of Charles, Cardinal of Lorraine. (1577)
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| text = After supper walk a mile.
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| text = <poem>A new broome sweepeth cleane.
LYLY—Euphues. Arber's Reprint. P. 89.
An inch in a miss is as good as an ell.
Camden's Remains. (1614)
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Fuller—Gnomologia. (1732)
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| text = <poem>As clear as a whistle.
John Byrom—Epistle to Lloyd. I.
As cold as cucumbers.
As high as Heaven, as deep as Hell.
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Fortune. Act IV. Sc. 1.
A thorn in the flesh.
77 Corinthians. XII. 7.
Bag and baggage.
Richard Huloet—Abecedarium Anglico-Latinum pro Tyrunculas. (1552) As You Like
It. III. 2. How erst wee did them thence,
sans bag and baggage, tosse. Burdet—
Mirror for Magistrates. St. 75.
With bag and baggage, selye wretch,
I yelded into Beautie's hand.
Tottel's Miscellany. Arber's Reprint. P.
173. Appears in trans, of Polydore Vergil's English History, edited by Sir Henry
Ellis, Camden Society (1844) MS., in the
handwriting of the reign of Henry VIII.
(About 1540-50) Also in Camden Society
Reprint, No. 53. P. 47. (1500) In Life
of Lord Grey, Camden Society MS. P. 37.
(About 1570) Credited to Frotssart,
in Lord Bernrr's trans. Vol. I. Ch.
CCCXX. P. 497. (Ed. 1523)
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| text = Barkis is willin'.
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| work = David Copperfield.
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| text = Beat all your feathers as flat as pancakes.
Middleton—Roaring Girl. Act II. Sc. 1.
Better a bad excuse, than none at all.
Camden—Remaines. Proverbs. P. 293.
Big-endians and small-endians.
Swift—Gulliver's Travels. Pt. I. Ch. IV.
Voyage to LiMput.
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| text = But me no buts.
Henry Fielding—Rape upon Rape. Act II.
Sc. 2. Aaron Hilij—Snake in the Grass.
Sc. 1.
By all that's good and glorious.
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By hooke or crooke.
Heywood—Proverbs. Pt. I. Ch. XI. In a
letter of Sm Richard Morysin to the Privy
Council in Lodge's Illustrations &c. I. 154.
Holland's Suetonius. P. 169. John Wyclif—Works. Ed. by Arnold. III. 331.
Rabelais—Bk. V. Ch.XIII. DuBartas—
The Map of Man. Spenser—Faerie Queene.
Bk. III. Canto I. St. 17. Beaumont and
Fletcher—Women Pleased. Act I. Sc. 3.
Shelton—Duke of Clout. See also "Which
he by hook or crook."
Curses are like young chickens,
And still come home to roost!
Arabian Proverb quoted by Bulwer-Lytton—
The Lady of Lyons. Act V. Sc. 2. Chaucer—
Persones Tale. Sec. 41.
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| text = <poem>Cut and come again.
Cbabbe—Tales VII. L. 26.
Se couper le nez pour faire depit a son visajre.
Cut off your nose to spite your face.
Tallement des Reaux—Historiettes. Vol. I.
Ch. I. (About 1657-1659)
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| text = <poem>Diamonds cut diamonds.
John Ford—The Lover's Melancholy. Act I.
Sc. 3.
Every fat (vat) must stand upon his bottom.
Bunyan—Pilgrim's Progress. Pt. I
Every one stretcheth his legs according to his
coverlet.
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| work = Jacula Prudentum.
Every why hath a wherefore.
Comedy of Errors. Act II. Sc. 2. L. 44.
Facts are stubborn things.
LeSage—Gil Bias. Bk. X. Ch. I. Smollet's trans.
Every tub must stand upon its bottom.
Macklin—Man of the World. Act I. Sc. 2.
