proverb, phrases and maxim

Zeal.

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Zeal.

1. Blind zeal only does harm. Ger,

2. There is no zeal so intemperate and cruel as ,
that which is backed by ignorance. Stilson Hutchins,

3. Too much zeal is a bad soldier who fires be- ^
fore the word of command. Punch.

4. Too much zeal spoils all. Fr.

5. We do that in our zeal our calmer moments
would be afraid to answer. Scott.

6. Zeal is a bad servant. Talleyrand.

7. Zeal is fit only for wise men but is found *
mostly in fools.

8. Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.

9. Zeal without knowledge is like expedition to
a man in the dark. JoJhi Newton.

10. Zeal without knowledge is frenzy.

11. Zeal without knowledge is the sister of folly.

Year.

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Year.
1. A snow year a rich year.
2. All the same a hundred years hence.
3. Each passing year robs us of something.

Latin,
4. Every past year is the best. M. Greek,
5. Everything is of every year. ItaL
6. One year borrows another year's food.

Chinese,
7. The ill year comes in swimming. Fr.
8. The year has a wide mouth and a big belly.

Dan.
9. Years and sins are always more than owned. •

Ital.
10. Years are the mile-stones that tell us the
distance we have travelled, but it is rarely women
count them. Punch,

Yoeman.
I. A yoeman on his legs is higher than a prince
upon his knees.

Yielding.
1. Yielding is sometimes the best way of suc-
ceeding, liai,
2, Yielding stays war. Ger,

Yorkshire.
1. Shake a bridle over a Yorkshireman's grave 4
and he'll rise and steal a horse.

Youth.
1. A growing youth has a wolf in his belly.
2. A young man seldom makes much money
who is out of his time before twenty.
3. A youth in which a single aim governs life •
early arrives at the harvest.

Youth.
4. All of us must be drunk once, youth is drunk-
enness without wine. Goethe,
5. Almost everything that is great has been done
by youth. Bea.
6. He is young enough who has health, and he
is rich enough who has no debts. JDan,
7. The young are not always with their bow
bent.
8. The young will sow their wild oats, but pre-
vent it if possible.
9. The youth of a nation are - the trustees of
posterity. , Bea.
10. There are more lamb skins than sheep skins.
11. There come just so many calf-skins to market
as cow skins. {Meaning youth is surrounded by daft-
gers,) Dutch.
12. There die as many lambs as wethers. {Same
meaning as last above,) Por,
13. There is a learning time in youth which, suf-
fered to escape and no foundation laid, seldom re-
turns. Clarissa.
14. To be famous when you are young is the for-
* tune of the gods. Bea.
15. We shall never be younger.
16. Youth and white paper take any impression.
17. Youth comes but once in a lifetime.
Longfellow.
18. Youth is life's seed lime. Holmes.
19. Youth is the season of hope.

Youth (Age). — Zeal.
20. Youth is gay and holds no society with grief.
Aristotle,
21. Youth is the seed time of life: an unseeded
youth, a needy age.
22. Youth may stray yet return at last. Fr,
23. Youth ne'er casts for peril.
24. Youth should be a saving's bank.
Madame Swetchine,
25. Youth will have its swing.
26. Youth's sorrows like April showers are tran-
sitory.

Youth (Age).
1. A prudent youth is superior to a stupid old
man. Tamil,
2. An old man's shadow is better than a young
man's sword.
3. Youth looks forward and age backward.

wise

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24. Better be mad with all the world than wise
alone. Fr.
25. Better be wise than rich. Sp.
26. Do not revile wise men. Hindoo.
27. Every one is wise after the event. Ger,^ Sp.
28. Every one is wise for his own profit. JPor.
29. Gold vessels still as gold we prize.
And wise men in adversity are wise. Tamil.
30. He commands enough that obeyeth a wise
man.
31. He is a wise man who speaks little.
32. He is not wise who is not wise for himself.
33. He is no wise man who will quit a certainty
for an uncertainty. Dr. Johnson.
34. He is so wise that he goes upon the ice three
days before it freezes. Dutch.
35. He is the wise man who is the honest man.
36. He is the wisest man who does not think him-
self so. Fr.
37. He is wise that hath wit enough for his own
affairs.
38. He is wise that is ware in time.
39. He is wise that when he is well can had him
sae.
40. He is wise that can mak' a freend o' a fae.
41. He is wise to no purpose who is not wise for
himself. Latin,
42. He is wise who learns at another's cost. Ital.
43. He is wise who suits himself to the occasion.
Latin.

Wise.

465

44. He is wise who talks but little. Latin.
45. He's wise that leads passion by the bridle.
46. He must be a wise man himself who is capa-
ble of distinguishing one. Diogenes,
47. He seemeth wise with whom all things thrive. -^
48. He would be wise who knew all things be-
forehand. Dutch.
49. He's a wise man that wears poverty decently.- -^^
50. He's a wise man that leads passion by the
bridle.
51. He's a wise man who when he's well off can
keep so.
52. He's wise that knows when he's well enough.
53. He who conceits himself wise has an a.ss -^
near at hand. Sp.
. 54. How prone to doubt, how cautious are the
wise. Homer.
55. Is he wise who hopes to attain the end with- ^
out the means 1 Tiliotson,
56. It becomes no wise man to expose himself to
danger on account of the faults or follies of others.
Statilius.
57. It becomes a wise man to try negotiation be- .
fore arms. Terence.
58. It is better to be lucky than wise.
59. It is not always good to be wise. Ger,
60. More nice than wise.
61. Most things have two handles, and wise men ^''
take hold of the best.
62. No man so wise but may easily err, if he will
take no other counsel but his own. Benjonson.
30

466 Wise.
63. No man is the only wise man. Pla*
64. No man was ever wise by chance. Senct,
-^ 65. No man is born wise.
66. No one is so wise that he cannot become
"* wiser. Ger.
_^ 67. No one is wise at all times. Pliny the Elder,
68. No one is wise enough to advise himself. Ger,
69. No one is wise in his own affairs. Dutch,
— 70. Some are wise, and some are otherwise.
— 71. The wise distrust the unknown. La Fontaine,
72. The wise does not say all that he thinks, but
^ thinks all that he says. Ger,
73. The wise for cure on exercise depend. Dryden.
74. The wise is only once betrayed. Ger,
75. The wise man does not hang his knowledge
on a hook. Sp,
76. The wise man does not trust his wife with a
secret. Ger,
jy. The wise man has long ears and a short
tongue. Ger,
78. The wise man knows an ignorant one be-
cause he has been ignorant himself, but the ignorant
cannot recognize the wise because he has never
been wise. Persian,
79. The wise man makes more opportunities than
he finds.
80. The wise man strikes twice against one and
the same stone. /Russian.
81. The wise man should be prepared for every-
thing that does not lie within his control. Pythagoras,

Wise.

467

82. The wise should possess their lives in hope.
Euripides.
83. The wise spare both time and words. Ger.
84. The wise take the middle way. Ger.
85. The wise weighs his words on the goldsmith's
scales. Ger,
86. The wise with hope support the pains of life.
Euripides,
87. The wisest are not always wise. Fr,
88. The wisest man cannot turn a good action
into ridicule. Euripides.
89. There is no condition but sits well on a wise
man.
90. There is no one so wise he does not slip,
sometimes. Ger,
91. Tis not knowing much, but what is useful
that makes the wise man.
92. To the wise a word may suffice.
93. We cannot all be wise.
94. When a wise man errs, he errs with a ven-
geance.
95. When wise men fall out then rogues come by
what is not their own. Punch,
96. When wise men play the fool they do it with
a vengeance. ItaL
97. Who is wise is more than rich. Ger.
98. Whoever is not too wise is wise. Martial,
99. Wise men always practise moderation in pas-
sion. Euripides.
100. Wise men are caught in wiles.

^68 Wishing.
loi. Wise men are instructed by reason^ men of
less understanding by reason, the most ignorant by
necessity, and beasts by nature. Cicero.
1 02. Wise men care not for what they cannot have.
103. Wise men in the world are like timber trees
in a hedge — here and there one.
104. Wise men, though all laws were abolished,
would lead the same lives. Aristophanes.
Wishing.
I. After the acting wishing is in vain. Fr.
— 2. Better do it than wish it done.
3. Better to have than to wish.
4. Good wishes do not always bring good fort-
une. Bea.
5. If wishes were true, farmers (shepherds) would
be kings. Fr.
6. I never fared worse than when I wished for
my supper.
7. Like our shadows.
Our wishes lengthen as our sun declines.'
Young,
8. Mere wishes are silly fishes.
9. One year of joy, another of comfort, and all
the rest of content. (A marriage wish^
10. Thy wish was father to the thought. Shaks,
11. Thou art as like to obtain thy wish as the
wolf is to eat the moon.
12. When the thing you wish cannot be had, ever
wish for that which may. Terence,
13. Who has no money must have no wishes. ItaL
14. Wish not for that you cannot obtain.
15. Wishes at least are the easy pleasures of the
poor. Douglas Jerrold,
16. Wishes never filled the bag. Fr. ''
17. Wishes were ever fools. Shaks,
18. Wishes won't wash dishes. — -
19. Wishing of all employments is the worst.
Young,
20. With wishing comes grieving. Ital.

Wit.
1. A dinner of wits is proverbially a palace of -
silence. Bea.
2. A wit's a feather and a child's a rod ;
An honest man is the noblest work of God. —
Fope.
3. After-wit is commonly dear bought.
4. All the wit in the world is useless to him who
has none. La Bruyhre,
5. An ounce of mother-wit is worth a pound of
clergy. Scotch.
6. An ounce of mother-wit is worth a pound of
school-wit. Ger,
7. An ounce of wit that's bought is worth a pound
that's taught.
8. Better a witty fool than a foolish wit. —
9. Big head little wit. Fr,, Ger,
10. Bought wit is best but may cost too much.
11. Buffoonery and scurrility are the corruption
of wit, as knavery is of wisdom.
12. Even wit's a burden when it talks too long. -^
Dryden,

Wit.
13. Every ditch is full of after- wit. Itai.
14. Good wits jump.
15. Great wit to madness sure is near allied,
A thin partition does their bounds divide.

Dryden.
16. Great wits meet. Ff\
17. Half witted folk speak much and say little.
18. He has more wit in his head than Samson
had in both shoulders.
19. He hath more wit in his little finger than
there is in thy whole body.
20. He hath some wit but a great fool hath the
guidance of it.
21. He is at his wit's end.
22. His clothes are worth pounds but his wit is
dear at a groat.
23. His wit is as sharp as a wooden pestle. Tamil,
24. Intemperate wits will spare neither friend nor
foe. Z' Estrange,
25. Little wit in the head makes much work for
the feet.
26. Love of wit makes no man rich.
27. Many that are wits in jest are fools in earnest.
28. Might and courage require wit in their suit.
Dan,
29. Much laughter little wit. For,
30. No fools so insufferable as those who ajffect to
be wits. GiUs^ Proverbs.
31. No house is big enough for two wits to live in
together.

Wit.
32. Nothing more smooth than glass, yet nothing
more brittle,
Nothing more fine than wit, yet nothing more
fickle.
33. Nuremburg wit and a skilful hand, ^
Will find their way through every land. Ger,
34. Quick wits are generally conceited.
35. Shallow wits censure everything that is beyond
their depth.
36. The less wit a man has the less he knows he
wants it.
37. The life of a wit is a warfare on earth.
Warton.
38. The wit one wants spoils what one has. Fr,
39. They who have most wit or money are most
sparing of either. Pope,
40. Tis an unhappy wit that stirs up enemies
against itself.
41. Tis wit to pick a lock and steal a horse, but
'tis wisdom to let it alone.
42. True wit is nature to advantage drest,
What oft was thought but ne'er as well ex-
pressed. Pope,
43. Use your wit as a buckler, not as a sword. ^
44. Want o' wit is war than want o' wealth.
45. Weak men had need be witty. -
46. Where there is no wit within no wit will come
out. Dan.
47. Wit and judgment often are at strife,
Though meant each other's aid, like man and
wife. Pope,

472

Wit.

48. Wit and wisdom are rarely seen together.
Richardson,
49. Wit bought is better than wit sought.
. 50. Wit does not take the place of knowledge.
51. Wit ill applied is a dangerous weapon.
52. Wit in a poor man's head and moss on the
mountain avail nothing.
53. Wit is folly unless a wise man hath the keep-
ing of it.
54. Wit is the epidemical madness of the French.
Rousseau,
55. Wit is the most rascally, contemptible, beg-
garly thing on the face of the earth. ^ ( Murphy,
56. Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
Hazlitt,
57. Wit may be bought too dear,
58. Wit may work what wishes want.
59. Wit once taught is worth twice bought.
60. Wit that can creep and pride that licks the
dust. Pope,
61. Wit which borders on profaneness deserves to
be branded with folly. Tillotson,
62. Wit without discretion is a sword in the hand
of a fool.
63. Wit without wisdom cuts other men's meat and
its own fingers.
64. Witticisms spare no one.
65. You have not wit enough to drown ships in.
66. You were bom when wit was scant.
67. Your wits are gone a wool-gathering.

WiTCHw— Witness.— Witnesses.— Woe. — Wolf.

473

Witch.
I. They that burn you for a witch will lose their
coals.
Witness.
1. False folk should have many witnesses. Scotch,
2. If it only depend on swearing, the cow is ours.
Fr.
3. There is a witness everywhere.
4. You can leave your memory at home as com-
pletely as a bribed witness. Ouida,
Witnesses.
I. Witnesses like watches go just as they're set :
too fast or slow. Butler,
Woe.
1. Alas 1 by some degree of woe, we every bliss
must gain,
The heart can ne'er a transport know, that
never feels a pain. Lord Lyttleton.
2. By telling our woes we often assuage them.
Fr.
3. He scorned his own who felt another's woe. "'
Campbell,
4. No scene of mortal life but teems with mortal
woe. Scott,
5. Woe to him who is alone when he falleth.
6. Woe to the house where there is no chiding.
. 7. Woes cluster, rare are solitary woes.
They love a train, they tread each other's
heels. Young.
Wolf.
I. A wolf hankers after sheep even at his last
gasp. Dutch.

474

Wolf.

2. A wolf is a wolf though it hath torn no sheep.
Gcr.
3. A wolf never eats a lamb by messenger.
M. Greek.
4. A wolf without teeth is still a wolf. Gcr.
5. All the sheep are not for the wolf. Ital.
6. An old wolf is not scared by loud cries. Dan.
7. An old wolf is used to be shouted at Dutch.
-^ 8. Bad watch often feeds the wolf. Fr.
9. Better the wolf eat us than the fleas. Ger,
^ 10. Even counted sheep are eaten by the wolf.
Fr., Ital^ Ger.
11. Gie ne'er the wolf the wedder to keep.
12. He hath enough to keep the wolf from the
door.
13. He is a wolf in sheep's clothing.
14. If the wolf had stayed in the wood there
would have been no hue-and-cry after him. Ger.
15. Ill herds make fat wolves.
16. It is a small thing for which the wolf eats the
sheep.
17. It must be a hard winter when one wolf de-
vours another. Dan,
18. It needs but small provocation to make the
wolf devour the lamb. Dan,
19. It never troubles the wolf how many the
sheep be. Virgil.
20. One must howl with the wolves. Fr.
21. One wolf does not kill another. «^., For.
22. One would rather be bitten by wolves than
by sheep. Dan.

Wolf.

475

23. So you tell me there are wolves on the moun-
tains and foxes in the valley. Sp.
24. Sooner will the wolf take a sheep for a wife.
25. Talk of the wolf and behold his skin. For,
26. Talk of the wolf and his tail appears.
Fr,^ Dutch.
27. The wolf and fox are both privateers. —
28. The wolf and the fox are both in one story. .
Sp.
29. The wolf bemoans the sheep and then eats it.
Ital.
30. The wolf calls the fox robber. Ger.
31. The wolf changes his hair but not his nature.
32. The wolf changes his coat but not his disposi- '
tion.
33. The wolf dances round the well. {Longing
for the water he cannot reach^ Latin,
34. The wolf does not satisfy his hunger with
wolf's flesh. Ger,
35. The wolf does not weep over the death of the
dog. Ger,
36. The wolf does that in the course of the week,
which hinders him from going to mass on Sunday.
Sp.
37. The wolf eats of what is counted. Sp,^ For.
38. The wolf is always left out of the reckoning.
Ital.
39. The wolf is always said to be more terrible
than he is. ItaL

476

Wolf.

40. The wolf loses his teeth but not his inclina-
tion, Sp.^ Par.
41.* The wolf must pay with his skin. Ger.
42. The wolf never wants a pretence against the
lamb.
43. The wolf picks the ass's fleas by moonlight.
Sp.
44. The wolf preys not in his own field. {Com-
mits no mischief at home^ Sp,^ Dutch,
45. The wolf speaks no ill of himself. Ger,
46. The wolf's death is the life of the sheep. Ger,
47. The wolf will die in his skin. Fr.
48. There is never a cry of wolf, but the wolf is
in the district. ItcU,
49. Though the wolf loses his teeth he never loses
his inclination.
50. Though you teach the wolf UtitpcUer noster he
will say " lamb, lamb." Dan.
51. Twa wolves may worry ae sheep.
52. Very hard times in the wood when the wolves
eat each other, Fr,
53. Were it a wolf it would spring at your throat.
(Said to a person hunting a thing that another sees
near him^
54. What the she-wolf brings forth pleases the he-
wolf. Fr,y Sp.
55. When one wolf eats another there is nothing
to eat in the woods. •S^.
56. When the wolf grows old he becomes the
sport even of the pups. M, Greek.
57. When the wolf grows old the crows ride him.

WOBfAN.

477

58. When the wolf's ears appear his body is not
far ofiE. Dan,
59. When you see the wolf do not look for his
track. Ital,
60. Where the wolf gets one lamb he looks for
another. ItaL^ Sfs^ For,
61. Who does not wish to be like the wolf, let
him not wear its skin. Ital,
62. Who hath a wolf for his mate needs a dog
for his man.
63. Who himself is afraid of the wolf, cares not
for the sheep. Ger,
64. Wolves are often under sheep's clothing.
Dan,
65. Wolves do not eat wolves. Dan,
66. You must howl with the wolves when you are
among them. Dan,
67. "Your words are fair," said the wolf, " but I
will not come into the village." Ger,
Woman.
1. A bag of fleas is easier to keep watch over
than a woman. Ger,
2. A beautiful and chaste woman is the perfect
workmanship of God, the true glory of angels, the
rare miracle of earth, and sole wonder of the world.
Hermes,
3. A beautiful hand is a beautiful thing in wo-
man. £ea,
4. A beautiful woman if poor should use double
circumspection ; for her beauty will tempt others,
her poverty herself. Cotton,

478 Woman.
5. A beautiful woman is the hell of the soul, the^
purgatory of the purse and the paradise of the eyes.
Fontentttc
6. A beautiful woman smiling bespeaks a purse v/
weeping. Ital.
7. A black woman hath turpentine in her.
8. A busy woman is a fearful nuisance.
Men jonsoH,
9. A cat has nine lives and a woman has nine
cats' lives.
10. A clock serves to point out the hours and a
woman to make us forget them.
11. A cunning woman is a knavish fool.
Lard LyttUton,
12. A dishonest woman cannot be kept in and an
honest one will not. - -^
13. A dog is wiser than a woman ; he does not
bark at his master. Russian.
14. A fair woman and a slashed gown find always . /
some nail in the way.
15. A fair woman without virtue is like palled
wine.
16. A faithful subject dies withcM fear, and a
virtuous woman meets danger with delight Chinese.
17. A foolish woman is clamorous. Bible,
18. A foolish woman is known by her finery.
19. A French woman talks a great deal more than
she thinks, an English woman thinks a great deal
more than she talks.
20. A glaring sunny morning, a woman that talks
Latin, and a child reared on wine, never come to a
good end. Fr.
A goose, a woman and a goat are bad things H ■
3"- A mill, a clock and a woman always want „
|
33- A mule?nd a wapian do what is expected of ■
^- St- I
34- A pretty woman is a welcome guest. Byrgn. B

35- A proud woman brings distress on her family. 1
36- A prudent woman is in the same class of honor
as a wise man.

37- Arthur could not tame a woman's tongue. ^^^^|

480 Woman.

38. A sack full of fleas is easier to watch than a
woman.
39. A shameless woman is the worst of men.
Young,
40. A ship, a mill and a woman are always re-
pairing.
(^^i. A silent woman is always more admired than
a noisy one. / '^ Latin.
42. A spaniel, a woman and a walnut tree,
The more they be beaten, the better they be. •
43. A thousand men may live together in har-
mony, whereas two women are unable to do so
though they be sisters. Tamil.
44. A truth telling woman has few friends. Dan,
45. A vicious woman is like a thorn in the foot,
^ you cannot get rid of either without pain. Sanscrit.
46. A virtuous woman commands her husband by
obeying him. Syrus.
47. A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband.
Bible.
48. A virtuous woman though ugly b the orna-
ment of the house.
49. A weeping man and a smiling woman are not
to be trusted. Tamil.
50. A wicked woman and an evil, is three half-
pence worse than the devil.
51. A wicked woman is a magazine of evils. Latin.
52. A woman and a cherry are painted for their
own harm. Ger.^ Sp.
53. A woman and a glass are always in danger.

Woman.

.481

54. A woman and a greyhound must be small in
the waist. Sp.
55. A woman and a hen are soon lost in gadding. '■
Sp.
56. A woman can love a poor boy better than a
rich dotard. Hebrew,
57. A woman can throw away more with a spoon
than a man can bring in with a shovel.
58. A woman changes oft,
Who trusts her is right soft. Francis I,
{He afterwards had good cause to alter his opinion^
59. A woman complains, a woman in woe,
A woman is sick when she likes to be so. Ital,
60. A woman conceals what she knows not.
61. A woman's counsel is no great thing, but he ^
who does not take it is a fool. Sp,
62. A woman either loves or hates, there is no
third part. Syrus,
63. A woman finds it much easier to do ill than
well. Plautus,
64. A woman for a general, and the soldiers will -^
be women. Latin,
C^^r^$. A woman forgives sin in her lover, but never
meanness.
66. A woman has never spoiled anything through
silence. Ger.
67. A woman has often committed herself by talk-
ing, never by holding her tongue. Punch,
68. A woman hates a question but loves to ask ««^
one. Punch.
3«

482

Woman.

69. A woman impudent and mannish grown.
Is not more loathed than an effeminate man
In time of action. SAaks.
70. A woman is always changeable and capri-
cious. Virgii.
71. A woman is known by her walking and drink-
ing. Sp.
72. A woman is naturally bom to fears. Shaks,
73. A woman is to be from her house three times,
when she is christened, married and buried.
74. A woman laughs when she can and weeps
when she pleases.
75. A woman may be ever so old, if she take fire
she will jump. Dan.
76. A woman never brings a man into the right
way. Kanuri.
77. A woman never commands a man, unless he
be a fool, but by her obedience. Turkish Spy.
78. A woman possessed of a decent and modest
spirit marries but once. Chinese.
79. A woman's preaching is like a dog's walking
on his hind legs : it is not done well but you are sur-
prised to find it done at all. Johnson.
80. A woman seldom asks advice before she has
bought her wedding clothes.
81. A woman seldom writes her mind but in her
postscript. Spectator.
82. A woman's first counsel is the best
83. A woman's greatest torment, dust; man's
greatest plague, a woman continually brushing the
same. Punch.

Wo««.. 483

84.

A woman's head is always influenced by her | heart, but a man
heart is always influenced by his head.

Lady Blessingion.

t-s-s'.

A woman smells sweetly when she smells of nothing at all.

86. A woman  mind and winter wind change oft.

87. A woman  strength is in her tongue. Welsh.

88. A woman sears,  tear-drop melts, a man's half

89. A womans tears and a dog's limping are not

real.

A woman

s tears are a fountain of craft. Ital.
s tongue is her sword and she does -

91.

A woman

not let it rust.

Fr.

91.

A woman

s tongue is only three inches long, -

but it

can kill a

man six feet high. Japanese.

93-

A woman

3 tongue wags hke a lamb's tail.

94-

A woman

strong in flounces is weak in the

head.

Ger.

95.

A woman

s vengeance knows no bounds. Ger.

96.

A woman

s work and wasfiing of dishes is

never

at an end

97-

A woman

that loves to be at the window is a

bunch of grapes

on the highway.

98.

A woman

that paints puts up a bill, to let.

99.

A woman

the more curious she is about her

face is commonly the more careless about her house. |

BenJmsoK. ■

100.

A woman

when inflamed by love or hatred - 1

win dare everything. 1

484

Woman.

loi. A woman when thinking by herself is always
thinking of mischief.
1 02. A woman who accepts sells herself, a woman
who gives surrenders. Fr,
103. A woman who has lost her rival has no sor-
row. Woloffs {Afrua).
104. A woman who has sacrificed her virtue soon
resigns every other principle. Tacitus.
105. A woman who is never spoken of is praised
the most.
106. A woman who looks much in the glass spins
but little. jFr.
107. A woman who walks the streets ought to
know whether they be paved or no. Fielding.
108. A woman will forgive anything in a rival ex-
cepting her being prettier than herself. Punch.
109. A woman wins an old man by listening to
him, a young man by talking to him. Punch.
no. A woman without a husband, a house without
a foundation. Ger.
111. A woman without dower has no liberty to
speak. Euripides.
112. A woman without religion, a flower without
perfume. Ger,
1 13. A woman's first advice is the best. Ger.
114. A woman's hair is long but her sense short.
Russian.
115. A woman's lot is made for her by the love
she accepts. George Eliot.
116. A woman's mind is affected by the meanest
gifts. Livy.

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485

117. Abandon her who is careless of her own rep-
utation. Tamil,
1 18. Adam must have an Eve to blame for all his
faults. Ital.
119. All that a woman has to do in this world, is
contained within the duties of a daughter, a sister,
a wife, and a mother. Steele.
120. After all, woman's fort is her piano. Punch.
121. All women are good. Viz., good for something
or good for nothing.
122. All women are good Lutherans: they would
rather preach than hear mass. Dan.
123. An ill-tempered woman is the devil's door-
nail. Dan.
124. An ugly woman dreads the mirror. Japanese.-
125. As a jewel of gold in a swine's snout so is a
fair woman which is without discretion. Bible.
126. As great a pity to see a woman cry as a
goose go barefoot.
127. A woman's honor is her good name.
Don Quixote.
128. A woman's wisdom is under her heels.
Pashto.
129. Beat a woman with a hammer and you'll'
make gold. Russian.
130. " Because, " is a woman's answer. —
131. Better dwell with a dragon than with a wicked
woman.
132. Between a woman's "yes " and "no " there
is no room for the point of a needle. Sp.

486 Woman.
133. Beware of a bad woman and put not your
trust in a good one. Sp^ JPor,
134. But what is woman? only one of nature's
agreeable blunders. Airs, Cowley.
135. But yet believe me, good as well as ill
Woman's at last a contradiction still. I^ope.
136. Civil carriage is the best sign of affection to
a woman.
137. Disguise our bondage as we will,
'Tis woman, woman rules us stilL Tom Moore.
138. Divination seems heightened to its highest
power in woman. Alcott.
139. Earth's noblest thing : a woman perfected.
Lowell.
140. Earth's twin-bom rulers, fame and woman's
love. Bulwcr.
141. Everything in the world depends on women.
Beet.
142. Every woman is in the wrong until she cries,
and then she is in the right instantly. Punch.
143. Every woman loves the woman in the looking-
glass. Ger.
144. Every woman who is a shrew in domestic life
is now become a scold in politics. Addison,
145. Every woman would rather be handsome
than good. Ger.
146. Fairest of creatures, last and best.
147. Fair, good, rich and wise is a woman four
stories high. Fr.
148. For woman's soul when once plunged in,
Knows no stopping place in sin.

WOMAW. 487
149. Fortune and women are partial to fools. Ger.
150. From four things God preserve us : a painted
woman, a conceited valet, salt beef without mus-
tard and a little late dinner. Jtal.
151. Hares are caught with hounds, fools with ,
praise and women with gold. Ger.
152. He is a fool who thinks by force or skill
To turn the current of a woman's will. ""
153. He who listens to the advice of a woman is
a fool. Tamil.
154. He who listens to the words of a woman will
be accounted worthless.
155. He who trusts a woman and leads an ass will
never be free from plague. Fr.
156. I hale a dumpy woman. Byron.
157. I hate a learned woman. Euripides.
158. If a woman hold her tongue, it is only from
the fear she cannot hold her own. Pitnih.
159. If a woman were as little as she is good,
A peascod would make her a gown and a
hood.
160. If the heart of a man is depressed with cares,
The mist is dispell'd when a woman appears.
Gay.
161. If you want to know a woman's true char-
acter linger after the guests are gone and listen to
what she has to say about them. Puneh.
162. In arguments with men a woman ever,
Goes by the worse whatever be her cause.
Miitm.

488 Woman.
163. In men every mortal sin is venial ; in women
every venial sin b mortal. ItcU.
164. It is better to dwell in a comer of the house-
top, than with a brawling woman in a wide house.
Bible.
165. It is better to dwell in the wilderness than
with a contentious and angry woman. Bible.
166. It is better to irritate a dog than an old
woman. ItaL
167. It is easier to guard against a bushel of fleas
than a woman. Ger.
168. It is vain to watch a really bad woman. ItaL
169. It is nothing at all, only a woman drowning.
Fr.
170. It is the men that cause the women to dislike
each other. Fr.
171. Kind words and few are a woman's orna-
ment. Dan.
172. King Arthur did not violate the refuge of a
woman.
1 73. Let women spin and not preach.
174. Man is fire and woman is tow and the devil
comes and blows. Fr,^ Sp.^^ For.
175. Man may be the head of the family, but far
better than that woman is the heart of it. Punch.
176. Man without woman is head without body;
woman without man is body without head. Crer.
177. Man, woman, and the devil are the three de-
grees of comparison.
178. Man to man so oft unjust, is always so to
woman. Byron.,

Woman.

489

179. Many estates are spent in the getting
Since women for tea forsook spinning and "
knitting,
And men for their punch hewing and splitting.
180. Many things make the honor of a man, few
that of a woman. {Economy^ modesty and silence
adorn a woman,) M, Greek,
181. Many women, many words.
182. Many words honor a man and few the
woman. M, Greek,
183. Mean women have their faults as well as
queens. Massinger,
184. Men are as old as they feel and women as .
they look. Ital,
185. Men as well as women bom to be controlled.
Stoop to the forward and the bold.
186. Men make wealth and women preserve it. Ital,
187. Men must work and women must weep.
Kingsley,
188. Men never begrudge the money they spend
on dinners, nor women on pastry. Punch,
189. Men-iegpect and women love.'^
190. Men's vows are women's traitors. Shaks,
191. My only books were woman's looks,
And folly's all they taught me. Tom Moore, "^
192. Never ask a woman her age : ask it of some ^.
other woman. Punch,
193. Never contradict a woman when she is abus- —
ing her husband. Punch,
194. No relying on wine, women, or fortune. _

490

Woman.

195. No woman is a beauty to her femme-de-cham-
bre. Punch.
196. No woman is ugly if she is well dressed.
Sp,y Par,
197. No woman marries a man for God's sake.
198. No woman sleeps so soundly that the twang
of a guitar will not bring her to the window. Sp.
199. Not she with traitorous kiss her Saviour stung.
Not she denied him with unholy tongue.
She, while apostles shrunk, could danger
brave,
Last at his cross, and earliest at his grave.
E. S. Barrett.
200. Nothing causes women to lose the taste of
visiting but the want of attire and ornament Chinese.
201. Nothing is more unbearable than a woman
with a full purse. Juvenal.
202. Nothing is so important to a young man en-
tering life as to be well criticised by women. Bea.
203. Oh ! woman, woman, when to ill thy mind
Is bent, all hell contains no fouler fiend.
Homer.
' 204. Old women's gold is not ugly.
205. One demands four things from a woman : that
virtue dwell in her heart, modesty beam on her fore-
head, sweetness flow from her lips, and industry oc-
cupy her hands. Chinese.
206. One hair of a woman draws more than a bell
rope. Ger.
207. One hair of a woman draws more than a team
of oxen.

Woman. ^g,
208. One tongue is enough for a woman.
209. One tongue is enough for two women.
210. Out of nine women, one is sure to be affected
with jealousy. Chinese.
211. Play, women and wine make a man laugh till
he dies.
212. Play, women and wine undo a man laughing.
213. Praise a woman's taste, and you may attack
her sense with impunity. Putuh,
214. Priests and women never forget. Ger,
215. Provided a woman be well principled she has
dowry enough. Flautus,
216. Put the light out and all women are alike.
Ger.
217. Seek to be good, but aim not to be great,
A woman's noblest station is retreat.
Lyttletan (1731).
218. Summer sown corn and woman's advice, turn
out well in every seven years. Ger.
219. Swine, women and bees cannot be turned.
220. Take a woman's first advice, not her second.
Fr.
221. Talk to women as much as you can, 'tis the
best school. Bea.
222. Tears are ordinarily the touchingest eloquence
of women. Turkish Spy.
223. Tell a woman she's a beauty and the devil
will tell her it ten times. Sp.
224. Tell a woman she is wondrous fair and she
will soon turn fool.

492

Woman.

225. Tell her she's handsome and you will turn her
head. Sp., JPor.
226. That bench is well adorned that is filled with
virtuous women. JDan.
227. That man that hath a tongue, I say is no man.
If with his tongue he cannot win a woman. f
Shaks.
228. The action of women on our destiny is in-
creasing. Bea.
229. The best guidance for a woman's life is a
union with the man she loves. Maga.
230. The cunning of the sex is equal to their ob-
stinacy. {Female sex,)
231. The dog is faithful, women never. Turk. #
232. The first counsels of women are the wisest and
their last resolutions the most dangerous. Chinese.
233. The first talent of a woman is to be able to
converse. Maga.
234. The fortitude that becomes a woman would be
cowardice in a man, and the modesty which be-
comes a man would be pertness in a woman. Tacitus.
235. The laughter, the tears and the song of a
woman are equally deceptive.
236. The looking-glass is the woman's best coun-
sellor. Ger.
237. The love of woman buries her wrongs without
a tear. Maga.
238. The man's a fool who thinks by force or skill,
To stem the torrent of a woman's will ;
For if she will, she will, you may depend on it,
And if she won't she won't, and there's an end
on it.

Woman. ^q^
239. The man that lays his hand upon a woman
save in the way of kindness, is a wretch whom 'twere
gross flattery to name a coward.
240. The more a woman admires her face, the
more she ruins her house. Sp.
241. The more women look in their glasses the less
they look to their houses.
242. The most beautiful object in the world is a -
beautiful woman. Macaulay,
243. The ornament of a woman is her modesty.
Cingalese,
244. The power of a Brahmin is in his knowledge,
of a woman in her beauty, of a soldier in his cour-
age. Cingalese.
245. The reputation of chastity to a woman, is not
so necessary as veracity to a man.
246. The smiles of a pretty woman are the tears of
the purse. ItaL
247. The thoughts of women are after thoughts.
248. The tongue of women is their sword and they
^ke care not to let it rust. Chinese,
249. The way of women : when you will they won't, ^
and when you won't they're dying to.
250. The well-dressed woman draws her husband
from another woman's door. Sp.
251. The whisper of a beautiful woman can be
heard further than the loudest call of duty.
252. The woman in finery, the house in filth, but
the door-way swept. Sp,
253. The woman that deliberates is lost. Addison,

494

Woman.

254. The woman who gives is seldom good ; the
woman who accepts is in the power of the just. Itai.
255. The world is the book of women. Fr.
256. The world was sad, the garden was a wild,
And man the hermit sighed, 'til woman
smiled. Campbell.
^ 257. There are only two good women in the world :
the one is dead, the other not to be found. Ger.
258. There is little use in watching a bad woman.
Sp.
259. There is no mischief done, but a woman is one.
260. There is no torture a woman would not endure
to enhance her beauty. Moniaigtu.
261. There is not a woman without some duty.
Cicero,
262. There is nothing on earth to be compared
with a virtuous and lovely woman. Arabian.
263. There is only one way in which a woman can
be handsome but a hundred thousand ways in which
she can be pretty. Maga,
264. There is scarcely a lawsuit unless a woman is
the cause of it. Juvenal,
265. There is scarcely a man who does not inveigh
against the scandal of women, but they all of them
listen to it. Punch.
266. There is no mischief in the world done,
But a woman is always one.
267. There never was a looking-glass that told a
woman she was ugly. Fr.
268. There never yet was fair woman,
But she made mouths in the glass. Shaks.

^ Woman. 4^5
269. They say that women and music should not
be dated. ; Goldsmith.
270. They talk alput a woman's sphere as though
it had a liinit,
There's not a place in earth or heaven,
There's not a task to mankind given.
There's not a blessing or a woe,
There's not a whisper yes or no,
There's not a life or birth,
That has a feather's weight of worth,
Without a woman in it.
271. Three things women highly hold in hate,
Falsehood, cowardice and poor descent. .
Shaks,
272. Time, wind, women and fortune are ever
changing. Ger,
273. 'Tis as natural for women to pride themselves
in fine clothes as 'tis for a peacock to spread his
tail.
274. 'Tis beauty that doth oft make women proud,
'Tis virtue that doth make them most ad-
mired,
'Tis modesty that makes them seem divine.
Shaks.
275. To a foolish woman, a violin is more pleasing
than a distaff. Ital.
276. To a gentleman every woman is a lady in
right of her sex. Bulwer.
277. To be slow in words is a woman's only virtue.
Shaks.
278. Trust not a woman even when dead. (She
may feign death,)

496

Woman.

279. Trust not a woman when she weepeth, for it
is her nature to weep, when she wanteth her will.
Socrates,
280. *Twas surely the devil that taught women to
dance and asses to bray.
281. Two cats and one mouse, two women and one
house,
Two dogs and one bone, will not agree long.
Ger.
282. Two things govern the world: women and
gold. Ger.
283. Two women can be reconciled who have
quarrelled unless they have called each other ugly.
Horace Walpole.
284. Two women placed together make cold
weather. Shaks.
285. Ugliness is the guardian of women. Hebrew,
286. Ugly women finely dressed are the uglier for
it.
287. Upon a woman one must wait an hour.
288. Virtue is the most beautiful ornament of
woman. Ger.
289. Want of sympathy in a woman is almost as
bad as want of beauty.
290. Watching a woman is labor in vain. Ger.
291. We never know what a woman doesn't mean
until she has spoken.
292. We should make it a rule to give up to women
and they are sure to give up to us. Bea.
293. Wealth, wind, women and fortune change
like the moon. Fr.

Woman.

497

294. What a woman wills, God wills. Fr,^ Sp.
295. What manly eloquence could produce such
effect as woman's silence. Michekt,
296. What's a table richly spread, without a woman
at its head? J, Wharton.
297. When a handsome woman laughs you may be
sure her purse weeps.
298. When a woman has no answer, the sea is
empty of water. Ger,
299. When a woman has nothing to do, she talks
scandal. Punch,
300. When a woman is openly bad she is good.
{She then is at her best,) Syrus,
301. When a woman thinks by herself, she's think-
ing of mischief. Latin,
302. When a woman vows she never flirts, she is
flirting. Punch,
303. When an ass climbs a ladder, we may find
wisdom in woman.
304. When pain and anguish rive the brow.
A ministering angel thou. Scott,
305. When there are two women in one house
there is one too many. Ger,
306. When woman reigns the devil governs. Ital,
307. Where a woman deposits her heart, she
should deposit her fortune. Fielding.
308. Where a woman rules the house, the devil is
serving-man. Ger.
309. Where there are women and geese, there
wants no noise.
32

498

Woman.

310. Whether sunned in the tropics, or chilled at
the pole,
If a woman be there, there is happiness too.
Afoare.
311. Who is it can read a woman ? Shaks.
312. Who places his confidence in a woman is a
fool. Polish.
313. Who takes an eel by the tail, and a woman
at her word, may say he holds nothing. Ital.
314. Who is the man that was never fooled by
woman ? Ger.
315. Wine and women bring misery. Martial.
316. Wine and women make fools of everybody.
Ger.
317. Woman as a mother makes the house and
mars it. Turk.
318. Woman, fairest of creation, last and best.
Milton.
319. Woman impromptu, man on reflection. Ital.
320. Woman is an evil, but a necessary evil. Latin.
321. Woman is an idol man worships until he
throws it down.
322. Woman's at best a contradiction still. Pope.
323. Woman is the handsomest in animal creation.
Hebrew,
324. Woman is the lesser man. Tetmyson.
325. Woman like good wine is a sweet poison. Turk.
326. Woman, take her all in all, is extravagant by
nature. Greek.
327. Woman's beauty, the forest echo, and rain-
bow soon pass away. Ger,

WOM.K. 45g
328. Woman's grief is like a summer storm, short .
as it is violent, Joanna Baillie.
329. Woman's honor is nice as ermine: 'twill not
bear a soil. Jiryden.
330. Woman's happiness is in obeying. Mkhekt.
331. Woman's love is dangerous, their hate is fatal.
332. Woman's mission : to stop at the fireside
whilst man goes to collect material to make the pot
boil. Punch.
333. Women always speak the truth but not the
whole truth. Hal.
334. Women always poke the fire from the top.
335. Women and dogs set men together by the ears.
336. Women and fools are always in extreme.

337. Women and glass are always in danger. Par.
338. Women and hens are lost by too much
gadding. Ital.
339- Women and maidens must be praised whether
truly or falsely. Ger.
340. Women and wine, game and deceit,
Make the wealth small and the want great.
Franklin,
341. Women and wine intoxicate the young and
old, Hal.
342. Women are as fickle as April weather. Ger. '
343. Women are in extremes, they are better or
worse than men. Jm Bruyire.
344. Women are never at a loss for words. Ger.
345- Women are passive agents and when love
prompts them can outsuffer martyrs. Massingir.

Woman,

499

318. Woman's grief is like a summer storm, short .
as it is violent. Joanna Baitlie.
329. Woman's honor is nice as ermine: 'twill not
bear a soil. Dryden.
330. Woman's happiness is in obeying. Mickdet.
331. Woman's love is dangerous, their hate is fatal.
332. Woman's mission : to stop at the fireside
whilst man goes to collect material to make the pot
boil. Punch.
333. Women always speak ihe truth but not the
whole truth. Hal.
334. Women always poke the fire from the top. -
335. Women and dogs set men together by the ears.
336. Women and fools are always in extreme.
Pop,.
337. Women and glass are always in danger. Por.
338. Women and hens are lost by too much
gadding. Jtal.
339. Women and maidens must be praised whether
truly or falsely, Ger.
340. Women and wine, game and deceit.
Make the wealth small and the want great.
Franklin.
341. Women and wine intoxicate the young and
old. 2tal.
34a, Women are as fickle as April weather, Ger. ~
343. Women are in extremes, they are better or
worse than men. Ja Bruyire.
344. Women are never at a loss for words. G^. -
345. Women are passive agents and when love
prompts them can outsuffer martyrs. Massinger.

500

Woman.

346. Women are sooner angry than men. Hermes.
347. Women are supernumerary when present and
missed when absent. Por.
348. Women are the refiners of the merits of men.
Chesterfield.
349. Women are watches that keep bad time. Ger.
350. Women are wise impromptu, fools on reflec-
tion. JtcU.
351. Women, asses, and nuts require strong hands.
Ital.
352. Women can do everything because they rule
those who command everything. Fr.
353* Women cannot be completely severed unless
they hate. Rochefoucauld.
354. Women confess little faults that their candor
may cover great ones. Punch.
355* Women commend a modest man but like him
not.
356. Women conceal all they know not
357. Women fear too much even as they love.
Shaks.
358. Women, fortune and gold favor fools. Ger.
359. Women have long hair and short wit. Turk.
360. Women in mischief are wiser than men.
361. Women know a point more than the devil.
Ital.
362. Women know the better they obey the surer
they are to rule. Michelei.
363. Women laugh when they can and weep when
they will. Fr.

Wonder.

501

364. Women like princes find few real friends. -
LyttUton.
365. Women, money and wine have their value and
their harm. Fr.
366. Women must have their wills while they live
because they make none when they die.
367. Women rouge that they may not blush. ItaL
368. Women tell the truth indeed but only half of
it. Ger.
369. Women think plaice a sweet fish.
370. Women weep for their friends, men remember
them. Tacitus,
371. Women who have been happy in a first
marriage are the most apt to venture on a second.
Addison.
372. Women, wind and fortune soon change.
Sp., For.
373. Women's counsels are ever cruel. Icelandic.
374. Women's jars breed men's wars.
375. Women's tears are a fountain of craft. Ital.
376. You may know a foolish woman by her
finery.
377. You should believe one word in forty that a
woman speaks. Turk.
378. You should lecture neither child nor woman.
Turk.
Wonder.
1. A wonder lasts but nine days and then the
puppies' eyes are opened.
2. No wonder lasts more than three days. Hal.
3. Wonder is the daughter of ignorance.

502 Wonders.— Wood.— Wooden Leg.— Woods.
4. Wonder is the first cause of philosophy.
Aristotle.
5. Wonder lasts but nine nights in a town.
Wonders.
I. Wonders will never cease.
Wood.
1. He that picks up all sorts of wood soon gets
an armful. Ger.
2. Wood half burned is easily kindled.
Wooden Leg.
I. A wooden leg is better than no leg.
Woods.
I. Woods have ears and fields have eyes.
Ger.^ Dutch.
Wooing.
I. A man may obtain easily a fatherless maid.
Gaelic.
' 2. A rich man's wooing is seldom long of doing.
Scotch.
3. All wooers are rich and captives poor. Ger.
4. Happy's the wooing that's not long in doing.
5. Men are April when they woo, December
when they wed. Shahs.
6. Never mind him, let him be,
By-and-by he'll follow thee.
7. Not what is she but what hath she.
8. The last suitor wins the maid.
9. The wooing was a day after the wedding.
10. Tis best to woo where you can see the
smoke. Dutch.

■

Wool.— Word.

503 ■

11.

To woo is a pleasure in young men, a fault in ^

old.

■

12

Who the daughter would win,

I

With mamma must begin.

Ger. ■

Wool.

1

,.

Many go out for wool thai come back shorn. |

Ger. ■

2.

Much cry and little wool.

■

3-

Much cry and little wool as the devi

■

when

he sheared his hogs.
Word.

1

I

A blemish may be taken out of a diamond by |

cnref

1 polishing, but if your words have the

least ■

bbm

sh there is no way to efface it. Chinese. ■

3

A common word is always correct. Polish. |

3

A deluge of words and a drop of sense.

I

4

A good word always finds its man.

Gtr. ■

S

A good word extinguishes more than a pail H

full of water.

sp. m

6.

A good word for a bad one is worth

m.ch J

and costs little.

^^B

7-

A good word is as soon said as a bad one. ^^^^^|

8.

A good word stills great anger.

G^. ^H

9

A kind word leads the cow into the stab

-^^

lO

A spoken word is silver, an unspoke

1

gold

G^. ■

II.

A spoken word will not be called back.

G». ■

II.

A word and a stone let go cannot be

ailed ■

back

H

13-

A word before is worth two after.

J

504

Word.

14. A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in
pictures of silver. Bible,
15. A word hurts more than a wound.
16. A word in earnest is as good as a speech.
Dickens.
17. A word isn't a bird, if it flies out you'll never
catch it again. Russian.
18. A word is sufficient between man and man.
Hans Andersen,
19. A word is worth a dollar, silence two. Ger.
^ 20. A word once out flies anywhere. I*r.
21. A word once sent abroad flies irrevocably.
Horace,
22. A word spoken in season, at the right moment,
is the mother of ages. Carlyle.
23. A word spoken is an arrow let fly.
24. A word to the wise is sufficient. Latin,
25. A word unreasonably spoken may mar the
course of a whole life. Greek,
26. A word uttered may bring wealth as well as
ruin. Tamil,
27. Ae ill word meets anither an it were at the
brig of London.
28. All food is good to eat but all words are not
flt to speak.
29. An acute word cuts deeper than a sharp
weapon.
30. An unkind word falls easily from the tongue
but a coach with six horses cannot bring it back.
Chinese,

Word.

505

31. Bad words find bad acceptance.
32. Bad words make a woman worse.
33. Bare words buy no barley.
34. Better a good word than a battle.
35. Better break your word than do worse in
keeping it.
36. Better one living word than a hundred dead
ones. Dutch,
37. Better one word in time than two after.
38. Big words seldom go with good deeds. Dan,
39. Changes o' words are lightening o' hearts.
40. Cool words scald not the tongue.
41. David did not slay Goliah with words. Icelandic.
42. Deliver not your words by number but by
weight.
43. Evil words corrupt good manners. Dutch,
44. Fair words and foul play cheat both young and
old.
45. Fair words break no bones, but foul words
many a one.
46. Fair words, but look to your purse. ItaL
47. Fair words butter no parsnips. — -
48. Fair words don't fill the pockets.
49. Fair words fill not the belly nor mind always.
50. Fair words make me look at my purse.
51. Fair words please the fool and sometimes the
wise. Dan.
52. Fair words will never pluck out the tongue.
Fr.
53. Fair words won't feed a cat. Ital.

5o6 Word.
54. Fair words won't fill the sack. Dutch, Dan.
55. Faithful are the words of a friend, but the
kisses of an enemy are deceitful.
56. Few words are best.
57. Few words darken speech and so do too many.
Benjonsan,
58. Few words, many deeds.
59. Few words sufficeth to a wise man.
60. Fine words will not keep a cat from starv-
ing.
61. Fine words without deeds go not far. Dan.
62. Foolish ears need sharp words. Dutch,
63. For mad words deaf ears.
64. Good words and bad deeds deceive both wise
and simple. Sp.^ Por.
65. Good words and no deeds are rushes and
reeds.
66. Good words are better than bad strokes.
Shaks.
67. Good words cool more than cold water.
68. Good words cost no more than bad.
69. Good words cost nothing but are worth much.
70. Good words fill not a sack.
71. Half a word to the wise is enough. Dutch.
72. He keeps his word as the sun keeps butter.
Dutch.
73. Ill words are bellows to a slackening fire.
74. Immodest words admit of no defence,
For want of decency is want of sense.
Roscommon,

Word.

507

75. It is bitter fare to eat one's own words. Dan,
76. It takes many words to fill a sack. Dan,
77. Kind words don't wear out the tongue. Dan, \
78. Kind words heal friendship's wounds. Dan,
79. Let no word escape you unsuitable to the oc- -
casion. Ferkles,
80. Let thy words be few. Bible,
81. Many words, an unsound heart. Turk,
82. Many words hurt more than swords.
83. Many words, little work. Ger,
84. More is done with words than with hands. Ger,
85. No word is ill spoken that is not ill taken. Por,
86. Of big words and feathers many go to the
pound. Ger,
87. One good word quenches more heat than a
bucket of water. Ital.
88. One honest word is better than two oaths.
Turk.
89. One ill word asketh another.
90. One word before is better than ten afterwards.
Dan,
91. One word brings on another. Ital,
92. Pleasant words are valued and do not cost
much. Ital,
93. Smooth words do not flay the tongue. Ital,
94. Smooth words make smooth ways.
95. Soft words break no bones.
96. Soft words don't scratch the tongue. Fr.
97. Soft words hurt not the mouth.

5o6 Word.
54. Fair words won't fill the sack. Dutch^ Dan.
55. Faithful are the words of a friend, but the
kisses of an enemy are deceitful.
56. Few words are best.
57. Few words darken speech and so do too many.
Benjanson.
58. Few words, many deeds.
59. Few words sufficeth to a wise man.
60. Fine words will not keep a cat from starv-
ing.
61. Fine words without deeds go not far. Dan.
62. Foolish ears need sharp words. Dutch.
63. For mad words deaf ears.
64. Good words and bad deeds deceive both wise
and simple. 1^., For.
65. Good words and no deeds are rushes and
reeds.
66. Good words are better than bad strokes.
Shaks.
67. Good words cool more than cold water.
68. Good words cost no more than bad.
69. Good words cost nothing but are worth much.
70. Good words fill not a sack.
71. Half a word to the wise is enough. Dutch^
72. He keeps his word as the sun keeps butter.
Dutch.
73. Ill words are bellows to a slackening fire.
74. Immodest words admit of no defence,
For want of decency is want of sense.
Roscommon.

Word.

507

75. It is bitter fare to eat one's own words. Dan,
76. It takes many words to fill a sack. Dan,
77. Kind words don't wear out the tongue. Dan, \
78. Kind words heal friendship's wounds. Dan,
79. Let no word escape you unsuitable to the oc- .
casion. Pericles,
80. Let thy words be few. Bible,
81. Many words, an unsound heart. Turk,
82. Many words hurt more than swords.
83. Many words, little work. Ger,
84. More is done with words than with hands. Ger,
85. No word is ill spoken that is not ill taken. Por,
86. Of big words and feathers many go to the
pound. Ger,
87. One good word quenches more heat than a
bucket of water. Ital,
88. One honest word is better than two oaths.
Turk.
89. One ill word asketh another.
90. One word before is better than ten afterwards.
Dan,
91. One word brings on another. Ital,
92. Pleasant words are valued and do not cost
much. Ital,
93. Smooth words do not flay the tongue. Ital,
94. Smooth words make smooth ways.
95. Soft words break no bones.
96. Soft words don't scratch the tongue. Fr.
97. Soft words hurt not the mouth.

5o8 Word.
98. Soft words warm friends, bitter words lasting
enemies.
99. Sometimes words hurt worse than swords.
100. Sugared words generally prove bitter. Sp.
1 01. Sweet words butter no parsnips.
102. Take a horse by his bridle and a man by his
word. Dutch.
103. Take a man by his word and a cow by her
horns. Fr.
104. The spoken word cannot be swallowed.
Russian.
105. The word goes from the lips and passes to
thousands. M. Greek.
106. The word impossible, is not in my dictionary.
Napokan.
107. The word that has escaped thee is thy master,
that which you retain thy slave. Fr.
108. The words of the good are like a staff in a
slippery place. Hindoo.
109. To rude words deaf ears. Fr.
110. Twix't the word and the deed there's a long
step. Fr.
111. Under fair words beware of fraud. For.
112. Use soft words and hard arguments.
113. We should be as careful of our words as of
our actions. Cicero.
114. What harm is there in a good word, it costs
nothing ? Ger.
115. What you keep by you you may change and
mend,
But words once spoken can never be recalled.
Roscommon,

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When the nord is out it belongs to another. ^^^|

117.

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the words are said the holy water's ^^^H

made

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118.

When

you give others ill words you rail at ^^^H

yourself.

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Wise words and great seldom agree. « ^^^^U

With words to combat ill befits the brave. ^^^^|

fftmer. ^^^H

IZI.

Words and feathers are tossed by the wind. ^^^^|

Hi.

Words

are but empty thanks. Cihber. ^^^^^|

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Words

are but sands, 'lis money buys lands. ^^^^|

124-

Words

are female, deeds are male. Ital. ■ ^^^^|

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Words

are good when works follow. Ger. ^^^^^|

126

Words

are men's daughters, but God's sons ^^^^^|

are things.

Johnson. ^^^H

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Words

are like leaves and where they most ^^^^H

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Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found. ^^^B

^^H

128

Words

are the voice of the heart. Confucius. ^^^H

129

Words

are the wings of action. Lavater. ^^^^H

'30

Words

are women, deeds are men. Herbert. ^^^|

'31

Words don't fill the belly. J'or. ~^^H

132

Words fine and bold, are goods half sold. Ger— ^|

133

Words

of snow which fell last year, Gtr. H

134

Words

often do more than blows. Gtr. H

'3S

Words

once spoken cannot be wiped out with H

a sponge.

Dan. ■

136

Words show the wit of a man, but actions bis ^^^^|

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Sio

Work.

137. Words spoken in the evening the wind carri-
eth away. (Jn the heat of conviviality mm talk care-
lessly.)
138. Words will not do for my aunt for she does
not put faith even in deeds. Sfi.
139. Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
SAaks.
m
140. Words won't feed cats. It^il.
141. You may gain by fair words, what may fail
you by angry ones. I^an.
Work.
1. A work ill done must be twice done.
2. A work well begun is half ended. Plato,
3. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
4. All work, even cotton spinning, is noble —
work alone is noble. Carlyle.
5. Better direct well than work hard.
^ 6. Better sit idle than work for naught.
, 7. By the work we know the workman.
La Fontaine.
8. By work you get money, by talk you get
knowledge. Haliburton.
9. By working in a smithy one becomes a smith.
Fr.
10. Church work goes on slowly.
11. Do the head work before the hand work.
12. Fire and love do not say, **Go to your work.**
sp.
13. Good material is half the work. Ger.

Work.

Sii

14. Good works will never save you, but you can-
not be saved without them.
15. Great gain makes work easy.
16. He was bom on a Sunday: he likes work
ready done. Fr.
17. He who would rest must work. Ital.
18. In truth they must not eat, who will not work
in heat.
19. It's all in the day's work.
20. It is not the long day but the heart that does
the work. ItaL
21. Man's work is from sun to sun,
Woman's work is never done.
22. Men work but slowly that have poor wages.
23. Mighty work must be done with few words.
Dan.
24. Most hands despatch apace and make light
work.
25. Never was good work done without much
trouble. Chinese.
26. Slow work produces fine goods.
27. Sour work — sweet sleep. Ger,
28. The result tests the work. George Washington.
29. The time is never lost that is devoted to
work. Emerson.
30. Thy hand is never the worse for doing thy
own work.
31. 'Tis not prating but working that brings in
the harvest.
32. To work for a dead horse or goose.

517

Workman.

33. To work for the bishop. (Prayers but no pay ^
Sp.
34. We cannot all be noblemen, there must be
some to do the work. Hans Andersen.
35. When every one minds his own business the
work is done. Dan.
36. When he should work every finger is a thumb.
37. Where there are too many there is little work.
Ger.
38. Work done expects money. -/Vr.
39. Work first and then rest. Ruskin.
40. Work makes riches, and the weaver's tool
builds the store-house. Ger.
41. Work has a bitter root but sweet fruit. Ger.
42. Work makes the workman.
43. Work produces virtue, and virtue honor. Ger.
Workman.
1. A bad workman quarrels with his tools.
2. A skilful mechanic is a good pilgrim. Sp.
3. A workman is known by his chips.
4. At the working man's house hunger looks in
but does not enter. Franklin.
5. Diligent work makes a skilful workman.
6. Handle your tools without mittens : remem-
ber the cat in gloves catches no mice. Franklin.
7. He is a bad workman who cannot talk of
work. Ger.
8. He never wrought a good day's work who
went grumbling about it.
9. He who has money to throw away let him
employ workmen and not stand by. Ital.

World.

513

10. It is working that makes a workman.
11. Many workmen, little work. Ger.
12. Never pay your workmen beforehand. Maga,
13. Not to oversee workmen is to leave them
your house open.
14. Not to oversee workmen is to leave them
your purse open.
15. The work praises the workman. Ger.
16. The workman is known by his work.
Fr., ItaL, Dutch,
17. The workman is worthy of his hire. Dutch,
18. They may know the workman by his work.
Ital.
19. Workmen are easier found than masters.
{More hands than heads?) Ger.
20. Would you a perfect workman find,
To an embroidery needle an iron pestle
grind. Chinese.
World.
1. A due consideration of the vanities of the
world will naturally bring us to a contempt of it.
VEstrange.
2. A falling world might crush but it could not
intimidate me. Petrarch.
3. All the world is not mere conduct and
stratagem.
4. All the world will beat the man whom fortune
buffets.
5. He is the world's master who despises it, its
slave who prizes it. ItaL
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514

World.

6. He that will consider the world must own he
has never seen a better. Z>uUh.
7. If all the world were ugly, deformity would
be no monster.
8. If all were wise the world would come to an
end. Ggr,
9. If the whole world does not enter one-half of
it will.
10. In this world men must be saved by their
want of faith. Lord Halifax.
11. In this world nine-tenths of all success de-
pends upon the time.
12. In this world, the fondest and the best
Are the most troubled and distressed. Crabbe.
13. In wiving and thriving men should take coun-
sel of all the world.
14. Let the great book of the world be your prin-
cipal study. Chesterfield.
15. Of this world each man has as much as he
takes. ItaJ.
16. One-half the world does not know how the
other half lives.
. 17. One-half the world laughs at the other half.
Fr.^ Ger.
18. Take the world as it is, not as it ought to be.
Ger.
19. The gown is hers who wears it, and the world
is his who enjoys it.
20. The world has people of all sorts. Locke.
21. The world is a bride superbly dressed.
Who weds for dowry must pay his soul. Hafiz.

World.

515

22. The world is a great book of which they that
never stir from home read only a page.
St. Augustim,
23. The world is a ladder for some to go up and
others to go down.
24. The world is a lottery wherein one must ex-
pect to meet with many unlucky chances.
lurkish Spy.
25. The world is a net; the more we stir in it the
more we are entangled.
26. The world is a wheel. M. Greek.
27. The world is as free for a fly as for an eagle.
Ben Jonson.
28. The world is governed with little brains. Ital.
29. The world is like a staircase, some go up and
others go down. Ital.
30. The world is so much knave that it holds
honesty to be a vice and folly.
31. The world likes to be cheated. Dutch.
32. The world likes to have night owls that it
may have matter for wonder. Ger.
33. The world owes me a living providing I earn
it.
34. The world wags on with three things : doing,
undoing and pretending. Ital.
35. The world was never so dull as if one wont
another will.
36. The world would perish were all men learned.
37. The world's a stage, each plays his part and
takes his share. Dutch.

C|6 Wormwood. — Worn Out. — Worship.
^S, There needs a long apprenticeship to under-
stand the mystery of the world's trade.
39. There needs a long time to know the world's
pulse.
40. This world is nothing except it tend to
another.
41. 'Tis a wicked world and we make part of it.
42. When the world is inclined to favor, it over-
rates as much as it will underrate when it disfavors.
Richardson.
Wormwood.
I. There is no wormwood that comes into flower
that does not wither. {Spoken of the life of man,)
Kojffir.
Worn Out.
I. Something better always makes its appear-
ance when old and worn out things fail.
Hans Andersen.
Worship.
I. They who worship God merely for fear
Would worship the devil should he appear.
Worst.
1. It is best to know the worst at once. Plautus.
2. Provide for the worst, the best will save itself.
3. The corruption of the best produces the
worst. Latin,
\ 4. The worst is always the present. La Fontaine.
5. When things are at the worst they sometimes
mend. Byron.
6. When things come to the worst they'll mend.
7. Who is it can say, " I am at the worst." Shahs.

Worth. — Wound.

517

Worth.
1. The worth of a thing is best known by the %
want of it.
2. The worth of a thing is what it will bring.
For.
3. The worth of good is not known but by ex-
perience. Turk.
4. Worth makes the man and want of it the
fellow. Pope.
Wound.
1. A green wound is soon healed.
2. A wound foreseen pains the less. Ital.
3. A wound is not cured by the unbending of
the bow.
4. A wound never heals so well that the scar
cannot be seen. Dan,
5. After the battle humanity should close the «
wounds that valor has inflicted. Petrarch.
6. He that would heal a wound must not handle
it. ItaL
7. If you cannot heal the wound do not tear it ^
open. Dan,
8. Old wounds easily bleed. Ger.
9. Reopen not a wound once healed. Latin,
10. Search not a wound too deep lest thou make «
a new one.
11. Small wounds if many may be mortal.
12. That wound that was never given is the best
cured of any other.
13. The knife's wound heals, the tongue's never.
Turk,

rig W RANGLERS. — W RANGLING.— WrEN.
14. The private wound is deepest Shaks.
15. The wound that bleedeth inwardly is most
* dangerous.
16. The wounds of athletes do not smart. Ger.
17. 'Tis not so deep as a well nor so wide as a
church door ; but 'tis enough, 'twill serve. {Mercu^
tio speaking of his wound,) Shaks.
18. Unbending the bow does not heal the wound.
Fr., Ital.
19. What wound ever healed but by degrees.
Shaks.
20. When the wound is healed the pain is for-
• gotten. JDan.
21. Who fears wounds must not go to war. Ger.
22. Wounds from the knife are healed but not
those of the tongue. Sp.
23. Wounds may heal but not those made by ill
words. Sp.
24. Wounds pain most when grown cold. Sp.
Wranglers.
1. Wranglers are never in the wrong.
2. Wranglers never want words though they may
matter.
Wrangling.
I. They wrangle about an egg and let the hens
fly away. Gcr.
Wren.
I. The poor wren, the most diminutive of birds,
will fight, her young ones in the nest, against the
owl. Shaks.

Wrestling. — Wrinkle. — Writing.

519

2. Wrens may prey where eagles dare not perch. *
Wrestling.
1. He that is thrown will still wrestle. Fr.
2. He that wrestles with us strengthens our
nerves and sharpens our skill : our antagonist is our
helper. Burke.
3. If you wrestle with a collier, you will get a
blotch.
Wrinkle.
1. An old wrinkle never wears out.
2. And wrinkles the d d democrats won't
flatter. Byron.
3. Wrinkles disfigure a woman less than ill
nature. Dupuy.
Writing.
1. He that intends to write what is worthy to
be read more than once should blot frequently.
Horace.
2. If you would write naturally, vigorously, deli- •
cately, you must express the truth. La Bruy}re.
3. Of all those arts in which the wise excel
Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.
Buckingham.
4. Sound judgment is the ground of writing*
well. Roscommon.
5. True ease in writing comes from art, not ^
chance. Pope.
6. Write with the learned but speak with the
vulgar.
7. Writing is the language of the hand. Hebrew.

C20 Wrong.— Wrongs. — Xerxes.— Year.
8« You write with ease to show your breeding.
^ But easy writing's curst hard reading.
Maoris Life of Sheridan.
1. He who does the wrong forgets it, but not he
» who receives it. Z/a/,
2. No wrong without a remedy.
^ 3. One wrong step may give you a great falL
4. One wrong submitted to, another follows. J\?r.
5. Since I wronged you I have never liked you.
6. The submitting to one wrong brings on
another. S^.
7. The wrong doer never lacks a pretext.
//«/., SJ^.
8. They hurt themselves that wrong others.
• 9. Tis better to suflEer wrong than do it.
10. Wrong has nae warrant
Wrongs.
1. On adamant our wrongs we all engrave,
* But write our benefits upon the wave. King.
2. Two wrongs do not make a right.

Wager.

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Wager.
1. A wager is a fool's argument.
2. My mother bade me be confident but lay no
wagers.
3. None but fools and knaves lay wagers.
4. 'Tis the remark of old cunning stagers,
That fools for arguments use wagers. Butler.

Wages.— Wagon.— Wailing.— Wait.

Wages.
1. He cannot lead a good life who serves with-
out wages. ItaL
2. Nature has laws and this is one — a fair day's
wage for a fair day's work. Bea,
Wag^n.
1. A wagon though drawn by oxen still moves
onward. Ger,
2. The empty wagon must make way for the full
one.
3. The wagon must go whither the horses draw
it. Dan, Wailing.
4. None can cure their harms by wailing them.
Shaks.

Wait.
1. All comes right to him who can wait. Fr,
2. An hour of triumph comes at last to them
who watch and wait.
3. Everything comes in time to him that can
wait. Fr,
4. For the hungry, " wait " is a hard word.
5. He that makes waits.
6. He that waits upon another's trencher, makes
many a light dinner.
7. He who can wait obtains what he wishes. ItaL
8. He who waits for another man's trencher
often dines in imagination (or with Duke Hum-
phrey). Fr.
9. He who waits for another man's platter has
a cold meal. Catalan,

Wake. — Walking. — Wall.
10. If he wait long enough the world will be his
own. Por,
11. If you have learnt to wait you may be Queen
of Sweden. Dan,
12. It is necessary to wait for the same man. Fr.
13. People count up the faults of those who keep
them waiting. Fr,
14. Seven never wait for one. Russian,
15. The auld aver may die waiting for new grass.
16. The future belongs to him who knows how to
wait. Russian,
17. To know how to wait is the great secret of
success. De Maistre,
18. To wait upon his preceptors and the aged is
the first point of honor and civility. Chinese,
19. Wait is a hard word to the hungry. Ger,
20. When you do not know what to do — wait.

Wake.
1. Wake not a sleeping dog.
2. Wake not a sleeping lion.
Walking.
I. 'Tis good walking till the blood appears in
the cheek but not the sweat on the brow. Sp.
Wall.
1. A white wall is the fooFs paper. Fr,^ Ital,
2. Bring your line to the wall, not the wall to
your line.
3. Hard with hard makes not the stone wall.
4. It is bad to lean against a falling wall. Dan,
. One may see through a wall if there is a hole
in it. Gtr.
6. The walls are the books of the poor. Punch.
7. The walls have ears and the plain has eyes.
M. Greek.
8. Walls have ears. Fr,^ Ger,, For,^ Dutch.
9. Walls sink and dunghills rise. Sp.^ For.
10. When a wall is cracked and lofty, its fall will
be speedy. Chinese.
11. White walls are fools' writing-paper.
Want, Wants.
1. Every one must speak of his wants be he
where he will. Don Quixote.
2. Everything goes to him who does not want it.
Fr.
3. Every want that stimulates the breast,
Becomes a source of pleasure when redrest.
Goldsmith,
4. He cannot provide for the wants of others
whose own are numerous and craving. Flutarch.
5. He is the nearest to God who has the fewest
wants. Dan.
6. He is not in want who has no desires. Latin.
7. He that gets forgets, but he that wants thinks
on.
8. He that wants the kernel must crack the nut.
Fr,^ Ger,y Dutch.
9. He who wants a good deal must not ask for
a little. Ital.
10. I will not want when I have and when I
ha'n't too.

Wares.

417

11. It is hard baith to hae an' want.
12. Man wants but little here below nor wants
that little long. Goldsmith,
13. More than we use is more than we want.
14. Nothing makes men sharper than want.
Addison,
15. Of all the enemies of idleness, want is the
most formidable. Dr, Johnson,
16. On the ends of wants, wants grow.
17. The fewer our wants the nearer we resemble
the gods. Socrates,
18. The more one has the more one wants.
19. There is no woe like want.
20. To have no wants is money.
21. Want and necessity break faith and oaths.

Dan,
22. Want goes by such a one's door.
23. Want is the master of mankind.

Rev, Dr, Crowley,
24. Want is the mother of industry.
25. Want makes strife 'twixt man and wife.
26. Want too oft betrays the tongue to lies. Homer,
27. We lessen our wants by lessening our desires.

Labemus,
Wares.
1. Good ware makes a quick market.
2. Good ware was never dear. ItaL
3. Good ware easily finds a buyer. Plautus,
4. Good wares must sell bad ones. Ger,
5. Pleasing ware is half sold.
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Warn inc. — War.

6. Wares are good and bad, prices high and low.
Chinese,
7. When the wares are gone, shut up the shop
windows.

Warning.
1. A man that is warned is half armed.
2. A man warned is as good as two.
3. A man warned is half saved. Ger.
4. Forewarned — forearmed. /r.
5. He that gives time to resolve, gives time to
deny, and warning to prevent.
6. He was slain that had warning, not he that
took it.
7. The tempest threatens before it comes, houses
creak before they fall. Seneca.
War.
1. A foreign war is preferable to one at home.
Petrarch,
2. At the wars do as they do at the wars. Fr.
3. But war's a game, which, were their subjects
wise kings would not play at. Cowper,
4. Civil war is a hideous and repugnant thing.
Maga,
5. Even war is better than a wretched peace.
Tacitus.
6. Every milder method is to be tried before a
nation makes an appeal to arms. Kent,
7. Good kings never make war but for the sake
of peace.

War. 4ig
8. He that makes a good war makes a good
peace.
9. He that preacheth up war when it might well
be avoided, is the devil's chaplain.
10. He who has land has war. Ital,
11. In time of war the devil makes more room in
hell. Ger,
12. In war according to war. Fr.
13. In war it is best to tie your horse to a strange
manger. Dan,
14. In war reputation is strength. Elknborough.
15. In war-time there is pay for every horse. Ital,
16. It is a bad war from which no one returns.
Ger,
17. Mad wars destroy in one year the works of
many years of peace. Franklin,
18. Many return from the war who cannot give
an account of the battle. Ital.
19. Of all wars peace ought to be the end.
20. One war brings on another. Ger,
21. Talk of the war but do not go to it. Sp,
22. That war is only just which is necessary.
23. The fear of war is worse than war itself. Ital,
24. The hardest operation of war is to stop it.
25. There never was a good war nor a bad peace.
Franklin.
26. To die or conquer are the terms of war.
Homer,
27. War begun, hell unchained. Ital,
28. War gives no opportunity for repeatmg a mis-
take.

War.

29. War is a proceeding that ruins those who suc-
ceed.
30. War is death's feast.
31. War is no strife
To the dark house or the detested wife.
Shaks,
32. War is pleasure to him who does not go to
it. Ger,y Por.
11, War is the son of hell. Shaks.
34. War makes robbers and peace hangs them.
Fr., Ital.
35. War must be waged by waking men.
36. War ought to be neither dreaded nor pro-
voked. Latin.
37. War should be so managed as to remember
that the only end of it is peace. Cicero.
38. War to the knife. {Pola/ox's answer to the
French general at the siege of Saragoza^
39. War with all the world and peace with Eng-
land. Sp.
40. War's a brain-spattering, wind-pipe-slitting
art,
Unless her cause by right be sanctified.
Byron,
41. Wars bring scars.
42. When Greek meets Greek then comes the tug
of war.
43. When war begins hell's gates are set open.
44. When war is raging the laws are dumb. Cicero.
45. When you go to war every man you meet is
an emeniy ; — kill all. North American Indian.
46. Where money and counsel are wanting it is
better not to make war. Dan.

Washing.
1. All will come out in the washing. Don Quixote.
2. Dirty water does hot wash clean. Dan.
3. Foul linen should be washed at home. It.
4. It is a loss of soap 10 wash the ass's head.
{Applied to advice given to a fool.) Sp.
5. People should wash their linen in private.
6. Seemed washing his hands with invisible soap,
In imperceptible water. Hood.
7. The laundress washeth her own smock first.
8. The spot will come out in the washing.
9. They who do not wash well do not bleach
well. Dan.
10. Wash your dirty linen at home.
11. Wash your hands often, your feet seldom, and
your head never.

Waste.
1. After one that earns comes one that wastes.
Dan,
2. Building and the marrying of children are
great wasters.
3. Burning the candle at both ends.
4. He sprinkles incense on a dunghill.
5. Nae wonder to see wasters want.
6. Save at the tap and waste at the bung-hole.
7. To burn out a candle in search of a pin.
8. To dig with golden spades.
9. Wasting is a bad habit, sparing a sure in-
come. Dutch,
10. Waste makes want.
11. Waste not want not.
12. Wilful waste brings woeful want.

Watching.
1. A good watch prevents misfortune.
2. A watched pan is long in boiling.
3. Good watch prevents misfortune.
4. Harm watch harm catch.
5. To him who watches everything is revealed.
6.Who watches not, catches not. Dutch,

Water.
1. A glass of water is sometimes worth a tun of
wine. Ital,
2. Brackish water is sweet in a drought. J\?r,
3. Can a house be burned down with hot water?
Tamil,
4. Drinking water neither makes a man sick,
nor in debt, nor his wife a widow.
5. Far water does not put out near fire. Ital,
6. Foul water will quench fire.
7. From a pure source pure water comes. Latin,
8. From smooth (or still) water God preserve
me ; from rough (or running) I will preserve myself.
9. He who would have clear water must go to
the fountain head. Ital,

Water.
10. However foul it be, never say, " Of this water I
will not drink. " Sp.
11. If you want clear water draw it from the
spring. Por.
12. In still water are the largest fish. Dan.
13. In still water the worms are worst. Dan.
14. It is prophet drink (water). Dutch.
15. No safety wading in unknown water.
16. Of spilt water there is little to be gathered
up. Benjonson.
17. On dry land even brackish water is good. Sp.
18. Running water carries no poison. Hal.
19. Shallow waters make most din.
20. Smooth runs the water where the brook is
deep. Shaks,
21. Smooth waters run deep.
22. Stagnant water grows stinking. Ger.
23. Still water breeds vermin. Hal.
24. Still waters run deep. Ger.^ Dutch^ Dan.
25. The water breaks where it is not expected.
Ital.
26. The water is so strong it requires too
whiskies. Donegal.
27. The water runs while the miller sleeps. Dan.
28. The water that bears the boat is the same
that swallows it up. Chinese.
29. There is no worse water than that which
sleeps. Fr.
30. Under water famine, under snow bread.
31. Water comes to the mill from afar. Por,

Way.— Ways. — Way of the World.

32. Water is less dreaded than fire, yet fewer
suffer by fire than by water. Chinese,
33. Water is the best of all things. Greek.
34. Water is the least valued among things exist-
ing, and the most valued among things wanted.
Hebrew.
35. Water is the strongest drink, it drives mills.
Ger.
36. Water run by, will not turn a mill. Ital.y Sp.
37. Water washes everything. Por.
38. We never know the worth of water till the
well is dry.
39. What water gives, water takes away. Por.
40. Where the water is shallow no vessel will
ride.
41. Where water has been, water will come again.
Ger.

Way.
1. The way to Babylon will never bring you to
Jerusalem.
2. The way to make ourselves admired is to be
what we expect to be thought. Socrates.
3. The way to rise is to obey and please.
Ben Jonson.
4. There is no short cut of a way, without some
ill away.
Ways.
I. There are more ways to the wood than one.
Way of the World.
1. He that falls all the world runs over. Ger.
2. He that's down, " Down with him ! " cries the
world.
3. He who is in the mud likes to pull another
into it. Sp.
4. If a man once fall all will tread on him.
5. It is na " what is she," but " what has she."
6. No man is willing to own him who is out of
the good opinion of the world.
7. Now that I have a sheep and a cow every-
body bids me good-morrow.
8. Now that I have a sheep and a lamb every-
body says, " Good-morrow, Peter." Sp,
9. One starts the hare, another bags it. Sp,
10. People take more pains to be damned than
to be saved.
11. The tinsel, glitter, and the specious mien
Delude the most, few pry behind the scene.
Phcedrus,
12. The world is naturally averse to all the truth
it sees or hears,
But swallows nonsense and a lie with greedi-
ness and gluttony. Butler,
13. There is little difference (in the eye of the
world), in being nought and in being thought so.
14. This is a world of scandal and like wolves we
fall on the wounded. Crowley,
15. When a man is down everybody runs over
him. Ger,
16. When a man is going down-hill, everybody
gives him a kick ; when a man is going up-hill, every
body gives him a lick.
17. When a man is not liked whatever he doth is
amiss.
18. When a man lays the foundation of his own
ruin, others will build on it. Fielding,
19. When a tree is falling, every one cries,
" Down with it ! " Ital.
20. When the wagon is tilting everybody gives it
a shove. Dan.
21. " Who are you for? " " I am for him I get
most by."
22. Who arrays himself in other men's garments
is stripped on the highway. Sp,

Weak.
1. In the fray the weak are strong. Ital,
2. To be weak is to be miserable.
Weakest.
1. The weakest goes to the wall. Shaks.
2. The weakest must hold the candle. Fr,

Wealth.
1. A great estate is not gotten in a few hours. 7o^.
2. A great fortune in the hands of a fool is a
great misfortune.
3. A great fortune is a great slavery.
4. A man has no more goods than he gets good
by.
5. A man of wealth is a slave to his possessions.
Tamil,
6. A man's wealth is his enemy.
7. A wealthy man errs with impunity. Latin.
8. Among men some have their virtue concealed
by wealth, and some their vices by poverty. Theganis.
9. Command your wealth, else that will com-
mand you.
10. Devotion and wealth are seldom united. Ger.
11. Fathers their children and themselves abuse,
That wealth, a husband, for their daughters
choose. Fielding.
12. Great wealth and content seldom live to-
gether.
13. Great wealth, great care. Dutch,
14. Great wealth makes us neither more wise nor
more healthy.
15. I wot well how the world wags; he is most
loved who has most bags.
16. If you would be wealthy, think of saving as
well as of getting. Franklin,
17. 111 fares the land to hastening ills a prey.
Where wealth accumulates and men decay.
Goldsmith,
18. Of lawful wealth the devil takes the half ; of
unlawful the whole and the owner too. Turk,
19. One man's wealth is often many men's ruin.
Maga,
20. Real wealth consists not in having but in not
wanting.
21. Talent and poverty, wealth and stupidity,
usually dwell together. Latin,
22. The greatest wealth is contentment with a
little.
23. The loss of wealth is loss of dirt,
All sages in all times assert.
The happiest man's without a shirt.
John Haywood.
24. The lust of wealth can never bear delay.
Juvenal,
25. The secret of wealth lies in the letters
SAVE.
26. The truest wealth is that of the understand-
ing.
27. The wealth of the mind is the only true
wealth. Greek,
28. Wealth and content do not always live
together.
29. Wealth and honors can never cure a wounded
conscience.
. 30. Wealth breeds a pleurisy, ambition a fever,
liberty a vertigo, and poverty is a dead palsy. Gaelic.
31. Wealth conquered Rome after Rome had
conquered the world. Petrarch.
32. Wealth is best known by want.
33. Wealth is liberty and liberty is a blessing
fittest for a philosopher. Swift.
34. Wealth is not his who makes it but his who
enjoys it. ItaL
35. Wealth is stepmother to virtue. Ger,
36. Wealth is timid.
37. Wealth like an index reveals the character of
men. Latin.
38. Wealth like rheum falls upon the weakest
parts.
39. Wealth maketh many friends. Bible.
40. Wealth maketh worship.
41. When wealthy, show thy wisdom not to be
To wealth a servant, but make wealth serve
thee. Denham,
42. Where there is wealth friends abound.

Weapon
1. A weapon is an enemy even to its owner. Turk,
2. A wigh^t man ne'er wanted a weapon.
3. They who fight with golden weapons are
pretty^sure to prove their right. Dutch.
4. Weapons bode peace.

Wear.
I. It is better to wear out, than to rust out.
Bishop Home.

Weather.
1. A foul morn may turn to a fine day.
2. A green Christmas makes a fat church-yard.
3. A right easterly wind is very unkind.
4. A misty morning may have a fine day.
5. After cl6uds a clear sun. Latin.
6. After clouds clear weather.
7. An evening red and a morning gray,
Is a sign of a fair day.
8. Change of weather is the discourse of fools.
9. Dry overhead, happy.
10. Expect not fair weather in winter from one
night's ice.
11. Fair weather cometh out of the north. Bible,
12. Good signs of rain don't always he'p de young
crops. American Negro,
13. Hail brings frost with its tail.
14. If St. Within weep, that year the proverb says,
The weather will be foul for forty days.
15. If the weather is fine put on your cloak ; if it
rains, do as you please. Fr,
1 6. If there be neither snow nor rain,
Then will be dear all sorts of grain.
17. In the wane of the moon a cloudy morning
bodes a fair afternoon.
18. It never thunders but it rains.
19. Never mind the weather, so the wind don't
blow.
20. No weather is ill if the wind be still.
21. On a hot day, muffle yourself the more. Sp.
22. Praise a fine day at night. Ger,, Dan.
23. Rain comes after sunshine, and after a dark
cloud, a clear sky. Dan.
24. The dirt bird (or dirt owl) sings, we shall
have rain,
25. The full moon brings fair weather.
26. 'Tis pity fair weather should do any harm.
27. To a child, all weather is cold.
28. When the wind is in the east.
It's neither good for man nor beast ;
When the wind is in the south.
It's in the rain's mouth ;
When the wind is in the west.
The weather's at the best.
Wedding Ring.
I. O, how many torments lie in the small circle
of a wedding ring. Colley Cibber.
Wedge.
1. A blunt wedge sometimes does what a sharp
axe will not.
2. A knotty piece of timber must have smooth
wedges.
3. Blunt wedges rive hard oaks. Sha^s,
4. Knotty timber requires sharp wedges.
5. One wedge drives another. Ger,^ Turk.
6. There goes the wedge where the beetle drives
it.

Weeds.
1. A good garden may have some weeds.
2. He that bites on every weed may light on
poison.
3. Ill weeds are not hurt by frost. Sp,, For.
4. Ill weeds grow apace. Fr,^ ItaL, Dutch,
5. Ill weeds grow the fastest and last the long-
est. Dan.
6. Most subject is the fattest soil to weeds. "
Shaks.
7. No garden without its weeds. —
8. One ill weed spoils a whole pot of pottage.
9. The frost hurts no weeds.
10. The weeds overgrow the corn.
11. Weeds never die. Ger.^ Dan.
12. Weeds want no sowing. —■

Weeping.
1. He who has much weeps as well as he who
has little. M, Greek.
2. He who loves you well makes you weep, and
he who hates you may make you laugh.
3. He who weeps from his heart will provoke
tears even from the blind. Russian.
4. Onions can make heirs and widows weep.
5. The thatched cottage where one is merry is
preferable to a palace where one weeps. Chinese.

6. There is a certain kind of pleasure in weep-
ing. Ovid.
7. To weep overmuch for the dead is to affront
the living.
8. When the vulture dies the hen does not weep.
Ger.
9. Who has none to still him may weep out his
eyes.

Weigh.
I. Weigh right and sell dear.
Weight.
1. Weight and measure save a man toil. *S^.
2. Weight and measure take away strife.

Welshman.
-^ I. The older the Welshman, the more madman.
2. The Welshman would rather see his dam on
her bier,
Than see a fair Februeer.
3. The Welshman keeps nothing until he has
lost it.

Welcome.
1. As welcome as snow in summer.
2. As welcome as water in a leaking ship.
3. As welcome as water in one's shoe.
4. Do not out-stay your welcome.
5. He is as welcome as snow in harvest.
6. He is as welcome as the first day in Lent.
Dutch.
7. He who brings is welcome. Ger.
8. Leave welcome a-hent you.

Well.— " Well, Well. "—Weli>doing. a 77
9. New come, welcome, Ger,, Dan,
10. Such a welcome, such a farewell.
11. They are welcome that bring.
12. Welcome ever smiles and farewell goes out
sighing. Shaks,
13. Welcome is the best cheer. ^
14. Welcome is the best dish in the kitchen.
15. Who comes seldom is welcome. Ital.
Well.
1. A well which is drawn from is improved. {Art
is improved by practice,) Latin,
2. Cast no dirt in the well that gives you water.
3. Dig a well before you are thirsty. (Be pre-
pared for emergencies,) Chinese,
4. Drawn wells are seldom dry.
5. Drawn wells have sweetest water. *^
6. It is a bad well into which one must put
water. Ger., Dutch^ Dan.
7. It is wretched business to be digging a well
just as thirst is mastering you. Plautus,
8. The more the well is used the more water it
yields, Ger,
9. When the well is dry we know the worth of
water. Franklin,
«« Well, WeU. -
I. "Well, well," is a word of malice.
Well-doing.
1. Be not weary in well-doing.
2. Better to do well late than never.
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there is something noble in hearing one's self
ill spoken of when one is doing well. Alexander.

Well-wisher.
I. A well-wisher sees from afar. Sp.
Wheel.
1 . A fifth wheel to a cart is but an incumbrance.
Sp.
2. Crazy wheels run longest. Gcr,
3. It is the best spoke in your wheel.
4. It is the small wheels of a carriage that come
in first.
5. Put a spoke in his wheel.
6. The hind wheel of a carriage will pass where
the fore wheel has passed. Turk,
7. The wheel that turns gathers no rust.
M, Greek.
8. The worst wheel creaks most. Fr.^ Ital.
Wherries.
I. Wherries should not put out to sea.
Whip.
1. A whip for a fool and a rod for a school is
always in good season.
2. An old coachman loves the crack of a whip.
Ger,^ Dutch.
3. He who does not whip the child does not
mend the youth. Sp.
4. Let them whip me in the market-place pro-
vided it be not known at home. Sp.
Whipping.
I. De wost whipping dat a fellow gets is from
de man what doan w^ant to fight. American Negro.

Whisper. — Wickedness.

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2. Whipping a man over another's shoulders.
3. Whipping the devil around the stump.
Whisper.
1. A whisper separateth chief friends.
2. He who whispers lies. Dan,
3. Many a thing whispered into one ear is
heard over the whole town. Dan,
4. Never whisper in company.
5. The whisperer's tongue is worse than the ser-
pen t 's ve n om . Latin,
6. What is whispered in your ear is often heard
a hundred miles off. Chinese,
7. What is whispered in your ear tell not to your
husband. Sp,
8. Where there is whispering there is lying. ^
Wickedness.
1. A wicked companion invites us all to hell.
2. A wicked man's gift has a touch of his master.
3. A wicked man is afraid of his own memory.
4. A wicked man is his own hell. {And his pas-
sions and lusts the fiends that torment him.)
5. He that has led a wicked life is afraid of his
own memory.
6. He that rebuketh the wicked getteth a blot.
Bible.
7. He that worketh wickedness by another is
wicked himself.
8. He who helps the wicked repents it before
long. Phcedrus,

^^6 Wickedness.
9. If you associate with the wicked you will be-
come wicked yourself. Menandtr.
10. Never wicked man was wise. Homer.
11. No man was ever wicked without secret dis-
^ content. Rambler,
12. The conversation of the wicked is a fountain
of mischief. Cingalese,
13. The majority are wicked. Greek.
'^ 14. The success of the wicked entices many more.
Fkadrus,
15. The sure way to wickedness is through wicked-
ness. Seneca.
16. The triumphing of the wicked is short. Bible.
17. The wicked alone are active. Burke.
18. The wicked are snared in the work of their
own hands. Bible.
19. The wicked ears are deaf to wisdom's call.
Homer.
^ 20. The wicked ever hate vice in others.
21. The wicked find it easier to unite for war,
- than* for concord in peace. Tacitus.
22. The wicked grow worse and good men better
from troubles.
23. The wicked heart never fears God but when
" it thunders.
24. The wicked man lives to eat and drink, but
the good eats and drinks to live. Plutarch.
25. The wicked shun the light as the devil shuns
the cross. Dutch.
26. The wickedness of a few b the calamity of
all. Syrus.

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27. "There is no peace," saith the Lord unto the
wicked, Bible.
28. To accuse the wicked and defend the wretched
is an honor. CUero.
,,---^29, Wicked men cannot be friends, either among
i^themselves or with the good. Socrates.
30. Wicked men will ever live like rogues, and
not fall to work but be lazy and spend victuals.
Bacon.
31. Wickedness is its own greatest punishment.
JSyrus.
32. Wickedness proceeds from the wicked. { 7"^
oldest recorded proverb^ Bible.
33. Wickedness with beauty is the devil's hook
baited,
34. Woe be to the wicked, and woe be to them ,
that cleave to them and to their neighbors that live
near them.
Widow.
1. A buxom widow must be either married,
buried, or shut up in a convent. Sp,
2. A good occasion for courtship is when the
widow returns from the funeral.
3. A rich widow weeps with one eye and laughs
with the other, Por.
4. Few persons turn gray because their husbands
die.
5. He that marries a widow and three children
marries four thieves.
6. He that marries a widow and two daughters
has three back doors to his house.

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Wife.

7. He that marries a widow will often have a
dead man's head thrown in his dish. Sp.
8. He that woos a maid must seldom come in
sight,
But he that woos a widow must woo her day
and night.
9. If a stock fish became a widow it would fatten.
10. In the widow's house there's no fat mouse.
Oriental.
11. Long a widow weds with shame.
12. Never marry a widow unless her first husband
was hanged.
13. The rich widow's tears soon dry. Dan.
14. 'Tis dangerous marrying a widow, because
she has cast her rider.
. 15. To diminish his substance is not the part of
a man but of a widow woman. Cato,
16. Widows are always rich.
17. Woo the widow whilst she is in weeds. Ger,
Wife.
1. A bad wife is the shipwreck of her husband.
Ger.
2. A bad wife wishes her husband's heel turned
homeward and not his toe, Dan,
3. A barren wife makes a dear and interesting
friend. {To those who are looking for her husband's
money after his death,) Juvenal.
4. A brilliant daughter makes a brittle wife.
DuUh.
5. A brown lass is gay and cleanly.

Wife. ^^g
6. A child's bird and a boy's wife are well used.
7. A cross-grained woman and a snappish wom-
an take care of the house. Dan,
8. A fair wife without a fortune is a fair house
without furniture.
9. A faithful wife becomes the truest and the
lenderest friend. Savage,
10. A faithless wife is the shipwreck of a house.
Zatin,
11. A foolish wife drives her husband from his
country. Ger,
12. A good wife and health are a man's best
wealth.
13. A good wife is a good present. Hebrew,
14. A good wife is the best household furniture.
Ger.
15. A good wife is worth gold. Ger,
16. A good wife makes a good husband.
17. A grunting horse and a groaning wife seldom
fail their master.
18. A gude yeoman makes a gude woman.
19. A house ready made, and a wife to make. Fr,
20. A house well furnished makes a good house-
wife.
21. A light wife doth make a heavy husband.
Shaks,
22. A man can never thrive who has a wasteful
wife.
23. A man can only find real delight in one wife.
Hebrew,

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24. A man lifts his wife to his own rank. ( Woman
uplifts her husband to the dignity of her own character^
Maga,
25. A man must ask his wife's leave to thrive.
26. A man of sense rarely behaves very ill to a
wife who deserves very well. Fielding,
27. A man's best fortune, or his worst, is his wife.
28. A man without a wife, a house without a roof.
Ger.
^ 29. A man without a wife is a man without care.
30. A nice wife and a back door,
Do often make a rich man poor.
31. "A paradise in which hogs feed," is a beauti-
ful woman with an ugly husband.
32. A poor man who takes a rich wife has a ruler,
not a wife. Greek.
33. A prudent wife is from the Lord. Bible.
34. A rich wife is the source of quarrel.
35. A rouk-town is seldom a good wife at home.
36. A shoemaker's wife and a smith's mare are
always the worst shod.
37. A vicious wife and an untoward sow no laws
can govern. Chinese.
^^. A wife is a young man's mistress, a middle
aged's companion, an old man's nurse. Bacon.
39. A wife speaks and spurs. Hebrew.
40. A world of comfort lies in the one word, wife.
Knowles.
41. A young wife is an old man's post-horse to
the grave. Ger.

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42. A young wife should be in her house but a —
shadow and an echo. Chinese.
43. h young woman married to an old man must
behave like an old woman.
44. All are good maids, but whence come the bad —
wives ?
45. " All freight lightens," said the skipper, when —
he threw his wife overboard. Ger.
46. All other goods by fortune's hand are given,
A wife is the peculiar gift of heaven. Pope.
47. An expensive wife makes a pensive husband. "^
48. An obedient wife commands her husband.
49. A old man married to a young wife is full of
inquietude.
50. An old woman is a very bad bride, but a very —
good wife. Fielding,
51. An unscolded wife, like an uncut millstone,
does not go easily. Roumanian.
52. Anxiety and need make the old wife trot. Ger,
53. As the good man saith, so say we,
But as the good wife saith, so it must be.
54. As the market goes, wives must sell.
55. As you would have a daughter, so choose a «-
wife. Ital.
56. Bare walls make gadding housewives.
57. Better a portion in a wife than with a wife.
58. Better be an old man's darling than a young
man's slave.
59. Better no wife than a foolish one. Ger.
60. Blind men's wives need no paint.

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Wife.

6 1. By seeming to gie Roger a* the rule,
Round your finger you may turn the fool.
62. Caesar's wife must be above suspicion.
63. Choose a wife raiher by your ear than 3'our
eye.
64. Choose cloth by its edge, and a daughter by
her mother. Turk.
65. Choose neither a woman nor linen by candle-
light Sp.
66. Discreet wives have neither eyes nor ears.
Ger,
67. Discreet wives have sometimes neither eyes
nor ears.
68. Do you carry the trough, husband, and I will
carry the sieve, which is as heavy as the devil. Sp,
69. Empty rooms make giddy housewives. Fr,
70. Everybody knows where his own shoe pinches.
{The remark of an ancient Roman when asked why fi€
had separated from so excellent a wife^
71. Every man has a good wife and a bad trade.
ItaL
72. Few take wives for God's sake, or for fair
looks.
73. Fire, water, and a bad wife are three great
evils. Ger,
74. For a good dinner, and a gentle wife, you can
afford to wait. Dan,
75. For a wife and a horse go to your neighbor.
ItaL
j^6. For whom does the blind man's wife adorn
herself.? Sp,

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77. Give your wife the short knife and keep the
long one yourself. Dan.
78. Grief for a dead wife lasts to the door.
Ital,^ For.
v«^9. Happy is the wife who is married to a mother-
less son.
80. Happy the man that hath a beautiful wife ;
his days shall be increased. Hebrew,
81. He draws a good wagonful into his farm
who gets a good wife. Dutch.
82. He fasts enough whose wife scolds all din-
ner time.
83. He that abides a curst wife need not fear
what company he liveth in.
84. He that goes a great way for a wife is either
cheated or means to cheat.
85. He that has a wife has a master.
«-^. He that has no wife chastises her well ; he
that has no children rears them well. ItaL
87. He that hath a white horse and a fair wife
never wants trouble.
88. He that hath a wife and children halh given
hostages to fortune, for they are impediments to
great enterprises either of virtue or mischief. Bacon,
89. He that hath a wife and children must not
sit with his fingers in his mouth.
90. He that hath a wife and children wants not
business. Herbert,
91. He that hath a wife is sure of strife. Fr,
92. He that kisses his wife in the market-place
shall have enough to teach him.

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Wife.

93. He that loseth his wife and sixpence hath
lost a tester.
94. He that loseth his wife and a farthing hath a
great loss of a farthing.
95. He that takes not up a pin slights his wife.
96. He that tells his wife news is but lately mar-
ried.
97. He that will not be ruled by his dame must
be ruled by his step-dame.
98. He that would have a beautiful wife should
choose her on a Saturday. Sp.
\^^^^* He who does not honor his wife dishonors
himself. Sp.
100. He who has a bad wife can expect no happi-
ness. Sp.
1 01. He who has a good wife can bear any evil.
Sp.
102. He who has a handsome wife, a castle on the
frontier, or a vineyard on the roadside, is never with-
out war. Sp,
103. He that has no wife is for threshing her daily,
but he that has one takes care of her. Sp,
104. He who takes a wife takes a master. Fr.
105. He would be quartermaster at home if his
wife would let him.
106. Him that has a good wife no evil in life
That may not be borne can befall ;
Him that has a bad wife no good thing in life
Can chance that good you may call.
107. Hold your tongue, husband ; let me talk that
have all the wit.

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1 08. How much the wife is dearer than the bride.
Lord Lyttkton.
109. How shall a virtuous wife her husband sway ?
The secret lies in one short word — obey.
. no. Husband, don't believe what you see but what
I tell you.
111. Husbands are in heaven whose wives chide
not.
112. I received money with her, and for the dowry
have sold my authority. Plautus,
113. I thought I had no husband and I eat up the
stew. Sp,
114. If the wife sins the husband is not innocent.
Ital.
115. If thou desirest a wife choose her on a Satur-
day rather than on a Sunday.
116. If you make your wife an ass she will make
you an ox.
117. If you want to thrash your wife ask her for a
drink of water in the sun. {To find fault with its
P'irity:) ^ Sp.
118. If your wife is little stoop to her. . Hebrew.
119. In buying horses and taking a wife, shut your
eyes and commend yourself to God. Ital,
120. In the rich woman's house she always com-
mands, he never. Sp,
121. It fares ill with the house where the distaff
commands the sword. .S^., Por.
122. It is a good horse that never stumbles and a
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Wife.

123. It is a sour reek when the good wife dings the
good man.
124. It is a sweet sorrow to bury a termagant wife.
125. It is said the wife of a mat-maker died on the
bare ground. Tamil,
126. It is sometimes right to obey a sensible wife.
Servian,
127. Live on good terms with your wife. Cingalese.
128. Look after your wife, never mind yourself,
she'll look after you. London Truth,
129. Make not a toil of pleasures, as the man said
when he buried his wife.
130. Many blame the wife for their own thriftless
life. Scotch,
131. Mills and wives are ever wanting.
132. Neither reprove nor flatter thy wife where any
seeth or heareth it. - Dutch,
133. Ne'er seek a wife *till you have a house and a
fire burning.
134. Ne'er seek a wife 'till you know what to do wi'
her.
._i35. Next ^ to no wife a good wife is best.
136. No fellow is so poor that he has not a wife on
his arm. Ger,
137. Of all the plagues the greatest is untold,
The book-learned wife in Greek and Latin
bold. Shaks,
138. Of earthly goods the best is a good wife,
A bad the bitterest curse of human life.
Simonides,

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139. Of your wife and tried friend believe nothing
but what you know for certain. Sp.
140. Oh, that all olive trees would bear such fruit ! >^
{Exclamation of Socrates at seeing the body of a scold-
ing wife hanging to a limb of an olive tree,)
141. One God, one wife, but many friends. Z>«/r^ ^
142. Prudent men choose frugal wives. Ger.
143. Refuse a wife with one fault and take one ^
with two. Welsh,
144. Saith Solomon the wise, " A good wife 's a
good prize."
145. She hath broken her elbow at the church
door. {Applied to a lazy wife,)
146. She stayed at home and spun her wool. {An _,
epitaph on a good wife,)
147. She that hath an ill husband shows it in her
dress.
148. Smoke, raining into the house, and a scolding ^-
wife will make a man run out of doors.
149. Smoke, rain, and a scolding wife are three
bad things in a house. Dan.
150. Sorrow and an evil life maketh soon an old
wife.
151. Strife is the dowry of a wife. Ovid, -■
152. Take a vine of a good soil, and a daughter
of a good mother.
153. That wife is an enemy who is given to a man
in marriage against her will. Plautus.
154. The ancient saying is no heresy.
Hanging and wiving go by destiny. Butler, ^"^

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WiFB.

155. The best furniture in a house is a virtuous
woman.
156. The blind man's wife needs no painting.
157. The calmest husbands make the stormiest
^ wives.
158. The cunning wife makes her husband her
apron.
159. The dead wife and the living sheep, make a
man rich. Ger.
160. The death of your first wife made such a hole
" in your heart that all the rest slip through.
161. The economic wife is too wise to let the moth
of fortune shed its silk without winding it round her
finger. Chinese.
162. The first wife is a broom, the second a lady. Sp.
163. The first wife is a servant, the second a lady.
Ger.
\&^, The first wife is matrimony, the second com-
pany, the third heresy. ItaL
165. The gods alone know what kind of a wife a
man will have. Juvenal,
166. The good or ill hap, of a good or ill life.
Is the good or ill choice of a good or ill wife.
167. The married life of a woman of the working
class is now a lease of woe. Bea,
168. The nobleman finds a wife easier than the
peasant. Ger,
,4/169. The old wife, if she do not serve for a pot,
serves for a cover. Sp,
170. The poor white man has no wife to grind his
corn. {Mills in that country are unknown^ Abyssinian.

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171. The sum of all that makes a just man happy
consists in the well choosing of his wife. Massinger.
172. The wife abroad, the maid at the window. Ger,
173. The wife is the key of the house. Ger.
174. The wife lives with the heart, the husband — --
with the head. Ger,
175. The wife of the shoemaker never has whole "^
shoes. Ger.
176. The wife wears the breeches, /. e. rules the -^
husband,
177. The wife that expects to have a good name
Is always at home as if she were lame ;
And the maid that is honest her chiefest de-
light
Is still to be doing from morning to night.
^^78. The wife that loves the looking-glass hates ^
the saucepan.
179. The wife is the keeper of her husband's soul. ^^*
Arabian.
180. There is many a good wife that can't sing and -^
dance well.
181. There is nothing a man of good sense dreads
in a wife so much as her having more sense than
himself. Fielding.
182. There is nothing worse on earth than the wife
become the master. Ger.
183. There is one good wife in the country, and'
every one thinks he hath her.
184. There was a wife that kept her supper for her
breakfast an' she was dead or day.
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185. Three duels he fought, thrice ventured his life.
Went home and was cudgelled again by his
wife. Swift
186. Three things are rare; a good melon, a good
friend, and a good wife, Ger,
187. 'Tis a precious thing when wives are dead.
To find such numbers who will serve instead.
Crabbe.
^' 188. Tis hard to wive and thrive both in a year.
189. 'Tis a sweet sorrow to bury a termagant wife.
190. To choose a wife, two heads are not enough.
Ger.
191 . To " Get out of my house, " and ** What do you
want with my wife ?'* there is no answer. Don Quixote.
192. To misfortune and a wife, one easily comes.
Ger.
193. Two cocks in one house, two cats and a mouse.
An old man and a young wife,
Are always in strife. Dutch.
194. Two good days for a man in this life :
When he weds, and when he buries his wife.
195. " Use great prudence and circumspection,"
says Lord Burleigh to his son, " in choosing a wife."
196. What is there that beats a good wife? A
bad husband. Punch,
197. What the good wife spares, the cat eats.
198. What's my wife's is mine.
199. When the wife dies, and the mare foals pros-
perity increases. Ger.
200. When the wife rules the house, the devil is
man-servant. Gtr.

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201. When the wife is asleep the basket is asleep
also. N Hebrew.
202. Who has a handsome wife must have more
than two eyes. Ger,
203. Who has a horse out of a good stall and a
wife out of a poor house, comes out well. Ger,
204. Who has an office, finds readily a wife. Ger. -
205. Who has a bad wife, his hell begins on earth.
Dutch.
206. Who has a bad wife, is poor in the midst of
riches. Ger,
207. Who hath a scold hath sorrow to his sops.
208. Who takes a rich wife sells his freedom. Ger,
209. Who takes a wife sells his peace. Ger,
210. Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and
obtaineth favor of the Lord. Bible,
211. Whoso is tired of happy days, let him take a
wife. Dutch,
212. Wife and children are bills of charges.
213. Wisdom in the man, patience in the wife,
brings peace to the house.
214. Wives may be merry and honest too. Shaks, -
215. Wives must be had, be they good or bad. -"
216. You may beat the devil into your wife but
you'll never bang him out again.
217. Your wife and nag get from a neighbor. Ital,
218. Your wife and the sauce at the lance hand
(right hand), Sp,
Wild-oats.
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Wilful. — Will.

2. Happy is he who hath sowed his wild-oats
betimes.
3. The bread of repentance we eat is often made
of the wild-oats we sow in our youth.
Wilful.
1. A wilful man had need be very wise.
2. A wilful man never wants woe.
3. As wilful as a pig that will neither lead nor
drive.
WUL
1. A man's will is his heaven. Dan.
2. A man who will can do more than ten who
must. G^.
3. A power over a man's substance amounts to
a power over his will. Hamilton in the Federalist.
4. A will is wealth's last caprice. Bulwer.
5. Everything depends on will in this world.
6. Good table, bad will. For.
7. He may make his will upon his nail for any-
thing he has to give.
8. He that complies against his will is of his
own opinion still. Butler.
9. He that doeth what he will, doth not what he
ought.
10. I owe much, I have nothing; I bequeath the
rest to the poor. Rabelais.
1 1. None want judgment to confirm their will. .
J^e.
12. Naething is difficult to a well-willed manr
13. Self will burn in hell. Ger.
14. Take the will for the deed.

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15. The will does it. Ger.
16. The will gives the work its name. Ger.
17. The will is everything. Ital.
18. The will is taken for the deed. Fr.
19. The will is the soul of the work. Ger,
20. To him that wills ways are not wanting.
21. When the will is prompt the legs are nimble.
Ital.
22. When there's a will there's a way.
23. When you cannot what you will, will what
you can. M, Greek.
24. Where the will is ready the feet are light.
25. Where there is no want of will there will be
no want of opportunity. Sp,
26. Where there is a will there is a way. ItaL^ Sp.
27. Will is power.
28. Will is the cause of woe.
29. Will without reason is blind, and against rea-
son is mad.
30. Ye maun take the will for the deed.
WiUing.
1. He that cannot is always willing. ItcU,
2. He that will does more than he can. Por,
WiUows.
I. Willows are weak yet serve to bind other
wood. Ital.
Wind.
1. A little wind kindleth a great fire, a great one
putteth it out.
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Wind.

3. As the wind blows you must set your sail.
4. Blow the wind ever so fast, it will lower at
last.
5. Every wind does not shake down the nut. Ital.
-^ 6. Every wind is against a leaky ship. Dan.
7. He that weighs the wind must have a steady-
hand.
8. High winds blow on high hills.
9. If the wind do blow aloft, then of wars we
shall hear oft.
10. If the wind will not serve take to the oars.
Latin.
11. If the wind blows it enters every corner.
Arabian.
1 2. 111 blows the wind that profits nobody. Shaks.
13. It came wi* the wind, let it gang wi* the water.
14. It is an ill wind that blows nobody good.
15. It is an ill wind that blows no good to Corn-
wall.
16. North wind show de cracks in de house.
American Negro.
17. One can't hinder the wind from blowing. Fr,
18. The wind does not always blow from the
same quarter. Ger.
19. The wind is not in your debt though it fill
your sail.
20. The wind that blows out candles kindles the
fire.
21. When the wind serves, all aid.
22. Wind and fortune are not lasting. Sp,y Par.

Wine. 455
23. Wind in the face makes a man wise. Fr,
24. Wind puffs up empty bladders, opinion fools.—
Socrates.
Wine.
1. Excess of wine neither keeps secrets nor per-
forms promises. Don Quixote,
2. Good wine is milk for the aged. Ger,
3. Good wine makes a bad head and a long
story.
4. Good wine makes good blood. ItaL
5. Good wine makes the horse go. Fr,
6. Good wine needs no bush.
7. Good wine needs no crier.
JtaL^ Ger,^ Sp,, For,, Dutch,
8. Good wine praises itself. Dutch,
9. Good wine ruins the purse and bad the
stomach. Ger,
10. He that drinks not wine after salad is in
danger of being sick.
11. He who hangs out a branch wants to sell his
wine. ^ Sp,
12. I like best the wine drunk at the cost of .
others. Diogenes,
13. If the landlady's fair, the wine too is fair. Ger,
14. In the looking-glass we see the form, in wine
the heart. GeK
15. Inflaming wine dulls the noble mind. Homer,
16.. It is a good wind that blows a man to his''
wine. Washington Irving,
17. No matter what the vessel is so the wine in it
be good.

456 Wine.
i8. O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast
no name to be known by, let us call thee devil.
Shaks.
19. Of what use is the cup of gold if ^e wine be
sour ? Ger.
20. Of wine the middle, of oil the top and of
honey the bottom is best.
21. Old wood to burn, old wine to drink. Bacon.
22. Passion makes a man a beast, but wine
makes him worse.
23. Physic makes you first sick, then well ;
Wine first makes you well, then sick.
24. Since the wine is drawn it must be drunk. JFr.
25. Sometimes the lees are better than the wine.
26. Spilt wine is worse than water.
— . 27. Strong is the vinegar of sweet wine. Itai.
28. Sweet wine makes sour vinegar. Ger.
29. The best wine has its lees. JFr.
30. The counsels that are given in wine
Will do no good to thee or thine.
31. The sourest vinegar comes from the sweetest
wine. Ger.
32. The wine given to your workman is that for
which you get the best paid. I^r,
33. The wine is not known by the hoops. JFr.
34. The wine skin has its reason for smelling of
pitch. Par,
35. There is a devil in every berry of the grape.
Koran.

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457

36. There is no one so wise that wine does not
make him a fool. Ger,
37. There is no such witness as a good measure
of wine. Sp,
38. Thick wine is better than clear water. ItaL
39. Truth and folly dwell in the wine cask. Dan,
40. When the beer (or wine) goes in the wit goes ^
out. Dutch^ Dan,
41. When the wine is in the man, the wit is in
the can. Dutch,
42. When the wine's in, the wit's out...
ItaLy For,, Dutch, Dan,
43. When wine enters modesty departs. ^-
44. When wine sinks words swim.
45. Where the best wine grows the worst is
drank. Ger,
46. Where wine goes in, modesty goes out.
ItaL, Ger,
47. Who prates of war or want, after his wine !
Horace,
48. Wine and youth are fire upon fire. —
49. Wine carries no rudder. Latin.
50. Wine enters the stomach and business grows
ripe in the brain. Chinese.
51. Wine ever pays for his lodging.
52. Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.
Syrus,
$Z- Wine in the bottle doth not quench the thirst.
54. Wine is a turn-coat, first a friend, then an
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W INK.— Winning.

55. Wine is the blood of devils. Manes the Persian.
56. Wine is the master's, but the goodness is the
drawer's.
57. Wine poured out is not wine swallowed. Fr.
58. Wine that costs nothing is digested ere it be
drank.
59. Wine upon b^er is very good cheer,
Beer upon wine consider with fear. Ger.
60. Wine washes off the daub.
61. Wine wears no breeches: 1. ^., discloses the
man, Fr,^ Sp.
62. Wine will not keep in a foul vessel. Fr,
63. You drink water when you have wine at your
elbow.
Wink.
1. A wink is as good as a nod to a blind man.
2. He that winketh with one eye and seeth with
the other,
I would not trust him though he were my
brother.
3. Who would regard all things complacently
must wink at a great many. Dutch.
4. Wink at wee faults, your ain are meikle.
Winning.
1. Easy won is easy lost. Ger.
2. Too light winning makes the prize light
3. Win a bet (or game) of your friend and drink
it on the spot. Sp.^ Par.
4. Win at first and lose at last.
5. Win by persuasion and not by force. Latin.

Winter. — Wisdom.

459

6. Win it and wear it.
7. Win your way by yielding to the tide. Pope,
8. Who would win must learn to bear. Ger,
Winter.
1. After winter spring will come. Hans Andersen.
2. Winter finds out what summer lays up.
3. Winter is summer's heir.
4. Winter never rots in the sky.
5. Winter thunder makes summer wonder.
6. Winter weather and women's thoughts often -^
change.
7. Winter's thunder and summer's flood,
Never boded Englishman good.
8. There is winter enough for the snipe and —
woodcock too.
Wisdom.
1. Affectation of wisdom often prevents us from ^
becoming wise.
2. A flow of words is no proof of wisdom.
3. An ounce of luck is worth a pound of wisdom.
Fr.
4. An ounce of wisdom is worth a pound of wit. "^
5. By wisdom wealth is won,
But riches purchased wisdom yet for none.
Bayard Taylor.
6. Both folly and wisdom come upon us with -
years.
7. He is oft the wisest man who is not wise at
all. Wordsworth.
8. He is well onward in the way of wisdom, who —
can bear a reproof and mend by it.

460 Wisdom.
9. In youth and beauty wisdom is but rare.

10. It is a great point of wisdom to find out one's
own folly.
11. It is a mark of wisdom to dislike folly.
12. Itls best to learn wisdom by the experience
of others. Latin.
13. It is fortune, not wisdom, that rules man's life.
Cicero.
14. Learn wisdom by the folly of others. ItaJ.
15. Man's chief wisdom consists in knowing his
^ follies. Rochefoucauld.
16. Many appear wise who are fools in folio. Ger.
17. My son, thou knowest not how little wisdom
goeth to the management of the world.
TTie Painter Rubens.
18. Of money, wit and wisdom, believe one fourth
of what you hear,
19. No man is blest by accident or guess,
True wisdom is the price of happiness.
Young,
20. That is good wisdom which is wisdom in the
end. Dutch.
21. The greatest wisdom in man consists in know-
ing his follies, Fr.
22. The next thing to having wisdom ourselves is
to profit by that of others.
23. The only jewel which you can carry beyond
the grave is wisdom. Langford,
24. Tis altogethef vain to learn wisdom and yet
live foolishly.

Wisdom. 461
25, 'Tis wisdom sometimes to seem a fool. "
j6. Too much wisdom is folly. Ger.
27. Well goes the case where wisdom counsels,
38. What is not wisdom is danger.
zg, When passion entereth at the foregate, wisdom -
goeth out at the postern.
30. When wisdom fails luck helps. Dan.
31. When one is wise two are happy.
31. Wisdom adorns riches and shadows poverty.
SgcraUs.
33. Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile.
Shaks.
34. Wisdom and honor are the avenues to a happy
immortality. Plato.
35. Wisdom asks fruits but folly flowers.
36. Wisdom at proper times will forget. Horace.
37. Wisdom don't always speak in Greek and
38. Wisdom goes not always by years,
39. Wisdom in a poor man is a diamond set in
lead.
40. Wisdom in the mind is belter than money in
the hand. Cingalese.
41. Wisdom is a good purchase though we pay
dear for it.
41. Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.
Knowledge is proud that he knows so much.
Cou'per.
43, Wisdom is more to be envied than riches.
44. Wisdom is better than gold or silver. Ger,

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45. Wisdom 18 neither inheritance nor legacy.
46. Wisdom is only in truth. Goethe.
47. Wisdom is overshadowed by wine.
Pliny the Elder.
48. Wisdom is the conqueror of fortune. Juvenal.
49. Wisdom is the least burdensome travelling
pack. Dan.
50. Wisdom is the mother of all atts. Ger.
51. Wisdom is the sunlight of the soul. Ger.
52. Wisdom is to the mind what health is to the
body. Rochefoucauld.
53. Wisdom never lies. Homer.
54. Wisdom prefers an unjust peace to a just war.
55. Wisdom provides things necessary not super-
fluous. Sohn.
56. Wisdom rides on the ruin of folly.
57. Wisdom sometimes walks in clouted shoes.
58. Wisdom was the daughter of Knowledge by
Reflection ; Wit was the son of Genius by Mirth.
59. Wisdom without knowledge is mere cozen-
age. Benjonson.

Wise.
1. A single conversation across the table with a
wise man is better than ten years* study of books.
Chinese.
2. A wise man adapts himself to circumstances
as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it.
Chinese.
3. A wise man, a strong man, Ger.

Understanding

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Understanding.

Understanding
1. Each one brings his understanding to market.
Ger.
2. He who understands most is other men's
master.
3. Much understanding has little good luck.
Ger.
4. That which is not understood is always mar-
vellous. Latin.
5. The more understanding the fewer words.
Ger.
6. The understanding is ever the dupe of the
heart. Fr.
7. There is a knack of showing we understand
the matter when we hold our peace.
8. There is a palate of the understanding as well
as of the senses. Ben Jonson.
9. Understanding is the most important matter
in everything. Hans Andersen.
10. Wrath and malice, envy and revenge distort
the understanding. Tillotson,
Undertaking.
1. Undertake no more than you can perform.
2. Who undertakes many things at once, seldom
does anything well. Dutch.
Undertaking^.
I. Small undertakings give great comfort. Ger.
Undoing.
I. We should be undone but for undoing.
Themistocles.

Unfortunate.— Ungained.— Unhappy.— Union.

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Unfortunate.
1. To persecute the unfortunate is like throwing
stones on one fallen into a well. Chinese,
2. Unfortunate and imprudent are but two words
for the same thing. Fr,
Ungained.
I. Men prize a thing ungained more than it is.
Shaks,
Unhappy.
I. The unhappy alone know the value of be-
nevolent minds. Rousseau,
Union.
1. Union gives strength to the humble. Syrus,
2. Union is strength. Dutch,
3. Union of capital is like union of fate. Chinese,
4. United we stand, divided we fall.
5. Even tender creepers when united are strong.
Tamil,
6. Let unity dwell in our tents, and discord
Be banished to our enemies. Massinger,
7. Unity is a precious diamond. Holydays,
Unkindness.
1. He that is unkind to his own, will be unkind
to others. Gallician,
2. No cut like unkindness.
3. 'Tis easier to bear unkindness than affronts.
4. Unkindness has no remedy at law.
5. We can distrain (pound) for debt, but not for
unkindness.
Upbraiding.
I. Upbraiding makes a benefit of an injury. Fr^

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Upright. — Useful. — Useless. — Unlearned.

Upright.
I. The upright never grow rich in a hurry. Dan,
Useful.
1. It was the wisdom of ancient times to con-
sider what is most useful as most illustrious. Seneca.
2. Study to be useful.
3. The useful and beautiful are never apart.
Periander,
Useless.
1. Nothing is useless to a person of sense.
La Fontaine,
2. To be employed in useless things is to be half
idle.
Unlearned.
I. A gem un wrought is a useless thing, so a man
unlearned is a senseless being. Chinese.
Use.
1. A used plough shines; standing water stinks.
Ger.
2. As a thing is used, so it brightens. Ger.
3. He who is of no use to himself, is of no use
to any one. Ger.^ Dan,
4. It is right to put everything to its proper use.
Gaelic,
5. Use can almost change the stamp of nature.
Shaks,
6. Use is the judge, the law, and rule of speech.
Shaks.
7. Use makes perfectness.
8. Use makes the craftsman. .S^., Ger.
9. Use, use, is life, and he most truly lives who
uses best.

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10. Use will make a man live in a lion's den.
11. What's in use wants no excuse. Sp,
Usurer.
1. A usurer, a miller, a banker and a publican
are the four evangelists of Lucifer. Dutch,
2. He that by usury and unjust gain increaseth
his substance, he shall gather it for him that will
pity the poor. Bible,
3. That usury is a sin some hold,
But take for granted they've no gold. Ger,
4. To borrow on usury brings sudden beggary.
5. While with the silent growth of ten per cent.,
In dirt and darkness hundreds stink content.
Pope.
V.
Vacuum.
I. Nature abhors a vacuum, {Galileo said, how-
ever^ only for the first thirty feet, alluding to the ris-
ing of the water in a pump to that height^
Valor.
1. It is war's prize to take all advantages,
And ten to one is no impeach of valor. Shaks.
2. Perfect valor consists in doing without wit-
nesses all we should be capable of doing before the
whole world. Rochefoucauld,
3. That valor which is not founded on prudence
is rashness. Don Quixote,
4. The better part of valor is discretion,
5. There is a great difference between a due re-
gard to valor and a contempt of life. Cato the Elder,
6. There is always safety in valor. Emerson.

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Valued.— Van ity.

7. To make a man valiant abuse him lustily.
8. True valor is fire ; bullying is smoke.
9. True valor knows as well how to suflEer as to
act.
10. Valor can do little without discretion.
11. Valor's a mouse trap, wit a gin, which women
oft are taken in. Butler,
12. Valor that parleys is near yielding.
13. Valor would cease to be a virtue if there
were no injustice. Agesiiaus,
14. Valor would fight, but discretion would run
away.
15. When valor preys on reason it eats the sword
it fights with. Shaks.
Valued.
I. If you wish to be valued make yourself
scarce. Ger.
Vanity.
1. All is sugar to the vain, even the praise of
fools.
2. All is vanity and vexation of spirit. Bible,
3. Every man has just so much vanity as he
wants understanding. Pope,
4. Every man thinks his own copper gold.
Ger.y Dan,
5. Every man thinks his own geese swans.
6. Every man thinks his own owl a falcon. Dutch,
7. Every one thinks he has more than his own
share of brains. Ital,
8. Every one thinks himself able to advise an-
other.

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9. I see thy vanity through the holes of thy coat,
(Plato speaking to the Cynic Philosopher^
10. Make not thy tail broader than thy wings.
11. Make not your sail too big for your ballast.
13. No man sympathizes with the sorrows of
vanity. Dr. Johnson.
13. She doesn't think small beer of herself.
Maga.
14. She that looks too much at herself looks too
little to herself.
15. The cow rails at the pig for being black,
Chinese.
16. The frying-pan says to the kettle, "Avaunt,
black brows."
17. The kettle calls the sauce-pan smutty. IWrk.
18. The kiln calls the oven burnt brows.
19. The pan says to the pot, " Keep off or you'll
smut me." Jtal.
20. The pot upbraids the kettle that it is black.
Dutch.
21. The raven chides blackness.
22. The shovel scouts the poker. Pr,
23. The sooty oven mocks the black chimnej'.
24. There is no doubt that vanity is our principal
cause of infidelity. Knox.
25. Vanity has no greater foe than vanity. Fr.
26. Vanity is the food of fools. Swift,
27. Vanity is the vice of low minds; a man of
spirit is too proud to be vain. Svi/t.
28. Vanity will pre

3q8 Vanquished. — Variety. — Varnishing.
29. " We hounds killed the hare," quoth the dog.
30. " What a dust have I raised," quoth the fly
upon the coach.
31. " What a dust we kicked up," said the fly to
the car-wheel.
32. " Your feet are crooked, your hair is good for
nothing," said the pig to the horse. Russian,
Vanquished.
1. It is noble to grant life to the vanquished.
Statius,
2. The more famous the vanquished the more
famous the victor. Don Quixote.
3. There should be no strife with the vanquished
or the dead. Virgil,
4. With the arni that won the victory he protects
the vanquished. Ovid,
Variety.
1. Variety alone gives joy, the sweetest meats
the soonest cloy. Prior,
2. Variety is the mother of enjoyment. Bea,
3. Variety's the very spice of life
That gives it all its flavor. Cowfer.
4. Variety, that divine gift that makes a woman
charming. Bea,
Varnishing^.
I. Varnishing hides a crack.
Vengeance.
1. Vengeance Ijas no foresight. Napoleon,
2. Vengeance is wild justice.
3. Vengeance ought always to pursue crimes, and
the guilty are not proper objects of mercy. Arabian,

Venom.— Venture. '^gg
4. Vengeance should be left to women.
Petrarch,
5. Vile is the vengeance on the ashes cold,
And envy base to bark at sleeping fame.
Spenser,
Venom.
1. In the tail lies the venom. Fr.
2. No viper so little but hath its venom.
3. The venom is in the tail.
4. The venom of a viper's tongue may be con-
verted into treacle.
Venture.
1. Boldly ventured is half won. Ger,
2. First weigh, then venture.
3. He has put all his eggs in one basket : /. e,y
ventured all in one enterprise,
4. He that dare not venture must not complain
of ill luck.
5. He that ventures not, fails not. Fr,
6. I will either win the horse or lose the sad-
dle.
7. Many ventures make a full freight.
8. My ventures are not in one bottom trusted.
Shaks,
9. Nothing venture nothing have. Fr,
10. Take your venture as many a good ship hath
done.
11. Throw a brick to allure a gem. Chinese,
12. Venture a small fish to catch a great one.
13. Venture not all in one bottom.
14. Ventures make men and ventures break men.

^OO Venus.— Vice.
15. Venture thy opinion but not thyself for thy
opinion.
16. Who does not venture gets neither horse nor
mule,
And who ventures too much loses horse and
mule. Fr,
17. Who ventures nothing has no luck. Sp,
Venus.
1. Venus smiles not in a house of tears.
2. Venus, thy eternal sway, all the race of men
obey. Euripides.
Vice.
1. A man must either imitate the vicious or hate
them. Montaigne,
2. A vicious man has a good title to vice.
3. After one vice a greater follows. .5^.
4. All vice infatuates and corrupts the judg-
ment.
5. Concealed goodness is a sort of vice.
6. Every vice fights against nature.
7. Great parts produce great vices as well as
virtues. Plato,
8. Great vices as well as great virtues make men
famous.
9. He who is free from vice himself is the slower
to suspect it in others. Greek,
10. He who plunges into vice resembles a man
who rolls from the top of a precipice. Chinese,
11. He who suffers himself to hate vice will hate
mankind. Thrasea,

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12. If you swallow vice 'twill rise badly in your
stomach.
13. Lordly vices require lordly estates.
14. Most of our evils come from our vices.
15. Never open the door to. a little vice lest a
great one enter with it.
16. No vice but hath its patron.
17. No vice goes alone.
18. One vice begets another.
19. Our pleasant vices are made the whip to
scourge us. Shaks,
20. Private vices are public benefits. {Mande-
vine's celebrated paradox,)
21. The maintaining of one vice costeth more than
ten virtues.
22. The proudest vice is ashamed to wear its own
face long.
23. The vicious man should date his destruction
from his first temptation. Lapland,
24. The vicious obey their passions as slaves do
their masters. . Diogenes,
25. Through tattered clothes small vices do ap-
pear,
Robes and furred gowns hide all. Shaks.
26. 'Tis the most dangerous vice looks like vir-
tue.
27. To blush at vice shows the world you are
ashamed of it.
28. Vice always produces contempt. Dr, Johnson.
29. Vice begins in mistake and ends in ignominy.
Rambler.
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12. If you swallow vice 'twill rise badly in your
stomach.
13. Lordly vices require lordly estates.
14. Most of our evils come from our vices.
15. Never open the door to. a little vice lest a
great one enter with it.
16. No vice but hath its patron.
17. No vice goes alone.
18. One vice begets another.
19. Our- pleasant vices are made the whip to
scourge us. Shaks,
20. Private vices are public benefits. {Mande-
villus celebrated paradox^
21. The maintaining of one vice costeth more than
ten virtues.
22. The proudest vice is ashamed to wear its own
face long.
23. The vicious man should date his destruction
from his first temptation. Lapland,
24. The vicious obey their passions as slaves do
their masters. . Diogenes,
25. Through tattered clothes small vices do ap-
pear,
Robes and furred gowns hide all. Shaks.
26. 'Tis the most dangerous vice looks like vir-
tue.
27. To blush at vice shows the world you are
ashamed of it.
28. Vice always produces contempt. Dr, Johnson,
29. Vice begins in mistake and ends in ignominy.
Rambler,
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30. Vice can never be too great to be lashed, nor
virtue too poor to be commended. Fielding,
31. Vice gets more in this vicious world than
piety. Beaumont and Fletcher,
32. Vice hath not a more abject slave than the
slanderer. Fielding,
33. Vice is a monster of such frightful mien,
As to be hated needs but to be seen ;
Yet seen, too oft familiar with her face,
We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
Fope,
34. Vice is cherished and thrives by concealment.
Latin,
35. Vice is its own punishment and sometimes its
own cure.
36. Vice is learnt without a school-master. Dan,
37. Vice is the most dangerous when it puts on
the garb of virtue. Syrus,
38. Vice loses half its evil by losing its gross-
ness. Burke,
39. Vice makes virtue shine.
40. Vice often rides triumphant in virtue's chariot.
41. Vice ruleth where God reigneth.
42. Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but
virtue consoles us even in our pains.
43. Vice will stain the noblest race. Horace,
44. What maintains one vice would bring up two
children.
45. When our vices leave us, we flatter our-
selves we leave them..

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46. Where vice goes before, vengeance follows
after.
47. Where vice is, vengeance follows.
Victor, Victory.
1. A victory is twice itself when the achiever
brings home full numbers. Shaks,
2. He conquers twice who conquers himself in
victory. Syrus.
3. He that forgives (the aggressor) gains the
victory. Yoruba {Africa),
4. He that traverses the list without an adver-
sary may receive the reward of victory, but he has
no pretension to the honor. Seneca.
5. He who has victory, has right. Ger,
6. Not the body but the soul strikes the blow in
which lives victory. Maga.
. 7. Oft the victor triumphs but to fall. Homer,
8. One may know how to gain a victory, and
know not how to use it. Barca the Carthagenian,
9. Such another victory and we are undone.
Pyrrhus,
10. The harder matched, the greater victory.
Shaks,
11. The more Moors, the better victory.
12. There are none but savage beasts, with whom
carnage succeeds victory. Petrarch,
13. Victories attended with little advantage will
ruin rather than enlarge an empire. Turkish Spy,
14. Victory gives no account of her actions.
Civilis the Batavian,
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Views.— Villain. — Vine, Vineyard. — Vinegar.

Views.
I. Extreme views are never just. Bea,
Villain.
1. Anoint a villain and he will prick you; prick
a villain and he will anoint you. Fr,
2. At an ambuscade of villains a man does
better with his feet than with his hands. Sp,
3. No villain like the conscientious villain.
4. The villain's censure is extorted praise. Pope.
5. The stains that villany leaves behind no time
will wash away. Fielding,
6. Where villany goes before, vengeance follows
after.
Vine, Vineyard.
1. Make your vine poor, and it will make you
rich.
2. He who has many vineyards has many cares.
Turk,
Vinegar.
1. Beware of vinegar made of sweet wine. Ital,
2. He cries wine, and sells vinegar.
3. More flies are caught with a spoonful of syrup
(or drop of honey) than with a cask of vinegar.
Dutch^ Dan.
Violent.
1. Nothing that is violent is permanent.
2. Violent fires soon burn out.
Small showers last long, but sudden storms
are short. Shaks.
Virtue.
.1. A happy life consists in virtue. Latin,

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2. A man that hath no virtue in himself ever
envieth virtue in others. Bacon,
3. A man who is wise and learned, but without
virtue, shall be despised. Cingalese,
4. All human virtue to its latest breath.
Finds envy never conquered but by death.
Pope.
5. All the praise of inward virtue consists in
outward action.
6. All the virtues are in peril when filial piety
is attacked. Chinese,
7. All virtue lies in a power of denying our own
desires when reason does not authorize them. Locke,
8. An exterior grave and majestic announces a
palace where virtue resides. Chinese,
9. As virtue is its own reward, so vice is its own
punishment.
10. Be a father to virtue, but a father-in-law to
vice.
11. Courage and resolution are the spirit and
soul of virtue.
12. Each must in virtue strive to excel,
That man lives twice who lives the first life
well. HerHck,
13. Even virtue is fairer when it appears in a
handsome person. Virgil,
14. Every virtue is but half way between two
vices. Latin,
15. Few are virtuous when the reward^s away.
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Virtue.

1 6. From our ancestors come our names, but
from our virtues our honors.
17. He cannot go wrong when virtue guides.
18. He has no mean portion of virtue that loveth
it in another.
19. He that thinks too much of his virtues, bids
others think of his vices.
20. He who aspires to be virtuous resembles a
man who climbs up a steep mountain. Chinese,
21. He who dies for virtue does not perish.
Plautus,
22. He whose mind is virtuous is alone of noble
kind. Dryden,
23. I have seen many men not adapted to the
sciences ; not one incapable of a virtue.
24. If virtue keep court within, honor will attend
without.
25. If you can be well without health, you may be
happy without virtue.
26. It is difficult to persuade mankind that the
love of virtue is the love of themselves. Cicero,
27. It is easier to run from virtue to vice than
from vice to virtue.
28. It is impossible for fortune to conquer vir-
tue. Plutarch.
29. It is in hating vice that we strengthen our-
selves in the love of virtue. Fr.
30. It is the will of heaven that virtue be proved
by trials. Arabian,
31. It is virtue to fly vice. Horace,

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32. It needs great virtues to be known and ad-
mired, or perhaps great vices. La Bruyhre,
33. Kindred without friends, friends without
power, power without will, will without effect, effect
without profit, profit without virtue, are not worth a
rush. Fr.
34. Let them call it mischief,
When it is past and prospered 'twill be virtue.
Ben Jonson,
35. Make a virtue of necessity.
36. Mankind are all stamped equal at their birth,
Virtue alone the difference makes on earth.
37. Men's evil manners live in brass.
Their virtues we write in water. Shaks,
38. Most men are more willing to indulge in easy
vices, than to practise laborious virtues. Dr, Johnson,
39. Nobody hath too much prudence or virtue.
40. Not to go forward in the way of virtue is to
go backwards.
41. O' need make virtue.
42. Our virtues will be often discredited with the
appearance of evil. Rogers.
43. Our virtues would be proud if our vices
whipped them not.
44. Poverty does not destroy virtue nor wealth
bestow it. Sp,
45. Room can never be wanting for virtue. Senua,
46. Some riRfi by wn and ^;mc by virtue fall.
S/iaks,
47. ^\f7tf\\Tir^% \% ihf foundation of all virtue.
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Virtue.

48. Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man.
Addison.
49. The first step to virtue is to love virtue in an-
other.
50. The first step to virtue is to abstain from vice.
51. The man who is always fortunate cannot
easily have a great reverence for virtue. Cicero.
52. The virtue that was received from heaven was
as great as a mountain. Chinese.
53. The virtues and vices are put in motion by
interest. Rochefoucauld.
54. The virtuous nothing fear but life with shame,
And death^s a pleasant road that leads to
fame. Geo, Granville.
55. There is some virtue or other to be exercised
whatever happens.
56. There must ever be a place for virtue. Seneca.
57. To subdue the proud and spare the suppliant
has ever been a Roman virtue. TcMtus.
58. Virtue alone can procure that independence
which is the end of human wishes. Petrarch.
59. Virtue alone has majesty in death. Young,
60. Virtue alone is happiness below. Crabbe,
61. Virtue alone is invincible. Latin.
62. Virtue alone with lasting grace
Embalms the virtues of the face. Trumbull.
63. Virtue alone outbuilds the pyramids :
Her monuments shall last when Egypt's fall.
Young.
64. Virtue and happiness are mother and daugh-
ter.

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65. Virtue and truth are respected everywhere.
Turkish Spy.
66. Virtue and truth are two of heaven's most
beautiful and lovely daughters. Bacon.
67. Virtue and understanding cannot be bought
with gold. Ger,
68. Virtue and vice cannot dwell under the same
roof. Ger.
69. Virtue and vice, wisdom and folly, are not
hereditary. Chinese.
70. Virtue alone is true nobility. Stepney.
71. Virtue brings honor. Ger.
72. Virtue conquers envy.
Motto of Marquis of Comwallis.
73.' Virtue consists in action. Dutch.
74. Virtue consists in avoiding vice and is the
highest wisdom. Horace,
75. Virtue dwells not in the tongue but in the
heart.
76. Virtue even in rags will keep warm. Hora^.
77. Virtue flourishes from a wound.
Motto of Scotch Earl of Galloway.
78. Virtue flourishes in misfortune. Ger.
79. Virtue goes before, nobility follows after. Ger.
80. Virtue hath not a greater enemy than wealth.
• Petrarch.
81. Virtue grows under every weight. Latin.
82. Virtue in poverty is better than sinful wealth.
Ger.
83. Virtue is a friend ever true. Ger.

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84. Virtue is a jewel of great price.
85. Virtue is always amiable. Petrarch.
86. Virtue is always flourishing.
Motto of Irish Viscount Belmore.
87. Virtue is as good as a thousand shields. Latin,
88. Virtue is a sheet anchor. Latin,
89. Virtue is between two extremes ; he who has
passed the middle has not done better than he who
has reached it. Chinese.
90. Virtue is bold and goodness never fearful.
Shaks.
91. Virtue is choked with foul ambition. Shaks.
92. Virtue is the best patrimony for a child to in-
herit.
93. Virtue is the only nobility.
94. Virtue is increased by the smile of approval.
Ovid.
95. Virtue is its own reward.
96. Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.
Bacon.
97. Virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant
when they are crushed. Bacon.
98. Virtue is more persecuted by the wicked than
encouraged by the good.
99. Virtue is never aided by a vice. Ben Jonson,
100. Virtue is of noble birth, but riches take the
wall of her.
1 01. Virtue is not allowed to go backward. Seneca.
102. Virtue is praised and starves. Juvenal.
103. Virtue is the base of the prosperity of an em-
pire. Chinese.

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104. Virtue is the most beautiful apparel. Ger,
105. Virtue is the only true nobility. Juvenal,
106. Virtue is the path of praise. Homer,
107. Virtue is the reward of virtue. Ger.
108. Virtue is the safest helmet. Latin,
109. Virtue is tied to no degrees of men.
no. Virtue is without alloy. Ger,
111. Virtue itself offends when coupled with for-
bidden manners. Middleton,
112. Virtue itself 'scapes not calumnious strokes.
113. Virtue itself turns vice being misapplied.
114. Virtue kindles strength.
Motto of the Irish Viscount of Str angf or d,
115. Virtue, like a strong and hardy plant, will root
where it can find an ingenuous nature and a mind
not averse to labor. Plutarch,
116. Virtue maketh men on the earth famous, in
their grave illustrious, in the heavens immortal.
Chile,
117. Virtue maybe overclouded for awhile, but
will shine at last.
118. Virtue, not pedigree, should characterize no-
bility. Latin,
119. Virtue often trips and falls on the sharp-
edged rocks of poverty. Eugene Sue,
120. Virtue only finds eternal fame. Petrarch,
121. Virtue overcomes envy. Latin,
122. Virtue rejoices in temptation.
Motto of the Earl of Dartmouth,
123. Virtue remains when all else has passed away.
Ger.

^ £ 2 Virtuous.
124. Virtue shines grandest in misfortune. Ger.
125. Virtue sometimes starves while vice is fed.
Pope.
126. Virtue subdues power. Ger.
127. Virtue survives the grave.
Motto of the Irish Earl of Shannon,
128. Virtue though momentarily shamed cannot
be extinguished. Syrus,
129. Virtue unites man with God. Latin.
130. Virtue when concealed is a worthless thing.
Claudianus.
131. Virtue which parleys is near surrender.
132. Virtue would not go far, if a little vanity
walked not with her.
133. Virtues all agree, but vices fight one another.
134. Wealth and beauty less than virtue please.
Homer.
135. What can the virtues of our ancestors profit
us if we do not imitate them.
136. What's vice to-day may be virtue to-morrow.
Fielding.
137. Where virtue resides not, liberty can no longer
subsist. Arabian.
138. Wherever virtue is found in an eminent de-
gree, it is sure to be persecuted. Don Quixote.
139. Whether I am praised or blamed, it enables
me to advance in virtue. Chinese Philosopher.
Virtuous.
I. The device of the virtuous man is expressed
by the two words : " to forgive," and " to pardon."
Fr.

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2. The world is ashamed of being virtuous.
StCTit€»
3. To be virtuous is to do good and do it well.
Voice.
1. A voice soft, gentle and low, is an excellent
thing in a woman. Shaks,
2. A loud voice bespeaks a vulgar man.
3. Apples, pears, and nuts spoil the voice.
4. He who has no voice in the valley will have
none in the council. Sp.
5. Sweet is the voice of a sister in the season of
sorrow. Bea.
6. The voice of the people is the voice of God.
( Vox populi vox Dei)
7. The voice of the pigeon on the spit is not like
the voice of the pigeon on the tree. Woloffs (Africa),
Vows.
I. Vows made in storms are forgotten in calms.
Vulg^.
I. The vulgar keep no account of your hits but
of your misses.
Vulgarity.
I. Vulgarity in manners defiles fine garments
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Table.
1. Spread the table and contention will cease.
2. The table robs more than the thief.
Tailors.
1. Dull scissors make crooked mouthed tailors.
Dan.
2. Four farthings and a thimble make a tailor's
pocket jingle.
3. Nine tailors make a man.
4. Tailors' shreds are worth the cutting.
5. The Portuguese apprentice who does not
know how to sew and wants to cut out Sp.
6. The tailor ill dressed, the shoemaker ill shod.
Far.
7. The tailor that makes not a knot loses a
stitch.

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8. There is little to sew where tailors are true.
9. To be like the tailor of Campello, who worked
for nothing and found the thread. Sp.
Take Heed.
I. Take heed of a good minute,
a. Take heed of many, advice of few. Ztow.
3. Take heed of the words of the wise.
4. Take heed of an ox before, and an ass behind,
and a knave on all sides.
5. Take heed will surely speed.
6. Take heed you find not that you do not seek.
"Take Thia."
1. I was never satisfied wilh " I will," " I will ; "
one " take this," is better than two " I will give
you." Sfi.
2. One "take this," is better than ten "God
bless yous," Ger.
3. One " take this " is better than two " you
shall haves." J'r., Dutch.
1. Take not a musket to kill a fly.
2, Take not your sickle to another man's

Dan,

3. Take the ball at the hop.
4. Take the middle of the way and thou v

ivilt not
fall. Sp.
5. Take things always by the smoolh handle,
TlkinE Out.
I. Always taking out of the meal tub, and never
putting in soon comes to the bottom.

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Taul

2. It is delightful to take out of a great hoard.
Horace.
3. Take out without putting in, soon comes to
the bottom. Sp.^ Par.
4. When you take out and do not put in, expect
to reach the bottom. M. Greek.
Tale.
1. A good tale ill told is a bad one.
2. A good tale is not the worse for being twice
told.
3. A school-boy's tale the wonder of an hour.
Byron.
4. A tale never loses in the telling.
5. A tale twice told is cabbage twice sold.
6. An honest tale speeds best being plainly
told. Shaks.
7. And what so tedious as a twice-told tale.
Pope.
8. Every man's tale is gude till anither be tauld.
9. Ha'f a tale is enough for a wise man.
10. In the fair tale is foul falsity.
11. It ought to be a good tale that is twice told.
12. Must I tell you a tale and find you ears too ?
13. No sweetness in a cabbage twice boiled or in
a tale twice told.
14. One tale is good until another be told.
15. Tell no tales out of school. Ger.
16. The tale runs as it pleases the teller.
17. There is many a true tale told in jest.
18. What so tedious as a twice-told tale. Homer.
19. You will tell another tale when you are tried.

Tale-bearer.— Talents.— Talking. 333
Tale-bearer.
1. A dog that fetches a bone will carty one.
2. Beware of the tale-bearer.
3. Put no faith in tale-bearers.
4. Tale-bearers are commonly a sort of half-
witted men.
Talents.
I. The more talents the more they will be de-
veloped. Chinese.

1. A great talker never wants for enemies.
Chinese,
2. A man of sense talks little and listens much.
Chinese,
3. Always talk big and you will not be forgotten.
Fr.
4. Beware of a man that does not talk and a
dog that does not bark. J'or.
5. Do not talk Arabic in the house of a Moor.
Sp.
6. Do not talk Latin before the sacristans. I^r.
7. Fore-talk spares after-talk. Ger.
8. Great talkers are commonly liars.
9. Great talkers are like leaky pitchers : every-
thing runs out of them.
10. Great talkers are not great doers, i^r., Dutch.
11. Have a care of whom you talk,
To whom and what and where. Horeue.
12. He has the gift of the gab ; i>., is a fluent
talker.

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Talking.

13. He that hears much and speaks not all.
Shall be welcome both in bower and hall.
14. He that talks to himself talks to a fool.
15. He who talks much is sometimes right Sp.
16. I have a poor opinion of a man who talks to
men what women should not hear. Richardson.
17. It is very seldom that a great talker hath
either discretion or good manners.
18. Leave a dog and a great talker in the middle
of the street.
19. Let people talk and dogs bark. Ger.
20. Long talk makes short days. Fr.
21. Many talk like philosophers and live like
fools.
22. Much talk little work. DuUk.
23. Much talking enervates the judgment
Turkish Spy.
24. Much talking, much erring. Sp.
25. People should talk not to please themselves
but those who hear them.
26. Talk does not cook rice. Chinese.
27. Talk is but talk; but 'tis money that buys
land.
28. Talk little and well and you will be looked
upon as somebody. Sp.
29. Talk much and err much.
30. Talk of camps but stay at home.
31. Talk of sporting but buy game in the market.
32. Talkers are no doers. Shahs.
33. Talking comes by nature, science of under-
standing. Ger.

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34. Talking is easier than doing, and prombing
than performing, Ger.
35. Talking is silver, silence is gold. Cer.
36. Talking pays no toll.
37. Talking very much and lying are cousin Ger-
mans.
38. The eternal talker neither hears nor learns.
39. The greatest talkers are always the least
doers.
40. The talker sows, the listener reaps. Ital.
41. The more you are talked about the less pow-
erful you are. Bea.
42. There is never much talk of a thing but there
is some truth in it. Ital,
43. They always talk who never think. Pope.
44. 'Tis remarkable that they talk most who have
least to say. Pope,
45. To talk without thinking is to shoot without
aiming.
46. Who talks much errs much. Sp.
Tarry.
1. Tarry awhile that we may make an end the
sooner.
2. Tarry long brings little home.
Task.
1. When you have set yourself a task finish it.
Ovid.
2. Whoever undertakes a task cannot repudiate
the responsibility. Chinese.
Taste.
I. To a depraved taste sweet is bitter. Sp.

Xx6 TattleKw— Taxis.— Tkachkr, Tkachikg.
3. To him who has lost his taste sweet is sour.
3. Whether sugar be white or black it preserves
its proper taste. TUrJk,
4. There is no accounting for tastes as the old
woman said when her husband kissed the cow.
Tattler.
I. A tattler is waur than a thief.
3. Shun an inquisitive person, for he is also a
tattler. Latin.
3. Tattlers and busy bodies are the canker and
rust of idleness as idleness is the rust of time.
Taylor.
4. The tattler's tongue is always dancing a silly
Jig-

1. Taxes are the perpetual theme of popular
complaint. Gibbon.
2. Those who do a good trade don't wrangle over
taxes. Chinese,
3. What church does not take^ exchequer takes.
Ger,^ Sp,
Teacher, Teaching.
1. A teacher is better than two books. Ger.
2. Delightful task to rear the tender thought.
To teach the young idea how to shoot
Thomson.
3. He teaches me to be good that does me
good.
4. He teaches ill that teacheth all.
5. He that teaches himself has a fool for his
master.

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Taught in the same school,

Zaiin.

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Teaching others leaches yourself.

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The best mode of instruction is

practise

■ what

we teach.

1

Who teaches often learns himself.
Tear.

//a/.

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An orphan's tear (alts not in vain.

Hussion.

^^m.'

A small tear relieves a great sorrow. ^

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But woes await a country when

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She sees the tears of bearded men

Scott. ■

^^B"-

Easier to slop Euphrates at its source ^

■1

Than one tear of a true and tende

heart. 1
Byron. 1

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Even when the gates of prayer are shut the |

gates

of tears are open.

ffebrew. 1

6.

Every woe a tear may claim
Except an erring sister's shame.

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He wastes his tears who weeps

before the ■

judge

Hal. H

S.

More tears are shed in playhouses than in S

Churches.

GutArif. n

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Nothing dries sooner than a tear.

G^. 1

lO.

Oh, father, what a hell of witchcraft lies M

In the small orb of one particular tear. SAaJis. |

11.

Repentant tears wash out the stain

of guilt. ■
Latin. ■

11.

Tears are sometimes as weighty as

words. H
Oi'id. ■

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Tears benefit not the dead, they may injure H

the living.

Ptiitareh. H

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336 TATTLU^-TAXn/— TftACBUt TXACHXIir
9. To him who has lost his taste .i. Homer,
3. Whether sugar be white o^ .ears. Byron,
its proper taste. ,^^^ has more
4. There is no aoooar' . ;/iedding seas of gore.
woman said when her * . Byron.
^,./iich moulds a tear
I. A tattle*' • ft^^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^ source,
Shuv "^'seTVGS the earth a sphere,
fatrtjw .'-[jidds the planets in their course.
V*' S.Rogers.
r ic^^^ ^^^ years the fewer his tears.
iS '.^jear down childhood's cheek that flows
i9- is Jike the dew-drop on the rose :
When next the summer breeze comes by,
And waves the bush the flower is dry. ScoU.
go* Th^ tears of a whore and the oaths of a bully
may he put in the same bottle.
21. The tears of a penitent are the wine of angels.
St, Bernard.
22. The tears of the congregation are the praises
of the minister.
23. The tears of the night equal the smiles of the
day. Rousseau.
24. What can I think of thy good qualities since
every bite draws tears. African.
Teeth.
1. The teeth of the puppy are growing while the
©Id dog is gnawing bones. Dan.
2. The tooth often bites the tongue and yet they
keep together. Dan.
3. The toothless man envies those that can bite
well. Latin.

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339

4. Who hath aching teeth hath ill tenants.
Temper.
1. He who loses his temper is in the wrong. Fr.
2. Of all bad things by which mankind are curst,
Their own bad tempers surely are the worst.
Cumberland,
Temperance.
1. Temperance is the best medicine.
2. Temperance is the greatest of virtues.
Plutarch.
3. The virtue of prosperity is temperance. Bacon,
Temples.
1. The groves were God's first temples. Bryant,
2, The truest temples are fixed in the heart.
Tadtus,
Temptation.
1. A bad padlock invites a picklock.
2. A fair booty makes many a thief.
3. All temptations are found either in hope or
fear.
4. An open box tempts an honest ms^n. Dutch,
5. An open door may tempt a saint
6. At an open chest the righteous sins. Fr,
7. Flight is a triumph. {Fleeingfram temptation^
Latin.
8. Godfrey sent the thief that stole the cash
away,
And punished him that put it in his way. Pope,
9. He who avoids the temptation avoids the sin.
Sp.

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TKIIPTXR.^TlUrDSE.

10. It is difficult keeping that which is admired
by many. Syrus.
11. She is good who is close to the fire and does
not bum.
12. Shut your door and you will make your neigh-
bor good. Sp., For.
13. It is too much to expect of the cat that she
should sit by the milk and not lap it. Ger.
14. Take away the motive and you take away the
sin. Don Quixote,
15. Temptation makes a good Christian. Ger.
16. The key at my girdle keeps me good and my
neighbor too. Sp.
17. The less the temptation the greater the sin.
18. The open door invites the thief. Dutch.
19. The righteous man sins before an open chest.
20. When a chest lies open a reputed honest man
may sin.
21. When Christ was alone the devil tempted
him. Ger.
22. When we do ill the devil tempted us, when
we do nothing we tempt him.
Tempter.
1. The tempter is then ever nighest when we
think him furthest off. Old Divine.
2. Who draws others into evil courses is the
devil's factor.
Tender.
I. Who is tender in everj'thing is a fool in every-
thing. Catalan.

:S. — T H EFT, — T H IM ■.

1. I'll thank you for the next, for this I am sure
of. {Said after receiving a Javor^

I, Old thanks are not for new gifts. Ital,
9. Old thanks pay not for a new debt-
Theft.
I. A mouthful of meat (if it be stolen) may be a
townfut of shame. Scotch.
a. The honest man enjoys the theft.
Theme.
I. When great the theme 'tis easy to excel.
Quoted by Alexander from Euripides.
Theraites.
1. Thersites' body is as good as Ajax' when
neither is alive. Shaks.
Thief,
t. A hundred bakers, a hundred millers, and a
hundred tailors are three hundred thieves. Dutch.
2. A hundred tailors, a hundred millers, and a
hundred weavers are three hundred thieves. Sp.
3. A rackless hussie makes mony thieves,
4. A thief does not always ihieve, but be always
on your guard against him. Russian.
5. A thief does not willingly see another carry a
basket. Ger.
6. A thief is better than a lazy servant. Ger.
7. A thief knows a thief as a wolf knows a wolf.
8. A thief makes opportunities. Dutch.
9. A thief passes for a gentleman when stealing
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Thief.

10. A thief seldom grows rich by thieving. Gcr,
11. A thief thinks every man steals. Dan.
12. All are not thieves whom the dogs bark at.
Ger.
. 13. An old thief desires a new halter.
14. As stout as the miller's waistcoat that takes
a thief by the neck every day.
15. Every tribe has its thief, every mountain its
wolf. Russian.
16. First a turnip, then a sheep, next a cow, and
then the gallows.
17. Great thieves always have their sleeves full of
gags. Fr.
18. Great thieves hang little ones. Fr,
19. He is a thief indeed that robs a thief. Fr.
20. He that showeth his wealth to a thief is the
cause of his own pillage.
21. He who has a son grown up should not call
another a thief. Sp,
22. He is a thief for he has taken a cup too much.
23. Highways and streets have not all the thieves :
shops have ten to one.
24. If there were no receiver, there would be no
thief. Sp.
25. If you cut down the woods you'll catch the
thief.
26. If you would make a thief honest trust him.
Sp.
27. Ill laying up makes many thieves.
28. It is hard to steal where the host himself is a
thief. Ger,^ Dutch.

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29. Look not at thieves eating flesh, but look at
them suffering punishment. Chinese.
30. No receiver, no thief.
31. No thief e'er felt the halter draw
With good opinion of the law.
32. Opportunity makes the thief.
Fr,^ ItaL^ Ger., Sp., Dutch^ Van.
33. Petty thieves are hanged, people take off their
hats to great ones. Ger,
34. Put a miller, a weaver, and a tailor in a bag
and shake them, the first that comes out will be a
thief.
35. Set a thief to catch a thief.
36. Stealing would be a nice thing if thieves were
hanged by the girdle. Sp.
37. The great thieves hang the small ones. Ger,
^%, The great thieves punish the little ones.
39. The hole invites the thief. Sp.
40. The thief becomes the gallows well. For,
41. The thief cannot find any tree that suits him
for a gallows. Ger,
42. The thief is frightened even by a mouse. Ital,
43. The thief is sorry he is to be hanged, not that
he is a thief.
44. The thief proceeds from a needle to gold,
and from gold to the gallows. For.
45. The thief steals until he comes to the gallows.
Ger.
46. The thief thinks all men are like himself.
Sp.y For.

344 Thing.
47. There are more thieves than are hanged.
Duich.
48. There are more thieves than gibbets. Ital.
49. There is but one short step between lying
and theft.
50. There is honor among thieves.
51. There is no guarding against the privy thief.
Fr.
52. Thick as thieves.
53. Thieves and rogues have the best luck if they
do but escape hanging.
54. Thieves quarrel and thefts are discovered. 1^.
55. Time and place make the thief. Crer.^ Dutch.
$6. When it thunders the thief becomes honest.
Itai.
57. When thieves fall out thefts are discovered.
Fr.
58. Why is there honor among thieves ? Because
they usually hang together. Punch.
Thing.
1. A good thing is known when it is lost. Par.
2. A good thing is soon caught up.
3. A good thing one soon forgets, the bad grow
old in the head. Ger.
4. A thing done has a head. (JEocclamcUum of an
ancient sculptor on finishing a statue.)
5. A thing done perforce is not worth a rush.
6. A thing is not bad if well understood. Ger.
7. A thing lost is a thing known. Fr.
8. All good things are not given to one.
La Fontaine.

9. All things are difficult before tbey are easy.
10. All things are easy that are done willingly.

. All things a

ivith the good.

e not to be granted at all times.
e soon prepared in a well ordered

12. All things a
13. All things a
house.
14. All things have their uses.
15. All things of this world are nothing unless
they have reference to the next. Sfi.
16. From trivia] things great contests oft arise.
DutcA.
17. Good things require time. DuUh.
18. Good things soon find a purchaser. Plaulus.
19. Great things spring from casualties. Bea.
ao. He who prizes little things is worthy of great
ones, Ger.
21, He who takes no care of little things will not
have the care of great ones. Ger.
22. Little things are preltj',
13. Little things attract light minds.
24. Moderate things last,
25. Out of small things large cannot spring. Ger.
26. Small things affect light minds.
27. Small things become the small. Horace.
28. Small things make base men proud. Skaks.
29. The best thing in the world is to live above it.
30. The best things are the first to perish. Latin,
31. The best things are the worst to come by.
3». The greatest things are done by the help of
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Thing.

33. Things above thy height are to be looked at,
not reached at
34. Things are not as they are, but as they are
regarded. Ital.
35. Things at the worse will cease or else climb
upwards. Shaks.
36. Things at the worst will sometimes mend.
37. Things bad begun strengthen themselves by
ill. Shaks.
38. Things beyond our reach are not worth our
consideration. Latin,
39. Things coming from afar are most esteemed.
40. Things do not always go as man wills. Ger.
41. Things forbidden have a secret charm.
Tacitus.
42. Things hardly attained are the longer re-
tained.
43. Things ill acquired are ill expended. Latin,
44. Things ill got have ever bad success. Shaks,
45. Things in motion sooner catch the eye than
what not stirs. Shaks,
46. Things may be fitting to be done, which are
not fitting to be boasted of. Fielding.
47. Things not understood are admired.
48. Things past may be repented but not recalled.
Livy.
49. Things promised are things due. Fr.
50. Things sweet to taste prove in digestion sour.
Shaks.
51. Things unhoped for happen oftener than
what we desire. Flautus.

Thinker, Thinking.— Thirst.— Thirteenth. ^47
52. Things unreasonable are never durable. ItaL
Thinker, Thinking.
1. A profound thinker always thinks he is super-
ficial. Bea,
2. A thinking man is always striking out some-
thing new.
3. It is for want of thinking that most men are
undone.
4. Think first and speak afterwards. Turk,
5. Think much, speak little, and write less.
Fr,, Hal
6. Think of ease, but work on.
7. Think of many things, do one. For,
8. Think to-day and speak to-morrow.
9. Think with the wise, but talk with the vulgar,
Dr, Johnson,
10. Thinking is not knowing. For.
11. Thinking of where you are going, you forget
whence you came. For,
12. Who has never done thinking never begins
doing. ItaL
Thirst.
1. Thirst comes from drinking. ItaU
2. Thirst is the best butler. Ger,
3. Thirst makes wine out of water. Ger,
4. Who has no thirst, has no business at the
fountain. Dutch.
5. You look at what I drink and not at my
thirst. Sp.
Thirteenth.
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348.

Thirty. —Thistul— Thorn-bush.— Thoihs.

Thirty.
I. Thirty is the turning point of a man's life.
Thistle.
1. If you should plant a thistle in Paradise, it
would never become a rose. Ger.
2. Thistles are a salad for asses.
3. Thistles are more lovely to an ass, than roses.
Ger.
Thorn-bosh.
I. .Wherever a man dwells, he shall be sure to
have a thorn-bush before his door.
Thorns.
1. A man does not run among thorns for noth-
ing r either he b chasing a snake or a snake is chas-
ing him. Voruda.
2. A myrtle among thorns is a myrtle still.
3. Barefooted men must not go amongst thorns.
4. Better one thorn plucked out than all remain.
Iforace.
5. From the thorn springs the rose, and from
the rose the thorn. Jf. Greek.
6. He knows well where the thorn pricks him.
Ital.
7. He that handles thorns, shall smart for it.
8. He that scattereth thorns, must not go bare-
foot.
9. It early pricks that will be a thorn.
10. The point of the thorn is small but he who
has felt it does not forget it ItaL
11. The thorn comes into the world point fore-
roost.

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12. Thorns make the greatest crackling.
13. What profits you, only one thorn eradicated
out of many. fforace.
14. While the shoe is on thy foot tread upon the
thorns.
15. Without thorns no roses. Ger.
Thought.
1. A man without thought for the future must
soon have present sorrow. Coufucius.
2. He is never alone that is in the company of
noble thoughts.
3. If thoughts were legal witnesses, many an
honest man would be proved a rogue. Dan,
4. In matters of conscience first thoughts are
best ; in matters of prudence last thoughts are the
best. Rev, Robert Hall.
S- Keep your thoughts to yourself, let your mien
be free and open.
6. Second thoughts are best. Latin.
7. The only way to keep our thoughts is to fasten
them in words and chain them in writing.
Turkish Spy.
8. The thought has good legs and the quill a
good tongue.
9. They are never alone who are accompanied
by noble thoughts. Sidney.
10. Thought is a nimble footman.
11. Thought is free. Shaks.
IS. Thoughts are told tree but not held free. Ger.
Thretid.
I. By the thread we unwind the skein. Sp.

3 JO Threats, Threatening.
2. It hangs upon a silken thread.
3. Short flax makes long thread. Dan.
4. The thread breaks where it is thinnest. Sp.
5. Threads do not break for being tine, but for
being gouty and ill spun. Por.
6. Where it's weakest there the thread breaketh.
7. Who holds the thread holds the ball. Fr.
Threats, Threatening.
1. A blow threatened was never well given.
Ital., Sp.
2. A buffeting threatened is never well given.
Sp., Ital.
3. A threatened man lives long if he can get
bread. Dutch.
4. All do not bite that show their teeth. Dutch.
5. All tbreateners don't fight. Dutch.
6. He can do but little who cannot threaten an-
other. Sp.
7. He that threatens wastes his anger. Par.
8. He threatens many that injured one.
Ben Jonson.
9. He threatens who is afraid. Fr.
10. He who threateneth hunteth after revenge.
11. It is more easy to threaten than to kill. ItcU.
12. Longer lives he that is threatened than he
that is hanged. ItcU.
13. Many a one threatens while he quakes with
fear. Ital.^ Gcr.
14. More are threatened than are stabbed. Sp.
15. No one dies of threats. Dutch.

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16. Not all threateners fight. Dutch.
17. Some threaten who are afraid. Fr.
18. The threatener loses the opportunity of ven-
geance. Sp.
19. The threatener sometimes gets a drubbing.
Fr.
20. There are more threatened than hurt.
ItaL, Sp.
21. Threatened folks, too, eat bread. Sp,^ For.
22. Threatened folks live long. Fielding,
23. Threats are arms for the threatened. Jtal.
24. Threats don't kill. {Men dorCi die of threats.)
Dutch.
25. To freemen threats are impotent Cicero.
26. Who threatens, warns. Ger.
Three.
1. By three things we learn men : love, play and
wine. Ger.
2. One's too few, and three's too many.
3. Three things soon pass away: woman's
beauty, the rainbow, and the echo of the woods.
Ger.
4. Three things trouble life : quarrels, love and
wine. Ger.
5.' 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. Ital.
6. What three know everybody knows. Sp.
7. What three know will soon be known to thirty.
Ger.

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Threshiwc— Thrift.— Thriving.— Throne.

Threthifis:.
I. When the barn is full you may thresh before
the door.
Thrift.
I. Thrift and he are at a fray.
3. Thrift is better than an annuity. F^.
3. Thrift is the philosopher's stone.

I. He that will thrive in this world must think
no course vile. Benjanson.
3. He who would thrive must follow the church,
the sea, or the king's service. Sp.
Throne.
I. It is more honorable to be raised than to be
bom to a throne ;
Hazard bestows the one, but merit obtains
the other. Fdrarck.
Thunder.
I. A bolt does not always fall when it thunders.
Ger.
Thnnder4>olt.
I. The thunder-bolt has but its clap.
Tide, Ebb, Flow.
I. A flow will have an ebb.
3. After ebb comes flood and friends with good.
3. After high floods come low ebbs. Dutch.
4. Every flood hath its ebb. Dutch.
5. Every tide hath its ebb.
6. The ebb will fetch off what the tide brings in.

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7. There is a tide in the affairs of men,
Which taken at the flood leads on to fortune.
Shaks.
Tieing.
1. He that ties well, unties well.
2. See that you tie so you can untie. Dutch,
3. Tie me hand and foot, and throw me among
my own people. ItaL
4. Who ties well, unties well. Sp.
Tiger.
1. Draw a tiger incompletely and he's like a
dog. Chinese,
2. Fiercer than a cubless tiger.
3« He is a paper tiger. {Applied to a blustering
coward?) Chinese.
4. The tiger that has once tasted blood is never
sated with the taste of it.
5. He calls the tiger to chase away the dog.
Chinese.
Time.
1. A little time may be enough to hatch a great
mischief.
2. A hundred years hence we shall all be bald.
3. A hundred years is not much, but never is a
long while. Fr.
4. A thousand years hence the river will run as
it did.
5. All the treasures of the earth would not bring
back one lost moment. Fr^
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Time.

6. An hour after twelve is just one whatever you
do, Ger.
7. As good have no time as make no good use
of it.
8. Better to take time. Latin.
9. Every scrap of a wise man's time is worth
saving.
10. Everything has its time. Par,
11. Everything has its time and that time must be
watched.
12. He is behind the times ; 1. e,^ old fashioned.
13. He that has most time has none to lose.
14. He that hath time and looketh for more,
loseth time.
15. He who gains time gains everything. Bea.
16. Hour by hour time departs. Ital.
17. I have lost a day. {Ferdidi diem.) Titus.
18. If the time don't suit you, suit yourself to the
time. Turk.
19. If time be of all things most precious, wasting
time must be the greatest prodigality. Franklin.
20. In less than a thousand years we shall all be
bald. Sp.
21. In time the savage bull doth bear the yoke.
Shaks.
22. It is all one a hundred years hence.
23. It is good to be in good time, you know not
how long it will last.
24. It is time enough to set when the oven comes
to the dough.

Time.

3SS

25. It is time enough to take off your hat when
you see the man. Dan,
26. " IVe lost a day ! " the prince who nobly cried,
Had been an emperor without his crown.
Young.
27. It will be all the same an hundred years
hence.
28. Lost time never returns. Ger,
29. Lost time and opportunities can never be re-
covered.
30. Lost time is never found again, and what we
call time enough always proves little enough.
Franklin,
31. Man cannot buy time. Get,
32. Naeman can tether time or tide. Bums,
33. Once in every ten years every man needs his
neighbor.
34. Once in ten years one man hath need of an-
other.
35. Other times, other counsels. For.
36. Other times, other folks, Dan,
37. Other times, other manners. Fr,
38. Our time runs on like a stream ; first fall the
leaves and then the tree. Dutch,
39. Suit yourself to the times. Ger,
• 40. Take time by the forelock.
41. Take time for deliberation, haste spoils every-
thing. Statins,
42. Take time to be quick.
43. Take time when time is, for time will away.

356

Time.

44. The best preacher is time. Gtr.
45. The complaint of the present times is the gen-
eral complaint of all times.
46. The crutch of time does more than the club of
Hercules.
47. '' The good old times," all times when old
are good. Byron.
48. The good time comes but once. ItcU.
49. The greatest expense we can be at is that of
our time.
50. The heavens are just, and time suppresseth
wrong. Shaks.
51. The past is for wisdom, the present for ac-
tion, but for joy the future. Bea,
52. The time of life is short,
To spend that shortness basely 'twere too
long. SAoAs.
53. The time of the prince is the property of the
people. Gibbon.
54. The time to come is no more ours than the
time past.
- 55. There is a time for all things.
56. There is a time to fish and a time to dry nets.
Chinese.
57. There is a time to jest and a time when
jests are unreasonable. Don Quixote.
58. There is no appeal from time past. Itai.
59. There is no better counsellor than time.
Greek.
60. There is no hand to catch time. BengcUese.

™» 3s;
6c. There is nothing more precious Ihan'timc and
nothing more prodigally wasted,
6z. There's naeihingmore precious nor time.
63. They that make the best use of their time have
none to spare.
64. Time and opportunity are no man's slave,
Ger.
Time and the hour are not to be tied with a

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76.
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time.
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80.

Time and the hour run through the roughest
ingest) day.
Time and tide for no man bide.
Time and tide wait for no man.
Time and words can never be recalled.
Time at last sets all things even, Byron.
Time brings everything to those who can wait
Gir.
Time brings roses, Ga\, Dutch.
Time covers and discovers everything, Ger.
Time discovers truth. Seneca.
Time dresses the greatest wounds. Ger.
Time devours all things.
Time does not bow to you, you must bow to
Russian.
Time enough is little enough.
Time fleeth away without delay.
Time flies on restless pinions, constant never,
Be constant and ihou chatnest time forever.
Schiller.
Time gained, much gained. Dutch.

358

Time.

82. Time heals all things.
83. Time is a file that wears and makes no noise.
84. Time is anger's medicine. Ger.
85. Time is an inaudible file. Ital.
86. Time is an unpaid advocate. Ger,
87. Time is a true friend to sorrow. Wordsttforth,
88. Time is generally the best doctor. Ovid.
89. Time is God's and ours. Dutch.
90. Time is money. Dutch^ Turk.
91. Time is not tied to a post like a horse to a
manger. Dcm.
92. Time is precious but truth is more precious
than time. Bea.
93. Time is the best counsellor (or preacher), Ger.
94. Time is the greatest innovator. Bacon.
, 95. Time is the herald of truth. Cicero.
96. Time is the rider that breaks youth. ^
97. Time makes hay. Ger.
98. Time misspent is not lived but lost. Fuller.
99. Time, motion, and wine cause sleep. Ovid.
100. Time moves slowly to him whose employment
is to watch its flight. Dr. Johnson.
1 01. Time passes like the wind. Bor.
102. Time past never returns, a moment lost, lost
forever. Dr. Johnson.
• 103, Time reveals all things.
104. Time rolls his ceaseless course. Scott.
105. Time shall unfold what plaited cunning hides ;
Who cover faults at last shame them derides.
Shiiks,

Timidity.

359

1 06. Time stays not at the fool's leisure.
107. Time stoops to no man*s lure. Swinburne,
108. Time subdues all things. Arabian Nights,
109. Time tint is ne*er to be found,
no. Time tries a*.
111. Time which obliterates the fictions of opin-
ions confirms the decisions of nature. Cicero,
112. Time works wonders. Ger,
113. 'Tis time, conversation and business that dis-
cover what a man is.
114. Tis time to yoke when the cart comes to the
oxen.
115. To him that does everything in its proper
time one day is worth three.
1 16. To save time is to lengthen life.
117. We are all the balls of time, tossed to and
fro, from the plough unto the throne and back
again. Massinger,
1 18. We take no note of time but from its loss.
Young.
119. What greater crime than loss of time.
120. What reason and endeavor cannot bring
about time often will.
121. Who has no time yet waits for time, comes
to a time of repentance. Sp,
Timidity.
1. A timid man has little chance.
2. The most timorous animals are the hardest
to be tamed. Fiuiarch.
3. The timid and weak are the most revengeful
and implacable.

360 TiwicKR.— Tired.— TiEUfc— Titles.— ToBACX».
4. The timid are always craeL Gibbon.
5. The timid never erect a trophy. Latin.
Tinker.
1. A tinker's budget b full of necessary tools.
2. Like Banbury tinkers that in mending one
hole make three.
Tired.
I. Tired folks are quarrelsome. Fr.
Tiring.
I. Who does not tire achieves. Sp.
Titles.
I. A successive title long and dark
Drawn from the mouldy rolls of Noah's ark.
Dryden.
3. Empty heads love long titles. Gtr.
3. Of what avail are pedigrees. Juvenal.
Tobacco.
1. Divine tobacco. Spenser.
2. Sublime tobacco ! which from East to West,
Cheers the tar's labor or the Turkman's rest.
Byrwi.
3. Tobago— -hic^ if a man be well 'twill make
him sick.
4. Tobacco— hie, will make a man well if he be
sick.
5. What a glorious creature was he who first dis-
covered the use of tobacco. Fieldmg.
Tocsin.
I. He is in safety who rings the tocsin. Sp.

Toil. — ^Tongue.

361

Toil.
1. He toils like a dog in a wheel, who roasts
meat for other people's eating.
2. He who toils with pain will eat with pleasure.
Chinese,
3. How pleasant it is for him who has been pre-
served to remember his toil. Greek.
4. Nothing is achieved without toil.
5. To make a man of yourself you must toil.
Chinese,
6. Toil is prayer. {Laborare est orare,)
7. Toil is the lot of all, and bitter woe
The fate of many. Homer,
8. Toil without glory is a menial's lot. Bea,
9. When toil ceases the people suffer. Bea,
Tongue.
1. A brain is worth little without a tongue. Fr,
2. A bridle for the tongue is a necessary piece
of furniture.
3. A good tongue has seldom need to beg atten
tion.
4. A good tongue is a good weapon.
5. A long tongue betokens a short hand. Sp,
6. A man may hold his tongue in an ill time.
7. A quiet tongue shows a wise head.
8. A slip of the foot may be soon recovered but
that of the tongue never.
9. A slip of the tongue.
10. A smooth tongue is better than smooth locks.
Dan.

362

Tongue.

11. A still tongue maketh a wise head.
12. All successful men know how to hold their
tongues. Talleyrand.
13. All tongues are not made of the same flesh.
14. An unbridled tongue is the worst of diseases.
Euripides,
15. Beware of a fine tongue, 'twill sting mor-
tally.
16. Better a slip of the foot than of the tongue.
Fr.
17. Between evil tongues and evil ears there is
nothing to choose. Sp.
18. Birds are entangled by their feet, men by their
tongues.
19. Confine your tongue lest it confine you.
20. For a bad tongue scissors. For,
21. He cannot speak well who cannot hold his
tongue.
22. He loses least in a quarrel who keeps his
tongue in check. Dan,
23. He must have leave to speak who cannot hold
his tongue.
24. He that knows not how to hold his tongue
knows not how to talk.
25. He who has a bad tongue should have good
loins. ItaL
26. He who holds his tongue does not commit
himself. Fr,
27. He who holds his tongue saves his head.
Turk.

Tongue. ^63
28. He who restrains not his tongue shall live in
trouble. Ancient Brahmin.
29. Her tongue steals away all the time from her
hands.
30. His tongue goes always of errands but never
speeds.
31. His tongue is no slander.
32. I know enough to hold my tongue but not to
speak.
33. Ill tongues ought only to be heard by persons
of discretion.
34. In all contentions put a bridle on your tongue.
35. It is a gude tongue that says nae ill.
36. Keep your tongue out of other men's pies.
37. Keep your tongue within your teeth.
38. Let him who is well off hold his tongue.
39. Let not the tongue utter what the head must
pay for. Sp,^ For.
40. Let not your tongue cut your throat.
41. Let not your tongue run away with your
brains.
42. Long tongue, short hand. Fr„ Ital.
43. Man is caught by his tongue and an ox by his
horns. Russian.
44. Much tongue and much judgment seldom go
together. LEstrange.
45. Much tongue and money go together.
46. No one ever repented of having held his
tongue. Ital,
47. One may hold one's tongue in an ill time.

364

Tongue.

48. One pair of ears would exhaust a hundred
tongues. ItaL
49. Point the tongue on the anvil of truth.
Pindar,
50. Put a key on your tongue. M. Greek,
51. Silken tongue and hempen heart often go
together. Dan.
52. Teach the tongue to say, " I do not know."
Hdfrew.
53. The overlicking (flattering) tongue soon makes
a wound. Russian.
54. The tongue breaketh bone though itself have
none.
55. The tongue can no man tame : it is an unruly
member. New Testament.
56. The tongue turns to an aching tooth. Latin.
57. The tongue is boneless but it breaks bones.
Turk.
58. The tongue is not steel yet it cuts.
59. The tongue is the rudder of our ship.
60. The tongue is the worst part of a bad servant.
Juvenal.
61. The tongue kills a man and the tongue saves
a man. Ashantee {Africa).
62. The tongue kills quicker than the sword.
T\irk.
63. The tongue of a bad friend cuts more than a
knife. Sp.
64. The tongue of a fool carves a piece of his
heart to all that sit near him.

Tongue. 365
65. The tongue of idle persons is never idle.
66. The tongue slays more than the sword. Turk,
67. The tongue speaks wisely when the soul is
wise. Homer.
68. The tongue talks at the head's cost.
69. The tongue which is yielding endures, the
teeth which are stubborn perish. Chinese.
70. The tongue wounds more than a lance. Fr.
71. The wise hand doth not all the foolish tongue
says.
72. The wise man's tongue is a shield not a
sword. Ger.
73. There are some tongues so venomous no in-
nocence escapes them. Fielding.
74. They are little to be feared whose tongues
are their swords.
75. They say the tongues of dying men
Enforce attention like deep harmony. Shaks.
76. Thistles and thorns prick sore, but evil tongues
prick more. Dutch.
77. Turn your tongue seven times before speaking.
78. What the heart thinketh the tongue speaketh.
79. Who can govern his tongue is a strong man.
Ger.
80. Who has a tongue in his head can go all the
world over. Ital.
81. Who has not a good, tongue ought to have
good hands. Ger.
82. Who knows the tongue is at home everywhere.
DuUh.

366 Tools.— Towers. — Too Late. (Procrastination.)
83. Who looks for a courtier's tongue between
the teeth of a clown. Fielding.
84. Who masters his own tongue his bread shall
not fail. Ger.
85. Whose heart is narrow his tongue is large.
Hebrew.
86. Your tongue runs before your wit.
Tools.
1. He that works without tools is twice tired.
2. What is a workman without his tools.
Towers.
I. The loftiest towers rise from the ground.
Chinese,
Too Late. (Procrastination.)
1. A little too late, much too late. Ger.^ Dutch.
2. After death, the doctor.
3. After the carriage is broken many offer them-
selves to show the road. Turk.
4. After the vintage, baskets. Sp.
5. After the war many heroes present themselves.
Roumanian.
6. Better three hours too soon than a minute too
late. Shaks.
7. He brings his machines after the war is over.
8. He brings his medicines after his patient's
death. Shaks.
9. He has done like the Perugian, who, when his
head was broken ran home for his helmet. Ital.
10. He that always thinks it is too soon is sure
to come too late. Ger.

Too Late. (Procrastination.) ^6?
11. It is nae time to stoop when the head's off.
12. It is too late for the bird to scream when it is
caught. Fr,
13. It is too late to come with the water when the
house is burned down. ItaL
14. It is too late to cover the well when the child
is drowned. Dan,
15. It is too late to cry, "hold hard" when the
arrow has left the bow. Dutch,
16. It is too late to lock the stable door when the
steed is stolen. jFr., Dutch,
17. It is too late to spare when the bottom is
bare.
18. It is too late to throw water on the cinders
when the house is burned down. Dan,
19. One covers the well too late when the child is
drowned. Ger,
20. The gladiator having entered the lists is seek-
ing advice. Latin,
21. The Trojans were wise too late. Ital,
22. To fetch water after the house is burned. Sp.
23. " Too late's " the curse of life.
24. To stop the hole after the mischief is done.
Sp,
25. Too late the bird cries out when it is caught.
Fr,
26. Too late to grieve when the chance is past.
27. When the calf is drowned they cover the well.
Dutch,
28. When the calf is stolen the peasant mends
the stall. Ger,

366 Tools. — Towers. — Too Late. (Procrastination.)
83. Who looks for a courtier's tongue between
the teeth of a clown. Fielding.
84. Who masters his own tongue his bread shall
not fail. Ger.
85. Whose heart is narrow his tongue is large.
Hebrew.
86. Your tongue runs before your wit.
Tools.
1. He that works without tools is twice tired.
2. What is a workman without his tools.
Towers.
I. The loftiest towers rise from the ground.
Chinese.
Too Late. (Procrastination.)
1. A little too late, much too late. Ger.^ Dutch.
2. After death, the doctor.
3. After the carriage is broken many offer them-
selves to show the road. Turk*
4. After the vintage, baskets. Sp.
5. After the war many heroes present themselves.
Roumanian,
6. Better three hours too soon than a minute too
late. Shaks,
7. He brings his machines after the war is over.
8. He brings his medicines after his patient's
death. Shaks.
9. He has done like the Perugian, who, when his
head was broken ran home for his helmet. Ital.
10. He that always thinks it is too soon is sure
to come too late. Ger,

Too Late. (Procrastination.) ^6?
11. It is nae time to stoop when the head's off.
12. It is too late for the bird to scream when it is
caught. Fr,
13. It is too late to come with the water when the
house is burned down. ItaL
14. It is too late to cover the well when the child
is drowned. Dan.
15. It is too late to cry, "hold hard" when the
arrow has left the bow. Dutch,
16. It is too late to lock the stable door when the
steed is stolen. /r., Dutch,
17. It is too late to spare when the bottom is
bare.
18. It is too late to throw water on the cinders
when the house is burned down. Dan,
19. One covers the well too late when the child is
drowned. Ger,
20. The gladiator having entered the lists is seek-
ing advice. Latin,
21. The Trojans were wise too late. Ital,
22. To fetch water after the house is burned. Sp.
23. " Too late's " the curse of life.
24. To stop the hole after the mischief is done.
Sp,
25. Too late the bird cries out when it is caught.
Fr.
26. Too late to grieve when the chance is past.
27. When the calf is drowned they cover the well.
Dutch,
28. When the calf is stolen the peasant mends
the stall. Ger,

368 ^^^ Many.— Too Soon. (Premature.)
29. When the head is broken the helmet is put
on. Ha/.
30. When the horse is starved you bring him oats.
31. When the mischief is done the door is shut.
Juvenal.
32. When the wine runs to waste in the cellar he
mends the cask. Ger.
33. You break my head and then bring me a
plaster.
34. You come a day after the fair.
35. You plead after sentence is given.
Too Many.
1. A pig that has two owners is sure to die of
hunger.
2. A pot that belongs to many is ill stirred and
worse boiled.
3. Too many bitter herbs spoil the stew. Sp.
4. Too many cooks spoil the broth.
5. Too many sacks are the death of the ass. Ger.
6. Too many tire-women make the bride ill
dressed. Sp.
7. Two captains sink the ship. Turk,
8. Too many expedients may spoil an affair.
La Fontaine,
9. With seven nurses a child will be without
eyes. Russian,
Too Soon. (Premature.)
1. Boil not the pap until the child is bom.
2. Don't climb the hill until you get to it.
3. Don't cry fried fish before they are caught.
Ital.

Too Soon. (Premature.) ^gg
4. Don't cry herrings till they are in the net.
Dutch,
5. Don't cry hurrah till you're over the bridge.
Ger.^ Dutch,
6. Don't curse the crocodile's mother before you
cross the river. West African Negro,
7. Don't divide the spoil until the victory is won.
Tamil,
8. Don't fly till your wings are feathered. Ger,
9. Don't halloo until you are out of the wood.
10. Don't pick me up before I fall down.
11. Don't sell the bear skin before you have
killed the bear. //«/., Ger,y Dutch,
12. Don't snap your fingers at the dog before you
are out of the village. Fr.
13. Don't sing your triumph before you have con-
quered. Latin,
14. Don't throw away your dirty water till you
have got clean. Irish,
15. Don't throw away your old shoes till you have
got new ones. Dutch,
16. Do not strip before bed-time. Fr,
17. Gut nae fish till ye git them.
18. He counts his chickens before they are
hatched. Dutch,
19. He cries out before he is hurt. Ital.
20. He passes sentence before he hears the evi-
dence.
21. He wants to fly before he has wings. Dutch,
22. It will not do to keep holidays before they
come. Fr,
24

370

Too Swift. — Torch.— Tormenting.— Tortoise.

23. To swallow gudgeons ere they're catched,
And count -their chickens ere they're hatched.
Butler.
24. To take physic before one is sick.
25. You cry out before you are hurt.
26. You halt before you are lame.
27. You take me up before I am down.
28. We have no son and yet are giving him a
name.
Too Swift.
I. Too swift arrives as tardily as too slow.
Torch.
I. He that beareth a torch shadoweth himself to
give light to others.
Tormentiiig.
I. He who torments others does not sleep well.
Fr.
Tortoise.
I . What does the tortoise care for flies ? Latin,
Touching.
I. To touch with fingers' ends ; /.^., to touch deli-
cately, Latin,
Touchstone.
I. The touchstone distinguishes between gold
and brass.
Toys.
I. There are toys for all ages. Fr.
Traceys.
I. The Traceys have always the wind in their
faces. {Because an ancestor was active in killing
Thomas d Bechet.)

Trade.

371

Trade.
1. A handful of trade is a handful of gold.
2. " Every man to his trade," quoth the dog to
the bishop.
3. Ever}'^one finds fault with his own trade. ItaL
4. Every trade has its ways. Chinese,
5. He smells of the faggot ; />., is known by his
trade, Fr,
6. He that brings not up his son to some trade
makes him a thief. Hebrew,
7. He that hath a trade hath an estate, and he
that hath a calling hath an office of profit and
honor. Franklin.
8. He who cannot speak well of his trade does
not understand it. Fr,
9. He who has a trade may travel through the
world. Sp,
10. Jack of all trades is no trade.
11. Jack of all trades and master of none.
12. Let every man practise the trade he best un-
derstands. Cicero,
13. Small trades make great profits. Chinese,
14. The man of your trade is your enemy. For,
15. There are no foolish trades, there are only
foolish people. Fr,
16. There may be trade and none able to do it.
Chinese,
17. Trade is the mother of money.
18. Trade knows neither friends nor kindred.
19. Two of a trade seldom agree.

272 Tranquillity.— Translators.— Trap.
20. Who hath a good trade through all waters
may wade.
Tranquillity.
I. Tranquillity is the first duty of a citizen.
Governor of Berlin.
Translators.
I. Translators, traitors. Ital.
Trap.
I. 'Tis easy to fall into a trap but hard to get
out again.
Trayelling, Trayeller.
1. A man travels as far in a day as a snail in a
thousand years.
2. A pleasant companion on a journey is as good
as a post-chaise. Fr.
3. A short cut is a losing cut. Latin.
4. A short cut is always a long road.
5. A short cut is often a wrong cut. Dan.
6. A tired traveller must be glad of an ass if he
have not a horse.
7. A travelled man hath leave to lie.
8. Better return half-way than lose yourself.
Dutch.
9. Discreet stops make speedy journeys.
10. Don't leave the high road for a short cut.
For.
11. Fair and softly goes far in a day.
12. Far traveller, great liar. Ger.
13. Getting out well is a quarter of the journey.
14. He least discredits his travels who returns
the same as he went. Wotton.

Travelling, Traveller. oyo
15. He that can travel well afoot keeps a good
horse. Franklin.
16. He that leaves the highway for a short cut
commonly goes about.
17. He that travels far knows much.
18. He who stops at every stone never gets to
his journey's end. Fr.
19. He who takes the wrong road must make his
journey again. Sp,
20. He who wants to travel far takes care of his
beast. Fr,
21. He who would travel through the land,
Must go with open purse in hand. Dutch,
22. How much a dunce that hath been sent to
roam,
Excels a dunce that hath been kept at home.
Cawper,
23. If an ass goes a travelling he'll not come
home a horse.
24. If you tell every step you will make a long
journey of it.
25. It is better to turn back than go astray. Ger.
26. It is necessary for him who would reach his
journey's end sometimes to go round about. Persian,
27. Meat and matins hinder no man's journey.
28. Nothing is lost on a journey by stopping to
pray or to feed your horse. Sp.
29. On a long journey even a straw is heavy.
Ital.
30. One never goes so far as when one don't
know whither one is going. Fr.

374

Treachery.

31. The farthest way about is the nearest way
home. Ger.
32. The farthest way about to overcome,
In the end proves nearest home. Butler.
33. The getting out of doors is the greatest part
of the journey. Cowley,
34. The traveller without money will sing before
the robber. JuvenaL
35. 'Tis a great journey to the world's end.
36. To bait and to grease does not retard a
journey.
37. To travel safely through the world a man
must have a falcon's eye, an ass's ears, an ape's
face, a merchant's words, a camel's back and a
hart's legs.
38. Travel is the great source of true wisdom.
Bea.
39. Travel makes a wise man better but a fool
worse.
40. Travel renders life more modest. Greek,
41. Travelling teaches toleration. Bea,
42. Travellers should correct the vice of one
country by the virtue of another,
43. Who goes and returns makes a good journey.
Fr,
44. Who goes softly goes safely, and he that goes
safely goes far. Ital,
45. Who will go far must go slow. Ger,
Treachery.
I. He covers me with his wings and bites me
with his bill.

Treason, Traitors. 57c
2. It is the foot of a baboon. {Said of a treach-
erous person?) Kaffir.
3. Passion and unkindness may give a wound
that shall bleed and smart, but it is treachery that
makes it fester. South,
4. The act of treachery is liked but not he that
does it. Sp.
m
5. To stroke with one hand and stab with the
other.
6. Treachery and slander are long lived. Dan,
7. Treachery lurks in honeyed words. Dan,
Treason, Traitors.
1. A traitor is a coward. Turk.
2. A traitor must be looked upon as an enemy.
Cicero.
3. Are there traitors at the table that the loaf is
turned the wrong side upwards ?
4. Give a traitor good words and you make him
loyal. Dutch.
5. I like the treason, but I praise not the
traitor. Plutarch.
6. The hasty man was never a traitor. Ger.
7. The loyal man lives no longer than the
traitor pleases. Sp.
8. The treason approved — the traitor abhorred.
Ger.y For.
9. The treason is loved, but the traitor is hated.
Itai.
10. Traitors all first fall themselves. Demosthenes.
11. Traitors are detested by those who have em-
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Treasure. —Tree.

12. Traitors are hated even by those they favor.
Tacitus,
13. Treason doth never prosper. What's the
reason ?
For if it prosper none dare call it treason.
Sir John Harrington.
14. Treason is not inherited. Shaks,
15. Two false men to one traitor.
16. Tyranny is far the worst of treasons. Byron.
Treasure.
I. Where your treasure is there will your heart
be also. New Testament.
Tree.
1. A good walnut tree is as good to a poor man
as a milch cow. Ital.
2. A great tree hath a great fall.
3. A short tree stands long.
4. A tree is known by its fruit.
5. A tree often transplanted neither grows nor
thrives. Sp,
6. A twig in time becomes a tree. Latin.
7. Airly crooks the tree that good cammock
should be.
8. All leaf and no fruit. Sp.
9. All superfluous branches we lop away that
bearing boughs may live. Shaks.
10. As the tree so the fruit. Ger.
11. As the twig is bent the tree's inclined.
12. Delicious fruit is pleasing to the taste, but it
is the tree that bears it that merits our esteem.
Arabian.

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13. Good fruit never comes from a bad tree. Par*
14. Great trees are uprooted in an hour.
15. Great trees give more shade than fruit. Ger.
16. Great trees keep down the little ones.
17. He that plants trees loves others beside him-
self.
18. He who leaneth against a good tree, a good
shelter findeth he. Don Quixote,
19. He who plants fruit trees must not count up-
on the fruit. Dutch,
20. High trees give more shadow than fruit.
Dutch,
21. It is only at the tree loaded with fruit that
people throw stones. Fr,
22. Judge of the tree by its fruit.
23. Many desire the tree who pretend to refuse
the fruit, Ital.
24. No tree falls at the first stroke. Ger,
25. Nobody lets go a tree and springs in the air.
Accra {Africci),
26. Of a good tree the fruit is also good.
M, Greek.
27. Old trees are not to be bent, Ger.
28. Set trees poor and they will grow rich.
Set them rich and they will grow poor.
29. Shake the tree when fruit is ripe.
30. Soon crooks the tree that good gambrel
would be.
31. Straight trees have crooked roots.
32. Such as the tree is, such is the fruit.

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Trials.

33. Tall trees catch much wind. Dutch.
34. The best trees are the most beaten. Ital,
35. The highest tree hath the greatest fall.
36. The more the good tree grows the more shade
does it afford. (The good rich marCs munificence in-
creases with his age,) M, Greek.
37. The more noble the tree the more pliant the
twig. Dutch.
38. The old withy tree would have a new gate
hung to it.
39. The tree does not fall at the first stroke.
Fr,^ Ital,, Dutch.
40. The tree is known by its fruit. New Testament,
41. The tree is no sooner down than every one
runs for his hatchet.
42. The tree is not to be judged by its bark. Ital.
43. The tree is sure to be pruned before it
reaches the skies. Dan.
44. The tree must be bent while it is young. Ger.
45. There is no tree but bears some fruit.
46. Though a tree grow ever so high, its falling
leaves return to the root. Chinese.
47. To the fallen tree, hatchets ! hatchets ! Ital.
48. When the tree falls every one runs to cut
boughs. Dutch^ Dan.
49. When the tree falls the shade is gone ; /.^., the
unfortunate man is deserted. Chinese.
50. When the tree is down everybody gathers
wood. Latin.
Trials.
I. The gem cannot be polished without friction
nor man perfected without trials. Chinese.

Trick.— Tricks.— Trickery.— Tripe.— Trouble, j 7^
Trick.
1. One trick is met by another. Sp.
2. One trick needs a great many more to make
it good.
3. Trick against trick. Ger.
Tricks.
I. There are tricks in all trades but ours.
Trickery.
I. Trickery comes back to its master. Fr.
Tripe.
1. Tripe broth is better than no porridge.
2. Tripe is good meat if it be well cleaned.
3. Tripe broth, you make much of yourself. Sp.
Trouble.
1. Do not call upon death to relieve you of
trouble. (Fable of the old man and death,)
2. He that seeks trouble, it were a pity he should
miss it. Scotch,
3. He that will have no trouble in this world
must not be born in it.
4. In trouble to be troubled is to have your
trouble doubled. Sp,
5. It is good to have company in trouble.
6. Let your trouble tarry 'til it's own day comes.
7. No one gets into trouble without his own
help. Dan.
8. Send not to market for trouble.
9. There is always some trouble mixed up with
the greatest pleasure. Hans Andersen.

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Trumpet.— Trumpeter.— Trust.

10. While at their ease men burn no incense, but
when trouble comes they clasp the feet of Fo.
{Chief of the gods,) Chinese.
11. Who troubles others has no rest himself. Ital,
Trumpet.
1. Empty men are trumpets of their own deeds.
Massinger,
2. Make good flour and you need no trumpet.
3. Some tremble before the trumpet sounds.
lAxtin.
Trumpeter.
I. Your trumpeter is dead so you trumpet your-
self.
Trust.
1. Be just to all but trust not all.
2. Do not trust a boy with a sword. Latin.
3. Do not trust or contend, nor borrow or lend.
And you'll gain in the end. Sp.
4. Eat a peck of salt with a man before you
trust him.
5. From those I trust God guard me ; from those
I mistrust, I will guard myself. Ital.
6. He that trusts every one without reserve will
at last be deceived. Rambler.
7. He that trusts to borrowed ploughs will have
his land lie fallow.
8. He who looks demurely trust not with your
money. Sp.
9. He who trusteth not is not deceived.
10. I'll trust him no farther than I can throw a
millstone.

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11. I sell nothing on trust till to-morrow.
12. I would not trust him, no, not with a bag of
scorpions,
13. If you trust before you try, you may repent
before you die.
14. In trust is treason.
15. It is an equal failing to trust everybody and
to trust nobody.
16. It is happier to be sometimes cheated than
not to trust. Rambler,
17. Living on trust is the way to pay double.
18. Never trust him whom you have wronged.
19. Never trust much to a new friend or an old
enemy.
20. Never trust a black Brahmin nor a white
Pariah. Hindoo.
21. Never trust the man that hath reason to
suppose that you know he hath injured you. Fielding.
22. Never trust to a broken staff.
23. Never trust to another what you should do
yourself.
24. Never trust a tailor that does not sing at his
work ; his mind is on nothing but filching.
Beaumont and Fletcher.
25. Never trust to fine promises.
26. Of a bitter gourd use not even the seed.
{Trust not the children of the wicked^ M, Greek.
27. Put not your trust in princes. Bibk.
28. Self-trust is the essence of heroism.
29. Sudden trusts bring sudden repentance.

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Trust.

30. Swim on and don't trust. Fr.
31. There's none deceived but he that trusteth.
32. This day there is no trust, come to-morrow.
33. To trust in thyself and God is best.
Hans Andersen,
34. Trust all in all, or not at all.
35. Trust begets truth.
36. Trust, beware whom. Ger.
37. Trust but not too much. Ger.
38. Trust entirely or not at all, for a secret is
often innocently blabbed out by those who know
but half of it. Fielding,
39. Trust everybody but thyself most. Dan,
40. Trust him no further than you can see him.
41. Trust in God but keep your powder dry.
CromwelVs order to his soldiers,
42. Trust in God but mind your business.
Russian,
43. Trust makes way for treachery.
44. Trust me but look to thyself.
45. Trust no one until you have eaten a bushel
of salt with him. Ger,
46. Trust nor contend, nor wager, nor lend,
And you'll have peace to your end.
47. Trust no secrets to a friend which if repeated
would bring infamy. Thales,
48. Trust not a dog that limps. For,
49. Trust not a great weight to a slender thread.
50. Trust not a horse's heels nor a dog's tooth.
51. Trust not a new friend nor an old enemy.

Truth. 383
52. Trust not a skittish horse, nor a great lord
when they shake their heads. Dan,
53. Trust not him who has broken faith. Shaks,
54. Trust not still water nor a silent man. Dan,
55. Trust not to another for what you can do
yourself.
56. Trust not too much in a new friend and an
old house. Ger,
57. Trust not too much to an enchanting face.
Virgil,
58. Trust thyself only, and another shall not be-
tray thee.
59. Trusting often makes fidelity.
60. Trusting too much to others is the ruin of
many.
61. "Trust" was a good man, "Trust Not" was
a better.
62. Trust-well rides away with the horse. Ger,
63. We live by reposing trust in each other. Pliny,
Truth.
1. A little truth makes the whole lie pass. Ital,
2. A man for being told the truth thanks you
the first time, votes you a bore the second, and
quarrels with you the third. Punch,
3. A thing is never much talked about but there
is some truth in it. ItaL
4. A thousand probabilities do not make one
truth. Ital,
5. A truth teller finds the doors closed against
him.

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Truth.

6. Above all things always speak the truth.
Haliburtan,
7. All is not true that is told. Dr. Johnson,
8. All men naturally have some love of truth.
9. All truth is not to be told at all times.
10. As true as a turtle to her mate.
11. As true as God is in Heaven.
12. As true as steel,
13. As true as the dial to the sun.
14. Better suffer for truth than prosper by false-
hood. Dan.
15. Between wrangling and disputing truth is lost.
Ger.
16. Buy the truth and sell it not. Bible.
17. By too much altercation truth is lost.
18. Every truth is not to be told. Ital.
19. Face to face the truth comes out.
20. Fair fall truth and daylight.
21. From the fool and the drunkard you may
learn the truth. M. Greek.
22. Great is truth, and mighty above all things.
Bible.
23. He must keep a sharp lookout who would
speak the truth. Dan.
24. He that does not speak truth to me, does not
believe me when I speak the truth.
25. He that follows truth too near will have dirt
kicked in his face.
26. He who conceals an useful truth is equally
guilty with the propagator of the injurious false-
hood. Augustine,

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27. He who does not fully speak the truth is a
traitor to it. Latin.
28. If it is not true, it ought to be. Ital,
29. If we reject the truth we seal our own per-
dition. J, M. Mason.
30. In too much disputing truth is lost. Fr,
31. In truth is right. Turk.
32. Is not the truth better banished out of nine
cities ? Turk.
33. It is impossible to sin against charity when
we do not against truth,
34. It is true that a* men say.
35. It is truth that makes a man angry. Ital.
36. It takes a good many shovelfuls of earth to
bury the truth. Ger.
^y. No crime is more infamous than the violation
of truth. Dr. Johnson.
38. None but a fool distasteful truth will tell.
Dryden.
39. Not all that is true is to be spoken. For,
40. Obsequiousness begets friends ; truth, hatred.
Terence.
41. Oil and truth will get uppermost at last.
42. One must not say all that is true. Ger.
43. People praise truth, but invite lying to be
their guest.
44. Sooner or later the truth comes to light. Dutch.
45. Speak the truth and shame the devil. Ital.
46. Tell your friend a lie and if he keep it secret
tell him the truth. Sp.^ For.
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Truth.

47. That is most true which we least care to hear,
48. That is true which all men say.
49. That which is probable is the greatest enemy
to truth.
50. The language of truth is simple. Seneca.
51. The truth is mighty and will prevail.
52. The truth is the best advocate.
53. The truths we least like to hear are those
which it is most to our advantage to know.
54. The truth will out.
55. The usefulest truths are the plainest.
56. Though malice may darken truth, it cannot
put it out.
57. 'Tis possible if true. Fr,
58. To discover truth by telling a falsehood. Sp,
59. To withhold truth is to bury gold. Dan.
60. Truth and honesty have no need of loud pro-
testations.
61. Truth and oil always come to the surface.
Sp.y For,
62. Truth begets hatred. Latin.
63. Truth can never be confirmed enough,
Though doubts did ever sleep. Shaks.
" 64. Truth conquers all things. Latin.
65. Truth creeps not in corners. Ger.
66. Truth crushed to earth shall rise again,
The eternal years of God are hers ;
But error, wounded, writhes in pain,
And dies among his worshippers. Bryant.
67. Truth fears no colors.

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68. Truth finds foes where it makes none.
69. Truth finds no asylum. Ger,
70. Truth forever on the scaffold,
Wrong forever on the throne. Lowell,
71. Truth gives a short answer; lies go round
about. Ger.
72. Truth gives wings to strength.
Motto of the Irish Earl of Belvedere,
73. Truth has a handsome countenance but torn
garments. Ger,
74. Truth hates delays. Seneca.
75. Truth hath always a fast bottom,
76. Truth hath a quiet breast. Shaks.
77. Truth ill timed is as bad as a lie. Ger,
78. Truth is a means not an end.
79. Truth is above everything else, though truth
is not always agreeable. Hans Andersen,
80. Truth is always straightforward. Sophocles,
81. Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.
Byron,
82. Truth is afraid of nothing but concealment.
?i2i* Truth is as impossible to be soiled by any
outward touch as the sunbeam, Milton,
84. Truth is better than gold. Arabian,
85. Truth is bitter food. Dan,
86. Truth is God's daughter. Sp,
87. Truth is heavy, few therefore can bear it.
Hebrew,
88. Truth is lost in too much debating. Dutch,
89. Truth is mighty and will prevail. Latin,

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Truth.

90. Truth is not truth to the false. Bea,
91. Truth is stranger than fiction.
92. Truth is the best buckler.
93. Truth is the club that knocks down and kills
ever)'body. Fr,
94. Truth is the daughter of time. Ger,, Dutch.
95. Truth is the foundation of all knowledge,
and the cement of all societies. Dryden.
96. Truth is the highest thing that may kepe.
Chaucer,
97. Truth is the spring of heroic virtue. Pindar,
98. Truth is the water of life. Ger,
99. Truth is truth to the end of the reckoning.
Shahs,
100. Truth itself doth flow in wine. {In vino
Veritas^
1 01. Truth knows no fear,
While praise earned without it is purchased
too dear. Scribleotnania,
102. Truth lies at the bottom of a well.
103. Truth like the sun submits to be obscured,
but unlike the sun only for a time.
104. Truth makes all things plain. Shahs,
105. Truth makes the devil blush.
106. Truth makes the tongue smart. Ger,
107. Truth may be blamed but shall never be
shamed.
108. Truth may be suppressed but not strangled.
Ger,
109. Truth may languish but can never perish.
ItaL

Try.

389

10. Truth may sometimes come out of the devirs
mouth.
11. Truth must be seasoned to make it palatable.
Dan.
12. Truth needs no memory.
13. Truth needs not many words but a false tale
large preamble.
14. Truth never fears investigation.
15. Truth never grows old.
16. Truth never perishes. Seneca.
17. Truth never was indebted to a lie. Young.
18. Truth seeks no corner. Latin.
19. Truth shines brighter clad in verse. Swift.
20. Truth should not always be revealed.
21. Truth stretches but does not break.
Don Quixote.
22. Truth is truth to the end of the reckoning.
23. Truth will sometimes break out unlocked for.
24. Truth and roses have thorns about them.
25. Truth's best ornament is nakedness.
26. Truth's cloak is often lined with lies.
27. Truths too fine spun are subtle fooleries.
28. What is true is not always probable.
29. When anger blinds the eyes truth disappears.
30. When you have to fool the world, tell the
uth. Bismarck.
31. Whoever knew truth put to the worse in a
ee and open encounter ? Milton,
Try.
I. If at first you don't succeed,
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Turn About.— Turning Post.— Turnip.— Tuscan.

2. Try before you trust.
3. Try the ice before you venture on it.
Turn About.
I. Turn about is fair play.
Turning Post.
I. Urge the horse close to the turning post, /. ^.,
keep to the point in question. Latin.
Turnip.
I. There is no getting blood out of a turnip. 7W.
Tuscan.
I. He that hath to do with a Tuscan must not
be blind. Ital.
Twig.
1. A twig in time becomes a tree.
2. Young twigs may be bent but not trees. Dutch.
Two.
1. To catch two pigeons with one bean. Fr.
2. To have two strings to his bow.
3. To kill two birds with one stone. For., Dutch.
4. To kill two flies with one flap.
5. To make two friends with one gift.
6. To make two nails at one heat. Ital.
7. To stop two mouths with one morsel.
8. To stop two gaps with one bush.
9. To take two boars in one thicket.
10. Two are the masters of one. Dan.
1 1. Two " anons " and a " by-and-by," are an hour
and a half.
12. Two dogs strive for a bone and a third runs
away with it.

Tyrant.— Uncertainty. ogj
13. Two dry sticks will kindle a green one.
14. Two good things are better than one.
15. Two securities avail more than one.
La Fontaine,
16. Two things are bad : "too much," and " too
little."
17. Two to one are odds at foot-ball.
18. Two watermelons cannot be held under one
arm. Turk.

Tyrant.
1. A tyrant's breath is another's death.
2. Better to live in mirth and pleasure than to
occupy a tyrant's uneasy throne. ' Diogenes,
3. It is hard to see an old tyrant.
4. No tyrant can take from you your knowledge
or wisdom.
5. Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.
6. The tyrant is dead but not tyranny. Ger,
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Sadness.

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Sadness.
I. Sadness and gladness succeed each other*
Safety.
I. The way to be safe is never to feel secure.

Sagacious. — Sail, Sailing.— tSailor. 22Q
Sagacious.
I. The sagacious are generally lucky. Maga,
Sail, Sailing.
1. He enters the port with a full sail. Virgil,
2. He that will not sail till all dangers are over
must not put to sea.
3. He that will not sail until he have a full, fair
wind will lose many a voyage.
4. Hoist your sail when the wind is fair.
5. If thou sailest with a bad wind thou hadst
need understand tacking.
6. It is good sailing (or steering) with wind and
tide. Dutch.
7. It is safest sailing within reach of the shore.
8. On life's vast ocean diversely we sail,
Reason the card, but passion is the gale. Pope.
9. Sail while the wind blows ; wind and tide
wait for no man. Dan,
10. Set your sail according to the wind. Fr.
11. To set up his sail to every wind.
12. You cannot sail as you would but as the wind
blows. Dan,
13. You must shift your sail with the wind. Ital,
Sailor.
1. A good sailor may mistake in a dark night.
2. A seaman if he carry a millstone will have a
quail out of it.
3. If the sailors become too numerous Ihe ship
sinks. Arabian,

Saint.— Salt.

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1. A great ceremony for a small saint.
2. A saint sleeps not on soft beds. Raumama$^
3. A young saint, an old devil.
4. All are not saints who go to church. Ital.
5. All saints do not work miracles. Ital.
6. Don't believe in the saint unless he works
miracles. Ital,
7. Every one praises his own saint. Ital.
8. Every saint has its festival. Jtai^ ^
9. Let a saint be ever so humble he will have
his wax taper. Dan.
10. Saint cannot if Crod will not. Fr.
11. The old saints are forgotten in the new. Par.
12. The river passed, the saint forgotten. Itiil.
13. The saint has no believers unless he works
miracles. Ital.
14. The saint who works no cures has few pil-
grims at his shrine. Fr,
15. The saint's day over, farewell the saint. Fr.
16. There is no chapel so small but has its saint.
Fr.
17. There is no saint so petty but claims his own
candle. Ger.
18. They are not all saints who use holy water.
19. To every saint his candle. Fr.^ Itai.
20. When the fields yield not, the saints have not.
Salt.
I. Salt spilt is never all gathered. Sp.^ Dutch.

Sameness.— Satiety— Satires.— Satisfibd.— Sauce. 23 1
Sameness.
I. Sameness is the mother of disgust; variety
the cure. Petrarch.
Satiety.
1. Cherries are bitter to the glutted blackbird.
Ger,
2. Even honey occasions satiety. M. Greek,
3. Satiety causes disgust ; abundance begets in-
difference. Ger.
4. Vetches seem bitter to a full-cropped pigeon.
ItaL
5. When the mouse has had enough the meal is
bitter. Dutch^ Dan.
Satires.
I. Satires run faster than panegyrics.
Satisfied.
1. I satisfied, the world is satisfied. ItaL
2. Who is satisfied is well paid. Ger.

1. More sauce than meat.
2. Though the sauce be good yet you need not
forsake the meat for it.
3. We don't care for the sauce so long as there
is fish in the kettle. ftat.
4. What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the
gander. English woman^s proverb.
$. You spoil a good dish with ill sauce.

I. A niggardly savage is nowhere to be found.
Tamil

232 Saving, Savers.— They Say.— Saying.
SaTinp, Savers.
1. For age and want save while you may,
No morning sun lasts a whole day.
2. From saving comes having.
3. He who saves, finds. Sp.
4. He who saves in little things can be liberal
in great ones. Ger,
5. He who would save should begin with the
mouth. I>aH.
6. No alchemy like saving.
7. Of saving cometh having.
8. Save thoroughly if you will, kill thoroughly
if you kill. Chinese.
9. Saving comes too late when you get to the
bottom. Seneca,
10. Saving is a greater art than gaining. Ger.
11. Saving is getting.
12. Saving is the first gain.
13. Some savers in a house do well.
14. To save for old age, earning one maravedi
and drinking three. Sp.
15. When a man is rich, he begins to save. Ger.
16. Who saves, saves for the cat. Itai.
They Say.
1. " They say " is a fool (or a liar). /^., liai.
2. "They say " is often proved a great liar.
3. " They say " is half a liar.
Saying.
I. Say before they say; i>., tell yourartm story
first. Sp.

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233

2. Say good-morning to the bean seller, not to
the druggist. African,
3. Saying gangs cheap.
4. Say no ill of the year till it is past.
5. Say not all thou knowest, but believe all that
thou sayest. Ger,
6. Say not all that you know, believe not all that
you hear, do not all that you can.
7. Say nothing when you are dead.
8. That which is unsaid may be said ; that which
is said cannot be unsaid. Dan,
9. The less said, the sooner mended. Dutch,
10. There is nothing ill said that is not ill taken.
11. To say little and perform much, is the char-
acteristic of great minds.
12. What every one says must be true.
13. What is said is said and no sponge can wipe
it out. Ger,
Saying and Doing.
1. Between saying and doing many a pair of
shoes is worn out. s ItaL
2. Between saying and doing there is a long
road. Sp,<^ Dan,
3. Easier said than done. Chinese,
4. Easy to say, hard to do.
5. Everybody says it, nobody does it. Ger.^ Dan.
6. From saying to doing is a long way. ItaL
7. It is better to do well than to say well. ItaL
8. It is sooner said than done.
9. Little said is soon amended.

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Saw. — Scandal. — Scar.

10. No sooner said than done.
11. Saying and doing are two things.
12. Saying well causes a laugh, doing well causes
silence. Fr.
13. Say-well and do-well, end with one letter.
Say-well is good, but do-well is better.

I. Saw thin, shear thin.
ScandaL
1. And there's a lust in man no charm can tame
Of loudly publishing our neighbor's shame ;
On eagles' wings immortal scandals fly.
While virtuous actions are but bom and die.
Stephen Harvey* sjuvenai,
2. Every one that repeats it, adds something to
the scandal. Ovid,
3. Greatest scandal waits on greatest state.
Shaks.
4. Scandal is a bit of false money and he who
passes it is frequently as bad as he who originally
utters it. Punch,
5. Scandal, like the Nile, is fed by innumerable
streams, but it is extremely difficult to trace it to its
source. Punch.
6. Scandal will not rub out like dirt when it is
dry.
7. Thy tongue is nae scandal.
Scar.
I. A scar nobly got is a good livery of honor.
Shaks.

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2. He laughs at scars that never felt a wound.
Ger.
3. He jests at scars that never felt a wound.
Shaks,
4. The generous motive dignifies the scar.
Homer,
5. Though the sore may heal, yet a scar may
remain.
6. What deep wounds ever close without a scar >
Scatter.
I. Scatter with one hand, gather with two.
Scavenger.
I. What scavenger was ever soiled by being
pelted with mud.
Sceptres.
I. Sceptres and suitors hate competitors.
Scheme.
I. Who can secure a thousand-year's scheme ?
Chinese.
Scholar, Stndent.
1. A scholar has no ennuu Richter.
2. A scholar may be beguiled thrice, a soldier
but once.
3. A student has usually three maladies : poverty,
itch and pride. Ger,
4. Dear the school-boy spot.
We ne'er forget, though there we are forgot.
Byron,
5. Every good scholar is not a good schoolmas-
ter.
6. Great scholars are not the shrewdest men. Fr,

236 SciBMCL—SciiNCBs.— Scoff.— Scoffer.— Scolding.
7. He is the best scholar, who has learned to
love well.
8. It is as easy to be a scholar as a gamester.
Harries.
9. John has been to school to learn to be a fool.
Fr.
10. The scholar may war the master.
11. There mark what ills the scholar's life assail.
Toil, envy, want, the patron and the jail.
Dr. Johnson.
12. Who robs a scholar robs the public. Sp.
Science.
1. All useless science is an empty boast Shaks.
2. Science is a plant whose roots indeed are at
Mecca, but its fruit ripens at Herat. Arabic.
3. Science is organized knowledge. ^enser.
Sciences.
1. The sciences have bitter roots, but their fruits
are sweet.
2. The sciences have had their martyrs as well
as religion. Richardson.
Scoff.
I. He that scoffs at the crooked, had need go
very straight himself.
Scoffer.
I. The scoffer's own house is often on fire. Dan.
Scolding.
1. He scolds most that can hurt the least Dan.
2. She will scold the devil out of a haunted
house.

Scorn.— Scornful. — Scorning.— Scotchman.

237

3. Since you have been scolding me, I have
counted a hundred and twenty holes in that nutmeg-
grater. Sp.
4. Who more ready to call her neighbor " scold, "
than the arrantest scold in the parish ?
Scorn.
1. Scorn at first makes after love the more.
2. Scorn no man's love though of mean degree,
Much less make anyone thine enemy. Hubert,
Scomfiil.
I. Never was a scornful person well received.
Scorning.
I. Scorning is catching.
Scotchman.
1. A Scotsman is aye wise a-hent the hand.
2. A Scottisman and a Newcastle grindstone
travel all the world over. Northumberland^ England,
3. Much may be made of a Scotsman if he be
caught young. Dr, Johnson,
Scribbling-fry.
I. Hot, envious, proud the scribbling fry,
Burn, hiss and bounce, waste paper, stink
and die.

1. A smooth sea never made a skilful mariner.
2. All water runs to the sea.
3. Being on the sea, sail; bebg on the land,
settle.
4. Better on the heath with an old cart than at
sea in a new ship. Dutch,

238

Seaman.

5. Better poor on land than rich at sea.
DuUh^ Ger,
6. Do not prepare thyself until thou see the sea.
Tamil,
7. Even the sea, great as it is, grows calm. Ital.
8. He goes a great voyage who goes to the bot-
tom of the sea.
9. He ought not to complain of the sea who re-
turns to it a second time. ItiU,
10. He that is at sea hath not the wind in his
hands. Dutch.
11. He that is at sea must either sail or sink.
Dan.
12. He who does not know his way to the sea
should take a river tor his guide. Plauius.
13. He who is at sea does not direct the winds.
Fr., Dutch.
14. If a man would learn to pray let him go to
sea. Fr.
15. Praise the sea but keep on land.
George Herbert.
16. The master of the sea will always acquire the
dominion of the land. Gibbon.
17. The sea and air are common to all men.
Queen Elizabeth.
18. The sea refuses no river.
19. Tis a great way to the bottom of the sea.
20. Tis hard to sail over the sea in an egg shell.
SeanuuL
I. The good seaman is known in bad weather.

Search. — Secret.

239

Search.
I. Search all things, hold fast that which is true.
Secret.
1. A secret between two is God's secret; a
secret between three is everybody's. Sp.
2. A secret fire is discovered by the smoke.
Catalan,
3. A secret imparted is no longer a secret. liaL
4. A secret is seldom safe in more than one
breast. Swift
5. A secret once told is no secret at all. Searle,
6. A man with whom the secrets of a lady are
not safe, must be the most contemptible of mortals.
Fielding.
7. Bestow on me what you will so it be none of
your secrets.
8. Conceal not your secret from your friend or
you deserve to lose him. For,
9. Confide a secret to a dumb man and it will
make him speak. Lrvonian,
10. Do not disclose your secret to your wife nor
trust your enemy at any time. Tamil.
11. Do not speak of secret matters in a field that
is full of little hills. Hebrew.
12. Do not tell your secrets behind a wall or a
hedge. Sp.
13. He has let the cat out of the bag; />., ex-
posed the secret.
14. He who keeps his own secret avoids much
mischief. Sp.

240

Secret.

15. He who revealeth his secret makes himself a
slave.
16. He who telleth his own secret will hardly
keep another's. Ital.^ Sp.
17. If my shirt knew my design I'd bum it.
18. If you want to know secrets seek for them in
trouble or in pleasure. Sp.
19. If you would teach secrecy to others begin
with yourself.
20. It is wise not to seek a secret and honest not
to reveal it.
21. No man is required to tell his own secrets.
Dr. Johnson.
22. No secrets but between two.
23. Nothing is so burdensome as a secret. Fr.
24. Oil and water, woman and a secret, are
hostile properties. Buhuer.
25. Secrets travel fast in Paris. Napoleon*
26. Tell your secret to your servant and you
make him your master.
27. The bosoms of the wise are the tombs of
secrets. Oriental,
28. The only way to keep a secret is to saylioth-
ing. J^r.
29. The secret of two is God's secret ; the secret
of three is everybody's secret. jFr.
30. There is no secret time will not reveal. ^
31. There is nothing so secret but it transpires.
Ihiieh.
32. Three are too many to keep a secret, and two
too few to be merrv*.

Secure. — Security.— Seditious.— Seeing.

241

33. Three know it, all know it. Ital.
34. Thy secret is thy prisoner ; if thou let it go,
thou art a prisoner to it.
35. To a woman and a magpie tell your secrets
in the market-place. Sp,
36. To him that you tell your secret you resign
your liberty.
37. To tell our secrets is often folly ; to communi-
cate those of others is treachery. Rambler.
38. Unless you wish your enemy to know your
secret tell it not to your friend. Turk,
39. Where you t^H your secret you surrender
your freedom. For.
40. Would you know secrets search for them in
grief or pleasure.
41. Your secret is your property. Rothschild,
Secure.
1. He that is secure is not safe.
2. He that is too secure is not safe.
3. None are secure from desperation, few from
subtilty. Byron,
Security.
1. Security is nowhere safe. Ger,
2. Security is the first cause of misfortune. Ger,
Seditious.
I. The most seditious are the most cowardly.
Tadlus.
Seeing.
1. I wa*d rather see't than hear tell o't.
2. Seeing's believing, but feeling's the truth.
16

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sunders. fi^rl^ ^,
TT. It mrr <fti'r* kzBCv nn* <fe^^'.i r*(i bam re
i^ E: jrai vanld t3eac& seczccr to ocbos begin

It B vise BOC Boseck a, stent and honest not
XL No Boa is i cq uiic d to tell Ids cyvn secrets.

but bcivecji tvoL
23. Nothii^ is so bardensoaie as a secret. Fr,
34. OQ and watei; woman and a secret, are

25. Secrets travel ^ist in Paris. Ndfiakan-
26. Tell your secret to your servant and you
make bim your master.
27. The bosoms of the wise are the tombs of
secrets. Oriental.
28. The only way to keep a secret is to saylioth-
ing. Fr.
29. The secret of two is God's secret ; the secret
of three is everybody's secret. Fr.
30. There is no secret time will not reveal. •
31. There is nothing so secret but it transpires.
Dutch.
32. Three are too many to keep a secret, and two
too few to be merr}\

Secure. — Security.— Seditious,— Seeing. 241
33. Three know it, all know it. Ital.
34. Thy secret is thy prisoner ; if thou let it go,
thou art a prisoner to it.
35. To a woman and a magpie tell your secrets
in the market-place. Sp,
36. To him that you tell your secret you resign
your liberty.
37. To tell our secrets is often folly; to communi-
cate those of others is treachery. Rambler,
38. Unless you wish your enemy to know your
secret tell it not to your friend. Turk.
39. Where you tell your secret you surrender
your freedom. For,
40. Would you know secrets search for them in
grief or pleasure.
41. Your secret is your property. Rothschild.
Secure.
1. He that is secure is not safe.
2. He that is too secure is not safe.
3. None are secure from desperation, few from
subtilty. Byron,
Security.
1. Security is nowhere safe. Ger,
2. Security is the first cause of misfortune. Ger,
Seditious.
I. The most seditious are the most cowardly.
Tacitus.
Seeing.
1. I wa*d rather see't than hear tell o*t.
2. Seeing's believing, but feeling's the truth.
16

242

Seeking. — Seeming.—Self-commanix

3. Seldom seen, soon forgotten.
4. We shall see, as the blind man said. JFr.
5. What we see we believe. JPr,
6. Who sees with the eye of another is as blind
as a mole. Ger.
Seeking.
1. He that seeks finds. Sp,
2. He that seeks finds and sometimes what he
would rather not. ItaL
3. He who is well and seeks ill, if it come God
help him. Sp,
4. Seek till you find and you'll not lose your
labor. Sp,
5. Seek your salve where you got your sore.
6. Who seeks what he should not, finds what he
would not. Gcr.
Seeming.
1. Life is arched with changing skies,
Rarely are they what they seem.
2. Things are not what they seem.
3. To seem and not to be is throwing the shuttle
without weaving.
Self-command.
I. The noblest task is to command one's self.
Maga,
Self-conceit.
1. Conceit may puff a man up, but never props
him up. Ruskin.
2. It is a good thing to have the conceit taken
out of us.

Self-depreciation.

243

3. "Let us agree not to step on each other's
feet," said the cock to the horse.
4. Self-conceit deprives the wasp of honey.
Yoruba {Africa),
5. Stand up, cent, and let the dollar sit down.
6. Stand up, farthing, and let the florin sit
down. Ger,
7. The goslings would lead the geese to grass.
Fr.
8. There is more hope of a fool, than of him that
is wise in his own conceit. ^ikle,
9. There is not a mite but fancies itself a cheese.
Lavater,
10. 'Tis self-conceit makes opinion obstinate.
Self-depreciation.
1. He that makes himself a sheep shall be eaten
by the wolf.
2. He that makes himself dirt is trod on by the
swine.
3. He who lies down in the wash will be eaten
by the swine. Dutch^ Dan.
4. He who lies on the ground must expect to be
trodden on. Ger,
5. He who makes a mouse of himself will be
eaten by the cats. Ger.
6. He who makes himself a dove is eaten by the
hawk. Ital.
7. He who makes himself a servant is expected
to remain a servant. Ital.
8. He who makes himself honey will be eaten
by the bees. Ger.^ Dutch.

244 Self-confidence.— Self-conquest.
9. He who makes himself nothing is nothing.
Ger.
10. He who throws himself under the bench will
be left to lie there. Dan.
11. Who lets another sit on his shoulder will
soon have him on his head. Ger.
12. Who makes himself mutton the wolf eats.
{Barbary States) Joel Barlow.
13. Who would not have feet set on his neck, let
him not stoop. Ital.
Self-confidence.
I. Self-confidence is the first requisite to human
greatness.
Self-conquest.
I. Self-conquest is the greatest of victories.
Plato.
Self-defence.
I. Self-defence is nature's oldest law. Dry den.
Self-denial.
1. The more a man denies himself, the more
will he receive from Heaven. Horace,
Self-doing.
\. Self done is soon done. Ger.
2. Self done, well done. Ger.
3. Self do, self have.
Self-esteem.
I. He who esteems none but himself is as happy
as a king. Ital..
Self-exaltation.
I. Self-exaltation is the fool's paradise.

—Self- pear.— S&lfi shn ess.

245

Self-exertion.
I. Generals and premiers spring rot from seed
corn : men must exert themselves. Chinese.
z. Give orders and do it yourself and you will
be rid of anxiety. Por.
3. Give order and do no more and nothing will
be done. Sp., Par.
4. He spins from himself like a spider,
5. He that performs his own errand saves his
messenger's hire. Dan.
6. He that would have a thing done quickly and
well must do it himself. Jtai.
7. He that would have the fruit must climb tha

8. Hope in the Lord but exert yourself. Jiussian,
9. Paddle your own canoe.
10. When it rains pottage you must hold up your
dish,
11. Would you have potatoes grow by the pot-
side?
Self-fear.
I. When you have no observers be afraid of
yourself.
Setfiahneas.
I. A man overboard, a mouth the less. DuUh.
1. All men row galley-way ; i>., towards them-
selves,
3. Each person for his own skin. Turk.
4. Every man draws the water to his own mill,
5. Every man for himself and God for us all.
Gtr.

2^.6 Selfishness.
6. Every man thinks of advancing himself, but
no one thinks of the danger that may accrue to the
public weal. Plutarch.
7. Every old woman blows under her own kettle.
Servian.
8. Every one draws toward his own side.
9. Every one has his hands turned towards him-
self. Polish.
10. Every one rakes the embers to his own cake.
Arabian.
11. Every one rakes the fire under his own pot.
nan.
12. For my peck of salt set the kiln on fire.
13. He is better with a rake than a fork.
14. He sets my house on fire only to roast his
eggs-
15. Let me gain by you and no matter whether
you love me or not.
16. Like the dog in the manger, you'll not eat
yourself nor let the horse eat.
17. No. I is the first house in the row.
18. Self is the first object of charity. Latin.
19. Self is the man. Dutchy Ger.
20. Selfishness in council brings misfortune to
the State. Ger.
21. Selfishness puts all in its own sack. Ger.
22. The gardener's dog neither eats greens (or
lettuce) nor lets any one else eat them.
//a/., Sp.^ Pdr.

Self-love, Self-lovers. — Self-control. 247
Self-love, Self-lovers.
1. It is the nature of extreme self-lovers, as they
will set an house on fire (though) it were but to
roast their eggs. Bcuon.
2. Of all mankind each loves himself the best.
Terence,
3. Self-love and self-conceit fills the land with
fools. Ger,
4. Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our
virtues. Goethe,
5. Self-love is the greatest of flatterers.
Rochefoucauld,
6. Self-love is a mote in every man's eye.
7. Self-love is a thief. Ger,
8. Self-love, my liege, is not so great a sin
As self-neglecting. Shaks.
9. Self-love — nobody's else love. Dutch,
Self-controL
I. Know prudent, cautious, self-control is wis-
dom's root. Bums,
Self-mastery.
I. He that is master of himself will soon be
master of others.
Self-preservation.
1. A drowning man would catch at razors. Ital,
2. As sore fights the wren as the crane. (A//
are equally courageous in extremity^
3. He that is carried down the torrent catcheth
at everything.
4. He that is drowning shouts though he be not
heard. Ital,

248 Self-reliance.— SELF-RKSPECT.—SELF-REsrmAiifT.
5. Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
Self-reliance.
1. For that thou can'st do thyself rely not on an-
other.
2. I am the only one of my friends I can rely
upon. Terence.
3. Rely on yourself. La Fontaine.
Self-respect.
I. All must respect those who respect them-
selves. Bea.
Self-restraint.
I. Who restraineth himself in the use of things
lawful will never encroach on things forbidden.
Dr. Johnson.
Self-seeing.
I. O wad some power the giftie gie us
To see oursels as others see us !
It wad frae monie a blunder free us
An' foolish notion. Bums.
Self-sustaining.
I. He flies with his own wings. Latin.
Selling.
1. Rather sell than be poor.
2. Sell him for an ass at the fair who talks much
and does little.
3. Sell me dear and measure me fair.
4. Sell publicly and buy privately.
5. Some sell and don*t deliver. J^^
6. They that sell kids and have no goats, how
came they by them ?

Send. — Sense. — Senses. — Sensible.

249

7. While the dust is on your feet sell what you
have bought
8. Who will sell a blind horse praises the feet.
Ger.
9. You must sell as markets go.
Send.
1. Send a man of sense on an embassy and
you need not instruct him.
2. Send a wise man on an errand and say noth-
ing to him.
3. Send not for a hatchet with which to break
open an ^g'g,
4. Send you to the sea, ye'll na get salt water.
Sense.
1. All complain of want of silver but none of
want of sense. Scotch.
2. Sense comes with age.
3. Take care of your sense ; the sound will take
care of itself.
4. The man of sense does not hang up his
knowledge. For,
5. When one sense is suppressed it only retires
into the rest. Pope.

I. He that feeds his senses feasteth his enemies.
Sensible.
1. The sensible man hopes little and despairs of
nothing. Fr,
2. The sensible man understands a half a word.
Fr.

250

Sermon.— Servant.

Sermoiu
1. A good sermon must be brie^ clear and
vigorous. Ger.
2. A sermon without Augustine is a stew with-
out bacon. Sp.
3. Funeral sermon, lying sermon. Ger.
4. He profits most by the Lenten sermon who
has two full meals in his stomach. Ger,
5. Long sermon, little attention. Ger.
Servant.
1. A faithful servant is more than a mother.
Tamil.
2. A good servant makes a good master. ItcU,
3. A good servant must have good wages.
4. A servant and a cock should be kept but one
year.
5. A servant is a paid enemy.
6. A servant is known by his master's absence.
7. A servant knows more than he should tell. Ger.
8. A servant never yet miscarried through ex-
cess of respect.
9. A servant should know more than he tells.
10. A smiling boy seldom proves a good servant.
11. A young serving man — an old beggar.
12. An honest and diligent servant is an humble
friend.
13. An honest and faithful servant is a jewel.
Ben Jansan,
14. At a bridge, a plank, or a river, the servant
foremost, the master behind.

Servant.

251

15. At the end of one year the man has the habits
of his master. Sp,
16. Bad is a bad servant, but 'tis worse being
without him.
17. By the servant the master is known. Ger,
18. Do not stuff your servant with bread and he
won*t ask for cheese. Sp.
19. Eat of your own and call yourself mine, /'. e,,
be my servant and feed yourself . For,
20. Give a new servant bread and eggs, but after
a year bread and a cudgel.
21. Grandfather's servants are never good.
22. He can give little to his servant who licks his
own trencher.
23. He is the devil's valet ; he does more than he
is ordered.
24. He that would be ill served must keep plenty
of servants. Ital.
25. He that would be well served must know
when to change his servants.
26. He who has servants has unavoidable ene-
mies. Sp,
27. If the servant grows rich and the master
poor they are both good for nothing. Ger,
28. If you have a loitering servant set his dinner
before him and send him on an errand. Sp,
29. If you pay not a servant his wages he will
pay himself.
30. If you would have a faithful servant and one
that you like, serve yourself. Franklin,
31. If you would have a good servant take
neither a kinsman nor a friend.

252

Serving.

32. Many servants, little service. Ger.
33. Many servants, many enemies. Ger,
34. No silver, no servant.
35. Servants should put on patience when they
put on livery.
36. Servants will not be diligent when the mas-
ter's negligent.
37. The lazy servant takes eight steps to avoid
one. Sp,^ Dutch,
38. The more servants the worse service. Dutch.
39. The servant holds a key to the closet that
contains the family skeleton.
40. The servant of a king is a king.
41. The servant wench that has a mother in town
swoons seven times a day. Sp,
42. Three things are of equal worth : the old ser-
vant, dog and horse. Ger,
43. What enjoyment! to have little to eat and
keep a servant. .5^.
44. Who has many servants has many thieves.
Dutch,
Serving.
1. A service done to the unwilling is no service.
2. He who serves is not free. .5^.
3. He who serves many masters must neglect
some. Sp,
4. He who serves the public hath but a scurvy
master. ItaL, Dutch,
5. He who serves the public obliges nobody.
6. He who will not serve one master must needs
serve many. Ital,

Seven.

253

7. Proffered service is little valued. Dutch.
8. Serve as a serf or fly like a deer. Fr,
9. Serve God in your calling ; 'tis better than al-
ways praying.
10. Serve yourself till your bairns come to age.
11. Service is no inheritance.
12. Services unrequired go unrequited. Ger.
13. Serving one's own passion is the greatest
slavery.
14. Small service is true service while it lasts.
Wordsworth,
15. They also serve who only stand and wait.
MUton,
16. Unwilling service earns no thanks. Dan,
17. Whoever serves well and says nothing makes
claim enough. Jtal.
18. Who serves well asks enough.
19. He is a slave of the greatest slave, who serv-
eth nothing but himself.
20. He that serves everybody is paid by nobody.
21. He that serves the public is paid by nobody,
22. He that serves well need not be afraid to ask
his wages.
23. He who would serve everybody gets thanks
from nobody. Dan,
24. If you wish to be well served, serve yourself.
Sp„ For.
Seven.
I. Seven brothers in a council make wrong right.

254

Sexes. — Shadow. — Shame.

2. Seven may be company but nine are confusion.
3. Seven's a banquet, nine's a brawl. Latin.

I. There are three sexes : men, women and
clergymen. Fr,
Shadow.
1. He stands the shadow of a mighty name.
Lucan,
2. What shadows we are and what shadows we
pursue. Burke.
Shame.
1. Having sold his sense of shame he carries his
price under his arm. Tamil.
2. He is lost whose shame is lost.
3. He that cannot conceal his own shame will
not conceal another's.
4. He that despises shame wants a bridle.
5. He who has no shame has no conscience. Sp.
6. Ingenuous shame once lost is never regained.
Syrus.
7. In the land of the naked, people are ashamed
of clothes. Livonian.
8. It is no shame to yield to him, that we must
not oppose.
9. Many a one would like to lay his own shame
on another's back.
10. One doth the blame, another bears the shame.
11. Shame comes to no man unless he helps it on
the way. Dan.
12. Shame is worse than death. Russian.
13. Shame lasts longer than poverty. Dutch.

Sharpers.

255

14. Shame lost, honor lost. ^
15. Shameful craving must have shameful way.
16. Shame may restrain what the law does not
prohibit. Seneca,
17. Shame of poverty is almost as bad as pride
of wealth.
18. Shame once banished never returns in favor.
Syrus.
19. Some, thinking to avenge their shame, increase
it Fr.
20. That man is lost who is lost to shame.
Plauttis.
21. The worst kind of shame is being ashamed of
frugality or poverty. Idvy.
22. There is no honor where there is no shame.
//a/.
23. Where there is shame there is virtue. Ger,
24. Who fears no shame comes to no honor.
Dutch.
25. Who has no shame, all the world is his own.
Ital.
26. Who loseth shame once loseth it forever.
Ger.
Sharpers.
1. Between two sharpers the sharpest. Sp.
2. The sharper soon cheats the covetous man.
Sp,y Par,
3. When sharpers prey upon one another there
is no game abroad.
4. When sharpers quarrel, the wolf has a winning
game.

256

Shaving. — Sheep.

ShtLYtng,
1. A bald head is soon shaven.
2. A beard well lathered is half shaved. Sp,
3. After shaving there's nothing to shear.
JFr.y ItaLy For.
4. Bald heads are soon shaven.
5. St. Francis shaved himself first and then he
shaved his brethren. Jtal,
6. The executioner is a clean shaver. Ger.
7. 'Tis ill shaving s^ainst the wool.
Sheep.
1. A little sheep always seems young. Fr.
2. A mild sheep is sucked by every lamb. /to/.
3. A sheep's bite is never more than skin deep.
Ifal
4. Coupled sheep drown one another. Dutch.
5. Every lamb knows its own dam.
6. Every time the sheep bleats it loseth a mouth-
ful.
7. Good pastures make fat sheep. Shaks,
8. He who has sheep has fleeces. Sp.
9. It is a bad sheep that is too lazy to carry its
own fleece. Dan,
10. It is a foolish sheep that makes the wolf her
confessor.
11. It is madness for a sheep to treat of peace
with a wolf.
12. Make thyself a sheep and the wolf is ready.
Russian,
13. Make yourself a sheep and the wolves will
cat you. Ital., Fr,, Ger.

Sheep.

257

14. Many a sheep goes out woolly and comes
home shorn. Dan.
15. One mangy sheep spoils a whole flock. Dan.
16. One sheep follows another.
17. One stable will hold many patient sheep. Ger.
18. Shear the sheep but don't flay them. Fr.
19. Shear sheep that have them.
20. Silly sheep, where one goes all go. Sp,
21. That is a woeful silly sheep that goes to the
wolf to confess.
22. That sheep has his belly full that butts his
companion.
23. The deceived sheep that went for wool came
back shorn. Sp,
24. The lamb goes to the spit as soon as the
sheep. Don Quixote,
25. The lamb has no choice when in the jaws
of the wolf. Chinese.
26. The scabbier the sheep the harder it bleats.
Dutch.
27. The sheep does not bite the wolf. Ger.
28. The sheep on the mountain is higher than the
bull on the plain. Fr.
29. The sheep out of the fold, the wolf eats it.
M. Greek.
30. The sheep should have his belly full who
quarrels with his mate. Bea,
31. The sheep that bleats is strangled by the
wolf. Ital.
32. The sheep that bleats most does not give the
most wool. Ger,
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Shepherds.

33. The sheep that bleats most gives the least
milk. Dan,
34. The sheep that bleats loses a mouthful.
Fr,, Itai., Sp., For.
35. The sheep that is too tame is sucked by too
many lambs. Fr,
36. The well-fed sheep makes a cloak of its tail.
Sp.
37. 'Tis a silly sheep that makes the wolf her
confessor. Fr,, ItaL
38. When one sheep is over the dam the rest fol-
low. Dutch,
39. When one sheep leads the way the rest fol-
low. Chinese,
40. Where every hand fieeceth the sheep goes
naked.
Shepherds.
1. An excessive number of shepherds harms the
flock. Chinese,
2. Straying shepherd, straying sheep. Ger,
3. The good shepherd shears, not flays. Ital,
4. The more shepherds the less care. Dan,
5. The shepherd even when he becomes a gen-
tleman smells of the lamb. M, Greek,
6. When many shepherds tend the sheep,
They but so much the longer sleep. Dutch,
7. When the shepherd is angry with his sheep
he sends them a blind guide.
8. When the shepherd strays the sheep stray.
Dutch.

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259

Shift.
I. A good shift may serve long but it cannot
serve forever.
Ship.
1. A dear ship stands long i' the haven.
2. A great ship must have deep water.
3. A little leak will sink a great ship.
4. A little ship needs but a little sail.
5. All ships leak : some midships, some in the
bows, some in the hold. ItaL
6. Better is an old carriage than a new ship.
Dan.
7. Better on a sound boat than a leaky ship.
Ger.
8. Don't give up the ship. Lawrence.
9. Don't spoil the ship for a half-penny-worth
of tar.
10. Great ships require deep waters.
11. He who steadies himself between two ships
will certainly be drowned. Russian.
12. It is hard to track the path the ship follows
in the ocean. Dan.
13. Many commanders sink the ship. M, Greek.
14. Many drops of water will sink the ship.
15. Many grains of sand will sink a ship. Dan.
16. Ships fear fire more than water.
17. The great ship has also great dangers.
M. Greek.
18. The ship does not go without the boat. ItaL
19. 'Tis skill not strength that governs a ship.

26o Shipwreck. — Shirt.
20. To a crazy ship every wind is contrary. ItcU.
21. Two captains sink the ship. Turk.
22. When the helm is gone the ship will soon be
wrecked. Dan.
23. When the ship is sunk every one knows she
might have been saved.
24. Where the ship goes the brig can go. ItaL
25. You may take a ship to water, but you cannot
make it swim. Punch.
Shipwreck.
1. A general shipwreck is a consolation to all.
Latin.
2. A wreck on a shore is a beacon at sea. Dutch.
3. After shipwrecks there is a harbor. Latin.
4. All wrecks come to the shore ; the shore never
goes to the wreck. Fr.
5. He is foolish to blame the sea who is ship-
wrecked twice. Syrus.
6. He that has been shipwrecked shudders at
still water. Ovid.
7. He who is shipwrecked the second time can-
not lay the blame on Neptune.
8. Let another's shipwreck be your sea mark.
9. No one can complain of the sea who twice
suffers shipwreck. Ger.
10.' Shipwrecked in luxury and lost in ease. Prior.
11. Show mercy to those that are shipwrecked.
Phocylides 540 years before Christ.
12. To look at a shipwreck from the shore. Latin.
Shirt.
I. Close sits my shirt but closer my skin.

Shoe. 26 1
2. He that has more smocks than shirts in a
bucking,
Had need be a man of good forelooking.
Chaucer,
3. He that has no shirt wishes every day for ten
yards of cloth. Turk.
4. My shirt is nearer than my cloak. Dutch.
5. Near is my shirt but nearer is my skin.
6. The shirt is nearer than the doublet.
JtcU.y Sp,^ Dan.
Shoe.
1. All feet tread not in one shoe.
2. Better cut the shoe than pinch the foot.
3. Every shoe fits not every foot.
4. Dr. Luther's shoes will not fit every village
priest. Ger,
5. Fit the foot to the shoe, not the shoe to the
foot. {Applied to those cutting absurdly^ Por.
6. He has found a last for his shoe.
7. His shoes are made of running leather.
8. If your shoe pinches you, give it your man.
9. No one knows better where the shoe pinches
than he who wears it. ItaL^ Ger.
10. None know where the shoe pinches but he
that wears it. (Exclamation of the Roman noble who
had just put away his wife.)
11. Not every wood will make wooden shoes. Dan.
12. One cannot make all shoes over the same last.
13. One must make the shoe according to the
foot. -- Ger,

262 Shoemaker. — Short. — Shot, Shooting.
14. One shoe will not fit every foot. Ger.
15. Over shoes, over boots.
. 16. Shoes made by the elder brother's wife are a
pattern for the younger brother's wife to copy.
Chinese.
17. The fairest looking shoe may pinch the foot.
18. The finest shoe often hurts the foot.
19. The same shoe does not fit every foot. ItaL
20. There never was a shoe however handsome
that did not become an ugly slipper. Ital,
21. To cast an old shoe after one. {This is done
to bring good luck,)
22. To him who hath a shoe under his foot it is
the same as if the world was covered with leather.
23. Two feet in one shoe. Turk.
Shoemaker.
1. Let not the shoemaker go beyond his last.
Latin.
2. Shoemaker, stick to your last. Ger,^ Sp.^ Dutch.
3. Shoemakers and tailors lie readily. Ger.
4. Shoemakers go to mass and pray that sheep
may die. Sp.
5. Shoemakers and tailors count hours.
6. Shoemakers should na be sailors that can
neither steer nor row.
7. Six awls make a shoemaker.
Short.
I. An inch too short is as bad as an ell. Dutch.
Shot, Shooting.
I. A chance shot will kill the devil. Irish,

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263

2. A fine shot never killed a bird. ItaL
3. A man does not always aim at what he means
to hit.
4. A miss is as good as a mile.
5. An inch in missing is as bad as an ell.
6. An inch of a miss is as good as a mile.
7. He is a bad shot who cannot find an excuse.
Ger.
8. He must shoot well who always hits the
mark. Dutch,
9. He that shoots always right forfeits his arrow.
10. He that is always shooting must sometimes
hit.
11. He who once hits will ever be shooting.
12. He who shoots often hits at last. Ger.
13. He will shoot higher that shoots at the moon
than he that shoots at a dunghill, though he miss
the mark.
14. It is not enough to aim, you must hit. ItaL
15. Not every ball hits. Ger,
16. Often shooting hits the mark. Ger.
17. One cannot take aim at things too high.
18. One does not always hit what one aims at. Fr.
19. One may as much miss the mark by aiming
too high as too low.
20. Shoot not beyond the mark. Terence,
21. When he hits 'tis history,
When he misses 'tis mystery.
Shower.
I. It is the first shower that wets. ItaL

264 Showing One's Self.— Shrew.— Sickness.
Showing One's Self.
I. He that does not sliow himself is overlooked.
Shrew.
1. Every one can tame a shrew but he that hath
her.
2. Govern a horse with a bit and a shrew with a
stick. Dan.
3. It will be fair weather when the shrews have
dined.
4. Onions, smoke and a shrew make a good
man's eye water. Dan.
5. The gray mare is the better horse, />., the
wife rules the husband,
6. There are three things from which no good
can be got without a beating : a walnut tree, a don-
key, and a shrew. Dan.
7. There is little peace in that house where the
hen crows and the cock is mute. Ital.
8. Three things drive a man out of doors : smoke,
a leaky roof, and a shrew. Ital.
9. In an evil hour thou bring'st her home. {You
are marrying a shrew.) Horace.
Sickness.
1. Away with thee, sickness, to where they make
a good pillow for thee. Sp.
2. Be lang sick that you may be soon hale.
3. He is in great danger who being sick thinks
himself well.
4. In time of sickness the soul collects itself
anew. Pliny,

Signs.— Silence. 265
5. It is better to be sick than care for the sick.
Turk.
6. It is easy for a man in health to preach
patience to the sick.
7. Sickness comes in haste and goes at leisure.
Dan,
8. Sickness comes on horseback and departs on
foot. Dutch.
9. Sickness comes uninvited ; no need to bespeak
it. Dan.
10. Sickness is every man's master. Dan*
11. Sickness is felt but health not at all.
12. Sickness tells us what we are.
13. Sickness will spoil the happiness of an em-
peror as well as mine.
14. The chamber of sickness is the chapel of de-
votion.
15. The sick man is free to say all. ItaL
16. The sick man b vexed with the flies on the
wall. Get.
17. The sick man sleeps when the debtor cannot.
ItaL
!&• The sickness of the body may prove the
health of the soul.
19. " Who can escape sickness ? " quoth the
drunken wife when she lay in the gutter.
Sig^ns.
I. Old signs do not deceive. Dan.
Silence.
I. A judicious silence is always better than truth
spoken without charity. De Sales,

266 Silence.
2. A silent tongue and a true heart are the most
admirable things on earth. Ger,
3. Be checked for silence but never taxed for
speech. Shaks,
4. Be silent and pass for a philosopher. Latin.
5. Be silent or say something better than silence.
Ger.
6. Be silent or speak something worth hearing.
7. Better be silent than talk ill. For.
8. Better silence than ill speech. Swedish.
9. Better silent like a fool than talk like a fool.
Ger.
10. Deep rivers move in silence, shallow brooks
are noisy.
11. Deep vengeance is the daughter of deep
silence. Byron.
12. Few ever repented of having forborne
speech. Rambler.
13. From a silent man and a dog that does not
bark deliver us. Sp,
14. From a silent person remove your dwelling.
Sp.
15. God rights the man that keeps silence.
Persian.
16. He that is silent gathers stones.
17. He that knows nothing, knows enough if he
know how to be silent. Ital.
18. He that knows when to speak, knows too
when to be silent. Archimedes.
19. He who is silent gains store. Sp.

StlMSCK. 2g^
lo. He who would prosper In peace must suffer
in silence. Cw.
ai. I have often regretted having spoken, never
having kept silent. Synu.
22. 1 prefer silent prudence to loquacious folly.
23. If a word be worth one shekel, silence is
worth two.
24. In silence there is many a good morsel.
25. In the company oE strangers silence is sale.
26. It is good speaking that improves good
silence. DuUh.
27. It is well to know how to be silent till it is
time to speak. Par.
18. Least said is soonest mended.
39. Many have suffered by talking, few by silence.
30. More have repented of speech than of silence.
31. Mote the camel labors with the heaviest load.
And ihe wolf dies in silence. Byron.
32. Of much speaking Cometh repentance, but in
silence is safety. Ancient Brahmin.
33. One accomplishes more by silence than by
speech. Ger.
34. No one betrays himself by silence, Ger,
35. No one has ever injured another through
silence. Ger.
36. No wisdom like silence.
37. Silence and look out, we shall catch both hen
and chicks. Sp.
38. Silence and reflection cause no dejection.
Ger.

268 SiLKNCB.
39. Silence answers much. Dutch,
40. Silence brings friendship.
41. Silence gives consent.
Fr., Ital., Sp., Ger.y Dutch.
42. Silence grips the mouse.
43. Silence has many advantages. Menander.
44. Silence in love betrays more woe
Than words, though ne'er so witty ;
A beggar that is dumb you know
May challenge double. pity. Raleigh.
45. Silence is a fine jewel for a woman but it is
little worn.
46. Silence is as great an art as speech. Get.
47. Silence is better ^an unmeaning words.
Fythagarca.
48. Silence is consent.
49. Silence is deep as eternity, speech is shallow
as time. Carlyle.
50. Silence is learned by the many misfortunes
of life. Seneca.
51. Silence is more eloquent than words. Ger.
52. Silence is the answer to anger. Ger.
53. Silence is the god of the fortunate. Ger.
54. Silence is the greatest ornament in a woman.
Latin.
55. Silence is the mother of truth. Bea.
56. Silence is the sanctuary of truth.
57. Silence is the > virtue of those who are not
wise.
58. Silence is wisdom and gets a man friends.

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269

59. Silence is wisdom when speaking is folly.
60. Silence never betrays you.
John Boyle O'Reilly.
61. Silence puts an end to quarrels. Tamil.
62. Silence reaps what speech sows.
63. Silence seldom does harm.
64. Silence was never written down. Ital,
65. Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.
Bacon.
66. Silence is the virtue of a fool. Bacon,
67. Silence aspires after truth. Bacon.
68. Silent men like still waters are deep and
dangerous.
69. Some things are better praised by silence
than remark. Latin.
70. Speaking comes by nature, silence by under-
standing. Ger.
71. Speaking is silver, silence is gold. Dutch.
72. Speaking silence is better than senseless
speech. Dan.
73. Speech is oft repeated, silence never. Dan.
74. Speech is silver, silent golden; who speaks
sows, who keeps silent reaps. Persian.
75. Study the power of silence.
76. The silence of the people is the lesson of
kings.
77. The silent dog is the first to bite. Ger.
78. The silent man is most trusted. Dan.
79. The virtue of silence is a great piece of
knowledge. * Ital.

270

Silver.

80. There is a gift beyond the reach of art : of
being eloquently silent. Bavee.
81. There is a sure reward for faithful silence.
Horace,
82. 'Tis easier to know how to speak than how to
keep silent.
83. To be silent hurts no one, to be talkative
does the mischief. Latin.
84. Too much speech and too much silence be-
long to the fool. Ger,
85. Unreasonable silence is folly.
86. We ought either to be silent or speak things
better than silence. Pythagoras.
Silver.
1. A silver hammer breaks an iron door. Fr.
2. A silver key can open an iron lock.
3. Bad silver will only buy old sow's flesh.
Chinese,
4. Bonny silver is soon spent.
5. Fight with silver spurs and you will overcome
everything. Latin,
6. He that fights with silver is sure to overcome.
7. He that has no silver in his purse should
have silver on his tongue.
8. Is no coin good silver but your penny ?
9. Silver and gold are all men's dears. Dan,
10. Silver is of less value than gold, gold than
virtue. Horace.
n. Silver is the people's money. Leland Stanford,
12. White silver draws black lines.

Simple.— Sin. 27 1
Simple.
I. The simple man is the beggar's brother.
Sin.
1. A sin concealed is half pardoned. {Meaning,
when care is taken to conceal the scandal^ Fr,, Ital,
2. A sin confessed is half forgiven. Itai,
3. A sinful heart makes a feeble hand. Scott,
4. Auld sin, new shame.
5. Commit a sin thrice and you will think it
allowable. Hebrew.
6. Compound ior sins they're inclined to,
By damning those they've no mind to. Butler,
7. Conquer one besetting sin at a time.
8. Dissembled sin is double wickedness.
9. Every man has his besetting sin. Cicero.
10. Every one thinks himself without sin because
he hath not that of others. Ital.
11. Every sin carries its own punishment.
12. Few love to hear the sins they love to act.
Shaks.
13. I am a man more sinned against than sin-
ning. Shaks.
14. In the land of sinners the unjust sit in judg-
ment. M. Greek.
15. It is the property of an old sinner to find de-
light in reviewing his own villanies in others. South,
16. Keep yourself from opportunities and God
will keep you from sin. Itc^.
17. Nip sin in the bud.
18. Old sins breed new shame.

272

Sincerity.

19. One sin another doth provoke. Shaks.
20. One sin opens the door for another. Ger.
21. Out of small sins come large. Ger»
22. Plate sin with gold and the strong lance of
justice breaks;
Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw doth pierce it.
Shaks.
23. Sin steals the horse and carries home the
bridle honestly.
24. Sin brings its own punishment.
25. Sin that is hidden is half forgiven.
26. That man sins charitably who damns none
but himself.
27. The good hate to sin from love of virtue, the
bad hate to sin from fear of punishment. Latin,
28- The wages of sin is death. New Testament,
29. To fall into sin is human, to remain in sin
devilish. Ger,
30. We are ever young enough to sin, never old
enough to repent.
31. What is no sin is no shame. Ger,
32. Where one sin hath entered, legions will force
their way. Rogers,
33. Who avoids small sins does not fall into great
ones. Ger,
34. Who is not ashamed of his sins, sins double.
Ger.
Sincerity.
1. Sincerity gives wings to power.
2. True sincerity sends for no witnesses.

Singing. — Sir Positives. — Sit. o-^^
Singling.
1. A man who can't sing is always stnving to
sing. Latin.
2. He that sings on Friday shall weep on Sun-
day.
3. He who pitches too high won't get through
his song. Ger,
4. He who sings drives away sorrow. Itai.
5. He who sings frightens away his ills.
Dan Quixote,
6. None but fools and fiddlers sing at their
meat.
7. Some sing who are not merry. Ital.
8. Who sings drives away care. Sp,
Sir Positives.
I. Two Sir Positives can scarce meet without a
skirmish.
Sit.
1. As good sit still as rise up and fall.
2. Better sit still than rise and get a fall.
3. Don't budge if you sit at ease. Ger,
4. He sits fu still that hath riven breeks.
5. He sits not sure who sits too high.
6. He sits by moonshine and lies abed by sun-
shine.
7. He sits well who can rise without help Dan,
8. He that comes first may sit where he will.
9. He that sits among reeds, cuts pipes as he
pleases. Ger,
10. Lowly sit, richly warm.
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SlJlNDER.

275

7. Were the sky to fall not an earthen pot
would be left whole. Dutch,
Slander.
1. A slanderer and a snake of deadly poison
have each two tongues. Tamil,
2. Among wild animals the slanderer is most
dangerous, among tame the flatterer. Diogenes.
3. Avoid a slanderer as you would a scorpion.
4. Defaming or slandering others is the greatest
of all sins.
5. For slander lives upon succession,
Forever housed where it once gets possession.
Shaks,
6. He that uttereth a slander is a fool. Bible,
7. He that gives himself leave to play with his
neighbor's fame may soon play it away.
8. He who blackens others does not whiten
himself. Ger,
9. He who repeats the ill he hears is the true
slanderer.
10. He who slanders his neighbor makes a rod
for himself. Dutch,
11. If the ball do not stick to the wall yet it will
leave some mark.
12. If you slander a dead man you stab him in
his grave.
13. Jocular slanders often prove serious injuries.
14. Lay it on, some of it will stick.
15. Lay your hand on your bosom and you will
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274

Six. — Skeleton.— Skill.— Skin. — Sky.

11. Sit in your place and none can make you
rise.
12. Sit still rather than rise and fall down.
13. They may sit in the chair that have malt to
sell.
Six.
1. Six of one and half a dozen of the other.
2. Six things have no business in this world : a
fighting priest, a coward knight, a covetous judge, a
stinking barber, a soft-hearted mother and an itchy
baker. Fr.
Skeleton.
I. There is a skeleton in every house.
SkiU.
1. Skill and assurance are an invincible couple.
2. Skilled hands eat trout. Dutch.
3. Skill is stronger than strength.
Skin.
1. The skin is nearer than the phirt. Fr.
2. The toughest skin holds longest out.
Cumberland.
Sky.
1. If the sky fall the pots will be broken.
2. If the sky fall we shall catch larks.
3. If the sky fall hold up your hands. Sp.
4. Neither heat nor cold abides always in the
sky.
5. The titmouse holds up its feet to keep the
sky from falling on it. Persian.
6. There is no relying on a starry sky.

Slander.

275

7. Were the sky to fall not an earthen pot
would be left whole. Dutch,
Slander.
1. A slanderer and a snake of deadly poison
have each two tongues. Tamil.
2. Among wild animals the slanderer is most
dangerous, among tame the flatterer. Diogenes,
3. Avoid a slanderer as you would a scorpion.
4. Defaming or slandering others is the greatest
of all sins.
5. For slander lives upon succession,
Forever housed where it once gets possession.
Shaks,
6. He that uttereth a slander is a fool. Bible,
7. He that gives himself leave to play with his
neighbor's fame may soon play it away.
8. He who blackens others does not whiten
himself. Ger,
9. He who repeats the ill he hears is the true
slanderer.
10. He who slanders his neighbor makes a rod
for himself. Dutch,
11. If the ball do not stick to the wall yet it will
leave some mark.
12. If you slander a dead man you stab him in
his grave.
13. Jocular slanders often prove serious injuries.
14. Lay it on, some of it will stick.
15. Lay your hand on your bosom and you will
not speak ill of another. For,

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Slander.

16. Let him beat me too when I am absent.
{Remark of Socrates when a friend told him that an
enemy had slandered him.)
17. Mary's mouth costs her nothing for she never
opens it but at others' expense. Franklin.
18. No, 'tis slander
Whose edge is sharper than the sword ; whose
tongue
Outvenoms all the worms of Nile. Shaks,
19. Slander expires at a good woman's door. Dan,
20. Slander flings stones at itself.
21. Slander is a more cruel weapon than the
sword, and its wounds are incurable. Fielding.
22. Slanders are the devil's bellows to blow up
contentions.
23. Slander leaves a score behind it.
24. Slander, slander, some of it will stick.
25. Slander, that worst of poisons, ever finds
An easy entrance to ignoble minds. Juvenal.
26. Slander, the foulest whelp of sin. Follok.
27. Slander, whose edge is sharper than the sword.
28. Society produces not a more odious vermin
than the slanderer. Fielding.
29. Such as give ear to slanderers are worse than
slanderers themselves. Domitian.
30. The greatest slanderers are the most impa-
tient of censure. Warton.
31. The only difference between a slanderer and
an evil doer is, that the latter requires an oppor-
tunity. Quintillian.

Slave. — Slaves. — Slaying. 277
32. The way to close the mouth of a slanderer is
to treat him with contempt. Chinese.
33. There is no cure against a slanderer's bite.
Dan.
34. There is no sufficient recompense for an un-
just slander.
35". They that slander the dead are like envious
dogs that bark and bite at bones. Zeno.
36. To slander with a matter of truth.
37. What king so strong
Can tie the gall up in a slanderous tongue.
Shaks,
38. Who stabs my name would stab my person
too,
Did not the hangman lie in the way. Crown.
Slave.
I. He is still a slave whose limbs alone are
freed. Ger.
Slaves.
1. Slaves cannot breathe in England : if their
lungs
Receive our air, that moment they are free ;
They touch our country, and their shackles
fall. Cowper.
2. There is a period in which the tamest slaves
rise into fury and revenge. Gibbon,
3. We ought not to forget that our slaves are
our fellowmen. Cato.
Slaying.
I. He that slavs shall be slain.

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Sleep.

Sleep.
1. All are not asleep who have their eyes shut.
Ger.
2. All who snore are not asleep. Dan.
3. Death's half-brother, sleep. Dryden.
4. Do not go to sleep early and rise late. Hindoo,
5. Every one will sleep as he makes his bed.
M. Greek,
6. He hath slept well who remembers not he
slept ill.
7. He sleeps as dogs do when wives sift meal.
8. He sleeps soundly who has nothing to lose. Fr,
9. He who desireth to sleep soundly, let him
buy the bed of a bankrupt.
10. He who lies long in bed his estate feels it.
11. He who sleeps alone keeps long cold; two
soon warm each other. Ger.
12. He who sleeps by day will hunger by night.
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13. He who sleeps catches no fish. ItaL
14. He who sleeps much learns little. Sp.
15. He who sleeps well does not feel ihe fleas. ItaL
16. If I sleep, I sleep for myself; if I work, I
know not for whom. ItaL
17. If men had not slept the tares had not been
sown.
18. ril sleep on it. Dutch.
19. It is good to sleep in a whole skin.
Ger.y Dutch^ Dan.
20. It is not for a man in authority to sleep a
whole night. Homer,

Sleep.

279

21. Let him who sleeps too much borrow the pil-
low of a debtor. Sp.
22. Not all are asleep who have their eyes shut.
Ital.
23. O sleep I it is a gentle thing ;
Beloved from pole to pole. Coleridge.
24. One hour's sleep before midnight is better
than two after. Fr.^ Ger.
25. One must not take his cares to bed with him.
Ger.
26. Quiet sleep feels no foul weather.
27. Slavery's only service money — sweet sleep.
Bea.
28. Sleep is a sovereign physic. MasHnger.
29. Sleep is a thief : it steals half one's life. Ger,
30. Sleep is the brother of death. Ger,
31. Sleep makes every man as great or rich as the
greatest.
32. Sleep not in time of peril.
33. Sleep over it and you will come to a resolu-
tion. Sp.
34. Sleep that knits up the ravelled sleeve of
care,
The death of each day's life, sore labor's bath ;
Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second
course,
Chief nourisher in life's feast. Shaks,
35. Sleep that sometimes shuts up sorrow's eye.
Shaks,
36. Sleep to the sick is half health. Ger,

28o Sleeve. — Slippers.— Sloth.
37. Sleep without supping and waste without
owing.
38. The less a man sleeps the more he lives.
39. Those who come from labor and exercise
sleep more sweetly than the inactive and effeminate.
Alexander,
40. Tired nature's sweet restorer, balmy sleep.
Young,
41. To sleep a dog's sleep.
42. We are all equals when we are asleep.
Don Quixote.
43. We can sleep with open gates — we have noth-
ing to lose. Loyal Songs,
44. When unbruised youth with unstufiEed brain
Doth couch his limbs, there golden sleep doth
reign. Shaks.
45. Who goes fasting to bed will sleep but lightly.
Dutch.
46. Who goes to bed supperless all the night tum-
bles and tosses.
47. You should go to the land of Nod where they
pay you for sleeping.
48. You would do well in Slumberland where
they have half a crown a day for sleeping.
Sleeve.
I. A broken sleeve holdeth the arm back.
Slippers.
I. Though golden slippers they must be put on
the feet. Tamil,
Sloth.
I. A slothful man hldeth his hand in his bosom.
Bible,

Slough. — Slow. 28 1
2. A slothful man is a brother to him who is a
great waster.
3. A slothful man never has time. Ital.
4. A slothful man is a beggar's brother.
5. Flee, sloth, for the indolence of the soul is
the decay of the body. Cato,
6. Gaudy, slothful people are wasps that eat up
the bee's honey.
7. He that is slothful in his work is brother to
him that is a great waster. Bible,
8. Sloth is the beginning of vice. Dutch,
9. Sloth is the key to poverty. Ger,^ Sp,^ For,
10. Sloth is the mother of poverty.
11. Sloth is the nurse of vice and rust of action.
Massinger,
12. Sloth like rust consumes faster than labor
wears.
13. Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry
all easy. Franklin.
14. Sloth, that destructive siren, is ever to be
avoided. Horace.
15. Sloth turneth the edge of wit.
16. Sloth wears out the body and consumes the
mind.
Slough.
1. There is nothing like being bespattered for
making one defy the slough. Fr,
2. Who has not himself stuck in the slough
looks not for another therein. Ger.
Slow.
I. Be slow in choosing, but slower in changing.

2^2 Sluggard.
2. Be slow in giving advice, ready to do a
service.
3. Be slow to believe an evil report ; deliberate
well before repeating it.
4. Be slow to offend, swift to revenge. (An in-
scription on a dagger,)
5. Be slow to promise, quick to perform.
6. Slow and sure.
7. Slow at meat, slow at work.
8. Slow rises wealth by poveny depressed.
Dr. Johnson.
Sluggard.
1. A sluggard takes a hundred steps because he
would not take one in due time.
2. At evening the sluggard is busy. Ger.
3. Go to the ant, thou sluggard, consider her ways
and be wise. BibU.
4. Go to the ant, thou sluggard, learn to live
And by her busy ways reform thine own.
Smart,
5. He who has a sluggard has a prophet. {He
invents excuses such as it is going to rain, etc^
M. Greek.
6. Pull up the stones, you sluggard, and break
the devil's head with them.
7. Sluggards are never scholars.
8. The sluggard makes his night till noon.
9. The sluggard's convenient season never
comes.
10. The sluggard's guise : loth to go to bed and
loth to rise.

Small. — Smarts.

283

11. 'Tis the voice of the sluggard; I hear him
complain,
** You have waked me too soon, I must slumber
again. " fVaUs.
12. What better is the house for a sluggard rising
early ?
Small.
1. A great gap may be filled with small stones.
Gaelic,
2. A small bolt to the house is better than none
at all. Dan.
3. A small cloud may hide both sun and moon.
Dan,
4. A small coin in a big jar makes a great noise.
Hebretv,
5. A small demerit extinguishes a long service.
6. A small hatchet fells a great oak. For,
7. A small hurt in the eye is a great one.
8. A small matter hurts one that is sore.
9. A small pack becomes a small pedler.
10. A small sore wants not a great plaster.
11. A small stone is large enough to prop up a
large water jar. African,
12. A small sum may serve for a small reckoning.
13. Attention to small things is the economy of
virtue. Chinese,
14. Small axes fell great trees. Ger,
15. Small brooks make the greatest noise. Ger,
Smarts.
I. What smarts teaches.

284

Smilb. — Smiles.— Smith.— Smoke.— Snail.

Smile.
1. A cup must be bitter that a smile will not
sweeten.
2. Better the last smile than the first laughter.
3. One may smile and smile and be a villain.
Shaks.
Smiles.
I. Smiles from reason flow.
To brute deny'd, and are of love the food.
MiUan.
Smith.
1. The smith's dog sleeps at the sound of the
hammer and wakes at the grinding of teeth. Sp.
2. The smith's mare and the cobbler's wife are
always the worst shod.
Smoke.
1. No smoke without fire. Ger,
2. Secret fire is discerned by its smoke. Catalan,
3. Smoke rises only from large blocks of wood.
JRussian,
4. The seller of smoke was punished by smoke.
Alexander Severus.
SnaU.
1. The snail slides up the tower at last though
the swallow mounteth it not.
2. The snail to be rid of annoyance bartered its
eyes for horns. Sp.
3. Tramp on a snail and she'll shoot out her
horns. Bailey,
Sneer.
I. A sneer cannot be answered.

Snow. — Sob ri et y. — Softly. — Soldier. 285
2. Sneers are poor weapons at the best. Maga,
3. Who can refute a sneer. Foley.
Snow.
1. A snow year, a rich year.
2. In March much snow, to plants and trees
much woe. Ger,
3. Snow for a se' night is a mother to the earth,
forever after a step-mother.
4. Snow is the poor man's fertilizer.
5. The more snow the more healthy the season.
6. What lay hidden under the snow cometh to
light at last. Dutch,
7. When in the ditch the snow doth lie,
Tis waiting for more, by and by.
8. When the snow falls dry it means to lie;
But flakes light and soft bring rain oft.
9. Whether you boil snow or pound it you will
have but water from it.
Sobriety.
I. Strength of n^ind rests in sobriety, for this
keeps the reason unclouded by passion. Pythagoras,
Softly.
I. Softly, don't raise a dust. Itai.
Soldier.
1. A beaten soldier fears a reed. Japanese.
2. Advantage is a better soldier than rashness.
Shahs.
3. A proud soldier is fellow to a king.
4. A soldier, fire, and water soon make room for
themselves. /to/.

286 SOLDIBR.
5. A soldier ought to fear nothing but God and
dishonor.
6. A true soldier is his country's strength, his
sovereign's safety. Benjanson.
7. A young soldier, an old beggar. Ger,
8. A young trooper should have an old horse.
9. All are not soldiers who go to the wars.
Sp,^ For,
10. Away from the battle all are soldiers. Ger.
11. He is not a good soldier who fights with his
tongue. Ger.
12. Ignorance, poverty, and vanity make many
soldiers. Zimmerman,
13. It is the blood of the soldier that makes the
general great. ItaL
14. Soldiers are martyrs to ambition.
15. Soldiers in peace are like chimneys in summer.
16. Soldiers must be well paid and well hanged.
Ger.
17. The best soldiers come from the plough.
Ger.
18. The blood of the soldier maketh the glory of
the general.
19. The soldier is well paid iot doing mischief.
ItaL
20. The soldier's blood exalts the captain. ItaL
21. The soldiers fight and the kings are heroes.
Hebrew.
22. The world without peace is the soldier's pay.

V

^

SoLiTUOB —Solomon.— Something.

1

=3

'Tis honor

with most lands to be at odds, H

Soldiers should brook as little wrong

as gods. ■

Shaks. ■

Solitude.

■

I

A solitary

man is either a brute or ati

angel. ■
Hal. ■

3

Among the perils and dangers of

I

tude'

none of the least.

■

3

An absolu

e solitude is contrary to humanity. ■
Petrarch. f

4-

He makes

\ solitude and calls it peace

. Byron. 1

S

In solitude

where we are least alone

Byron. M

6.

It is not good that man should be alone. Bible. |

7

solitude,

where are the charms

■

That sages

have seen in thy face ?

■

Cowper's Alexandfr Selkirk. ■

8

One would not be alone even in Paradise. |

ii^i. ■

9-

Solitude dulls the thought, too much company \

dissipates it.

I

10.

Solitude is

often the best society.

J

II.

Solitude so

me times is best society.

Milton. H

12.

Solitude is

the despair of fools, the

torment H

of the

wicked and the joy of the good.

■

Solomon.

■

I.

When he

was born Solomon passed by his H

door

md would n

ot go in.
SomethiDg.

1

1.

Something tastes better than nothing

Ger. J

a.

Something

to every one is good division. Ger. ^

3-

When one

s getting something one

s io&ing ■

nothing.

Don

Quixote. ^M

288 Son.
Son.
1. A debauched son of a noble family is a foul
stream from a clear spring.
2. A good son is a good brother, good husband,
good father, good kinsman, good friend, good neigh-
bor and good citizen. Chinese,
3. A lame mule and a stupid son have to endure
everything. Sp.
4. Alas, for the son whose father goes to
heaven. Par,
5. A son pays his father's debts, but a father will
not recognize his son's. Chinese,
6. A wise son maketh a glad father, but a fool-
ish son is the heaviness of his mother. Bible,
7. Even as the father was so will the son be.
Scribleanumia,
8. Good wombs have borne bad sons. Shahs,
9. He that brings up his son to nothing breeds
a thief.
10. He to whom God gave no sons the devil
gives nephews. Sp,
11. He who picks up the staff of his father with
respect will not beat his dog. Chinese,
12. His mother an onion, his father garlic, him-
self comes out conserve of roses. Turh,
13. Leave your son a good reputation and em-
ployment.
14. Let a daughter be the care of her mother, but
the education of the son should be the delight of the
father. Pope.
15. Like father, like son. Por.

i6. She spins a good web that brings up her son
well. S/>.
J 7, The portrait of the father is but a picture to
the stranger, to the son a book which points out his
duties. Ckifuse.
18. The son disgraces himself when he blames his
father. Chinese.
19. The son that yawns at his father's oft re-
peated stories will weep little at hia death. Chinese.
20. The tardy son reaps not with his father.
M. Greek.
31. The ungrateful son is a wart on his father's
face ; to leave it is a blemish, to cut it off is pain.
Afghan.
32. To your son give a good name and a trade.
sp.
>3. Uprightness is the aliment of filial piety.
Chinese.
14. We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow.
Our wiser sons will think us so. Pope.
35. Who has no son has no satisfaction. Cingii/ese.

I. A son-in-law of the same village and a plough-
ing buffalo are overwrought. Tamil.
1. A son-in law's friendship is a winter's sun. Sp.
3. After the daughter is married then comes son-
in-laws a plenty. Fr,
4. I see by my daughter's face when the devil
takes hold of my son-in-law. Jial., Sp.
5. Invite your son-in-law to a fowi and he will
take away the lemon. Sf.

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Song. — Soon. — Sorb.

6. The son-in-law's sack is never full. Dan.
7. To a son-in-law and a hog you need not show
the way but once. . Sp.
8. Who has gold can choose his son-in-law. Ger.
Song.
1. A good song is none the worse for being
sung twice.
2. A silly song may be sung in many ways. Dan.
3. Be the day ever so long, at length cometh even
song.
4. Give me the making of the songs of a people,
I care not who makes their laws.
5. New songs are eagerly sung (or are liked
best). Ger,^ Dan.
6. Sweet song has betrayed many. Ger.
7. There is an end o' an auld sang.
Soon.
1. Soon enough is well enough.
2. Soon gained, soon squandered. Fr.
3. Soon got, soon spent.
4. Soon hot, soon cold.
Sore.
1. It is ill healing an old sore.
2. Old sores are hardly cured.
3. One always knocks one's self on the sore
place. Fr.
4. There is a salve for every sore. Smollett,
5. You rub the sore when you should riib the
plaster. Skaks.

Sorrow.

291

Sorrow.
1. A day of sorrow is longer than a month of
joy. Chinese.
2. A sorrowing bairn was never fat.
3. All sorrows are bearable if there is bread.
Don Quixote.
4. Alone in counsel, alone in sorrow. Dcm.
5. Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is
capable of real good. Mrs, Stowe.
6. Better two losses than one sorrow.
7. Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.
Moore.
8. Fat sorrow is better than lean sorrow.
9. For sorrow ends not when it seemeth done.
Shaks.
10. Give sorrow words : the grief that does not
speak,
Whispers the o'erfraught heart and bids it
break. Shaks.
11. Hang sorrow, care'U kill a cat. Benjonson.
12. He gains enough who loses sorrow. Fr.
13. He who loves sorrow will always find some-
thing to mourn over. Dan.
14. He who swims in sin will sink in sorrow.
15. Immoderate sorrow causes great mischief.
Cingalese.
16. It has pleased the gods that sorrow should
act as companion to sorrow.
17. It is weel wairt they hae sorrow that buy it
wi' their siller.

292

Sorrow.

18. Light sorrows speak, great ones are dumb.
Sp^taiar.
19. Make not two sorrows of one. Bacon.
20. One sorrow never comes but brings an heir,
That may succeed as his inheritor. Shaks,
21. On the sands of life sorrow treads heavily,
And leaves a print time cannot wash away.
NeeU.
22. Rejoice not in another's sorrow. T\irk.
23. Serve a great man and you will know what
sorrow is. Sp.
24. Shame on those hearts of stone that cannot
melt,
In soft adoption of another's sorrow. A. Hill.
25. Sin and sorrow are inseparable.
26. Sorrow and ill weather come unsent for.
27. Sorrow brings on premature old age. Latin.
28. Sorrow comes unsent for. Latin.
29. Sorrow concealed doth bum the heart to cin-
ders. Shaks.
30. Sorrow dwells on the confines of pleasure.
31. Sorrow ends not when it seemeth done.
32. Sorrow felt by a man conscious of his igno-
rance is like the joy of heaven. Cingalese.
33. Sorrow is always dry.
34. Sorrow is good for nothing but sin.
35. Sorrow is knowledge. Byron.
36. Sorrow seldom comes alone. Dan.
37. Sorrow will pay no debt.
38. Sorrows grow less every time they arc told,
Just like the age of a woman. Punch.

■

^^ SoMow. 293

39

Sorrows remembered sweeten present joy.

Pollok.

40.

That which comes with sin goes with sorrow.

Dm.

41.

The best cure for sorrow is to pity somebody.

4a.

The bridge between joy and sorrow is not

long.

Ger.

43-

The holidays of joy are the vigils of sorrow.

44-
a ha)

The sorrow men have lor others hangs upon

45-

The path of sorrow, and that path alone

Leads to ihe lands where sorrow is unknown.

Cawfer,

46.

This is the truth the poet sings,

That sorrow's crown of sorrow is remember-

ing happier things. Tennyson.

47-

Tis better to be lowly bom and range with

humble lovers in content, than wear a golden sor- B

row.

Shaks.

48.

'Tis held that sorrow makes us wise. Tennyson.

49.

'Tis not in the power of man to bear

The silent eloquence of female sorrow.

Massinger.

50-

Two in distress make sorrow less.

SI-

When sorrow is asleep wake it not.

S'-

When sorrows come, they come not single spies,

But in batalHons. Shaki.

53-

Whither goest thou, sorrow?— whither 1 am

wont

^.

2QA Soul.— Soup.
SonL
X. A little body often harbors a great soul.
s. A pensive soul feeds upon nothing but bitters.
3. A soul in a fat body lieth soft and is loth to
rise.
4. As sight in the eye so is the mind in the soul.
. 5. Com is cleansed with the wind and the soul
with chastening.
6. It is nobler to convert souls than to conquer
kingdoms. I/wis k Debannaire.
7. Lay not that flattering unction to your soul.
Shaks.
8. Little bodies have great souls.
9. Little souls on little shifts rely. Dryden.
10. My chest locked up, my soul safe. Par.
11. Provide for thy soul by doing good works.
13. The body is the socket of the soul.
13. The body is the workhouse of the soul.
14. The soul is a prisoner which in escaping
always kills his jailer.
15. The soul is not where it lives but where it
loves.
16. The soul of a choleric man sits ever by the
fireside.
17. What is a man profited if he shall gain the
whole world and lose his own soul. New Testament.
Soup.
I. All ought to be made to taste the soup, /. e.^
share the disagreeable, Gritntn^s Fairy Tales.

Sour Crapes.— Sour Kkaut.— Sowing.

29s

Sour Grapes.
1, " Sour grapes," as the fox said when he could
not reach them.
2. Sour grapes can never make sweet wine.
Sour Kraut.
1. Sour kraut is good for the cold fever. Ger.
Sowing.
■ I. After a bad harvest sow again. {Don't yield
to difficulties.) Latin.
2. Do not abstain from sowing for fear of the
pigeons.
3. Early sow, early mow.
4. He that sows his grain upon marble will have
much hunger before harvest. Arbuthnot.
5. He ihat sows in the highway tires his oxen
and loseih his com.
6. He that sows iniquity shall reap sorrow.
7. He that sows thistles shall reap prickles.
8. He who sows hatred shall gather rue. Dan.
g. He who sows here shall reap hereafter. Tvrk.
10. He who sows his land trusts in God.
11. He who sows iniquity shall reap shame. Dan.
12. He who sows little reaps little, Dan.
13. He who sows money will reap poverty. Dan.
14. He who sows peas on the highway does not
get all the pods into his barn. Dan.
15. He who sows thorns will never reap grapes.
16. He who sows well reaps well. ^.
17. If ihou wouldst \

thy hand but pour

a good crop, sow

lot of the sack.

H 396

SrANIARD.— Spau. <|

■

^H

If you sow

thorns you will reap pricks.

nrt. V

^1

111 sowers make ill harvest.

H

^H

Nobody so

NS a thing that will not sell.

«>. 1

^H

Sow leaves

in the mud and they'll grow like ^

^^H

1

^H

Sow good

works and thou shalt reap

gUd- 1

^H

1

^1 13-

The early sower never borrows of the late. |

^H

They have

sown the wind and they shall reap |

^H the whirlwind.

sm. 1

^B '5-

We must sow even after a bad harvest.

fl». 1

^P

Who sows

11 reaps ill.

//a/. M

^B 17-

Who sows

tioms should not go barefoot. |

/J-

, Hal. ■

Sputivd.

I

^H

Beware of

a white Spaniard and a

blacli ■

^H Englishman.

DuuA. m

^H

It is better to be in the forest and ea

pine ■

^^H cones, than to live in a castle with Spaniards.

Ilal. ■

^1

Strip a Spaniard of every virtue and yoi

have ■

^H a Portuguese.

■

^H

When a Spaniard sings either he is mad or H

^H has not a doit.

St. m

Sp«e.

■

^H

Always to be sparing is always to be in

want. ■

Dan. ■

^H

Better spare ai the brim than at the bottom. H

^H

Better spare to have of thine own than to ask 1

^H

■

^H

Better spared than ill spent.

J

^H

Ever spare

ever bare.

J

Spakk.

297

6. He that spares the wicked injures the good.
Syrus.
7. He that spares something to-day will have
something lo-morrow. Dutch.
8. He that spares when he is young may spend
when be is old.
9. He that spares vice wrongs virtue. Fr., Ger.
10. He that spareth the purse spoileth the child.
Fitlding.
It. He that spareth the rod hatetb his son, but
he that loveth him chastiseth him betimes. Bible.
12. He who spends more than he should.
Shall not have to spare when he would.
13. It is as great a mischief to spare all as it is
cruelty to spare none.
14. Spare well and spend well.
15. Spare when you are young, and spend when
you are old.
16. Spare your breath to cool your pottage.
17. 'Tis too late to spare when the pocket is bare.
Ger„ Dutch.
Spark.
1. A concealed spark is more to be feared than
an open fire. Ger.
2. A large fire often comes from a small spark.
Dem.
3. A little spark kindles a great fire.
Hal., Ger., Sp.
4. A little spark shines in the dark. Fr.
J. A little spark will set a whole city on fire.
Araiian.

298

Sparrow.— Spa&ta.^Spkak.

6. A small spark can cause a great conflagration*
Chinese.
7. A small spark makes a great fire.
8. Blacksmiths' children are not afraid of
sparks. Dan.
9. Even the smallest spark shines brightly in
darkness. Latin.
10. From a spark the house is burnt. Dutch,
11. The smith has always a spark in his throat
12. The spark sleeps in the stone. Ger.
Sparrow.
1. A sparrow is a little bird yet it has liver and
gall all complete. Chinese.
2. A sparrow suffers as much when it breaks its
leg as does a Flanders' horse. Dan.
3. Auld sparrows are ill to tame.
4. Every sparrow to its ear of wheat
5. How can sparrows expect to be admitted into
the society of peacocks ? Ifans Andersen.
6. Sparrows fight for com which is none of their
own.
7. Sparrows should not dance with cranes, their
legs are too short. Dan.
8. The sparrow builds in the martin's nest.
Sparta.
I. Sparta is not buried up in one man.
Callicretides.
Speak.
1. He speaks of things more ancient than chaos.
2. He speaks one word nonsense and two that
have nothing in them.

Spbar. — Spears. — Speech.

299

3. He that speaks lavishly shall hear as knav-
ishly.
4. He that speaks me fair and loves me not,
I'll speak him fair and trust him not.
5. He that speaks not, God hears not. Sp.
6. He that speaks of things that do not concern
him, shall hear of things that will not please him.
Arabian,
7. He that speaks sows, he that hears reaps.
8. He that speaks the things he shouldna, hears
the things he wa'dna.
9. He that speaks truth must have one foot in
the stirrup. Turk.
10. He who speaks ill of himself is praised by no
one. Dan.
11. That is well spoken which is well taken.
12. Where two speak the third is a bone in the
throat. Ger,
Spear.
I. A sharp spear needs no polish. Natal.
Spears.
I. Spears are not made of bulrushes.
Speech.
1. A man may say too much even on the best of
subjects.
2. A man never speaks of himself without loss.
Montaigne.
3. A man of all tongue is dangerous in his city.
4. A soft speech has its poison. Syrus.

jOO Spebch.
5. As a vessel is known by the sound whether it
is cracked or not, so men are proved by their
speeches whether they be wise or foolish.
Demestkmes.
6. As the man so is his speech. Dan.
7. Hasty speeches commit men to foolish
courses. Wiggleswarth.
8. He who says what he likes hears what he
does not like. Sp,
9. Honeyed speech often conceals poison and
galL Dm.
10. If thou speakest what thou wilt, thou shalt
hear what thou wouldst not. Bias.
11. It is better to say nothing than not enough.
Latin.
12. It is good speaking that improves good si-
lence. Dutch.
13. It is more necessary to guard the mouth than
the chest. Ger.
14. It is one thing to speak much and another to
speak pertinently.
15. Many speak much that cannot speak well.
t6. Men speak to each other by words, animals
by signs. Russian,
17. Much speaking and lying are cousins. Ger.
18. No speech good but of God.
19. None speak false when there is none to hear,
BeaftU.
10. One may say too much even upon the best
subject.
31. One may think what he dare not speak.

22. Some that speak no ill o£ any, do no good to
any.
23. Spare to speak and spare to speed. Fr,
24. Speak little and to the purpose and you will
pass for somebody. For.
25. Speak little of your ill luck and boast not of
your good luck. Dan.
26. Speak little, speak truth, spend little, pay
cash. Ger.
2y. Speak little with others, much with thyself.
Ggr.
28. Speak me fair and think what you will.
29. Speak not against the sun; i.e., argue not
against what is ckar.
jo. Speak well even to bad men.
31. Speak well of the dead.
32. Speak well of thy friends, be silent as to thy
enemies. Ger.
33. Speak well of your friend, of your enemy
neither well nor ill. Ital.
34. Speak what you will, men will turn it ill.
35. Speak when you are spoken to, come when
you are called.
36. Speaking evil of one another is the fifth ele-
ment men are made up of.
37. Speaking without thinking is shooting without
taking aim.
38. Speech is the gift of all, but thought of few.
Call/.
39. Speech is the picture of the mind.

902 Spkxchks. — Spending, Spendthrifts.
40. Speech was given to man to conceal his
thoughts. {Dialogue XIV, Le Chapon et la Paularde^
Voltaire^ Talleyrand.
41. The manner of speaking is as important as
the matter. Chesterfield.
42. Though the speaker be a fool, let the hearer
be wise. Sp.
43. Two ears to one tongue, therefore hear twice
as much as you speak. T\trk.
44. When a' men speak, nae man hears.
45. When a man is not known when he speaks
he is not believed. Ital.
46. Who says little has little to answer for. Ger.
47. Who says what he likes shall hear what he
does not like.
48. Who speaks sows, who listens reaps. Fr.
49. Who speaks two languages is a double man.
Ger.
Speeches.
I. Suspect the meaning and regard not speeches.
Socraies.
Spending, Spendthrifts.
1. To a good spender God is treasurer.
2. He that spends more than he is worth, spins
a rope for his own neck. -Fr.
3. He that spends without regard shall want
without pity.
4. Spend and be free, but make no waste.
5. Spend and God will send.
6. Spending money with many a guest
Empties the kitchen, the cellar and chest. Sp.

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7. Spend not when you may save, spare not
when you must spend,
8. Spend one penny less than the clear gain. Fr.
9. Spendthrifts are always of necessity greedy
and covetous.
10. Through not spending enough we spend too
much, Sp.
u. To spend much and gain little is the sure
road to ruin, Ger.
12. Who more than he is worth doth spend,
E'er makes a rope his life to end.
13. Who spends before he thrives
Will beg before he dies.
^m I. If you beat spice it will smell the sweeter.
^H 3. She that has spice enough may season as she
^H likes.
I
I
^H catchi
^H harmc
^H than

a small bags.

/ia/.

likes.
3. The best spices are ii
Spider.
. The spider lost her distaif, and ever since is
forced to draw her thread through her tail.
2. The spider's web lets the rat escape and
catches the fly. Sp.
Spiders.
I. Spiders might make silk if they could live In
harmony with each other.
Spinning.
. It is better to spin all night with Penelope
than sing all night with Helen.
, She that gazes much spins not much.

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Spirit.— Spit. — Spiti. — Spoil.

3. Spinner, spin softly, you disturb me, I am
praying. /Vr.
4. Spin not too fine a thread lest it break in
weaving up.
5. That which will not be spun let it not come
between the spindle and the distaff.
6. You must spoil before you spin.
Spifit*
1. The spirit b willing but the flesh is weak.
2. The virtue of the divine spirit illuminates
everything. Chinese^
Spit.
1. He who spits above himself will have it all
in his face. S^.
2. Spit in your hand and take better hold.
3. Spit not against Heaven, 'twill fall back in thy
face.
4. Spit not in the well, you may have to drink
its water.
5. When one spits against the moon it falls back
in his face. Bengai.
6. Who spits against Heaven it falls on his head.
Fr.
7. Who spits against the wind it fouls his beard.
Dutch.
Spite.
I. There is no spite like that of a proud beggar.
SpoiL
X. To spoil what is good by unreasonableness is
like letting off fireworks in the rain. Chinese.

Spoils— Sport— Sfot.— Stain.— Stairs.— Stake. jqS
Spoils.
I. To the victors belong the spoils.
Controverted Political Maxim.
Sport.
1. It is poor sport that is not worth the candle.
Herbert.
2. Said in sport, iheant in earnest. Ger.
3. Sport is sweetest when no spectators.
4. The best of the sport is to do the deed and
say nothing.
5. The strong man's sport is the weak man's
death. Ger.
Spot.
X. A spot is most seen on the finest cloth.
2. Are there not spots on the sun ? Fr.
3. In an ermine spots are soon discovered.
4. Point not at others' spots with a foul finger.
5. Skill or fortune will efface the spots. Dan.
6. The brightest of all things, the sun, has its
spots.
7. The fairer the paper the fouler the blot
Stain.
I. A white cloth and a stain never agree.
Yoruba.
Stairs.
X. The pain of having to ascend the stairs of
other men. Dante.
Stake.
1. An ill stake standeth longest.
2. It is a bad stake that will not stand in the
hedge one year.
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Standing. — Star.— Starlings.— Starve.

Standing.
I. He that stands may fall. Jtal.
3. He that stands upon a slippery place,
Makes nice of no vile hold to stay him up.
Shqks,
3. He who stands high is seen from afar. Dan.
4. He who stands near a wood-cutter is likely
to be hit by a splinter. Dan.
5. Who moves picks up, who stands dries up.
Ital.
Star.
1. If the stars were loaves, many persons would
sleep out of doors. Wolqfs {Africa).*
2. He that looks for a star puts out his candle.
3. No one sees what is before his feet ; we all
gaze at the stars. Cicero.
4. One may point at a star but not pull at it.
5. Some persons take more trouble looking for
pins than they would for stars. Punch.
6. Stars are not seen by sunshine.
Starlings.
I. Starlings are lean because they go in flockis.
Starve.
1. Starve together, eat together.
2. The replenished understand not the pain of
the starving. Turk.
State. (Maxims Political.)
I. Every state will be delivered from its calami-
ties when by the favor of fortune, great power unites
with wisdom and justice in one person. Plato.

Stati. (Maxims Political.} iqt
2. Fleets and annies are not always the strongest
bulwarks, the best resources of the sovereign are in
his family. Titus.
3. Flight toward preferment will be but slow
without some golden leathers.
4. Free man, Iree goods. (So free ships, free
goods, American.) Ger.
S- He that depends on popular will, swims with
fins of lead and hews down oaks with rushes. Shaks,
6. He that does anything for the public is ac-
counted to do it for nobody.
7. In the affairs of state the prince alone ought
to decide, the empress alone should concern herself
with domestic affairs. Chinese.
8. In the East a conqueror is always succeeded
by a coward, and the founder of an empire by a
fool.
9. In the old republic, money was despised and
virtue was the energy of the state. Tacitus.
10. Liberty with laws and government without
oppression.
11. Party is organized opinion. Bea.
12. Places are gods, placemen are the devil. Ger.
13. Powerand fortune must concurwith prudence
and virtue to effect anything great in a political
capacity. Plalo.
14. Private persons are (o be advised to take
care of themselves, but persons in a public charac-
terto take care of others. Pehpidas.
15. States of native liberty possess't,
The very poor may be very blest. Goldsmith.

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Stati. |MJ^xlu$ Political.)

i6. The best and securest of all keys is the
friendship of the people. {Remark of Antigonus
when advised to siese upon Athens as the key of aU
Gneee:)
17. The common people believe without proof and
they S4X>n find the author of that that never hap-
pened. Tacitus.
18. The common people pardon no faults in any
man.
19. The complaisance which produces popularity
is the source of the greatest operations of govern-
ment. Plato.
20. The extinction of party is the origin olfaction.
Walpok.
21. The fate of a nation will ultimately depend
upon the strength and health of the population. Bea,
22. The tickle populace always change with the
prince. Claudianus.
23. The first man who ruined the Roman people
was he who first gave them treats and gratuities.
Plutarch.
24. The foundation of every state is its education
of its youth. Diogenes.
25. The higher our position the more modestly
should we behave. Cicero.
26. The most successful legislators are those who
have consulted the genius of the people. Bea.
27. The noblest motive is the public good. Virgil.
28. The only security for civil rights is political
power. tHU.
29. The people follow the example of those above
ihem. Chinese.

State. (Maxims Pouticau) ioq
30. The people's voice, God's voice.
Fr., Ital., Ger., Sp.
31. The people will worship a calf if it be a
golden one,
32. The principle , of Dutch finance is to
mortgage industry to protect property. Bea.
33. The public has more interest in the punish-
ment of an injury than he who receives it.
Caio the Elder.
34. The public man needs but one patron, vix.,
the lucky moment. Bubver.
35. The stale that strives for liberty though
foiled,
Deserves at least applause for her attempt.
Cowper.
36. The unbought loyalty of men is the cheap
defence of nations. Burke.
37. The utility of my country is the spring that
guides all my actions. Cato the Younger.
38. There can be no affinity nearer than our
country, Flato.
39. 'Tis easier to drag a rock from the bottom of
the sea than the sentiments of right from the hearts
of the people. Daniel Webster.
40. We may endeavor to persuade our fellow
citizens but it is not lawful to force them even to
that that is best for them. Plato.
41. What constitutes a state f
• • • • jjgn ,^1jo their duties know,
But know their rights, and knowing dare
mainiain, Sir W.Jones.

3IO Statue.— Staying.— Stealing.
42. When crows are the guides of a people they
lead the carcasses to the dogs. Egyptian.
43. When vice prevails and impious men bear
sway,
The post of honor is a private station.
Addison.
44. Where the love of the people is assured the
seditious are thwarted. Bias.
45. What belongs to the public belongs to no-
body.
46. Who knows not how to dissemble knows not
how to reign. ItaL
47. Who serves the public serves no one.
Jtal., Dutch.
48. Will he who cannot manage his own house-
hold affairs attend to the management of a country ?
Tamii.
Statue.
1. I had rather it would be asked why I had not
a statue than why I had. Cato^
Staying.
X. He that stays in the valley will never get over
the hill.
2. Stay awhile and lose a. mile.
Stealing.
1. " Convey," the wise call it ; steal I foh, a fico
for the phrase ! Shaks.
2. He steals money from the beggar's dish. TUrfc.
3. He that steals can hide.
4. He that will steal a pin will steal a better
thing.

Steeu — Steer. — Step. ^ j j
5. He that will steal a pin will steal an ox.
6. He who steals once is never trusty. Sp.
7. If I am seen I am joking, if I am not seen I
steal. Ger.
8. It is a greater offence to steal dead men's
labors than their clothes. Synesius,
9. It is a shame to steal but a worse to carry
home.
10. It is not enough to know how to steal, one
must know how to conceal. Ital.
11. It is wit to pick a lock and steal a horse,
but wisdom to let it alone.
12. Steal the horse and carry home the bridle.
13. Who steals a calf steals a cow. Ger,
14. Who steals an ^gg will soon steal an ox. Ger.
15. Who steals an old man's supper does him no
harm.
16. Who steals another's good name makes him
poor indeed and not enriches himself. Ger.
17. Why should a rich man steal ?
18. You are a fool to steal if you can't conceal.
Steel.
I. Steel whets steel.
Steer.
I. Steer not after every mariner's direction.
Step.
1. Step after step the ladder is ascended.
2. Step not on the sleeping serpent. Turk.
3. The first step binds one to the second. Fr.
4. The first step is all the difficulty. Fr,

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Statue.— -Staying.— Stealing.

42. When crows are the guides oi a people they
lead the carcasses to the dogs. Egyptian.
43. When vice prevails and impious men bear
sway,
The post of honor is a private station.
Addison.
44. Where the love of the people is assured the
seditious are thwarted. Bias.
45. What belongs to the public belongs to no-
body.
46. Who knows not how to dissemble knows not
how to reign. Ital.
47. Who serves the public serves no one.
Ital., Dutch.
48. Will he who cannot manage his own house-
hold affairs attend to the management of a country ?
Tamii.
Statue.
I. I had rather it would be asked why I had not
a statue than why I had. Cato..
Staying.
I. He that stays in the valley will never get over
the hill.
3. Stay awhile and lose a^ mile.
Stealing.
1. " Convey," the wise call it ; steal I foh, a fico
for the phrase ! Shaks.
2. He steals money from the beggar's dish. 2\$rk.
3. He that steals can hide.
4. He that will steal a pin will steal a better
thing.

Steel. — Steer. — Step.

3"

5. He that will steal a pin will steal an ox.
6. He who steals once is never trusty. Sp,
7. If I am seen I am joking, if I am not seen I
steal. Ger.
8. It is a greater offence to steal dead men's
labors than their clothes. Synesius,
9. It is a shame to steal but a worse to carry
home.
10. It is not enough to know how to steal, one
must know how to conceal. ItaL
11. It is wit to pick a lock and steal a horse,
but wisdom to let it alone.
12. Steal the horse and carry home the bridle.
13. Who steals a calf steals a cow. Ger.
14. Who steals an ^gg will soon steal an ox. Ger.
15. Who steals an old man's supper does him no
harm.
16. Who steals another's good name makes him
poor indeed and not enriches himself. Ger,
17. Why should a rich man steal ?
18. You are a fool to steal if you can't conceal.
Steel.
I. Steel whets steel.
Steer.
I. Steer not after every mariner's direction.
Step.
1. Step after step the ladder is ascended.
2. Step not on the sleeping serpent. Turk.
3. The first step binds one to the second. Fr.
4. The first step is all the difficulty. Fr.

312 Step-father.— STEP-MarHER.— Stew.— Stick.
5. The hardest step is over the threshold. JtaL
6. There is but one step from the sublime to the
ridiculous. Napoleon.
Step-father.
I. He who will not obey father will have to obey
step-father. Dan.
Step-mother.
1. A step-mother has a hard hand. J)an.
2. There are as many good step-mothers as
white ravens. Ger,
3. What the bear is in the woods the step-mother
is at home. Ger.
Stew.
1. The stew that boils much loseth its flavor.
Sp.
Stick.
X. A bamboo stick is king of a vicious snake.
Tamil.
2. A stick is a peace-maker. Fr.
3. A straight stick is crooked in the water.
4. I gave him a stick to break my own head
with.
5. It is the raised stick makes the dc^ obey.
Dan.
6. There's no argument like that of the stick.
Sp.
7. To bring down two apples with one stick.
Dutch.
Stimulants.
I. The two greatest stimulants in the world are
love and debt* Bea,

Stingy.— Stir Not.— Stitch.— Stocks.— Stolen. 313
Stingy.
I. A stingy man is always poor. Fr.
Stir Not.
1. Stir not the dying embers.
2. Stir not the fire with a sword ; 1.^., do not
irritate an angry person. Latin.
Stitch.
I* A stitch in time saves nine.
Stocks.
1. My son, buy no stocks.
2. Both legs in the stocks or only one, 'tis all the
same. Ger.
Stolen.
1. Stolen bread stirs the appetite. Fr.
2. Stolen fruit is sweetest.
3. Stolen wool does not warm long. Ger.
4. Sweet is the apple when the keeper is away.
Latin,
5. There is no choicer morsel than that which is
stolen. Sp.
Stomach.
I. A full stomach praises Lent. Dan,
3. A full stomach studies unwillingly. Get.
3. A sharp stomach makes a short devotion.
4. It is a difficult task to speak to the stomach
because it hath no ears. Caio,
$, It is the stomach that bears the feet.
J?on Quixote.
6. No stomach is a span bigger than another.
Don Quixote,

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Stone.

7. Sharp stomachs make short fkyntjpn.
8. Small stomachs, light heels.
9. The stomach is a bad counsellor. Ger.
10. The stomach is a shopkeeper that gives no
credit. Ger.
11. The stomach is easier filled than the eye. Ger.
12. The stomach is master of all arts. Ger,
13. The stomach makes the thief and murderer.
Ger.
14. The stomach rules the head. Ger,
15. The stomach sharpens the senses and makes
the head witty. Ger^
16. Whea the stomach is full the heart is glad.
Dutch.
Stone.
1. A rolling stone gathers no moss.
Fr., Ital., Ger^ Sp., Por.^ Dutch.
2. A rolling stone gathers no sea-weed. {Rrfer-
ring to a stone on the sea-shore^ Latin.
3. A rugged stone grows smooth from hand to
hand.
4. Beware of the stone thou stumblest at before.
5. Get what you can and what you get hold,
'Tis the stone that will turn all your lead into
gold. {Philosopher's stone,)
6. He is not a good mason that refuses any
stone. Jtai.
7. No man can stay a stone.
8. Rolling stones gather no moss. Dctn.
9. The stone sharpens knives but is dull itself.
Petrarch.

w

STO0I.S.— Stooping.— Stop. i|c ^|

10.

The stone that everybody spits upon will be ^|

wet at l2Sl. Dan. B

IT.

The stone that lieth not in your way need not H

ofTend you. |

12.

Throw no stones at thine own window. ■

13-

To kill two birds with one stone. Par., Dutch. H

U-

When 3 stone leaves the hand it belongs to ■

the devil. |

IS-

Who throws a stone above himself may have H

it fall

on his own head. BibU. ■

i6.

Who throws a stone at the sky may have it H

fall on his head. Ifai. ■

StooirJ > ■

I.

Between two stools fall to the bottom. H

s.

Put a stool in the sun, when one knave rises H

another will come, vis., Ui places, of profit, H

Stooping. ■

1.

He must stoop that hath a low door. H

2.

He that will not stoop for a pin will never be H

wortl

a point. H

3-

I will never stoop low and pick up nothing. H

4-

Stoop and let it pass; the storm will have its H

way.

■

Stop. ■

1,

One can stop when he ascends but not when H

he descends. Napoleon. |

I.

The best lime to stop is in the beginning. ■

Usley. ■

3-

To stop the hand is the way to stop the H

mouth. CAhat. ^^^H

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Stopping.— Stori.— Storm.— Story.— Strangb.

Stopping.
I. When lazy horses begin to start, old women
to dance, and white clouds to rain, there is no stop-
ping them. Dan.
Store.
I. Store is no sore.
Stomi.
1. A calm precedes a storm.
2. It is a storm in a glass of water. Ger,
3. The more violent the storm the sooner it is
over. Seneca.
Story.
1. One man's story is no story, hear both sides.
Ger.
2. There is much good sleep in an old story.
Ger.
Strange.
I. Strange if true.
Stranger.
I. If thou be a stranger be merry and give the
first good-morrow.
Straws.
I. Straws show which way the wind blows.
Strength.
I. It is excellent to have a giant's strength.
But it is tyrannous to use it like a giant Shakt.
Stretch.
1. Stretch your arm no further than your sleeve
will reach.
2. Stretch your legs according to your coverlet
Ger,, Dutch.

^H St BiKt NO.— Striving.— Stko NO.— Stkongest. 317

H striking.

^H I. He that strikes my dog would strike me if he

^B durst.

H 2. He thai strikes with his tongue must ward

H with his head.

^M 3. He that strikes with his sword shall be beaten

H with the stabbard.

H 4. He who strikes another does not strike far

H from the head. Dan.

■ 5. StTikehuthear. J'/utarcA'iLi/eo/TAemis/ar/es.

^^ 6. Strike — for your altars and your fires,

^H Strike — for the green graves of your sires,

^H God — and your native land !

^K J^itz- Greene Salkck.

^^V 7. Strike, Dawkins, the devil is in the hemp.

^V 8. Strike while the iron is hot. John Webster,

^1 9. Strike while the iron's hot.

^H Fr., ItaL, Ger., For., DuUh, Dan.

^H Striving.

^B I. He that will not strive in this world should

^V not have come into it. /tai.

^H 3. He who strives to do, does more than he who

^H has the power. Sp.

^H 3. No striving against the stream.

^H 4. Strive not against the stream.

^1 5. Striving to better, oft we mar what's well.

■ .s:^^^.

H Strooe-

^^ t. He must be strong to pull a rope against a

^1 stronger. Dan. ^^

^1 ^^^1

^1 I. The strongest is always in the right. ^^^H

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Stubborn.— Studying. — Stumblb.

Stnbbofn.
I. I stubborn and you stubborn who is to cany
the load. ^.
Stndyiiifi:.
I. Some men grow mad by studying much to
knowy
But who grows mad by studying good to
know? Franklin,
s. Study makes learned men but not always
pious and wise. Ger.
3. The study of vain things is laborious idleness.
Stumble.
1. A stumble may prevent a fall.
2. Better stumble once than be always tottering.
Fr.
3. Even a horse though he has four feet stum-
bles. Ital., Ger.^ Dutch.
4. He that stumbles and falls not mends his
pace. Fr.^ Sp.
5. He who stumbles twice over the same stone
deserves to break his neck. Sp.
6. I never desired you to stumble at the stone
that lieth at my door.
7. It is disgraceful to stumble thrice at the same
stone. Greek.
8. No wonder if he break his head who stum-
bles twice over the same stone. Ger.
9. To stumble at a straw and leap over a block.
10. Well may he stumble that chooses a stony way.
XX. When one foot stumbles the other b near
falling. Dan.

.—Success. jiq
j2. Who is not quick on his feet will stumble,
13. Wisely and slow : they stumble thai run fast.
Shaks.
Stupidity.
1. Against stupidity the gods themselves fight
unvictorious. Greek, Schiller.
2. With a staircase before you, you look for a
rope to go down by. Sp.
Success.
I. A successful man loses no reputation.
a. But try the Casar or the Catiline
By the true touchstone, success. Byron.
, Deserve success, and you shall command it.
I 4. He who succeeds is reputed wise. Hal.
. It is a bad action success cannot justify.
6. It is success that colors all in life ; success
makes fools admired, makes villains honest.
Thomson.
7. Military successes beyond all others elevate
the mind of a nation. Atterbury.
8. No hand of strife is pure but that which wins.
Daniel,
9. Nothing succeeds like success. Maga. '
10. One secret of success is to know how to deny
yourself and other people.
11. Success alters our manners.
12. Success brings many to ruin. PhiEiirus.
13. Successconsecrates the foulest crimes. Seneca.
14. Success has many friends. Greek.
15. Success is by acting, not wishing.
16. Success is never blamed.

320 SUCCOK.-*SUPPERER, SUFFERING.
17. Success is the child of audacity. Bea.
18. Success leads to insolence. Latin.
19. Success makes a fool seem wise.
20. Success repays us for all our pains.
SI. The merit of success is claimed by all ; ca-
lamity is imputed to the general only. Tadtus.
22. The secret of success is constancy to pur-
pose. Bea.
23. 'Tis Heaven that gives success. Homer.
24. Tis not in mortals to command success,
But we'll do more, Sempronious; we'll de-
serve it. Addison.
Snccor.
I. Wise Plato said the world was stored,
That succor each to other might afiEord.
Denham.
Sufferer, Snffering.
1. Another's suffering is but skin deep. M. Greek.
2. Better to suffer than to do ill.
3. He that will not suffer evil must never think
of preferment
4. He who much has suffered much will know.
Jiotner.
5. He who suffers innocently is in better condi-
tion than they who unjustly condemn. Agis.
6. I would rather be found suffering than doing
what is unjust Phocion.
7. It is the lot of man to suffer. Bea.
8. Know how sublime a thing it is
To suffer and be strong. Longfellow.

Suicide. — Sultan. — Summer.

321

9. Many a one suffers for what he cannot help.
Fr.
10. Of suffering comes ease.
11. Suffer in order to know; toil in order to
have. Sp.
12. Suffering is the mother of fools, reason of
wise men.
13. Sufferings are lessons. Greek.
14. The sufferer becomes a chatterer. Turk.
15. We must suffer much or die young. For.
16. When another man suffers a piece of wood
suffers. Arabian.
17. Who breathes must suffer, and who thinks
must mourn,
And he alone is blessed who ne'er was bom.
Frior.
18. Whom can we accuse but ourselves for what
we suffer. Massitiger.
Suicide.
1. He dies twice who perishes by his own hand.
Syrus.
2. Tis more brave to live than to die.
Snltan.
I. The sultan's interdict lasts three days. IS$rk.
Sommer.
1. A dry summer ne'er made a dear peck.
2. A good winter brings a good summer.
3. It will not always be summer. Hesiod.
4. Summer will not last forever. Latin.
5. When the summer is winter, and the winter
summer, it is a sorry year. Sp.
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Sun.

Sua.
X. As long as the sun shines one does not ask
for the moon. Russian.
2. Clouds, that the sun builds up, darken hkn.
3. However bright the sun may shine, leave not
your cloak at home. Sp.
4. If the sun shines on me I care not for the
moon. Ital., Sp,
5. In every country the sun riseth in the morning.
6. Make hay while the sun shines. Ger.
7. Make use of the sun while it shines. Dan.
8. Men shut the door against the setting sun.
Shaks.
9. Men use to worship the rising sun.
xo. Men worship the rising not the setting sun.
Pomp^.
11. The sun can be seen by nothing but its own
light.
12. The sun is not the light for study.
13. The sun is still beautiful though ready to
set.
14. The sun is the king of torches.
Western African Negro.
15. The sun may do its duty though your grapes
are not ripe.
16. The sun passes over filth and is not defiled.
Itah
17. The sun shines even on the wicked. Seneca.
18. The sun shines for all the world. Fr.
19. The sun will bring to light what lay under
the snow. Ger,

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20. The sun will go down all by itself without
thy assistance. Hebrew.
21. They that walk much in the sun will be tanned
at last.
22. 'Tis day still while the sun shines.
23. When the sun flies, the shadow dies. Oriental,
24. When the sun is highest he casts the least
shadow.
25. When the sun rises the disease will abate.
26. When the sun shines on thee, thou needest
not care for the moon. ItaL
Sun-dial.
1. The sun-dial only counts bright hours.
2. What's the use of a sun-dial in the shade ?
Sunshine.
I. No sunshine but hath some shadow.
Supererogation.
1. He has dashed with his oar to hasten the
cataract.
2. He has waved with his fan to give speed to
the winds. Terence,
3. It is needless to pour water on a drowned
mouse.
4. Owls to Athens, coals to Newcastle, en-
chantments to Egypt, pepper to Hindostan, indul-
gences to Rome.
5. To add water to the ocean. Latin.
6. To carry a lantern in mid-day. Fr.
7. To carry water to the sea or river.
/^r., Ger.^ Por.^ Dutch.

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SUPS&STITIONS. — SURK.— SU&BTYSUIP. — SURFKITS.

8. You carry faggots to the wood. Horace.
9* You carry oil to the city of olives. Hebrew*
Snperstitions.
X. Superstitions would soon die out if so many
old women wouldn't act as nurses to keep them alive.
Punch.
Snre*
1. It is better to be sure than sorry.
2. No one so sure but he may miss. Dutch.
Snretythip.
1. Be bail and pay for it.
2. Be surety and evil is at hand. Greek.
3. Beware of suretyship for thy best friends.
Lord Burleigh.
4. Connaught security : three in a bond and a
book oath.
5. He that hateth suretyship is sure. ^ Bible.
6. He that is surety for another is never sure
himself.
7. He that is surety for a stranger shall smart
for it. Bible.
8. He who is surety for another pays for him.
Dutch.
9. Whoso would know what he is worth, let him
never be a surety. Ttal.
10. Your surety wants a surety.
Surfeits.
I. Surfeits destroy more than the sword.
John Fletcher.

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T/iti. ■

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s he of the soul.

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hacked ■

■ himself.

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surprises, either good or |

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Suspicions.

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half condemned.

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3 26 Swallow.— Swan. — Sweat. —Sweep.— Sw^bt.
11. Suspicion is the bane of friendship. Petrarch.
12. Suspicion is the poison of friendship. Fr.
13. Suspicion is the virtue of a cowanL
14. Suspicion may be no fault, but showing it is
a great one.
15. Suspicions among thoughts are like bats
among birds that ever fly by twilight. Bcuon.
16. The losing side is full of suspicion. Syrus.
Swallow.
1. One swallow does not make a summer.
ItaL, Sp., DuUh, Dan.
2. One swallow makes not a spring, nor a wood-
cock a winter.

1. It is not good for the swan to teach eaglets
to sing. Dan.
2. The swan sings when death comes.
3. When the rooks are silent the swans begin
to sing. Dan.
Sweat.
1. Sweat makes good mortar.
2. The sweat of Adam's brow hath streamed
down ours ever since.
Sweep.
I. Sweep before your own door before you look
at your neighbor's.

1. After sweet meat comes sour sauce.
2. All sweets are not wholesome.
3. Every white will have its black and every
sweet its sour. Old Sang.

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4. He deserves not sweet that will not taste of
sour.
5. He is worthy of sweet who has tasted bitter.
Dan.
6. He who has not tasted bitter knows not what
sweet is. Ger,
7. He who hath bitter in his breast spits not
sweet.
8. No sweet without some bitter.
9. Short and sweet.
10. Sweetmeat must have sour sauce. liaL
11. Sweets to the sweet. Shaks,
12. That is not always sweet in the maw that is
sweet in the mouth.
13. That which is bitter to endure may be sweet
to remember.
14. The fly that sips treacle is lost in the sweets.
Gay.
15. There is no sweet without sour. Ger.
16. What is sweet in the mouth is not always
good in the stomach. Dan.
17. Who has tasted a sour apple will have the
more relish for a sweet one. Ger.
18. Who hath bitter in his mouth spits not all
sweet.
Sweetheart.
I. Nobody's sweetheart is ugly. Duich.
Swift.
I. Swift to attack, swift to run away.
Swimming.
I. Swim with the stream.

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SwiNDUNG. — Swiss. — SwoRi>.

s. There yet may be peril, but no man is able
To learn how to swim on his library table.
3. Tis hard to swim against the stream.
4. To swim and swim more and be drowned on
shore. Sp.
5. To swim between two waters. JFr.
Swindling.
I. Swindling is the perfection of civilization.
Voltaire.
Swiss.
I. No money no Swiss.
s. The Swiss fight for any god or man.
Sword.
1. A captain's sword must be tied to his heart,
his heart fixed to his head and conducted by his
judgment Spmola.
2. A leaden sword in an ivory scabbard.
3. A good swordsman is never quarrelsome. Fr.
4. A sword anointed with honey. Latin.
5. An inch in a sword or a palm in a lance is a
great advantage. Sp,
6. He that is master of a sword can best plead
about boundaries. Lysander.
7. He who has his sword is master of himself,
!>., can take his awn life, Cato the Younger,
8. He who has the longest sword is always
thought to be in the right.
9. He who plays with a sword plays with the.
devil. Gallician.
10. Keep your sword between you and the strength
of a clown.

SVLLABLES.— .SYMPA

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II, Leave not a. sword in the hand of an idiot.
I J. Ne'er put a sword in a woodman's hand.
15, One swoid keeps another in the scabbard.
Ger., Dan.
14. Put not a naked sword in a madman's hands.
15. Scan den berg's sword musthave Scandenberg's
arm.
16. The palate kills more than the sword.
17. The rusty sword and empty purse plead the
perfonnance of covenants.
iS. The sword and the ring according to the hand
that bears them. Sp., For.
19. The sword from heaven above falls not down
10. The sword is not to be used against him who
asks forgiveness. Turk.
21. The sword keeps the peace of the land. Dan.
22. The sword knows no friends. Ger.
13. Those who refuse the sword must renounce
the sceptre. Gibbon.
34. When the sword is in the mouth you must
caress the sheath. Dan.
Syllables.
I. Syllables govern the world. Seldai.
Sympathy.
1. No man limps because another is hurt. Dan. ,
2. One does not feel three hundred blows on
another's back. Scmian.
3. Other men's ills hang by a hair, Don Quixote.

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System. — ^Tablb. — Tailors.

4. Sympathy is the solace of the poor, but for
the rich there is consolation. Bea.
System.
1. A certain place for everything and every-
thing put to its use. Hartley.
2. A distinct name for everything and every-
thing called by its name. Hartley,
3. A peg for every hole. J¥.
4* A place for everything and everything in its
place,
5. A proper time for everything and everything
done in its time. Hartley.
6. All is soon ready in an orderly house,

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Rabbit.— Rabhle.— Race. — Race.— Rack.
R.
Rabbit.
1. Like a rabbit, fat and lean in twent}^-four
hours.
2. Smart rabbit go home fo* de snow done fal-
len. American Negro,
Rabble.
I. Sometimes the rabble discovers what is right.
Latin.
Race.
1. He lives to build, not boast, a generous race ;
No tenth transmitter of a foolish face.
Savage the bastard,
2. It is better to be the first of one*s race than
the last (meanest). Fr,
3. The decay of a race is an inevitable necessity
unless it lives in deserts and never mixes its blood.
Bea,
Race.
1. The race is got by running.
2. The race is not always to the swift, nor the
battle to the strong.
Rack.
I. The rack can extort a false confession from
the innocent. Latin,
Rag^amuffin.
I. He who is always drinking and stuffing
Will in time become a ragamuffin. Ger.
Rage.
1. Rage furnishes no weapon. Latin,
2. Rage is a brief insanity. (Jra brevis furor est,)

Raillery.— Rain.— Rainbow.— Rank.— Rare, j 87
Raillery.
1. No raillery is worse than that which is true.
2. Raillery which plays with the foibles of the
great is long remembered and seldom forgiven.
Tacitus.
Rain*
1. After great droughts come great rains. Dutch.
2. ** Agree between yourselves" (as to the time)
quoth Arlotto, " and I will make it rain." ItaL
3. A heavy shower is soon over. Ital.
4. A little rain stills a great wind. Fr.
5. After fain comes sunshine. Fr.^ Ger.y Dutch.
6. It is pleasant to look on the rain when one
stands dry. Dutch.
7. Much rain wears the marble. Shaks.
8. One alreadv wet does not fear the ram. Turk.
9. Small rain lays a great wind. Itctl.
10. Small rain lays great dust.
11. Some rain, some rest.
12. When it rains it pours.
Rainbow.
1. The rainbow at night is the sailor's delight.
2. The rainbow in the morning gives the sailor
warning.
Rank.
1 . Rank has its bores as well as pleasures. Bea.
2. The rank is but the guinea stamp,
A man 's a man for a* that. Bums.
3. There is a rank of mind as well as of birth.
Rare.
I. Rare commodities are worth more than good.

Igg Rascau^Rashness.— Rasp.— Rat.
1. A rascal grown rich has lost all his kindred.
2. A rascal praised, you make his faults your
own. Horace.
Rashness.
1. A rash man, a skin of good wine and a glass
vessel do not last long. For.
2. A rash man provokes trouble, but when the
trouble comes is no match for it Chinese.
3. It is best not to be rash. JValter Scoff,
4. Rash presumption is a ladder which will break
the mounter's neck.
5. Rashness brings success to few, misfortune
to many. Phcedrus.
6. Rashness is not always fortunate. Uvy.
7. Rashness is not valor.
Rasp.
I. You must use the rasp before you turn to the
sand-paper.
Rat.
1. A good rat will not injure the grain near its
own hole. Chinese.
2. A rat makes a hole, a snake inhabits it Tamil.
3. A rat may flood a province.
Sydney Smithy speaking of Holland.
4* An old rat easily finds a hole. Dufch.
5. An old rat won't go into a trap. Dufch.
6. Do you not smell a rat ? Benjonson.
7. Many a rat devours the lion. Ger.
8. Rats and conquerors must expect no mercy
in misfortune.

Raven. — Razor.

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9. Rats do not play tricks with kittens. Sp.
10. Rats desert a sinking ship.
11. The rat betrayed by his own trap perishes.
Latin.
12. The rat that has but one hole is soon caught.
Sp.j Dutch,
13. The very rats had instinctively quit it (the
ship). Shaks,
Raven.
1. A raven can wish a long time before the
horse die therefrom. Ger,
2. Foster a raven and it will pluck out your
eyes. Sf.
3. He that takes a raven for his guide will light
on carrion. Oriental.
4. The raven chides blackness.
5. The raven doth not hatch a lark. Shaks.
6. The raven is fair when the rook is not by.
Dan.
7. The young ravens are beaked like the old.
DuUh.
8. *' Thou art a bitter bird," said the raven to
the starling.
9. When the ravens cry the rain follows. Ger.
10. Who doth the raven for a guide invite,
Must marvel not on carcasses to light.
Oriental.
Razor.
1. A razor against a whetstone, i>., he has met his
match, Latin.
2. The razor cannot shave itself.
West African Negro.

IQO

Rrading. — Ready.— Reason.

Reading.
1. And better had they ne'er been born,
Who read to doubt or read to scorn.
Walter Scott.
2. By reading a man antedates his life and
makes himself contemporary with ages past. Collier.
3. He that can read and meditate will not find
his evenings long or life tedious.
4. Read and you will know.
Mother of Sir William Jones.
5. Reading between the lines.
6. Reading maketh a full man, conversation a
ready man, and writing an exact man. Bacon.
Ready.
I. He who is not ready to-day will be less so
to-morrow. Ovid.
Reason.
1. A man without reason is a beast in season.
2. Do not an ill thing in company nor alone, but
above all respect yourself; govern yourself by
reason. Pythagoras,
3. He that does not reason is a slave.
4. He that will not reason is a bigot.
5. I have no other but a woman's reason,
I think him so because I think him so. Shahs.
6. If you will not hear reason, she will surely
rap your knuckles.
7. Neither great poverty nor great riches will
hear reason.
8. Reason binds the man.
9. Reason does not come before years. Ger.

Rebel, Rebellioit. igj
10. Reason governs the wise man and cudgels
the fool.
11. Reason lies between the bridle and the spur.
Ital.
12. Reason not with the great,
'Tis a perilous gate. Fr,
13. Reason serves when pressed, but honest in-
stinct comes a volunteer. Pope.
14. Strong reasons make strong actions. Shaks,
15. Swift instinct leaps, slow reason feebly climbs.
Young,
16. The reason of the strongest is always the best.
La Fontaine,
17. There are subjects upon which we cannot
reason, we can only feel. Maga,
18. 'Tis in vain to speak reason where it will not
be heard.
19. To tell a lie and give a reason for it.
20. Two principles in human nature reign.
Self-love to urge and reason to restrain.
21. We reason from our heads but act from our
hearts. Fielding,
Rebel, Rebellion.
1. To despise life is the first qualification of a
rebel. Gibbon.
2. Who draws his sword against his prince must
throw away the scabbard.
3. An insurrection that stands still is an insur-
rection ruined. Maga,
4. Conquered rebellion strengthens a govern-
ment. Fielding,

IQ2 Rebuke.— RECKIVEII.--RBCBIVING.
Rebuke.
1. Open rebuke is better than secret hatred.
2. Rebuke with soft words and hard arguments.
3., Rebuke ought not to have a grain more of
salt than of sugar.
Receiver.
I. The receiver is as bad as the thieL
Receiving.
1. What is worth receiving is worth returning.
Itai.
2. Who receives should thank, who gives should
be silent. Ger.
Reckoning.
1. A short reckoning makes long friendship. Ital.
2. Always count the cost.
3. Don't reckon your eggs before they are laid«
Itai.
4. Don't reckon without your host. Ger.
5. He that reckoneth before his host must reckon
again.
6. I may go over my reckoning but not over
my time. Dutch.
7. Merry is the feast*making until we come to
the reckoning.
8. Misreckoning is no payment.
9. Old reckonings breed new disputes.
Fr^ Ital,, Sp.
10. Reckon not your chickens before they are
hatched.
11. Short reckonings make long friends.
Fr,^ Ger,y For.^ Dutch.

Red. — Reed. — Refinement.

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12. The fairer the hostess the fouler the reckon-
ing.
13. The fairer the hostess the heavier the reckon-
ing. Ger,
14. Who can reckon well will not become poor.
Ger,
15. Who reckons without his host must reckon
again. Dutch,
16. Wine and roast ? Yes, yes 1 Count and bill !
Woe, woe I ^ Turk,
Red.
I. " Red is love's color," said the wooer to his
foxy charmer. Ger,
Reed.
1. He that sits among reeds may cut pipes as he
pleases.
2. Lean not on a reed.
3. Thou trusted in the staff of this broken reed.
Bible,
4. Where there are reeds there is water.
Refinement.
I. Over refinement is the herald of the decay of
a country.
Reformation, Reforms.
1. A true reformation must begin at the upper
end.
2. Fire and faggots are but sad reformers.
3. He who reforms, God assists. Sp.
4. Reforms are generally most unpopular where
most needed. MartitCs History of India,
5. To turn over a new leaf.
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IQA Refusing. — Regard. — Relations (Kindred).
Refusing.
1. A prompt refusal has in part the grace of a
favor granted. Ijitin.
2. Some refuse roast meat and afterwards long
for the smoke of it. ItaL
3. To refuse graciously is half to grant a favor.
Syrt^.
4. Who refuses, muses. Fr.
Regard*
1. I am the slave of him who regards me and
the king of him who disregards me. Turk,
Relations (Kindred).
1. A bag full of flour and a purse full of money
are the best relations in the world. Roumanian,
2. Curse on accounts with relations. Sp,
3. Dine with thy aunt, but not every day.
4. Go not every evening to your brother's house.
5. Go to your aunt's house but not every day.
Sp.
6. He who abandons his poor kindred God for-
sakes him.
7. If my aunt had been a man, she'd have been
my uncle.
8. I want more for my teeth than my relations.
For,
9. Let us have florins and we shall find cousins.
ItaL
10. Much kindred, much trouble. Fr.
11, My sister's son is a kinsman beyond dispute.
Sp.

Religion.

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12. My teeth are nearer than my kindred. Sp.
13. No relation is poor. Sp.
14. Poor relations have little honor. Dan,
15. Relations or not relations my turnips are
three hundred cash per picul. Chinese,
16. The kinsman's ears will hear it.
17. The nearest boor is the nearest kinsman when
the calf lies in the ditch. Dutch,
18. Though my father-in-law is a good man, I do
not like a dog with a bell.
19. With a relation eat and drink, but transact no
business with him. M, Greek,
Religion.
1. A man should be religious but not supersti-
tious. Latin,
2. A man without religion is like a horse with-
out a bridle. Latin,
3. A profitable religion never wants proselytes.
Ital,
4. All things that are good and beautiful make
us more religious. Bea,
5. Be not righteous over much. Bible,
6. Each one holds his own religion for the best.
Ger,
7. " I have learned religion, I believe what I
will, " said the cobbler. Ger,
8. It matters not what religion an ill man is of.
9. Much religion but no goodness.
10. No man's religion ever survived his morals.

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Rbmedy.

1 1. Our religion and our language we suck in with
our milk.
12. Religion has true and lasting joys; weigh all
and so if anything have more let heaven go.
13. Religion is the best armor but the worst
cloak.
14. Religion lays not an icy hand on the true joys
of life. BuckminsUr,
15. Religion was never designed to make our
pleasures less.
16. Religion should be the rule of life, not a casual
incident to it. Bea.
17. Religious contention is the devil's harvest Fr,
18. The strength of empire is in religion.
Benjanson.
19. There never was and never will be a country
without a religion. Byron,
Remedy.
1. Divine Providence always places the remedy
by the side of the evil. J*r,
2. Extreme remedies are never the first to be
resorted to.
3. How readily do men at ease prescribe to those
who're sick at heart. Tm^ence.
4. No one tries extreme remedies at first Seneca.
5. Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie,
Which we ascribe to Heaven. Shake,
6. The best remedy against an ill man is much
ground between both.
7. The remedy is worse than the disease. Scotch.

Remewbkr.— Rt 11 KM SKANCE.— Remorse. iqt

8, The remedy of lo-morrow is too late for ihe

.evil of to-day. Sp.

. 9. There is a remedy for all things but the ap-

pointed time to die. litrA.

10. There is a remedy for everything could men

find it.

II. There is a remedy for everything except

death. J'r., Sp., Dutch, Dan.

\z. Where remedies are needed, sighing avails

not. Ital.

Remember.

I. It is as well now and then not to remember ^^

all we know. Syrus, ^^^^H

2. Remember Lot's wife. New Testament. ^^^^H

3. Remember Milo's end, ^^^H

Wedged in that timber which he strove to ^|

rend. Roscommon , ^|

4. That is pleasant to remember which was hard ^^^^H

to ^^^^1

5. That which was endured with difficulty is re- ^^^^|

membered with delight. Smeca. ^^^^|

6. We have all forgotten more than we remem- ^^^H

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7. What was hard to bear is sweet to remember, ^^^H

^^^1

8. What you remember to your cost you remem- ^^^^H

ber long. Dan. ^^^^H

t. The remembrance of a well spent life is ^^^H

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Remorse. ^^^^H

I, Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue. Bulwer. ^^^^H

I og Rbmovino.— Renter.— Repair.— Repentanci.
Removing.
1. I never saw an oft-removed tree, nor yet an
oft-removed family that throve so well as those that
settled be. Franklin.
2. One is never so rich* as when he moves from
one house to another. I*r.
3. Plants oft removed never thrive. Ger,
4. Remove an old tree and it will wither to
death.
5. Remove not the ancient landmarks which
thy fathers have set. Solomon.
6. Three removes are as bad as a fire.
7. Trees often transplanted seldom prosper.
Dutch.
8. Two removes are as bad as a fire.
Renter.
I. The owner has one house, the renter a thou-
sand. Turk.
Repair.
1. He that repairs not a part builds all.
2. He who does not repair a gutter has a whole
house to repair. Sp,
3. It is better to repair the beginning than the
eiid. Ger.
4. Let him that receives the profit repair the
inn.
Repentance.
1. A noble mind disdains not to repent. Homer.
2. Amendment is repentance.
3. Every one finds sin sweet and repentance
bitter. Dan.

Repentance. log
4. He that protects an ill man may live to repent
it.
5. Late repentance is seldom worth much. Dan,
6. Not to repent of a fault is to justify it.
7. He who seeks repentance for the past
Should woo the angel virtue. in the future.
Bulwer,
8. I left what I know for what I hear and re-
pented. Sp,
9. He that repents of a fault upon right grounds
is almost innocent Seneca,
10. Repentance costs dear. Fr,^ Sp,
11. Repentance does not bring the lost back. Ger,
12. Repentance follows hasty counsels. Syrus,
13. Repentance is not to be measured by inches
and hours.
14. Repentance is the heart's medicine. Ger,
15. Repentance is the whip for fools.
16. Short acquaintance brings repentance.
17. Take nothing in hand that may bring repent
ance. Dutch
18. That may be soon done which brings long re
pentance. Dan
19. The sinning is the best part of repentance
{An atrocious maxim,) Arabian
20. Thou must repent,
And one bad act with many deeds well done
mayst cover. Milton,
21. 'Tis never too late to repent.
22. When all is consumed repentance comes too
,'ate.

200 Rkhort. — Reproach. —Reproof.— Reputation.
23. You will never repent of being patient and
sober.
Report.
1. In the report of riches and goodness always
bate one half. Sp.
2. Report makes the wolf bigger than he is. Ger.
Reproach.
1. Reproach is infinite and knows no end.
2. The sting of a reproach is the truth of it.
Reproof.
1. A smart reproof is better than smooth deceit.
2. Public reproof hardens shame.
3. Reprove not a scomer lest he hate thee;
rebuke a wise man and he will love thee. Bible.
4. Reprove others but correct thyself.
5. Reprove thy friend privately, commend him
publicly. Solon.
6. Reproof never does a wise man harm.
7. Who reproves the lame must go upright. Dan.
8. It is better to reprove privately than to be
angry secretly.
Reputation.
1. A bad wound may be cured, bad repute kills.
Sp.
2. A good name covers theft Ger.
3. A good name is a rich inheritance. Ger.
4. A good name is a second inheritance. Ger.
5. A good name is better than a golden girdle.
Fr.
6. A good name is better than precious oint-
ment. Bible.

201

J. A good name is better than riches, Sii/e.
8. A good name keeps its lustre in the dark.
9. A good reputation is a fair estate.
10. A great reputation is a great charge,
: [. A good name is sooner tint than won,
iz. A man had better die than lose his good
name. li/ri.
13. A man's charactei' reaches town before his
14. A splendid reputation is not amongst the
necessaries of life. Z>r. Johnson.
15. A wounded reputation is seldom cured.
16. Beware of him who regards not his repu-
17. Good name in man or woman
Is the immediate jewel of their soul. Skaks,
18. Good repute ia belter than a golden belt. Fr.
19. Good repute is like the cypress, once cut it
never puts forth leaf again. Ital.
zo. He deserves no man's good word of whom
all men speak well. Arabian.
, He that regardelh not his reputation despis-

eth V

a dead n

>i. He who hath lost his repu
among the living, Sp.
13. He who hath lost his good name how shall he
in the future earn his living. Latin.
24. He is born in a good hour who gets a good
name.
25, How difficult it IS to SKve the bsrk of reputa-
tion from the rocks of ignorance. PetrartM.

202 Rbputation.
26. If one's name be up he may lie abed*
27. It is better to lose an eye than one's reputa-
tion. TUrk.
28. It takes a lifetime to build up a good repu*
tation ; it may be lost in a moment.
29. Let every man strive to add a good name to
his other capital.
30. No ruins are so irreparable as those of repu-
tation.
31. One man may steal a horse, and another may
not look over the hedge.
32. Our reputation for wisdom depends much on
our success. Euripides.
33. Reputation is commonly measured by the
acre.
34. Reputation is often got without merit and
lost without fault.
35. Reputation serves to virtue as light does to a
picture.
36. Repute hangs a man. Fr.
37. Take away my good name, take away my life.
38. The first step to a good name is a good life,
the next is good behavior.
39. The purest treasure mortal times afford
Is spotless reputation. Shaks^
40. The reputation of a man depends on the first
steps he makes in the world. Pope.
41. There is no reputation so clear but a slan-
derer may stain it.
42. When his name is up he may lie abed.
Sp€Ct€ttor.

KeQU it AL. — R ESOL UTION. — RESPECT.

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43. When your name is up you may lie abed till
noon.
Requital.
I. He that looks for a requital serves himself,
not me.
Resolution.
1. A resolute man cares nothing about diffi-
culties. Tamil,
2. Be resolved and the thing is done. Chinese,
3. Bold resolution is the favorite of Providence.
4. Every task can be accomplished by a man of
re so 1 u t i o n . Chimse,
5. He who refuses to serve either king or prince
is possessed of lofty resolution. Chinese.
6. He who resolves suddenly repents at leisure.
7. In things that must be it is good to be reso-
lute.
8. Once resolved, the trouble is over.
9. Resolution is independent of great age, but
without it one lives a hundred years in vain. Chinese,
10. Set a stout heart to a steep hill-side. Scotch,
11. Set hard heart against hard hap.
12. The first thing a scholar does is to establish
resolution. Chinese.
13. With ease a man of worth establishes a fam-
ily, and what is hard to the true superior man when
he resolves. Chinese,
14. Without resolution a man must make his liv-
ing by the sweat of his brow. Chinese,
Respect.
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Rest. — R rrREAT.

2. Respect for one's parents is the highest of
the duties of civil life. Chinese.
Rest.
1. A man rests all over when he lies down.
Stonewall Jackson,
2. A short rest is always good. Dan.
3. All that are in a bed must not have quiet
rest.
4. Alternate rest and labor long endure. Ovid.
5. Better a little with rest than much with un-
rest. Ger.
6. Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest. Sterne,
7. Rest comes from unrest and unrest from rest.
Ger.
8. Rest is good after the work is done. Dan.
9. Rest is sweet after strife. Owen Meredith,
10. Rest is the sweet sauce of labor. Plutarch,
11. Rest is won only by work. Turk,
12. Rest makes rusty. Dan,
13. Silken rest tie all my cares up.
Beaumont atid Fletcher,
14. The fertile field becomes sterile without rest.
Sp,
15. Too much rest itself becomes a pain. Homer,
Retreat.
1. A brave retreat is a brave exploit.
2. Flying men often meet their fate. Uvy,
3. He that fights and runs away,
May live to fight another day. Butler,
4. He who retires does not fly. Don Quixote,

Retribution.

20S

5. In all the trade of war no feat
Is nobler than a brave retreat. Butler.
Retribution.
1. As they brew so let them bake.
2. As they pipe to me I will dance. Por.
3. As they sow let them reap.
4. As you begun the dance you may pay the
piper. Dutch.
5. As you brew so drink.
6. As you have ground so eat. M, Greek.
7. As you make your bed so you must lie on it.
8. As you salute you will be saluted. ItaL
9. As you sow you shall reap.
10. Every one reaps as he sows. Por.
11. For it is sport to have the engineer hoist by
his own petar. Shaks,
12. He falls into the pit who leads another into
it. Sp.
13. He is caught in his own snare. Latin.
14. He is dead in his own den.
North American Indian.
15. He that makes his bed ill lies thereon.
16. He that digs a pit falls into it himself. Ger,
17. He who laid a snare for me has fallen into
it. Sp.
18. Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it
may singe yourself. Shaks.
19. Perfidy often recoils upon its author.
La Fontaine.
20. Subtlety set a trap and was caught itself.

2o6 Rrvenge.
21. They thought to put others in a sleeve and
they are put in themselves.
22. Those who sow injustice reap hate and ven-
geance. Fr.
23. Whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also
reap. New Testament.
24. You are bottled in your own jug.
North American Indian.
25. You are mired in the hole which you dug
yourself. North American Indian.
26. You gather a rod for your own back.
27. You were caught with your own chaff.
North American Indian.
Revenge.
1. Forgetting of a wrong is a mild revenge.
2. He's like the pope's mule that kept his kick
for seven years. ItcU.
3. He who cannot revenge himself is weak ; he
who will not is contemptible. Ital.
4. He who will have a good revenge let him
leave it to God.
5. He who would seek revenge must be on his
guard. Dan.
6. If I ever catch his cart overthrowing I'll
give it one shove.
7. If you want to be revenged hold your tongue.
Sp.
8. In taking revenge a man is but even with his
enemy, but in passing it over he is superior.
9. It costs more to revenge injuries than to bear
them.

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207

10. It is but the weak and little mind that re-
joices in revenge. JuvenaL
11. It is more wisdom sometimes to dissemble
wrongs than to revenge them.
12. It is worse to do than revenge an injury.
13. No one delights more in revenge than a
woman. JuvenaL
14. Nothing so easy as to revenge an offence;
nothing so grand as to pardon it.
15. Revenge a hundred years old has still its
milk teeth. Ital,
16. Revenge at first though sweet,
Bitter ere long back on itself recoils. Milton.
17. Revenge converts a little right into a great
wrong. Ger.
18. Revenge in cold blood is the devil's own act
and deed.
19. Revenge is an expensive luxury.
20. Revenge is new wrong.
21. Revenge is sure though sometimes slow
paced. Dryden,
22. Revenge is sweet.
23. Revenge remains not unrevenged. Ger,
24. Since he cannot be revenged on the ass he
falls on the pack-saddle.
25. Sit down and dangle your legs and you will
see your revenge. ItaL
26. Sweet is revenge, — especially to women.
Byron^
27. The best revenge is to prevent the injury.
28. The revenge of an idiot is without mercy.

2o8 Revolutions. —Reward. — Rich.
29. The whirligig of time brings in its revenges.
Sheiks.
30. There is small revenge in words, but words
may be greatly revenged.
31. Tis sure the mighty will revenge at last.
La Fontaine.
32. To lose one eye that you may deprive another
of two. Sp.
7^2i* To forget wrong is the best revenge.
34. To revenge is no valor, but to bear. Shaks.
35. Wait for time and place to take your revenge
for it is never well done in a hurry. lUii.
36. Who holds his peace and gathers stones, will
find a time to throw them. For.
Revolutions.
I. Revolutions never go backward.
Reward.
I. Desert and reward go not often together.
Rich.
1. A little house well filled, a little land well
tilled, and a little wife well willed are great riches.
2. A man that keeps riches and enjoys them not,
is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles.
3. A rich child often sits in a poor mother's lap.
Dan.
4. A rich man's foolish sayings pass for wise
ones. Sp.
5. A rich man is either a rogue or a rogue's heir.
Latin.
6. A rich man is never ugly in the eyes oi a
girl. JFr.

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209

7. A rich man knows not his friends. Ger,
8. A rich man without understanding is a sheep
with golden wool. Ger.
9. A rich mouthful, a heavy groan.
10. All ask if a man be rich, none if he be good.
Latin.
11. All strive to give to the rich man.
12. And his best riches, ignorance of wealth.
Goldsmith,
7 13. At the door of the rich are many friends, at
the door of the poor none. Hebrew,
14. Before the rich man is willing to give, the
poor man dies. Turk,
15. Better rich in God than rich in gold.
16. Every one is kin to the rich man.
17. For one rich man that is content there are a
hundred who are not.
18. Give me neither poverty or riches. Bible,
19. God help the poor, for the rich can help them-
selves. Scotch.
20. God help the poor, the rich help themselves.
Ger.
21. God help the poor, the rich can beg.
22. God sends us some wheat of our own when the
rich men go to dinner.
23. God sends us of our own when rich men go to
dinner.
24. He alone is rich who makes a proper use of
his riches. Horace.
25. He has riches enough who need neither bor-
row nor flatter.
«4

2IO Rich-
26. He is not fit for riches who is afraid to use
them.
27. He is not rich who is not satisfied. Ger.
28. He is rich enough who does not want. ItaL
29. He is rich enough who has true friends. Ger,
30. He is rich enough who owes nothing.
Ger.^ Fr.^ ItaL
31. He is rich that is satisfied.
32. He is richest who is content with least, for
content is the wealth of a nation.
33. He is truly rich who desires nothing and he
is truly poor who covets all. Solan.
34. He that is poor all his kindred scorn him ; he
that is rich all are kin to him.
35. He that maketh haste to be rich, shall not be
innocent. Proverbs.
36. He that never fails never grows rich. ItaL
37. He that oppresses the poor to increase his
riches and he that giveth to the rich shall surely
come to want. BibU.
38. He who despises small things seldom grows
rich. Dan,
39. He who has good health is young and he is
rich who has no debts.
40. He who hastens to be rich incurs peril.
Chinese,
41. He who is rich can have no vice, and he that
is poor no virtue. Fielding,
42. He who wants to be rich in a year comes to
the gallows in half a year. Fr.y ItaLy Sf.^
43. I never knew a silent rich man. Fr.

Rich. 211
44. I would rather be a hog than an ignorant
rich man. Bishop Hall.
45. If rich be not elated, if poor be not dejected.
Socrates.
46. If riches were granted even beggars would
become rich. M. Greek.
47. Is it not sheer madness to live poor to die
rich ? Juvenal.
48. It is a miserable sight to see a poor man
proud and a rich man avaricious. Ital.
49. It is better to be poor and well, than rich and
ill. African.
50. It is better to be poor with honor than rich
with shame. Ger.
51. It is not without a purpose when a rich man
greets a poor man with kindness. Plautus.
52. It would make a man scratch where he doth
not itch to see a man live poor to die rich.
53. Men often seem rich to become rich. Maga.
54. Moderate riches will carry you, if you have
more you must carry them.
55. Once poor, my friend, still poor you must re-
main,
The rich alone have all the means of gain.
Martial
56. No good man ever becomes suddenly rich.
Syrus.
57. No man is so rich as to say, " I have enough."
Latin.
58. Not possession but use is the only riches.
59. Rich for yoirself, poor for your friend.

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Rich.

60. Rich in gold, rich in care. G€r.
61. Rich men and fortunate men have need of
much prudence.
62. Rich men are slaves condemned to the
mines.
63. Rich men feel misfortunes that pass over
poor men's heads.
64. Rich men have no faults.
65. Rich men seem happy, great and wise, all
which the good man only is.
66. Rich men's spots are covered with money.
67. Rich people are everywhere at home. (xer.
68. Riches abuse them who know not how to use
them.
69. Riches and cares are inseparable.
{Fable of the mouse and the weasd^
70. Riches and favor go before wisdom and art.
Dan.
71. Riches and virtue do not often keep each
other company.
72. Riches are always restless ; it is only to pov-
erty the gods give content. Maga.
73. Riches are as precious as life. 2\irk.
74. Riches are but the baggage of fortune.
75. Riches are but the baggage of virtue.
76* Riches are first to be sought for, after wealth
virtue.
77. Riches are like muck which stink in a heap
but spread abroad make the earth fruitful.
78. Riches are often abused but never refused.
Dan,

^^T ^'<^ 313 ■

79

Riches breed care,

poverty is safe. Dan. H

So

Riches cause arrogance, poverty meekness. |

Ger. ■

8i

Riches come better after poverty than pov H

eny after riches.

Chinese. H

82

Riches endless is a

s poor as winter, H

To him that ever fears he shall be poor. B

Shaks. ■

83

Riches fall not always to the lot of the most H

deserving.

Latin. ■

84.

Riches have made

more men covetous, than ^|

covet

ousness hath made n

■

8S-

Riches have their e

mbarrassments, Fr. ^|

86

Riches have wings.

■

87.

Riches make men v

orse in their latter days. H

88.

Riches never com

even by chance to him H

whos

destiny it is to be poor. Chinese. ^|

89.

Riches only adorn the house, but virtue ^|

adom

s the person.

Chinese. ■

90.

Riches only give us

meat, fire and clothes, H
Pope. ■

91.

Riches rule the roast. B

91.

Riches serve a wise

man but command a fool. H

93-

Riches take peace

rom the soul but rarely if H

everc

onfer it.

Petrarch. H

94.

Riches well got and well used are a blessing. ^|

95-

Riches will bear ou

folly, Latin. ■

96.

Riches without understanding, 3 body without ^|

a sou

Ger. ■

97-
(iesiie

That man is rich w

ho hath a sufficiency and ^|

214

Rich.

98. The abuse of riches is worse than the want
of them.
99. The foolish sayings of the nch man pass for
laws in society. Don Quixote.
100. The rich and ignorant are sheep with golden
wool. It€U.
1 01. The rich are trustees under God for the
poor.
102. The rich can only eat with one mouth. Ger.
103. The rich devour the poor, and the devil de-
vours the rich and so both are devoured. Dutch.
104. The rich have many friends. Dutch.
105. The rich man does not know who is his
friend.
106. The rich man has more relations than he
knows. Fr.
107. The rich man is often poorer than the beg-
gar. Ger.
108. The rich need not beg a welcome.
109. The rich never want for kindred.
no. The rich ruleth over the poor and the bor-
rower is servant to the lender. Bible.
111. The richest man carries nothing away with
him but his shroud. Fr.
112. The richest man whatever his lot,
Is he who's content with what he has got.
Dutch.
113. The ways to enrich are many and most of
them foul for you. Terence.
114. The whole world is the house of the rich and
they may live in whatever apartment they please.
Fielding,

Rich.

215

115. There are none so poor they cannot help, and
none so rich as not to need help. Ger,
116. There be as many miseries beyond riches as
on this side them.
117. There is no one so rich that he does not still
want something. Ger,
118. There is no revenging yourself on a rich man.
Don Quixote,
119. *Tis brave scrambling at the rich man's dole.
120. To be rich one must have a relation at home
with the devil. ItaL
121. To become rich In this world it needs only to
turn one's back on God. ItaL
122. To whom can riches give repute or trust.
Content, or pleasure, but the good and just 'i
Pope.
123. We heap up riches as if we should live al-
ways. Fr,
124. What need a rich man be a thief?
125. When riches increase, the body decreaseth.
126. Who is healthy and free is rich. Ger.
127. Who will become rich must cast his soul be-
hind the money chest. Ger,
128. Who will become rich must have great care
and little conscience. Ger,
129. Who will become rich must rise at four; who
is rich may lie till seven. Ger,
130. Who would be rich in a year gets hanged in
half a year. Sp,
131. Who would be rich must keep his soul under
cover of his cash box. Ger,

2 1 6 Ridicule. — Ridiculous. — Riding.
Ridicule.
1. Ridicule is the test of truth.
2. The dread of ridicule extinguishes originality
in its birth. Maga.
Ridiculous.
I. A fear of becoming ridiculous is the best
guide in life and will save one from all sorts of
scrapes. Bea,
Riding.
1. A canter is a cure for every evil. 3ea.
2. Be the horse good or bad always wear your
spurs. ItaL
3. Before you mount look at the girth. Dutch,
4. Better a begging mother than a riding father.
5. Better badly mounted than proud on foot.
Ger.
6. Better ride, when saddles do lack,
On a pad than on a bare horse's back.
7. He rode sure indeed that never caught a fall.
8. He that can't ride a gentle horse must not
attempt to break a mad colt.
9. He that rides before he is ready wants some
o' his gear.
10. He who knows the road can ride at full trot.
Ital.
11. He who rides behind another does not saddle
when he will. Sp.
12. He who rides on the giant's shoulders sees
further than he who carries him. J*r,
13. He who rides the horse is his master. JDan,
14. He who rides the mule shoes her. Fr,

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217

15. If two men ride a horse one must ride behind.
Shaks,
16. It is good to go afoot when one is tired of
riding. Dutch,
17. More belongs to riding than a pair of riding
boots. Ger,
18. Ne'er rode, ne'er fall.
19. Ride on but look before you. Dutch.
20. Ride softly that we may come sooner home.
21. Riding the only thing that princes ever do
well because horses are no flatterers. Swift*
22. The best horseman is always on his feet.
23. When you ride a young colt see your saddle
be well girt.
24. You ride as if you went to fetch a midwife.
Right.
1. A hundred years of wrong do not make an
hour of right. Ger.
2. A man in the right with God on his side is
the majority. Beecher.
3. Be sure you're right, then go abend.
Davy Crockett,
4. Between right and wrong never balance a
moment.
5. Entreaty and right do the deed. Sp.
6. Every one says " my right is good.*' Fr,
7. Good right needs no help. Dutch.
8. I would rather be wrong with this man than
right with others. Latin.
9. Little between right and wrong.

21 8 R»P-
10. Many love to praise right and do wrong. Dan,
11. No one is always right.
12. Nothing can be great which is not right
Ramhler.
13. Right is with the strongest. Ger.
14. Right or wrong, God aid our purpose, .^f^.
15. Right or wrong, 'tis our house up to the roof.
Sp., Par.
16. Right overstrained turns to wrong. Sp.
17. Right wrangs nae man.
18. That side is always right that's strong,
And that that's beaten must be wrong.
Royal Songs.
19. One truth is clear, whatever is is right. Pope.
20. What is right for one is reasonable for the
other. Ger.
21. Where force prevails right perbhes. Sp.
22. Where might is right, right is not upright. Crer.
23. Where there's no might there's no right Par.
24. Where will is right law is banished. Dan.
25. Who bows to might loses his right. Ger.
26. Who does right is bom of God. Ger.
27. Who does right is born sufficiently noble. Grer.
28. Who is in the right fears, who is in the wrong
hopes. Pr.
29. With a little wrong a man comes by his right
Sp.
Rip.
I. We must rip, not tear away.

River. — Rhyme.— Righteous.

219

River.
1. A smooth river washes away its banks.
Servian,
2. Swollen rivers subside rapidly. Latin.
3. The course of a river is not to be altered.
Latin,
4. The greatest rivers must run into the sea. Ger.
5. The river does not swell with clear water.
Itai.
6. The river which runneth with sound beareth
away along with it stone and water. Spanish Gypsy.
7. When the river makes a noise it is either
dried up or much swollen. 1^.
8. Where the river is deepest it makes least
noise. //a/., .^,, For.
9. You, a river, are contending with the ocean.
Ld^n.
RhjTine.
1. For rh3rme the rudder is of verses,
With which like ships they steer their courses.
Butler,
2. It's neither rhyme nor reason.
Righteous.
1. Be not righteous overmuch. BiMe,
2. Many are the afflictions of the righteous.
Bid/e,
3. The green bums for the dry, and the right-
eous pay for sinners. Sp.
4. The righteous find peace when the wicked
feel torment.
5. The righteous pays for the sinner. Ar.

220 Risk. — Roaix — Robbing.— Robin lloon,
6. Who is righteous overmuch is a morsel for
the old one. JDutch.

1. It is better to risk, than to delay overmuch.
2. It is necessary to risk something. Latin,
3. Swift risks are often attended with precipitate
falls.
Road.
1. All roads lead to the mill. Syriac.
2. De public road aint free for de rattlesnake.
American Negro.
3. Had you but seen those roads before they
were made,
You'd lift up your hands and bless General
Wade.
4. The beaten road is the safest. Coke.
5. The nearer the inn, the longer the road. Ger.
6. Whatever way you take there is a league of
bad road. Sp.
Robbing.
1. He that is robbed not wanting what is stolen.
Let him not know it, and he's not robbed at
all. Shaks.
2. To rob a robber is not robbing. Fr.
3. To steal for pence is dastardly and mean ;
To rob for millions with a soul serene,
Soils not the fingers ; all such is clean.
Robin Hood.
I. Many talk of Robin Hood that never shot
in his bow.
Many talk of Little John that never did him
know.

ROCHKFOUCAULD, — RoCK.— ROCKET. — ROC KING-CM AIK. 22 |
2. Robin Hood's pennyworth. {Applied to those
who having gotten a thing irregularly sell it much
below cost.}
3, Tales of Robin Hood are good enough for
Rochefoucauld.
I. Rochefoucauld is the greatest philosopher for
administering consolation to the idle, the envious,
and worthless of mankind. Addison.
Rock.
I. The Tocic that resists a crow-bar gives way to
the roots of a tender plant. Tamil.
Rocket.
1, Goes up like a rocket, comes down like a
stick.
2. The final event to himself (Mr. Burke) has
been, that as he rose like a rocket he fell like a
stick, Thomas Paine,
Rocking-cluur.
J. Better to keep de rockin' chair In de cabin lof
till Sunday. American Negro.
Rogue.
1. After a long experience of the world, I
affirm before God, 1 never knew a rogue who was
not unhappy. Junius.
2. A rogue in grain is a rogue amain.
zi. A thread will lie an honest man better than a
rope will do a rogue.
3. He who has left a rogue behind him has
made a good day's journey. Ger.
4. He who would catch a rogue must watch
behind the door. Dutch.

222 Roman.— Rome.
5. If you pity rc^;iie8 you are no great friend of
honest men.
6. If you save a rogue from the gallows he will
rob you before night.
7. It is easier to fill a rogue's belly than his eyes.
8. Much better never catch a rogue than let him
go again.
9. No greater rogue than he who marries only
for money, and no greater fool than he who marries
only for love. Dr. Johnson.
10. No rogue like the godly rogue.
11. Nobody calls himself rogue.
12. One rogue is usher to another still. JTomer.
13. One rogue does not betray another. Ger.
14. One rogue knows another. Ger.
15. One rogue makes another.
16. To a rogue a rogue and a half. JFr.
17. When a rogue kisses you count your teeth.
Hebrew.
18. When rogues fall out, honest men come by
their own.
19. When rogues go in procession the devil car-
ries the cross. Itai.
20. You cannot make a good archbishop of a
rogue. Dan.
Roman.
I. Wherever the Roman conquered he inhab*
ited. Gibbon.
Rome.
I. All roads lead to Rome. Ital.

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2. Every road leads to Rome. Fr,^ Sp.
3. He who would live at Rome must not quarrel
with the pope. Fr,
4. I found Rome brick, I left it marble.
Augustus CcBsar.
5. I had rather be the first man in a village than
the second man in Rome. Ccesar.
6. It is folly to live in Rome and quarrel with
the pope. John RusseL
7. Rome was not built in a day.
8. The nearer to Rome the worse Christian.
Dutch,
9. There are many roads to Rome. ItaL
10. When you are at Rome do as Rome does.
11. Where the pope is Rome is. ItaL
12. Ye drive a snail to Rome.
Root.
I. When the root is worthless so is the tree. Ger,
Rope.
I. Name not a rope in the house of him that
hanged himself.
Rose.
1. An onion will not produce a rose. Latin,
2. Among thorns, grow roses.
3. Brief, while the rose doth bloom gather it
straight;
No rose, but thorns, remain for those who
wait.
4. Every rose has its thorn. ItaL
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6. Gather the rose and leave the thorn behind.
7. He who would gather roses must not fear
thorns. Dutch.
8. No house without a mouse, no bam without
corn, no rose without a thorn. Ger.
9. Not every one may pluck roses.
10. Pluck the rose, and leave the thorns. IteU.
11. Roses and maidens soon lose their bloom.
Ger.
12. Roses fall but the thorns remain. Dutch.
13. Roses have thorns.
14. Soon fades the rose, once past the fragrant
hour.
The loiterer finds a bramble for a flower.
Dr, Johnson, from the Greek.
15. Strew no roses before swine. Dutch.
16. The bud becomes a rose, and the rose a hip.
Fr.
17. The faded rose no suitor knows.
18. The fairest rose at last is withered.
19. The rose is queen. Ger.
20. The roses fall and the thorns remain. ItcU.
21. There are more thistles than roses. Ger.
22. Under the thorn grow the roses. Ger.
23. You may break, you may shatter the vase as
you will.
But the scent of the roses will hang round it
still. Moore.
Rowing.
I. He looks one way and rows another.

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2. He that's carried down the stream need not
row.
3. It is good rowing with set sail. Dutch.
4. You may row your heart out, if the wind and
tide set against you.
Rubbish.
I. Rubbish is only matter out of place.
Rudder.
1. He that will not be ruled by the rudder, must
be ruled by the rock. Cornish,
2. One that will not answer to the rudder must
answer to the rock.
Rudeness.
I. Rudeness will repel when courtesy would at-
tract friends.
Ruin.
I. You are creeping on your knees to the fire-
place ; !>., going to ruin. Kaffir,
Rule.
1. No rule (general) withput an exception.
2. Submit to the rule you have yourself laid
down. Latin,
3. The good old rule sufficeth them, the simple
plan.
That they should take who had the power
and they should keep who can. Old Song,
Ruling.
1. He that hath a fellow ruler, hath an over-
ruler.
2. He that is heady is ruled by a fool.
3. He who would rule, must hear and be deaf,
see and be blind. Ger.
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4. No ruler good save God.
5. No single man is bom with the right of con-
trolling all the rest. tFarilpm.
6. Rulers always hate and suspect the next in
succession. Tadtus,
Rnnning.
1. He must not talk of running that cannot go.
2. He runs as fast as if he had eggs in his shoes.
DmUk.
3. He runs far that never turns.
4. He runs heavily who is forced to run. Dan.
5. He runs the wild goose chase. {A horse race
m any direction the leader chooses to take^ Shake.
6. He that runs fast will not run long.
7. He that runs fastest gets most ground.
8. He that runs fastest gets the ring. Shake,
9. He that runs in the dark may well stumble.
10. He that runs, loses ground in the end. Ger^
1 1. It is not enough to run : one must start in
time. Fr.
12. There is no use running : to set out betimes is
the main point La Fontaine.
13. Who runs is followed. Dutch.
14. You run like Teague before your errand.
15. What is the use of running when we are not
on the right road ? Ger.
Rossian.
I. A Russian without the knout seldom does
good. Ger.
a. In a Russian stick three Jews. Ger.

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3. Let the Russian not die and he would not let
thee live. Ger.
4. Scratch a Russian and you'll find a Tartar.
5. You may praise a Russian a thousand times
but his eyes will still be blue. {The reverse of hand-
some according to the Usberg tctste,)
Rust.
1. Rust consumes iron and envy consumes it-
self. Dan,
2. Rust wastes more than use. Fr,

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Q.
Quackery.
1. Quackery has no friend like gullibility.
2. The healer of others is himself full of wounds.
{Applied to pretenders to medical skilQ
Quaileth.
I. He who quaileth at the sight of a precipice or
an abyss, will never travel on the dangerous paths
of this world. Abd-ar-Rahman,
Quality.
I. Quality without quantity is little thought of.
Quandary.
1. I am neither at the ford nor the bridge.
2. Midway between the earth and starry Olym-
pus. Latin,
Quarrel.
I. Avoid the first quarrel. {Good advice to a
newly married couple as well as others,)

Quarrel. jg^
2. An old quarrel is easily renewed. ItaL
3. * * * * Beware
Of entrance to a quarrel ; but being in
Bear't that the opposer may beware of thee.
Shaks,
4. Forbear a quarrel with a friend to move,
Anger breeds hatred, concord sweetens love.
Dutch.
5. Greatly to find quarrel in a straw
When honor's at the stake. Shaks.
6. He that parts the fray goeth away with the
blows. Massinger,
7. He who interferes with the quarrels of rela-
tions must pass through life without a friend. Maga.
8. He who quarrels with a drunken man injures
one who is absent. (He that is drunk is gone from
home.) Latin,
9. In a false quarrel there is no true valor.
10. Interfere not in the quarrels of others.
11. It is better to keep out of a quarrel than to
make it up afterwards.
12. It takes two to make a quarrel.
13. No foolery like falling out.
14. None but cats and dogs are allowed to quar-
rel in my house.
15. Quarrels could not last long were but pru-
dence one side.
16. The greatest quarrels do not always rise from
deepest injuries. Terence,
17. They who in quarrels interpose
Must often wipe a bloody nose. J, Gay,

1 84 Questions.
.18. Two cannot fall out if one does not choose.
19. Two cocks in one yard do not agree. IM.
20. Two crocodiles cannot live in one hole.
IVest African Negro,
21. Two dogs over one bone seldom agree.
Ger,^ Dutch.
22. Two sparrows on one ear of wheat cannot
agree.
23. When neighbors quarrel, lookers on are more
apt to add fuel than water. Dan.
24. When one hits you with a stone, hit him with
a piece of cotton. T^rk.
25. When one will not, two cannot quarrel. Sp.
26. When two quarrel, both are in the wrong.
Dutch.
Questions.
1. A prudent question is one half of wisdom.
BacoH.
2. Hasty questions require slow answers. Dutch.
3. He that makes a question where there is no
doubt must make an answer where there is no
reason.
4. He that nothing questioneth nothing leameth.
5. I wish to see face and back ; /'. ^., both sides
of the question. Sfik or old CaUibar^ Africa.
6. It is not calling your neighbors names that
settles a question. Bea.
7. Never answer a question until it is asked.
8. No question is settled until it is settled right.
New York Freeman^ s Journal.

Quick.— Quiet. — Quiet People.— Quotations, jgc
9. There are few questions that have not their
answers. Ger,
10. 'Tis not every question that deserves an
answer.
11. To a man full of questions make no answer
at all. Plato,
12. To question a wise man is the beginning of
wisdom. Ger,
13. Unsettled questions have no pity for the
repose of nations. Swiss,
Quick.
1. Quick and good go not well together. Ger.
2. Quick and good sit not under the same hat.
Ger,
3. Quick and well-done don't agree. Ital.^ Dan,
4. Quick at meat, quick at woric.
5. Quick come, quick go.
6. Quick enough if good enough. Ger,
7. Quick landlords make careful tenants.
Quiet.
I. The highest degree of earthly happiness is
quiet. Dr, Johnson,
Quiet People.
I. It is the quiet people who are dangerous.

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P.
. Be not an esquire where you were a page. Sp.
2. Make a page of your own age.
3. Whereyou were apage be not an esquire. For.
I. An hour of pain is as long as a day of
pleasure.
2. Great pain and little gain make a man soon
weary.
3. Great pains cause us to forget the small ones.
Ger.
4. He that is uneasy at ever so little pain is
never without some ache.
5. If pains be a pleasure to you profit will
follow.
6. Let pain deserved without complaint be
borne. Dr. Johnson.
7. Naething is got without pains but dirt and
lang nails.
8. Pain is forgotten when gain comes.
9. Pain is no longer p>ain when it is past
10. Pain makes even the innocent liars. Syrus.
If. Pain past is pleasure.
12. Pains are the wages of ill pleasures.
13. Pains make the heart golden. Get.
14. There is a pleasure that is born of pain.
(huen Meredith.
15. There is no pain so great that time will not
soften. Ger.
16. There is no remembrance which time does
not obliterate, nor pain which death does not put an
end to. Don Quixote.
17. Where a man feels pain he lays his hand.
DiOeh.
Palate.
I. There is no living with a man whose palate
has quicker sensations than his heart. Cato.

Papbr.— Paradise.— Parasite.— PARDONi

Paper.
1. Paper bears anything (or is patient). Fr.^ Ger.
2. Paper does not blush.
Paradise.
1. A good key is necessary to enter Paradise.
Itai.
2. For the pious, Paradise exists everywhere.
Bea.
3. He that will enter Paradise must come with a
right key.
4. One cannot enter Paradise in spite of the
saints. ItaL
5. Paradise is for those who command their
anger. Koran.
Parasite.
I. The parasite has no roots. Western Africa.
Pardon.
1. But they ne'er pardon who have done the
wrong.
2. He that sharply chides is the most ready to
pardon.
3. He who will not pardon others must not him-
self expect pardon. Seneca,
4. It is more noble to pardon than to punish.
Arabian Nights.
5. Pardon is the choicest flower of victory.
Arabian.
6. Pardon others often, thyself never. Syrus.
7. Pardoning the bad is injuring the good.
8. The very best men stand in need of pardon.
9. They tha^ have much business must have
much pardon.

1 06 Paris.— Parleys.— Parlor.— Park ASSUSi
Paris.
I. There is but one Paris. jp^^
Parleys.
I. The town that parleys is half surrendered. Fr.
Parlor.
1. All that is said in the parlor should not be
heard in the hall.
2. Your dirty shoes are not welcome in my
parlor.
Parnassus.
I. Parnassus has no gold mines in it
Parry.
1. There is a parry to every thrust
Partners.
I. When two partners are of one mind, clay is
into gold refined. Chinese.
Partridge.
I. The partridge loves peas but not those that go
into the pot with it Jolqfs{Afrka^
Party.
I. Party is the madness of many for the gain of
a few. Pope.
Passions.
1. Give me that man that is not passion's slave.
And I will wear him in my heart's core.
Shaks.
2. Govern your passions, otherwise they will
govern you. Horace.
3. He alone is happy who commands his pas-
sions. Horace.
4. He that overcomes his passions, overcomes
his greatest enemies. •

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5. He whom passion rules is bent to meet his
death. Plautus,
6. He that shows a passion tells his enemy
where he may hit him.
7. Hence one master-passion in the breast,
Like Aaron's serpent swallows up the rest.
Pope.
8. No man can guess in cold blood what he may
do in a passion.
9. Nothing is well said or done in a passion.
10. Passions are winds to urge us o'er the wave,
Reason the rudder to direct or save.
11. Regulate thy own passions and bear those of
others.
12. The end of passion is the beginning of re-
pentance.
13. The passions are like fire and water, good
servants but bad masters.
14. The ruling passion strong in death.
15. The ruling passion, be it what it will,
The ruling passion conquers reason still. Pope.
16. We ought to distrust our passions even when
they seem most reasonable.
17. Where passion is high, there reason is low.
Passionate.
1. Passionate men like fleet hounds are apt to
overrun the scent.
2. Passionate people lay up no malice.
Past.
I. Not Jove himself upon the past has power.
Homer.

iQg Pastime.— Patch.— Patch-work.— Pater NosrifiaL
2. The best prophet of the future is the past.
Bynm.
Pastime.
1. One should make a serious study of a pastime.
Alexander the Great
2. Use pastime so as not to lose time.
Patch.
1. Patch by patch is good housewifery, but
patch upon patch is plain beggary.
2, The best patch is of! the same cloth. Sp.
Patch-work.
I. The defects are often better than the patch-
work. Ger^
Pater Noster.
1. A man may say even his paternoster out of
time.
2. He knows it as well as h\s pater noster. Sp.
3. Let those pater nosters be for your own soul.
{Ironical speech in reproof of swearing^ Sp,
Path.
1. A beaten path is a safe one. Latin,
2. A hundred paths present a hundred difficul-
ties. Chinese.
3. Better a path than a hole. Ger.
4. Every path hath its puddle.
5. The middle path is the safe path. Ger.
6. The path of duty is the path of safety.
7. The path of pain leads to Paradise. Ger.
8. The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Gray.

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9. There is no royal path which leads to geom-
etry, Euclid addressing Ptolemy,
Patience.
1. A moment's patience is a ten-year's comfort.
M, Greek.
2. An hour's patience will procure a long period
of rest. Arabian,
3. An ounce of patience is worth a pound of
brains. Dutch,
4. Abused patience turns to fury.
5. All commend patience, but none can endure
to suffer.
6. At the bottom of patience is Heaven. Bomou.
7. Be patient and you shall have patient chil-
dren.
8. Be patient toward all men. New Testament,
9. Bear patiently what thou sufferest by thine
own fault. Dutch,
10. Beware of the fury of a patient man. Dryden,
11. Every misfortune is to be subdued by pa-
tience.
12. Every thing which is out of our power to
amend becomes more supportable by patience.
Horace,
13. Have patience, Cossack, thou wilt come to be
a hetman. Russian,
14. He that can be patient finds his foe at his
feet. Dutch.
15. He who endures with patience is a conqueror.
Latin,

no Patience.
1 6. How poor are they that have not patience.
17. Job was not so miserable in his sufferings as
happy in his patience.
18. No remedy but patience.
19. None patient but the wise.
20. Patience abused becomes fury. Latin.
21. Pati«nce and application will carry us
through.
22. Patience and pusillanimity are two things.
23. Patience and the mulberry leaf becomes a
silk gown. Chinese.
24. Patience and time accomplish more than
force and violence. La Fontaine.
25. Patience devours the devil. Ger.
26. Patience is a bitter plant but it has sweet
fruit. Ger.
27. Patience is a flower that grows not in every
garden.
28. " Patience is a good plant, but it don't grow
in my garden," said the hangman. Ger.
29. Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.
Bea.
30. Patience is a plaister for all sores.
31. Patience is good preaching. Ger.
32. Patience is pale cold cowardice in noble
breasts. Shaks.
33. Patience is so like fortitude, that she seems
either her sister or her daughter. Aristotle.
34. Patience is sorrow's salve. ChurchUL

tPATimCK.' I I t
35. Patience is the armor and conquest of the
godly. Charlutte Young,
36. Patience is the beggar's virtue. Massinger.
37. Patience is the best buckler against a£ronts.
38. Patience is the door of joy, Ger.
39. Patience is the key of Paradise. Turk.
40. Patience is ihe strongest of strong drinks, for
it kills the giant Despair. Douglas Jerrohl.
41. Patience is the virtue of asses. Fr.
4a. Patience, money and lime, bring all things to
pass.
43. Patience must sufFer pain. Dr. Johnson.
44. Patience opens all doors,
45. " Patience," said the wolf to the ass. Ital.
46. Patience surpasses learning, Dutch.
47. Patience, lime, and money overcome every-
thing. Ital.
48. Patience under injuries invites new ones.
Syru,.
49. Patience with poverty is all a poor man's
remedy.
JO, The herb patience does not grow in every

51. The patient man is always at home.
53. The remedy for hard times is to have pa-
tience. Arabian.
53- The world is for him who has patience. Ital.
54. Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will
plod. Shaks.
55. To wait and be patient soothes many a pang.
Dan.

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Patriotism.

56. Verjuice with patience becomes wine, and
the mulberry leaf becomes satin. TltrJt.
57. What cannot be removed becomes lighter by
patience. Horace.
58. Who has patience may get fat thrushes at a
farthing apiece. JtaL
59. Who has patience sees his revenge. Jtal,
60. With patience and time, the mulberry becomes
a silk gown. Sp,
Patriotism.
1. A boot from my own country let it even be
patched. M. Greek.
2. A brave and generous mind will shun no
danger to save his prince and country. Turkish Spy.
3. A good citizen owes his life to his country.
Russian.
4. A patriot is a fool in every age. Pope,
5. And for a country 'tis a bliss to die. Homer.
6. In such an enterprise, to die is rather
The dawn of an eternal day, than death.
Byron.
7. Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Johnson.
8. Patriotism must be founded on great princi-
ples and supported by great virtue. Bolingbroke.
9. Protection and patriotism are reciprocal.
Calhoun.
10. There is always a clinging to the land of
one's birth. Hans Andersen.
11. 'Tis sweet to die for one's country.

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12. True patriots we, for be it understood,
We left our country for our country's good.
Barringtan^ of the people of Botany Bay,
Pause.
I. Tis best to pause and think ere you rush on.
Byron.
Pauses.
I. Prudent pauses forward business.
Pay.
I. Good-will should be taken in part payment.
a. He is well paid that is well satisfied. Shaks,
3. He needs say nothing about the score who
pays nothing. Fr,
4. He pays for the glasses who breaks them.
Fr.
5. He that becomes responsible pays. Fr.
6. He that cannot pay let him pray.
7. He that payeth beforehand shall have his
work ill done.
8. He that pays last never pays twice.
9. He who cannot with his purse must pay with
his hide. Ger.
10. If you would have your work ill done pay be-
forehand. Ital.
11. Ill payers are aye gude cravers.
12. I will pay thee when fowls cut their teeth.
Kanuri or Bomou {Africa).
13. Once paid, never craved.
14. Pay as you go and keep from small score.
15. Pay day comes every day.
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Paymaster.

1 6. Pay him hame in his ain coin.
17. Pay promptly, collect closely.
18. Pay what thou owest and know what thou
hast. Ger.
19. Pay what you owe and be cured of your com-
plaint Sp.^ For.
20. Punctual pay gets willing loan.
21. Sair cravers are aye ill payers.
22. Soon paid is well paid. Ger.
23. There is no paying with an empty hand.
Fiddkig.
24. They take a long day that never pay.
25. To pay one in his own coin.
26. Who pays beforehand is served behindhand.
Ital.
27. Who pa3rs promptly borrows when he will. Fr.
28. Who pays well is master of others' purses.
Ger.
29. Who pays well is well served. Ger.
Paymaster.
1. A good paymaster does not hesitate to give
good security. Itai.
2. A good paymaster is keeper of other men's
purses. Sp.
3. A good paymaster ma^uild St. Paul's.
4. A good paymaster needs no security.
5. A good paymaster never wants workmen.
6. An ill paymaster never wants an excuse.
7. An ill receiver makes an ill pa3nnaster.
8. An ill servant will never be a good paymaster.

Peace. 1x5
9. Good paymasters need no security.
10. Great promisers, bad paymasters. Ger^ Dutch.
11. He who pays his debts betters his condition.
Ger.
12. He who pays is fairly entitled to speak his
mind. Fr.
13. He who pays well may borrow again. Ger,
14. Of an ill paymaster get what you can though
it be but a straw.
15. The worse the dun the worse the paymaster.
Ger.
Peace.
1. A cake eaten in peace is worth two in trouble.
2. A certain peace is to be preferred to an ex-
pected victory. Hannibal,
3. A deceitful peace is more hurtful than open
war.
4. A disadvantageous peace is better than the
most just war. Erasmus.
5. Better a lean peace than a fat victory.
6. Better an egg in peace than an ox in war.
7. Better an unjust peace than a just war.
8. Better cabbage in peace than sugar with
grumbling. M. Greek,
9. Better keep peace than make peace. Dutch.
10. By wisdom peace, by peace plenty.
11. From prudence peace, from peace abundance.
Ital,
12. He that will not have peace, God gives him
war.

1 16 Pbaci.
13. If princes knew to speak, and women to keep
silent, courtiers said what they thought, and ser-
vants to conceal it, the whole world would be at
|3eace. Chinese.
14. If you desire peace be ever prepared for war.
Latin.
15. In peace prepare for war.
16. Neither trust nor contend, nor lay wagers or
lend, and you'll have peace to the end. /Vr.
17. No one can have peace longer than his neigh-
bor pleases. Dutch.
18. One peace is better than ten victories. Ger.
19. Peace and a well-built house cannot be
bought too dearly. Dan.
20. Peace and patience and death with penitence.
Sp.
21. Peace in the village is bettei- than war in the
city. Ger.
22. Peace feeds, war wastes; peace breeds, war
consumes. Dan.
23. Peace flourishes when reason rules.
24. Peace has her victories no less renowned
than war. MUtan.
25. Peace is in holding one's tongue. Turk.
26. Peace is obtained by war. Nepos.
27. Peace is the father of friendship.
Bomou (Africa).
28. Peace must be bought even at a high price.
Dan.
29. Peace to his ashes.
30. Peace with a cudgel in hand is war. Par.

PEAR.--PEAIILS.— -Peasant. 117
31. Peace without truth is poison. Ger.
32. Peace would be universal if there were
neither thine nor mine. /ito/.
33. See, listen, and be silent, and you will live in
peace. ^^^'
34. They make a desert and call it peace. Tacitus.
35. When they have made the world a solitude
they call it peace.
Golgcuus the Briton referring to the Romans.
36. Who loves peace serves God. Ger.
37. You must ask your neighbor if you shall live
in peace.
Pear.
I. When the pear is ripe it falls. ftal., Ger.
Pearls.
1. Neither cast ye your pearls before swine.
New Testament
2. Pearls and precious stones are not good to
eat or drink. Chinese.
3. Pearls are like girls : they require much atten-
tion. Bea.
Peasant.
1. A rich peasant, like a shaggy dog, only keeps
himself warm with his money. Roumanian.
2. An ennobled peasant does not know his own
father.
3. ** At home," says the peasant, " I am king."
Ger.
4. Better a healthy peasant than a sickly king.
{Said by Ferdinand III) Ger.
5. Better a rich peasant than a poor nobleman.
Ger.

II g Pedigree. — Pen.
6. He who would cheat a peasant must take one
with him. Ger.^ Duich.
7. If the thunder is not loud the peasant for-
gets to cross himself. Russian.
8. It is easier to make a lady of a peasant girl,
than a peasant girl of a lady.
9. Peasant erect is taller than peasant on
bended knee. Turk.
10. Princes and lords may flourish or may fade ;
A breath can make them as a breath has
made;
But a bold peasantry, their country's pride.
When once destroyed can never be supplied.
Goldsmith.
11. Set a peasant on horseback and he forgets
both God and man. Sp.
12. The peasant is a peasant though he sleep till
mid-day. Ger.
13. The peasant reaches heaven as soon as the
nobleman. Ger^
14. There is no knife cuts deeper, than a peasant
become a nobleman. Ger.
15. When a peasant gets rich he knows neither
relations nor friends. Sp.
16. When the peasant would become a nobleman,
he becomes a beggar. Ger.
^ Pedigree.
I. Who asks after the pedigree of a swine he is
to kill ?
Pen.
I. A goose quill is more dangerous than a lion's
paw.

Penny.

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2. Beneath the rule of men entirely great
The pen is mightier than the sword. Bulwer,
3. He writes with an iron pen. Latin,
4. Many who wear rapiers are afraid of goose-
quills.
5. Pen and ink is wit's plough.
6. Take away the sword,
States can be saved without it ; bring the pen !
Bulwer,
7. The lance never blunted the pen, nor the pen
the lance. Don Quixote,
8. The might that slumbers in a goose's wing.
9. The pen is a tree whose fruit is expression.
10. The pen is mightier than the sword.
11. The pen of the tongue should be dipped in
the ink of the heart. Ital,
12. The pen, that mighty instrument of little men.
Byron,
13. You need not get a golden pen to write upon
dirt.
Penny.
1. A bad penny always comes back. Ger,
2. A penny in my purse will bid me drink when
all the friends I have will not.
3. A penny in the pocket is better than a ducat
in the chest Ger.
4. A penny in time is as good as a dollar. I?an,
5. A penny is sometimes better spent than
spared.
6. A penny saved is a penny gained.

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Penny.

7. A penny saved is twopence clear,
A pin a day's a groat a year. Franklin,
8. A pennyworth of ease is worth a penny.
9. A single penny fairly got.
Is worth a thousand that are not. Ger.
TO. Account not that work slaveiy
That brings in penny savory.
11. An ill-won penny will cast down a pound.
12. Better a penny out of the land than a dollar
out of the sea. Ger,
13. Better one's own penny than another's dollar.
Ger.
14. Better penny in silver than any brother.
15. Better to-day a penny than to-morrow a dol-
lar. Ger.
16. Ducats are clipped, pence are not. Ger.
17. Every penny that's saved is not gotten.
18. He that does not save pennies will never
have pounds. Sp.
19. He that regards not a penny will lavish a
pound.
20. He who was born to pennies will never be
master of dollars. Dan.
21. In for a penny, in for a pound.
22. It is a good penny with which one gains a
dollar. Ger.
23. Lay thy hand upon thy half-penny twice be-
fore thou partest with it.
24. One cannot have a good penny with bad
ware. Fr.

25- One penny in the money-box makes more
noise than when it is full. Dutch.
26. One penny is better on land than ten on the
seas. Dan.
27. One penny with right is better than a thou-
sand without right. Ger.
28. Penny and penny laid up will be many.
39. Penny in poclcet is a good companion.
30, Penny is penny's brother. Gtr.
31. Fenny wise and pound foolish.
33. Put two pennies in a purse an' they'll come
thegither.
33. Take care of the pence and the pounds will
take care of themselves.
34. That penny is well spent that saves a groat.
35. That which is stamped a penny will never be
a pound. Dan.
36. The honest penny is better than the stolen
dollar.
37. The penny does not remain with a poor man,
38. The penny is the best companion in all lands.
Ger.
39. The smith and his penny are always black.
40. The smith makes more noise to earn a penny
than the goldsmith to earn a ducal. Ger.
41. The unrighteous penny corrupts the righteous
pound, Ger.
43. There is no companion tike the penny.
43. There's no compassion like the penny.
44. 'Tis a good farthing saves a penny, Fr.

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Penny.

7. A penny saved is twopence clear,
A pin a day's a groat a year. Frankiin.
8. A pennyworth of ease is worth a penny.
9. A single penny fairly got.
Is worth a thousand that are not. Ger.
TO. Account not that work slaveiy
That brings in penny savory.
11. An ill-won penny will cast down a pound.
12. Better a penny out of the land than a dollar
out of the sea. Ger.
13. Better one's own penny than another's dollar.
Ger.
14. Better penny in silver than any brother.
15. Better to-day a penny than to-morrow a dol-
lar. Cr€r.
16. Ducats are clipped, pence are not. Ger.
17. Every penny that's saved is not gotten.
18. He that does not save pennies will never
have pounds. Sp.
19. He that regards not a penny will lavish a
pound.
20. He who was bom to pennies will never be
master of dollars. D€ui.
21. In for a penny, in for a pound.
22. It is a good penny with which one gains a
dollar. Ger.
23. Lay thy hand upon thy half-penny twice be-
fore thou partest with it.
24. One cannot have a good penny with bad
ware. JFr.

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^^^ Fenny.

1

fS

One penny in the money-box makes

more _ 1

than when it is full. DuUA. ^

26.

One penny is better on land than ten

an the

seas.

Bau.

2^.

One penny with right is better than a

Iho^i-

sand without right.

Ger.

28.

Penny and penny laid up will be many.

ag.

Penny in pocket is a good companion.

30.

Penny is penny's brother.

Ger. -

3'-

Penny wise and pound foolish.

32-

Put two pennies in a purse an' they'll

come

thegilher.

33-

Take care oE the pence and the pounds will H

take care of themselves.

■

34-

That penny is well spent that saves a groat. H

35-

That which is stamped a penny will ne

erbe ■

a pound.

Dan. ■

36-

The honest penny is better than the stolen ■

dolla

I

37-

The penny does not remain with a poo

1

38.

The penny is the best companion in all lands. |

GtK ■

39-

The smith and his penny are always black. |

40.

The smith makes more noise to earn a

penny ■

than the goldsmith to earn a ducat.

Gtr. ■

41.

The unrighteous penny corrupts the righteous B

pound.

G<r. m

41.

There is no companion like the penny.

■

43-

There's no compassion like the penny.

1

44.

'Tis a good fanhing saves a penny.

J

122 Perhaps.'-Perseverance.
45. What is not wanted is dear at a penny.
46. Who pennies has, has also friends. Ger.
47. Who will not keep a penny,
Shall never have many.
48. You may know by a penny how a shilling
spends.
Perhaps.
I. Perhaps hinders folk from lying. F^.
Persererance.
1. An oak is not felled at one blow. Sp*
2. Appeles was not a master painter the first day.
3. By slow degrees the bird builds its nest.
Dutch,
4. Great works are performed not by strength
but by perseverance. Johnson,
5. Link by link the coat of mail is made. Fr,
6. In time a mouse will gnaw through a cable.
Ger.
7. Many strokes though with a little axe.
Hew down and fell the hardest timbered oak.
Shaks,
8. Nine storied terraces rise by a gradual ac-
cumulation of bricks. Chinese.
9. Paris was not built in a day. Fr.
10. Perseverance brings success. Dutch.
11. Perseverance kills the game. Sp.
12. Step by step one goes far (or to Rome).
Ital.^ For., Dutch.
13. The repeated stroke will fell the oak. Ger.
14. There is nothing difficult in the world; the

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123

only fear is that men will be lacking in perse-
verance. Chinese.
15. 'Tis perseverance that prevails.
16. Troy was not taken in a day.
17. With perseverance one surmounts all diffi-
culties. M. Greek.
18. Zamora {a city of Spain) was not built in a
day, Don Quixote.
Persnagion.
- I. Persuasion is better than force.
2. Persuasion is the recourse of the feeble, and
the feeble can seldom persuade. Gibbon.
3. The persuasion of the fortunate sways the
doubtful.
Pertinacity.
I. I'll fight it out on this line if it take all
summer. U. S, Grant,
Philosopher, Philosophy.
1. A little philosophy inclineth a man's mind to
atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's
minds about to religion. Bacon.
2. All that philosophy can teach is to be stub-
born or sullen under misfortune. Goldsmith.
3. Aristippus being asked what he learned by
philosophy replied, " To live well with all the world."
4. Beard and mantle do not make the philoso-
pher. Ger.
5. Many a philosopher is little honored till the
future prove his inspiration. Bea.
6. Philosophy teaches a knowledge of the truth
of things. Hegel.

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I. Too most let TQaTphBc;:^ sobdne jonr cboler
if TOO vonld not spoil joor basaies&

I. Tbe world belong to the pUegmatic. AtL

I. Pick-pockets are sore traders toar they take
readj-money.

I* A room hung with pictiiTes is a room hung
widi dKMigfats. Sir Joshua JteymMs.

I. Piety is the only proper and adequate relief
of decaying man. Rambter.
' 2. True piety elevates the spirt, ennobles • the
heart and strengthens the courage.
Pigeons.
z. Pigeons are taken when crows fly at pleasure.

PiGMiBS.— Pilgrims.— Pillow.— Pilot. 125
X. Pigmies are pigmies still though perched on
Alps,
And pyramids are pyramids in vales. Voufiig^.
Pilgrims.
I. Pilgrims seldom come home saints.
Pillow.
I. Our pillow should be our counsellor. Latin.
Pilot.
1. A good pilot is not known when the sea isi
calm and the weather fair. Daii.
2. A mariner must have his eye upon rock and
sands as well as upon the north star.
3* A pilot is not chosen for riches but his
knowledge.
4. Every one can navigate in fine weather. Ifal.
5. Every pilot
Can steer the ship in calms, but he performs
The skilful part can manage it in storms.
DcnAam.
6. He steers his course by wandering planets
instead of the faithful pole. Petrarch,
7. In a calm sea every man is a pilot. Ger,
8. it is easy to sit at the helm in fine weather. .
Dan,
9. It is not in the pilot's power to prevent the
wind from blowing. Sp,
10. Reward not a sleeping pilot. Latin,
11. The best pilots are ashore. Dutch,

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Philosopher's Stone. — Phlegm. — Phlegmatic.

7. Philosophy triumphs easily over past and
over future evils but present evils triumph over
philosophy. Rochefoucauld,
8. Philosophy will clip an angel's wings. Keats,
9. The new philosopher needs a new fool's cap.
Ger.
10. There is nothing so absurd as not to have
been said by some philosopher. Cicero,
n. "We two have much to think about," said
the louse on the head of the philosopher. . Ger,
Philosopher's Stone.
I. Pay as you go is the philosopher's stone.
John Randolph of Roanoke.
Phlegm
I. You must let your phlegm subdue your choler
if you would not spoil your business.
Phlegmatic.
I. The world belongs to the phlegmatic. ItaL
Pick-pockets.
I. Pick-pockets are sure traders for they take
ready-money.
Pictures.
t. A room hung with picttires is a room hung
with thoughts. Sir Joshua Reynolds.
Piety.
I. Piety is the only proper and adequate relief
of decaying man. Rambler,
'' 2. True piety elevates the spirt, ennobles • the
heart and strengthens thie courage.
Pigeons.
I. Pigeons are taken when crows fly at pleasure.

Pigmies.— Pilgrims.— Pillow.— Pilot. 125
Pigmies.
X. Pigmies are pigmies still though perched on
Alps,
And pyramids are pyramids in vales. Youfiig'.
Pilgrims.
I. Pilgrims seldom come home saints.
PiUow.
I. Our pillow should be our counsellor. Latin.
Pilot.
1. A good pilot is not known when the sea is.
calm and the weather fair. DaH,
2. A mariner must have his eye upon rock and
sands as well as upon the north star.
3. A pilot is not chosen for riches but his
knowledge.
4. Every one can navigate in fine weather. Ifal.
5. Every pilot
Can steer the ship in calms, but he performs
The skilful part can manage it in storms.
Denham,
6. He steers his course by wandering planets
instead of the faithful pole. Petrarch.
7. In a calm sea every man is a pilot. Ger.
8. It is easy to sit at the helm in fine weather. .
Dan.
9. It is not in the pilot's power to prevent the
wind from blowing. Sp.
10. Reward not a sleeping pilot. Latin.
11. The best pilots are ashore. Dutch.

1 26 PiPKts.— Pi* ATES.— PicnntE.— PiitK.— Pin.
II. The diligent pilot in a dangerous tempest
does not attend the unskilful words of a passenger.
Sidney,
13. The paleness of the pilot is sign of a storm.
14. The rock makes the.pilot. Cingalese.
15. When there is no wind every man is a pilot.
>r.
Pipers.
I. Pipers don't pay fiddlers.
Pirates.
I. Pirates make cheap pennyworths of their
pillage.
Pictnre.
1. A picture is a poem without words. Zo/rVi.
2. A picture is a silent poem, and a poem a
speaking picture. Simonides.
3. Painted pictures are dead speakers.
Pike.
I. The pike grows big on small fry.
Pitt.
1. He who does not pick up a pin cares nothing
for his wife. Sp.
2. See a pin and let it lie, you'll want a pin
before you die. Fr.
3. The prick of a pin is enough to make an em-
pire insipid for a time.
Pine.,
I. The pine wishes herself a shrub when the axe
is at her root.
Pitch.
I. He that handleth pitch shall foul his fingers.

2. He that touchelh pitch shall be defiled there-
with. £idle.
3. He who handles pitch besmears himself. Ger.
4. If thou touches! pitch thou shah be defiled.
S- They that touch pitch will be defiled. SAais.
Pitcher.
1, If the pitcher knocks against a stone, woe to
the pitcher; and if the stone knocks against the
pitcher, woe to the pitcher. Sf.
2, Little pitchers have great ears,
3. Little pitchers have long ears.
4, The pitcher does not go so often to the water
but it comes home broken at last.
5. The pitcher goes often to the fountain, and
once not. JIf. Greek.
6. Whether the pitcher strike the stone or the
stone the pitcher, woe to the pitcher.
Pity.
I. Better be envied than pitied.
Fr., Hal., Dutch, M. Greek.
a. Foolish pity sfwils a city,
3, For pity is the virtue of the law,
And none but tyrants use it cruelly. Shaks.
4, He hath a tear for pity, and a hand as open
as the day for melting charily. Shaks.
5, He that hath pity on the poor lendeth to the
Lord. Bible.
6, He that pitieth another remembereth himself.
7, No beast so fierce but knows some touch of
pity. Shaks.

128 Place.— Plagues.— Plain Dealing.
8. Pity and need make all flesh kin.
9. Pity cureth envy,
to. Pity is akin to love.
11. Pity melts the mind to love. Dryden,
12. Prudent cruelty is better than foolish pity.
13. We have a great pity for a man who is ruin-
ing himself, but very little for one that is ruined.
14. Wherever we meet misery we owe pity.
Place.
I. There is a place and means for every man
alive. Shaks,
Plagues.
I. Who has no plagues makes himself some. ItaL
Plain Dealing.
1. Plain dealing is a jewel, but they that wear
it are out of fashion.
2. Plain dealing is dead, and died without issue.
3. Plain dealing is more praised than practised.
4. Plain dealing is a jewel but they that use it
die beggars.
Plain Speaking.
1. Call a spade a spade. Plutarch.
2. Figs he calls figs, a spade a spade.
3. " Never mind," said Philip, " the Macedonians
are a blunt people ; they call a spade a spade."
Kennedy's Demosthenes^ voL 1.,/. 249.
4. He hath been at London to call a strea a
straw and a waw a wall.
Planting.
I. He who plants a walnut tree expects not to
eat of the fruit.

Plants.— PLASTEk.— Play.

1^9

2. Plant near a vineyard, reside near a town.
3. Plant the crab tree where you will, it will
never bear pippios.
Plants.
I* Noble plants suit not a noble soil.
Plaster.
1. A plaster is but small amends for a broken
head. •
2. That is a prodigious plaster for so small a sore.
3. The bed is the best plaster for a wounded
foot. Ger,
Play.
1. An hour of play discovers more than a year
of conversation.
2. As good play for nothing as work for nothings
3. Gie o'er when the play is good.
4. He plays best who wins. Fr,^ Ger,
5. He plays you as fair as if he picked your
pocket.
6. If thy cast be bad mend it with good play.
7. It is best to play with equals.
8. It is not an art to play but it is a very good
art to leave off play. ItaL
9. It is well to leave off playing when the game
is at the best. Fr,
10. It signifies nothing to play well if you lose.
11. Play at small games rather than stand out.
Shaks.
12. Play not with a man until you hurt him, nor
jest till you shame him.
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Pleasx.

\

13. Play's gude while it is play*
14. The less play the better.
15. The play won't pay the candles.
16. We should play to live, not live to play.
17. What is play to the strong is death to the
weak. Dan.
18. What is sport to the cat is death to the
mouse. Ger,^ Dan.
19. What's play to you is death to us. {Fable of
thi boys stoning the frogs.)
Please.
1. He is not yet bom who can please everybody.
Dan.
2. He labors in vain who tries to please every-
body. Zatin.
3. He must be a sad fellow that nobody can
please.
4* He must rise betimes that would please
everybody. Dutch.
5. He that would please all and himself too,
Undertakes what he cannot do.
6. If you be not pleased put your hand in your
pocket and please yourself.
7. It is hard to please everybody. Dutch.
8. Jupiter himself cannot please everybody. Latin,
9. No dish pleases all palates alike.
10. One cannot please everybody and one's
father. Fr.
11. To please will always be the wish of benevo-
lence, to be admired the constant aim of ambition.
Dr. Johnson.

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131

12. We cannot so act as to please all the world.
Petrarch*
13. He had need rise betimes who would please
everybody. Fr.^ Dan.
Pleasantry.
I. Pedants who proscribe pleasantry are like
cripples who decry dancing.
Pleasure.
1. A day's pleasure and a year's grief. M. Greek.
2. A man of pleasure is a man of pains. Young.
3. A pleasant thing never comes too soon. Dan,
4. A pleasure is well paid for that is long ex-
pected. ItaL
5. After pleasant scratching comes unpleasant
smarting. Dan.
6. After the greatest danger is the greatest
pleasure.
7. Cent per cent we pay for every vicious pleas-
ure.
8. Consider not pleasures as they come but as
they go. Aristotle.
9. Every one takes his pleasure where he finds
it. Fr.
10. Fie upon the pleasure fear can corrupt.
La Fontaine.
11. Fly the pleasure that will bite to-morrow.
12. Fly pleasure and it will follow thee.
13. For my own pleasure, as the man said when
he struck his wife.
14. For one pleasure a thousand pains.

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Pleasure.

15. From short pleasure long repentance. Fr.
x6. Hours of pleasure are short.
17. If you long for pleasure you must labor hard
to get it. Chinese.
18. In hawkSy hounds, arms and love for one
pleasure a thousand pains. Fr.
19. In the pursuit of pleasure the greatest virtues
lie neglected. Cicero.
20. Never pleasure without repentance.
21. No sensual pleasures ever lasted but for an
hour.
22. Of sinful pleasure only repentance remains.
23. One day of pleasure is worth two of sorrow.
24. Our pleasures are imagined but our griefs are
real.
25. Pleasure gives law to fools, God to wise men.
26. Pleasure is deaf when told of future pain.
Cowper.
27. Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.
Plato.
28. Pleasure often comes from pain. Bulwer.
29. Pleasure should follow business. Bea.
30. Pleasure that comes too thick grows fulsome.
31. Pleasures are like poppies spread,
You seize the flower, its bloom is shed ;
Or, like the snowfall in the river,
A moment white, then melts forever. Bums.
32. Pleasures are the baits of evils. Latin.
33. Pleasures steal away the mind. Dutch.
34. Pleasure's the hook of evil. Massinger.
35. Pleasures while they flatter, sting.

Plxrbian. — Pledge. — Pi^nty.

133

36. Say to pleasure, *' Gentle Eve, I will have none
of your apples."
37. Short pleasures, long laments.
38. Short pleasure often brings long repentance.
Dan,
39. Sweet is pleasure after pain. Dryden,
40. That is a cursed pleasure that makes a fool.
41. The most delightful pleasures cloy without
variety. Syrus,
42. The pleasures we enjoy are lost by coveting
more.
43. The reward of unlawful pleasure is lawful pain.
44. There is little due to pleasure but much to
health.
45. There is no pleasure but palls and all the
more if it costs nothing. Sp,
46. True grandeur is to govern our passions and
true pleasure to enjoy ourselves. La Fontaine,
Plebeian.
I. It is dangerous for a plebeian to gmmble in
public. Syrus,
Pledge.
1. Beware of a pledge that eats. For,
2. He has a good pledge of the cat who has her
skin. Fr,
3. Of the good man a good pledge and of the
bad neither pledge nor surety. For,
Plenty.
1. It is a fair degree of plenty to have what is
necessary^
2. Plenty is dainty.

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Pleasure.

15. From short pleasure long repentance. Fr.
x6. Hours of pleasure are short.
17. If you long for pleasure you must labor hard
to get it. Chinese.
18. In hawkSy hounds, arms and love for one
pleasure a thousand pains. Fr.
19. In the pursuit of pleasure the greatest virtues
lie neglected. Cicero,
20. Never pleasure without repentance.
21. No sensual pleasures ever lasted but for an
hour.
22. Of sinful pleasure only repentance remains.
23. One day of pleasure is worth two of sorrow.
24. Our pleasures are imagined but our griefs are
real.
25. Pleasure gives law to fools, God to wise men.
26. Pleasure is deaf when told of future pain.
Cowper.
27. Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.
Plato.
28. Pleasure often comes from pain. Bulwer.
29. Pleasure should follow business. Bea.
30. Pleasure that comes too thick grows fulsome.
31. Pleasures are like poppies spread,
You seize the flower, its bloom is shed ;
Or, like the snowfall in the river,
A moment white, then melts forever. Bums.
32. Pleasures are the baits of evils. Latin.
33. Pleasures steal away the mind. Dutch,
34. Pleasure's the hook of evil. Massinger.
35. Pleasures while they flatter, sting.

mim

Pleb bian. — Pledge. — Plenty.

133

36. Say to pleasure, ** Gentle Eve, I will have none
erf your apples."
37. Short pleasures, long laments.
38. Short pleasure often brings long repentance.
39. Sweet is pleasure after pain. Dryden,
40. That is a cursed pleasure that makes a fool.
41. The most delightful pleasures cloy without
variety. Syrus,
42. The pleasures we enjoy are lost by coveting
more.
43. The reward of unlawful pleasure is lawful pain.
44. There is little due to pleasure but much to
health.
45. There is no pleasure but palls and all the
more if it costs nothing. Sp,
46. True grandeur is to govern our passions and
true pleasure to enjoy ourselves. La Fontaine,
Plebeian.
I. It is dangerous for a plebeian to gnimble in
public. Syrus,
Pledge.
1. Beware of a pledge that eats. For,
2. He has a good pledge of the cat who has her
skin. Fr,
3. Of the good man a good pledge and of the
bad neither pledge nor surety. For,
Plenty.
i. It is a fair degree of plenty to have what is
necessary^ ;
2. Plenty is dainty.

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Pleasure.

15. From short pleasure long repentance. Fr,
x6. Hours of pleasure are short.
17. If you long for pleasure you must labor hard
to get it. Chinese.
18. In hawkSy hounds, arms and love for one
pleasure a thousand pains. Fr.
19. In the pursuit of pleasure the greatest virtues
lie neglected. Cicero.
20. Never pleasure without repentance.
21. No sensual pleasures ever lasted but for an
hour.
22. Of sinful pleasure only repentance remains.
23. One day of pleasure is worth two of sorrow.
24. Our pleasures are imagined but our griefs are
real.
25. Pleasure gives law to fools, God to wise men.
26. Pleasure is deaf when told of future pain.
Cowper.
27. Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.
Plato.
28. Pleasure often comes from pain. Bulwer.
29. Pleasure should follow business. Bea.
30. Pleasure that comes too thick grows fulsome.
31. Pleasures are like poppies spread,
You seize the flower, its bloom is shed ;
Or, like the snowfall in the river,
A moment white, then melts forever. Bums.
32. Pleasures are the baits of evils. Latin.
33. Pleasures steal away the mind. Dutch.
34. Pleasure's the hook of evil. Massinger.
35. Pleasures while they flatter, sting.

Pl^ EI an . — Pledg e. — Plenty.

133

36. Say to pleasure, *' Gentle Eve, I will have none
of your apples."
37. Short pleasures, long laments.
38. Short pleasure often brings long repentance.
Dan.
39. Sweet is pleasure after pain. Dryden,
40. That is a cursed pleasure that makes a fool.
41. The most delightful pleasures cloy without
variety. Syrus,
42. The pleasures we enjoy are lost by coveting
more.
43. The reward of unlawful pleasure is lawful pain.
44. There is little due to pleasure but much to
health.
45. There is no pleasure but palls and all the
more if it costs nothing. Sp,
46. True grandeur is to govern our passions and
true pleasure to enjoy ourselves. La Fontaine,
Plebeian.
I. It is dangerous for a plebeian to gnimble in
public. Syrus,
Pledge.
1. Beware of a pledge that eats. For,
2. He has a good pledge of the cat who has her
skin. Fr.
3. Of the good man a good pledge and of ^he
bad neither pledge nor surety. For.
Plenty.
1. It is a fair degree of plenty to have what is
necessary^ ;
2. Plenty is dainty.

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Plot.— Plough, Ploughing.

Plot.
1. A mischievous plot may produce a good end.
2. A tragical plot may produce a comical con-
clusion.
3. Who cannot be crushed by a plot. Shaks.
Plough, Ploughing.
1. A plough that worketh shines, but still water
stinks. Dutch.
2. An ox and an ass don't yoke well to the
same plough. Dutch,
3. De plough pint is close kin to de meal bag.
American Negro.
4. Drive not too many ploughs at once ; some
will make foul work.
5. He that would by the plough thrive.
Himself must either hold or drive.
6. He who ploughs with young oxen makes
crooked furrows. Ger.
7. If your plough be jogging, you may have
meat for your horses.
8. Ne'er put the plough afore the owsen.
9. Plough deep and you will have plenty of
corn. Sf.
10. Plough deep while sluggards sleep,
And you will have corn to sell and keep.
11. Plough or not plough you must pay your rent.
Sp.
12. Take care of your plough and your plough
will take care of you. Ger.
13. The plough goes not well if the ploughman
hold it not.

Po»M.—Po«T.— Poetry.— PowoK. 1 3 5
Poem.
I. Let your poem be kept nine years. Horace.
Poet.
1. God has chosen a poet generally when he has
a message to give.
2. It is not good to be the poet of a village. Ger.
3. Ne'er
Was flattery lost on poet's ear,
A simple race, they waste their toil
For the vain tribute of a smile. Scott.
4. Poets are bom, but orators are made.
5. Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of
the world. Bea.
6. The poet is bom, not made. (JPoeta tuzcitur,
notfit.)
7. The poet of all sorts of artificers is proudest
of his work.
8. Those who are poets can make soup of
sausage skewers. Hans Andersen.
9. To a poet even a rush may be vocal. 7\irk.
1. Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows,
and of lending existence to nothing. Burke.
2. There is a pleasure in poetic pains
Which only poets know. Cowper.
Poison.
1. Poison and the dagger are the Eastern bill of
rights.
2. Poison quells poison. Jtal.
3. Poison still is poison though drunk in gold.
Massmger.

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Pleasure.

15. From short pleasure long repentance. Fr.
i6. Hours of pleasure are short.
17. If you long for pleasure you must labor hard
to get it. Chinese.
18. In hawks, hounds, arms and love for one
pleasure a thousand pains. Fr.
19. In the pursuit of pleasure the greatest virtues
lie neglected. Cicero,
20. Never pleasure without repentance.
21. No sensual pleasures ever lasted but for an
hour.
22. Of sinful pleasure only repentance remains.
23. One day of pleasure is worth two of sorrow.
24. Our pleasures are imagined but our griefs are
real.
25. Pleasure gives law to fools, God to wise men.
26. Pleasure is deaf when told of future pain.
Cowper,
27. Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.
Plato,
28. Pleasure often comes from pain. Bulwer.
29. Pleasure should follow business. Bea,
30. Pleasure that comes too thick grows fulsome.
31. Pleasures are like p>oppies spread,
You seize the flower, its bloom is shed ;
Or, like the snowfall in the river,
A moment white, then melts forever. Bums.
32. Pleasures are the baits of evils. Latin.
33. Pleasures steal away the mind. Dutch.
34. Pleasure's the hook of evil. Massinger.
35. Pleasures while they flatter, sting.

Plebeian. — Pledge. — Plenty.

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36. Say to pleasure, ** Gentle Eve, I will have none
of your apples."
37. Short pleasures, long laments.
38. Short pleasure often brings long repentance.
Dan,
39. Sweet is pleasure after pain. Dryden,
40. That is a cursed pleasure that makes a fool.
41. The most delightful pleasures cloy without
variety. Syrus,
42. The pleasures we enjoy are lost by coveting
more.
43. The reward of unlawful pleasure is lawful pain.
44. There is little due to pleasure but much to
health.
45. There is no pleasure but palls and all the
more if it costs nothing. Sp,
46. True grandeur is to govern our passions and
true pleasure to enjoy ourselves. La Fontaine,
Plebeian.
I. It is dangerous for a plebeian to gnimble in
public. Syrus,
Pledge.
1. Beware of a pledge that eats. For,
2. He has a good pledge of the cat who has her
skin. Fr,
3. Of the good man a good pledge and of the
bad neither pledge nor surety. For,
Plenty.
1. It is a fair degree of plenty to have what is
necessarv,
2. Plenty is dainty.

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Plot.— Plough, Ploughing.

Plot.
1. A mischievous plot may produce a good end.
2. A tragical plot may produce a comical con-
clusion.
3. Who cannot be crushed by a plot. SAaks.
Plough, Ploughing.
1. A plough that worketh shines, but still water
stinks. Dutch.
2. An ox and an ass don't yoke well to the
same plough. Dutch.
3. De plough pint is close kin to de meal bag.
American Negro.
4. Drive not too many ploughs at once ; some
will make foul work.
5. He that would by the plough thrive.
Himself must either hold or drive.
6. He who ploughs with young oxen makes
crooked furrows. Gcr.
7. If your plough be jogging, you may have
meat for your horses.
8. Ne'er put the plough afore the owsen.
9. Plough deep and you will have plenty of
com. Sp,
10. Plough deep while sluggards sleep,
And you will have corn to sell and keep.
11. Plough or not plough you must pay your rent.
Sp.
12. Take care of your plough and your plough
will take care of you. Ger.
13. The plough goes not well if the ploughman
hold it not.

PoKM. — Poet. — Pobtrv. — Poison. | jc
. Let your poem be kept nine years. Horace.

1. God has chosen a poet geneTally when he has
a message to give.
2. It is not good to be the poet of a village. Ger,
3. Ne'er
Was flattery lost on poet's ear,
A simple race, they waste their toil
For the vain tribute of a smile. Seett.
4. Poets are born, but orators are made.
5. Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of
the world, Bea.
6. The poet is bom, not made. (Poeta nacitur,
m,tjit.)
7. The poet of all sorts of artificers is proudest
of his work.
8. Those who are poets can make soup of
sausage skewers. Ham Andersen.
9. To a poet even a rush may be vocal. Jiirk.
Poetry.
I. Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows,
and of lending existence to nothing. Burke.
3, There is a pleasure in poetic pains
Which only poets know, Cowper.
I. Poison and the dagger are the Eastern bill of
rights.
z. Poison quells poison. Itai.
3. Poison still is poison though drunk in gold.
Matsmger,

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PouL— Policy. — Pouteness.

4. The antidote before the poison. {To offer an
excuse before an €tccusatian^ . . s Latin,
5. What does not poison, fattens. ItaL
6. What's one man's poison, Signor,
Is another's meat or drink.
Beautnont and Fletcher.
% Pole.
I. A Pole would rather steal a horse on Sunday
than eat butter or milk on Friday. Ger,
Policy.
1 . Policy goes beyond strength. Fr.
2. Policy may be virtuous as well as vicious.
Politeness.
1. A hunchback making a bow. {Excessive
politeness^ Chinese^
2. A civil denial is better than a rude grant
3. Hat in hand goes through the land. Ger,
4. Politeness is benevolence in small things.
Macaulay.
^ 5. To be truly polite remember you must be
polite at all times and under all circumstances.
6. A man without ceremony had need of great
merit in its place.
7. After the land's manner is mannerly. Dutch.
8. As charity covers a multitude of sins before
God, so does politeness before men. Greville.
9. At Ron^e do as Rome does.
10. Cap in hand never did any harm. Ital.
% II. One never loseth anything by politeness.
12, One outward civility is current pay for
another.

PouTiciANS. — Politics.— Ponder. — Pools. — Poor, i yj
Politicians.
1. Old politicians chew on wisdom past. Pope.
2. Politicians never love nor hate. Chesterfield.
Politics.
1. In p>olitics nothing is contemptible. Bea,
2. There are no miracles in politiq/s. Maga.
Ponder.
I. Ponder long before you act.
Pools.
I. Standing pools gather filth.
Poor.
1. A fallen rich man may make a good master,
but not an enriched poor man. Ital.
2. A lamb is as dear to a poor man as an ox to
the rich.
3. A north wind has no com and a poor man no
friend. Sp.
. 4. A poor man can gain nothing by contending
with the great. Cingalese,
5. A poor man has few acquaintances. Dan.
6. A poor man has no friends. Ashantees {Africa).
7. A poor man has not many marks for fortune
to shoot at.
8. A poor man is all schemes. Sp.
9. A poor man is hungry after eating. Por.
10. A poor man's joy has much alloy. Dan.
11. A poor man's shilling is but a penny.
12. A poor man wants something, a covetous
man all things.
13. A poor man's debt makes a great noise.

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Poor.

14. A ragged sack holds no grain, a poor man is
not taken into counsel. Ital.
15. As long as there are some poorer than you,
praise God even if you are unshod. Gipsy.
16. Be considerate toward the poor.
17. For poor people, small coin.
18. Every poor man is counted a fool.
19. He is not poor that hath not much, but ^ he
that craves much.
20. He is not poor who has a competency. Hotkue.
21. He is poor indeed who can promise nothing.
22. He is too poor to buy a rope to hang himself.
Gir.
23. He who devours the substance of the poor,
will find at length a bone to choke him. Fr.
24. If poor, act with caution.
25. Look on the poor with gentle eyes, for in
such habits often angels desire alms. M<issinger.
26. Much wisdom is lost in poor men's mouths.
Ger.
27. Much wisdom b smothered in a poor man's
head. Dutch.
28. Much wit is lost in a poor man's purse. Gir.
29. No one is poor but he who thinks himself so.
Par.
30. No one so hard upon the poor as the pauper
who has got into power. Dan.
31. Not he who has little, but he who wishes for
more, is poor. Seneca.
32. Poor and content is rich and rich enough.
Shaks.

Poor. 1 3g
33. Poor folks are glad of pottafe.
34. Poor folks say " ihank you " for a little,
35. Poor folk's wisdom goes for little. Dutch.
36. Poor men do penance for rich men's sins. Ital.
37. Poor men have no souls. {So think the rich.)
38. Poor men seek meat for their stomachs, rich
men stomach for their meat.
39. Poor men's money and cowards' weapons are
often flourished. /'a/-
40. Poor men's tables are soon spread.
41. Poor men's words have little weight. Greek.
41. Poor people's words go many to the sackful.
Ger.
43. Poor, what he can ; rich, what he will.
M. Greek.
44. Poor without debt is better than a prince.
45. That man is not poor who has the use of
things necessary, Horace.
46. The dainties of the great are the tears of the
poor.
47. The devil wipes his tail with the poor man's
pride.
48. The impartial earth is open to the poor as
well as the sons of kings. Horaet.
49. The pleasures of the mighty are the terrors of
the poor.
50. The poor advanced makes friends of enemies,
For who not needs, shall never lack a friend.
Skaks.

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Poor.

51. The poor ye always have with you.
New Testament.
52. The poor are rich when they are satisfied. Ger.
53. The poor do penance for the follies of their
superiors. ItaL
54. The poor can live in one house together when
two kings cannot in a kingdom. Ger,
55. The poor cannot, the rich will not. Ger,
56. The poor live secure. Ger,
57. The poor must dance as the rich pipe. Ger,
58. The poor man's honor is worth more than the
rich man's gold. Ger.
59. The poorest man may in his cottage bid defi-
ance to all the force of the crown. Wm, Pitt,
60. The poor man eats at double cost. Dan,
61. The poor man has his crop destroyed by hail
every year. Sp,
62. The poor is aye put to the worst. Scotch,
63. The poor pay for all.
64. The poor man's budget is full of schemes. 1^.
65. The poor man's coin always grows thin. Dan,
66. The poor man seeks for food, the rich man
for appetite. Dan,
67. The poor man's penny unjustly obtainjed is a
coal of fire in the rich man's purse.
68. The poor man's wisdom is as useless as a
palace in a wilderness. Gaelic.
69. The poor man turns his cake and another
comes and takes it away.
70. The poor man wants much, the miser every-
thing

Poor.

141

71. The poor man must keep his word, and the
rich when it suits him. Ger,
72. The poor pour, and the rich drink, the wine.
Ger.
73. The poor rich man is emphatically poor.
74. The poor sing free throughout the world. Ger.
75. The poor sit in Paradise on the first benches.
Ger.
76. The poor trying to imitate the powerful per-
ish. Phadrus.
*l*l. The wise discourses oiE a poor man go for
nothing.
78. Inhere are many things that may not be
uttered by men in threadbare coats. Juvenal.
79. There is God's poor, and the devil's poor;
the first from Providence, the other from vice.
80. To contemn the poor because of his poverty
is to affront God's providence.
81. We give the rich, and take from the poor. Ger.
82. What the poor are to the poor none know
but themselves and God. Charles Dickens.
83. When poor, liberal ; when rich, penurious. Sp,
84. When the poor become rich they sink the
village. Ger.
85. When you eat think of the poor. Cingalese.
86. Wherever a poor man is, there is his destiny.
M. Greek.
87. Who closes his ear to the poor, Peter will not
hear when he knocks. Ger.
88. Whoso stoppeth his ear at the cry of the poor,
shall cry himself and not be heard. Hebrew.

1^2 PooR-Housis.— Pope.— Port.
89. Withhold not the wages of the poor.
Poor-houses.
I. The poor-houses are filled with the honestest
people. Sp.
Pope.
1. After one pope another is made. Ital.
2. Every priestling conceals a popeling. Ger.
3. He that has the pope for his cousin need not
fear hell fire. S/.
4. He who has the pope for his cousin may
soon be a cardinal. Ger.
5. He who never budges from Paris will never
be pope. Sp.
6. If you would be a pope you must think of
nothing else.
7. It is hard to sit in Rome an' fight wi' the
pope.
8. One living pope is better than ten dead. 7W.
9. The corpse of the pope takes up no more
ground than the sacristan's. Dtm Quixote.
10. The pope and a peasant know more than the
pope alone. Ital.
11. We cannot all be pope of Rome. Ger.
Port.
1. Any port in a storm.
2. It is not every man's lot to gain the port of
Corinth. (A part difficult to entir.) Bonue.
3. Many have come to a port after a storm.
4. No wind can do him good who steers for no
port.

POETUGOESE. — POSSESS ION.

5. The worse the passage the more welcome the
port.
Portuguese.
1. A Portuguese apprentice, who can't sew, yet
would be cutting out. Sf.

t. A bird in a cage is worth a hundred at large.
/to/.
3. A crown in pocket doth you more good than
an angel spent.
3. A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
4. A sparrow in hand is worth a pheasant that
flieth by.
5. A thousand cranes in the air are not worth
one sparrow in the fist. Egyptian.
6. Better a feather in the hand than a bird in
the air. Ger.
7. Better a finch in the hand than a parrot m
the Indies.
8. Better a leveret in the kitchen than a wild
boar in the forest. Livonian.
9. Betier a mouse in the pot than no flesh at all.
10. Him that is in possession God helps. Jfal,
11. I'll not change a cottage in possession for a
12. One bird in the net is better than a hundred
flying.
13. One quill is better in the hand, than geese
upon the strand. Dutch.
14. Possession and good right with lance in hand.

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Possi B LE. — Poster ity . — Pot.

15. Possession is as good as a title. Fr.
16. Possession is eleven points in the law. and
they say there are but twelve.
17. Possession is nine points of the law.
18. Possession is the grave of pleasure.
19. Prospect is often better than possession.
20. Rather possess a freehold though but a cot-
tage than live in a palace belonging to another.
Possible.
I. Madam, if it is possible, it is done ; if it is
not possible, it shall be done. Fr.
Posterity.
I. Posterity allows to every man his true value
and his proper honors. Tacitus,
Pot.
1. A cracked pot never fell oflf the hook. Ital,
2. A little pot is soon hot. Dutch.
3. Little pots soon boil over. Ger.^ Dutch.
4. Many a good drop of broth is made in an old
pot.
5. That which will not make a pot may make a
pot lid.
6. The flawed pot lasts longest.
7. The pot boils best on your own hearth. Dan.
8. The pot that boils too much loses its flavor.
For.
9. Tis God's blessing makes the pot boil.
10. When the pot boils over it cools itself.
11. While the pot boils friendship blooms. Ger.
12. Who boils his pot with chips makes his broth
smell of smoke.

■

POVBRTV.

1

>3

You may cook in small pots

as well as in 1

large

ones.
Poyerty.

Dan. J

1

All is lost when the people fear death less ■

than

poverty.

Chinese. ■

*

A narrow fortune is a cramp to

a great mind. H
L' Estrange. H

3

A threadbare coat is armor

;>roof against H

highwaymen.

I

4-

Bear wealth— poverty will bear itself. |

5

Belter be poor than wicked.

■

6

Better poor with honor than rich with shame. |

Duteh. ■

7-

Deep draughts and long morning slumbers ^

make a man poor.

Dan. m

8.

Do not through fear of poverty surrender H

liberty, (^ai/e of the horse and the stag.) ^

9-

Eveiy one likes to wipe his shoes on poverty. ^

Ger. 1

lO.

Hard is the path from poverty

Latin. M

11.

He bears poverty very ill who is

ashamed of it. H

11.

He becometh poor who dealeth with a slack H

hand

Bible. ■

"3-

He has no share in the sun,

'■ '-. " of-J'^'y ■

poor.

M. Greek. ■

>4-

He whose expenses exceed his

receipts shall ^k

come

to poverty.

Cingalese. 1

'5-

His wit got wings and would have flown, J

But poverty still kept him down

^^^H

i6.

Honest poverty is thinly sown.

^^H

B

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POVBRTV.

17. How many sink iDto the sordid hut of cheer-
less poverty. Thomson.
18. If you would gto^ poor without perceiving it
employ worlnnen and go to sleep. For.
19. It is hard to find one who bears poverty with
a noble spirit AHstides.
20. It is more easy to praise poverty than to bear
it. Ital.
21. It is no sin to be poor. Cr€r.
22. Kin or no kin, woe to him who has nothing.
Ital.
23. My poverty, not my will, consents. Shaks.
24. No better masters than poverty and want.
'Dutch.
25. No man lives so poor as he was bom.
26. Nothing to be got without pains but poverty.
27. Old age and poverty are two heavy burthens,
either is enough. Ger,
28. Pain, distress, and poverty have frightful
looks. Locke.
29. Poverty and hunger have many learned dis-
ciples. Ger.
30. Poverty and love are hard to hide.
31. Poverty breeds strife.
*
32. Poverty crsfves knahy things, but avarice more.
ItaL
33. Poverty has no kin. ItcU.
34. Poverty has no shame. Sp.
35. Poverty is a complication of evils.
36. Poverty is a good that all men hate. Ger.

POVERTY. ,4;
37. Poverty is a shirt of fire. Turk,
38. Poverty is a sort of leprosy. Fr.
39. Poverty is cunning, it catches even a fox. CriT.
40. Poverty is death in another form. Latin.
41. Poverty is no shame, but being ashamed of it
is. Ger.
42. Poverty is no sin. Fr., Sp.
43. Poverty is no sin, but it is a branch of roguery.
sp.
44. Poverty is no sin, but it is terribly incon-
venient.
45. Poverty is not dishonorable in itself, but only
when it is the effect of idleness, intemperance,
prodigality and folly. Plutarch.
46. Poverty is shamefully bome by a sluggard.
47. Poverty is shamed and persecuted all over
the globe. Lucan.
48. Poverty is the daughter of laziness. Ger.
49. Poverty is the mother of all arts. Ital.
50. Poverty is the mother of health.
51. Poverty is the reward of idleness. Dutch.
ji. Poverty is the sister of a sound mind.
53. Poverty is the sixth sense. Ger.
54. Poverty is the worst guard to chastity.
55. Poverty makes a man acquainted with strange
bedfellows.
56. Poverty makes a man mean.
57. Poverty never sped well in love. For.
58. Poverty on an old man's back is a heavy
burthen.

1^ Poverty.
59. Poverty parte^h friends (or fellowship).
60. Poverty shows us who are our friends and
who are our enemies. Latin,
6i. Poverty trieth friends.
62. Pride and poverty are ill met yet often to-
gether.
63. Prison and Lent were made for the poor.. Sp,
64. The poverty of the poor shall be at an end
when they shall learn to minister to the wants of
each other. Cingalese,
65. The worst part of poverty is to bear it im-
patiently.
66. Their rise is one of difficulty whose minds
are impeded by poverty. Latin.
67. They only are ashamed of poverty who are
poor against their will. Aristides.
68. Though poverty bring sorrow, riches create
inquietude.
69. To be poor the Greeks did not hold scanda-
lous unless it was due to one's own indiscretion.
Fiddmg.
70. To be poor without being free is the worst
state into whidi man can fall. * Fr.
71. To feed many persons and to build many
houses is the readiest way to poverty. Greek,
72. Unmanly poverty subdues the heart.
Cankers each wound and sharpens-every dart
CaUinadms.
. 73. When mooey is sent flying out of the. win-
dow, it's poy^^xxNues in at the door..

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POWEB.— PRACTICI.

'49 ^J

74.

, Who doth sing so merry a note,

^^1

As be who cannot change a groat ? ^^^^

Power,

^^™

I.

AH human power is but comparative. ^|

2.

Arbitrary power is most easily established on fl

the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness. ^^^^|

Washington. ^^^H

3-

For sovereign power al! laws are

broken. Sp. ^^^H

4.

He is most powerful who governs himself. ^^^^|

Seneea. ^^H

5-

No power, no respect.

^^^H

6.

Power can achieve more by gentle means ^^^H

than by violence.

^^^^1

7.

Power goes before talent.

£>aH. ^^H

8.

Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes ^^^^

whate

I'er it touches.

Shelley. ^H

9-

Power on my head or the raven o

<n my corpse. ^^^H

10.

Power weakeneth the wicked.

^^^H

II.

The nature of sovereign power i

to en- ^^^H

durei

\ rival.

^^^H

12.

When power puts in its plea, the laws are si- ^^^^

lent.

Practice.

Massinger. ^^^^H

I.

Practice makes perfect.

^^^1

2.

Practice makes perfect. Literal.

: The boxer's ^^^H

fist must keep to its task and the singer's

rest ^^^1

must ask.

^^^1

3-

Practice makes the master.

^^^H

4-
H

Practice not your art, and 'twill i

soon depart ^^^|

ISO

Pkaisb.^

5. Practice what yon preach. ' ^-
6. Suppose you wish to excel before an expert,
practice well. Chinese.
I. A man finds no sweeter voice, in the world
than that which chants hb praises. Fontm^ik*
a. A pdS of wind and popular praise weigh
alHce. , r
3. Approbation from Sir Hubert Stanley is
praise indeed. TTiomas Morton.
4. Be not the trumpeter of your own praise.
Gmk.
5. Damn with faint praise.
6. Even too much praise is a burden. ^ .
7. Every pedleipratseslus own. needles, : M
8. Every potter praises his own pot and the
more if it be cracked. Ital.^ Sp,
9. Faint praise is akin tO abuse.
10. Full praise must not be given to the; horse
that wins the race, but to the man that keeps the;
stable. Chinese.
• II. €rOod things should be praised. Shakf.
12. He dwells afar from neighbors who is fain to
praise himself.
13. He is a fool that praises himself and. a mad-
man that speaks ill of himself. Dan.
14. He that doeth good for praise only meriteth
but a puff of wind.
15. He that is loudly praised will be chunorously
censured.

16. He that praiseth bestows a favor, and he that
detracts commits a robbery.
17. He that praiseth publicly will slander pri-
vately.
18. He that refuseth praise the lirst time does it
because he would have it the second.
ig. He who praises himself befouls himself. Hal.
30. He who praises himself must have bad neigh-
bors. Ger.
21. If thou wouldst have praise, die, Welsh.
23. In doing what we ought we deserve no praise
because it is our duty. St. Augustine.
33. It is more difficult to praise rightly than to
24. It is not good praising a ford until one be
over.
25. Let another man praise thee and not thine
own mouth.
26. Let every man praise the bridge he goes
over.
27. Neither praise nor dispraise any before you
know (hem.
18. Neither praise nor dispraise thyself; thine ac-
tions serve the turn.
39. Neither speak well or ill of yourself ; if well,
men will not believe you, if ill they will believe a
great deal more than you say,
30. Never praise a man tor being like a woman,
nor a woman for resembling a man. Quadaretus.
31. Never sound Ihe trumpet of your own praise.

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PftAISX.

32. None ever gives the lie to him that praiseth
him.
53. Of whom to be disprais'd were no smiall praise.
MUUm.
34* Old praise dies unless you feed it.
35. One has only to die to be praised. Ger.
36. Our praises are our wages. Shaks.
37. Praise a fool and you may make him useful
38. Praise doth a wise man good and a fool
harm.
39. Praise borrowed from ancestors is but sorry
praise. Dan.
40. Praise from Sir Hubert is praise indeed. {The
correct quotation is as above.) Thomas Morton.
41. Praise is not pudding.
42. Praise is pleasing to him that thinks he de-
serves it.
43. Praise b the hire of virtue.
44. Praise makes good men better and bad men
worse.
45. Praise not the unworthy on account of their
wealth. Bias.
46. Praise not yourself. Cingalese.
47. Praise paves the way to friendship. Dan.
48. Praise the sea and keep on land. Fr.^ Ital.
49. Praise undeserved is satire in disguise.
Broadhurst,
50. Praise undeserved is scandal in disguise.
Pope.

Prate. —Praying. Ijj
.5Z. Praise without profit puts little in the pot.
52. Praise yourself, basket, for I want to sell you.
Sf.
53. Praises are a spur to virtue, but flatteries are
a subtle poison. Petrarch.
54. Praising is not loving. Ger.
55. Self-praise defiles.
56. Self-praise is half slander.
57. Self-praise is odious.
58. Self-praise is the ground of hatred.
59. Self-praise stinks.
60. The praise of a wise man is worth a whole
theatre of others. PUtacus.
61. The praise of a fool is censure in disguise.
62. The public is more disposed to censure than
to praise. Addison.
63. The sweetest of all sounds is praise. Xenophcn.
64. The virtues of the young are increased by
praise. Tkeophrastus.
65. They that value not praise will never do any-
thing worthy of it.
66. Too much praise is a burthen.
67. True praise takes root and spreads.
Prate.
1. Prate is but prate, 'tis money buys land.
2. Prate is but prate, but its the duck that lays
the egg.
Praying.
1. A prayer of. a dog does not reach heaven. S^.
2. A short prayer ascends to heaven. Sf.

3. Affliction teaches a wicked man to pray,
prosperity never. Brnjanson.
4. Apollo hears when invoked. Latin.
5. Don't say amen to an iinacceptable prayer.
Turk.
6. He has milka prayer, but little devotion.
7. He invokes Heaven if a flea bite him. Latin.
8. He prayeth well who loveth well.
Both man and bird and beast ; .
He prayeth b^st who loveth best ,
All things both great and small. Coleridge.
9^ He that wpuld learn to pray let him go. to sea.
10. More things are wrought by prayer than this
world dreams of. Tennyson.
1 1 . Much praying but no piety.
1%. None can pray well but he that lives well.
13* Pray to the saint until you have passed the
slough., .DuUk.
14. Prayfsr is the voice of faith.
15. Prayer should be the key of the day ^nd the
lock of the night.
16. Prayers move the hand that moves the- uni-
verse. . .
17. Rather go rob with good men than pray with
bad. For.
18. Satan trembles when he sees
The weakest saint upon his knees. Cowper.
19. The fewer the words the better the prayer.
Ger.
20. The prayer of the stranger is accepted.

PEEACHtt. P«*CHIHa 155
21. The prayers that are forced do not penetrate
into heaven. ThtA:
22. The stranger's prayer is heard. .
23. " They shall have no more of our prayers
than we of their pies," quoth the vicar of Layton.
24. When the pirate prays there is great danger.
25. Who knows not how to pray, let him go sail
the sea. //a/.
Preacher, Preaching.
1. A young preacher, a new hell.
2. Good preachers give fruits, not flowers, //a/,
3. He is a good preacher who follows his own
preaching. Gtr.
4. He is past preaching who does not care to
do well. />-.
5. He preaches well that lives well.
6. He preaches patience that never knew pain.
7. He that will not be saved needs no preacher.
Ger.
8. He who will not go to heaven needs no
preaching. Gen
9. It is bad preaching to deaf ears. Ger.
10. It is easy preaching to the fasting with a
full belly. //a/.
11. It is easy to preach fasting with a full belly.
12. The life of a pious minister is visible rhetoric.
looker,
13. The most disorderly students make the most
pious preachers. Ger.
14. There are many preachers who don't hear
themselves Ger.

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Precaution.-^Prbcbpt.— Precious.— pRKCiPiTiMTB.

15. There is no good in preaching to the
hungry.
16. You canna preach o^t of your own pulpit
Precaation.
1, Precaution b better than repentance. Greek.
2. Precaution said ''Good friend, this counsel
keep, strip not until you're laid to sleep." DuUh.
Precept.
1. Precept begins, example completes. Fr.
2. Precepts may lead, but examples draw.
Precious.
X. Precious ointments are put in small boxes.
Fr.
2. Precious things are mostly in small compass.
DuUh.
Precipitate.
I. Precipitate counsel, perilous deed. Dan.
Precedence.
1. At a dangerous passage yield precedence.
ItaL
2. Be ye last to go over a deep river.
Precedent.
1. A precedent embalms a principle. Bea.
2. To follow foolish precedents and to wink
with both our eyes, is easier than to think.
Gile^ proverbs.
Precepts.
I. Whatever precepts you give be short. Zn/rVi.
Precocity.
I. Early ripe, early rotten.

Prepared. — Preparation. — Preskmt. 157
2. He dies before he is old who is wise before
his day. ^'^«-
3. Soon fire, soon ashes. Dutch.
4. Soon grass, soon hay. Dutch.
5. Soon old, soon cold; soon old, soon with
God. Gcr-
6. Soon ripe, soon rotten. Latin.
7. So wise so young, they say do never live
long. Shahs.
8. What ripens fast does not last ^
Prepared.
I. It is better to be always prepared than to
suffer once. Latin.
Preparation.
1. Preparation for war is sometimes the best
^ security for peace.
2. Preparation is half the battle, and nothing is
lost by being on one's guard* Dan Quixote.
Present.
I. Past and to come seem best, things present
worst. Shahs.
Presnmption.
I. Presumption first blinds a man, then sets
him running.
Pretence.
1. If you want a. pretence to whip a dog, it is
easy enough to say he ate up the frying-pan.
2. On a little pretext the wolf seizes the sheep.
Ital., Dutch.
3. You have daily to do with the devil and pre-
tend to be frightened at a mouse.

I j8 PwrmillSS.— PHEVENTION.— Prey.^Peide.
4. You pretend the public but intend yourself.
5. You pretend to be a visitor, but are really a
spy.
Prettiness.
1. Prettiness dies quickly.
2. Prettiness makes no pottage.
Prerention.
1. Prevention is better than cure. Coke.
2. Prevention is the best bridle. Feltkam.
Prey.
I. If one should be a prey, how much the bet-
ter
To fall before the lion than the wolf. Shdks.
Pride.
1. A man may have a just esteem of himself
without being proud.
2. A Burston horse and a Cambridge master of
arts will give way to nobody.
3. A clown enriched knows neither relation or
friend. Fr.
4. A little dog, a cow without horns, and a short
man, are generally proud.
5. A man well mounted is always proud. Fr,
6. A proud look makes foul work in a fair face.
7. A proud mind and a poor purse are ill met.
8. A proud pauper and a rich miser are con-
temptible beings. Jtal.
9. A very proud man is always wilful.
10. And the devil did grin, for his darling sin
Is pride that apes humility. Ofkridg^-

11. As proud as a cock on his own dunghilL
12. As proud as an apothecary.
13. As proud come behind as go before.
14. But yesterday out of the shell, to-day he
despises the shell. Turi.
15. Decency and decorum are not pride.
16. Every ass thinks himself worthy to stand with
the king's horses.
17. " Fie upon thee, how black thou art," said the
kettle 10 the sauce-pan. £>an.
18. He does not think milk and water of himself.
ig. He is as proud as a peacock, and calls for
ram's milk. M. Greek.
10. He that is proud eats up himself. Shaks.
31. He that is too praud to ask, is too good to
receive.
22. He who is on horseback no longer knows
his own father, Jiussian.
23. He who is puffed up with the first gale of
prosperity will bend beneath the first blast of
adversity.
24. I do bate a proud man, as I hale the engen-
dering of toads. Shaii.
25. I wa'd na ca' the king my cousin.
26. If pride lead the van, beggary brings up the
rear. FrankHn.
fj. If pride were an art, how many doctors we
should have. Jtal.
2S. It is good pride to desire to be the best of

i6o P»iD«.
39. It is not a sign of humility to declaim against
pride.
30. It is pride, not nature, that craves much.
31. Neediness conquers pride.
32. No pride like that of an enriched beggar.
33|. Nothing more thankful than pride when com-
plied with.
33. Of all vice pride loudest calls and for the
largest bowL Votm^.
34. Peacock, look at your legs. Ger.
35. Pride and grace ne'er dwell in one place.
36. Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with
poverty, supped with infamy.
37. Pride continues not. Ger.
38. Pride costs more than hunger, thirst ana cold.
39. Pride feels no cold.
40. Pride goes before and shame follows after.
41. Pride goes hated, cursed and abominated by
all. Hammond.
42. Pride goeth before destruction, and an
haughty spirit before a fall. BMe.
43. Pride had rather go out of the way than go
behind.
44. Pride in prosperity turns to misery in adver-
sity.
45. Pride increaseth our enemies, but putteth our
friends to flight;
46. Pride is as loud a beggar as want and great
deal more saucy.
47. Pride is the mask of one's own faults. Hekrew.

PKIDL ,61 1

48

Pride is the sworn enemy of content. 1

49

Pride is joined with many virtues, chokes H

them all. ^

SO

Pride, like anger, builds among the stars, 1

But pleasure, lark like, rests upon the ground, 1

Vou^. 1

S'-

Pride leaves home on horseback but returns 1

on foot. Ger. J

S»-

Pride loves no man and is beloved by no

53-

Pride may lurk under a threadbare coat.

54.

Pride must have a fall. SAais.

55-

Pride must suffer pain. J/ans Andersen,

S6-

Pride ne'er leaves its master till it gels a fa".

57-

Pride often borrows the cloak of humility.

S8-

Pride scorns a director and choler a coun-

seller

59-

Pride scorns the vulgar, yet lies at its mercy.

6o.

Pride sleeps in a gilded crown, contentment

in a cotton njghlcap. J^rui. ^

6i.

Pride slill is aiming at the best abodes, ■

Men would be angels, angels would be gods. H

Pope. ■

6s.

Pride the first peer and president of hell. ^|

De Foe. ■

63-

Pride the never failing vice of fools. Pope. H

64.

Pride triumphant rears her head, H

A littie while and all her power is fled. ■

Goldtmth. M

6S-

Proud as a peacock, all strut and show. ^^^H

1 62 Pride.
66. Proud looks lose hearts, but courteous words
win them.
67. The best manners are stained by the addition
of pride.
68. The man in boots does not know the man in
shoes.
69. The nobler the blood the less the pride; Dan.
70. The noblest character is stained by the addi-
tion of pride. Ciaudianus.
71. The pride of the poor does not endure. Dan.
72. The pride that holds its head high rarely
picks up anything, whereas modesty like a diver
gathers pearls by keeping his head low. Punch.
73. The proud man, who gets wet through rather
than ride in the carriage of an inferior. Fumh.
74. There are some who despise pride with
greater pride. Jtal.
75. Tis good beating proud folks for they'll not
complain.
76. 'TIS pride and not nature that craves much.
77. Tis pride in fashion that puts humility out of
countenance.
78. When a proud man hears another praised he
thinks himself injured. >
79. When pride rides shame lackeys.
80. When they came to shoe the horses of the
pacha the beetle stretched out his leg.
81. You a gentleman and I a gentleman, who
will milk the cow ? {Satire on pride?) Turk.
82. You a lady, I a lady, who is to put the sow
out of doors ? (Satire on pride.) Gallician.

Priest. 163
83. You gazed at the moon and fell into the
gutter.
Priest.
I. A priest must be the guardian of truth. Ger.
3. A priesjt's pocket is not easily filled. Dan.
3. Bad priests bring the devil into the church.
4. Either fight not with priests or beat them to
death. Ger.
5. Give the priest a drink for the clerk is thirsty.
Jtal.
6. If a priest be a priest, if a ploughman be a
ploughman. M> Greek.
7. It is just the priest should live by the altar.
Fr.
8. Lang standing and little offering makes a
poor priest.
9. Like priest, like people.
10. Priests pay each other no tithes. Ger.
11. Priests pray for enemies but princes kill.
Shaks.
12. Priests should not prate out of the confes-
sional.
13. Such as the priest, such is the clerk.
14. That priest is a fool who decries his relics.
Ital.
15^ The bites, of priests and wolves are hard to
heal. Ger.
16. The priest does more than the physician.
Get.
17. The priest forgets that he was a clerk.

1^4 PRINCX.
i8. The priest to bis book ; tbe peasant to Jiis
plough. Dam.
19. Tbe priests ougbt not to survive tbeir tem-
ples. Tacitus.
30. Tbe quarrel of priests is tbe devil's jubilee.
Ger.
21. Vilify not your parisb priest.
22. Wben tbe priest visits you do not be over-
joyed ; be will soon begin to beg. Russian.
Prince.
1. A good prince does not cut out freedom's
tongue. Ger.
2. A good prince is not tbe object of fear.
Diogenes.
3. A good prince must bave a tongue, a pen and
a beart. Ger.
4. A great prince sbould bave many ears and
many eyes. Ger.
5. A prince ougbt to be aware not only of bis
enemies, but of bis flattering followers. Dumysius.
6. A prince wants a million, a beggar but a
groat.
7. A prince who would possess subjects must
respect tbeir faith. Hindoo.
8. A prince without letters is a pilot without
eyes. Benjonson.
9. A wise prince is covered with a bulwark of
gold.
10. All are not princes who ride with tbe emperor.
DuUh.

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165 1

All the virtues that a prince

acquires are so H

man;

misfortunes to the wicked.

CiiHae. ■

11

As princes fiddle, subjects must dance. Ger. H

n

Happy a subject when the prince is guided by |

justic

e, nol his passionate will.

Massinger. ■

14

If the prince wants an apple, the servants ^

take the tree.

Gfr. 1

'S

No prince is poor that has rich subjects. Ger. J

t6

Princes and asses do nothing

unurged. Ger. fl

17

Princes can make knights,

but not learned H

men.

Ger. ■

18

Princes do not think of rendering their sub- 1

jects happy unless when they have nothing else to |

do.

CW.. 1

19

Princes have long arms.

Ital. 1

20.

Princes have long arms and many ears. Ger. 1

11.

Princes keep good reckoning

they never lose M

anything.

"'■ i

22.

Princes know only what they

must. Ger. ■

'3-

Princes or lords may fiourish

or may fade. ^|
Goldsmith. ■

14.

Princes will not be served on

conditions. Fr. ^|

'S-

Princes use men as the husbandmen use bees. H

Fr. ■

36.

Subjects from princes' crimes grow bold. |

Aaron HilL ■

27.

The blemish of a prince who has forfeited his H

word

can never be removed.

Chinest. ■

18.

The hand of the prince is as

rreat as his ler- ^|

riton-

Ger. 1

hJ

1 56 Princiflbs.— Prison.
29. The prince that is feared by many must of
necessity fear many.
30. The prince who deserves the favor of Heaven
should practise and honor the five virtues, charity,
justice, prudence, fidelity and politeness. Chinese.
31. The surest guard for a prince or other chief
is the sincere affections of his people. Plutarch.
32. The vices of a prince draw shoals of follow-
ers,
33. The word of a prince should never be dis-
puted or recalled. Thnour.
34. Their power and their will are the measures
princes take of nght and wrong.
35. There is no prince so bad, whose favorites
and ministers are not worse. Burke.
3(S. They are not all princes who ride with the
Czar.
37. We rise in glory as we sink in pride ;
Where boasting ends, there dignity begins.
Young.
Principles.
I. We are best of all led to men's principles by
what they do. Butler.
• t. Heir feet,' trough faitMess" lea^r^ met the
dirt,
-And oftener changed thefar prindples than
shirt. Young.
PdSOIIe •■ . . ... -r
I. A prison is a hoiise of care, a place .where
none can thrive ;
. A touchstone true to try a friend, a grave for
one alive.

—Prodigal. 167
Sometimes a place of right, sometimes a place
of wrong,
Sometimes a place of rogues and thieves and
honest men among.
Inscription on Edinburgh old Tolboolh.
2, It is better to make conditions in the bush
than in prison, Dan.
Proclamationa.
I. To whisper proclamations is ridiculous.
Procrastioation.
I. Procrastination is the thief of time ;
Year after year it steals lill all are fled. Young,
ProdigaL
**■ 1. The prodigal robs his heir ; the miser himself.
Prodigaiitj.
1. Prodigality and profligacy are twins in every
country. Maga.
Profanity.
1. Nothing will justify profanity.
StoKtwatl Jaekson,
2. That in the captain's but a choleric word
Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy. SAais.
Profits.
I. For profits smalt as pin heads, they rush from
east to west, Ckintte.
3. Great capital, great profits. Chtnae,
3. Great profits, great risLs. Chinese.
4. Hold back some goods for a thousand days
and you will be sure to sell at a profiL Chinese.
5. Profit is better than fame.

l6g Pkojbcts.— Promise.
6. Small profits and often, are better than large
profits and seldom. Ger.
7. Small profits are sweet. Dan.
8. Small profits on large capital are after all
great. Chinese.
9. Great profits on small capital are after all
small. Chinese.
10. Stock that never lies dead naturally yields a
profit. Chinese.
11. The pain o'ergangs the profit.
12. What's none of my profit shall be none of
my peril.
Projects.
1. Man has many projects but (Sod cuts them
short. M. Greek.
2. Man projects all his life and dies without
realizing. J^r.
Promise.
1. A great many shoes are worn out before a
man does what he says.
2. A promise is a debt. Ger.^ ItcU.
3. A promised dollar is not worth half. Ger,
4. All promises are either broken or kept.
5. Don't promise what you cannot perform.
Turk.
6. Expect nothing from him who promises a
great deal. ^ Ital.
7. Fair promises bind foote' ^ Ital.
8. Give no credit to great promises.
9. He loses his thanks who promises and de-
lays.

Promise.

169

10. He promises like a merchant-man, and pays
like a man-of-war.
11. He ruins himself in promises and clears him-
self by giving nothing. Fr.
12. He that promises too much means nothing.
13. His promises are lighter than the breath th^t
utters them.
14. In the land of promise a man may die of
hunger. Dutch,
15. Lavish promises lessen credit. Horace.
16. Men apt to promise are apt to forget.
17. Neither promise wax to the saint, nor cakes to
the child. M, Greek,
18. No greater promisers than those who have
nothing to give. Dutch.
19. Nothing weighs lighter than a promise. Ger.
20. Promise little and do much.
21. Promises and undressed cloth are apt to
shrink. Dan,
22. Promises are for fools.
23. Promises are like pie-crust, made to be
broken.
24. Promises don't fill the belly. Ger,
25. Promises fill no sack. Ger.
26. Promises make debts and debts make
promises. Dutch.
27. Promises may make friends, but 'tis perform-
ance keeps them.
28. Promises must not fill the place of gifts.
Latin.

I/O

Prophet. — rRopiiBCY.

29. Promising and performing are two things.
jpr., Dutch.
30. Promising is not giving but serves to content
fools. For.
31. Take heed, girl, of the promise of a man, for
it will run like a crab. Sp,
32. There is no piety in keeping an unjust
promise.
33. There is no virtue in a promise unless it be
kept. Dan,
34. Thy promises are like Adonis's garden.
That one day blossomed and fruitful were the
next. Shaks.
35. To promise is easy, to keep it troublesome.
Dan,
36. To promise more butter than bread. Fr^
37. To promise more carts than oxen. Ital,
38. To promise much means giving little. For.
39. When a man repeats a promise again and
again he means to fail you.
40. Who makes no promises has none to perform.
Ger.
41. Who promises much and does little, dines a
fool on hope. Ger,
Prophet. •
1. A prophet is not without honor save in his
own country and in his own house. New Testament.
2. No man is a prophet in his own country.
Prophecy.
I. The best reply to a prophecy is another fore-
cast. New York World {tiewspafer).
Prosperity.

171

Prosperity.
1. All claim kindred with the prosperous. Latin,
2. He that considers in prosperity, will be less
afflicted in adversity.
3. In prosperity no altars smoke. ItaL
4. In prosperity think of adversity. Dutch.
5. In time of affliction a vow, in time of prosper-
ity an inundation of wickedness.
6. It is no easy matter to bear prosperity de-
cently.
7. Let the wretched hope and the prosperous be
on their guard. Latin.
8. Oh, how portentous is prosperity !
How, comet-like, it threatens while it shines I
Young,
9. Prosperity and vanity are often lodged to-
gether.
10. Prosperity destroys fools and endangers the
wise.
11. Prosperity discovers vices and adversity r
virtues.
12. Prosperity engenders sloth, Livy,
13. Prosperity forgets father and mother. Sp,
14. Prosperity gains friends, and adversity tries
them. Pacuvius,
15. Prosperity gives some appearance of higher
sentiments, even to persons of mean spirit.
Plutarch.
16. Prosperity is a ray of the sun that the least
shadow can interrupt ; adversity is sometimes like
the refreshing rain of Spring. Chinese.

172

Prosperity.

17. Prosperity is a stronger trial of virtue than
adversity. Rochefoucauld.
18. Prosperity is like a tender mother but blind
who spoils her children.
19. Prosperity is not without many fears and dis-
tastes, and adversity is not without comfort and
hopes. Souths
20. Prosperity is the nurse of anger. Latin.
21. Prosperity is the worst enemy men usually
have.
22. Prosperity lets go the bridle.
23. Prosperity is the thing in the world we ought
to trust least.
24. Prosperity tries the human heart with the
deepest probe and brings forth the hidden character.
Tacitus.
25. Prosperity's right hand is industry and her
left hand is frugality.
26. Prosperous men sacrifice not ; 1. ^., theyforgei
God.
27. Prosperous men seldom mend their faults.
28. The prosperous man cannot easily form a right
idea of misery. QunUilHan.
29. The prosperous man does not know
whether he is loved. Lucoh.
30. They must be strong legs that can support
prosperous days. Ger.
31. When prosperity smiles, beware of its guiles.
DuUh.
32. When prosperity was mounted, she. let go the
bridle and soon came tumbling out of the saddle.
Franklin.

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173

1. A man's life is often buitded on a proverb.
2. A proverb, a true word, Ger.
3. A proverb deceives not ; the heavens fall
not. Ger.
4. A proverb is a remnant of the ancient philos-
ophy preserved amidst very many destructions on
account of its brevity and fitness for use.
Syrus quoting from a work of Aristotle nmu lost.
5. A proverb is condensed popular wisdom.
Carl Sceibtuh.
6. A proverb Is much light condensed in one
flash, Simmons.
7. A proverb lies not ; its sense only deceives.
Ger.
8. A proverb — much matter decocted into a few
words. Fuller.
9. A proverb is the child of experience.
10. A proverb is the experience of half a cent-
ury, extracted from a dozen folio volumes and com-
pressed in a crystal.
I T, A proverb is the interpretation of the words of
the wise. Bible,
12. A proverb is the wit of one man and the wis-
dom of many, John Russdl.
13. A wise man who knows proverbs reconciles
difficulties. Yoruba.
14. All the good sense of the world runs into
proverbs,
15. An apologue of ^sop is beyond a syllogism,
and proverbs more powerful than demonstration.
Brown's Vulgar Errors.

»;4

Proverb.

1 6. As the country so the proverb. Ger,
1 7 . Cessit inpraverbum. {It has become a proverb^
i8. Generally a fable is a proverb put in action.
Maga.
19. I am proverb*d with a grandsire phrase,
To be candle-holder and looker-on. Shaks.
20. * * * * Jewels five words long
That on the stretched forefinger of all time
Sparkle forever. Tennyson,
21. Maxims expressed in a few words and become
popular. La Rousse,
22. Proverbs are the children of experience.
23. Proverbs are the daughters of daily experience.
DuUh.
24. Proverbs are the echoes of experience.
Z* Abbede St Pierre,
25. Proverbs are the jewels of the multitude.
Popular EncydopcBdia.
26. Proverbs are the language of the gods. Vico,
27. Proverbs are the wisdom of ages. Ger.
28. Proverbs are the wisdom of the streets.
29. Proverbs bear age, and he would do well to
view himself in them as in a glass.
^ 30. Proverbs lie on the lips of fools.
31. Short sentences drawn from long experience.
Cervantes.
32. Short sentences frequently repeated by the
people. Johnson.
33. Short sentences into which as in rules the
ancients have compressed Vd^. Johann Agricola^ ^SS^*

Providence.

175

' 34. Solomon made a book of proverbs, but a book
of proverbs never made a Solomon.
35. The genius, wit and spirit of a nation are dis-
covered in its proverbs. Bacon,
36. The ingredients of a good proverb are sense,
shortness and salt. Howell,
37. We have many coarse proverbs, but of good
meaning. Ger,
38. Well-known and well-used dicta framed in a
sort of out-of-the-way form and fashion. Erasmus,
39. When a poor man makes a proverb he does
not break it. Ger,
Providence.
1. If you leap into a well. Providence is not
bound to help you out.
2. If you oblige those who can never pay you,
you make Providence your debtor.
3. Providence alone can extricate us out of the
labyrinths we often fall into. Turkish Spy,
4. Providence assists not the idle. Latin,
5. Providence for the most part sets us on a level.
Spectator,
6. Providence is better than rent.
7. Providence knows better what we require than
we do ourselves. La Fontaine,
8. Providence is supremely wise, alike in what it
gives and what denies.
9. Providence will sooner or later procure the
felicity of the virtuous and innocent. Fielding,
10. There is a special providence in the fall of a
sparrow.

I ^5 Proving.^Provision.— Prude.— Prudxncb.

I. He that proves too much proves nothing.
LaHn.
3. Prove all things ; hold fast that which is good.
New Testament.
3. That which proves too much proves nothing.
Provision.
I. Provision in season makes a bien (plentiful)
house.
Prude.
I. A prude often preserves her reputation when
she has lost her virtue. Spectator,
Prudence.
1. Abandon not your old clothes till you get
your new. Gaelic,
2. A good " take heed " will surely speed.
3. A grain of prudence is worth a pound of
craft.
4. A prudent man does not make the goat his
gardener. Hungarian.
5. A prudent man procures in summer the sleigh
and in winter the wagon. Roumanian,
6. All things belong to the prudent.
7. A nail secures the horseshoe, the shoe the
horse, the horse the man, the man the castle, and
the castle the whole land. Ger,
8. Be on the safe side.
9. Attempt not to fly like an eagle with the
wings of a wren.
10. Be prudent with valor and brave without
ostentation. Agricola,

Prying.— Pudding. — Puff.— Pull.— Pun.

177

11. Colts by falling and lads by losing grow pru-
dent. Sp»
12. Destroy the lion while he is but a whelp.
13. Do not ship all in one bottom. Ger.
14. Do not wade where you see no bottom. Dan.
15. No protecting deity is wanted if there be
prudence. Juvenal,
16. Prudence is the charioteer of all virtue. Ztf//;^.
17. Prudence is the parent of success.
18. Prudence supplies the want of every good.
Juvenal.
19. The most prudent yields to the strongest. Ital.
20. The prudent still have fortune on their side.
Spectator.
Prying.
I. Who is always prying has a dangerous life.
Sp.
Pudding.
1. The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
Dutch.
2. The proof of the pudding is not in chewing
the bag.
Puff.
I. Puff not against the wind.
PnU.
1. Pull down your hat on the wind side.
2. Pull gently at a weak rope.
Pnn.
I. Who makes a pun will pick a pocket.
Punctnality.
I. Punctuality begets confidence and respect.
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178

Punishment. — Pure.— Purse.

2. Punctuality is the soul of business.
Punishment.
1. A monarch should be slow to punish, swift to
reward. Ovid,
2. Birchen twigs break no ribs.
3. It is cruelty to the innocent not to punish the
guilty. Syrus.
4. It is less to suifer punishment than to deserve
it. Ovid,
5. Let them who have deserved their punish-
ment bear it patiently. Ovid.
6. It is seldom that punishment though lame of '
foot has failed to overtake a villain. Horace.
7. Man punishes the action, but God the in-
tention.
8. Many without punishment, none without sin.
9. Punishment comes slowly, but it comes. Ger.
10. The worst punishment of all is that in the
court of his own conscience, no guilty man is ac-
quitted. Juvenal.
11. When men of talents are punished, authority
is strengthened. Tacitus,
12. Who punishes one threatens a hundred. Fr,
Pure.
I. To the pure all things are pure. Latin,
Purse.
1. A dainty stomach beggars the purse.
2. A full purse has many friends. Ger,
3. A full purse is better than ten friends. Ger,
4. A full purse makes the heart light. Ger,

Purse.

179

5. A full purse makes the mouth run over.
6. A full purse never lacks friends.
7. A handsome hostess is bad for the purse.
8. A handsome landlady is bad for the purse.
9. A light purse makes a heavy heart.
. 10. A poor spirit is poorer than a poor purse.
11. A purse without money is but a piece of
leather.
12. All is not gain that is put in the purse.
13. All is not won that is put in the purse.
14. An empty purse causes a full heart. Fielding,
15. An empty purse damps a bargain. Gaelic.
16. An empty purse frightens away friends.
17. An empty purse and a new house make a
man wise, but too late. For,
18. An empty purse fills the face with wrinkles.
19. An empty purse frights away friends.
20. An empty purse is heavy but sickness presses
heavier. Roumanian,
21. An empty purse makes a man wise too late.
For,
22. Ask thy purse what thou shouldst buy.
23. Be it for better or be it for worse,
Be ruled by him that beareth the purse.
24. Better an empty purse than an empty head.
Ger,
25. Better an empty purse than gold saved. Ger,
26. But for all that the honest man has not got
his purse. Fr.
27. Give every man good words, but keep your
purse strings close.

1 80 Purse.
28. Gold and silver are a good provision in the
purse.
29. Gold is gold though it be in a rogue's purse.
Dan.
30. He hath left his purse in his other breeches.
31. He that buys and lies shall feel it in his purse.
32. He that has but four and spends five has no
need of a purse.
33. He that hath money in his purse cannot want
a head for his shoulders.
34. He that hath no money needeth no purse.
35. He that in his purse lacks money,
Hath in his mouth much need of honey.
36. He that shows his purse longs to be rid of it
37. He who does not open his eyes must open
his purse. Ger.
38. He who has his purse full preaches to the
poor man. Fr.
39. Heavy purses and light hearts can sustain
much. Dutch,
40. His purse and his palate are ill met.
41. His purse is made of toad-skin; /. ^., he is a
covetous person.
42. If a man empties his purse into his head no
man can take it from him. Franklin,
43. If you put nothing in your purse you can take
nothing out.
44. It is petty expenses that empty the purse. Itctl.
45. Keep your purse and your mouth closed.
46. Let your purse be your master.

lg2 Pursuits.— Put. — Quackery. — Quaileth.
64. Who has no money in his purse must have
honey in his mouth. Ital,
65. Wrinkled purses make wrinkled faces.
66. Yes, ready money is Aladdin's lamp. Byron.
Pursuits.
I. Trifling pursuits true wisdom casts away.
Horaue.
Put.
1. Put a stout heart to a steep hill.
2. Put by for a rainy day.
3. Put on your spurs and be at your speed.
4. Put the right man in the right place.
5. Put your finger in the fire, and say 'twas your
ill fortune. Scotch.

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O.
Oath.
1. A true word needs no oath. Tlirk,
2. An oath and an egg are soon broken. Ger.
3. An unlawful oath is better broken than kept.
4. He keeps his oath as a dog does his fast. Ger.
5. It is a great sin to swear unto a sin,
But greater sin to keep a sinful oath. Skaks.
6. Oaths are but words and words but wind.
BtOier.
7. 'Tis not the many oaths that make the truth.
But the plain, single vow that is vowed true.
Shaks.
8. To keep that oath were more impiety
Than Jeptha's, when he sacrificed his daugh-
ter. Shaks.
Obedience.
I. Obedience and majesty never lodged in the
same inn. Massinger.

Obligation. — Observation. — Obstinacy.

95

2. Obedience is more seen in little things than in
great.
3. Obedience is the mother of happiness.
4. Obey orders if it break owners.
5. The proof of obedience is found in small mat-
ters more than great.
6. They that are bound must obey.
7. When you obey your superior you instruct
your inferior.
Obligation.
1. By conferring an obligation you do not always
procure a friend but are certain of creating ene-
mies. Fielding,
2. Excess of obligations may lose a friend.
Obsenration.
1. Exhaustive observation is an element of every
great achievement. Spenser,
2. For he is but a bastard to the time
That doth not smack of observation. Shaks,
Obstinacy.
1. A headstrong man and a fool may wear the
same cap.
2. Obstinacy is the worst and most incurable of
all sins.
Occtilist.
I. Among wonderful things is a sore-eyed person
who is an occulist. Arabs of Egypt
Occupation*
I. A good occupation is better than a golden
girdle. Ger.

96

Odd Numbers.~Offknces. — Offxnding^

2. Constant occupation prevents temptation.
Ital.
3. No thoroughly occupied man was ever miser-
able.
4. The church, the sea, or the royal household for
those who would thrive.
5. Thrice happy they who have an occupation.
Byron,
Odd Numbers.
I. There is luck in odd numbers.
OfiPences.
I. Offences generally out- weigh merits with great
men.
Offending.
1. No one can justly offend us but ourselves.
St Chrysostom.
2. Who offends writes on sand, who is offended
on marble. ItaL
Offenders.
I. The offender never pardons. Ital.
Offers.
I. Extravagant offers are a kind of denial. Ital.
Office.
1. All offices are greasy ; ue,^ open to receive what
the Dutch call smear money. Dutch.
2. An ill man in office is a mischief to the
public.
3. An office that does not give the holder enough
to eat is not worth two beans. Don Quixote,
4. Cursed is he that doth his office craftily, cor-
ruptly or maliciously.

OFFSPKrMC. QT
5. Great office, great care.
6. He hath a great office, he must need thrive.
7. He that puts on a public gown must put off
the private person,
8. It is a pretty otEce where one works only
with his stomach. Ger.
9. It is thou must honor the place (or office) and
not the place thee,
10. Jack in office is a great man.
11. No office so humble but is better than noth-
ing, DuUh.
12. Nothing is more obnoxious than a low per-
son raised to a high position. Claudian.
13. Office tests the man. Latin.
14. Office without pay makes thieves. Ger.
15. The office (or place) teaches (shows) the
man. Ger., Latin.
t6. Th^ that buy an office must sell something.
17. To grow proud in office is the nature of man.
Tiberius.
18. To kiss a man's wife or wipe his knife is but
a thankless office.
19. Who fills an office must learn to bear re-
proach and blame. Gtr.
10. Who obtains an oSice surreptitiously like a
fox will administer it like a wolf, Ger.

I. The offspring of them that ate very old or
very young lasteth not.
3. Unworthy offspring brag most of their de-
scent. J>an.

g8 Olive.— Once.— One.
OUve.
1. Call me not olive until you see me gathered.
2. No man who has planted an olive has ever
tasted its fruit.
Once.
1. Once is never. (Ein mal kdn mal^ Ger.
2, Once upon a time no time. {Same day^ no
day.) Ger.
One.
1. One foolish act may undo a man and a
timely one make his fortune. GaeUc.
2. One foot is better than two crutches.
3. One foot is better than two stilts. J^.
4. One grain of pepper is worth a cart-load of
hail.
5. One grain of sharp pepper is .better dian a
basket full of gourds.
6. One grape will not make a bunch though it
be a great one. ^ea.
7. One link broken, the whole chain is broken.
Ger.
8. One log does not bum long by itself. Ger.
9. One pirate gets nothing of another but his
cask.
10. One ploughs, another sows,
Who will reap no one knows. Dan.
11. One poison is cured by another.
12. One sad losel soils a man for aye. Byron.
13. One stroke falls not an oak.
14. Only one can be emperor. Ger.

One's Own.— Opinion. — Opportunity.

99

One's Own.
1. One's own hearth is worth gold. Dutch.
2. One's own straw is better than an enemy's
wool. Ger,
3. One's own thistle field is dearer to him than
liis neighbor's garden of roses. Ger,
4. The smoke of our own country is brighter
than fire abroad. Latin.
5. 'Tis written " What's not your own that let
alone."
6. To every one his own is not too much. Ger.
7. You may call that your own which no one can
take from you. Dan.
8. Your cracked jug seems better to me than
my sound one. Sp.
Opinion.
1. All worldly happiness consists in opinion.
2. A man's own opinion is never wrong. Ital.
3. He that seeks a' opinions comes ill speed.
4. Opinion is the great pillar that upholds the
commonwealth.
5. Popular opinion is deceitful.
6. The man is a fool who when asked for his
candid opinion gives it Punch.
Opportunity.
1. A man must make his opportunity as oft as
find it Bacon.
2. An occasion lost cannot be redeemed.
3. An opportunity which presents itself must
not be lost. Turk.

100 Opprkssion.—O&ator, Oratory.
4. Catch the opportunity. Latin.
5. Don't let escape the opportuni^ of the
present ; it will not return. Turk,
6. Know your opportunity.
Pittacus^ one of the seven wisemen.
7. Let not slip the golden opportunity.
8. Occasion's (opportunity's) bald behind.
Massmger.
9. Opportunity is the cream of time.
10. Opportunity makes desire. Dutch.
11. Opportunities are more powerful than con-
querors and prophets. Bea.
12. Opportunities do not wait. M. Greek,
13. Opportunities neglected are lost
14. The first occasion offered, quickly take.
Lest thou repine at what thou did'st forsake.
Dutck.
15. The opportunity is often lost by deliberating.
Syrus.
16. To take opportunity by the forelock.
Oppression.
1. Oppression causeth rebellion.
2. Oppression will make a wise man mad.
Orator, Oratory.
1. A good orator must be Cicero and Roscius
in one man.
2. An orator is a virtuous man skilled in the art
of speaking well. Cato.
3. An orator without judgment is a horse with-
out a bridle. Theopkrastus,

Order.— Orthodoxy.— Orphan.— Oven.— Over, jqi
4. He is a good orator who convinces himself.
5. He's a pretty fellow of an orator that makes
panegyric of himself.
6. Oratory is the wings upon which we must rise
to the great offices of state. Plutarch.
7. Their weakness made them get up into
clamor as lame men get on horseback.
Cicero^ speaking of bawling orators.
Order.
1. Order is Heaven's first law. Pope.
2. Set thine house in order. Bible.
3. The old order changeth, yielding place to new.
Tennyson.
Orthodoxy.
I. Orthodoxy is my doxy, heterodoxy is another
man's doxy. Bishop Warburtan.
Orphan.
I. O teach the orphan boy to read,
Or the orphan girl to sew.
Oven.
1. An old oven is easier to heat than a new one.
Fr.
2. No gaping against an oven.
Over.
I. What is over can't be begun. Dickens.
Owl.
1. The owl does not praise the light nor the wolf
the day. Z)an.
2. The owl is not accounted the wiser for living
retiredly.
3. The owl thinks her children the fairest. Dan.

Ox.

I02

1. A long ozy a short horse.
2. An old ox makes a straight furrow.
Fr., Ital, Sp., Par.
3. An old ox will find a shelter for himself.
4. An ox when he is loose licks himself at
pleasure.
5. Even he gets on who is drawn by oxen. Dan.
6. He has hay upon his horn. {J%e ancients
thus marked mischievous oxen^
7. He takes the bull by the horns ; i^^ grapples
boldly with the difficulty.
8. He who greases his cart-wheels helps his
oxen. Sp.
9. He who has lost his oxen b always hearing
bells. Sp.
10. If an ox won't drink you cannot make him
bend his neck. Chinese.
11. If the ox fall, whet your knife.
12. Is the crow aware of the pain it occasions in
picking the sore of an ox ?
13. It is easy to frighten a bull from the window.
Ital.
14. It is not the best oxen that do the best day's
work.
15. No need to seek shelter for an old ox. Sp.
16. Old oxen have stiff horns. Dan.
17. Old oxen tread hard. Ger.
18. Ox, keep to your grass.
19. The black ox never trod on his feet ; /.^., he
never knew sorroiit or adversity.

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Net
1. A new net won't catch an old bird. Dan.
2. All is fish that comes to his net.
3. In vain the net is spread in sight of any bird.
Bible.
4. Nets are for thrushes, eagles are not caught
so. Werner.
5. New nets don't catch old birds. Sp.
6. The net that holds no great, takes little fish.
Southwell,
7. The net was never spread for the hawk or
buzzard that hurt us, but for the harmless birds that
are good meat. Benjonson.
8. The rough net's not the best catcher of birds.
9. When there is no fish in one spot cast your
net in another. Chinese.
10. With never a single hemp thread in his hand
he thinks to make a dozen nets. {Trading without
capital^ Chinese,
Nettle.
1. He that handles a nettle tenderly is soonest
stung.
2. It is better to be stung by a nettle than
pricked by a rose.
3. Tender handed stroke a nettle and it stings
you for your pains ;
Grasp it like a man of mettle, and it soft as
silk remains.
4. Though you stroke the nettle ever so kindly,
yet it will siing you.

Neutral.— Never.— New. 85
Neutral.
1. A neutral is a bat. Ger.
2. Neutrals are soused from above and singed
from below. Ger.
3. Neutrals think to tread on eggs and break
none. Ger.
4. Who can ride upon two saddles is a neutral.
Ger,
5. He howls with the wolves, and bleats with
the sheep. Dutch.
Never.
1. It shall be done when the king comes to
Wigkn ; />., never.
2. Never is a long day.
3. Never is a long term.
4. When the Greek Calends come, when two
Sundays meet, when the frog has hair ; />., never.
New.
1. A new toot out of an old horn.
2. Always something new, seldom something
good. Ger.
3. Everything new is beautiful. Ital.
4. New things are most looked at.
5. Nothing is so new as what has long been for-
gotten. Ger.
6. Nothing is so new but it has happened before.
Dan.
7. One must not throw away the old until he has
the new. Ger.
8. The new is always liked though the old is
often better. Dan,

86 Nkws.
9. There is no new thing under the sun. Bible.
10. There is nothing new under the sun.
11. What is new is always fine. J*r,
News.
1. As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good
news from a far country. Bible*
2. Bad news always comes too soon. Ger.
3. Bad news has wings. JFr.
4. Bad news is always true. Sp.
5. Bad news is the first to come. lUil,
6. Do not fret for news, it will grow old, and
you shall know it. Sp.
7. For evil news rides post while good news
bates. Milton.
8. Go into the country to hear what news in town.
9. Good news is rumored, bad news flies.
Sp*^ JPiOK,
10. Good news sweetens the blood. Fr,
11. He comes too early who brings bad news. Ger.
12. He knocks boldly who brings good news.
Fr,^ Ital.y Dan.
13. He was scant of news who told his father was
hanged.
14. He was short of news that spoke ill of his
mother.
15. Ill news are aft o'er true.
16. Ill news are swallow winged,
But good walks on crutches. Massinger.
17. Ill news travels fast. Ital.
18. It is a barber's news. Greek,

NawsrAPKR.— NiCB. g-j H

19

No news i

good news. Fr., Hal. ■

20

The lame post brings the surest news. H

ZI

The sun never sets without fresh news. Kaffir. H

32

They are scarce of news that speak ill of theit H

mother.

Ulster.

23

Though it

>e honest, it is never good

To bring

bad news. III tidings tell Ihem-

selves.

Shaks.

24

Too good

news 10 be true.

25

Vou must

go into the country to hear what

news at London.

Newspaper.

I

Speak and

speak out and sow wisdom about.

Dice,

doce, E-dice

{Punch's motto/or a newspaper:)

1

Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared |

than

a thousand

Dayonets. Napoleon. ■

3

Newspapers are curious exponents of diseased |

ideas

Russel

4-

There are

never any vacancies on a good

newspaper : there

is always room for a good man.

Col Starbuck.

S-

The press

s the sheet anchor of our liberties.
Nice.

I-

As nice as

a nun's hen.

2.

He is more

nice than wise.

3-

Nothing so

nasty as a nice man. £>ean Swift.

4-

To undo c

osses in a straw loft. (To pari all

the straws that they may not lie cross-wise, i.e., to be |

MW ««■(•.)

sp. m

1

Who is over nice loses many a slice, Ger. . ■

88 Niggard.— Night.— Nightingale.
Niggard.
I. The niggard spends as much as he who is lib-
eral and in the end more. Pr.
Night.
1. Blemishes are unseen by night
2. Darkness and night are mothers of thought.
Dutch.
3. Night gives counsel. Fr.
4. Night has no friends. Fr.
S- Night is the mother of counsels.
6. Night is the mother of thought.
7. The night brings counsel.
8. The night is a cloak for sinners.
9. What is done by night appears by day.
Nightingale.
1. A nightingale was put in a golden cage — " Oh
for my home," she said. Thtrk.
2. A nightingale won't sing in a cage.
3. Ever>'body thinks his own cuckoo sings better
than another's nightingale. Ger.
4. He esteems the crow and nightingale alike.
Turk.
5. It is better to hear the nightingale sing than
the mouse gnaw. Ital,
6. Nightingales can sing their own songs best.
7. The nightingale and the cuckoo sing both in
one month.
8. When the crow sings the nightingale takes
wing. M. Greek.

No, Yes. — Nobiuty. gg
9. When the nightingale sings no more she's an
ugly brown bird.
10. Who cries like a raven when young, does not
sing like a nightingale when old. Ger.
No, Yes.
1. My " no " is as good as your " yes." Ital.
2. "No " and " yes " cause long disputes. Dan.
3. " No " is a good answer when given in time. -
Dan,
4. Out of " yes " and " no " come all disputes. Fr,
5. Ten no's are better than one lie. Dan,
6. " Yes " and " no " is a long dispute. Ger.
Nobility.
1. A true nobleman would prefer rags to patched
clothing. Sp.
2. Better not be at all than not be noble.
Tennyson,
3. Born to consume the fruits of the earth. (Fruges
cansumere nafi.)
4. Do not make a difference between the noble
and ignoble. Hindoo,
5. He is ignoble who disgraces his brave ances-
tors by a vicious life.
6. He is noble that hath noble conditions.
7. He is noble who performs noble deeds. Dutch.
8. He is of the twice ten thousand for whom
earth was made.
9. He is of true nobility, his father went to the
chase with a pair of oxen. Ger.
10. It is a reproach to be the first gentleman of
his race, but it is a greater to be the last.

go NoBLK Lives. — Nodding, Napping.
11. Let wealth and commerce, laws and learning
die,
But give us back our old nobility.
Ijordjohn Mamners.
12. Nobility consists in virtue. Don Quixote.
13. Nobility has its obligations. {Noblesse oblige.)
14. Nobility is nothing but ancient riches, and
money is the world's idol.
15. Nobility remains noble. Hans Andersen.
16. Piety, prudence, wit, and civility are the ele-
ments of true nobility. Ger.
17. The more noble the more humble.
18. There never were fewer nobles than when all
would be so. Dan.
19. Tis only noble to be good. Tennyson,
20. To be of noble parentage and not to be en-
dowed with noble qualities is rather a defamation
than a glory.
21. True nobility is exempt from fear. Skaks.
22. True nobility is invulnerable. J^.
23. Twas virtue only at first made all men noble.
Benjonson.
Noble Lives.
I. In the wreck of noble lives.
Something immortal still survives. Longfellow.
Nodding, Napping.
1. Even Demosthenes sometimes nodded in his
orations. Cicero.
2. Even the good Homer is sometimes caught
napping. Horace,

NoiSB.— Nonsense. — Nose.

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Noise.
I. He that loves noise must buy a pig.
Nonsense.
I. A little nonsense now and then
Is relished by the best of men. Holmes.
Nose.
1. h big (long) nose never spoiled a handsome
face. Fr,
2. A man should not stick his nose in his
nei^bor's pot.
3. A man should not stick his nose in every-
thing.
4. A red nose makes a ragged back. Scotch,
5. He cut off his nose to spite his face.
6. He that hath a great nose thinks everybody is
speaking of it.
7. His nose will abide no jests.
8. If you have lost your nose put your hand be-
fore the place. Ital.
9. If Cleopatra's nose had been a quarter of an
inch shorter it would have changed the face of the
world.
10. Keep your nose out of another's mess. Dan.
11. No one bites his own nose.
12. One may know by your nose what pottage
vou love.
13. Scant of cheeks makes a long nose.
14. To be led by the nose. Dutch.
15. To follow one's nose.
16. Who blows his nose too hard makes it bleed.
Fr.

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Not Easy.— Nothing.

Not Easy.
1. It is not easy to know your butter in another
man's cabbage. Dan.
2. It is not easy to pluck hairs from a bald pate.
Dan,
3. It is not easy to show the way to a blind
man. Itai,
4. It is not easy to sting a bear with a straw.
Dan.
5. It is not easy to straighten in the oak the
crook that grew in the sapling. Gaelic.
6. It is not easy to walk on the devil's ice. Dan,
Nothing.
1. Blessed be nothing. (jExclamation of a house-
wife on cleaning day.)
2. Blessed be nothing when the tax-gatherer
comes around.
3. Better aught than naught. Ital,^ Ger.
4. Blessed is he who expects nothing for he shall
not be disappointed. Pope.
5. From nothing nothing can come. Fr.
6. He goes safely who has nothing. It.
7. He has nothing for whom nothing is enough.
Fr.^ For.
8. He that has nothing is frightened at nothing.
9. He that has nothing to spare must not keep
a dog.
10. He who has nothing fears nothing. Fr.
11. Naught is never in danger.
12. No one so liberal as he who has nothing to
give. Fr.

Novelty. — Nurse.

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13. None have all and none have nothing. Ger.
14. Nothing can come of nothing. {Ex nihilo
nihil fit?)
15. Nothing have, nothing crave.
16. Nothing happens for nothing. Fr,
17. Nothing is a footless stocking without a leg.
18. Nothing is had for nothing. Fr.
19. Of nothing comes nothing.
20. Soon rich, soon poor, — soon nothing. Ger.
21. To have nothing is to have rich eyes and poor
hands. Shaks,
22. When nought comes to aught, it does not
know itself. Dutch,
23. Who nothing have shall nothing save.
24. Where nothing is, a little doth ease.
25. Where nothing is, nothing can be had.
26. Where nothing is to be had the king must lose
his right.
27. Who has nothing fears nothing. Ital.^ Sp.
28. Who has nothing is nothing. It<il.
NoTclty.
1. Novelty always appears handsome.
2. Novelty is an essential attribute to the beau-
tiful. Bea.
3. Novelty is the great parent of pleasure. South.
4. Tis novelty that sets the people a-gaping.
None.
I. Nurse, you are mistress whilst the child sucks,
and after that nothing.

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Nut.— Oath.— Obedience.

2. One year a nurse and seven years the worse.
3. The nurse is valued till the child is done suck-
ing.
4. The nurse's tongue is privileged to talk«
5. Whilst the nurse suckles we love her, when
she is of no further use she is forgotten. Sp.
Nut.
1. By the husk you may guess at the nut
2. It is a hard nut to crack.
3. Nuts are given but they are not cracked for
us. Hans Andersen,

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Neighbor.
1. A bad neighbor is as great an evil as a good
one is a blessing. Hesiod.
2. A bad year passes, a bad neighbor remains
always. M, Greek.
3. A good neighbor is a precious thing. Ger.
4. A good neighbor is a good morrow.
5. A good neighbor is better than a brother afar
off. Dan.
6. A good neighbor is better than a jewel in a
chest. Ger.
7. A good neighbor is the safest guide. Ger.

g2 Neighbor.
8. A great man and a great river are often ill
neighbors.
9. A man may take a neebor's part
Yet no hae cash to spare him. Bums,
10. A near neighbor is better than a distant
cousin.
11. An unpeaceable man hath no neighbor.
12. Better a near neighbor than a distant cousin.
Itai.
13. Better is a neighbor that is near than a
brother that is far off. Bible,
14. Better is my neighbor's hen than mine. Par,
15. Better learn by your neighbor's skaith than
by your own.
16. Between neighbors' gardens a hedge is not
amiss. Sp.
17. Does your neighbor bore you lend him a
sequin. Ital,
18. Every man's neighbor is his looking-glass.
19. He who has a good neighbor has a good
morning. ItcU,^ Ger.^ Dan,
20. He who has a bad neighbor is fain to praise
himself. Dan.
21. Here's talk of the Turk and the Pope, but its
my next neighbor that does me the harm.
22. If a man would know what he is let him
anger his neighbor. Ger,
23. It is not as thy mother says but as thy neigh-
bors say.
24. Keep well with your neighbors whether right
or wrong. Ger.

25. My neighbor's goat gives more milk than
mine. Sp,y For,
26. My neighbor's hen lays more eggs than mine.
Sp.
27. One cannot keep peace longer than his
neighbor will let him. Ger.
28. Neighbor once over the hedge, neighbor over
it again. Ger,
29. Neighbor's right, God's right. Turk.
30. No neighbor is the best. Ger.
31. No one is rich enough to do without a neigh-
bor. Dan.
32. The bad neighbor gives a needle without
thread. Sp.^ For.
33. The neighbor's cow gives the most milk. Ger.
34. The neighbor's hen lays the largest eggs. Ger.
35. The neighbor's misfortunes to us are only
dreams. Ger.
36. The neighbor's wife is always the handsomest.
Ger.
37. There are three bad neighbors : great rivers,
great lords, and great roads. Dan.
38. What is it to me how my neighbor lives. Ger.
39. What my neighbor eats does my stomach no
good. 'Sp.
40. When thou seest thy neighbor's house in
flames go warm by it. Sp.
41. When your neighbor's house is on fire look to
your own. M, Greek.
42. You may love your neighbor and yet not hold
his stirrups.

43. You must not throw stones into your neigh-
bor's garden. JFr.

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Need.
1. Long is the arm of the needy. Gaelic.
2. Need makes the naked man run.
3. Need makes the naked queen spin.

Nbedle. — Neglect.— Neighbor. gf
4. Need makes the old wife trot.
Fr.^ Sp,^ Dutch^ Dan,
5. Need makes virtue.
6. Need teaches things unlawful. Seneca,
7. Need will have its course.
8. One often has need of a lesser than himself.
Fr.
9. There is no need to bind up one's head before
it is broken. ItaU
10. There is no need to blow what does not burn
you. Dan.

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Necessity.
I
1. A man driven by distress does as much as
thirty. Sp.
2. He knows not his own strength who hath not
met necessity. Benjonson.
3. Make a virtue of necessity.
Rabelais^ Chaucer^ Shaks,^ Dryden,
4. Necessity and opportunity may make a cow-
ard valiant.
5. Necessity becomes will. Ital,
6. Necessity breaks iron.
7. Necessity dispenses with decorum.
8. Necessity has sharp teeth.
9. Necessity has a greater power than duty.
Seneca,
10. Necessity hath no law.
11. Necessity the mother of invention.
12. Necessity, thou mother of the world. Shelley,
13. Necessity is a bitter herb. Ger,
14. Necessity is a disagreeable guest. Ger,

8o Need.
15. Necessity is a good teacher. Ger.
16. Necessity is a hard master. Ger.
17. Necessity is a harsh nurse. Ger*
18. Necessity is a powerful weapon. Seneca.
19. Necessity is the last and strongest weapon.
Uvy.
20. Necessity is the mother of invention.
Fr,^ Ger.^ Dutch.
21. Necessity makes war to be just. Bias.
22. Necessity never made a good bargain^
Franklin.
23. Necessity seeks bread where it is to be found.
Ger.
- 04. Necessity sharpens industry.
25. Necessity teaches all things. Ger.
26. Necessity teaches the lame to dance. Ger.
27. Necessity, the t}Tant*s plea. Milton.
28. Necessity unites hearts. Ger.
29. The art of our necessity is great that makes
vile things precious. Shaks.
30. The inventions of necessity are older than
those of pleasure. Cicero.
31. The necessities of things are sterner stuff than
the hopes of man. Bea.
32. There is no virtue like necessity. Shaks.
33. Where necessity pinches, boldness is pru-
dence.

Nature.

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Nature.
1. By nature all men are alike, but by education
widely different. Chinese.
2. Drive away nature and back it comes at a
gallop.
3. He that follows nature is never out of his
way.
4. If we shut nature out at the door, she will
come in at the window. Sir Roger L Estrange.
5. Know Nature's children all divide her care ;
The fur that warms a monarch warmed a bear.
Pope.
6. Nature and love cannot be hid. Ger.
7. Nature draws more than seven oxen. Ger.
8. Nature equips all people with what is most
expedient for them. Fielding.
9. Nature furnishes genuine gold but art makes
false. Ger.

Nature.

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10. Nature has given us two ears, two eyes and
but one tongue, to the end that we should hear and
see more than we speak, Socrates.
11. Nature has placed nothing so high that virtue
cannot reach it. Quintus Curtius Rufus,
12. Nature is beyond all teaching.
13. Nature is content with little. Latin.
14,^ Nature is frugal and her wants are few. Young.
15. Nature is~a frugal mother and never gives
whhout measure. Emerion.
16. Nature is stronger than education.
17. Nature must obey necessity.
18. Nature never did betray the heart that loved
her.
19. Nature never says one thing and science an-
other. Juvenal.
10. Nature on all like powers has not bestowed.
Horate.
2\. Nature requires little — fancy much, Ger.
21. Nature passes nurture.
33. Nature takes as much pains in the forming of
a beggar as an emperor,
24. Nature teaches us to love our friends but re-
ligion our enemies.
35. Nature, the vicar of Almightie God. Chaucer.
36. Oue touch of nature makes the whole world
kin. Shaks.
17. The nature of things will not be altered by
our fancies of them.
z8. The secret powers of nature are generally dis-
covered unsolicited, Hans Andersen.

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Good-nature. — Ill-nature.— Nay.— Near.

29. Though you cast out nature with a fork it will
still return.
30. Though you expel nature with a club, she will
always return. Latin,
31. What belongs to nature lasts to the grave.
liaL
Good-nature.
1. Good-nature and good sense are usually com-
panions. Pope,
2. Good-nature is a great misfortune if it want
prudence.
3. Good-nature is the most god-like commenda-
tion of a good man. Dryden,
4. Good-nature is the proper soil upon which
virtue grows.
5. Good-nature without prudence is foolishness,
6. The better natured, the sooner undone.
Ill-oatiire.
I. Ill-natures never want a tutor.

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Name.
1. A famous name will never die. Hans Andersen,
2. A good name is rather to be chosen than
great riches. Bible.
3. A good name is better than precious oint-
ment Bible,
4. A man dies, his name remains. Turk.
' 5. A man may be deprived of life, but a good
name cannot be taken from him.
6. A nick-name is the heaviest stone the devil
can throw at a man.
7. A nickj2gme lasts forever.
8. An ill wound may be cured, not an ill name.
9. He that has an ill name is half hanged.
10. If you don't praise don't spoil my good name.
Ashantees {Africa).
11. Ill wounds may be cured but not ill names.
12. One may remove an evil thing too late to cure
an evil name.
13. The shadow of a mighty name. Lucan.
14. To get a name can happen to but few.

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Nail.
1. Do not drive a second nail until the first be
clinched.
2. Do not hang all on one nail. Ger,
3. Drive the nail that will go.
4. He hath hit the nail on the head.
5. He who heedeth not the lost shoe-nail will
soon lose his horse. Ger.
6. Hit the nail on the head.
7. In frosty weather a nail is worth a horse.

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Mutability of Fortune.
1. A hundred years a banner, a hundred years a
barrow. (A very old French proverb signifying the
changeful fortunes of great feudal families^ Bohn.
2. A nobody to-day, a prince to-morrow. Latin.
3. Change of fortune is the lot of life.
4. Change yourself and fortune will change with
you. For.
5. Every ten years one man has need of another.
6. He fell to-day, I may fall to-morrow. Latin.
7. In a hundred years' time princes are peasants,
And in a hundred and ten, peasants are
princes.
8. Once he was a hammer, now he is an anvil.
9. That which is his lot to-day, may be yours to-
morrow. Latin,
10. To-day a knight, to-morrow a beggar. Ger,

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Mushroom.
I. In a night's time springs up a roushrooro.
Music.
1. Discords are the sweetes t airs. Hudibras.
2. It is the tone that makes the music.
3. Music has charros alone for peaceful roinds.
Fope.
4. Music hath charms to soothe the savage
breast,
5. Such as the music is, such are the people of
the commonwealth. Turk.
6. Where there's music there can be no harm.
Don Quixote,
Musician.
I. When a musician has forgot his note,
He makes as though a crumb stuck in his
throat.

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Murder.
1. For murder though it have no tongue will
speak with most miraculous organ. Chaucer.
2. Murder's as near to lust as flame to smoke,
Passion and treason are the hands of sin.
Shaks.
3. Murder will out ; that we see day by day;
Chaucer,
4. One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.

Multitude.

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Multitude.
1. The multitude always delight in State tero-
pests, hoping for plunder. Turkish Spy.
2. The roultitude are not roore desirous of gain
than of honor. Aristotle.
3. The multitude is always in the wrong.
Roscommon.
4. The multitude of offenders is their protection.

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Muddy.

1. Muddy springs will have muddy streams.

2. Muddy water won't do for a mirror. ItaJ,

Mule.

1. A gilt bridle for an old mule. Fr.

2. He who wants a mule without fault must
walk on foot. Sp.

3. He who would have a mule without fault
must keep none.

4. Like the pope's mule that kept its kick for
seven years.

5. Mule don't kick accordin' to no rule.

American Negro.

6. Mules make a great fuss about their ances-
tors having been asses. Ger,

Multitude. — Murder. — Mushroom. — Music.

7. The mule long keeps a kick in reserve for its
roaster. Fr.

8. Woe to the roule that sees not his roaster.

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Much.

1. Much never cost little. Sp,, For.

2. Much on earth but little in heaven.

' - 3.- Much smoke but little roast. Ital,

4. Much straw and little corn. Par.

5. Much worship, much cost. Fr.

6. Much worth never cost little. Sp.

7. Much would have more and lost all.

8. Much would have more, but often meets
with less.

9. Never too much of a good thing.

10. Never too much of anything. Greek.

11. One may surfeit with too much as well as
starve with too little.

12. Too little and too much spoil everything.

13. Too much asseveration is a good ground of
suspicion.

14. Too much bed makes a dull head.

15. Too much breaks the bag.

16. Too much consulting confounds.

Muddy.— Mule.

17. Too much cordial will destroy.

18. Too much disputing puts the truth to flight.

ItaL

19. Too much gravity argues a shallow mind.

20. Too much is stark naught. Welsh.

21. Too much lenity makes robbers bold. Shaks,

22. Too much of a good thing is worse than none
at all.

23. Too much of a thing nauseates. Latin,

24. Too much of one thing is good for nothing.

25. Too much spoileth, too little is nothing.

26. Too much water drowned the miller.

27. Too much wax burns the church.

28. Who does too much often does little. ItaL

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Mouth.

1. A foul mouth must be provided with a strong
back. Dan.

2. A man must keep his mouth open a long
time before a roast pigeon will fly into it. Dan.

3. A mouth fu' o' meat may be a town fu' o'
shame.

1 should not

i mouth
Dan.

MouTO. 6g

4. A shut mouth keeps me out of strife. For.

5. A wise head has a close mouth to it.

6. All is not gospel that comes out of the mouth.

7. Beware of errors of the mouth. Hindoo.

8. He has a mouth for every matter.

9. He has neither a mouth nor a spear, can
neither talk nor act. Fr.

10. He must have plenty of meal who would
stop every man's mouth.

IT. He that hath a mouth of his owi
say to another, "blow,"

12. He who would close another 1
must first tie up his own.

13. I have a mouth which I feed, it must speak
what I please.

14. Mouth and heart are wide apart.

15. Mouth civility is no great pains but may turn
to good account.

16. Mouth of honey, heart of gal!. Por.

17. Mouth shut and eyes open, Ital.

18. Once in people's mouths 'tis hard to get out
of them. Ger.

19. Open thy mouth that I may know thee.

20. Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth
speaketh.

31. Put a seal upon your mouth, and guard your
heart with the same vigilance as the ramparts of a
city. Chinese.

21. The mouth and the purse shut. Sp.
23. The mouth is not sweetened by saying