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Quotes reported as proverbs in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 639-43.

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  • A baker's dozen.
    • François Rabelais, Works, Book V, Chapter XXII; reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 639.
  • Add to golden numbers golden numbers.
    • Thomas Dekker, Patient Grissell (1599), Act I, scene 1; reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 639.
  • A flea in his ear.
    • R. Armin, Nest of Ninnies (1608). T. Nash, Pierce Penniless (1592). R. Greene, Quip for an upstart Courier (1592). Teuton, Tragicall Discourses. (1579). Francis de l'Isle, Legendarie Life and Behavior of Charles, Cardinal of Lorraine (1577); reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 639.
  • After supper walk a mile.
    • Beaumont and Fletcher, Philaster, or Love Lies a-Bleeding (c. 1609; printed 1629), Act II, scene 4; reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 639.
  • A new broome sweepeth cleane.
    • John Lyly, Euphues. Arber's Reprint, p. 89; reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 639.
  • An inch in a miss is as good as an ell.
    • Camden's Remains (1614); reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 639.
  • An inch in missing is as bad as an ell.
    • Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia (1732); reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 639.
  • As clear as a whistle.
  • As cold as cucumbers.
    • Beaumont and Fletcher, Cupid's Revenge (1615), Act I, scene 1; reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 639.
  • As high as Heaven, as deep as Hell.
    • John Fletcher, The Honest Man's Fortune, (1613; published 1647), Act IV, scene 1; reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 639.
  • A thorn in the flesh.
    • II Corinthians, XII. 7; reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 639.
  • Bag and baggage.
    • Richard Huloet, Abecedarium Anglico-Latinum pro Tyrunculas (1552). As You Like It, III. 2. How erst wee did them thence, sans bag and baggage, tosse. Burdet, Mirror for Magistrates, Stanza 75. "With bag and baggage, selye wretch, / I yelded into Beautie's hand." Tottel's Miscellany. Arber's Reprint, p. 173. Appears in translation. of Polydore Vergil's English History, edited by Sir Henry Ellis, Camden Society (1844). MS., in the handwriting of the reign of Henry VIII. (About 1540–50). Also in Camden Society Reprint, No. 53, p. 47. (1500). In Life of Lord Grey, Camden Society MS, p. 37. (About 1570). Credited to Froissart, in Lord Berner's translation, Volume I, Chapter CCCXX, p. 497. (Ed. 1523); reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 639.
  • Barkis is willin'.
  • Beat all your feathers as flat as pancakes.
    • Thomas Middleton, Roaring Girl, Act II, scene 1; reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 639.
  • Better a bad excuse, than none at all.
    • William Camden, Remaines, Proverbs, p. 293; reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 639.
  • Big-endians and small-endians.
    • Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels, Part I, Chapter IV. Voyage to Lilliput; reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 639.
  • But me no buts.
    • Henry Fielding, Rape upon Rape, Act II, scene 2. Aaron Hill, Snake in the Grass, scene 1; reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 639.
  • By all that's good and glorious.
    • Lord Byron, Sardanapalus, Act I, scene 2; reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 639.
  • By hooke or crooke.
    • John Heywood, Proverbs, Part I, Chapter XI; reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 639. In a letter of Sir Richard Morysin to the Privy Council in Lodge's Illustrations &c. I. 154. Holland's Suetonius, p. 169. John Wyclif, Works. Ed. by Arnold, III. 331. Rabelais, Bk. V, Chapter XIII. Du Bartas, The Map of Man. Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Book III, Canto I, Stanza 17. Beaumont and Fletcher, Women Pleased, Act I, scene 3. Shelton, Duke of Clout. See also "Which he by hook or crook."
  • Curses are like young chickens,
    And still come home to roost!
    • Arabian Proverb quoted by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, The Lady of Lyons, Act V, scene 2. Chaucer, Persones Tale, Section 41; reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 639.
  • Cut and come again.
    • George Crabbe, Tales VII, line 26; reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 639.
  • Se couper le nez pour faire dépit à son visage.
    • Cut off your nose to spite your face.
    • Tallement des Réaux, Historiettes, Volume I, Chapter I. (About 1657–1659); reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 639.
  • Diamonds cut diamonds.
    • John Ford, The Lover's Melancholy, Act I, scene 3; reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 639.
  • Every fat (vat) must stand upon his bottom.
    • John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress (1678), Part I; reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 639.
  • Every one stretcheth his legs according to his coverlet.
    • George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum (1651); reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 639.
  • Every tub must stand upon its bottom.
    • Charles Macklin, Man of the World, Act I, scene 2; reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 639.
  • Every why hath a wherefore.
    • William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors, Act II, scene 2, line 44; reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 639.
  • Facts are stubborn things.
    • Alain-René Lesage, Gil Blas (1715-1735), Book X, Chapter I. Smollet's translation; reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 639.
  • Fast bind, fast find;
    A proverb never stale in thrifty mind.
  • First come, first served.
    • John Fletcher, The Little French Lawyer (with Philip Massinger; c. 1619–23; published 1647), Act II, scene 1; reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 640.
  • Fitted him to a T.
    • Samuel Johnson, reported in James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson (1784); reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 640.
  • From the crown of our head to the sole of our foot.
    • John Fletcher, The Honest Man's Fortune, (1613; published 1647), Act II, scene 2; reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 640. Thomas Middleton, A Mad World, My Masters, Act I, scene 3. Pliny, Natural History, Book VII, Chapter XVII. Much Ado About Nothing, Act III, scene 2.
  • Glass, China, and Reputation, are easily crack'd and never well mended.
    • Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard (1750); reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 640.
  • God save the mark!
  • Going as if he trod upon eggs.
    • Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III. Sect, II. Memb. 3; reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 640.
  • Go to Jericho.
    Let them all go to Jericho,
    And ne'er be seen againe.
    • Mercurius Aulicus (1648); reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 640; quoted in the Athenæum (Nov. 14, 1874).
  • Go West, young man! Go West.
    • John L. B. Soule, in the Terre Haute Express (1851); reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 640.
  • Go West, young man, and grow up with the country.
    • Horace Greeley, Hints toward Reform, in an editorial in the Tribune; reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 640.
  • Hail, fellow, well met.
    • Jonathan Swift, My Lady's Lamentation; reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 640.
  • Harp not on that string.
    • William Shakespeare, Richard III (c. 1591), Act IV, scene 4, line 366; reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 640.
  • He can give little to his servant that licks his knife.
    • George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum (1651); reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 640.
  • He comes not in my books.
    • Thomas Middleton, The Widow; reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 640.
  • He did not care a button for it.
    • François Rabelais, Works, Book II, Chapter XVI; reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 640.
  • Here's metal more attractive.
    • William Shakespeare, Hamlet (1600-02), Act III, scene 2, line 115; reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 640.
  • Hide their diminished heads.
    • John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667; 1674), Book IV, line 35; reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 640.
  • Hier lies that should fetch a perfect woman over the coles.
    • Sir Gyles Goosecappe (1606); reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 640.
  • His bark is worse than his bite.
    • George Herbert, Country Parson, Chapter XXIX; reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 640.
  • Hit the nail on the head.
    • Beaumont and Fletcher, Love's Cure (c. 1612–13; revised c. 1625; published 1647), Act II, scene 1; reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 640.
  • Hold one another's noses to the grindstone hard.
    • Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III, Section I. Memb. 3; reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 640.
  • Hold their noses to the grindstone.
    • Thomas Middleton, Blurt, Master Constable, Act III, scene 3; reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 640.
  • Honey of Hybla.
  • How well I feathered my nest.
    • François Rabelais, Works, Book II, Chapter XVII; reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 640.
  • I have other fish to fry.
    • Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote (1605-15), Part II, Chapter XXXV; reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 640.
  • I'll have a fling.
    • John Fletcher, Rule a Wife and Have a Wife (licensed 19 October 1624; 1640), III, 5; reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 640.
  • I'll make the fur
    Fly 'bout the ears of the old cur.
    • Samuel Butler, Hudibras, Part I (1663-64), Canto III, line 278; reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 640.
  • I'll put a spoke among your wheels.
    • John Fletcher, The Mad Lover; (acted 5 January 1617; 1647), Act III, scene 5; reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 640.
  • In the name of the Prophet—figs.
    • Horace and James Smith, Rejected Addresses, Johnson's Ghost; reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 640.
  • Leap out of the frying pan into the fire.
    • Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote (1605-15), Part I, Book III, Chapter IV; reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 640.
  • Let the worst come to the worst.
    • Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote (1605-15), Book III, Chapter V. Marston, Dutch Courtesan, Act III, scene 1; reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 640.
  • Love, and a Cough, cannot be hid.
    • George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum (1651); reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 640.
  • Made no more bones.
  • Make ducks and drakes with shillings.
    • George Chapman, Eastward Ho, Act I, scene 1; reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 640; reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 640.
  • Make three bites of a cherry.
    • François Rabelais, Works, Book V, Chapter XXVIII; reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 641.
  • Many a smale maketh a grate.
    • Geoffrey Chaucer, Persones Tale; reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 641.
  • Many go out for wool, and come home shorn themselves.
    • Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote (1605-15), Part II, Chapter XXXVII; reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 641.
  • Mariana in the moated grange.
    • Alfred Tennyson, Motto for Mariana. Taken from "There, at the moated grange, resides this dejected Mariana." Comedy of Errors, Act II, scene 1; reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 641.
  • Mind your P's and Q's.
    • Said to be due to the old custom of hanging up a slate in the tavern with P. and Q. (for pints and quarts), under which were written the names of customers and ticks for the number of "P's and Q's." Another explanation is that the expression referred to "toupées" (artificial locks of hair) and "queues" (tails); reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 641.
  • Moche Crye and no Wull.
    • Fortescue, De Laudibus Leg. Angliæ, Chapter X; reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 641.
  • Much of a muchness.
    • Vanbrugh, The Provoked Husband, Act I, scene 1; reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 641.
  • Needle in a bottle of hay.
    • Field, A Woman's a Weathercock (reprint 1612), p. 20; reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 641.
  • Neither fish, flesh nor good red herring.
    • Tom Browne, Æneus; reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 641. Sylvius. Letter. John Dryden, Epilogue to Duke of Guise. William Marsden, History of Christian Churches, Volume I, p. 267. In Sir John Mennes' (Mennis) Musarum Deliciæ. (1651). Thomas Nash, Lenten Stuff (1599). Reprinted in Harleian Miscellany. Sir H. Sheres, Satyr on the sea officers. Rede me and be nott wrothe. I, III. (1528).
  • No better than you should be.
    • Beaumont and Fletcher, The Coxcomb (c. 1608–10; 1647), Act IV, scene 3; reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 641.
  • No rule is so general, which admits not some exception.
    • Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I, Section II. Memb. 2. Subsect. 3; reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 641.
  • Nought venter nought have.
    • John Heywood, Proverbs, Part I, Chapter XI. Thomas Tusser, Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry, October's Extract; reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 641.
  • Old Lady of Threadneedle Street.
    • William Cobbett. Also Gilray Caricature. May 22. 1797, after the bank stopped cash payments, Feb. 26, 1797. Sheridan, Life by Walter Sichel, p. 16. Refers to the bank as an elderly lady in the city, of great credit and long standing, who had recently made a faux pas which was not altogether inexcusable; reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 641.
  • On his last legs.
    • Thomas Middleton, The Old Law, Act V, scene 1; reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 641.
  • One good turn deserves another.
    • John Fletcher, The Little French Lawyer (with Philip Massinger; c. 1619–23; published 1647), Act III, scene 2; reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 641.
  • Originality provokes originality.
    • Goethe; reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 641.
  • Passing the Rubicon.
    When he arrived at the banks of the Rubicon, which divides Cisalpine Gaul from the rest of Italy … he stopped to deliberate…. At last he cried out: "The die is cast" and immediately passed the river.
    • Plutarch, Life of Julius Cæsar; reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 641.
  • Performed to a T.
    • François Rabelais, Works, Book IV, Chapter LI; reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 641.
  • Pons Asinorum.
    • The asses' bridge.
    • Applied to Proposition 5 of the first book of Euclid; reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 641; reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 641.
  • Present company excepted.
    • O'Keefe, London Hermit (1793); reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 641.
  • Push on—keep moving.
    • Thomas Morton, A Cure for the Heartache, Act III, scene 1; reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 641.
  • Put himself upon his good behaviour.
    • Lord Byron, Don Juan (1818-24), Canto V, Stanza 47; reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 641.
  • Put your toong in your purse.
    • John Heywood, Dialogue of Wit and Folly, Part II, line 263; reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 641.
  • Quo vadis?
    • Whither goest thou?
    • From The Vulgate. John, XIII. 36. Domine, quo vadis? [St. Peter's question.] St. Thomas asks a similar question in John, XIV. 5. The traditional story is told by St. Ambrose, Contra Auxentium (Ed. Paris, 1690), II, 867; reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 641.
  • Safe bind, safe find.
    • Thomas Tusser, Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry, Washing; reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 641.
  • Scared out of his seven senses.
    • Walter Scott, Rob Roy, Chapter XXIV; reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 641.
  • Set all at sixe and seven.
    • John Heywood, Proverbs, Part I, Chapter XI. Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Cresseide, line 623. Also Towneley Mysteries. 143. Morte Arture. Manuscript at Lincoln. Degrevant. (1279). Richard II, Act II, scene 2, line 122. All reported as proverbial in Hoyt's New yclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 641.
  • Smell a rat.
    • Samuel Butler, Hudibras, Part I (1663-64), Canto I, line 821; reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 642. Cervantes, Don Quixote, Part I, Book IV, Chapter X. Ben Jonson, Tale of a Tub, Act IV, scene 3. Thomas Middleton, Blurt, Master Constable, Act III, scene 3.
  • Snug as a bug in a rug.
    • The Stratford Jubilee (1779), II. 1.. Letter to Miss Georgiana Shipley (September, 1772); reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 642.
  • Something given that way.
    • John Fletcher, The Lovers' Progress (licensed 6 December 1623; revised 1634; published 1647), Act I, scene 1; reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 642.
  • So obliging that he ne'er oblig'd.
    • Alexander Pope, Prologue to Satires, line 207; reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 642.
  • Sop to Cerebus.
    • If I can find that Cerebus a sop, I shall be at rest for one day.
    • William Congreve, Love for Love, Act I, scene 1; reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 642.
  • So was hir jolly whistel wel y-wette.
    • Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales, The Reeve's Tale, line 4,155; reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 642.
  • Spare your breath to cool your porridge.
    • Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote (1605-15), Part II, Chapter V. Rabelais, Works, Book V, Chapter XXVIII; reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 642.
  • Strike the iron whilst it is hot.
    • François Rabelais, Works, Book II, Chapter XXXI; reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 642.
  • Strike while the iron is hot.
    • George Farquhar, The Beaux' Stratagem, Act IV, scene 2; reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 642. Walter Scott, The Fair Maid of Perth, Chapter V. Webster, Westward Ho, III. 2. Geoffrey Chaucer, Troylus and Cresseyde, Book II, Stanza 178.
  • That was laid on with a trowel.
    • William Shakespeare, As You Like It (c.1599-1600), Act I, scene 2, line 112; reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 642.
  • The coast was clear.
    • Michael Drayton, Nymphidia; reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 642.
  • The fat's all in the fire.
    • Cobbe, Prophecies, Bullen's reprint (1614); reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 642. Marston, What You Will (1607). The Balancing Captain. Whole poem quoted by Walpole in a letter to Mann, Nov. 2, 1741.
  • The finest edge is made with the blunt whetstone.
    • John Lyly, Euphues. Arber's Reprint. (1579), p. 47; reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 642.
  • The foule Toade hath a faire stone in his head.
    • John Lyly, Euphues. Arber's Reprint. (1579), p. 53; reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 642.
  • The man that heweth over high,
    Some chip falleth in his eye.
    • Story of Sir Eglamour of Artoys. MSS. in Garrick Collection; reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 642.
  • The more thou stir it the worse it will be.
    • Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote (1605-15), Book III, Chapter VIII; reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 642.
  • The next way home's the farthest way about.
    • Francis Quarles, Emblems, Book IV. Em. 2, Epistle 2; reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 642.
  • The point is plain as a pike staff.
    • John Byrom, Epistle to a Friend; reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 642.
  • The total depravity of inanimate things.
  • This is a pretty flimflam.
    • John Fletcher, The Little French Lawyer (with Philip Massinger; c. 1619–23; published 1647), Act III, scene 3; reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 642.
  • Though this may be play to you,
    'Tis death to us.
    • Roger L'Estrange, Fables, 398; reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 642.
  • Thou will scarce be a man before thy mother.
    • Beaumont and Fletcher, Love's Cure (c. 1612–13; revised c. 1625; published 1647), Act II, scene 2; reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 642.
  • Three things are men most likely to be cheated in, a horse, a wig, and a wife.
    • Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard (1736); reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 642.
  • Through thick and thin, both over bank and bush.
    • Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene (1589-96), Book III, Canto I, Stanza 17; reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 642.
  • Through thick and thin, both over Hill and Plain.
    • Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas, Divine Weekes and Workes, Second Week (1584), Fourth Day, Book IV; reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 642.
  • Through thick and thin.
    • Samuel Butler, Hudibras, Part I (1663-64), Canto II, line 370; reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 642. Cowper, John Gilpin. Drayton, Nymphidia. Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel, Part II, line 414. Kemp, Nine Days' Wonder. Middleton, The Roaring Girl, Act IV, scene 2. Alexander Pope, The Dunciad, Book II.
  • Though last, not least in love.
    • William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar (1599), Act III, scene 1, line 189. "Although the last, not least." King Lear, Act I, scene 1, line 85. Spenser, Colin Clout, line 444; reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 642.
  • Thursday come, and the week is gone.
    • George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum (1651); reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 642.
  • 'Tis as cheap sitting as standing.
    • Jonathan Swift, Polite Conversation (c. 1738), Dialogue I; reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 642.
  • 'Tis a stinger.
    • Thomas Middleton, More Dissemblers Besides Women, Act III, scene 2; reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 642; reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 642.
  • 'Tis in grain, sir, 'twill endure wind and weather.
    • William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night (c. 1601-02), Act I, scene 5, line 253; reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 642.
  • 'Tis neither here nor there.
    • William Shakespeare, Othello (c. 1603), Act IV, scene 3, line 58; reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 642.
  • To rise with the lark, and go to bed with the lamb.
    • Breton, Court and Country (1618); reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 643.
  • To take the nuts from the fire with the dog's foot.
  • Turn over a new leaf.
    • Edmund Burke, letter to Miss Haviland; reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 643. Thomas Dekker, The Honest Whore, Part II, Act II, scene 1. Also A Health to the Gentlemanly Profession of Serving-Men (1598). Middleton, Anything for a Quiet Life, Act III, scene 3.
  • Two heads are better than one.
    • John Heywood, Proverbs, Part I, Chapter IX; reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 643.
  • Walls have tongues, and hedges ears.
    • Jonathan Swift, Pastoral Dialogue, line 7; reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 643. Hazlitt, English Proverbs, etc. (Ed. 1869), p. 446. "Wode has erys, felde has sigt." King Edward and the Shepherd, Manuscript (Circa 1300). "Felde hath eyen, and wode hath eres." Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales, The Knight's Tale, line 1,522. "Fieldes have eies and woodes have eares." Heywood, Proverbes, Part II, Chapter V.
  • Westward-ho!
    • William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night (c. 1601-02), Act III, scene 1, line 146; reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 643.
  • What is bred in the bone will never come out of the flesh.
    • Pilpay, The Two Fishermen, Fable XIV; reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 643. "It will never come out of the flesh that's bred in the bone." Jonson, Every Man in his Humour, Act I, scene 1.
  • What is not in a man cannot come out of him surely.
    • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Herman and Dorothea, Canto III, line 3; reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 643.
  • What is sauce for the goose is sauce for a gander.
    • Tom Brown, New Maxims, p. 123; reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 643.
  • What is the matter with Kansas?
    • W. A. White. Title of an editorial in the Emporia Gazette, August 15, 1896; reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 643.
  • What mare's nest hast thou found?
  • What you would not have done to yourselves, never do unto others.
    • Alexander Severus. See also "Golden Rule." Matthew, VII. 12; reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 643.
  • When a dog is drowning, every one offers him drink.
    • George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum (1651); reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 643.
  • Where McGregor sits, there is the head of the table.
    • Quoted in American Scholar by Ralph Waldo Emerson; attributed to The McGregor, a Highland Chief; reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 643.
  • Whether the pitcher hits the stone or the stone hits the pitcher, it goes ill with the pitcher.
  • Which he by hook or crook has gather'd
    And by his own inventions father'd.
    • Samuel Butler, Hudibras, Part III (1678), Canto I, line 109; reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 643.
  • Whistle, and I'll come to you, my lad.
    • Robert Burns, Whistle, and I'll Come to You; reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 643.
  • Whistle, and she'll come to you.
    • John Fletcher, Wit Without Money (c. 1614; published 1639), Act IV, scene 4; reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 643.
  • Wind puffs up empty bladders; opinion, fools.
    • Socrates; reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 643.
  • With tooth and nail.
    • Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas, Divine Weekes and Workes, First Week, Second Day; reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 643.
  • Within a stone's throw of it.
    • Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote (1605-15), Part I, Book III, Chapter IX; reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 643.
  • Whose house is of glass, must not throw stones at another.
    • George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum (1651); reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 643.
  • Why, then, do you walk as if you had swallowed a ramrod?
    • Epictetus, Discourses, Chapter XXI; reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 643.
  • You shall never want rope enough.
    • François Rabelais, Works, prologue to the Fifth Book; reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 643.
  • You whirled them to the back of beyont.
    • Walter Scott, Antiquary; reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 643.
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