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"The greatest Clerkes be not the wisest men."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. v.
Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. v.
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"Out of Gods blessing into the warme Sunne."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. v.
Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. v.
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"There is no fire without some smoke."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. v.
Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. v.
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"One swallow maketh not summer."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. v.
Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. v.
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"Fieldes have eies and woods have eares."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. v.
Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. v.
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"A cat may looke on a King."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. v.
Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. v.
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"It is a foule byrd that fyleth his owne nest."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. v.
Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. v.
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"Have yee him on the hip."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. v.
Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. v.
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"Hee must have a long spoone, shall eat with the devill."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. v.
Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. v.
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"It had need to bee A wylie mouse that should breed in the cats eare."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. v.
Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. v.
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"Leape out of the frying pan into the fyre."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. v.
Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. v.
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"Time trieth troth in every doubt."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. v.
Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. v.
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"Mad as a march hare."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. v.
Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. v.
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"Much water goeth by the mill That the miller knoweth not of."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. v.
Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. v.
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"He must needes goe whom the devill doth drive."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. vii.
Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. vii.
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"Set the cart before the horse."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. vii.
Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. vii.
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"The moe the merrier."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. vii.
Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. vii.
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"To th' end of a shot and beginning of a fray."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. vii.
Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. vii.
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"It is better to be An old man's derling than a yong man's werling."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. vii.
Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. vii.
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"Be the day never so long, Evermore at last they ring to evensong."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. vii.
Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. vii.
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"The moone is made of a greene cheese."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. vii.
Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. vii.
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"I know on which side my bread is buttred."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. vii.
Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. vii.
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"It will not out of the flesh that is bred in the bone."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. viii.
Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. viii.
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"Who is so deafe or so blinde as is hee That wilfully will neither heare nor see?"
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. ix.
Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. ix.
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"The wrong sow by th' eare."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. ix.
Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. ix.
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"Went in at the tone eare and out at the tother."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. ix.
Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. ix.
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"Love me, love my dog."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. ix.
Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. ix.
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"An ill winde that bloweth no man to good."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. ix.
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. ix.
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"For when I gave you an inch, you tooke an ell."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. ix.
Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. ix.
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"Would yee both eat your cake and have your cake?"
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. ix.
Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. ix.
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"Every man for himselfe and God for us all."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. ix.
Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. ix.
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"Though he love not to buy the pig in the poke."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. ix.
Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. ix.
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"This hitteth the naile on the hed."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. xi.
Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. xi.
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"Enough is as good as a feast."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. xi.
Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. xi.
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"Patch grief with proverbs."
William Shakespeare / Much Ado about Nothing. Act v. Sc. 1.
Much Ado about Nothing. Act v. Sc. 1.
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"For I am proverb'd with a grandsire phrase."
William Shakespeare / Romeo and Juliet. Act i. Sc. 4.
Romeo and Juliet. Act i. Sc. 4.
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"Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of ages through which they have passed."
Sir William Temple / Ancient and Modern Learning.
Ancient and Modern Learning.
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"As the Spanish proverb says, "He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies must carry the wealth of the Indies with him," so it is in travelling,--a man must carry knowledge with him if he would bring home knowledge."
Samuel Johnson / Life of Johnson (Boswell). Vol. vii. Chap. v. 1778.
Life of Johnson (Boswell). Vol. vii. Chap. v. 1778.
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"Proverbs, like the sacred books of each nation, are the sanctuary of the intuitions."
Ralph Waldo Emerson / Essays. First Series. Compensation.
Essays. First Series. Compensation.
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"Curse away! And let me tell thee, Beausant, a wise proverb The Arabs have,--"Curses are like young chickens, And still come home to roost.""
Edward Bulwer Lytton / The Lady of Lyons. Act v. Sc. 2.
The Lady of Lyons. Act v. Sc. 2.
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"Toil, says the proverb, is the sire of fame."
Euripides / Licymnius. Frag. 477.
Licymnius. Frag. 477.
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"That is a true proverb which is wont to be commonly quoted, that "all had rather it were well for themselves than for another.""
Terence / Andria. Act ii. Sc. 5, 15. (426.)
Andria. Act ii. Sc. 5, 15. (426.)
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"It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth."
Pliny the Elder / Natural History. Book xiv. Sect. 141.
Natural History. Book xiv. Sect. 141.
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"The best plan is, as the common proverb has it, to profit by the folly of others."
Pliny the Elder / Natural History. Book xviii. Sect. 31.
Natural History. Book xviii. Sect. 31.
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"As it is in the proverb, played Cretan against Cretan."
Plutarch / Life of Lysander.
Life of Lysander.
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"The old proverb was now made good, "the mountain had brought forth a mouse.""
Plutarch / Life of Agesilaus II.
Life of Agesilaus II.
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"Using the proverb frequently in their mouths who enter upon dangerous and bold attempts, "The die is cast," he took the river."
Plutarch / Life of Cæsar.
Life of Cæsar.
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"It is a true proverb, that if you live with a lame man you will learn to halt."
Plutarch / Of the Training of Children.
Of the Training of Children.
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"According to the proverb, the best things are the most difficult."
Plutarch / Of the Training of Children.
Of the Training of Children.
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"That proverbial saying, "Ill news goes quick and far.""
Plutarch / Of Inquisitiveness.
Of Inquisitiveness.
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