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Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake?"This is commonly misquotes as "You can't have you're cake and eat it, too. - John Heywood's Proverbs, 1546.
Topic: Advice / Experience / Wisdom
Source: None
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A hard beginning maketh a good ending.
Topic: Beginnings
Source: None
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Better one byrde in hand than ten in the wood.
Topic: Birds
Source: Proverbs (pt. I, ch. XI)
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The cat would eat fish, and would not wet her feet.
Topic: Cats
Source: Proverbs (pt. I, ch. XI)
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When all candles be out, all cats be gray.
Topic: Cats
Source: None
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When the devil drives, needs must. (Needs must when the devil
drives.)
Topic: Devil
Source: Johan the Husband--Proverbs (ch. VII)
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What is got over the devil's back is spent under his belly.
Topic: Devil
Source: Johan the Husband--Proverbs (ch. VII)
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God never sendeth mouth but he sendeth meat.
Topic: Eating
Source: Proverbs (pt. I, ch. IV)
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Tell tales out of school.
Topic: Gossip
Source: Proverbs (pt. I, ch. X)
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If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit
next to me.
Topic: Gossip
Source: Proverbs (pt. I, ch. X)
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I pray thee let me and my fellow have
A hair of the dog that bit us last night.
Topic: Hair
Source: Proverbs (pt. I, ch. XI, l.424)
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Went in at the one eare and out at the other.
Topic: Hearing
Source: Proverbs (pt. II, ch. IX)
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What heart can think, or tongue express,
The harm that groweth of idleness?
Topic: Idleness
Source: Idleness
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Many hands make light work.
Topic: Inspirational
Source: None
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Now for good lucke, cast an old shooe after mee.
Topic: Luck
Source: Proverbs (pt. I, ch. IX)
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I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for
the plays of W. Shakespeare, but all they got was the collected
works of Francis Bacon.
Topic: Luck
Source: Proverbs (pt. I, ch. IX)
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I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
Topic: Luck
Source: Proverbs (pt. I, ch. IX)
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Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
Topic: Men and Women
Source: None
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Follow pleasure, and then will pleasure flee,
Flee pleasure, and pleasure will follow thee.
Topic: Pleasure
Source: Proverbs (pt. I, ch. X)
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By hooke or crooke.
Topic: Proverbial Phrases
Source: Proverbs (pt. I, ch. XI)
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A precious pair of brothers [i.e., rascals].
Topic: Proverbial Phrases
Source: Proverbs (pt. I, ch. XI)
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As shines the moon amid the lesser fires.
Topic: Proverbial Phrases
Source: Proverbs (pt. I, ch. XI)
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To drink away sorrow.
Topic: Proverbial Phrases
Source: Proverbs (pt. I, ch. XI)
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To give importance to trifling matters.
Topic: Proverbial Phrases
Source: Proverbs (pt. I, ch. XI)
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To grow a philosopher's beard.
Topic: Proverbial Phrases
Source: Proverbs (pt. I, ch. XI)
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To say that which is instructive and also pleasing.
Topic: Proverbial Phrases
Source: Proverbs (pt. I, ch. XI)
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Put your toong in your purse.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Dialogue of Wit and Folly (pt. II, l. 263)
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Fieldes have eies and woodes have eares.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Proverbes (pt. II, ch. V)
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Haste makes waste.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Proverbs (pt. I, ch. II)
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Two heads are better than one.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Proverbs (pt. I, ch. IX)
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Nought venture nought have.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Proverbs (pt. I, ch. XI)
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Set all at sixe and seven.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Proverbs (pt. I, ch. XI)
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Better is to bow than breake.
Topic: Prudence
Source: Proverbs (pt. I, ch. IX)
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It is good the have a hatch before the durre.
Topic: Prudence
Source: Proverbs (pt. I, ch. XI)
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Yee have many strings to your bowe.
Topic: Prudence
Source: Proverbs (pt. I, ch. XI)
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The neer to the church, the further from God.
Topic: Religion / Beliefs
Source: None
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'Tis not the robe or garment I affect;
For who would marry with a suit of clothes?
Topic: Tailors
Source: Royal King and Loyal Subject (act II, sc. 2)
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It takes nine tailors to make a man.
[Fr., Il faut neuf tailleurs pour faire un homme.]
Topic: Tailors
Source: Royal King and Loyal Subject (act II, sc. 2)
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An ill wind that bloweth no man good--
The blower of which blast is she.
Topic: Wind
Source: Idleness (st. 5)
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At our wittes end.
Topic: Wit
Source: pt. I, ch. VIII
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This wonder lasted nine daies.
Topic: Wonders
Source: Proverbs (pt. II, ch. I)
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Haste makes waste.
Topic: Work
Source: Proverbs (pt. I, ch. II)
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