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PROVERBS

MAXIMS AND PHRASES

OF ALL AGES

CLASSIFIED SUBJECTIVELY AND ARRANGED
ALPHABETICALLY

IN TWO VOLUMES

COMPILED BY ROBERT CHRISTY

VOLUME I. VOLUME II.

NEW YORK & LONDON
G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS
The Knickerbocker Press
1893

Press of
G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS
New York

PREFACE.

The compiler does not venture to claim for his work either completeness or perfection; he hopes, however, that it may be found, what he has conscientiously endeavored to make it, useful and instructive.

In offering a book to the world of letters, it is fair to assume that the author, or as in this case the compiler, claims for it a right to exist on the ground of superiority in some particulars over existing works in the same department of literature.

The great value as instructors, of inspired and uninspired proverbs has long been recognized.

It may be safely affirmed of all notable collections of proverbs hitherto published, that they include very many tainted with impurity, and others, the wit of which does not redeem their coarseness. All such have been excluded from the present compilation. Even the learned Ray marred his celebrated work, that great storehouse of proverbs liberally drawn upon by succeeding collectors, by admitting “a mass of revolting coarseness”—“ineffectually veiled by putting initial letters for uncleanly words.”

Proverbs merely local, or consisting of allusions of a temporary character, or to individuals not historic were not deemed worthy of insertion.

So far as the compiler's researches have extended he has found no considerable collection of proverbs, English or foreign, that was not arranged alphabetically,—a perplexing labyrinth without a clew; so that in order to find a desired proverb it was necessary to know the initial words, at least; the topical arrangement of the present work, it is believed, overcomes this difficulty as far as may be practicable.

The compiler lays claim simply to industry in gathering, taste in selecting and patience in arranging his collections; but feels also some pride in having brought to the notice of the modern reader many literary gems that lay buried in the writings of once famous but now forgotten or neglected authors.

All available collections have been laid under contribution, and due credit to the same is given in the body of the work.

The London Punch has been freely preyed upon. Punch the inimitable, whose wit if sometimes severe is never impure. Any careful reader of Punch has not failed to observe his liberal use of proverbs. Some of the most delightful pleasantries of Punch are grave proverbs masquerading in merry attire; for example, the Chinese proverb, “Patience, and the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown,” is humorously transformed into, “Patients, patients, and the physician's pill-box become a brougham.”

The reader will find that Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine stored with literary jewels of all kinds, has also been frequently referred to.

The Tamil proverbs were taken from the collection numbering more than six thousand, translated by P. Percival.

The compiler had no hesitation in giving credit to Shakespeare for the numerous felicitous sayings selected from the dramas that bear his name, confident that one who had disgracefully deserted his benefactor living, and basely defamed him dead, could not and would not have written such lines as these,

A dishonored lord chancellor would never have perpetuated his self-confessed infamy in immortal verse,

The compiler may have brought himself within the condemnation of a well-known proverb, by admitting into his work, so many proverbs fiercely denouncing his own profession, the law. If the censures are baseless,—they are harmless; if well founded, the profession should amend itself.

None are so severe however as the recent published utterances of the eloquent modern Pagan. “The lawyer is merely a sort of intelligent strumpet; a burglar in the realm of mentality.”

The ancient Pagan is less severe: he contents himself with saying of the lawyers of his day “Iras et verba locant.”

But “Law has her seat in the bosom of God, her voice is the harmony of the world;” if her disciples guide their footsteps by this noble sentiment, they will regain the confidence and respect of the world, if they have ever lost it.

Many proverbs cruelly unjust to woman will be found, which the compiler did not feel at liberty to exclude. To the poison of these, other proverbs furnish the antidote, “What cares lofty Diana for the barking dog;”—“Slander, foulest whelp of sin, expires at a good woman's door.” None of these however are nearly so atrocious as those to be found in “The Hitopadesa,” translated from the Sanskrit by Charles Wilkins. The following, which is much less severe than many others, will serve as an example. “In infancy the father should guard her, in youth her husband, in old age her children, for at no time is a woman proper to be trusted with liberty.”

Bea.	Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield.
Cing.	Cingalese.
Dan.	Danish.
Fr.	French
Ger.	German.
Ital.	Italian.
Kurd, often spelled Curd.
Maga.	Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine.
M. Greek.	Modern Greek.
Por.	Portuguese.
Shaks.	William Shakespeare.
Sp.	Spanish.
Syrus.	Publius Syrus.
Turk.	Turkish.

	Jackal.
1.	The jackal follows to devour the leavings of the lion.	Gibbon.
2.	The jackal is king in a deserted village.[566]	Tamil.
	Jail.
1.	When you make de jail too nice you better strenkin de hog pen.	American Negro.
	January.
1.	When gnats swarm in January the peasant becomes a beggar.	Dutch.
2.	A good Janvier freezeth the pot by the fiere.	Old English.
	Jealousy.
1.	A hasty man loses the produce of his field and a jealous man his wife.	Tamil.
2.	A jealous woman sets a whole house in a flame.	Latin.
3.	A lewd bachelor makes a jealous husband.
4.	A loving man, a jealous man.	Ital.
5.	A neighbor's eye is full of jealousy.	Dan.
6.	Jealousy is a pain which largely seeks what causes pain.	Ger.
7.	Jealousy is the evil daughter of a good family.	Ger.
8.	Jealousy is the greatest evil.	Ger.
9.	Jealousy is too apt to build upon unsure foundations.	Massinger.
10.	Jealousy is worse than witchcraft.	Ger.
11.	Jealousy shuts one door and opens two instead.	Ger.
12.	Nor jealousy, was understood, the injured lover's hell.	Milton.
13.	Oh! beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on.	Shaks.
14.	The jealous man—who spreads his bed with stinging nettles and then sleeps on it.	Punch.
15.	The jealousy of the wife is the path to divorce.	Ger.
16.	There is no man however high but is jealous of some one, and there is no man however low but has some one jealous of him.
17.	Trifles light as air are to the jealous confirmations strong as proofs of holy writ.	Shaks.
	Jeering.
1.	Do jeer poor folks and see how it will thrive.
2.	One jeer seldom goes forth but it brings back its equal.
	Jest, Joke.
1.	A common jester may have wit but not wisdom.	Young.
2.	A jest driven too far brings home hate.
3.	A joke never gains an enemy but often loses a friend.
4.	A joke should not be carried too far.	Latin.
5.	All in the way of a joke the wolf goes to the ass.	Sp.
6.	An ill-timed jest hath ruined many, And gentle dulness ever loves a joke.	Pope
7.	Away with such jests, there is no good in being malignant.
8.	Better lose a jest than a friend.
9.	Drop the jest when it is most amusing.	Ital.
10.	Good jests bite like lambs, not like dogs.
11.	He that jokes confesses.	Ital.
12.	He that would jest must take a jest, Else to let it alone were best.	Dutch.
13.	His back is broad enough to bear jests.
14.	If you be a jester keep your wit until you have use for it.
15.	It is not good jesting with God, death or the devil.	Arabian.
16.	It is past joking when the head's off.
17.	It requires a surgical operation to get a joke well into a Scotch understanding.	Sidney Smith.
18.	Jesters do oft prove prophets.
19.	Jesting lies bring serious sorrows.
20.	Jest not in earnest.	Motto of the Margrave of Brandenburg.
21.	Jest not with a rude man lest thy ancestors be disgraced.	Bible.
22.	Jest not with the eye nor religion.
23.	Jest so it may not turn in earnest.	Sp.
24.	Jest with an ass and he will flap you in the face with his tail.
25.	Jests are seldom good the first time, but the second distasteful.
26.	Jests, like sweetmeats, have often sour sauce.
27.	Jest with your equals.	Dan.
28.	Jesting costs money.	Sp.
29.	Leave off the jest when it is merriest.	Sp.
30.	Manual jokes are clowns' jokes.	Fr., Sp.
31.	Many a true word spoken in jest.	Ital.
32.	Much better lose a jest than a friend.
33.	Never joke with stupid people.[569]
34.	No jesting with edge tools or with bell ropes.
35.	Of all the griefs that harass the distressed, Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest.	Johnson.
36.	Rather spoil your joke than lose your friend.	Scotch.
37.	Some who jest tell tales of themselves.	Fr.
38.	That's the cream of the joke.
39.	The jest's propriety lies in the ear of him who hears it, never in the tongue of him who makes it.
40.	The truest jests sound worst in guilty ears.
41.	The wise make jests and fools repeat them.
42.	The worst jests are those that are true.	Fr.
43.	There are jokes like diamonds that take infinitely less time to find than to polish.	Punch.
44.	There is no worse joke than a true one.	Ital., Sp.
45.	To jest is tolerable, but to do harm by jest is insufferable.
46.	True jests breed bad blood.
47.	True jokes never please.	Fr.
48.	We knock in jest and it is opened in earnest.	Ger.
49.	When the demand is a jest the fittest answer is a scoff.	Archimedes.
50.	When the jest is at its best, 'twill be well to let it rest	Ger.
	Jesuits.
1.	The Jesuits are wise; they never lose their temper.[570]	Bea.
	Jew.
1.	A Christianized Jew and a reconciled foe are not to be trusted.	Russian.
2.	A German deceives the Pole, the French the German, a Spaniard the French, a Jew the Spaniard, the devil only the Jew.	Polish.
3.	No Jew a fool, no hare lazy.	Sp.
	Jewel.
1.	The jewel is not to be valued for the cabinet.
	Joseph.
1.	There arose a new king that knew not Joseph.	Bible.
2.	There is always a Pharaoh who does not know Joseph.	Ger.
	Journey.
1.	A journey were better too long than dangerous.
	Jove, Jupiter.
1.	By Jove the stranger and the poor are sent.	Homer.
2.	Him whom Jove would destroy he first deprives of reason.	Latin.
3.	I love to stand aloof from Jove and his thunderbolts.
4.	When Jupiter is in the wrong he always thunders.
	Joy.
1.	A joyous evening often leads to a sorrowful morning.	Dan.
2.	A joyous heart spins the hemp.	Servian.
3.	After joy, grief; after grief, joy.[571]	Tamil.
4.	After sorrow, joy.	Latin.
5.	All the joys in the world cannot take one gray hair out of our heads.
6.	All the joys we travel to through vice, Like fairy banquets vanish when we touch them.	Massinger.
7.	All who joy would win, must share it; Happiness was born a twin.	Byron.
8.	Every life has its joy; every joy its law.	Dan.
9.	If your joys cannot be long, so neither can your sorrows.
10.	Joy and sorrow are next door neighbors.	Ger.
11.	Joy and sorrow usually succeed each other.	Arabian.
12.	Joy is like the ague; one good day between two bad ones.	Dan.
13.	Joy is the tender shadow which sorrow casts.	Jeremy Taylor.
14.	Joys are not the property of the rich alone.	Horace.
15.	Joy surfeited turns to sorrow.	Latin.
16.	Joy which we cannot share with others is only half enjoyed.	Hans Andersen.
17.	No joy like Heaven's.
18.	No joy without alloy.
19.	Sudden joy kills sooner than excessive grief.
20.	The present joys of life we doubly taste, By looking back with pleasure on the past.	Martial.
21.	We should publish our joys and conceal our griefs.
22.	When joy is in the parlor, sorrow is in the passage.	Dan.
	Judging.
1.	As solemn as a judge.
2.	Do not judge of a tree by its bark nor of a man by his exterior.
3.	Do not judge of the ship from the land.
4.	Do not judge of the ship while it is on the stocks.	Ital.
5.	Do not judge of the dog by its hairs.	Dan.
6.	Forbear to judge for we are sinners all.	Shaks.
7.	From one you may judge of the whole.	Latin.
8.	He is the best judge that knows the least.
9.	He who is judge between two friends loses one of them.	Fr., Ger.
10.	He who will have no judge but himself condemns himself.
11.	“I am a judge of cresses,” said the peasant, when he was eating hemlock.	Dan.
12.	Judge not of men or things at first sight.
13.	Never judge by appearances.
14.	Never judge peremptorily on first appearance.	Richardson.
15.	The cold neutrality of an impartial judge.	Burke.
16.	We wisely strip the steed we mean to buy, Judge we in their caparisons of men?	Young.
17.	Well to judge depends on well to hear.	Ital.
18.	Who judges others condemns himself.	Ital.
19.	You cannot judge of a man 'till you hear his whole story.[573]
20.	You cannot judge of the wine by the barrel.
21.	You can't judge of the horse by the harness.
	June.
1.	A dripping June brings all things in tune.
2.	Calm weather in June sets corn in tune.
	Judgment.
1.	He hath a good judgment that relieth not wholly on his own.
2.	Of judgment every one has a stock on hand for sale.	Ital.
3.	'Tis with our judgments as our watches; None go just alike yet each believes his own.	Pope.
4.	To him of good judgment the sound of a gnat suffices; to him who lacks it, the noise of an orchestra availeth not.	Turk.
	Just.
1.	Any time is the proper time for saying what is just.	Greek.
2.	He who is only just is cruel; who on earth would live were all judged justly?	Byron.
3.	How is he greater than I, if he is not more just.	Agesilaus.
4.	If all men were just there would be no need of valor.	Agesilaus.
5.	Nothing brings a man more honor than to be invariably just.
6.	The just hand is as precious ointment.	Latin.
7.	The just man will flourish in spite of envy.	Latin.
8.	The memory of the just is blessed.	Bible.
9.	What is just and right is the law of laws.
	Justice.
1.	Every man loves justice at another man's expense; nobody cares for it at his own.
2.	It is folly to expect justice from the unprincipled.
3.	Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offence.
4.	Justice has a waxen nose.	Ger.
5.	Justice is half religion.	Turk.
6.	Justice is never angry.	Ben Jonson.
7.	Justice is the rightful sovereign of the world.	Pindar.
8.	It is the clerk makes the justice.
9.	Let justice be done though the heavens fall.	Latin.
10.	No one likes justice brought home to his own door.	Ital.
11.	Of all virtues justice is the best; Valor without it is a common jest.	Waller.
12.	Paper and ink and little justice.	Sp.
13.	Though justice has leaden feet it has leaden hands.
14.	Who demands justice must administer justice.	Ger.

	Oath.
1.	A true word needs no oath.	Turk.
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.	Shaks.
6.	Oaths are but words and words but wind.	Butler.
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 daughter.	Shaks.
	Obedience.
1.	Obedience and majesty never lodged in the same inn.	Massinger.
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 matters 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 enemies.	Fielding.
2.	Excess of obligations may lose a friend.
	Observation.
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.
	Oculist.
1.	Among wonderful things is a sore-eyed person who is an oculist.	Arabs of Egypt.
	Occupation.
1.	A good occupation is better than a golden girdle.	Ger.
2.	Constant occupation prevents temptation.	Ital.
3.	No thoroughly occupied man was ever miserable.
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.
1.	There is luck in odd numbers.
	Offences.
1.	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.
1.	The offender never pardons.	Ital.
	Offers.
1.	Extravagant offers are a kind of denial.	Ital.
	Office.
1.	All offices are greasy; i.e., 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, corruptly or maliciously.
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 office 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 nothing.	Dutch.
12.	Nothing is more obnoxious than a low person raised to a high position.	Claudianus.
13.	Office tests the man.	Latin.
14.	Office without pay makes thieves.	Ger.
15.	The office (or place) teaches (shows) the man.	Ger., Latin.
16.	They 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 reproach and blame.	Ger.
20.	Who obtains an office surreptitiously like a fox will administer it like a wolf.	Ger.
	Offspring.
1.	The offspring of them that are very old or very young lasteth not.
2.	Unworthy offspring brag most of their descent.	Dan.
	Olive.
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 kein mal.)	Ger.
2.	Once upon a time no time. (Some day, no day.)	Ger.
	One.
1.	One foolish act may undo a man and a timely one make his fortune.	Gaelic.
2.	One foot is better than two crutches.
3.	One foot is better than two stilts.	Fr.
4.	One grain of pepper is worth a cart-load of hail.
5.	One grain of sharp pepper is better than a basket full of gourds.
6.	One grape will not make a bunch though it be a great one.	Bea.
7.	One link broken, the whole chain is broken.	Ger.
8.	One log does not burn 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.
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 his 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.
4.	Catch the opportunity.	Latin.
5.	Don't let escape the opportunity of the present; it will not return.	Turk.
6.	Know your opportunity.	Pittacus, one of the seven wise men.
7.	Let not slip the golden opportunity.
8.	Occasion's (opportunity's) bald behind.	Massinger.
9.	Opportunity is the cream of time.
10.	Opportunity makes desire.	Dutch.
11.	Opportunities are more powerful than conquerors 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.	Dutch.
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 without a bridle.	Theophrastus.
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.
1.	Orthodoxy is my doxy, heterodoxy is another man's doxy.	Bishop Warburton.
	Orphan.
1.	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.
1.	What is over can't be begun.	Dickens.
	Owl.
1.	The owl does not praise the light nor the wolf the day.	Dan.
2.	The owl is not accounted the wiser for living retiredly.
3.	The owl thinks her children the fairest.	Dan.
	Ox.
1.	A long ox, a short horse.
2.	An old ox makes a straight furrow.	Fr., Ital., Sp., Por.
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. (The ancients thus marked mischievous oxen.)
7.	He takes the bull by the horns; i.e., grapples boldly with the difficulty.
8.	He who greases his cart-wheels helps his oxen.	Sp.
9.	He who has lost his oxen is 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; i.e., he never knew sorrow or adversity.
20.	The fierce ox becomes tame on strange ground.	Sp.
21.	The ox comes to the yoke at the call of his feeder.	Sp.
22.	The ox knoweth his owner and the ass his master's crib.	Bible.
23.	The ox that tossed me threw me into a good place.	Sp., Por.
24.	The ox when weariest treads surest.
25.	The ox without a bell is soon lost.	Sp.
26.	The tired ox plants his foot firmly.	Sp.
27.	Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn.	Bible.
28.	To what place must the ox go where he must not plough.	Sp.
29.	When the ox falls there are many will help to kill him.
30.	Who leads an ox to drink must first wet his own feet.	Chinese.
31.	You need not find a shelter for an old ox.	Por.

	Quackery.
1.	Quackery has no friend like gullibility.
2.	The healer of others is himself full of wounds. (Applied to pretenders to medical skill.)
	Quaileth.
1.	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.
1.	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 Olympus.	Latin.
	Quarrel.
1.	Avoid the first quarrel. (Good advice to a newly married couple as well as others.)
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 relations 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 quarrel in my house.
15.	Quarrels could not last long were but prudence 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.
18.	Two cannot fall out if one does not choose.	Sp.
19.	Two cocks in one yard do not agree.	Ital.
20.	Two crocodiles cannot live in one hole.	West 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.	Turk.
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.	Bacon.
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 learneth.
5.	I wish to see face and back; i.e. both sides of the question.	Sfik or old Calabar, 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.
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 work.
5.	Quick come, quick go.
6.	Quick enough if good enough.	Ger.
7.	Quick landlords make careful tenants.
	Quiet.
1.	The highest degree of earthly happiness is quiet.	Dr. Johnson.
	Quiet People.
1.	It is the quiet people who are dangerous.	La Fontaine.
	Quotations.
1.	To patch-work, learned quotations are allied; Both strive to make our poverty our pride.	Young.

	Uncertainty.
1.	All between the cradle and the coffin is uncertain.
2.	Between the hand and the lip the morsel may slip.
3.	Between the hand and the mouth the soup is often spilt.	Fr., Ger., Sp., Por.
4.	Many a slip between the cup and the lip.
5.	There is many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip.
6.	'Twixt the spoon and the lip, the morsel may slip.	Dan.
	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 marvellous.	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.
	Undertakings.
1.	Small undertakings give great comfort.	Ger.
	Undoing.
1.	We should be undone but for undoing.	Themistocles.
	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.
1.	Men prize a thing ungained more than it is.	Shaks.
	Unhappy.
1.	The unhappy alone know the value of benevolent 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.	Galician.
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.
1.	Upbraiding makes a benefit of an injury.	Fr.
	Upright.
1.	The upright never grow rich in a hurry.	Dan.
	Useful.
1.	It was the wisdom of ancient times to consider 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.
1.	A gem unwrought 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.	Sp., Ger.
9.	Use, use, is life, and he most truly lives who uses best.
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.

	Keep.
1.	He who gets doth much, but he who keeps doth more.
2.	Keep a thing seven years and you'll find use for it. [575]	Gaelic.
3.	Keep cool and you command everybody.	St. Just.
4.	Keep not two tongues in one mouth.	Dan.
5.	Keep out of a hasty man's way for a while, out of a sullen man's all the days of your life.
6.	Keep out of brawls and you will neither be a principal nor a witness.	Sp.
7.	Keep some till furthermore come.
8.	Keep something for a sair fit.
9.	Keep the common road and thou'rt safe.
10.	Keep the feast to feast day.	Scotch.
11.	Keep the staff in your ain hand.
12.	Keep your breath to cool your crowdie.
13.	Keep yourself from the anger of a great man, from the tumult of a mob, from a man of ill-fame, from a widow that has been thrice married, from a wind that comes in at a hole, and from a reconciled enemy.
14.	Who shall keep the keepers? (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes.)
15.	You may keep the wool until it is dirt and flax until it is silk.
	Key.
1.	All the keys hang not at one man's girdle.
2.	Better is the turn of the key than a friar's conscience.	Sp.
3.	Locks and keys are not made for honest fingers.	Ger.
4.	The golden key opens every door.	Ital.
5.	The key that is used grows bright.[576]	Ger.
6.	The keys at the girdle—the dog in the larder.	Sp.
7.	Your key fits not that lock.
	Killing.
1.	Any one can kill a bound foe.	Turk.
2.	He kills a man that saves not his life when he can.	Dan.
3.	Kill a man's family and he may brook it, But keep your hand out of his breeches pocket.	Byron.
4.	Kill and thou wilt be killed and he will be killed who kills thee.	Sp.
5.	Kill no more than you can salt or you will have tainted meat.	Dan.
6.	Kill the lion's whelp; thou'lt strive in vain when he's grown.
	Kindness.
1.	A forced kindness deserves no thanks.
2.	A kindness bestowed on the good is never lost.	Latin.
3.	A kindness is never lost.
4.	A word of kindness is better than a fat pie.	Russian.
5.	He merits no thanks that does a kindness for his own ends.
6.	He that is kinder than he was wont hath a design upon thee.
7.	He who doth a kindness to a good man doth a greater to himself.
8.	How quickly with all is a kindness forgotten.[577]	Latin.
9.	Kindness breaks no bones.	Ger.
10.	Kindness canna be bought for gear.
11.	Kindness is more binding than a loan.	Chinese.
12.	Kindness comes o'will.
13.	Kindness like grain increases by sowing.
14.	Kindness is the noblest weapon to conquer with.
15.	Kindness lies na ay in ae side o' the house.
16.	Kindness, nobler ever than revenge.	Shaks.
17.	Kindness to the just is never lost.	Plautus.
18.	Kindness will creep where it mauna gang.
19.	Never forget a kindness.
20.	Nothing grows old sooner than a kindness.	Fr.
21.	One kindness is the price of another.
22.	One ought to remember kindnesses received and forget those we have done.
23.	The wild beast feels man's kindness more than man.	Bulwer.
24.	To do a kindness to a bad man is like sowing your seed in the sea.	Phocylides.
25.	Unfading are the gardens of kindness.	M. Greek.
	King.
1.	A countryman may be as warm in kersey as a king in velvet.
2.	A crown is no cure for the headache.	Ital., Ger., Dutch.
3.	A king is never powerful that hath not power on the sea.	Sp.
4.	A king promises but observes only what he pleases.
5.	A king's favor is no inheritance.
6.	A king should have neither friends nor relations, needing only slaves.	Sicandar of India.
7.	A king without a good counsellor is like a wayfaring man who is blind.
8.	A man ought to be born a king or a fool.	Latin.
9.	A noble prince or king never has a coin to bless himself.	Fr.
10.	Accurst the king that casts his purple o'er his vices.	Bulwer.
11.	Among the blind a one-eyed man is king.	Latin.
12.	An illiterate king is a crowned ass.
13.	As the king, so are his people.	Sp.
14.	Every law is broken to become a king.
15.	Every one is a king in his own house.	Por.
16.	General calamities imply in kings general imbecility.
17.	He is half a king who has the king's good acres.
18.	He that is hated o' his subjects canna be a king.
19.	He who eats the king's cow lean, pays for it fat.	Fr., Sp.
20.	Ill kings make many good laws.
21.	It befits the king to be liberal for he is sure of never falling into poverty.[579]	Por.
22.	King Henry robbed the church and died poor.
23.	Kings and bears oft worry their keepers.
24.	Kings are out o' play.
25.	Kings are like stars,—they rise and set; they have The worship of the world, but no repose.	Shelley.
26.	Kings' entreaties are commands.	Dutch.
27.	Kings hae lange ears.
28.	Kings have long arms and many eyes and ears.	Ital.
29.	Kings love the treason but not the traitor.
30.	Kings ought to be environed with good will instead of guards.	Bias.
31.	Kings ought to be kings in all things.	Adrian.
32.	Kings ought to shun the company of the vicious, for the evil they commit in his company is accounted his.	Plato.
33.	Neck or nothing, for the king loves no cripple.
34.	Neither a log nor a stork, good Jupiter. (Fable of the frogs praying for a king.)
35.	Nice customs courtesy to great kings.	Shaks.
36.	No king was ever a traitor or pope excommunicated.	Sp.
37.	Robbers take to rocks and precipices for security; for a king there is no such fortress as honor and humanity.	Aratus.
38.	“Sail!” quoth the king; “Hold!” saith the wind.
39.	The emperor of Germany is the king of[580] kings; the king of Spain king of men; the king of France king of asses; the king of England king of devils.	Fr.
40.	The greatest king must at last go to bed with a shovel.
41.	The king's leavings are better than my Lord's bounty.	Don Quixote.
42.	The king cannot always rule as he wishes.
43.	The king goes as far as he can, not so far as he would.	Sp.
44.	The king likes the treachery but not the traitor.	Sp.
45.	The king may bestow offices but cannot bestow wit to manage them.
46.	The king may give the honor but thou art to make thyself honorable.	Ger.
47.	The king of France with twenty thousand men, Marched up the hill and then marched down again.	R. Tarleton.
48.	The king of good fellows is appointed for the queen of beggars.
49.	The king (queen) of the bees has no sting.	Por.
50.	The king's chaff is better than other folks' corn.	Ger.
51.	The king's cheese goes half way in parings.
52.	The king's favor is no inheritance.
53.	The king's friend is he who tells him the truth.
54.	The last reason of kings. (Motto engraved on a French cannon.)[581]
55.	The subjects' love is the king's best guard.
56.	The surest guard of a king is not armies or treasures but friends.	Petrarch.
57.	The sword of kings Is the last reason of all things.	Butler.
58.	The word of a king ought to be as binding as the oath of a subject.	Ital.
59.	The wrath of kings is always dreadful.
60.	There's such divinity doth hedge a king, That treason can but peep to what it would.	Shaks.
61.	'Tis fate that flings the dice, and as she flings, Of kings makes peasants and of peasants kings.
62.	To such a king, such an ambassador. (Remark of the ambassador of Louis XIII. of France to the king of Spain.)
63.	Under which king, Bezonian? speak, or die.	Shaks.
64.	When kings lose their temper, it is their people who pay for it.
65.	Whosoever is king, thou'lt be his man.
66.	Would you have me serve you, good king, give me the means of living.	Por.
	Kiss.
1.	A kiss of the mouth often touches not the heart.
2.	A man often kisses the hand that he would fain see cut off.	Sp.,Por., Dan.
3.	Do not make me kiss, and you will not make me sin.[582]
4.	For the sake of the knight, the lady kisses the squire.	Fr.
5.	I kiss thee, hide, because thou art to be a wine-bag.	Por.
6.	If you can kiss the mistress, never kiss the maid.
7.	Kiss ardently the hand you cannot cut off.	Turk.
8.	Kisses are the messengers of love.	Dan.
9.	Kissing goes by favor.
10.	Many kiss the child for the nurse's sake.	Dan.
11.	One kisses the child for the mother's sake, and the mother for the child's sake.	Ger.
12.	One kisses the nurse for the sake of the child.	Ger.
	Kitchen.
1.	A fat kitchen has poverty for a neighbor.	Ital.
2.	A fat kitchen is next door to poverty.	Ital.
3.	A fat kitchen makes a lean purse.	Ger.
4.	A fat kitchen makes a lean will.	Ger.
5.	Communities begin by building their kitchens.
6.	Silk and velvet put out the kitchen fire.	Ger.
7.	Silks and satins put out the fire in the kitchen.
8.	Silks and satins, scarlets and velvets put out the kitchen fire.
9.	The kitchen kills more than the sword.	Ger.
10.	The smallness of the kitchen makes the house the bigger.
11.	The supper out of a strange kitchen tastes good.[583]	Ger.
12.	The taste of the kitchen is better than the smell.
13.	Who frequents the kitchen smells of smoke.	Ital.
	Kite.
1.	A carrion kite will never make a good hawk.
2.	Ask a kite for a feather and she'll say she has just enough to fly with.
3.	One leg of a lark is worth the whole body of a kite.
4.	If the frog and mouse quarrel, the kite will see them agreed.
5.	The kite's malady: its wing broken and its beak sound.	Fr.
	Knave, Knavery.
1.	A knave discovered is a great fool.
2.	An old knave is no babe.
3.	An open knave is a great fool.
4.	Better kiss a knave than be troubled with him.
5.	Better the sensible knave than the fool.	Bolingbroke.
6.	Cool weather and knaves come out of the north.
7.	Early waster—long knave.
8.	Every one is glad to see a knave caught in his own trap.
9.	For an honest man half his wits are enough; the whole is too little for a knave.	Ital.
10.	He hath a cloak for his knavery.
11.	He is doubly sinful who congratulates a successful knave.[584]	Syrus.
12.	He is no small knave that knows a great one.	Dan.
13.	He who knows a knave makes no bid for him.	Dan.
14.	It is a bad thing to be a knave, but worse to be known for one.	Ital.
15.	It is as hard to please a knave as a knight.
16.	Knavery without luck is the worst trade in the world.
17.	Knavery's plain face is never seen till used.
18.	Knaves are in such repute that honest men are accounted fools.
19.	Knaves imagine nothing can be done without knavery.
20.	Knaves will thrive when honest plainness knows not how to live.	Shirley.
21.	More knave than fool.
22.	No more mortar, no more brick; a cunning knave has a cunning trick.
23.	Nobody so like an honest man as an arrant knave.
24.	None better guard against a cheat, than he who is a knave complete.	Martial.
25.	Once a knave, always a knave.
26.	One knavery is met by another.	Sp.
27.	One piece of knavery begets another.	Terence.
28.	Sly knavery is too hard for honest wisdom.
29.	The hatred of knaves is preferable to their company.	Latin.
30.	The knave and fool are their own libellers.[585]	Pope.
31.	The more knave, the better luck.	Dan.
32.	When knaves fall out, honest men come by their own.
33.	With a fool and a knave there is no conclusion.
34.	With art and knavery we live through half a year; with knavery and art we live through the other half.	Ital.
	Knife.
1.	In a golden sheath a leaden knife.	Ital.
2.	In a smith's house the knife is wooden.	Sp.
3.	One knife keeps another in its sheath.	Ital.
4.	One knife whets another.	Ital., Ger.
5.	The knife cuts not the hand of gold.	Turk.
6.	'Tis a good knife; it will cut butter when 'tis melted.
7.	Under a gold sheath a leaden knife.	Sp.
	Knock.
1.	He gives one knock on the iron and two on the anvil.
2.	He giveth one knock on the hoop and another on the barrel; i.e., he speaks now to the purpose, now on matter wholly extraneous.
	Knot.
1.	Where the knot is loose the string slippeth.
2.	To a hard knot a hard wedge.	Sp.
3.	You ought to untie that knot which you knit yourself.
	Know Thyself.
1.	Know thyself. (Inscribed in letters of gold over the portico of the temple of Delphi.) [586]	Chilo.
	Knowledge.
1.	A doctor and a boor know more than a doctor alone.	Ger.
2.	A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
3.	A man knows no more to any purpose than he practises.
4.	All our knowledge is ourselves to know.	Pope.
5.	All we know is nothing can be known. (From the Greek.)	Byron.
6.	Government of the will is better than increase of knowledge.
7.	Half our knowledge we must snatch, not take.	Pope.
8.	He hath a tun of knowledge but the bottom is out.	Dutch.
9.	He knows enough who knows how to live and keep his own counsel.	Fr.
10.	He knows which side of his bread is buttered.
11.	He that imagines he hath knowledge enough hath none.
12.	He that knows himself knows others.
13.	He that knows least commonly presumes most.
14.	He that knows little soon repeats it.
15.	He that would know what shall be must consider what hath been.
16.	He who increases knowledge increases sorrow.	Latin.
17.	He who knows but little tells it quickly.[587]	Ital., Sp., Por.
18.	He who knows himself best, esteems himself least.
19.	He who knows little is confident in everything.
20.	He who knows nothing never doubts.	Ital.
21.	He who thinks he knows the most knows the least.
22.	Hidden knowledge differs little from ignorance.	Horace.
23.	I envy no man that knows more than myself but pity them that know less.	Sir Thomas Browne.
24.	I know no difference between buried treasure and concealed knowledge.	Ital.
25.	It is almost as necessary to know other men as ourselves.
26.	It is not permitted to know all things.	Latin.
27.	It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which is valuable.	Samuel Sorbiere.
28.	It is well for one to know more than he says.	Plautus.
29.	It requires a long time to know any one.	Don Quixote.
30.	Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.	Pope.
31.	Knowledge begins a gentleman but 'tis conversation that completes him.
32.	Knowledge comes but wisdom lingers.	Tennyson.
33.	Knowledge directeth practice and practice increaseth knowledge.
34.	Knowledge finds its price.[588]	La Fontaine.
35.	Knowledge in youth is wisdom in age.
36.	Knowledge is a second light and hath bright eyes.
37.	Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.
38.	Knowledge is no burden.
39.	Knowledge is power.	Bacon.
40.	Knowledge is silver among the poor, gold among the nobles, and a jewel among princes.	Ital.
41.	Knowledge is the foundation of eloquence.	Bea.
42.	Knowledge must be gained by ourselves.	Bea.
43.	Knowledge or wealth to few are given, But mark how just the ways of Heaven: True joy is free to all.	Mickle.
44.	Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.	Horace.
45.	Knowledge without practice makes but half an artist.
46.	Learn thou of learned men, the unlearned of thee; For thus must knowledge propagated be.	Dutch.
47.	No man knows till he has tasted both fortunes.
48.	No one knows what will happen to him before sunset.
49.	No one knows when he is well off.	Punch.
50.	Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to continue always a child.	Seneca.
51.	One part of knowledge consists in being ignorant of such things as are not worthy to be known.[589]
52.	Profess not the knowledge thou hast not.	Bible.
53.	The first step to self-knowledge is self-distrust.
54.	The more a man knows the more he is inclined to be modest.	Fielding.
55.	The only jewel which will not decay is knowledge.	Langford.
56.	The seeds of knowledge may be planted in solitude but must be cultivated in public.	Dr. Johnson.
57.	There is no knowledge so dangerous as half-knowledge.	Stilson Hutchins.
58.	Through being too knowing the fox lost his tail.
59.	To know a man well, one must have eaten a bushel of salt with him.	Fr.
60.	To know everything is to know nothing.	Ital.
61.	To know how to obey requires as generous a disposition and as rational an education as to know how to command.	Plato.
62.	To know nothing is the happiest life.	Euripides.
63.	To know one perfectly one must live in the same house with him.
64.	To know one's self is true progress.	Hans Andersen.
65.	To know the disease is the commencement of the cure.	Don Quixote.
66.	Whatever I did not know, I was not ashamed to inquire about, so I acquired knowledge.[590]	Persian Philosopher.
67.	Who knows most believes least.	Ital.
68.	Who knows most forgives most.	Ital.
69.	Who knows most says least.	Fr., Ital., Sp.
70.	Who knows nothing, doubts nothing.
71.	Who knows nothing in his thirtieth year, is nothing in his fortieth, has nothing in his fiftieth, learns nothing, is nothing, and comes to nothing.	Ger.
72.	Without knowledge there is no sin.
73.	Your knowing a thing is nothing unless another knows you know it.	Latin.

	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.	Sp.
8.	It takes heap o' licks to dribe a nail in de dark.	American Negro.
9.	Leave no nail unclinched.	Ital.
10.	One nail drives out another.
11.	The horseshoe that clatters wants a nail.	Sp.
12.	When the smith's wife wants a nail she must buy it at the shopkeeper's.	Ger.
	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 ointment. 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 nick-name 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.	Dr. Johnson.
15.	What's in a name? that which we call a rose, By any other name would smell as sweet.	Shaks.
	Naples.
1.	See Naples and die.	Ital.
	Nation.
1.	All the great things have been done by little nations.	Bea.
2.	I have seen some nations like over loaded asses, Kick off their burdens, meaning the higher classes.	Byron.
	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.
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 without measure.	Emerson.
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 another.	Juvenal.
20.	Nature on all like powers has not bestowed.	Horace.
21.	Nature requires little—fancy much.	Ger.
22.	Nature passes nurture.
23.	Nature takes as much pains in the forming of a beggar as an emperor.
24.	Nature teaches us to love our friends but religion our enemies.
25.	Nature, the vicar of Almightie God.	Chaucer.
26.	One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.	Shaks.
27.	The nature of things will not be altered by our fancies of them.
28.	The secret powers of nature are generally discovered unsolicited.	Hans Andersen.
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.	Ital.
	Good-nature.
1.	Good-nature and good sense are usually companions.	Pope.
2.	Good-nature is a great misfortune if it want prudence.
3.	Good-nature is the most god-like commendation 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-nature.
1.	Ill-natures never want a tutor.
	Nay.
1.	Nay contains the same number of letters as yea.	Don Quixote.
2.	Nay! Nay! quoth Stringer when his neck was in the halter.
	Near.
1.	Near is my petticoat but nearer is my smock.	Ital.
2.	Near the church, far from God.	Ital.
	Nearer.
1.	The nearer the minster the later to mass.	Fr.
2.	The tunic is nearer than the frock.	Latin.
	Nearest.
1.	Nearest the king, nearest the widdie.
2.	The nearest the dearest.	Ger.
	Necessary.
1.	It is not necessary to fish up every bucket that falls into the well.	Ital.
2.	'Tis as necessary to him as gold weights to a beggar.	Dutch.
3.	'Tis well with him to whom God has given what is necessary with a sparing hand.	Horace.
	Necessity.
1.	A man driven by distress does as much as thirty.	Sp.
2.	He knows not his own strength who hath not met necessity.	Ben Jonson.
3.	Make a virtue of necessity.	Rabelais, Chaucer, Shaks., Dryden.
4.	Necessity and opportunity may make a coward 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.
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.	Livy.
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.
24.	Necessity sharpens industry.
25.	Necessity teaches all things.	Ger.
26.	Necessity teaches the lame to dance.	Ger.
27.	Necessity, the tyrant'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 prudence.
	Need.
1.	Long is the arm of the needy.	Gaelic.
2.	Need makes the naked man run.
3.	Need makes the naked queen spin.
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.	Ital.
10.	There is no need to blow what does not burn you.	Dan.
	Needle.
1.	A needle is not sharp at both ends.	Chinese.
2.	Needle and thread are half clothing.	Sp.
	Neglect.
1.	A little neglect may breed great mischief.
2.	If negligent at twenty, slovenly at forty, will stink at fifty.	Chesterfield.
	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.
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.	Burns.
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.	Ital.
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.	Por.
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.	Ital., 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 neighbors say.
24.	Keep well with your neighbors whether right or wrong.	Ger.
25.	My neighbor's goat gives more milk than mine.	Sp., Por.
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 neighbor.	Dan.
32.	The bad neighbor gives a needle without thread.	Sp., Por.
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 neighbor's garden.	Fr.
	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.	Ben Jonson.
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 sting you.
	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 Wigàn; i.e., 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; i.e., 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 forgotten.	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.
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.	Fr.
	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.	Fr.
4.	Bad news is always true.	Sp.
5.	Bad news is the first to come.	Ital.
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., Por.
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., 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.
19.	No news is good news.	Fr., Ital.
20.	The lame post brings the surest news.
21.	The sun never sets without fresh news.	Kaffir.
22.	They are scarce of news that speak ill of their mother.	Ulster.
23.	Though it be honest, it is never good To bring bad news. Ill tidings tell themselves.	Shaks.
24.	Too good news to be true.
25.	You must go into the country to hear what news at London.
	Newspaper.
1.	Speak and speak out and sow wisdom about. Dice, doce, E-dice.	(Punch's motto for a newspaper.)
2.	Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.	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.
5.	The press is the sheet anchor of our liberties.
	Nice.
1.	As nice as a nun's hen.
2.	He is more nice than wise.
3.	Nothing so nasty as a nice man.	Dean Swift.
4.	To undo crosses in a straw loft. (To part all the straws that they may not lie cross-wise, i.e., to be over nice.)	Sp.
5.	Who is over nice loses many a slice.	Ger.
	Niggard.
1.	The niggard spends as much as he who is liberal and in the end more.	Fr.
	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.
5.	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.	Turk.
2.	A nightingale won't sing in a cage.
3.	Everybody 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.
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 consumere nati.)
4.	Do not make a difference between the noble and ignoble.	Hindoo.
5.	He is ignoble who disgraces his brave ancestors 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.
11.	Let wealth and commerce, laws and learning die, But give us back our old nobility.	Lord John Manners.
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 elements 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 endowed with noble qualities is rather a defamation than a glory.
21.	True nobility is exempt from fear.	Shaks.
22.	True nobility is invulnerable.	Fr.
23.	'Twas virtue only at first made all men noble.	Ben Jonson.
	Noble Lives.
1.	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.
	Noise.
1.	He that loves noise must buy a pig.
	Nonsense.
1.	A little nonsense now and then Is relished by the best of men.	Holmes.
	Nose.
1.	A big (long) nose never spoiled a handsome face.	Fr.
2.	A man should not stick his nose in his neighbor's pot.
3.	A man should not stick his nose in everything.
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 before 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 you 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.
	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.	Ital.
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. (Exclamation of a housewife 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.	Fr.
7.	He has nothing for whom nothing is enough.	Fr., Por.
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.
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.	Ital.
	Novelty.
1.	Novelty always appears handsome.
2.	Novelty is an essential attribute to the beautiful.	Bea.
3.	Novelty is the great parent of pleasure.	South.
4.	'Tis novelty that sets the people a-gaping.
	Nurse.
1.	Nurse, you are mistress whilst the child sucks, and after that nothing.
2.	One year a nurse and seven years the worse.
3.	The nurse is valued till the child is done sucking.
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.

	Vacuum.
1.	Nature abhors a vacuum. (Galileo said, however, only for the first thirty feet, alluding to the rising 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 witnesses 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 regard to valor and a contempt of life.	Cato the Elder.
6.	There is always safety in valor.	Emerson.
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 suffer 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.	Agesilaus.
14.	Valor would fight, but discretion would run away.
15.	When valor preys on reason it eats the sword it fights with.	Shaks.
	Valued.
1.	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., 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 another.
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.
12.	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.	Turk.
18.	The kiln calls the oven burnt brows.
19.	The pan says to the pot, “Keep off or you'll smut me.”	Ital.
20.	The pot upbraids the kettle that it is black.	Dutch.
21.	The raven chides blackness.
22.	The shovel scouts the poker.	Fr.
23.	The sooty oven mocks the black chimney.
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.	Swift.
28.	Vanity will prove vexation.
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 arm 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.	Cowper.
4.	Variety, that divine gift that makes a woman charming.	Bea.
	Varnishing.
1.	Varnishing hides a crack.
	Vengeance.
1.	Vengeance has 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.
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 converted 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: i.e., 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 saddle.
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.
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.	Sp.
4.	All vice infatuates and corrupts the judgment.
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.
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. (Mandeville'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 appear, Robes and furred gowns hide all.	Shaks.
26.	'Tis the most dangerous vice looks like virtue.
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.
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.	Pope.
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 grossness.	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 ourselves we leave them.
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 adversary 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 Carthaginian.
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.
15.	Victory or Westminster Abbey.	Nelson.
	Views.
1.	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.
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.	Herrick.
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.	Dr. Johnson.
16.	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 virtue.	Plutarch.
29.	It is in hating vice that we strengthen ourselves 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.
32.	It needs great virtues to be known and admired, or perhaps great vices.	La Bruyère.
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 prosper'd '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.	Seneca.
46.	Some rise by sin and some by virtue fall.	Shaks.
47.	Steadiness is the foundation of all virtue.	Motto of Viscount Hereford.
48.	Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man.	Addison.
49.	The first step to virtue is to love virtue in another.
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.	Tacitus.
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 daughter.
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 Cornwallis.
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.	Horace.
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.
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 inherit.
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.
101.	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 empire.	Chinese.
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.
110.	Virtue is without alloy.	Ger.
111.	Virtue itself offends when coupled with forbidden 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 Strangford.
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.	Chilo.
117.	Virtue may be overclouded for awhile, but will shine at last.
118.	Virtue, not pedigree, should characterize nobility.	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.
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 degree, 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.
1.	The device of the virtuous man is expressed by the two words: “to forgive,” and “to pardon.”	Fr.
2.	The world is ashamed of being virtuous.	Sterne.
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.
1.	Vows made in storms are forgotten in calms.
	Vulgar.
1.	The vulgar keep no account of your hits but of your misses.
	Vulgarity.
1.	Vulgarity in manners defiles fine garments more than mud.	Plautus.

	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.
	Yeoman.
1.	A yeoman on his legs is higher than a prince upon his knees.
	Yielding.
1.	Yielding is sometimes the best way of succeeding.	Ital.
2.	Yielding stays war.	Ger.
	Yorkshire.
1.	Shake a bridle over a Yorkshireman's grave 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.
4.	All of us must be drunk once, youth is drunkenness 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.	Dan.
7.	The young are not always with their bow bent.
8.	The young will sow their wild oats, but prevent it if possible.
9.	The youth of a nation are the trustees of posterity.	Bea.
10.	There are more lamb skins than sheep skins. (Meaning that youth is exposed to many dangers.)	M. Greek.
11.	There come just so many calf-skins to market as cow skins. (Meaning youth is surrounded by dangers.)	Ger., Dutch.
12.	There die as many lambs as wethers. (Same meaning as last above.)	Por.
13.	There is a learning time in youth which, suffered to escape and no foundation laid, seldom returns.	Clarissa.
14.	To be famous when you are young is the fortune 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 time.	Holmes.
19.	Youth is the season of hope.
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 savings bank.	Madame Swetchine.
25.	Youth will have its swing.
26.	Youth's sorrows like April showers are transitory.
	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.

	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 before 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.	John Newton.
10.	Zeal without knowledge is frenzy.
11.	Zeal without knowledge is the sister of folly.

PROVERBS MAXIMS AND PHRASES OF ALL AGES

CLASSIFIED SUBJECTIVELY AND ARRANGED ALPHABETICALLY

IN TWO VOLUMES

COMPILED BY ROBERT CHRISTY

VOLUME I. VOLUME II.

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COPYRIGHT BY G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS 1887

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PREFACE.

LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS.

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INDEX.

PROVERBS

MAXIMS AND PHRASES

OF ALL AGES

CLASSIFIED SUBJECTIVELY AND ARRANGED
ALPHABETICALLY

NEW YORK & LONDON
G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS
The Knickerbocker Press
1893

COPYRIGHT BY
G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS
1887

Press of
G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS
New York

PROVERBS, MAXIMS AND PHRASES
OF ALL AGES.