A Dictionary of Proverbs (Oxford Paperback Reference)

L. non olet, it [money] does not smell. Titus, son of the Roman emperor Vespasian, had criticized a tax on public lavatories. Ve ...

MONEY is the root of all evil Cf. I TIMOTHY vi. 10 (AV) The love of money is the root of all evil. Both the biblical original an ...

MONEY makes money 1572 T. WILSON Discourse upon Usury 54 V Mony getteth money. a 1654 J. SELDEN Table-Talk (1689) 57 ‘Tis a vain ...

money see also BAD money drives out good; a FOOL and his money are soon parted; when the LAST tree is cut down, the last fish ea ...

I knew not their faces, for they might know mine.. according to the old English proverb, ‘that more knows Tom Fool, than Tom Foo ...

dog than choking it with butter; there are more WAYS of killing a dog than hanging it. MORNING dreams come true C f. MOSCHUS Eur ...

The MOTHER of mischief is no bigger than a midge’s wing a 1628 J. CARMICHAELL Proverbs in Scots no. 1468 The mother of mischief, ...

mountains are high and the emperor is far away.’ 1995 New York Times 4 Dec. (online) A foreigner who spends two weeks in the reg ...

money.’ ‘Out of the mouths,’ conceded Leeyes. children; wisdom move see FAITH will move mountains. MUCH cry and little wool a 14 ...

1678 J. RAY English Proverbs (ed. 2) 179 Muck and money go together. 1855 H. G. BOHN Hand-Book of Proverbs 564 Where there is mu ...

Thousand a Year I. i. It’s really very inconvenient.. for any of my young men to be absent.. but—I suppose—what must be must be. ...

N The NAIL that sticks up gets hammered down Japanese proverb. 1972 J. HOHENBERG New Era in Pacific 145 It will be a long time b ...

between 1971 and 1981 is a great tribute to the wholehearted labours of thousands of Welsh patriots who have made the language t ...

That king.. having too many irons in the fire at his own home.. answered them that his shirt was nearer to him than his doublet. ...

comment on the truth of the uncomfortable proverb, ‘The nearer the church, the farther from God,’ that so bad a district should ...

need see (noun) a FRIEND in need is a friend indeed; (verb) GOOD wine needs no bush; a GUILTY conscience needs no accuser. NEEDL ...

by Government for its own army, but, as the Scottish saying has it, ‘What a neighbour gets is not lost.’ 1933 N. GORDON Shakespe ...

pains: Grasp it like a man of mettle, And it soft as silk remains. 1830 R. FORBY Vocabulary of East Anglia 430 ‘Nip a nettle har ...

lateness; learning It is NEVER too late to mend See also the two adjacent proverbs. 1590 R. GREENE (title) Never too late. 1594 ...

1546 J. HEYWOOD Dialogue of Proverbs II.i. F3V Som therto said, the grene new brome swepith cleene. 1578 LYLY Euphues I. 232 Ah ...