A Dictionary of Proverbs (Oxford Paperback Reference)

nay. 1893 R. L. STEVENSON Catriona xix. That young lady, with whom I so much desired to be alone again, sang.. ‘He that will not ...

I’d risk it for that.’ ‘I lost some; and I gained some.’ 1966 P. O. DONNELL Sabre-Tooth XIV. You win a few, you lose a few, and ...

have snow; ONE for the mouse, one for the crow; a REED before the wind lives on, while mighty oaks do fall; ROBIN Hood could bra ...

completely covered. 1959 Boston Herald 13 Mar. 42 Winter never rots in the sky, says the old proverb. retribution winter see als ...

wise see also EARLY to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise; a FOOL may give a wise man counsel; FOOLS ...

woeful see WILFUL waste makes woeful want. Do not call a WOLF to help you against the dogs Russian proverb. 1975 A. SOLZHENITSYN ...

A WOMAN and a ship ever want mending Cf. PLAUTUS Poenulus II. 210–15 negoti sibi qui volet vim parare, navem et mulierem, haec d ...

A WOMAN’S work is never done 1570 T. TUSSER Husbandry (rev. ed.) 26 Some respite to husbands the weather doth send, but huswiues ...

That is not long a doyng. 1624 BURTON Anatomy of Melancholy (ed. 2) III. ii. Blessed is the wooing, That is not long a doing. 17 ...

without riches, Fred.’ 2002 Washington Times 25 Apr. C10 (heading) The Man With the Proverbial Word to the Wise. hints word see ...

but ‘worry’. 1909 British Weekly 8 July 333 It is worry that kills, they say, and not work. .. The canker of care seems to eat t ...

Even the humblest will strike back if harassed or imposed upon too far. 1546 J. HEYWOOD Dialogue of Proverbs II. iv. G4V Treade ...

worth see also a BIRD in the hand is worth two in the bush; a KING’S chaff is worth more than other men’s corn; an OUNCE of prac ...

Y year see there are no BIRDS in last year’s nest; a CHERRY year a merry year; KEEP a thing seven years and you’ll always find a ...

A YOUNG man married is a young man marred 1589 G. PUTTENHAM Art of English Poesy III. xix. 173 The maide that soone married is, ...

young see also BETTER be an old man’s darling than a young man’s slave; whom the GODS love die young; the GOOD die young; HANG a ...

Bibliography of Major Proverb Collections and Works cited from Modern Editions Quotations are taken from the first edition of th ...

Hislop, A., Proverbs of Scotland (Glasgow, 1862). H[owell]., J., Paroimiographia. Proverbs, or Old sayed sawes & adages in E ...

Cambridge, 1905–12). Bible: Authorised Version of the English Bible 1611 ed. W. A. Wright (5 vols., Cambridge, 1909). Chaucer, G ...

the most polite mode and method now used at court, and in the best companies of England (London, 1738)) is cited from the first ...