A Dictionary of Proverbs (Oxford Paperback Reference)

high. c 1594 BACON Promus 102 He doth like the ape that the higher he clymbes the

more he shows his ars. 1670 J. RAY English Proverbs 57 The higher the Ape goes, the

more he shews his tail... The higher beggars or base bred persons are advanced, the more

they discover the lowness and baseness of their spirits and tempers. 1743 POPE Dunciad

iv. 157 (note) The higher you climb, the more you shew your A—. 1873 TROLLOPE

Phineas Redux I. xxxiv. He’s to be pitchforked up to the Exchequer... The higher a

monkey climbs—; you know the proverb. 1985 Washington Post 3 Nov. C3 Let me tell

you something Cookie and try to remember it the rest of your life, will you? The higher a

monkey climbs the more he shows his ass. 2000 Washington Post 12 Dec. D6 The great

expectations cost Norv Turner his job. And the attending soap opera quality made Dan

Snyder a villainous stick figure across the nation. The lesson is obvious: The higher you

attempt to climb, the more your behind shows. ambition; human nature

hill see BLUE are the hills that are far away.

hindered see MEAT and mass never hindered man.

hindmost see DEVIL take the hindmost; EVERY man for himself, and devil take the
hindmost.

hire see the LABOURER is worthy of his hire.

historian see until the LIONS produce their own historian,...

HISTORY repeats itself

1858 G. ELIOT Janet’s Repentance in Scenes of Clerical Life II. x. History, we

know, is apt to repeat itself. 1865 H. SEDLEY Marian Rooke III. v. i. History, it is said,

repeats itself. .. Few but are reminded almost every day .. of something that has gone

before. 1957 V. BRITTAIN Testament of Experience 11 History tends to defy the familiar

aphorism; whether national or personal, it seldom repeats itself. 1971 A. PRICE Alamut

Ambush xiii. Maybe history repeats itself—but I have to have facts. history

history see also happy is the COUNTRY which has no history.

hog see the CAT, the rat, and Lovell the dog, rule all England under the hog.