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"The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, As sages in all times assert; The happy man 's without a shirt."
Be Merry Friends.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Let the world slide, let the world go; A fig for care, and a fig for woe! If I can't pay, why I can owe, And death makes equal the high and low."
Be Merry Friends.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"All a green willow, willow, All a green willow is my garland."
The Green Willow.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Haste maketh waste."
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. ii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Beware of, Had I wist."
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. ii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Good to be merie and wise."
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. ii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Beaten with his owne rod."
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. ii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Look ere ye leape."
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. ii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"He that will not when he may, When he would he shall have nay."
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"The fat is in the fire."
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"When the sunne shineth, make hay."
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"When the iron is hot, strike."
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"The tide tarrieth no man."
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Than catch and hold while I may, fast binde, fast finde."
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iii.
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"And while I at length debate and beate the bush, There shall steppe in other men and catch the burdes."
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"While betweene two stooles my taile goe to the ground."
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"So many heads so many wits."
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Wedding is destiny, And hanging likewise."
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Happy man, happy dole."
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"God never sends th' mouth but he sendeth meat."
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iv.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Like will to like."
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iv.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"A hard beginning maketh a good ending."
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iv.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"When the skie falth we shall have Larkes."
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iv.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"More frayd then hurt."
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iv.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Feare may force a man to cast beyond the moone."
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iv.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Nothing is impossible to a willing hart."
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iv.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"The wise man sayth, store is no sore."
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. v.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Let the world wagge, and take mine ease in myne Inne."
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. v.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Rule the rost."
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. v.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Hold their noses to grinstone."
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. v.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Better to give then to take."
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. v.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"When all candles bee out, all cats be gray."
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. v.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"No man ought to looke a given horse in the mouth."
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. v.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"I perfectly feele even at my fingers end."
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. vi.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"A sleveless errand."
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. vii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"We both be at our wittes end."
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. viii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Reckeners without their host must recken twice."
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. viii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"A day after the faire."
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. viii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Cut my cote after my cloth."
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. viii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"The neer to the church, the further from God."
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. ix.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Now for good lucke, cast an old shooe after me."
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. ix.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Better is to bow then breake."
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. ix.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"It hurteth not the toung to give faire words."
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. ix.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Two heads are better then one."
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. ix.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"A short horse is soone currid."
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. x.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"To tell tales out of schoole."
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. x.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"To hold with the hare and run with the hound."
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. x.
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"She is nether fish nor flesh, nor good red herring."
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. x.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"All is well that endes well."
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. x.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Of a good beginning cometh a good end."
Proverbes. Part i. Chap. x.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain