“Who is worse shod than the shoemaker's wife?”
Part I, chapter 11.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Variant: Who is wurs shod, than the shoemakers wyfe,
With shops full of shoes all hir lyfe?
“Many handis make light warke.”
Many hands make light work.
Part II, chapter 5.
Proverbs (1546)
Variant: Many hands make light work.
“Thrée maie a kepe counsayle, if two be away.”
Three may keep counsel, if two be away.
Part II, chapter 5.
Proverbs (1546)
“Som thingis that prouoke young men to wed in haste,
Show after weddyng, that hast maketh waste.”
Some things that provoke young men to wed in haste,
Show after wedding, that haste makes waste.
Part I, chapter 2.
Proverbs (1546)
Proverbs (1546)
Variant: And ones their hastie heate a littell controlde,
Than perceiue they well, hotte love soone colde.
And whan hasty witlesse mirth is mated weele,
Good to be mery and wise, they thinke and feele.
“The moone is made of a greene cheese.”
Part II, chapter 7.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Time is fickle, and out of sight out of mind.
Than catch and hold while I may, fast bind fast find.
Part I, chapter 3.
Proverbs (1546)
“Set the cart before the horse.”
Part II, chapter 7.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Than farewell riches, the fat is in the fire,
And neuer shall I to like riches aspire.”
Then farewell riches, the fat is in the fire,
And never shall I to like riches aspire.
Part I, chapter 3.
Proverbs (1546)
“She looketh as butter would not melt in her mouth.”
Part I, chapter 10.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Who is so deafe or so blinde as is hee
That wilfully will neither heare nor see?”
Part II, chapter 9.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“The rolling stone never gathereth mosse.”
Part I, chapter 11.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Yes yes, said she, for all those wise words uttered,
I know on which side my bread is buttered.
But there will no butter cleave on my bread.
And on my bread any butter to be spread.
Every promise that you therein do utter,
Is as sure as it were sealed with butter.
Part II, chapter 7.
Proverbs (1546)
“The wise man sayth, store is no sore.”
Part I, chapter 5.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“It will not out of the flesh that is bred in the bone.”
Part II, chapter 8.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Be Merry Friends; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).