And while I at length debate and beat the bush,
There shall step in other men, and catch the birds,
And by long time lost in many vain words.
Part I, chapter 3.
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Mark you, how she hits me on the thumbs, said he.
And you taunt me tit over thumb, said she.
Since tit for tat, said I, on even hand is set.
Part II, chapter 4.
Proverbs (1546)
Part I, chapter 11.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Reckeners without their host must recken twice.”
Part I, chapter 8.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“To robbe Peter and pay Poule.”
Part I, chapter 11.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“… Be they wynners or loosers,
… beggers should be no choosers.”
… Be they winners or loosers,
… beggars should be not choosers.
Part I, chapter 10.
Proverbs (1546)
“The more hast the lesse speede.”
The more haste the less speed.
Part I, chapter 2.
Proverbs (1546)
Part II, chapter 9.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Children and fooles cannot lye.”
Part I, chapter 11.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Variant: Children and fooles cannot lye.
“Rome was not built in one day.”
Part I, chapter 11.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“The loss of wealth is loss of dirt,
As sages in all times assert;
The happy man's without a shirt.”
Be Merry Friends; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“And also I shall to reueng former hurtis,
Hold their noses to grinstone, and syt on theyr skurtis.”
And also I shall to revenge former hurts,
Hold their noses to grindstone, and sit on their skirts.
Part I, chapter 5.
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“While betweene two stooles my taile goe to the ground.”
Part I, chapter 3.
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“Went in at the tone eare and out at the tother.”
Part II, chapter 9.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“One swallow maketh not summer.”
Part II, chapter 5.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Beggars should be no choosers.”
Part I, chapter 10.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Better one byrde in hand than ten in the wood.”
Part I, chapter 11.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Weddyng is desteny,
And hangyng likewise.”
Wedding is destiny,
And hanging likewise.
Part I, chapter 3.
Proverbs (1546)