“Many handis make light warke.”
Many hands make light work.
Part II, chapter 5.
Proverbs (1546)
Variant: Many hands make light work.
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Be Merry Friends; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“A man may well bring a horse to the water,
But he cannot make him drinke without he will.”
Part I, chapter 11.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Variant: A man may well bring a horse to the water,
But he cannot make him drinke without he will.
“Whan the sunne shinth make hay, whiche is to say,
Take time whan time comth, lest time steale away.”
When the sun shines make hay, which is to say,
Take time when time comes, lest time steal away.
Part I, chapter 3.
Proverbs (1546)
“Ye set circumquaques to make me beleue
Or thinke, that the moone is made of gréene chéese.”
You set circumstances to make me believe
Or think, that the moon is made of green cheese.
Part II, chapter 7.
Proverbs (1546)
Part I, chapter 11.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)