Bacon says, "Cookery spoils wholesome meats, and renders unwholesome pleasant." I wonder what that renowned knight of the spit and dripping pan, Dr. Kitchener, thinks of this. Go into the country to hear what news in town. God grant that disputes may arise, that I may live.-Spanish. A lawyer's prayer for discord amongst his neighbours. God send us of our own, when rich men go to dinner. God defend you from the devil, the eye of a harlot, and the turn of a die.-Spanish. God makes, and apparel shapes. God help the poor, for the rich can help themselves.-Scotch. God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.-French. Good enough is never aught. God never sends mouths but he sends meat. An idle proverb, much in use among poor people, who get children, but take no pains to maintain them. Gold goes in at any gate except Heaven's. French.-La clef d'or ouvre toutes sortes de serrures. Great barkers are nae biters.-Scotch. Great pain and little gain makes a man soon weary. Gude watch prevents harm.-Scotch. H. Happy is he whose friends were born before him. Haste makes waste, and waste makes want, and want makes strife between the good man and his wife. Here's talk of the Turk and of the Pope, but it's my next neighbour does me harm. He that will not be counselled cannot be helped. He that hath no money needeth no purse. He gets a great deal of credit who pays but a small debt.— Ital. He that leaves certainty and sticks to chance, when fools pipe he may dance. He that chastiseth one, amendeth many. He that hath an ill name is half hanged. He is poor indeed, that can promise nothing. He that plants trees, loves others besides himself. He that would know what shall be, must consider what hath been. He who gives blows is a master, he who gives none is a dog. A Bengalese proverb, strikingly expressive of the mean and degraded state of the people who could use it. It is derived from the treatment they used to receive from their Mogul rulers, who answered the claims of their creditors by a vigorous application of the whip. He that is warm, thinks all are so. He's dwindled down from a pot to a pipkin. He who wants content can't find an easy chair. He is a good orator who convinces himself. He who loses money, loses much; he who loses a friend, loses more; but he who loses his spirits, loses all.-Spanish. He that has no fools, knaves, nor beggars in his family, was got by a flash of lightning. He who has not bread to spare should not keep a dog.— He hath feathered his nest, he may flee when he likes.-Scotch. Those who are guilty themselves are often a little shy in exposing the guilt of others. It took its rise from the Earl of Angus, who being in an engagement, and wounded, staid till all his men were drest, and then told them he was wounded himself, by repeating the proverb. He knows little of a palace.-Spanish. That is, he is soon put out of countenance. He who rides behind another does not travel when he pleases. -Spanish. He who peeps through a hole may see what will vex him. He that licks honey from thorns pays too dear for it. Hand over head, as men took the covenant.-Scotch. Alluding to the manner in which the covenant, so famous in Scottish history, was violently taken by above sixty thousand persons about Edinburgh, in 1638; a novel circumstance at that time, though afterwards paralleled by the French in voting by accla mation. He who laughs too much has the nature of a fool; he who laughs not at all has the nature of an old cat. He came safe from the East Indies, and was drowned in the Thames. He that cheats me anes shame fa' him; if he cheats me twice shame fa' me.-Scotch. He who doth his own business, defileth not his fingers. He that will steal a pin will steal a better thing. He who has but one coat cannot lend it.-Spanish. He who commences many things, finishes only a few.-Ital. He who despises his own life is master of that of others. "What shall he fear, who doth not fear death!"-SCHILLER. He that has one sheep in the flock will like all the rest the better for it.-Scotch. Spoken when we have a son at a particular school, university, or society, and we wish the prosperity of these respective bodies on his account. He must needs run whom the devil drives. He had need rise betimes, that would please every body. He had need have a long spoon that sups kail with the de'el. -Scotch. He loses his thanks who promises and delays. He that would hang his dog, first gives out that he is mad. He was scant o' news that tauld his father was hang'd.--Scotch. He who would have pleasure and pain must begin to scratch himself.-Spanish. He that stays in the valley shall never get over the hill. He goes not out of his way who goes to a good inn. Hell and chancery are always open. He who does not kill hogs will not get black puddings.Spanish. It is usual in Spain, when they kill a hog to make black puddings, to present their neighbours with some. The poor man without a hog receives few of these presents. He who follows his own advice must take the consequences.Spanish. He who serves is not free. Span.-Quien sirve no es libre. He commands enough that obeys a wise man. He who sows brambles must not go barefoot.—Spanish. He that will not look before him must look behind him.Gaelic. He who serves a bad man sows in the market.-Spanish. He that seeks trouble it were a pity he should miss it.Scotch. He has more business than English ovens at Christmas.Italian. A closer intercourse formerly existed between our country and Italy than France. In the reign of Elizabeth and James the First, great numbers of Italians travelled here, and were resident on commercial concerns; which accounts for the number of Italian proverbs relating to this country. The foregoing could only have arisen from the observation of our domestic habits: "Our pie-loving gentry," says D'Israeli, "were notorious; and Shakspeare's folio was usually laid open in the great halls of our nobility to enter tain their attendants, who devoured at once Shakspeare and their pastry. Some of these volumes have come down to us, not only with the stains, but enclosing even the identical PIE CRUSTS of the Elizabethan age!" He gives one knock on the hoop, another on the barrel.—Ital. That is, he speaks now to the purpose, now on matters extraneous. He that reckons without his host must reckon again. He that cannot pay let him pray. He that would live in peace and rest, must hear and see and say the best. He gives twice that gives in a trice. Lat. Qui cito dat bis dat. He knows best what good is that has endured evil. He that lies down with dogs must rise up with fleas.—Ital. He that waits for dead men's shoes may go long enough barefoot. He that makes himself a sheep shall be eaten by the wolves. He that will have no trouble in this world must not be born in it. He is an ill guest that never drinks to his host. He that knows himself best, esteems himself least. He that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing. He that hath many irons in the fire, some of them will burn. He that speaks me fair and loves me not, I'll speak him fair and trust him not. He that does you an ill turn will never forgive you.-Scotch. He that fears leaves must not come into a wood. He who eats the meat, let him pick the bone.-Spanish. He has found a last to his shoe.-Spanish. That is, he has met with his match. He that wad eat the kernel maun crack the nut.-Scotch. He that cannot find wherewith to employ himself, let him buy a ship or marry a wife.—Spanish. He is worth nae weel that can bide nae wae.-Scotch. |