He that ill did, never good believed.

Lat.-Qui sibi male conscii, alios suspicantur.

He who thinks he knows the most knows the least.-Ital.

He who at twenty does not understand, at thirty does not know, and at forty is poor, will have a wretched old age.-Spanish.

He that is ill to himself will be good to nobody.-Scotch.

He that licks honey from thorns, pays too dear for it.-French. He who deals with a blockhead has need of much brains.Spanish.

He who desires to sleep soundly, let him buy the bed of a bankrupt.-Spanish.

Implying that that description of persons have generally soft and luxurious couches.

He who is well and seeks ill, if it comes God help him.Spanish.

Hide nothing from thy minister, physician, and lawyer.--Ital.

His brains want no barm to make them work.

Home is home though it be ever so homely.

Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.

Hopes delayed hang the heart upon tenter hooks.

Honour and ease are seldom bedfellows.

How can the cat help it if the maid be a fool.

Said when the maid does not set up things securely out of the cat's way.

Human blood is all of one colour.

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If the mountain will not go to Mahomet, let Mahomet go to the mountain.-Spanish.

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you

trust before you try, you may repent before you die. If the bed could speak many would blush.

If we have not the world's wealth, we have the world's ease.— Scotch.

Spoken of those who live happily in a mean condition.

If wishes would bide beggars would ride.

French. Si souhaits furent vrais pastoreaux seroient rois.

If things were to be done twice, all would be wise.

If all fools wore white caps, we should look like a flock of geese.

If wise men play the fool, they do it with a vengeance.

If you would have a good servant take neither a kinsman nor a friend.

If a fool have success it ruins him.

In sleep what difference is there between Solomon and a fool. If you want a pretence to whip a dog, it is enough to say he eat up the frying-pan.

If the child cries let the mother hush it, and if it will not be hushed she must let it cry.-Spanish.

Two students travelling to Salamanca stopped at an inn; where they were annoyed with the crying of a child, and the mother scolding and beating it. At their departure they wrote the words of the proverb and gave them to the mother, who was their hostess, as a valuable piece of advice.

If you say what you have seen you will tell what will shame you.-Gaelic.

If it can be nae better it is weel it is nae waur.-Scotch.

If it were not for hope the heart would break.

If one's name be up he may lie in bed.

If the sky falls we shall catch larks.-French.

In ridicule of those who talk of doing many things, if certain other things, not likely, were to happen.

If you cannot bite never shew your teeth.

Ill weeds grow apace.

Ill got, ill spent.

French-Acquerir mechamment, depenser sottement.

If you would wish the dog to follow you, feed him.

I'll not buy a pig in a poke.

The French say, Chat en poche.

If you lie upon roses when young, you'll lie upon thorns when

old.

If you had had fewer friends, and more enemies, you had been a better man.

Our friends are often too indulgent in concealing our failings, and
leave the valuable office of making us acquainted with ourselves,
to be performed by our enemies. "A true friend," as the proverb
says,
"should sometimes venture to be a little offensive."

If young men had wit, and old men strength enough, all might be well.

If you would have a thing kept secret, never tell it to any one; and if you would not have a thing known of you, never do it.

I wept when I was born, and every day shows why.

I like na to mak a toil o' a pleasure.-Scotch.

I love my friends well, but myself better.
French.-Plus pres est la chair que la chemise.
Ill-will never spoke well.-Scotch.

Ill doers, ill deemers.-Scotch.

Ill would the fat sow fare on the primroses of the wood.-
Gaelic.

I'm no every man's dog that whistles on me.-,
-Scotch.

In a calm sea every man is a pilot.

In a country of blind people, the one-eyed man is a king.— Spanish.

A little wit, among foolish people, will pass a man for a great genius. It is applied to those who are tickled with the admiration of weak and unworthy persons.

In the forehead and the eye, the lecture of the mind doth lie.
Lat.-Vultus index animi.

In a thousand pound of law there is not an ounce of love.
In giving and taking it is easy mistaking.-French.

It's a wise child that knows its own father.-Homer's Odyssey.
It is more easy to threaten than to kill.-Italian.

It is a miserable sight to see a poor man proud, and a rich man avaricious.-Ital.

It is too late to complain when the thing is done.-Ital.

It's time to set when the oven comes to the dough.
That is, it is time to marry when the maid woos the man.

It is better to do well than to say well.-Ital.

It is easy preaching to the fasting with a full belly.-Ital.

It is good to fear the worst, the best will save itself,

It's an ill horse that will not carry his own provender.

It is easy to take a man's part, but the matter is to maintain it.-Gaelic.

It is an ill cause the lawyer thinks shame o'.-Scotch.

It is not easy to straight in the oak the crook that grew in the sapling.-Gaelic.

It's a foolish sheep that makes the wolf his confessor.-Ital. It is a base thing to tear a dead lion's beard off.

A noble reproach of those who wish to rob the "illustrious dead" of their laurels.

If the parson be from home, be content with the curate.
It may be necessary sometimes to hold a candle to the devil.
It is very hard to share an egg.

It is good going on foot when a man has a horse in his hand.
It is not the cowl that makes the friar.Scotch.

Lat.-Cucullus non facit monachum.

It's better to be happy than wise.

It is not much to give a leg to him who gave you the fowl.—
Spanish.

It is dear bought that is bought with prayers.-Italian.
It is right to put every thing to its proper use.-Gaelic.
It's good to cry yule (Christmas) at other men's cost.
It is a long lane that has no turning.

It is good fishing in troubled waters.

It's too late to spare when the bottom is bare.
It is ill to take breeks off a bare a. Scotch.

It's not good to wake a sleeping lion.

It avails little to the unfortunate to be brave.-Spanish.

It is hard to live in Rome and strive against the Pope.Scotch.

It is ill angling after the net.

It is a bad action that success cannot justify.

I love to stand aloof from Jove and his thunderbolts.

I'll make a shift, as Macwhid did with the preaching.Scotch.

Macwhid was a knowing countryman, and a great stickler for the king and the church. At the Restoration, clergymen being

scarce, he was asked if he thought he could preach; he answered that he could make a shift; upon which he was ordained, and got a living.

I myself had been happy, if I had been unfortunate in time. It is an ill cause that noné dare speak in.-Scotch.

I cannot sell the cow and have the milk.-Scotch.

It is an ill battle where the devil carries the colours.

It is an ill wind that blows nobody good.

It is not the burthen, but the over burthen that kills the beast.-Spanish.

If pride were an art, there would be many teachers.Italian.

It is ill to bring out of the flesh what is bred in the bone.Scotch.

It is a good sport that fills the belly.-Scotch.

It is not an art to play, but it is a very good art to leave off play.-Italian.

It is too much for one good man to want.

Italy to be born in, France to live in, and Spain to die in. I am not sorry that my son loses, but that he will have his revenge.-Spanish.

It is the infatuation of gaming, that losers are always the most eager to play on. A wish to recover their lost money, or, as it is technically called, "have their revenge," tempts them to persevere, till they are involved in ruin and despair. Hence the proverb. I will give you a crown a piece for your lies, if you will let me have them all.

I was well, would be better, took physic, and here I am.

Written on a man's tomb-stone.

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