The dog wags his tail not for you, but for the bread.Spanish.

The lower mill-stone grinds as well as the upper.

The more worship, the more cost.

French.-Les honneurs coûtent.

The hog never looks up to him that threshes down the acorns.

The eyes, the ears, the tongue, the hands, the feet, all fast in their way.

The soldier is well paid for doing mischief.-Italian.

The reserve is engaged.

A proverbial expression of the Romans, for their last stake at play, and quoted by D'Israeli as characteristic of the military habits of that people.

The absent party is always faulty.

The highway is never about.

The Italian is wise before he undertakes a thing, the German while he is doing it, and the Frenchman when it is over.

The worst pig often gets the best pear.

The first men in the world were a gardener, a grazier, and a ploughman.

The devil rebukes sin.

French. Le renard prêche aux poules.

The Englishman weeps, the Irishman sleeps, but the Scotchman goes while he gets it.

The submitting to one wrong brings on another.-Spanish.
The singing-man keeps a shop in his throat.-Spanish.
The more the merrier, the fewer the better cheer.

The devil wipes his tail with the poor man's pride.

The remedy of to-morrow is too late for the evil of to-day.— Spanish.

The ox when weariest treads surest.

Those that are slow are sure.

The mouse that has but one hole is easily taken.

"The pitcher does not go so often to the water but it comes home broken at last.

The devil is good when he is pleased.

The still sow drinks all the draff.-Dutch.

The barber learns to shave on the orphan's face.-Arabic. '

In capite orphani discit chirurgus.

The fairest rose at last is withered.

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
The weakest must go to the wall.

The better workman, the worse husband.

There are as many exceptions to this proverb, as to the French saying," Bon poete, mauvais homme." A good poet, a bad man.

The whole ocean is made up of single drops.

The usurer and spendthrift are cat and mouse.

The way to Babylon will never bring you to Jerusalem.

The butcher looked for his knife when he had it in his mouth.

The disease a man dreads, that he dies of.-Spanish.

The dearest child of all is that which is dead..

The master's eye makes the horse fat.

A fat man riding upon a lean horse, was asked how it came to pass that he was so fat and his horse so lean?" Because," says he, "I feed myself, but my servant feeds my horse."

The last drop makes the cup run over.

The sweetest wine makes the sharpest vinegar.
Lat.-Corruptio optimi est pessima.

The friar preached against stealing when he had a pudding in his sleeve.

The request of a lord is a kind of force upon a man.

The great thieves punish the little ones.

The informer is the worst rogue of the two.

The least boy always carries the great fiddle.

All lay the load upon those that are least able to bear it, or have the least means of defending themselves.

The devil laughs when the hungry man gives to him with a belly full.-Spanish.

The better day, the better deed.

The Jews spend at Easter, the Moors at marriages, and the Christians in suits of law.-Italian.

The highest standing the lowest fall.

The tongue breaketh bone, though itself hath none.

The worth of a thing is best known by the want of it.-Scotch. The longest day must have an end.

French.-Il n'est si grand jour qui ne vienne à vespre.

The crow thinks her own bird the fairest.

The Ethiopians are said to paint the devil white, and of course, angels black. Every one is partial to his own; his own art, his own compositions, his children, and country. Self-love is a mote in every one's eye; and hence we not unfrequently observe, even the modest and perspicacious devour, without suspicion, the most fulsome flattery, when lavished on their own imaginary virtues and perfections.

The burnt child dreads the fire.

The higher the ape goes the more he shows his tail.

Honour is unseemly for a fool.

Prov. xxvi. 1.

The best payment is the peck bottom.-Scotch.

That is, when you have measured out your grain, to receive your payment on the peck that measured it.

The usual forms of civility oblige no man.

The death of youth is a shipwreck.

The greatest king must at last go to bed with a shovel.

The best thing in the world is to live above it.

The shortest answer is doing the thing.

The clerk wishes the priest to have a fat dish.-Gaelic.

The mouse is mistress of her own mansion.-Gaelic.

The first thing a poor gentleman calls for in the morning, is a needle and thread.-Scotch.

The greatest clerks are not always the wisest men.

There is no deceit in a brimmer.

The Devil's upon a great heap.

The man that is happy in all things, is more rare than the Phoenix.-Italian.

The remedy is worse than the disease.—Scotch.

The wise man knows he knows nothing, the fool thinks he knows all.-Italian.

The tears of the congregation are the praises of the minister.-Italian.

The eyes serve for ears to the deaf.-Italian.

The more you stroke pussy's back, the higher she raises her tail.-Gaelic.

The wolf is always said to be more terrible than he is.Italian.

The potter is hostile to the potter.

A proverbial verse of great antiquity; it is in Hesiod's "Works and Days," intimating the envy and jealousy of rival workmen and manufacturers. It answers to the Gaelic proverb, "One dog is better by another dog being hanged."

The burden which was thoughtlessly got must be patiently borne.-Gaelic.

The habit does not make the priest.—Italian.

The second blow makes the fray.

The oldest man that ever lived died at last.-Gaelic.

The mother reckons well, but the infant reckons better.Spanish.

Applied to pregnant ladies, who are often in error in their reckoning, when the appearance of the child settles the account.

The book of May-bees is very broad.--Scotch.

Three removes are as bad as a fire.

There is more hope in a fool than a man wise in his own conceit.

There is no disputing of tastes, appetites, and fancies.

There is no banquet but some dislike something in it.

There is something in it, quoth the fellow, when he drank dish-clout and all.

There is none so deaf as those that will not hear.-Italian.

There is scarcely any inconvenience without some compensating advantage, and we dare say, there are those who have found an occasional advantage in being a little hard of hearing. Sir Joshua Reynolds did :

"To coxcombs averse, yet most civilly steering,

When they judg'd without skill, he was still hard of hearing;
When they talk'd of their Raphaels, Corregios, and stuff,
He shifted his trumpet, and only took snuff."-GOLDSMITH.

There would be no ill language, if it were not ill taken.
They that hide can find.

They whip the cat if the mistress does not spin.-Spanish.

The innocent often suffer for the negligence and indolence of others.

They are scarce of horse-flesh where two and two ride on a dog.

They need much whom nothing will content.

They shall have no more of our prayers than we of their pies, quoth the vicar of Layton.

They love me for little that hate me for naught.-Scotch. There's nothing agrees worse than a proud mind and a beggar's purse.

There is no quenching of fire with tow.

There is no great banquet but some fare ill.

There could be no great ones, if there were no little ones.
There is never enough where nought leaves.-Italian.

There is no general rule without exceptions.

There's reason in roasting of eggs.

They that sell kids and have no goats, how came they by them?

A delicate allusion to those who live high, without any visible means of subsistence.

Things unreasonable are never durable,-Italian.

Though the sun shines, leave not your cloak at home.

Three may keep counsel if two be away.-Scotch.

Thistles are a salad for asses.-Scotch.

Think much, speak little, and write less.

Though old and wise, yet still advise.

Thinking is very far from knowing.

Though all men were made of one metal, yet were they not

all cast in the same mould?

Though the cat winks she is not blind.

Threatened folks live long.