Select Search World Factbook Roget's Int'l Thesaurus Bartlett's Quotations Respectfully Quoted Fowler's King's English Strunk's Style Mencken's Language Cambridge History The King James Bible Oxford Shakespeare Gray's Anatomy Farmer's Cookbook Post's Etiquette Brewer's Phrase & Fable Bulfinch's Mythology Frazer's Golden Bough All Verse Anthologies Dickinson, E. Eliot, T.S. Frost, R. Hopkins, G.M. Keats, J. Lawrence, D.H. Masters, E.L. Sandburg, C. Sassoon, S. Whitman, W. Wordsworth, W. Yeats, W.B. All Nonfiction Harvard Classics American Essays Einstein's Relativity Grant, U.S. Roosevelt, T. Wells's History Presidential Inaugurals All Fiction Shelf of Fiction Ghost Stories Short Stories Shaw, G.B. Stein, G. Stevenson, R.L. Wells, H.G. Reference > Quotations > W.C. Hazlitt, comp. > English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases Tailors and writers must mind the fashion. —Proverb 7718 English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases Collected from the Most Authentic Sources Alphabetically Arranged and Annotated with Much Matter Not Previously Published   Compiled by William Carew Hazlitt   These 10,764 entries feature explanation of the sometimes hidden meanings of folk wisdom—from the ancient to the baudy—repeated unwittingly in contemporary speech.     CONTENTS Bibliographic Record    Preface    Introduction    Abbreviations LONDON: REEVES AND TURNER, 1907 NEW YORK: BARTLEBY.COM, 2012   A bad bush to A dull ass A dumb man to A guilty conscience A hair of the dog to A man, like A man may be to A small spark A smiling boy to After this leaf Against God’s wrath to An atheist An early winter to As cold as As comely as to As nimble as As old as to At length At marriages to Better lost Better master to Call not Cambridgeshire to Creditors have Credulity thinks to Drumming is not Drunk as to Everything new Evil comes to Follow truth Folly and learning to Goats God bless to Happy men Hard fare to He has most He has none to He loathes He looks as to He that drinks He that eats to He that loseth He that loves to He wants He warms to Help yourself Hen pen to I love you I may see to If the wise If there be to In hugger-mugger In little to It is evil It is for to Justices Ka me to Lightly come Like a barber’s to Lost with Love and a cough to Memory Men apt to Necessity is Neck and crop to No wonder Noble housekeepers to Once warned One and none to Pigeons’ milk Pigs fly to Reason teaches Rebuke with to She will stay Shear sheep to Spin not Spit in his mouth to That grief That horse to The deeper The devil to The greatest wealth The green new broom to The nurse’s tongue The offspring to The wise men The wit of you to They keep They love to ’Tis fortune ’Tis God to To gain To get a cup to To miss To-morrow-come-never to To think To throw pearls to Usurers Vain-glory to What the heart What tutor to When you ride Where a man to Wild and stout Wilful waste to You cast your net You catch birds to You would spy       Click here to shop the Bartleby Bookstore. Shakespeare · Bible · Saints · Anatomy · Harvard Classics · Lit. History · Quotations · Poetry © 1993–2020 Bartleby.com TM · [Top 150] · Free Essays · Cookie Settings