The Oxford Dictionary of English ProverbsFrank Percy Wilson Clarendon Press, 1970 - 930 pages A collection of proverbs followed by quotations illustrating the various forms the proverb has taken from its first recorded use until the present. |
Contents
All sorts to make a world It takes | 13 |
All that shakes falls | 37 |
HEYWOOD II ii F4 1616 DRAXE no 1390 | 64 |
All men say you are an ass When | 81 |
All things are good unseyit | 162 |
All things in their being are good | 170 |
All men will please He that shall never | 212 |
Alls out is good for prisoners | 219 |
Percy Soc 77 Bothe highe and loughe shal | 331 |
What man is he that liveth and shall | 367 |
HERBERT no | 378 |
All things thrive at thrice Cf Third | 414 |
All things to all men To | 422 |
Alton see Pass of A poverty might pass | 434 |
Death is but death and all in fyne shall | 454 |
All one the same a hundred thou | 461 |
Alone see Better be a than Eats his cock | 230 |
find ease | 257 |
BARCLAY Ship of Fools i 208 a 1581 | 282 |
Suppl Commons in FISH Suppl for Beggars | 288 |
ende of every man as in this present lyf Id | 299 |
HERBERT no | 325 |
All truths are not to be told | 594 |
T 164 | 616 |
HOWELL Span Prov 10 Where they take | 656 |
LATIMER 5th Serm bef Edw VI P S 185 | 737 |
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