The Oxford Dictionary of English Proverbs

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Frank 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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