Counsels in wine seldom prosper. He that will not be counselled cannot be helped. Courts have no almanacks. A friend at court is better than a penny in the purse. To a crazy ship all winds are contrary. Credit lost is like a Venice glass broken. He that has lost his credit is dead to the world. No man ever lost his credit, but he who had it not. He getteth a great deal of credit who payeth but a small debt. Crooked logs make straight fires. Crosses are ladders that lead to heaven. [Ital. Carrion crows bewail the dead sheep, and then eat them. Ital. Cruelty is a tyrant always attended with fear. Who is a cuckold, and conceals it, carries coals in his bosom.Span. Quien es cornudo, y calla, en el corazon trae un ascua. Let every cuckold wear his own horns. In rain and sunshine cuckolds go to heaven. A cut-purse is a sure trade, for he hath ready money when his work is done. D. You dance in a net, and think nobody sees you. When all is gone and nothing left, What avails the dagger with dudgeon-heft? The danger past, and God forgotten. No day passeth without some grief. A bad day never hath a good night. Every day has its night, every weal its woe. Danish. It's a wicked thing to make a dearth one's garner. Death keeps no calendar. Men fear death as children to go in the dark. Better to go to bed supperless than to get up in debt. Span. He that gets out of debt, grows rich. Deeds are fruits, words are but leaves. Deeds are males, and words are females.-Ital. I fatti sons maschi, le parole femine. Desires are nourished by delays. He loseth his thanks who promiseth and delayeth. Gratia ah officio, quod mora tardat, abest, A man may lose his goods for want of demanding them. Optima nomina non appellando fiunt mala. First deserve, and then desire. Desert and reward seldom keep company. All her dishes are chafing-dishes. The devil is not always at one door. Fr. It's an ill battle where the devil carries the colours. A man may cause his own dog to bite him. The dog who hunts foulest, hits at most faults. When a dog is drowning, every one offers him water.-Fr. Dogs wag their tails not so much in love to you as to your bread. Span. Dogs gnaw bones because they cannot swallow them. Ital. Do what thou ought, let come what may. A noble house-keeper needs no doors. Do as the friar saith, not as he doth. Span. A great dowry is a bed full of brambles. Span. Fine dressing is a foul house swept before the windows. He was hang'd that left his drink behind. Who loseth his due getteth no thanks. E. Go early to the fish-market, and late to the shambles. Span. Wider ears and a short tongue. Think of ease, but work on. That which is easily done is soon believed. Who eats his dinner alone, must saddle his horse alone. Span. Quien solo còme su gallo, solo ensille su cavallo. Eat to live, but do not live to eat. You cannot hide an eel in a sack. Good to begin well, better to end well. In the end things will mend. He that endureth, is not overcome. No man knows better what good is, than he that has endured evil. If you would make an enemy, lend a man money, and ask it of him again. Port. For a flying enemy make a silver bridge. Of evil grain no good seed can come. Span. Evil gotten, evil spent. Malè parta malè dilabuntur. That which is evil is soon learnt. Evil that cometh out of thy mouth flieth into thy bosom. F. WHO hath a fair wife, needs more than two eyes. Fair is not fair, but that which pleaseth.-Ital. Non è bello quel' ch'è bello ma è bello quel' che piace. A fair woman, and a slash'd gown, find always some nail in the way. Ital. One may sooner fall than rise. Fall not out with a friend for a trifle. If I were to fall backwards, I should break my nose.-Ital. i. e. I am so foiled in every thing I undertake. It is a poor family that hath neither a whore nor a thief in it. A fat house-keeper makes lean executors, A fat kitchen, a lean will.-Ital. tamento. Grassa cucina magro tes Every one basteth the fat hog, while the lean one burneth. Teach your father to get children. Such a father such a son. Span. The faulty stands on his guard. Every one's faults are not written on their foreheads. Better pass a danger once than be always in fear. Ital. Fear not the loss of the bell more than the loss of the steeplc. Reckon right, and February hath thirty-one days. He that hath a fellow-ruler hath an over-ruler. Take heed you find not that you do not seek. Ital. Take your wife's first advice, not her second. Span. Make not fish of one and flesh of another. Fish follow the bait. Fish make no broth. In the deepest water is the best fishing. He that is suffered to do more than is fitting, will do more than is lawful. No man can flay a stone. One flower makes no garland. No one is a fool always; every one sometimes. A fool is fulsome. A fool demands much; but he's a greater that gives it. Fools tie knots, and wise men loose them. If fools went not to market, bad ware would not be sold. Span. One fool makes an hundred. Span. If you play with a fool at home, he'll play with you in the market. None but fools and fiddlers sing at their meat. Better a bare foot than no foot at all. The foremost dog catcheth the hare. Fr. Ital. The persuasion of the fortunate sways the doubtful. He who hath no ill fortune, is cloyed with good. He that will deceive the fox, must rise betimes.-Span. el diablo hà de enganar, de mañana se ha de levantar. Quien When the fox is asleep, nothing falls into his mouth. Fr. Au regnard endormi rien ne cheut en la gueule. Foxes, when they cannot reach the grapes, say they are not ripe. The best mirror is an old friend.-Span. No ay mejor espejo que el amigo viejo. Life without a friend is death without a witness. Span. Fida sin amigo, muerte sin testigo. Make not thy friend too cheap to thee, nor thyself to thy friend. When a friend asketh, there is no to-morrow.-Span. Quando amigo pide no ay mañana. A friend is not so soon gotten as lost. Have but few friends, though many acquaintances. Span. In time of prosperity, friends will be plenty; G. WHO would be a gentleman, let him storm a town. It's not the gay coat makes the gentleman. He giveth twice that gives in a trice. Bis dat qui cito dat. A gift long waited for is sold, and not given. Dono molto aspetatto, è venduto, non donato. Ital. Giving is dead now-a-days, and restoring very sick. Who gives thee a capon, give him the leg and the wing. Span. To give and keep there is need of wit. A man of gladness seldom falls into madness. What your glass tells you will not be told by counsel. He that hath a head made of glass must not throw stones at another. Span. Si teneys la cabeça de vidro, no os tomeys à pedradas co-migo. Who hath glass-windows must take heed how he throws stones -Span. To understand this proverb, it is necessary to remark, that, owing to the heat of the climate, the windows in Spain are seldom glazed. Do not say go, but gae; i. e. go thyself. God deprives him of bread who likes not his drink. Get thy spindle and thy distaff ready, and God will send thee flax: i. e. Let us do our duty, and refer the rest to God's providence. God cometh with leaden feet, but striketh with iron hands. When God pleases it rains with every wind. Port. God comes at last when we think he is farthest off. Ital. God hath often a great share in a little house. Fr. God, our parents, and our master, can never be requited. Fr. No lock will hold against the power of gold. Span. You may speak with your gold, and make other tongues dumb. Where gold speaks every tongue is silenced.-Itul. Dove l'oro parla, ogni lingua tace. |