The Oxford Dictionary of English Proverbs

Frank Percy Wilson

Clarendon P., 1970 - Reference - 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.

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Nov in Boswell 1848 xx 188 Some lady	17

surely might be found in whose fidelity	28

KELLY 14 Spoken when People boast	38

All that is sharp is short Cf Nothing	50

All All are not All is not All the All this wateringpot	133

148 All our fortunes lie a bleeding	148

that is violent is permanent	168

see also under significant words following 1640 HERBERT no 325	169

Alms see also Good memory gives few a never putting in soon comes to	411

maids bee married and all meats eaten 1678	475

All that you get you may put in your	506

see never a whit the worse 1629 T ADAMS Serm cant condemn	594

mortall men 1616 DRAXE no 435	633

HOWELL Span Prov 10 Where they take	656

All things are to be bought at Rome	683

All women are good	737

All that shakes falls not A 169	175

Almond for a parrot An A 220	220

HERBERT no 189 1659 HOWELL It Prov	236

Used when many speak at once in	343

A 226	764

live by the altar	792

What man is he that liveth and shall	848

Copyright

Title	The Oxford Dictionary of English Proverbs
Editor	Frank Percy Wilson
Compiled by	Frank Percy Wilson, William George Smith
Contributors	Frank Percy Wilson, Joanna Wilson, James Wilson
Edition	3, reprint
Publisher	Clarendon P., 1970
Original from	the University of Michigan
Digitized	21 Dec 2006
ISBN	0198691181, 9780198691181
Length	930 pages
Subjects	Reference › Quotations Reference / Quotations

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