„Pryde will have a fall;
For pryde goeth before and shame commeth after.“
Part I, chapter 10.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
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Todesdatum: 1580
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„Pryde will have a fall;
For pryde goeth before and shame commeth after.“
Part I, chapter 10.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
„Prove your friend ere you have need, but in deed
A friend is never known till a man have need.“
Part I, chapter 11.
Proverbs (1546)
Original: (lb) Proue thy fréende er thou haue néede, but in déede
A fréende is neuer knoen tyll a man haue néede.
„I perfectly feele even at my fingers end.“
Part I, chapter 6.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
„Leape out of the frying pan into the fyre.“
Part II, chapter 5.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
„Better is halfe a lofe than no bread.“
Part I, chapter 11.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Variante: Throw no gyft agayne at the geuers head,
For better is halfe a lofe than no bread.
„A short horse is soone currid.“
Part I, chapter 10.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Who hopes in God's help, his help can not start:
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart,
And will may win my heart, herein to consent,
To take all things as it comes, and be content.
Part I, chapter 4.
Proverbs (1546)
„Fieldes have eies and woods have eares.“
Part II, chapter 5.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
„The greatest Clerkes be not the wisest men.“
Part II, chapter 5.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
„I pray thee let me and my fellow have
A haire of the dog that bit us last night.“
Part I, chapter 11.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Variante: A heare of the dog that bote vs last night.
„The still sowe eats up all the draffe.“
Part I, chapter 10.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
„It is a foule byrd that fyleth his owne nest.“
Part II, chapter 5.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
„He must needes goe whom the devill doth drive.“
Part II, chapter 7.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
„God never sends th' mouth but he sendeth meat.“
Part I, chapter 4.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Rome was not built in one day, said he, and yet stood
Till it was finished, as some say, full fair.
Part I, chapter 11.
Proverbs (1546)
„To th' end of a shot and beginning of a fray.“
Part II, chapter 7.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
„All is fish that comth to net.“
Part I, chapter 11.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
„Ka me, ka the, one good tourne askth an other.“
Serve me, serve thee, one good turn asks another.
Part I, chapter 11.
Proverbs (1546)
Variante: One good turne asketh another.
„The nere to the churche, the ferther from God.“
The nearer to the church, the farther from God.
Part I, chapter 9.
Proverbs (1546)
„A fooles bolt is soone shot.“
Part II, chapter 3.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)