Great Throughts Treasury

"Where all adulterers to wear grey coats, the cloth would be dear."

"When you sweep stairs, start at the top."

"When you sweep the stairs, you start at the top."

"Where everyone goes, the grass never grows."

"When the wine runs to waste in the cellar, he mends the cask."

"When two dogs fight for a bone, and the third runs off with it, there's a lawyer among the dogs."

"When the word is out, it belongs to another."

"Where ghosts walk, there is loving or thieving."

"Where God bestows an office, he provides brains to fill it."

"Where gold chinks, arguments are of no avail."

"Where gold avails, argument fails."

"Where honor ceaseth there knowledge decreaseth."

"Where God has a temple, the devil has a chapel. Where the devil cannot come, he will send."

"Where money, there friends."

"Where might is right, right is not might."

"Where money talks, arguments are of no avail."

"Where might is master, justice is servant."

"Where the best wine grows, the worst is drunk."

"Where the devil can't go himself, he sends an old woman."

"Where the hedge is lowest, the devil leaps over."

"Where the lion's skin falls short, borrow of the fox."

"Where there is smoke there is fire."

"Where there is shame, there is virtue."

"Where there no fools, there would be no wise men."

"Where there's money, there is the devil; but where there's none, a greater evil."

"Where there's no love, all faults are seen."

"Where there are no swamps there are no frogs."

"Where there's no jealousy, there's no love."

"Where water has been, water will come again."

"Where there's no love, there's no honor."

"Where two fall out, the third wins."

"Wherever there is a pretty spot, the devil plants a monastery or a lord."

"Where there's muck there's brass."

"Where wine goes in, modesty goes out."

"Where honor grows a span, folly grows an ell."

"While the pot boils, friendship blooms."

"Who accepts nothing has nothing to return."

"Who accepts from another sells his freedom."

"Who avoids small sins, does not fall into great ones."

"Who are ready to believe, are easy to deceive."

"Where'er an ass is crown'd to fame, both town and country bear the shame."

"Wherever there is mischief, there is sure to be a priest and a woman in it."

"Where there are too many workmen, there is little work."

"Who bows to might loses his right."

"Who blackens others, does not whiten himself."

"Who begins amiss ends amiss."

"Who cannot sing, may whistle."

"Who cannot fight, wins nought by right."

"Who carries doubtful people to his house, will doubtless from his carriage something lose."

"Who can't doubt, is stupid."