No pot is so ugly as not to find a cover.-Italian. Nothing so bad as not to be good for something. No smoke without some fire. No condition so low, but may have hopes; none so high, but may have fears. None is a fool always,'every one sometimes. No shoemaker beyond his last. It is related of Apelles, that he exposed publicly to the Greeks one of his finest paintings, the 'Trojan Shepherd,' soliciting their opinion on its merits. A shoemaker found fault with the sandal, which the artist instantly corrected. The fool, puffed up with conceit, then attempted to make a ridiculous display of all he knew, and in a loud tone censured the finest part of the picture: but Apelles turning aside with contempt, said, Ne sutor ultra crepidam, the words of the proverb. It is applied to persons who presume to judge on subjects foreign to their profession or acquirements. No man crieth-stinking fish. None but great men can do great mischief. Nothing that is violent is permanent. Nothing is more playful than a young cat, nor more grave than an old one. Nobody so like an honest man as an arrant knave. French.-Rien ne ressemble mieux à un honnête homme, qu'un fripon. No joy without annoy. No fool like an old fool., No jesting with edge tools or with bell ropes. No man is wise at all times. French.-Les plus sages ne le sont pas toujours. No longer pipe, no longer dance. None of you know where the shoe pinches. The answer of Paulus Æmilius to the relations of his wife, when they remonstrated with him on his determination to separate himself from her, against whom no fault could be alleged. No receiver, no thief; no penny, no Pater-noster. No friend to a bosom friend, no enemy to a bosom enemy. -Scotch. No alchemy equal to saving. Nothing so bold as a blind man.-Scotch. No grass grows at the market place. A proverb applied to a certain description of females. No fault, but she sets a bonnet much too weel.-Scotch. That is the servant, which makes the wife a little jealous, lest her good man should be tempted astray. No smoke without some fire. Novelty always appears handsome. Lat. Nulla est sincera voluptas. None can feel the weight of another's burden. No man ever lost his credit but he who had it not. Now I have got a ewe and a lamb, every one cries-Welcome, Peter! 0. Of a little take a little.-Scotch. Of young men die many; of old men, escape not any. Of an ill pay-master get what you can, though it be but a straw. Oil and truth will get uppermost at last. Old age is not so fiery as youth; but when once provoked, cannot be appeased. Old men think themselves cunning. Old men and far travellers may lie by authority. Old young, old long. Which answers to that in Cicero, Maturè fias senex, si diu senex esse velis. To live long it is necessary to live slowly. Length of life ought not to be measured by length of days, but by the quantity of animal spirits consumed. Some run their course at the rate of a mile, others at the rate of ten miles an hour. One will exhaust his energies in pleasure, business, and living, in thirty'; while another, by a more economical consumption, will protract them to seventy years. Yet the quantity of life enjoyed by each is the same; the velocity of the machine has made all the difference. The most celebrated men have not been remarkable for length of days. Witness, Alexander the Great, Charles XII. of Sweden, Shakspeare, Buonaparte, and last, and not least, thee, O Byron! It is only such old chroniclers of the times as Fontenelle and St. Evremond, who live at a snail-pace, have "an egg and to bed," or a bit of dry biscuit, and one glass of wine-no more, that can spin out their web till one is apt to think them immortal, and their very beginning is lost in the remoteness of its origin. Old foxes want no tutors. One eye witness is better than ten hearsays.-French. Once an use and ever a custom.-Scotch. One dog is better by another dog being hanged.-Gaelic. One may live and learn. One might as well be out of the world, as be beloved by nobody in it. One man's meat is another man's poison. One may sooner fall than rise.-French. One fool in a house is enough in all conscience. One half the world kens not how the other half lives.Scotch. One beats the bush and another catcheth the bird. One doth the scath and another hath the scorn. One swallow makes not a spring, nor one woodcock a winter. One scabbed sheep infects the flock. One year a nurse and seven years the worse. One story is good till another is told. One fool makes many.-Scotch. By diverting them from their proper business, as is often observed, in the streets of the metropolis, where, if a person only holds up his finger, a thousand will be instantly withdrawn from their proper avocations to inquire into the cause of it. One foolish act may undo a man, and a timely one make his fortune.-Gaelic. One is not so soon healed as hurt. One cannot fly without wings.-French. One may support any thing better than too much ease and prosperity. Italian. There cannot be greater slavery than to have too little to do, or too much to spend. For one that dies of excessive exertion, perhaps a score die of mere ennui. It would, doubtless, be for the benefit of all classes, if the goods of the world were a little more equally divided, so as to avert the opposite evils of plethory and inanition. One man may better steal a horse than another look over the hedge. One thief makes a hundred suffer.-Spanish. That is, suspicion. Open confession is good for the soul.-Scotch. One mad action is not enough to prove a man mad. The Italians say, "Ad arca aperta il giusto pecca:" Where a chest lies open a righteous man may sin. The Spaniards say, "Puerta abierta, al santo tienta:" The open door tempts the saint. A good caution to husbands, masters, and housekeepers. Out of sight, out of mind.-Dutch. P. Patience is a plaister for all sores. Patch by patch is good husbandry, but patch upon patch is plain beggary. Pigs love that lie together. Plain dealing is dead, and died without issue. Pleasing ware is half sold. French.-Chose qui plait est à demi vendu. Pleasant company alone makes this life tolerable.-Spanish. Plenty makes dainty. Plough or not plough, you must pay your rent.-Spanish. Poor folk are fain of a little.-Scotch. Poor folks live as well as they can. French. Les pauvres gens vivent de ce qu'ils ont. Possibilities are infinite. Proffered service stinks. Practice makes perfect. Praise the sea, but keep on land. Praise without profit, puts little in the pocket. Gloria quanta libet quid erit, si sola gloria est? Prate is prate, but it is the duck that lays the egg. Policy goes beyond strength.-French. Pride goes before and shame follows after. Pride, perceiving humility honourable, often borrows her cloak. Pride will have a fall. Pour not water on a drowned mouse. Add not affliction to misery. Put not a naked sword in a madman's hand. "Ne puero gladium." For they will abuse it to their own and others' harm. Put your finger in the fire and say it was your fortune.Scotch. A bitter sarcasm on those who ascribe the want of success in life to fortune. Dame Fortune ought long since to have gone to oblivion, with the rest of the heathen mythology; her smiles and frowns ought never to be alluded to, except in verse-never in prose or conversation. What is frequently ascribed to ill-luck, is often nothing more than a want of foresight, prudence, industry, or perseverance :-these are the qualities that make men rich, prosperous, and happy. Put off your armour, and then show your courage. Quick at meat quick at work. ૨. R. Raise no more spirits than you can conjure down. Remove an old tree and it will wither to death. Remember the reckoning. A good motto to be inscribed on the mantle-piece of public-houses, |