Robert Christy, comp. Proverbs, Maxims and Phrases of All Ages. 1887.

Like-to-like

Daws love one another’s prattle.

Every sheep with its like.Don Quixote.

Jack-daw always perches by jack-daw.Latin.

Let beggars match with beggar.Ben Jonson.

Like and like make good friends.German.

Like carpenters, like chips.

Like cures like. (Similia similibus curantur.)

Like draws to like, a scabbed horse to an auld dike.

Like plays best with like.Danish.

Like pleases like.Greek.

Like pot, like cover.Dutch.

“Like-to-die” mends na the churchyard.

Like to his like.Turkish.

“Like will to like” as the devil said to the coal-burner.German.

Like will to like, be they poor or rich.Dutch.

Like lies in the mire and unlikely gets over.Scotch.

Owl to owl—crow to crow.