| Robert Christy, comp. Proverbs, Maxims and Phrases of All Ages. 1887. |
| Love |
| A boy’s love is water in a sieve. Spanish. | 1 |
| A fence between makes love more keen. German. | 2 |
| A man has choice to begin love but not to end it. | 3 |
| A sweet and innocent compliance is the cement of love. | 4 |
| All’s fair in love and war. | 5 |
| Always in love, never married. French. | 6 |
| An oyster may be crossed in love. Sheridan. | 7 |
| As the best wine makes the sharpest vinegar, so the deepest love turns to the deadliest hatred. | 8 |
| At love’s perjuries Jove laughs. | 9 |
| Be loving and you’ll never want for love. Muloch. | 10 |
| Better a dinner of herbs where love is than a stalled ox and hatred therewith. Solomon. | 11 |
| Better to have loved amiss than nothing to have loved. Crabbe. | 12 |
| Blue eyes say, “Love me or I die;” black eyes say, “Love me or I kill thee.” Spanish. | 13 |
| But Love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit. Shakespeare. | 14 |
| By beating love decays. French. | 15 |
| Can a mouse fall in love with a cat? | 16 |
| Cauld cools the love that kindles o’er hot. | 17 |
| Cold broth hot again, that loved I never; Old love renewed again, that loved I ever. | 18 |
| Congruity is the mother of love. | 19 |
| Dry bread is better with love than a fat capon with fear. | 20 |
| Esteem and love were never to be sold. Pope. | 21 |
| Fanned fire and forced love never did well yet. | 22 |
| Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee. | 23 |
| For the love of the ox the wolf licks the yoke. Catalan. | 24 |
| For love the wolf eats the sheep. German. | 25 |
| For love of the nurse many kiss the bairn. | 26 |
| Forced love does not last. Dutch. | 27 |
| Fortune and love are blind. | 28 |
| Generally we love ourselves more than we hate others. | 29 |
| Hot love and hasty vengeance. | 30 |
| He loves mutton well who eats the wool. | 31 |
| He loves roast meat well who licks the spit. | 32 |
| He loves thee well who makes thee weep. Don Quixote. | 33 |
| He loves well who chastises well. | 34 |
| He loves well who never forgets. Italian, Spanish, Portuguese. | 35 |
| He that does not love a woman sucked a sow. | 36 |
| He that falls in love with himself will find no rival. Franklin. | 37 |
| He that hath love in his breast hath spurs in his heels. | 38 |
| He that is in love bids adieu to prudence. La Fontaine. | 39 |
| He that loves glass without a “g” take away “l” and that is he. | 40 |
| He who forces love where none is found, Remains a fool the whole year round. Spanish. | 41 |
| He who loves himself best is the honestest man. | 42 |
| He who loves well is slow to forget. Spanish. | 43 |
| He who loves well obeys well. | 44 |
| He who would not be indolent let him fall in love. Ovid. | 45 |
| Honor in love is silence. Massinger. | 46 |
| I cannot hate and I am forced to love. Ovid. | 47 |
| I love my friends well but myself better. French. | 48 |
| I love thee well but don’t touch my pocket. | 49 |
| I think his face is made of a fiddle; every one that looks on him loves him. | 50 |
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| If Jack’s in love he’s no judge of Gill’s beauty. | 51 |
| If you are in love fly to the mountain. Turkish. | 52 |
| If you love me, John, your acts will tell me so. Spanish. | 53 |
| If you love yourself over much, nobody else will love you at all. | 54 |
| In hunting and in love you begin when you like and leave off when you can. Spanish. | 55 |
| In love’s wars, he who flieth is conqueror. | 56 |
| It is all one whether you die of sickness or love. Italian. | 57 |
| It is loving too much to die of love. French. | 58 |
| It is only the blind who ask why they are loved who are fair. Danish. | 59 |
| Likeness is the mother of love. | 60 |
| Love abounds in honey and poison. Plautus. | 61 |
| Love, a cough, smoke, and money cannot long be hid. French, Italian, German. | 62 |
| Love accomplishes all things. Petrarch. | 63 |
| Love all, trust a few, be false to none. Shakespeare. | 64 |
| Love and faith are seen in works. German, Portuguese. | 65 |
| Love and light cannot be hid. | 66 |
| Love and lordship like no fellowship. French, Italian, Portuguese. | 67 |
| Love and poverty are hard to conceal. Danish. | 68 |
| Love and pride stock bedlam. | 69 |
| Love and religion are both stronger than friendship. Benjamin Disraeli. | 70 |
| Love alone begets love. La Bruyère. | 71 |
| Love asks faith and faith asks firmness. | 72 |
| Love begets love—confidence begets confidence. New York World. | 73 |
| Love begins at home. German. | 74 |
| Love, being jealous, makes a good eye look asquint. | 75 |
| Love Bertram, love his dog. French. | 76 |
| Love can make any place agreeable. Arabian. | 77 |
| Love can neither be bought nor sold; its only price is love. | 78 |
| Love comes in at the window and goes out at the door. | 79 |
| Love conquers all things, let us yield to love. Virgil. | 80 |
| Love deceives the best of womankind. Homer. | 81 |
| Love delights in praise. | 82 |
| Love despises gold. | 83 |
| Love does much, but money does more. | 84 |
| Love does much, money everything. French, German, Spanish. | 85 |
| Love does wonders but money makes marriage. French. | 86 |
| Love expels jealousy. French. | 87 |
| Love fears no danger. German. | 88 |
| Love gives for guerdon, jealousy, and broken faith. Italian. | 89 |
| Love, grief and money cannot be kept secret. Spanish. | 90 |
| Love grows with obstacles. German. | 91 |
| Love has no law. Portuguese. | 92 |
| Love heats the brain and anger makes a poet. Juvenal. | 93 |
| Love him who tells thee thy faults in private. Hebrew. | 94 |
| Love in a hut with water and a crust, Is love, forgive us, cinders, ashes, dust. | 95 |
| Love is a credulous thing. Ovid. | 96 |
| Love is a leveller. Aaron Hill. | 97 |
| Love is a sweet tyrant because the lover endureth his torments willingly. Niphas. | 98 |
| Love is a thing full of anxious fears. Ovid. | 99 |
| Love is an excuse for its own faults. Italian. | 100 |
| Love is as strong as death, many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it. Bible. | 101 |
| Love is as warm among cottagers as courtiers. | 102 |
| Love is better than fame. Bayard Taylor. | 103 |
| Love is blind but sees afar. Italian. | 104 |
| Love is cold without good eating and drinking. Publius Syrus. | 105 |
| Love is incompatible with fear. Publius Syrus. | 106 |
| Love is master of all arts. Italian. | 107 |
| Love is never without jealousy. | 108 |
| Love is not to be found in the market. | 109 |
| Love is potent but money is omnipotent. French. | 110 |
| Love is strong as death, jealousy as cruel as the grave. Bible. | 111 |
| Love is the loadstone of love. | 112 |
| Love is the touchstone of virtue. | 113 |
| Love is the true price at which love is bought. Italian. | 114 |
| Love is without prudence and anger without counsels. Italian. | 115 |
| Love, knavery, and necessity make men good orators. | 116 |
| Love knows hidden paths. German. | 117 |
| Love knows no love. Portuguese. | 118 |
| Love knows no measure. | 119 |
| Love knows not labor. Italian. | 120 |
| Love laughs at locksmiths. | 121 |
| Love levels all inequalities. Italian. | 122 |
| Love lieth deep, love dwells not in lip depths. Tennyson. | 123 |
| Love, like death, Levels all ranks and lays the shepherd’s crook Beside the sceptre. Lytton. | 124 |
| Love lives in cottages as well as in courts. | 125 |
| Love makes labor light. Dutch. | 126 |
| Love makes time pass away, and time makes love pass away. French. | 127 |
| Love me little and love me long. French, Italian, Danish. | 128 |
| Love me, love my dog. Italian. | 129 |
| Love must be attracted by beauty of mind and body. Ovid. | 130 |
| Love of gain turns wise men into fools. Chinese. | 131 |
| Love of lads and fire of chats is soon in and soon out. Derbyshire. | 132 |
| Love one that does not love you, answer one that does not call you, and you will run a fruitless race. Spanish. | 133 |
| Love others well but love thyself the most, Give good for good but not to thine own cost. Dutch. | 134 |
| Love rules his kingdom without a sword. Italian. | 135 |
| Love rules without law. Italian. | 136 |
| Love sees no faults. | 137 |
| Love sought is good, but given unsought is better. Shakespeare. | 138 |
| Love subdues everything, except the felon heart. French. | 139 |
| Love teaches asses to dance. French. | 140 |
| Love, thieves and fear make ghosts. German. | 141 |
| Love thy friend with his foibles. Modern Greek. | 142 |
| Love thy neighbor but pull not down thy hedge. German. | 143 |
| Love understands love; it needs no talk. | 144 |
| Love warms more than a thousand fires. | 145 |
| Love well, whip well. | 146 |
| Love will creep where it cannot go. | 147 |
| Love will find out the way. | 148 |
| Love without return is like a question without an answer. | 149 |
| Love yields to employment. | 150 |
| Love’s humility is love’s pride. Bayard Taylor. | 151 |
| Love’s anger is fuel to love. German. | 152 |
| Love’s merchandise is broken faith. Italian. | 153 |
| Love’s plant must be watered with tears and tended with care. Danish. | 154 |
| Love’s the noblest frailty of the mind. Dryden. | 155 |
| Loving and singing are not to be forced. German. | 156 |
| Luve your friend an’ look to yoursel’. | 157 |
| Mad love! I for you and you for another. Spanish, Portuguese. | 158 |
| Man loves but once. German. | 159 |
| Man’s love is of man’s life a thing apart, ’Tis woman’s whole existence. Byron. | 160 |
| Next to love quietness. | 161 |
| New loves drive out the old. Spanish. | 162 |
| No jealousy, no love. German. | 163 |
| No love without bread and wine. French. | 164 |
| No rose without a thorn, nor love without a rival. Turkish. | 165 |
| Of all the paths that lead to a woman’s love pity’s the straightest. Beaumont and Fletcher. | 166 |
| Of soup and love the first is the best. | 167 |
| Old love and old brands kindle at all seasons. French. | 168 |
| Old love does not rust. German. | 169 |
| One always returns to one’s first love. French. | 170 |
| One grows used to love and to fire. French. | 171 |
| One love drives out another. Spanish. | 172 |
| People in love think other people’s eyes are out. Spanish. | 173 |
| Perfect love never settled in a light head. | 174 |
| Reason was never admitted into the court of love. Agricola. | 175 |
| Regretting those you love is happiness compared with living with those you hate. La Bruyère. | 176 |
| Royal favor, April weather, woman’s love, rose leaves, dice, and card-luck change every moment. German. | 177 |
| See for your love and buy for your money. | 178 |
| Seek love and it will shun you, Haste away and ’twill outrun you. | 179 |
| She who loves an ugly man thinks him handsome. | 180 |
| Spectacles and gray hair are bad wares in love’s market. German. | 181 |
| Sweet is true love tho’ given in vain, And sweet is death that puts an end to pain. Tennyson. | 182 |
| The approaches of love must be resisted at the first assault lest they undermine at the second. Pythagoras. | 183 |
| The course of true love never did run smooth. | 184 |
| The English love, the French make love. | 185 |
| The love of country is more powerful than reason itself. Ovid. | 186 |
| The love of fame usually spurs the mind. Ovid. | 187 |
| The love of father and mother is the foundation of all the virtues. | 188 |
| The love of gaming is the worst of ills. Young. | 189 |
| The love of heaven makes one heavenly. Sidney. | 190 |
| The love of liberty is the parent of all vagabondom. | 191 |
| The love of money grows as money grows. Juvenal. | 192 |
| The love of pelf increases with the pelf. Juvenal. | 193 |
| The love of popularity holds you in a vice. Juvenal. | 194 |
| The love of power is an instinct of the human heart. Tacitus. | 195 |
| The love of power is natural, insatiable and never cloyed by possession. Bolingbroke. | 196 |
| The love of the wicked is more dangerous than their hatred. | 197 |
| The man who loves is easy of belief. Ovid. | 198 |
| The only victory over love is flight. French. | 199 |
| The remedy for love is—land between. Spanish. | 200 |
| The revolution that turns us all topsy-turvy,—the revolution of love. Bulwer. | 201 |
| The reward of love is jealousy. | 202 |
| The sweetest joy, the wildest woe, is love. Bailey. | 203 |
| The truth of truths is love. Bailey. | 204 |
| Their (women’s) love is always with the lover past. Homer. | 205 |
| There are more calamities in the world arising from love than hatred. Spectator. | 206 |
| There are no reasons that explain love, but a thousand that explain marriage. Punch. | 207 |
| There is beggary in the love that can be reckoned. Shakespeare. | 208 |
| There is more true happiness in the folly of love than in all the wisdom of philosophy. Fielding. | 209 |
| There is no love without jealousy. French, Italian. | 210 |
| They love least that let men know their love. Shakespeare. | 211 |
| They love me for little that hate me for naught. | 212 |
| They love most who are least valued. | 213 |
| They love too much that die for love. | 214 |
| They that lie down for love should rise for hunger. | 215 |
| Though love is blind yet ’tis not for want of eyes. | 216 |
| ’Tis better to have loved and lost, Than never to have loved at all. Tennyson. | 217 |
| To be loved, be lovable. Ovid. | 218 |
| To be wise and love Exceeds man’s might, that dwells with gods alone. Shakespeare. | 219 |
| To love and to be wise are two different things (or impossible). French, Spanish, Portuguese. | 220 |
| To love it as a dog does a whip. | 221 |
| To love it as a cat does mustard. | 222 |
| To love it as the devil does holy water. | 223 |
| To raise esteem we must benefit others; to procure love we must please them. Dr. Johnson. | 224 |
| Too much is not enough. Beaumarchais speaking of love. | 225 |
| True love can fear no one. Seneca. | 226 |
| True love falters not. Helen Molony. | 227 |
| True love never grows hoary. Italian. | 228 |
| True love suffers no concealment. Spanish. | 229 |
| We never know how much we loved till what we loved is lost. | 230 |
| What is life when wanting love? Burns. | 231 |
| When all else fails, love saves. Anna K. Green. | 232 |
| When love fails we espy all faults. | 233 |
| When love is in the case the doctor’s an ass. | 234 |
| When mistrust enters, love departs. Danish. | 235 |
| When poverty comes in at the door, love flies out at the window. German. | 236 |
| When pride begins love ceases. Lavater. | 237 |
| Where love is there is no labor, and if there be labor, the labor is loved. St. Austin. | 238 |
| Where love is, there the eye is. Italian. | 239 |
| Where there is great love there is great pain. Italian. | 240 |
| Where there is much love there is much mistake. | 241 |
| Where there is no love all faults are seen. German. | 242 |
| Where there is no jealousy there is no love. German. | 243 |
| Where there is not equality there can be no perfect love. Italian. | 244 |
| Where we do not respect we soon cease to love. Benjamin Disraeli. | 245 |
| Who ever lov’d that lov’d not at first sight? | 246 |
| Who feels love in his breast feels a spur in his limbs. Italian. | 247 |
| Who has no children does not know what love is. Italian. | 248 |
| Who love too much hate in like extreme. Homer. | 249 |
| Who loves believes, who loves fears. Italian. | 250 |
| Who loves not women, wine and song, Remains a fool his whole life long. German. | 251 |
| Who loves the tree, loves the branch. Italian. | 252 |
| Who loves well chastises well. French, Italian. | 253 |
| Who loves well is slow to forget. French. | 254 |
| Who would be loved must love. Italian. | 255 |
| Whom we love best to them we can say least. | 256 |
| With lightning and with love, the clothes sound the heart burned. Spanish. | 257 |
| With nothing left to love there’s naught to dread. Byron. | 258 |
| Without bread and wine, even love will pine. French. | 259 |
| Works and not words are the proof of love. Spanish. | 260 |
| You will not be loved if you think of no one but yourself. Spanish, Italian. | 261 |
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