| Robert Christy, comp. Proverbs, Maxims and Phrases of All Ages. 1887. | | | | Blood |
| | | All blood is ancient. | 1 |
As falls the dew on quenchless sands,
Blood only serves to wash ambition’s hands. Byron. | 2 |
| Blood boils without fire. Spanish. | 3 |
| Blood is inherited and virtue acquired. Don Quixote. | 4 |
| Blood is thicker than water. German. | 5 |
| France got drunk on blood to vomit crime. Byron. | 6 |
| Good blood will never lie. French. | 7 |
| Human blood is all of one color. | 8 |
| Human blood is heavy, that man that has shed it cannot run away. Western African. | 9 |
| I renounce the gold basin in which I have to spit blood. Portuguese. | 10 |
| Noble and ignoble blood is of the same color. German. | 11 |
| Send your noble blood to market and see what it will buy. | 12 |
| The blood of the people flowing in sounding torrents. (Metaphor applied to the Mongol conquest of China.) | 13 |
| The cold in clime are cold in blood. Byron. | 14 |
| There is no difference of bloods in a basin. | 15 |
What ennobles sots, or slaves, or cowards!
Alas, not all the blood of all the Howards. Pope. | 16 |
| You come of good blood and so does a black pudding. | 17 | | |
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