| Robert Christy, comp. Proverbs, Maxims and Phrases of All Ages. 1887. | | | | Tailors |
| | | Dull scissors make crooked mouthed tailors. Danish. | 1 |
| Four farthings and a thimble make a tailor’s pocket jingle. | 2 |
| Nine tailors make a man. | 3 |
| Tailors’ shreds are worth the cutting. | 4 |
| The Portuguese apprentice who does not know how to sew and wants to cut out. Spanish. | 5 |
| The tailor ill dressed, the shoemaker ill shod. Portuguese. | 6 |
| The tailor that makes not a knot loses a stitch. | 7 |
| There is little to sew where tailors are true. | 8 |
| To be like the tailor of Campello, who worked for nothing and found the thread. Spanish. | 9 | | |
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