| Robert Christy, comp. Proverbs, Maxims and Phrases of All Ages. 1887. | | | | Tale |
| | | A good tale ill told is a bad one. | 1 |
| A good tale is not the worse for being twice told. | 2 |
| A school-boy’s tale the wonder of an hour. Byron. | 3 |
| A tale never loses in the telling. | 4 |
| A tale twice told is cabbage twice sold. | 5 |
| An honest tale speeds best being plainly told. Shakespeare. | 6 |
| And what so tedious as a twice-told tale. Pope. | 7 |
| Every man’s tale is gude till anither be tauld. | 8 |
| Ha’f a tale is enough for a wise man. | 9 |
| In the fair tale is foul falsity. | 10 |
| It ought to be a good tale that is twice told. | 11 |
| Must I tell you a tale and find you ears too? | 12 |
| No sweetness in a cabbage twice boiled or in a tale twice told. | 13 |
| One tale is good until another be told. | 14 |
| Tell no tales out of school. German. | 15 |
| The tale runs as it pleases the teller. | 16 |
| There is many a true tale told in jest. | 17 |
| What so tedious as a twice-told tale. Homer. | 18 |
| You will tell another tale when you are tried. | 19 | | |
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