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| Robert Christy, comp. Proverbs, Maxims and Phrases of All Ages. 1887. |
| Cup |
| A full cup must be carried steadily. | 1 |
| A man should not, while drinking from one cup, look into another. Hebrew. | 2 |
| The cup finds not out its master’s death. (Meaning, because it passes into others’ hands.) Woloffs. (Africa.) | 3 |
| When the cup is full, carry it even. | 4 |
| You drink out of an old cup; i.e., are descended from an old family. African. | 5 |
| You may silver scour a pewter-cup, It will be pewter still. | 6 |
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