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| Let bell’d wethers brak the snow. | 1 |
| Let “by-gones” be “by-gones.” | 2 |
| Let each man have according to his deserts. Cicero. | 3 |
| Let every bird sing its own note. Danish. | 4 |
| Let every fox take care of its own tail. Italian. | 5 |
| Let every herring hang by its own gills. | 6 |
| Let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath. | 7 |
| Let every man skin his own skunk. | 8 |
| Let every one carry his own sack to the mill. German. | 9 |
| Let every one keep off the flies with his own tail. Italian. | 10 |
| Let every one look to himself and no one will be lost. Dutch. | 11 |
| Let every pedler carry his own burden. | 12 |
| Let every sheep hang by its own shank. | 13 |
| Let him alone with a saint’s bell and give him rope enough. | 14 |
| Let him be wretched who thinks himself so. Don Quixote. | 15 |
| Let him eat the tough morsel who eat the tender. Portuguese. | 16 |
| Let him not complain of being cheated who buys cloth by the pattern. Spanish. | 17 |
| Let him play the instrument who knows how. Spanish. | 18 |
| Let him play the second fiddle who can play the first. | 19 |
| Let him stay at the oar who has learnt to row. Danish. | 20 |
| Let him who has a glass cull not take to stone throwing. Italian. | 21 |
| Let him that itches scratch himself. French, German. | 22 |
| Let him that does not know you buy you. Spanish. | 23 |
| Let lie what is too heavy to lift. Dutch. | 24 |
| Let me get over the lake and I have no fear of the brook. Dutch. | 25 |
| Let me skim the water with one oar and with the other touch the mud. (Go not out of my depth.) Latin. | 26 |
| Let no man anticipate uncertain profits. Dr. Johnson. | 27 |
| Let no man squander against his inclination. Dr. Johnson. | 28 |
| Let not the mouse-trap smell of blood. | 29 |
| Let not thy right hand know what thy left hand doeth. | 30 |
| Let not thy expenditure exceed thy income. Plautus. | 31 |
| Let nothing vile come into the temple. Latin. | 32 |
| Let the galled jade wince, our withers are unwrung. Shakespeare. | 33 |
| Let the grafts be very good or the knife be where it stood. | 34 |
| Let the hoofs go with the hide. | 35 |
| Let the horns go with the hide. | 36 |
| Let the morn come and the meat with it. | 37 |
| Let the plough stand to catch a mouse. | 38 |
| Let the shirt next your skin know not what’s within. French. | 39 |
| Let there be food in the pigeon house and the pigeons will come to it. Spanish. | 40 |
| Let there be writing before you pay, and receipt before you write. Spanish. | 41 |
| Let things go on as they are going. German Endaemonisen. | 42 |
| Let us return to our muttons. (Resume the subject of discourse.) | 43 |
| Let your letter stay for the post and not the post for the letter. (Be always beforehand with your business.) | 44 |
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