Robert Christy, comp. Proverbs, Maxims and Phrases of All Ages. 1887.

Tale

A good tale ill told is a bad one.

A good tale is not the worse for being twice told.

A school-boy’s tale the wonder of an hour.Byron.

A tale never loses in the telling.

A tale twice told is cabbage twice sold.

An honest tale speeds best being plainly told.Shakespeare.

And what so tedious as a twice-told tale.Pope.

Every man’s tale is gude till anither be tauld.

Ha’f a tale is enough for a wise man.

In the fair tale is foul falsity.

It ought to be a good tale that is twice told.

Must I tell you a tale and find you ears too?

No sweetness in a cabbage twice boiled or in a tale twice told.

One tale is good until another be told.

Tell no tales out of school.German.

The tale runs as it pleases the teller.

There is many a true tale told in jest.

What so tedious as a twice-told tale.Homer.

You will tell another tale when you are tried.