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2418 Trust makes way for treachery 2418 Trust not to a broken staff 631 Trust was a good man, Trust-not was a better 2418 Truth is bitter food 1275 Truth is the daughter of time 1276 Truth produces hatred 321 Truth seeks no corners 2571 Truth will out at last 1401 Two cats and a mouse, two wives in one house, two dogs and a bone, never agree in one 2250 Two eyes, two ears, only one mouth * 521 Two heads are better than one 480 V Vows made in storms are forgotten in calms 1578 W Wait time and place to take your revenge, for it is never well done in a hurry 2273 Wash a dog, comb a dog, still a dog is but a dog 571 We have no son and yet are giving him a name 204 We mustassistin deeds notin words 1936 Welcome is the best cheer 76 Well begun is half done 42 Well fed, but ill taught 73 19 ( What a dust have I raised ! quotli the fly upon the coach 388 What belongs to nature lasts to the grave 1475 What can’t be cured must be endured 1632 What does the moon care if the dogs bark at her ? 40 What is not needed is dear at a farthing 858 What is play to the strong is death to the weak 1457 What is sport to the cat is lleath to the mouse 1457 What the abbot of Bamba cannot eat, he gives away for the good of his soul 766 What will be, will be 1984 What you can’t have, abuse 979 Whatever way you take there is a league of bad road 102 What’s bred in the bone will never be out of the flesh 573 When a man grows angry, his reason rides out 925 When love fails we espy all faults 365 When the cat’s away, the mice play 1574 When the gude wife’s awa’, the keys are tint 262 When Tom’s pitcher is broken I shall get the sherds 2692 When you can’t get bread, oat cakes are not amiss 1523 When you have given me roast meat, you beat me with the spit 397 Where bad is the best, naught must be the choice 102 Where the carcase is, the ravens will gather 2345 Where there are friends, there is wealth 1572 Where there is no love, all are faults 199 Where there’s a will, there’s a way 1107 Where you think there are flitches of bacon, there are not even hooks to hang them on 1542 While the pot boils friendship blooms 1517 While there is life there is hope 2488 Whither goest thou Misfortune ? To where there is more 651 Who has, is 558 Who has not, is not 1876 Who spits against heaven, it falls on his head 2622 With a grain of salt 918 Without debt, without care 87 Words are female, deeds are male 2068 Words don’t fill the belly 1936 Work done expects money 832 145 ) INDEX II. Y Ye’ll brak your neck as soon as your fast i’ his house 286 Yesterday a cowherd, to-day a cavalier 1280 You a lady, I a lady, who is to drive out the sow ? 2140 You cannot damage a wrecked ship 1672 You cannot drink and whistle at the same time 147 You cannot get blood out of a stone 1485 You cannot make an ass drink if he is not thirsty 2554 You can’teat your cake and have it too 623 You can’t fare well, but you must cry roast* meat 1792 You give the wolf the wether to keep 2387 You may force a man to shut his eyes but not to sleep 2554 You may judge of Hercules from his foot 1921 You must take the fat with the lean 933 You must pluck out the hairs of a horse’s tail one by one 481 You used to be a baker though now you wear gloves 1916 Your trumpeter’s dead so you trumpet yourself 1414 OTHERS, TO BE FOUND AMONG THE SANSCRIT PROVERBS. A A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush 171 A fool, if he holds his tongue, passes for wise 169 A little body often harbours a great soul 53 A little knowledge is a dangerous thing 18 A spaniel, a woman, and a walnut tree, The more they be beaten,-the better, they be 305 A woman’s vengeance knows no bounds 283 A young wife is an old man’s post-horse to the grave 390 After dinner sit a while, after supper walk a mile 293 After eating, either stand, or walk a mile 293 All things are obedient to money 345 As the life is, so will be the language 348 . B Bad crow, bad egg 334 C Company in distress makes trouble less 215 D * x Death does not blow a trumpet 239 Death is the common lot of all 214 Do as you would be done by 59 E ’ 4' * Every beginning is feeble 42 Every country has its custom 347 • Even ditch is fool of after-wit 243 Ev^ry fool is wise when he holds his tongue 169 Every land its own custom, every wheel its own spindle 347 Every man to his trade 75 Every one thinks himself able to advise another 262 Experience is a dear school, but fools learn in no other 295 Experience is the mistress of fools 295 E Feed sparingly, and defy the physician 366 Fortune favors the bold 458 G Good words cost nothing, but are worth much 371 H He harps ay on ae string 151 He who says nothing, consents 327 He’ll make nineteen bits of a bilberry 150 Human counsels are directed from heaven 29 I If you cannot bite, never shew your teeth 61 If you would have athing well done, do it your¬ self 447 J Joy and sorrow are next-door neighbours 462 K Keep yourself from the anger of a great man, • from the tumult of a mob, from a man of ill fame, from a widow that has been thrice married, from a wind that comes in at a hole, and from a reconciled enemy 186 ( 146 ) f INDEX II. L Like cures like 91 Like king, like people 335 Like loves like 357 M Man is a bubble 325 Many kinsfolk, few friends 263 Money is the god of the world 345 Money makes the man 345 N No rose without a thorn 231 No smoke without some fire 332 Nothing is so freely given as advice 262 O Of judgment every one has a stock for sale 262 One nail drives out another 394 P Poison quells poison 394 Poor men’s words have little weight 390 Poverty is no vice, but it is a sort of leprosy 182 Practise not your art and 'twill soon depart 18 S Self do, self have 447 Self is the first object of charity 62 Self-preservation is the first law of nature 160 Self’s the man 480 Silence is consent 327 Silence is wisdom, and gets friends 328 Silence is wisdom, when speaking is folly 326 Silence seldom doth harm 328 Silly sheep, where one goes, all go 139 So many countries, so many customs 347 T Take time by the forelock 422 The admonition, nothing rakhly, is every where useful 410 The gods sell us every thing for our labours 109 The voice of the people, the voice of God 154 To cover the well when the child is drowned 138 To make two bites of a cherry 150 To st<?p the hole when the mischief is done 243 The master orders the man, the man orders the cat, and the cat orders her tail 447 W What has a blind man to do with a mirror 344 When the head is broken the helmet is put on 243 Where there is no fire, no smoke rises 332 Where there’s smoke, there’s fire 332 Who keeps silence, consents 327 Who speaks, sows ; who keeps silence, reaps 326 Women and dogs set men together by the ears 283 ( 147 ) CORRIGENDA, &c. TELUGU. Proverb 55, for As long I was , read As long as I was .—Pro. 87, transpose the * and f.—Pro. 105, for Aithampudi, read AJtampftdi.—Pro. 150, for large , read lazy . —Pro. 160, for gain, read game . —Pro. 172, for a hook, read a good hook.— Pro. 252, for Rivaling, read Rivalling.—-Pro. 226, for his we el, read his house weel. —Pro. 330, for Sanyasi, read Sannyasi.—Pro. 515, for inclination, read incli¬ nations. —Pro. 536 & 1918, in these sayings is a vulgarism coined to rhyme with —Pro. 560f,/or Lente, read Leute.—Pro. 610, for Great labour, fyc., read Great labour, &c.—Pro. 823, for read _Pro. 849, for Sandhya, read Sandhya.—Pro. 1341, Neti bira is the Lufla pentandra.—Pro. 1343, for loose, read lose.—Pro. 1790for three pairs, read six pairs.—Pro. 1864, for knst, read knot. —Pro. 1921, for Series, read Hercules. —Pro. 2293, for ^,^5), read * SANSCRIT. Proverb 44, for read TftlpRR, s£r&Xo. —Pro. 165, ^ * n ^ / — —Q is a mere expletive. Pro. 204 & 247, for Kunti, read Kunti. — Pro. 337, for 111, read III—Pro. 343, for ^ITOrT, read ^TT^rf and for read ^ zr>X^$.—}?ro. 390, for Germau, read German.—Pro. 414, for Kusa, read Kusa. ( 148 ) I 'v • / > > , - x c s / N / /'■ \ /v: s-/ \ / / \ . ' ,/ < ' 1 ,-V 1 ' - ,.N \ y. * / ., v- V t >