Dictionary of English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases Part 8

355. CROOKED. A crooked tree will have a crooked shadow.

356. CROOKED. Crooked logs make straight fires.

357. CROSS. No cross, no crown.

358. CROSS. Every cross has its inscription.

359. CROSSES. Crosses are ladders for getting to heaven.

360. CROSSES. Crosses are ladders that lead to heaven.

361. CROW. The crow thinks her own bird fairest.

362. CROW. A crow is never the whiter for was.h.i.+ng herself often.

363. CROWS. It never goes well when the hen crows.

364. CRUELTY. Cruelty is a tyrant always attended by fear.

365. CRUELTY. Cruelty is a devil's delight.

366. CRUMBS. Where are the crumbs there are the chickens.

367. CRY. Don't cry out before you're hurt.

368. CRY. Great cry and little wool.

369. CUCKOO.

When the cuckoo comes to the bare thorn, Sell your cow and buy your corn, But when she comes to a full bit, Sell your corn, and buy your sheep.

370. CURED. What cannot be cured must be endured.

371. CURSES. Curses are like chickens, they come home to roost.

372. CUSTOM. Custom is second nature.

373. CUSTOM. Once a use and ever a custom.

374. CUSTOM. Custom makes anything easy.

375. CUSTOM (BAD). A bad custom is like a good cake, better broken than kept.

376. CUT. Cut and come again.

377. CUT. No cut like unkindness.

378. CUT. I had not cut my wise teeth.

379. CUTS. Desperate cuts must have desperate cures.

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380. DANCE. No longer pipe, no longer dance.

381. DANCES. He dances well to whom fortune pipes.

382. DANCING. They love dancing well that dance among thorns.

383. DANGER. The danger's past, and G.o.d's forgotten.

384. DAINTY DOGS. Dainty dogs may have to eat dirty puddings.

385. DARK. It is as good to be in the dark as without light.

386. DARK MAN. A dark man's a jewel in a fair woman's eye.

387. DARK. He that gropes in the dark finds that he would not.

388. DAUGHTER.

My son is my son till he marries a wife, But my daughter's my daughter all the days of her life.

389. DAUGHTER.

He that would the daughter win, Must with the mother first begin.

390. DAYLIGHT. Daylight will peep through a small hole.

391. DEAD. As dead as a door-nail.

392. DEAD MAN'S SHOES. He that waits for a dead man's shoes may go long enough barefoot.

393. DEAF. There are none so deaf as those who will not hear.

394. DEAF MAN. Tell that tale to a deaf man.

395. DEARTH. It's a wicked thing to make a dearth one's garner.

396. DEATH. Death keeps no calendar.

397. DEATH. Death is deaf and hears no denial.

398. DEATH. Nothing is surer than death.

399. DEATH. After death the doctor.

400. DEBT. Debt is the worst kind of poverty.