Fast bind, fast find;
A proverb never stale in thrifty mind.
First come, first served.
Fitted him to a T.
| author = Samuel Johnson
| work = Boswell's Life of Johnson. (1784)
| seealso = (See also {{sc|"performed, etc.")
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| text = <poem>From the crown of our head to the sole of our foot.
| author = Beaumont and Fletcher
| work = The Honest Man's Fortune. Act II. Sc. 2. Thos. MiddleTon—A Mad World, My Masters. Act I. Sc. 3. Pliny—Natural History. Bk. VII. Ch. XVII Much Ado About Nothing. Act III. Sc. 2.
Glass, China, and Reputation, are easily crack'd and never well mended.
Benj. Franklin—Poor Richard. (1750)
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| text = <poem>God save the mark!
Henry IV. Pt. I. Act I. Sc. 3. L. 57.
7
Going as if he trod upon eggs.
| author = Burton—Anatomy of Melancholy. Pt. III.
Sect. II. Memb. 3.
8
Go to Jericho.
Let them all go to Jericho,
And ne'er be seen againe.
Mercurius Aulicus. (1648) Quoted in the
AtiitwEum, Nov. 14, 1874.
9
Go West, young man! Go West.
John L. B. Soule—In the Terre Haute Express. (1851)
10
Go West, young man, and grow up with the country.
Horace Greeley—Hints toward Reform. In an editorial in the Tribune.
| seealso = (See also {{sc|"westward Ho")
11
Hail, fellow, well met.
Swift—My Lady's Lamentation.
12 Harp not on that string.
Richard III. Act IV. Sc. 4. L. 366.
13
He can give little to his servant that licks his
knife. Herbert—Jacula Prudentum.
14
He comes not in my books.
| author = Beaumont and Fletcher
| work = The Widow.
15
He did not care a button for it.
Rabelais—Works. Bk. II. Ch. XVI.
16
Here's metal more attractive.
Hamlet. Act III. Sc. 2. L. 115.
17
Hide their diminished heads.
| author = Milton | work = Paradise Lost.
| place = Bk. IV. L. 35.
Hier lies that should fetch a perfect woman over
the coles. Sir Gyles Goosecappe. (1606)
19
His bark is worse than his bite.
| author = Herbert
| work = Country Parson. Ch. XXIX.
20
Hit the nail on the head.
| author = Beaumont and Fletcher
| work = Love's Cure. Act II. Sc. 1.
21
Hold one another's noses to the grindstone hard. Burton—Anatomy of Melancholy. Pt. III.
Sec. I. Memb. 3. 22
Hold their noses to the grindstone.
Thos. Middleton—Blurt, Master Constable.
Act III. Sc. 3.
23
Honey of Hybla.
Henry IV. Pt. I. Act I. Sc. 2. L. 47.
24
How well I feathered my nest.
Rabelais—Works. Bk. II. Ch. XVII.
25
I have other fish to fry.
| author = Cervantes—Don Quixote. Pt. II. Ch.
XXXV.
26
I have you on the hip.
Merchant of Venice. Act IV. Sc. 1. L. 334.
27
I'll have a fling.
| author = Beaumont and Fletcher
| work = Rule a Wife and Have a Wife. III. 5.
28 I'll make the fur
Fly 'bout the ears of the old cur.
Butler—Hudibras. Pt.I. Canto III. L. 278.
29
I'll put a spoke among your wheels.
| author = Beaumont and Fletcher
| work = Mad Lover. III. 5.
30
In the name of the Prophet—figs. Horace And James Smith—Rejected Addresses. Johnson's Ghost.
31
Leap out of the frying pan into the fire.
Cervantes—Don Quixote. Pt. I. Bk. III. Ch. IV.
32
Let the worst come to the worst.
| author = Cervantes—Don Quixote. Bk. III. Ch. V.
Marston—DutchCourteaan. Actlll. Sc. 1.
33
Love all, trust a few, Do wrong to none.
All's Weil That Ends Well. Act I. Sc. 1. L. 73.
{{Hoyt quote
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Love, and a Cough, cannot be hid.
| author = Herbert | work = Jacula Prudentum.
35 Made no more bones. Du Bartas—The Maiden Blush.
36 Make ducks and drakes with shillings. George Chapman—EashmrdHo. Actl. Sc. L
