It won’t do to trifle with fire, [23]

It would be a very big book that contained all the maybes uttered in a day, [42]

Italian devotion and German fasting have no meaning, [403]

It’s a bad mouthful that chokes, [98]

It’s a very proud horse that will not carry his oats, [127]

It’s bad combing where there is no hair, [324]

It’s good dancing on another man’s floor, [324]

It’s good feasting in another’s hall, [324]

It’s good steering with wind and tide, [312]

It’s hard to catch hawks with empty hands (With emptie hands men may no haukes lure—Chaucer), [334]