| Robert Christy, comp. Proverbs, Maxims and Phrases of All Ages. 1887. | | | | Sack |
| | | A full sack pricks up its ear. Italian. | 1 |
| A sack is best tied before it is full. French. | 2 |
| A sack was never so full but it could hold another grain. French, Italian. | 3 |
| An auld sack craves meikle clouting. | 4 |
| Every man must carry his own sack to the mill. Italian, Danish. | 5 |
| Everyone goes with his own sack to the mill. Italian, Danish. | 6 |
| He fears the sack who has been in it. Danish. | 7 |
| He has command of the sack who is seated on it. Danish. | 8 |
| I hope I may tie up my sack when I please. | 9 |
| Into a holed sack it is indifferent whether you put or not. (Spoken of a spendthrift.) | 10 |
| It is a bad sack that will abide no clouting. | 11 |
| Like a collier’s sack, bad without and worse within. Spanish. | 12 |
| Nothing can come out of a sack but what is in it. Italian. | 13 |
| Old sacks want much patching. | 14 |
| Three or four daily will bring you to the bottom of the sack. | 15 |
| When a man is in a sack he must get out at the top or at the bottom. Danish. | 16 |
| When the sack is full it pricks up its ears. German, Dutch. | 17 |
| You may know by a handful the whole sack. | 18 | | |
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