| Robert Christy, comp. Proverbs, Maxims and Phrases of All Ages. 1887. | | | | Way of the World |
| | | He that falls all the world runs over. German. | 1 |
| He that’s down, “Down with him!” cries the world. | 2 |
| He who is in the mud likes to pull another into it. Spanish. | 3 |
| If a man once fall all will tread on him. | 4 |
| It is na “what is she,” but “what has she.” | 5 |
| No man is willing to own him who is out of the good opinion of the world. | 6 |
| Now that I have a sheep and a cow everybody bids me good-morrow. | 7 |
| Now that I have a sheep and a lamb everybody says, “Good-morrow, Peter.” Spanish. | 8 |
| One starts the hare, another bags it. Spanish. | 9 |
| People take more pains to be damned than to be saved. | 10 |
The tinsel, glitter, and the specious mien
Delude the most, few pry behind the scene. Phædrus. | 11 |
The world is naturally averse to all the truth it sees or hears,
But swallows nonsense and a lie with greediness and gluttony. Butler. | 12 |
| There is little difference (in the eye of the world), in being nought and in being thought so. | 13 |
| This is a world of scandal and like wolves we fall on the wounded. Crowley. | 14 |
| When a man is down everybody runs over him. German. | 15 |
| When a man is going down-hill, everybody gives him a kick; when a man is going up-hill, everybody gives him a lick. | 16 |
| When a man is not liked whatever he doth is amiss. | 17 |
| When a man lays the foundation of his own ruin, others will build on it. Fielding. | 18 |
| When a tree is falling, every one cries, “Down with it!” Italian. | 19 |
| When the wagon is tilting everybody gives it a shove. Danish. | 20 |
| “Who are you for?” “I am for him I get most by.” | 21 |
| Who arrays himself in other men’s garments is stripped on the highway. Spanish. | 22 | | |
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