| Robert Christy, comp. Proverbs, Maxims and Phrases of All Ages. 1887. | | | | Cause |
| | | A good cause makes a stout heart and a strong arm. | 1 |
| A good cause needs help. French. | 2 |
| Everything must have a cause. Chinese. | 3 |
For it is a duty, all the learned think,
To espouse his cause by whom you eat and drink. | 4 |
| He who hath an ill cause let him sell it cheap. | 5 |
| If you grease a cause well it will stretch. | 6 |
| It is a bad or ill cause that none dare speak in. Scotch. | 7 |
| Lidford law: first hang and draw, then hear the cause. | 8 |
| The best cause requires a good pleader. Dutch. | 9 |
| The cause finds arms. | 10 |
| There is a cause for all things. Italian. | 11 |
| ’Tis a sign of an ill cause to rail at your adversary. | 12 |
’Tis the cause makes all:
Degrades or hallows courage in its fall. Byron. | 13 |
| When the cause is lost words are useless. Italian. | 14 |
| Where the cause is just, the small conquers the great. Greek. | 15 | | |
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