Robert Christy, comp. Proverbs, Maxims and Phrases of All Ages. 1887.

Bell

A cracked bell can never be sound.

Bells call others to church but go not themselves.

Every one thinks that all the bells echo his own thoughts.German.

Fear not the loss of the bells more than the loss of the steeple.

He is like a bell that will answer every pull.

If you love not the sound of bells why pull the ropes?

One bell serves a parish.Italian.

People make the bells say what they please.German.

The bell does not go to mass and yet calls every one to it.Italian, Spanish.

The higher the bell is hung the shriller it sounds.German.

They are like bells every one in a several note.

While the great bells are ringing no one hears the little ones.Danish.

Who hears but one bell, hears but one sound.French.