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1596. THINK. Think twice before you speak once.
1597. THINK. Think much, speak little, and write less.
1598. THINK.
Who thinks to live must live to think, Else mind and body lose their link.
1599. THINKS. The horse thinks one thing, and he that rides him another.
1600. THINKERS. Thinkers govern toilers.
1601. THISTLES. Gather thistles, expect p.r.i.c.kles.
1602. THISTLES. He that sows nothing plants thistles.
1603. THORN. No rose without a thorn.
1604. THORN. The thorn comes forth with his point forwards.
1605. THORNS. Roses, mind you, have thorns.
1606. THORNS. He that handles thorns shall p.r.i.c.k his fingers.
1607. THOUGHTS. Second thoughts are best.
1608. THOUGHTS. Thoughts are free.
1609. THREATENED. There are more threatened than struck.
1610. THREEPENCE. If you make not much of threepence you'll ne'er be worth a groat.
1611. THRIFTY. Thrifty men are fond of thrifty sayings.
1612. THRIVE.
He that will thrive must rise at five.
He that hath thriven may lie till seven.
1613. THUNDER. Thunder in December foretells fine weather.
1614. THUNDERS. When it thunders the thief becomes honest.
1615. THYSELF. For what thou canst do thyself rely not on another.
1616. TIDE. There is a tide in the affairs of man which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.
1617. TIDE. Every tide has its ebb.
1618. TIDE. The tide will fetch away what the ebb brings.
1619. TIME. Take time by the forelock.
1620. TIME. A mouse, in time, may bite in two a cable.
1621. TIME. Take time when time is, for time will away.
1622. TIME. Time and tide tarry for no man.
1623. TIME. Time a.s.suages the greatest grief.
1624. TIME. Time cures sorrow.
1625. TIME. Time is the rider that breaks youth.
1626. TIME. Time tries all.
1627. TIMELY. Timely blossom timely ripe.
1628. t.i.tLE. Simon Noland, clown, is a better style and t.i.tle than Humphrey Hadland, gent.
1629. TO-DAY. To-day me, to-morrow thee.
1630. TOM. He's Tom Tell-troth.
1631. TO-MORROW. To-morrow comes never.
1632. TONGUE. A man may hold his tongue in an ill time.
1633. TONGUE. Temper the tongue.
1634. TONGUE. Confine your tongue, lest it confine you.
1635. TONGUE. Keep your tongue within your teeth.
1636. TONGUE.
The tongue breaketh bone, Though itself have none.
1637. TONGUE. The tongue's not steel, yet it cuts.
1638. TONGUE. The tongue talks at the head's cost.
1639. TONGUE. One tongue is enough for a woman.
1640. TONGUE. Who has not a good tongue, ought to have good hands.
1641. TOO LATE. Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.
1642. TOOLS. A bad workman quarrels with his tools.
