The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs (298 page)

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JUDGE not, that ye be not judged
With allusion to
MATTHEW
vii. 1 (AV) Judge not, that ye be not judged.
1481
Reynard
(1880) xxix. Deme [judge] ye noman, and ye shal not be demed.
1509
Ship of Fools
H1 Judge not but yf that ye wyl be judged.
1925
Essays on Life
x. The saying, ‘Judge not, that ye be not judged,’ is … a statement of fact. Nothing makes us dislike a man so much as the knowledge that he is always judging us and all men.
1979
Service of all Dead
i.
‘Judge not that ye be not judged.’ Judge not—at least until the evidence is unequivocal.
reciprocity
;
tolerance
Be JUST before you're generous
1745
Female Spectator
II. vii. 35 There is, I think, an old saying, that we ‘ought to be just before we are generous’.
1780
SHERIDAN
School for Scandal
IV. i. Be just before you are generous.
1834
Peter Simple
I. xi. I owe every farthing of my money … There's an old proverb — be just before you're generous.
1908
Spectator
4 Apr. 529 A likeable man is tempted to be generous before he is just.
1922
Ulysses
521
Bloom—You had better hand over that cash to me to take care of. Why pay more? Stephen—Be just before you are generous.
fair dealing
K
Why KEEP a dog and bark yourself?
1583
Philotimus
119
It is smal reason you should kepe a dog, and barke your selfe.
1670
English Proverbs
81
What? keep a dog and bark my self. That is, must I keep servants, and do my work my self.
1738
Polite Conversation
I. 17
‘Good Miss, stir the Fire’… ‘Indeed your Ladyship could have stirr'd it much better’… ‘I won't keep a Dog and bark myself’.
1933
Thirteen at Dinner
xviii.
Why keep a dog and bark yourself?
1974
Big enough Wreath
ix.
If money talks louder than words, no wonder Lowell hardly ever speaks. Why keep a dog and bark?
employers and employees
;
work

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