Robert Christy, comp. Proverbs, Maxims and Phrases of All Ages. 1887.
Like-to-like
Daws love one another’s prattle.
Every sheep with its like.Don Quixote.
Jack-daw always perches by jack-daw.Latin.
Let beggars match with beggar.Ben Jonson.
Like and like make good friends.German.
Like carpenters, like chips.
Like cures like. (Similia similibus curantur.)
Like draws to like, a scabbed horse to an auld dike.
Like plays best with like.Danish.
Like pleases like.Greek.
Like pot, like cover.Dutch.
“Like-to-die” mends na the churchyard.
Like to his like.Turkish.
“Like will to like” as the devil said to the coal-burner.German.
Like will to like, be they poor or rich.Dutch.
Like lies in the mire and unlikely gets over.Scotch.
Owl to owl—crow to crow.