Robert Christy, comp. Proverbs, Maxims and Phrases of All Ages. 1887.
Tale
A good tale ill told is a bad one.
A good tale is not the worse for being twice told.
A school-boy’s tale the wonder of an hour.Byron.
A tale never loses in the telling.
A tale twice told is cabbage twice sold.
An honest tale speeds best being plainly told.Shakespeare.
And what so tedious as a twice-told tale.Pope.
Every man’s tale is gude till anither be tauld.
Ha’f a tale is enough for a wise man.
In the fair tale is foul falsity.
It ought to be a good tale that is twice told.
Must I tell you a tale and find you ears too?
No sweetness in a cabbage twice boiled or in a tale twice told.
One tale is good until another be told.
Tell no tales out of school.German.
The tale runs as it pleases the teller.
There is many a true tale told in jest.
What so tedious as a twice-told tale.Homer.
You will tell another tale when you are tried.