A dictionary of Proverbs (Oxford Paperback Reference)

An APPLE-PIE without some cheese is like a kiss without a squeeze

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  1929 C. BROOKS Seven Hells v. 63 Let me advise you to take a bit of cheese with it. They have a good proverb, these folks: ‘Apple pie without the cheese, is like the kiss without a squeeze.’ 1989 Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY) 2 July 4M There was an old English rhyme popular about 1750 that went: An apple-pie without some cheese Is like a kiss without a squeeze. 2002 Spectator 21 Sept. 61 ‘Apple cake without cheese,’ they used to say in Yorkshire, ‘is like a kiss without a squeeze.’ "food and drink
  

APRIL showers bring forth May flowers

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  c 1560 in T. Wright Songs & Ballads (1860) 213 Aprell sylver showers so sweet Can make May flowers to sprynge. 1670 J. RAY English Proverbs 41 April showers bring forth May flowers. 1846 M. A. DENHAM Proverbs relating to Seasons, &c. 36 March winds and April showers bring forth May flowers. 1921 Sphere 14 May 152 If there was anybody left to believe in the saying that ‘April showers bring forth May flowers’ their simple faith must have been rudely shattered by May’s behaviour this year. 2001 Washington Post 1 July F1 If April showers bring May flowers, what do June brides bring? ^weather lore
  

architect see EVERY man is the architect of his own fortune.
arm see KINGS have long arms; STRETCH your arm no further than your sleeve will reach; YORKSHIRE born and Yorkshire bred, strong in the arm and weak in the head.
An ARMY marches on its stomach
The proverb has been attributed to both Napoleon and Frederick the Great; this figurative use of (on one’s) stomach is unusual in English.

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  1904 Windsor Magazine Jan. 268 ‘An army marches on its stomach.’ ‘C’est la soupe qui fait le soldat.’ These Napoleonic aphorisms.. have been increasingly appreciated by our War Office. 1977 J. B. HILTON Dead-Nettie x. ‘They say an army marches on its stomach,’ Gilbert Slack began to say. ‘You mean that Frank was a cook?’ 1992 W.
  

DONALDSON Root into Europe ii.16 ‘Didn’t see service as such. Supply and demand myself. Pay and personnel. Laundry and so forth. An army marches on its stomach.’ 2002 Washington Times 30 Jan. E4 (Hazel comic strip) ‘An army marches on its stomach.’ ‘And retreats on its..’ "food and drink; soldiers