A dictionary of Proverbs (Oxford Paperback Reference)

The SEA refuses no river

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  1614 T. GENTLEMAN England’s Way to win Wealth 45 (marginal note) The Sailors Prouerbe: The Sea and the Gallowes refuse none. 1699 E. WARD Trip to New England 4 It often puts me in mind of the old Proverb, The Sea and the Gallows refuses none. 1850 H. MELVILLE White Jacket II. xliii. ‘The gallows and the sea refuse nothing,’ is a very old sea saying. 1969 R. NYE Tales I told my Mother 124 The sea refuses no river. “greed
  

sea see also there are as good FISH in the sea as ever came out of it; the FROG in the well knows nothing of the sea.
sea-maws see KEEP your own fish-guts for your own sea-maws.
search see on the FIRST of March, the crows begin to search.
SECOND thoughts are best
Cf. EURIPIDES Hippolytus 1. 436 ^: ■-''V ‘.ласл.чх:; the second thoughts
are invariably wiser.

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  1577 HOLINSHED Chronicles 438 Oftentymes it chaunceth, that latter thoughts are better aduised than the first. 1581 G. PETTIE tr. S. Guazzo’s Civil Conversation i. 23^V I finde verified that Prouerbe, That the second thoughts are euer the best. 1681 DRYDEN Spanish Friar II. 22 Second thoughts, they say, are best: I’ll consider of it once again. 1813 BYRON Letter 11 Dec. (1974) III. 196 In composition I do not think second thoughts are best, though second expressions may improve the first ideas. 1908 C. FITCH Beau Brummel I. i. Second thoughts seem to be always the best. 1981 P. O’DONNELL Xanadu Talisman v. That was my first thought. .. But second thoughts are always best. ■ prudence
  

secret see THREE may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
What you SEE is what you get
Of American origin: often shortened to the acronym wysiwyg (especially in computing) of a system capable of reproducing the screen format of text on a printout.

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  1971 New York Times 14 Nov. 17 ‘What you see, is what you get’.. is one of those recurring gag lines from the Flip Wilson Show that has quickly drifted into the language, all but become a household expression. 1983 G. PETIEVICH To die in Beverly Hills vii. The teleprinter raced as it printed the names of arrestees nicknamed Bones. ‘What you see is what you get,’ she said, squirming to point her breasts. ‘I mean the printout of course.’ 1990 Washington Post 10 Sept. (Business Section) 59 The lenders who would lend to anyone who said ‘real estate’ aren’t lending now. So we aren’t going to build any more product. What you see is what you get. 2007 Times2 13 Sept. 3 She then proudly told us that she had read them all, as evidence of her upfront nature (’What you see is what you get!’ she boasted). ■ appearance, significant