A dictionary of Proverbs (Oxford Paperback Reference)

clothes see there is no such thing as BAD weather, only the wrong clothes.
Every CLOUD has a silver lining
A poetic sentiment that even the gloomiest outlook contains some hopeful or consoling aspect. Cf. 1634 MILTON Comus I. 93 Was I deceiv’d, or did a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night?

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  1863 D. R. LOCKE Struggles of P V Nasby (1872) xxiii. Ther is a silver linin to evry cloud. 1869 P. T. BARNUM Struggles & Triumphs 406 ‘Every cloud’, says the proverb, ‘has a silver lining.’ 1991 T. MO Redundancy of Courage xxii. 283 This misfortune of hers had done wonders for our up and down relationship—all clouds have a silver lining, don’t they say. 2002 Spectator 13 Apr. 74 Still, every cloud has a silver lining, and he was quiet for the rest of the meal, which is something of a delightful first. ■ optimism
  

clout see ne’er CAST a clout till May be out.
clutch see a DROWNING man will clutch at a straw.
coat see CUT your coat according to your cloth.
Let the COBBLER stick to his last
Attributed to the Greek painter Apelles (4th cent. BC): see quot. 1721. The ‘shoemaker’ variant is a long-standing one in British proverb lore, but is now mainly North American. A last is a wooden or metal model on which a shoemaker fashions shoes or boots. Cf. PLINY Natural History xxxv. 85 ne supra crepidam sutor iudicaret, the cobbler should not judge beyond his shoe; ERASMUS Adages I. vi. 16 ne sutor ultra crepidam.

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  1539 R. TAVERNER tr. Erasmus’ Adages 17 Let not the shoemaker go beyond hys shoe. 1616 J. WITHALS Dict. (rev. ed.) 567 Cobler keepe your last. 1639 J. CLARKE
  

Paramiologia Anglo-Latina 21 Cobler keepe to your last. 1721 J. KELLY Scottish Proverbs 242 Let not the Cobler go beyond his last. .. Taken from the famous Story of Apelles, who could not bear that the Cobler should correct any part of his Picture beyond the Slipper. 1868 W. CLIFT Tim Bunker Papers lix. I understood the use of a plow.. better than the use of a pen.. remembering the old saw ‘Let the cobbler stick to his last.’ 1930 C. F. GREGG Murder on Bus xxx. Yet even then, Mapell had been mixed up with a gang of blackmailers. The shoemaker sticks to his last! 1984 A. MACLEAN San Andreas viii. Point taken, Mr. McKinnon. You see before you a rueful cobbler who will stick to his last from now on. "work