A dictionary of Proverbs (Oxford Paperback Reference)

heard see CHILDREN should be seen and not heard.
heart see ABSENCE makes the heart grow fonder; COLD hands, warm heart; what the EYE doesn’t see, the heart doesn’t grieve over; FAINT heart never won fair lady; out of the FULLNESS of the heart the mouth speaks; HOME is where the heart is; HOPE deferred makes the heart sick; if it were not for HOPE, the heart would break; a NATION without a language is a nation without a heart; PLEASE your eye and plague your heart; it is a POOR heart that never rejoices; put a STOUT heart to a stey brae; the WAY to a man’s heart is through his stomach.
If you don’t like the HEAT, get out of the kitchen

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  1952 Time 28 Apr. 19 President [Truman] gave a .. down-to-earth reason for his retirement, quoting a favorite expression of his military jester, Major General Harry Vaughan: ‘If you don’t like the heat, get out of the kitchen.’ 1970 Financial Times 13 Apr. 25 Property people argue that hoteliers are not facing the facts of economic life, and that if they cannot stand the heat they should get out of the kitchen. 2002 Times 29 Aug. 22 (heading) If you can’t stand the Heat, then you need to get out of Hello!’s kitchen. ■ politics; stress
  

HEAVEN protects children, sailors, and drunken men
The proverb is found in various forms; latterly, American examples often add ‘the United
States’ to the category of those favoured or in need of special protection.

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  1861 T. HUGHES Tom Brown at Oxford I. xii. Heaven, they say, protects children, sailors, and drunken men; and whatever answers to Heaven in the academical system protects freshmen. 1865 G. MACDONALD Alec Forbes III. xi. I canna think hoo he cam’ to fa’ sae sair; for they say there’s a special Providence watches over drunk men and bairns. 1980 S. KING Firestarter 57 She didn’t even have a bruise—God watches over drunks and small children. 1997 Washington Times 18 Nov. A15 As we become once more the fool, we can only pray the old epigram is still true: ‘God protects fools, drunkards and the United States.’ 2001 Washington Times 15 Nov. A16 We’ve all likely heard at some time or other the stale, snide European-ism: ‘The Lord looks after fools, drunks, and the United States.’ Sometimes you have to wonder: Does He really? ■ providence