A dictionary of Proverbs (Oxford Paperback Reference)

A HUNGRY man is an angry man

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  c 1641 D. FERGUSSON Scottish Proverbs (STS) no. 553 Hungry men ar angry. 1659 J. HOWELL Proverbs (English) 13 A hungry man, an angry man. 1738 SWIFT Polite Conversation ii. 119 ‘I’m hungry.’ .. ‘And I’m angry, so let us both go fight.’ 1909 Spectator 22 May 824 The Acharnians [in a play of that name by Aristophanes] . . made fun of the Athenians. .. ‘A hungry man is an angry man’ .. and the Athenians were certainly hungry. 1922 J. JOYCE Ulysses 161 Hungry man is an angry man. 1981 B. MARLEY in Times 17 Oct. 7 A hungry mob is an angry mob, a pot a cook but the food not enough. "hunger
  

hunt see until the LIONS produce their own historian,..; you cannot RUN with the hare and hunt with the hounds.
hunter see until the LIONS produce their own historian,...
HURRY no man’s cattle

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  1822 SCOTT Pirate I. ix. ‘A’ in gude time,’ replied the jagger [pedlar]; ‘hurry no man’s cattle.’ 1907 W. C. HAZLITT English Proverbs & Proverbial Phrases 236 Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to have a donkey of your own. Sometimes said to an impatient child. 1932 J. S. FLETCHER Murder of Ninth Baronet xxi. I knew that in due time he would tell me the result of these mental exercises; in the meantime I stood by the old adage—hurry no man’s cattle. ■ patience and impatience
  

hurt see don’t CRY before you’re hurt; what you don’t KNOW can’t hurt you; STICKS and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me.
The HUSBAND is always the last to know
Said of a wife as well as a husband.

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  1604 MARSTON What you Will I. i. A cuckold .. a thing that’s hoodwinked with kindness. .. He must be the last must know it. 1659 N. R. Proverbs 95 The good man is the last that knows whats amisse at home. 1756 STERNE Tristram Shandy VIII. iv. ‘It is with love as with cuckoldom’—the suffering party is at least the third, but generally the last who knows anything about the matter. 1893 R. KIPLING Many Inventions 250 The most disconnected witness knew .. the causes of offence; and the prisoner [i.e. the cuckolded husband], who naturally was the last of all to know, groaned in the dock while he listened. 1936 M. MITCHELL Gone with Wind liv. I thought surely the whole town knew by now. Perhaps they all do, except you. You know the old adage: ‘The wife is always the last one to find out.’ 1959 M. SUMMERTON Small Wilderness i. That over­worked truism about the wife being the last to know, wasn’t in my case strictly accurate. 1979 C. MACLEOD Family Vault iii. ‘Do you mean he hasn’t heard? Leila whooped. ‘They say the husband’s always the last to know,’ Harry chimed in. 2002 B. MONAHAN Sceptred Isle Club vii. 138 John knew that, just as in affairs of the heart the wife is the last to know, with affairs of business, professional associates seldom had warnings when their seemingly secure friend went bankrupt. "deception; wives and husbands