A dictionary of Proverbs (Oxford Paperback Reference)

London see what MANCHESTER says today, the rest of England says tomorrow.
LONG and lazy, little and loud; fat and fulsome, pretty and proud

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  с 1576 T. WHYTEHORNE Autobiography (1961) 23 Hy women be layzy and low be lowd, fair be sluttish, and fowll be proud. 1591 J. FLORIO Second Fruits 189 If long, she is lazy, if little, she is lowde. 1648 HERRICK Hesperides 166 Long and lazie. That was the Proverb. Let my mistress be Lasie to others, but be long to me—Ibid. 248 Little and loud. Little you are; for Womans sake be proud; For my sake next, (though little) be not loud. 1659 J. HOWELL Proverbs (English) 10 Long and lazy, little and loud, Fatt and fulsome, prety and proud; in point of women. 1872 BLACKMORE Maid of Sker I. xiii. You are long enough, and lazy enough; put your hand to the bridle. ■ women
  

LONG foretold, long last; short notice, soon past
Cf. 1863 R. FITZROY Weather Book 15 The longer the time between the signs and the change foretold by them, the longer such altered weather will last; and, on the contrary, the less the time between a warning and a change, the shorter will be the continuance of such predicted weather.

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  1866 A. STEINMETZ Manual of Weathercasts xiv. Old saws [sayings] about the barometer. Long foretold, long last; short notice, soon past. 1889 J. K. JEROME Three Men in Boat v. The barometer is . . misleading. . . Boots . . read out a poem which was printed over the top of the oracle, about ‘Long foretold, long last; Short notice, soon past.’ The fine weather never came that summer. 2002 Times 6 Apr. (online) ‘Long foretold, long last; short notice, soon past’ the old saying says, meaning that a long rise in atmospheric pressure brings a long spell of high pressure, which there was. "future; weather lore