Haste trips up its own heels. [ Proverb ]
She hath a tympani with two heels. [ Proverb ]
He that has no heart ought to have heels. [ Proverb ]
Better a fair pair of heels than a halter. [ Proverb ]
A good man's fortune may grow out at heels. [ William Shakespeare ]
One pair of heels is worth two pair of hands. [ Proverb ]
A spur in the head is worth two in the heels. [ Proverb ]
Good to the heels the well-worn slipper feels
When the tired player shuffles off the buskin;
A page of Hood may do a fellow good
After a scolding from Carlyle or Ruskin. [ Lowell ]
Grief still treads upon the heels of Pleasure. [ Congreve ]
Good dancers have mostly better heels than heads. [ Proverb ]
He that the devil drives feels no lead at his heels. [ Proverb ]
He who has love in his heart has spurs in his heels. [ Proverb ]
Can a jackanapes be merry when a clog is at his heels? [ Proverb ]
Haste trips up its own heels, fetters and stops itself. [ Seneca ]
He that hath love in his breast hath spurs at his heels. [ Proverb ]
He's a hot shot in a mustard pot, with his heels upright. [ Proverb ]
Follow not truth too near the heels, lest it dash out thy teeth. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Poverty treads close upon the heels of great and unexpected wealth. [ Rivarol ]
Day presses on the heels of day, and new moons hasten to their wane. [ Horace ]
To no more purpose, than it would be to knock one's heels against the ground. [ Proverb ]
The covetous man explores the whole world in pursuit of a subsistence, and fate is close at his heels. [ Saadi ]
Still on it creeps, each little moment at another's heels, till hours, days, years, and ages are made up. [ Joanna Baillie ]
I have learned to prize the quiet, lightning deed, not the applauding thunder at its heels that men call fame. [ A. Smith ]
Truth is a good dog; but beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out. [ Coleridge ]
Sweet recreation barred, what doth ensue but moody and dull melancholy, kinsman to grim and comfortless despair; and at their heels, a huge infectious troop of pale distemperatures and foes to life. [ William Shakespeare ]