Proverbs and old sayings, page 1774

43574 proverbs and old sayings

Take a man by his word, and a Cow by her horn.

Proverbs and old sayings about word, man

Better spare at the breird nor at the bottome.

Proverbs and old sayings

It that God will give, the Devil cannot reave.

Proverbs and old sayings about devil, god

It is a fairy collop that is tane off a Capon.

Proverbs and old sayings about fairy tales

Ye may puind for debt, but not for unkindnesse.

Proverbs and old sayings

Twa hungry meltithes makes the third a glutton.

Proverbs and old sayings

It is ill to make a bowing horn of a tods tail.

Proverbs and old sayings

Thou wilt get no more of the cat, but the skin.

Proverbs and old sayings

It is kindly that the poke fair of the Herring.

Proverbs and old sayings

A given Horse should not be lookt in the teeth.

Proverbs and old sayings

Kindnesse lies not ay in ane side of the house.

Proverbs and old sayings about home, house

Better hand loose, nor bound to an ill baikine.

Proverbs and old sayings

Hoordom and grace, can never bide in one place.

Proverbs and old sayings about grace

He is fairest dung when his own wand dings him.

Proverbs and old sayings

There is remead for all things but starke dead.

Proverbs and old sayings about things

Curtesie is cumbersom to them that kens it not.

Proverbs and old sayings

Quhiles the hawk hes, and whiles he hunger hes.

Proverbs and old sayings about hunger

Quhiles thou, whiles I, soe goes the Baillerie.

Proverbs and old sayings

He that hes no geir to tine, hes shins to pine.

Proverbs and old sayings

Long ere you cut Falkland-wood with a Pen-knife.

Proverbs and old sayings about contentment