Proverbs and old sayings, page 256

43574 proverbs and old sayings

Folks like the truth that hits their neighbor.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about truth, americans

Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about happiness, americans, contentment

A true wife is her husband's flower of beauty.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about garden, husband, beauty, wife, americans

A field becomes exhausted by constant tillage.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about americans

Better bend the neck than bruise the forehead.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about americans

Rather than run into debt, wear your old coat.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about americans, old, olderness

Strike while your employer has a big contract.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about employers, americans

Where the carrion is, there the eagles gather.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about americans

Close enough for horseshoes and hand grenades.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about americans

One rotten apple can spoil a lot of good ones.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about americans, good, good luck

Half an orange tastes as sweet as a whole one.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about americans

Whom chance often passes by, it finds at last.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about chance, americans

Figures don't lie, but sometimes liars figure.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about lie, americans

Men seek less to be instructed than applauded.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about man, americans

Doubt whom you will, but never doubt yourself.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about doubt, americans, contentment

You must pay the fiddler if you want to dance.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about dance, americans, contentment

A single fact is worth a shipload of argument.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about americans

Manhood is quite a struggle, old age a regret.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about fight, regret, olderness, age, americans, old

Fraud and cunning are the weapons of the weak.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about americans

The higher you climb, the harder you may fall.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about fall, americans, contentment