Proverbs and old sayings, page 405

43574 proverbs and old sayings

Ye're very foresighted, like Forsyth's cat.

Proverbs and old sayings British

Poverty wants many things, and avarice all.

Proverbs and old sayings British about poverty, things

Better hand loose than in an ill tethering.

Proverbs and old sayings British

Do on the hill as you would do in the hall.

Proverbs and old sayings British about contentment

Children learn to creep before they can go.

Proverbs and old sayings British about children

Custom without reason is but ancient error.

Proverbs and old sayings British about error, old, reason

Ill words are bellows to a slackening fire.

Proverbs and old sayings British about word, fire, fire brigade

It is good to have a hatch before the door.

Proverbs and old sayings British about good, good luck

Make not your sail too big for the ballast.

Proverbs and old sayings British

Truth needs not the ornament of many words.

Proverbs and old sayings British about truth, word

The money you refuse will never do you good.

Proverbs and old sayings British about money, contentment, good, good luck

The longer we live, the more wonders we see.

Proverbs and old sayings British

A lean fee is a fit reward for a lazy clerk.

Proverbs and old sayings British about reward

With customs we live well, but laws undo us.

Proverbs and old sayings British

He that lives in hope dances to an ill tune.

Proverbs and old sayings British about hope

When it thunders in March, it brings sorrow.

Proverbs and old sayings British about sadness

A straight stick looks crooked in the water.

Proverbs and old sayings British about water

What's in your wame's not in your testament.

Proverbs and old sayings British

It is no time to stoop when the head is off.

Proverbs and old sayings British about heads, time

Literature is a good staff but a bad crutch.

Proverbs and old sayings British about literature, bad luck, bad, good, good luck