A lean fee is a fit reward for a lazy clerk.
Proverbs and old sayings British about reward
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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
Repentance is good, but innocence is better.
Proverbs and old sayings British about innocence, good, good luck
Maidens should be meek till they be married.
Proverbs and old sayings British
He that has no children brings them up well.
Proverbs and old sayings British about children
An eel by his tail, an Irishman at his word.
Proverbs and old sayings British about word
Wrath often consumes what goodness husbands.
Proverbs and old sayings British
He who lives by the sword dies by the sword.
Proverbs and old sayings British
An ounce of luck is worth a pound of wisdom.
Proverbs and old sayings British about bad luck, good luck, wisdom
An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest.
Proverbs and old sayings British about mother
Burn not your house to fright the mouse away.
Proverbs and old sayings British about fear, home, house
The peacock has fair feathers, but foul feet.
Proverbs and old sayings British
Biting and scratching is Scots folk's wooing.
Proverbs and old sayings British
He that makes a good war, makes a good peace.
Proverbs and old sayings British about war, peace, good, good luck
