Proverbs and old sayings, page 409

43575 proverbs and old sayings

Don't cross your bridges before you come to them.

Proverbs and old sayings British about contentment

Beauty's sister is vanity, and its daughter lust.

Proverbs and old sayings British about proudness, vanity, beauty

No man can play the fool so well as the wise man.

Proverbs and old sayings British about man

If you always say No', you'll never be married.

Proverbs and old sayings British about contentment

To bow the body is easy, to bow the will is hard.

Proverbs and old sayings British about body

Poison is poison though it comes in a golden cup.

Proverbs and old sayings British

A fair wife and a frontier castle breed quarrels.

Proverbs and old sayings British about wife

In the eyes of the lover, pock-marks are dimples.

Proverbs and old sayings British about eyes

To dead men and absent there are no friends left.

Proverbs and old sayings British about absent, man

He that will not be counselled, cannot be helped.

Proverbs and old sayings British

The little cannot be great unless he devour many.

Proverbs and old sayings British

Laziness goes so slowly that poverty overtakes it.

Proverbs and old sayings British about laziness, poverty

Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance.

Proverbs and old sayings British about end, anger

The cow that's first up gets the first of the dew.

Proverbs and old sayings British

Your thrift's as gude as the profit o' a yeld hen.

Proverbs and old sayings British

Where coin is not common, provisions can be scant.

Proverbs and old sayings British about common sense

He that tells his wife news, is but newly married.

Proverbs and old sayings British about wife

How can the foal amble if the horse and mare trot?

Proverbs and old sayings British

It was the last straw that broke the camel's back.

Proverbs and old sayings British

A house is a fine house when good folks are within.

Proverbs and old sayings British about home, house, good, good luck