Proverbs and old sayings, page 410

43575 proverbs and old sayings

When children stand quiet, they have done some ill.

Proverbs and old sayings British about quiet, children

An old cart well used may outlast a new one abused.

Proverbs and old sayings British about old, olderness

Not a few proverbs are dear children of experience.

Proverbs and old sayings British about experience, children

Children are certain cares, but uncertain comforts.

Proverbs and old sayings British about children

Appear in your own colours, that folk may know you.

Proverbs and old sayings British about contentment

Pay what you owe and you'll know what you're worth.

Proverbs and old sayings British about contentment

No man has a worse friend than he brings from home.

Proverbs and old sayings British about home, man

It should be better to blame friends at a distance.

Proverbs and old sayings British

Let him that pays the reckoning choose the lodging.

Proverbs and old sayings British

He is wise that has wit enough for his own affairs.

Proverbs and old sayings British

Ye look like a rinner, quo' the deil to the lobster.

Proverbs and old sayings British

There is a remedy for everything, could men find it.

Proverbs and old sayings British about man

With patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.

Proverbs and old sayings British about salary, patience

Religion, credit, and the eye are not to be touched.

Proverbs and old sayings British about religion

A man may say too much, even upon the best subjects.

Proverbs and old sayings British about man

The air of a window is as the stroke of a cross-bow.

Proverbs and old sayings British about air

Knowledge without practice makes but half an artist.

Proverbs and old sayings British about artists, knowledge

A woman and a cherry are painted for their own harm.

Proverbs and old sayings British about woman

Sometimes clemency is cruelty, and cruelty clemency.

Proverbs and old sayings British about cruelty

You may break a horse's back, be he never so strong.

Proverbs and old sayings British about contentment