If you would know the value of a ducat, try to borrow one.
Proverbs and old sayings British about value, contentment
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If you yourself can do it, attend no other's help or hand.
Proverbs and old sayings British about help, contentment
A man is known to be mortal by two things, sleep and lust.
Proverbs and old sayings British about sleep, things, man
Seek much, and get something; seek little, and get nothing.
Proverbs and old sayings British about nothing
The love of the wicked is more dangerous than their hatred.
Proverbs and old sayings British about love
No mischief but a woman or a priest is at the bottom of it.
Proverbs and old sayings British about woman
The best remedy against an ill man, is much ground between.
Proverbs and old sayings British about man
He that stays in the valley, shall never get over the hill.
Proverbs and old sayings British
Obedience is much more seen in little things than in great.
Proverbs and old sayings British about things
If you will learn news, you must go to the oven or the mill.
Proverbs and old sayings British about contentment
A truly great man never puts away the simplicity of a child.
Proverbs and old sayings British about simplicity, children, man
Never be boastful; someone may pass who knew you as a child.
Proverbs and old sayings British about children, contentment
Ye'll neither dee for your wit nor be drowned for a warlock.
Proverbs and old sayings British
Better to pay and have little than have much and be in debt.
Proverbs and old sayings British
He that puts on a public gown must put off a private person.
Proverbs and old sayings British about public, people
The married man has many cares, the unmarried one many more.
Proverbs and old sayings British about man
A handful of good life, is better than a bushel of learning.
Proverbs and old sayings British about life, good, good luck
The guest who outstays his fellow-guests loses his overcoat.
Proverbs and old sayings British
Those far, far away are seldom seen for what they really are.
Proverbs and old sayings British
The rich man may dine when he will, the poor man when he may.
Proverbs and old sayings British about wealth, man
