Proverbs and old sayings, page 637

43575 proverbs and old sayings

If you listen to dogs barking, you'll go deaf and never learn much.

Proverbs and old sayings about contentment

Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves.

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If you lie upon roses when young, you will lie upon thorns when old.

Proverbs and old sayings about lie, contentment, old, olderness

If in February there be no rain, 'tis neither good for hay nor grain.

Proverbs and old sayings about rain, good, good luck

What is done under the four moons need never be recalled nor regretted.

Proverbs and old sayings about need

Not even the Lord of Light can turn back time, or undo what has been done.

Proverbs and old sayings about light, time

There is nothing so good for the inside of a man as the outside of a horse.

Proverbs and old sayings about nothing, good, good luck, man

Who grudges his blood to a blade had better earn his living behind the plow.

Proverbs and old sayings about blood

Take care how you beseech the gods for a gift, for they will give it to you.

Proverbs and old sayings about gods, gifts, contentment

The mouse in the wall may look at a cat, but he is wise not to squeak about it.

Proverbs and old sayings

Where two women rule a hearth-fire, the thatch may burn with the sparks flying.

Proverbs and old sayings about rules, fire, fire brigade

If blood is spilt on you before breakfast, you will shed blood before nightfall.

Proverbs and old sayings about blood, contentment

If stupidity were a crime, half the human race would be hanged at every crossroads.

Proverbs and old sayings about stupidity, crime, criminals, human imperfections

The rain can only drown the mud-rabbit if he hasn't the wits to keep his mouth shut.

Proverbs and old sayings about rain

Put no faith in a drunkard's prophecy, another man's dog, or the weather at any season.

Proverbs and old sayings about prophecy, season, faith, weather, man

No man can make another's destiny and all the wishing in the world will not make it so.

Proverbs and old sayings about destiny, world, man

A rabbithorn cannot be a war-horse and will only become a laughingstock if he should try.

Proverbs and old sayings about war

You cannot forge a hammer from featherpod fluff, nor spin spidersilk from precious copper.

Proverbs and old sayings about contentment

No choice is ever wholly unregretted, each brings more joy and more sorrow than we can foresee.

Proverbs and old sayings about joy, sadness

While the mouse in the walls may look from afar at a cat, he does well not to go squeaking about it.

Proverbs and old sayings