Proverbs and old sayings, page 702

43575 proverbs and old sayings

A usurer, a miller, a banker, and a publican, are the four evangelists of Lucifer.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about bankers

Rejoice in little, shun what is extreme; the ship rides safest in a little stream.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

More flies are caught with a spoonful of syrup than with a barrel full of vinegar.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

The rich devour the poor, and the devil devours the rich and so both are devoured.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about wealth, devil

Give at first asking what you safely can; 'tis certain gain to help an honest man.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about help, man, contentment

Put your hand in your conscience and see if it does not come out as black as pitch.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about conscience, magic

He that hears much and speaks not at all Shall be welcome both in bower and hall.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

That mouse will have a tail (i.e. The thing will have a long train of consequences).

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about consequences, trains, things

Young folks think old folks to be fools, but old folks know young folks to be fools.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about old, olderness

Cold broth hot again, that loved I never; Old love renew'd again, that loved I ever.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about love, old, olderness

The higher the mountain the lower the vale, the taller the tree the harder the fall.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about fall

He is of the race of Johnny Van Cleeve; who would always much rather have than give.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

Forbear a quarrel with a friend to move: anger breeds hatred; concord sweetens love.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about concord, anger, love

The first occasion offered quickly take, lest thou repine at what thou didst forsake.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

A hundred bakers, a hundred millers, and a hundred tailors are three hundred thieves.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about thieves

Wisdom in the man, patience in the wife, brings peace to the house, and a happy life.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about patience, happiness, peace, wisdom, wife, life, home, house, man

Bite me not, my name is little grizzle; had I a little tail I should be a little lion.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about name

The higher the mountain the lower the valley, the taller the tree the harder the fall.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about fall

Bad company, said the thief, as he went to the gallows between the hangman and a monk.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about companies, thieves, bad luck, bad

The eye of the master makes the horse fat, and that of the mistress the chambers neat.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch