Proverbs and old sayings, page 703

43575 proverbs and old sayings

Who chastises his child will be honoured by him, who chastises him not will be shamed.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about children

Learn thou of learned men, th' unlearned of thee; for thus must knowledge propagated be.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about knowledge, man

Love others well, but love thyself the most; give good for good, but not to thine own cost.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about love, good, good luck

Two cocks in one house, a cat and a mouse, an old man and young wife, are always in strife.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about wife, home, house, man, old, olderness

Every little helps to lighten the freight, said the captain, as he threw his wife overboard.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about wife

Those that eat cherries with great persons shall have their eyes squirted out with the stones.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about people, eyes

Precaution said, Good friend, this counsel keep: strip not yourself until you're laid to sleep.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about moral, sleep, good, good luck, contentment

Fortune lost, nothing lost; courage lost, much lost; honour lost, more lost; soul lost, all lost.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about courage, honour, soul, wealth, nothing

He that looketh on a woman to lust after her, hath committed adultery already with her in his heart.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about heart, woman

It is better to ride for half a year on a good horse than to spend your entire life riding on a mule.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about life, good, good luck

Young fools think that the old are dotards, but the old have forgotten more than the young fools know.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about old, olderness

Big fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite them, and little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

Beware of an oak, it draws the stroke; avoid an ash, it counts the flash; creep under the thorn, it can save you from harm.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about contentment

All offices are greasy (i.e. open to receive what the Dutch call smear-money, a term derived from the fee paid for greasing wheels).

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about money

He who dies not in his twenty-third year, drowns not in his twenty-fourth, and is not slain in his twenty-fifth, may boast of good days.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about day, good, good luck

It is too late to lock the stable door when the steed is stolen.

Proverbs and old sayings

Little thieves are hanged, but great ones escape.

Proverbs and old sayings about thieves

Hands that give also receive.

Proverbs and old sayings

Some go out to fleece and come back sheared.

Proverbs and old sayings

He who does not go to sea knows not how to pray.

Proverbs and old sayings about pray