Proverbs and old sayings, page 765

43575 proverbs and old sayings

Two things prolong your life: A quiet heart and a loving wife.

Proverbs and old sayings English about quiet, wife, life, things, heart

Interpretation: If you are going to do something, do it right.

Proverbs and old sayings English about rightness, contentment

The pitcher that goes too often to the well is broken at last.

Proverbs and old sayings English

In the end, a man's motives are second to his accomplishments.

Proverbs and old sayings English about end, man

Although shrimps may dance around, they do not leave the river.

Proverbs and old sayings English about dance

The generous man pays for nothing so much as what is given him.

Proverbs and old sayings English about nothing, man

Proportion your expenses to what you have, not what you expect.

Proverbs and old sayings English about contentment

There is not the thickness of a sixpence between good and evil.

Proverbs and old sayings English about good, good luck

A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds.

Proverbs and old sayings English about deeds, garden, word, man

Keep a thing seven years and you will always find a use for it.

Proverbs and old sayings English about use, things, contentment

The best way to see divine light is to put out your own candle.

Proverbs and old sayings English about light

The charitable give out the door and god puts in at the window.

Proverbs and old sayings English about god

Breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, dine like a pauper.

Proverbs and old sayings English

You can take a horse to the water, but you can't make him drink.

Proverbs and old sayings English about drinking, water, contentment

When a man's coat is threadbare it is easy to pick a hole in it.

Proverbs and old sayings English about man

If you rock the cradle empty, then you shall have babies plenty.

Proverbs and old sayings English about rocks, contentment

He that would the daughter win Must with the mother first begin.

Proverbs and old sayings English about mother

Hang a thief when he's young, and he'll no' steal when he's old.

Proverbs and old sayings English about thieves, old, olderness

Better to say nothing, than to say something not to the purpose.

Proverbs and old sayings English about purpose, nothing

All of you that intend to ring, you undertake a dangerous thing.

Proverbs and old sayings English about things, contentment