Proverbs and old sayings, page 769

43575 proverbs and old sayings

If he deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me.

Proverbs and old sayings English about shame

A picture is worth a thousand words, and yet picture books are for infants.

Proverbs and old sayings English about books, word

There is never a debt is paid so high as that which the wet owes to the dry.

Proverbs and old sayings English

Friends are like centipedes, they have many legs when work needs to be done.

Proverbs and old sayings English about work

You lose some... and you win some... and some you don't even bother to play.

Proverbs and old sayings English about contentment

There is an hour wherein a man might be happy all his life, could he find it.

Proverbs and old sayings English about happiness, life, man

The afterthought is good for nought, except it be to catch blind horses with.

Proverbs and old sayings English about trap, blind, good, good luck

A little knowledge is dangerous. Drink deep, or taste not the puritan waters.

Proverbs and old sayings English about knowledge, drinking

Write down the advice of him who love you, though you like it not at present.

Proverbs and old sayings English about present, advice, love, contentment

It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to hoard it like a miser.

Proverbs and old sayings English

Poor thieves in halters we behold; And great thieves in their chains of gold.

Proverbs and old sayings English about thieves

It is a sin against hospitality to open the doors and shut up the countenance.

Proverbs and old sayings English about sin

Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.

Proverbs and old sayings English about present, advice, contentment

Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.

Proverbs and old sayings English about children, mother, old, olderness

Be not deceived with the first appearance of things, for show is not substance.

Proverbs and old sayings English about things

Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from poor judgement.

Proverbs and old sayings English about experience, good, good luck

A man among children will long be a child; a child among men will soon be a man.

Proverbs and old sayings English about children, man

You can't grease a pig so many times that he can't be greased one more time.

Proverbs and old sayings English about time, contentment

Two things a man should never get angry at: what he can help and what he cannot.

Proverbs and old sayings English about help, things, man

Sweep the house with a broom in may and you'll sweep the luck of the house away.

Proverbs and old sayings English about home, house, bad luck, good luck, contentment