Proverbs and old sayings, page 913

43575 proverbs and old sayings

Keep a thing seven years and you'll find a use for it.

Proverbs and old sayings about use, things, contentment

A man is known by the eye, and the face discovers wisdom.

Proverbs and old sayings about wisdom, face, man

He who would enjoy the fruit must not spoil the blossoms.

Proverbs and old sayings

Some of the sweetest berries grow among the sharpest thorns.

Proverbs and old sayings

The coroner and the lawyer grow fat on the quarrels of fools.

Proverbs and old sayings

The child that is left to himself will put his mother to shame.

Proverbs and old sayings about shame, children, mother

Even God cannot make two mountains without a valley in between.

Proverbs and old sayings about god

Do not judge by appearances; a rich heart may be under a poor coat.

Proverbs and old sayings about judges, wealth, heart

It is easy to straighten in the oak the crook that grew in the sapling.

Proverbs and old sayings

See that your own hearth is swept before you lift your neighbor's ashes.

Proverbs and old sayings about contentment

The bitter cup we strive to remove from us holds the medicine we are most in need of.

Proverbs and old sayings about medicine, bitter, need

Some people make things happen, some watch things happen, while others wonder what has happened.

Proverbs and old sayings about miracle, things, people

A church stone drops gold.

Proverbs and old sayings

The devil is fond of his own.

Proverbs and old sayings about devil

The hen's eyes are where her eggs are.

Proverbs and old sayings about eyes

Friends and mules fail in hard trials.

Proverbs and old sayings

He who plays with a sword plays with the devil.

Proverbs and old sayings about devil

The bad neighbour gives a needle without thread.

Proverbs and old sayings about bad luck, bad

He that is won with a nut, may be lost with an apple.

Proverbs and old sayings

He that is unkind to his own will not be kind to others.

Proverbs and old sayings