Proverbs and old sayings British, page 48

1123 proverbs and old sayings british

It is no time to stoop when the head is off.

Proverbs and old sayings British about heads, time

Literature is a good staff but a bad crutch.

Proverbs and old sayings British about literature, bad luck, bad, good, good luck

Repentance is good, but innocence is better.

Proverbs and old sayings British about innocence, good, good luck

Maidens should be meek till they be married.

Proverbs and old sayings British

He that has no children brings them up well.

Proverbs and old sayings British about children

An eel by his tail, an Irishman at his word.

Proverbs and old sayings British about word

Wrath often consumes what goodness husbands.

Proverbs and old sayings British

He who lives by the sword dies by the sword.

Proverbs and old sayings British

An ounce of luck is worth a pound of wisdom.

Proverbs and old sayings British about bad luck, good luck, wisdom

An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest.

Proverbs and old sayings British about mother

Burn not your house to fright the mouse away.

Proverbs and old sayings British about fear, home, house

The peacock has fair feathers, but foul feet.

Proverbs and old sayings British

Biting and scratching is Scots folk's wooing.

Proverbs and old sayings British

He that makes a good war, makes a good peace.

Proverbs and old sayings British about war, peace, good, good luck

After a typhoon there are pears to gather up.

Proverbs and old sayings British

An inch of gold will not buy an inch of time.

Proverbs and old sayings British about commerce, time

It is easy to bear the misfortunes of others.

Proverbs and old sayings British

Drive your business, do not let it drive you.

Proverbs and old sayings British about affair

Many a one for land takes a fool by the hand.

Proverbs and old sayings British

A wise man cares not for what he cannot have.

Proverbs and old sayings British about man