Proverbs and old sayings British, page 50

1123 proverbs and old sayings british

Riches take away more pleasures than they give.

Proverbs and old sayings British about wealth

Where old age is evil, youth can learn no good.

Proverbs and old sayings British about olderness, youth, age, good, good luck, old

He that woos a widow must woo her day and night.

Proverbs and old sayings British about night, day

Ye'll beguile nane but them that lippens to you.

Proverbs and old sayings British

Many a one blames his wife for his own unthrift.

Proverbs and old sayings British about wife

It is hard to sail over the sea in an egg-shell.

Proverbs and old sayings British

He that is ill to himself will be good to nobody.

Proverbs and old sayings British about good, good luck

It is a sorry flock where the ewe bears the bell.

Proverbs and old sayings British

Old age is a hospital that takes in all diseases.

Proverbs and old sayings British about olderness, age, old

Don't cross your bridges before you come to them.

Proverbs and old sayings British

Beauty's sister is vanity, and its daughter lust.

Proverbs and old sayings British about proudness, vanity, beauty

No man can play the fool so well as the wise man.

Proverbs and old sayings British about man

If you always say No', you'll never be married.

Proverbs and old sayings British

To bow the body is easy, to bow the will is hard.

Proverbs and old sayings British about body

Poison is poison though it comes in a golden cup.

Proverbs and old sayings British

A fair wife and a frontier castle breed quarrels.

Proverbs and old sayings British about wife

In the eyes of the lover, pock-marks are dimples.

Proverbs and old sayings British about eyes

To dead men and absent there are no friends left.

Proverbs and old sayings British about absent, man

He that will not be counselled, cannot be helped.

Proverbs and old sayings British

The little cannot be great unless he devour many.

Proverbs and old sayings British