Proverbs and old sayings British, page 52

1123 proverbs and old sayings british

There is a remedy for everything, could men find it.

Proverbs and old sayings British about man

With patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.

Proverbs and old sayings British about salary, patience

Religion, credit, and the eye are not to be touched.

Proverbs and old sayings British about religion

A man may say too much, even upon the best subjects.

Proverbs and old sayings British about man

The air of a window is as the stroke of a cross-bow.

Proverbs and old sayings British about air

Knowledge without practice makes but half an artist.

Proverbs and old sayings British about artists, knowledge

A woman and a cherry are painted for their own harm.

Proverbs and old sayings British about woman

Sometimes clemency is cruelty, and cruelty clemency.

Proverbs and old sayings British about cruelty

You may break a horse's back, be he never so strong.

Proverbs and old sayings British

They think a calf a large beast that never saw a cow.

Proverbs and old sayings British

Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.

Proverbs and old sayings British about clothes, truth

He who wants a mule without fault, must walk on foot.

Proverbs and old sayings British

The man who is ready to lend is the beggar's brother.

Proverbs and old sayings British about man

The riches of the mind may make a man rich and happy.

Proverbs and old sayings British about wealth, happiness, mind, man

Wonder at your auld shoon when ye hae gotten your new.

Proverbs and old sayings British about miracle

A gentleman ought to travel abroad, but dwell at home.

Proverbs and old sayings British about home

Man learns little from success, but much from failure.

Proverbs and old sayings British about failure, man

Fortune is weary to carry one and the same man always.

Proverbs and old sayings British about wealth, man

A good archer is not known by his arrows, but his aim.

Proverbs and old sayings British about good, good luck

What may be done at ony time will be done at nae time.

Proverbs and old sayings British about time