Proverbs and old sayings British, page 53

1123 proverbs and old sayings british

Keep good men company, and you shall be of the number.

Proverbs and old sayings British about numbers, companies, man, good, good luck

There comes nothing out of the sack but what was there.

Proverbs and old sayings British about nothing

The love of money and the love of learning rarely meet.

Proverbs and old sayings British about love, money

He who peeps through a hole, may see what will vex him.

Proverbs and old sayings British

Better go to heaven in rags than to hell in embroidery.

Proverbs and old sayings British about hell

He that marries ere he be wise, will die ere he thrive.

Proverbs and old sayings British about death

Set a beggar on horseback, and he'll ride to the devil.

Proverbs and old sayings British about devil

He must have leave to speak who cannot hold his tongue.

Proverbs and old sayings British

Tell not all you know, all you have, or all you can do.

Proverbs and old sayings British

It is ill sitting at Rome and striving against the Pope.

Proverbs and old sayings British

Poverty is no disgrace, but it is a great inconvenience.

Proverbs and old sayings British about poverty

It is a poor wood that has never a withered bough in it.

Proverbs and old sayings British

The strong man and the waterfall channel their own path.

Proverbs and old sayings British about man

Look to yourself when your neighbour's house is on fire.

Proverbs and old sayings British about fire, fire brigade, home, house

He who works begins well; he who economises ends better.

Proverbs and old sayings British about end

A man that breaks his word, bids others be false to him.

Proverbs and old sayings British about word, man

What the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve over.

Proverbs and old sayings British about heart

Better spare to have of your own, than ask of other men.

Proverbs and old sayings British about man

It is profound ignorance that inspires the dogmatic tone.

Proverbs and old sayings British about ignorance

He that would have eggs must endure the cackling of hens.

Proverbs and old sayings British