Proverbs and old sayings English, page 57

1254 proverbs and old sayings english

Proportion your expenses to what you have, not what you expect.

Proverbs and old sayings English

There is not the thickness of a sixpence between good and evil.

Proverbs and old sayings English about good, good luck

A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds.

Proverbs and old sayings English about deeds, garden, word, man

Keep a thing seven years and you will always find a use for it.

Proverbs and old sayings English about use, things

The best way to see divine light is to put out your own candle.

Proverbs and old sayings English about light

The charitable give out the door and god puts in at the window.

Proverbs and old sayings English about god

Breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, dine like a pauper.

Proverbs and old sayings English

You can take a horse to the water, but you can't make him drink.

Proverbs and old sayings English about drinking, water

When a man's coat is threadbare it is easy to pick a hole in it.

Proverbs and old sayings English about man

If you rock the cradle empty, then you shall have babies plenty.

Proverbs and old sayings English about rocks

He that would the daughter win Must with the mother first begin.

Proverbs and old sayings English about mother

Hang a thief when he's young, and he'll no' steal when he's old.

Proverbs and old sayings English about thieves, old, olderness

Better to say nothing, than to say something not to the purpose.

Proverbs and old sayings English about purpose, nothing

All of you that intend to ring, you undertake a dangerous thing.

Proverbs and old sayings English about things

If you dont have anything nice to say, dont say anything at all.

Proverbs and old sayings English

A good man in an evil society seems the greatest villain of all.

Proverbs and old sayings English about criminals, society, good, good luck, man

You'll always miss 100% of the [basketball] shots you don't take.

Proverbs and old sayings English

You may poke a man's fire after you've known him for seven years.

Proverbs and old sayings English about fire, fire brigade, man

It's too late to shut the stable-door after the horse has bolted.

Proverbs and old sayings English

Look after the pennies and the pounds will look after themselves.

Proverbs and old sayings English