The afterthought is good for nought, except it be to catch blind horses with.
Proverbs and old sayings English about blind, good, good luck
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A little knowledge is dangerous. Drink deep, or taste not the puritan waters.
Proverbs and old sayings English about knowledge, drinking
Write down the advice of him who love you, though you like it not at present.
Proverbs and old sayings English about present, advice, love
It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to hoard it like a miser.
Proverbs and old sayings English
Poor thieves in halters we behold; And great thieves in their chains of gold.
Proverbs and old sayings English about thieves
It is a sin against hospitality to open the doors and shut up the countenance.
Proverbs and old sayings English about sin
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
Proverbs and old sayings English about present, advice
Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.
Proverbs and old sayings English about children, mother, old, olderness
Be not deceived with the first appearance of things, for show is not substance.
Proverbs and old sayings English about things
Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from poor judgement.
Proverbs and old sayings English about experience, good, good luck
A man among children will long be a child; a child among men will soon be a man.
Proverbs and old sayings English about children, man
You can't grease a pig so many times that he can't be greased one more time.
Proverbs and old sayings English about time
Two things a man should never get angry at: what he can help and what he cannot.
Proverbs and old sayings English about help, things, man
Sweep the house with a broom in may and you'll sweep the luck of the house away.
Proverbs and old sayings English about home, house, bad luck, good luck
If a man deceive me once, shame on him; but if he deceive me twice, shame on me.
Proverbs and old sayings English about shame, man
If you make songs about yourself, you can't blame other people for singing them.
Proverbs and old sayings English about people
The first faults are theirs that commit them, the second theirs that permit them.
Proverbs and old sayings English
Eat leeks in march, garlic in may, all the rest of the year the doctors may play.
Proverbs and old sayings English about rest
The brains of a fox will be of little service if you play with the paw of a lion.
Proverbs and old sayings English
Red sky at night, shepherd's delight; red sky in the morning, shepherd's warning.
Proverbs and old sayings English about sky, night
