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When flatterers meet, the devil goes to dinner.

Proverbs and old sayings English about devil

The chain is no stronger than its weakest link.

Proverbs and old sayings English

Take heed you do not find what you do not seek.

Proverbs and old sayings English about contentment

He that is fallen cannot help him that is down.

Proverbs and old sayings English about help

The worse the passage the more welcome the port.

Proverbs and old sayings English

History never repeats itself, but it does rhyme.

Proverbs and old sayings English about history

He that's a wise man by day is no fool by night.

Proverbs and old sayings English about night, day, man

Never choose your women or linen by candlelight.

Proverbs and old sayings English

A lean agreement is better than a fat judgement.

Proverbs and old sayings English

People with wax heads shouldn't walk in the sun.

Proverbs and old sayings English about heads, sun, people

Chains of gold are stronger than chains of iron.

Proverbs and old sayings English

Whom we love best, to them we can say the least.

Proverbs and old sayings English about love

The man in boots does not know the man in shoes.

Proverbs and old sayings English about man

There's none so blind as those who will not see.

Proverbs and old sayings English about blind

Injuries we write in marble, kindnesses in dust.

Proverbs and old sayings English

You never miss the water till the well runs dry.

Proverbs and old sayings English about water, contentment

A man may die old at thirty and young at eighty.

Proverbs and old sayings English about death, man, old, olderness

Better never to begin than never to make an end.

Proverbs and old sayings English about end

Never put off to tomorrow what you can do today.

Proverbs and old sayings English about contentment

The fairer the hostess the fouler the reckoning.

Proverbs and old sayings English