Better leave something to an enemy than borrow from a friend.
Proverbs and old sayings about enemies
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The man who minds his own business well has always enough to do.
Proverbs and old sayings about affair, man
When men are rightly occupied their happiness grows of their work.
Proverbs and old sayings about happiness, work, man
Many a man has been guarding the bush and another plucking the fruit.
Proverbs and old sayings about man
Learning is fine clothes for the rich man, and riches for the poor man.
Proverbs and old sayings about wealth, clothes, man
The remembrance of the heart is better than the remembrance of the head.
Proverbs and old sayings about heads, heart
The man who looks after his own work has plenty to do to keep everything right.
Proverbs and old sayings about rightness, work, man
The greatest pleasure in life lies in doing that which people say we cannot do.
Proverbs and old sayings about pleasure, life, people
If you would grow poor without knowing it, put your helpers to work and go to sleep
Proverbs and old sayings about sleep, work, contentment
Never marry an heiress, unless her father has been hanged. She is sure to be proud.
Proverbs and old sayings about proudness
She's for knitting and sewing and scraping potatoes, and you should be glad to catch the like.
Proverbs and old sayings about trap, contentment
When a man wants a wife, he wants but a wife; But when he has got a wife, he wants a great deal.
Proverbs and old sayings about wife, man
The weaknesses of old age are no fit cause for laughter, since they must be our own portion at the end.
Proverbs and old sayings about laughter, olderness, age, end, old
Ten thousand of the greatest faults in our neighbours is of less consequence than the smallest of our own.
Proverbs and old sayings about consequences
Where there are women there is talk, where there are geese there is keck, where there are tailors there are crabs, where there are carpenters, there are chips.
Proverbs and old sayings
A whale's tooth in a whale's jaw.
Proverbs and old sayings
Land is permanent, man disappears.
Proverbs and old sayings about man
The dancing of Tanerore has begun.
Proverbs and old sayings
The land is a mother that never dies.
Proverbs and old sayings about mother
Desolate darkeness, desolate brightness.
Proverbs and old sayings
