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If you are going to steal horses, steal thoroughbreds.

Proverbs and old sayings about contentment

Rats make havoc in the kitchen when the cat's a kitten.

Proverbs and old sayings about kitchen

Kinsmen are born, but friendship is a gift of the gods.

Proverbs and old sayings about gods, gifts, friendship

If you lie down with a man, you may rise up as a woman.

Proverbs and old sayings about lie, woman, contentment, man

Love is love no matter whence it comes or in what form.

Proverbs and old sayings about love

If you are praised by a villain, mend your ways at once.

Proverbs and old sayings about criminals, contentment

It is ill done to chain a dragon for roasting your meat.

Proverbs and old sayings

Better lady in a cottage than serving-woman in a castle.

Proverbs and old sayings about woman

Lucky charms protect you only if you have your own luck.

Proverbs and old sayings about bad luck, good luck, contentment

We will ride that colt when he is grown to wear a saddle.

Proverbs and old sayings

One generation plants the trees, the next eats the fruit.

Proverbs and old sayings

An oath broken by one does not thereafter bind the other.

Proverbs and old sayings about oath

There is nothing so evil as the mind of a virtuous woman.

Proverbs and old sayings about mind, woman, nothing

Not even a god can bring back the leaves that have fallen.

Proverbs and old sayings about god

A devil with fine manners can still carry you only to hell.

Proverbs and old sayings about hell, devil, contentment

If ill luck were cheese, dairy-women would go wanting work.

Proverbs and old sayings about bad luck, good luck, work

Only a race horse or a Comyn lord is judged by his pedigree.

Proverbs and old sayings

The sex of a cralmac is of interest only to another cralmac.

Proverbs and old sayings about sex, interest

The world goes as it will and not as you or I would want it.

Proverbs and old sayings about world, contentment

If you are kind to the cruel, you will be cruel to the kind.

Proverbs and old sayings about contentment