Set a beggar on horseback, and he'll ride to the devil.
Proverbs and old sayings British about devil
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He must have leave to speak who cannot hold his tongue.
Proverbs and old sayings British
Tell not all you know, all you have, or all you can do.
Proverbs and old sayings British
The crutch of time does more than the club of Hercules.
Proverbs and old sayings British about time
It is ill sitting at Rome and striving against the Pope.
Proverbs and old sayings British
Poverty is no disgrace, but it is a great inconvenience.
Proverbs and old sayings British about poverty
It is a poor wood that has never a withered bough in it.
Proverbs and old sayings British
The strong man and the waterfall channel their own path.
Proverbs and old sayings British about man
Look to yourself when your neighbour's house is on fire.
Proverbs and old sayings British about fire, fire brigade, home, house
He who works begins well; he who economises ends better.
Proverbs and old sayings British about end
A man that breaks his word, bids others be false to him.
Proverbs and old sayings British about word, man
What the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve over.
Proverbs and old sayings British about heart
Better spare to have of your own, than ask of other men.
Proverbs and old sayings British about man
It is profound ignorance that inspires the dogmatic tone.
Proverbs and old sayings British about ignorance
He that would have eggs must endure the cackling of hens.
Proverbs and old sayings British
It is a proud horse that will not bear his own provender.
Proverbs and old sayings British about proudness
With Latin, a horse, and money, you may travel the world.
Proverbs and old sayings British about world, money
It is no sin to sell dear, but a sin to give ill measure.
Proverbs and old sayings British about sin, measure, commerce
Marry your son when you will, your daughter when you can.
Proverbs and old sayings British
Old men, when they marry young women, make much of death.
Proverbs and old sayings British about death, man, old, olderness
