A fair wife and a frontier castle breed quarrels.
Proverbs and old sayings British about wife
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In the eyes of the lover, pock-marks are dimples.
Proverbs and old sayings British about eyes
To dead men and absent there are no friends left.
Proverbs and old sayings British about absent, man
He that will not be counselled, cannot be helped.
Proverbs and old sayings British
The little cannot be great unless he devour many.
Proverbs and old sayings British
Laziness goes so slowly that poverty overtakes it.
Proverbs and old sayings British about laziness, poverty
Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance.
Proverbs and old sayings British about end, anger
The cow that's first up gets the first of the dew.
Proverbs and old sayings British
Your thrift's as gude as the profit o' a yeld hen.
Proverbs and old sayings British
Where coin is not common, provisions can be scant.
Proverbs and old sayings British about common sense
He that tells his wife news, is but newly married.
Proverbs and old sayings British about wife
How can the foal amble if the horse and mare trot?
Proverbs and old sayings British
It was the last straw that broke the camel's back.
Proverbs and old sayings British
A house is a fine house when good folks are within.
Proverbs and old sayings British about home, house, good, good luck
When children stand quiet, they have done some ill.
Proverbs and old sayings British about quiet, children
An old cart well used may outlast a new one abused.
Proverbs and old sayings British about old, olderness
Not a few proverbs are dear children of experience.
Proverbs and old sayings British about experience, children
Children are certain cares, but uncertain comforts.
Proverbs and old sayings British about children
Appear in your own colours, that folk may know you.
Proverbs and old sayings British
Pay what you owe and you'll know what you're worth.
Proverbs and old sayings British
