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No man has a worse friend than he brings from home.

Proverbs and old sayings British about home, man

It should be better to blame friends at a distance.

Proverbs and old sayings British

Let him that pays the reckoning choose the lodging.

Proverbs and old sayings British

He is wise that has wit enough for his own affairs.

Proverbs and old sayings British

Ye look like a rinner, quo' the deil to the lobster.

Proverbs and old sayings British

There is a remedy for everything, could men find it.

Proverbs and old sayings British about man

With patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.

Proverbs and old sayings British about salary, patience

Religion, credit, and the eye are not to be touched.

Proverbs and old sayings British about religion

A man may say too much, even upon the best subjects.

Proverbs and old sayings British about man

The air of a window is as the stroke of a cross-bow.

Proverbs and old sayings British about air

Knowledge without practice makes but half an artist.

Proverbs and old sayings British about artists, knowledge

A woman and a cherry are painted for their own harm.

Proverbs and old sayings British about woman

Sometimes clemency is cruelty, and cruelty clemency.

Proverbs and old sayings British about cruelty

You may break a horse's back, be he never so strong.

Proverbs and old sayings British

They think a calf a large beast that never saw a cow.

Proverbs and old sayings British

Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.

Proverbs and old sayings British about clothes, truth

He who wants a mule without fault, must walk on foot.

Proverbs and old sayings British

The man who is ready to lend is the beggar's brother.

Proverbs and old sayings British about man

The riches of the mind may make a man rich and happy.

Proverbs and old sayings British about wealth, happiness, mind, man

Wonder at your auld shoon when ye hae gotten your new.

Proverbs and old sayings British about miracle