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A gentleman ought to travel abroad, but dwell at home.

Proverbs and old sayings British about home

Man learns little from success, but much from failure.

Proverbs and old sayings British about failure, man

Fortune is weary to carry one and the same man always.

Proverbs and old sayings British about wealth, man

A good archer is not known by his arrows, but his aim.

Proverbs and old sayings British about good, good luck

What may be done at ony time will be done at nae time.

Proverbs and old sayings British about time

Keep good men company, and you shall be of the number.

Proverbs and old sayings British about numbers, companies, man, good, good luck

There comes nothing out of the sack but what was there.

Proverbs and old sayings British about nothing

The love of money and the love of learning rarely meet.

Proverbs and old sayings British about love, money

He who peeps through a hole, may see what will vex him.

Proverbs and old sayings British

Better go to heaven in rags than to hell in embroidery.

Proverbs and old sayings British about hell

He that marries ere he be wise, will die ere he thrive.

Proverbs and old sayings British

Set a beggar on horseback, and he'll ride to the devil.

Proverbs and old sayings British about devil

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