515 Proverbs about Heir / Page 4
61. 
Wheat stalks heavy with grain learn how to bow their heads.
62. 
Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations, can never effect a reform.
63. 
All rivers do their best for the sea.
64. 
All do not bite that show their teeth.
65. 
Beggars mounted ride their horses to death.
66. 
Big fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite them, and little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum.
67. 
Fools ask what's o'clock, but wise men know their time.
68. 
God gives birds their food, but they must fly for it.
69. 
Men dig their graves with their teeth.
70. 
Those that eat cherries with great persons shall have their eyes squirted out with the stones.
71. 
When apes climb high, they show their naked rumps.
72. 
When flies swarm in March, sheep come to their death.
73. 
When thieves fall out, honest men get their goods back.
74. 
Deep swimmers and high climbers usually don't die in their beds.
75. 
Even the devil himself does not know where women sharpen their knives.
76. 
Bees that have honey in their mouths have stings in their tails.
77. 
A's no gowd that glitters, nor maidens that wear their hair.
78. 
A wise men gets learning frae them that hae nane o' their ane.
79. 
The men o' the east are pykin their geese, and sendin' their feathers here-awa there-awa.
80. 
Scotsmen aye tak their mark frae a mischief.
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