188 Proverbs about Stick / Page 9
161. Fools should have no chappin sticks.
162. The last partridge to rise gets the most sticks thrown at it.
163. The quail waits for the stick; the idle loiterer about a place waits for a kick from an old boot.
164. Whose stick, his buffalo.
165. Dress up a rod, it looks like a baron. Dress up a stick of heather, it looks like a lady.
166. Until the snake is dead, do not drop the stick.
167. Of the good we have an understanding, for fools we keep a stick upstairs.
168. Can I pull down the sun with a forked stick, or prevent it from running its course?
169. You drive a donkey with a stick, an ox and a mule with a prod, and the horse with a whip and spurs.
170. Donkeys and women, beat them with a stick, to keep them at task.
171. A man is a man to the extent that he sticks by his word.
172. You can't drive donkeys without a stick, nor horses without spurs.
173. Let the cobbler stick to his last.
174. Plaster thick, some will stick.
175. Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.
176. Throw dirt enough, and some will stick.
177. The crook in the old stick is ill to take out.
178. As unsteady as an egg on a stick.
179. Birds align with grain, but not with the stick.
180. A single stick may smoke, but it will not burn.
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