4817 Proverbs about Ther / Page 227
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Never marry an heiress, unless her father has been hanged. She is sure to be proud.4522.
Where there are women there is talk, where there are geese there is keck, where there are tailors there are crabs, where there are carpenters, there are chips.4523.
To show one's fist to a blind man is neither a sin nor a virtue.4524.
A very jealous person is glad when somebody else cries, and sighs when others laugh.4525.
The mother keeps on caring for her daughter while the daughter keeps on craving for her husband.4526.
One man's beard is on fire, and another man warms his hands on it.4527.
When a son attends to his father, it is a twofold joy for both; when wise things are prescribed to him, the son is.4528.
If you have to drag a dog to the hunt, neither he nor his hunting is any good.4529.
The miserable got together with the hopeless.4530.
A man at forty is either a fool or a physician.4531.
A Presbyterian minister had a son who was made Archdeacon of Ossery; when this was told to his father, he said, 'If my son will be a knave, I am glad that he will be an archknave.'4532.
A proud mind and an empty purse gree ill thegither.4533.
A sloathfull man is a beggers brother.4534.
Ane beats the bush, and anither grips the bird.4535.
Ane mans meat is another mans poyson.4536.
Bread and cheese is gude to eat when folk can get nae ither meat.4537.
Broken freendships can be soother'd, but never soond.4538.
Chairity begins at hame, but shouldna end there.4539.
Diligence the mother of good luck.4540.
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