4817 Proverbs about Ther / Page 57
1121.
One sword keeps another in its scabbard.1122.
One would rather be bitten by wolves than by sheep.1123.
Other times, other folk.1124.
Praise the child, and you make love to the mother.1125.
Quick and well seldom go together.1126.
Rather the egg to-day than the hen to-morrow.1127.
Silent tongue and hempen heart often go together.1128.
Speedy execution is the mother of good fortune.1129.
Take not your sickle to another man's corn.1130.
That is poor help that helps you from the feather-bed to the straw.1131.
That's but an empty purse which is full of other men's money.1132.
The child who gets a stepmother also gets a stepfather.1133.
The oft-moved stone gathers no moss.1134.
The tooth often bites the tongue, and yet they keep together.1135.
The waggon must go whither the horses draw it.1136.
The watch-dog does not get sweet milk unless there be drowned mice in it.1137.
There are many days in the year, and still more meals.1138.
There are three bad neighbours: great rivers, great lords, and great roads.1139.
There are three things from which no good can be got without a beating: a walnut-tree, a donkey, and a shrew.1140.
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