2621 Proverbs about Thin / Page 29
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Stealing would be a nice thing, if thieves were hanged by the girdle.562.
Such awkward things will happen as going into the great square and coming back without ears.563.
Tell it well, or say nothing.564.
The horse thinks one thing, and his rider another.565.
The old for want of ability, and the young for want of knowledge, let things be lost.566.
The secret of patience is doing something else in the meantime.567.
The thread breaks where it is thinnest.568.
The threshold says nothing but what it hears of the hinge.569.
The wise knows that he does not know; the ignoramus thinks he knows.570.
There is measure in all things.571.
There is no pleasure but palls, and the more so if it costs nothing.572.
Three things are not to be trusted; a cow's horn, a dog's tooth, and a horse's hoof.573.
Three things kill a man: a scorching son, suppers, and cares.574.
Three things must epigrams, like bees, have all, A sting, and honey, and a body small.575.
To be like the esquire of Guadalaxara, who knew nothing in the morning of what he said at night.576.
To be like the tailor of Campillo, who worked for nothing, and found thread.577.
To him that watches, everything is revealed.578.
Under the sackcloth there is something hid.579.
When one wolf eats another, thee is nothing to eat in the wood.580.
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