579 British Proverbs / Page 11
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Hoist your sail when the wind is fair.202.
Hope for the best and prepare for the worst.203.
Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.204.
Hope is grief's best music.205.
Hope often deludes the foolish man.206.
How can the foal amble if the horse and mare trot?207.
Idle folks have the least leisure.208.
If fools went not to market, bad wares would not be sold.209.
If the dog is not at home, he barks not.210.
If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.211.
If you always say "No', you'll never be married.212.
If you sell your purse to your wife, give your trousers into the bargain.213.
If you will learn news, you must go to the oven or the mill.214.
If you would know the value of a ducat, try to borrow one.215.
If you yourself can do it, attend no other's help or hand.216.
If youth knew what age would crave, it would both get and save.217.
Ill comes often on the back of worse.218.
Ill words are bellows to a slackening fire.219.
In many words, the truth goes by.220.
In the eyes of the lover, pock-marks are dimples.