579 British Proverbs / Page 21
401.
Soon learnt, soon forgotten.402.
Sound advice had better be welcome.403.
Spare to speak and spare to speed.404.
Such beginning, such end.405.
Sweet are the uses of adversity.406.
Take heed is a fair thing.407.
Tell not all you know, all you have, or all you can do.408.
That fish will soon be caught that nibbles at every bait.409.
That sick man is not to be pitied who has his cure in his sleeve.410.
That's the last straw.411.
The absent are always in the wrong.412.
The absent party is always to blame.413.
The absent saint gets no candle.414.
The air of a window is as the stroke of a cross-bow.415.
The ant had wings to her hurt.416.
The bait hides the hook.417.
The best advice is found on the pillow.418.
The best payment is on the peck bottom.419.
The best remedy against an ill man, is much ground between.420.
The best things in life are free.