Proverbs Page 9
- Don't rest your eyes beyond what is your own
- It's bad manners to talk about ropes in the house of a man whose father was hanged
- A greyhound finds food in its feet
- The slow hound often has good qualities
- The bird that can sing and won't sing should be made to sing
- A cat between two houses, a rabbit between two holes, the two liveliest
- Great talk and little action
- Do not be talkative in an alehouse
- You kissed the blarney stone
- A spender gets the property of the hoarder
- Let your bargain suit your purpose
- Spread your cloth only as you can draw it
- The waiting man thinks the time long
- A watched kettle never boils
- Time is a good story-teller
- He who spies is the one who kills.
- Treachery returns
- There's trouble in every house and some in he street
- Everything troubles you and the cat breaks your heart
- The fox never found a better messenger than himself
- Never trust a spiteful man
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