Quotations by Tradizione inglese

Better it is to meet a bear bereaved of her whelps, than a fool in his folly.

Tradizione inglese · A Dictionary of English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases

Get thy spindle and thy distaff ready, and God will send thee flax.

Tradizione inglese · A Dictionary of English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases

Time and straw make medlars ripe.

Tradizione inglese · A Dictionary of English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases

As good to be out of the world as out of the fashion.

Tradizione inglese · A Dictionary of English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases

The tongue's not steel, yet it cuts.

Tradizione inglese · A Dictionary of English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases

There's ne'er a why, but there's a wherefore.

Tradizione inglese · A Dictionary of English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases

Old praise dies, unless you feed it.

Tradizione inglese · A Dictionary of English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases

Thrifty men are fond of thrifty sayings.

Tradizione inglese · A Dictionary of English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases

A man may bear till his back breaks.

Tradizione inglese · A Dictionary of English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases

He covers me with his wings, and bites me with his bill.

Tradizione inglese · A Dictionary of English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases

Soft words butter no parsnips.

Tradizione inglese · A Dictionary of English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases

Between two stools he comes to the ground.

Tradizione inglese · A Dictionary of English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases

Every one has a penny to spend at a new ale-house.

Tradizione inglese · A Dictionary of English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases

Critics are like brushers of other men's clothes.

Tradizione inglese · A Dictionary of English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases

Lose nothing for asking.

Tradizione inglese · A Dictionary of English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases

When fortune smiles take the advantage.

Tradizione inglese · A Dictionary of English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases

Be ruled by your purse.

Tradizione inglese · A Dictionary of English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases

Every man is the architect of his fortune.

Tradizione inglese · A Dictionary of English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases

Where it is weakest there the thread breaketh.

Tradizione inglese · A Dictionary of English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases

The wife is the key of the house.

Tradizione inglese · A Dictionary of English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases

Wolves lose their teeth, but not their memory.

Tradizione inglese · A Dictionary of English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases

Good ale is meat, drink, and cloth.

Tradizione inglese · A Dictionary of English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases

A man may lead a horse to the water, but he cannot make him drink unless he will.

Tradizione inglese · A Dictionary of English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases

A burnt child dreads the fire.

Tradizione inglese · A Dictionary of English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases