English Proverb

Quotes by English Proverb

• The older the fiddle the sweeter the tune.

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• Many things are lost for want of asking.

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• Confidence is a plant of slow growth.

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• Dead men tell no tales.

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• He that takes the Devil into his boat must carry him over the sound.

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• The shortest answer is doing.

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• You must plough with such oxen as you have.

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• Better reap two days too soon than one day too late.

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• Ask your purse what you should buy.

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• Bread is the staff of life.

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• Gratefulness is the poor man's payment.

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• Do not climb the hill until you get to it.

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• Innocence itself sometimes hath need of a mask.

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• A joy that's shared is a joy made double.

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• Knowledge is folly, except grace guide it.

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• He is not laughed at that laughs at himself first.

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• Love makes the world go round.

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• It is better to give one shilling than lend twenty.

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• Great engines turn on small pivots.

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• For whom does the blind man's wife paint herself?

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