The medicine that hurts the most is generally the best healer. |
Take care of your pennies and your dollars will take care of themselves. |
Better half hanged, than ill married. |
A day to come seems longer than a year that’s gone. |
Married folk are like rats in a trap; fain to get others in, but fain to be out themselves. |
A pound of care will not pay an ounce of debt. |
Be a friend to yourself and others will. |
A great boaster is rarely a great performer. |
Laws catch flies, but let hornets go free. |
Never let your feet run faster than your shoes. |
He who marries a chicken, soon gets henpecked. |
To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties. |
Him who's born to be hanged, will never be drowned. |
Insults should be well avenged or well endured. |
Prayer and practice is good rhyme. |
He who lives upon hope has a slim diet. |
A begun turn is half ended. |
Confessed faults are half-mended. |
It's a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock. |
False friends are worse than bitter enemies. |
Better bend than break. |
Never marry for money. You can borrow it cheaper. |
They who smell least, smell best. |
Every man’s tale is good till another’s be told. |
Modesty is the beauty of women. |
Never show your teeth unless you can bite. |
A slothful man is a beggar’s brother. |
A wise lawyer never goes to law himself. |
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