Old Proverb

Cited as Old Proverb. — 15 quotations

Old birds are not caught with caff.

Thet char is chared, as the good wife said when she had hanged her husband.

Curses, like chickens, come home to roost.

Enough is as good as a feast.

A cold May and a windy Makes the barn fat and findy.

England were but a fling Save for the crooked stick and the gray goose wing.

Both bear and forbear.

More frightened than hurt.

Handsome is as handsome does.

That lightly come, shall lightly go.

Like master, like man.

A merciful man will be merciful to his beast.

He that would thrive, must rise by five.

Speech is silvern; silence is golden.

Sluts are good enough to make a sloven's porridge.