- As the call, so the echo.
- Everthing comes to him who waits.
- Missfortunes tell us what fortunes is.
- Every man has fool in his sleeve.
- First come, first served. The early bird cathches the worm.
- Look comes in eyeles. Every dog has his day. Every dayis not Sunday. One can't be always fortunate. Thee longest day must have an end. There is a crook in the lot of everyone. Fortunate knocks once at the least at every man's gate.
- Who breaks, pays.
- Who lives by hope will die by hunger.
- Findings are keeping.
- Brothers are like hands and feet.
- Poverty parts friends. Poverty parts fellowship.
- You cannot judge a man by his appearance. You cannot judge a tree by its bark.
- Do not wear out your welcome.
- Eaten bread is soon forgotten.
- In every beginning think of end.
- Once a drunkard, always a drunkard. Once a thief, always a thief. He that will steal a pin, will steal a better thing. He that will steal an egg, will steal a ox.
- Comfort is better than pride.
- Share and share alike.
- Bussiness is bussiness. Abargain is a bargain.
- Beggars cannot be choosers.
- Speak when you are spoken to. Come when you are called.
- A good conscience is a soft pillow. A great fortune is a great slavery.
- He is kind of man who would steal a dead fly from a blind spider.
- You must eat to live, and not live to eat.
- What is worth doing at all is worth doing well.
- Share and share alike.
- When wine is in, wit is out. When wine is in, truth is out. The truth slips out when people are drinking. Drunkenness reveals what soberness conceals.
- The beggar may sing before the thief.
- Beggars cannot be choosers.
- Honesty is the best policy.
- A kindness is soon forgotten.
- It is a case of give and take.
- Tit for tat. Measure for measure. An eye for an eye a tooth for tooth.
- Of two evils choose the less. Choose the lesser of the two evils.
- Dot your I’s and cross your t’s.
- First think, then speak. Think before you speak. Look before you leap.
- Eating brings an appetite.
- One must live according to one’s means.
- When you drink the stream, remember the spring.
- Beggars cannot be choosers.
- He that dose ill, hates the light.
- To have a finger in the pie.
- Stolen fruit is sweetest. Stolen kisses are sweetest.
- Frist impressions are most lasting.
- Three women make a market.
- Three removals are as bad as fire.
- Measure thrice and cut once.
- Two heads are better than one.
- Standing pools gather filth. A Jack of all trades is of no trade. A Jack of all trades is master of none. A rolling stone gathers no moss. To know everything is to nothing.
- No fool is like an old fool. A fool at forty is a fool indeed.
- Wisdom is better than rubies.
- Better be a neighbour that is near than a brother that is far.
- Some are wise and some are otherwise. There’s a black sheep in every flock.
- Friends are thieves of time.
- Old shoes are easiest. Old friends and old wine are best.
- False friends are worse than open enemies. Better an open enemy than a false friend.
- One good turn deserves another. Scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours.
- Violence does not last.
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