885 quotes found
“Hope deferred maketh the heart sick.”
“You may lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink.”
“Fools build houses and wise men buy them.”
“He that lives in a glass house must not throw stones.”
“The go-between wears out a thousand sandals.”
“He that jokes confesses.”
“How beautiful it is to do nothing and then rest afterward.”
“If thine enemy- be hungry give him bread to eat.”
“A good husband should be deaf and a good wife blind.”
“The teeth are smiling but is the heart?”
“Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than smallpox.”
“Hypocrite - mouth one way belly 'nother way.”
“When the fox preaches look to your geese.”
“It is good to know the truth but it is better to speak of palm trees.”
“The crow that mimics a cormorant gets drowned.”
“The hardest work is to go idle.”
“With enough 'ifs' we could put Paris into a bottle.”
“You can't get blood out of a turnip.”
“You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.”
“Good is when I steal other people's wives and cattle bad is when they steal mine.”
