Famous Proverbs
33 Proverbs about Five / Page 3
21. For the first five years of your son's life treat him as a prince, for the next ten years as a slave, then as a friend for the rest of his life.
22. If the Sultan demands five eggs, let his soldiers roast a thousand chickens.
23. There never was a five-pound note but there was a ten-pound road for it.
24. Your five year old son is your instructor; at ten your slave; at fifteen your equal and after that either friend or foe.
25. One for sorrow, two for joy, Three for a girl, four for a boy. Five for silver, six for gold, And seven for a secret that must never be told.
26. Habit is the sixth sense that dominates the other five.
27. He that has but four and spends five, has no need of a purse.
28. Not even the five fingers of our hands are alike.
29. As long fives the merry-man, as the wretch for all the craft he can.
30. Take him up there with his five Egges, and four of them rotten.