Famous Proverbs

264 Proverbs about Lack / Page 2

11. A roan horse and a black can travel equally far in a day's journey.
12. Cherries are bitter to the glutted blackbird.
13. He is not so much of a devil as he is black.
14. Black cows give white milk.
15. Folks say there is a lack of four sorts of people on earth: of priests, else one would not have six or seven benefices; of gentleman, else every boor would not want to be a squire; of whores, else married women and nuns would not carry on the trade; of Jews, else Christians would not practise usury.
16. He who blackens others does not whiten himself.
17. One cannot wash a blackamoor white.
18. The devil is never so black as he is painted.
19. When a dove begins to associate with crows its feathers remain white but its heart grows black.
20. Think not on what you lack as much as on what you have.
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