Famous Proverbs
264 Proverbs about Lack / Page 5
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Let there be no lack of food in the pigeon-house, and the pigeons will come to it.42.
Said the frying pay to the kettle, Stand off, black bottom.43.
Tell your affairs in the market-place, and one will call them black and another white.44.
The bath has sworn not to whiten the blackamoor.45.
The bow that is always bent slackens or breaks.46.
They who don't kill pigs must not expect black-puddings.47.
Two blacks don't make a white.48.
Age may wrinkle the face, but lack of enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.49.
Blacksmith's children are not afraid of sparks.50.
Lawyers and painters can soon change white to black.