Famous Proverbs
1829 Proverbs about Mania / Page 171
1701.
He that is fed at another's hand may stay long ere he be full.1702.
In the forehead and the eye, the lecture of the mind doth lie.1703.
None more bare than the shoemaker's wife and the smith's mare.1704.
When a knave is in a plum-tree, he has neither friend nor kin.1705.
With time and art the leaf of the mulberry-tree becomes satin.1706.
A thief passes for a gentleman when stealing has made him rich.1707.
Better be the head of the yeomanry than the tail of the gentry.1708.
He that waits for dead men's shoes may go long enough barefoot.1709.
He that washes an ass's head loses both his lye and his labour.1710.
Honesty may be dear bought, but can never be an ill pennyworth.