Famous Proverbs
1829 Proverbs about Mania / Page 180
1791.
Like the gardener's dog, that neither eats cabbages himself, nor lets anybody else.1792.
A fool may ask more questions in an hour than a wise man can answer in seven years.1793.
One father is enough to govern one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father.1794.
We carry our neighbours' failings in sight; we throw our own crimes over our shoulders.1795.
An army of stags led by a lion would be more formidable than one of lions led by a stag.1796.
Children when they are little make parents fools, when they are great they make them mad.1797.
In time of prosperity friends will be plenty; in time of adversity not one amongst twenty.1798.
Who will in time present pleasure refrain, shall in time to come the more pleasure obtain.1799.
One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.1800.
The devil was sick, the devil a monk would be; the devil was well, the devil a monk was he.