Famous Proverbs
574 Proverbs about Ours / Page 14
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Give your wife the short knife, and keep the long one for yourself.132.
He who has bad neighbours is fain to praise himself.133.
It must be a hard winter when one wolf devours another.134.
Many a man labours for the day he will never live to see.135.
National customs are national honours.136.
There are three bad neighbours: great rivers, great lords, and great roads.137.
What you do yourself is well done.138.
When it pours upon the parson, it drops upon the clerk.139.
When neighbours quarrel, lookers-on are more apt to add fuel than water.140.
Better return half way than lose yourself.