Famous Proverbs
1269 Proverbs about Port / Page 54
531.
The swindler readily cheats the covetous man.532.
The tailor ill-dressed, the shoemaker ill-shod.533.
The thief becomes the gallows well.534.
The thief proceeds from a needle to gold, and from gold to the gallows.535.
The tired mare goes willingly to grass.536.
The tongue goes to the aching tooth.537.
The treason approved, the traitor abhorred.538.
The wine-skin has its reasons for smelling of pitch.539.
The wolf is well pleased with the kick of a sheep.540.
The worst pig eats the best acorn.