Famous Proverbs
4831 Proverbs about Ther / Page 27
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Everybody thinks his own cuckoo sings better than another's nightingale.262.
Everything would be well were there not a "but".263.
Folks say there is a lack of four sorts of people on earth: of priests, else one would not have six or seven benefices; of gentleman, else every boor would not want to be a squire; of whores, else married women and nuns would not carry on the trade; of Jews, else Christians would not practise usury.264.
For the upright there are no laws.265.
Forgive thyself nothing and others much.266.
Good thongs may be cut out of other people's hides.267.
He that hunts others, must run himself.268.
He who blackens others does not whiten himself.269.
He who digs a pit for others falls into it himself.270.
He who has a glass roof must not throw stones at others.