Famous Proverbs
2621 Proverbs about Thin / Page 57
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Stealing would be a nice thing, if thieves were hanged by the girdle.562.
Such awkward things will happen as going into the great square and coming back without ears.563.
Tell it well, or say nothing.564.
The horse thinks one thing, and his rider another.565.
The old for want of ability, and the young for want of knowledge, let things be lost.566.
The secret of patience is doing something else in the meantime.567.
The thread breaks where it is thinnest.568.
The threshold says nothing but what it hears of the hinge.569.
The wise knows that he does not know; the ignoramus thinks he knows.570.
There is measure in all things.