More English Proverbs

Crooked logs make straight fires.... >>

Blind men can judge no colours.... >>

A young doctor makes a humpy churchyard.... >>

Age and wedlock bring a man to his nightcap.... >>

A fair day in winter is the mother of a storm... >>

Other Proverbs

He who threatens to strike, and does not, is afraid.... (Spanish) >>

A lawsuit for a maravedi consumes a real's worth of paper.... (Spanish) >>

Wit without discretion is a sword in the hand of a fool.... (Spanish) >>

The cask smells of the wine it contains.... (Spanish) >>

Golden hands, but a wicked mouth.... (Russian) >>

A fair October and a good blast, will blow the hag and her broom away fast.

- English Proverb