More English Proverbs

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

Self-praise is no praise at all.... >>

He that marries for wealth sells his liberty.... >>

An idle mind is the devil's workshop.... >>

Cuckoo song, is summer song.... >>

Other Proverbs

The lawyer's pouch is a mouth of hell.... (French) >>

Don't shut the barn door after the horse is stolen.... (French) >>

Don't make an oven of your cap or a garden of your belly.... (French) >>

Between promising and giving a man should marry his daughter... (French) >>

Don't talk Latin before the Franciscans.... (French) >>

May as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb.

- English Proverb