More English Proverbs

Far fowls have fair feathers.... >>

First deserve, and then desire.... >>

Big thunder, little rain.... >>

Absence is a shrew.... >>

Dogs that bark at a distance never bite.... >>

Other Proverbs

A frog in a well shaft seeing the sky.... (Chinese) >>

Confessed faults are half mended... (Yugoslav) >>

It is just that the priest should live by the altar.... (French) >>

Wine will not keep in a foul vessel.... (French) >>

Horses run after benefices and asses get them.... (French) >>

Scratch an Englishman, find a seaman.

- English Proverb