More English Proverbs

Only the wearer knows where the shoe pinches... >>

Soft fire makes sweet malt.... >>

None can guess the jewel by the casket.... >>

One funeral makes many.... >>

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

Other Proverbs

It is a bad hen that eats at your house and lays at another'... (Spanish) >>

Never fall out with your bread and butter... (Scottish) >>

Observe your enemies, for they first find your faults... (Greek) >>

A good word extinguishes more than a pailful of water.... (Spanish) >>

What belongs to everybody belongs to nobody.... (Spanish) >>

The devil owed a cake and paid a loaf.

- English Proverb