Yorkshire born and Yorkshire bred, strong in the arm and weak in the head.
On the first of March, the crows begin to search.
Revenge is a dish that can be eaten cold.
One for the mouse, one for the crow, one to rot, one to grow.
The man who is born in a stable is not a horse.
Nothing so bad but it might have been worse.
Robin Hood could brave all weathers but a thaw wind.
Scratch a Russian and you find a Tartar.
Happy is the country that has no history.
A sow may whistle, though it has an ill mouth for it.
Providence is always on the side of the big battalions.
Never marry for money, but marry where money is.
A man is as old as he feels, and a woman as old as she looks.
Laugh and the world laughs with you, weep and you weep alone.
A man who is his own lawyer has a fool for his client.
One white foot, buy him; two white feet, try him; three white feet, look well about him; four white feet, go without him.
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.