English 18th Century Proverbs Verbs Quotations

A fool at forty is a fool indeed.

A door must be either shut or open.

Keep your own fish-guts for your own sea-maws.

Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves.

Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.

Three removals are as bad as a fire.

The greater the sinner the greater the saint.

Give a dog a bad name and hang him.

Fools and bairns should never see half-done work.

One hand for oneself and one for the ship.

Big fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite them, and little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum.

Don't halloo till you are out of the wood.

The devil finds work for idle hands to do.

Those who play at bowls must look out for rubbers.

He that will eat the fruit must climb the tree.

He that follows freits (omens), freits will follow him.

Half the truth is often a whole lie.