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