PROVERBS
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Proverbs and Sayings
He who feeds well, chums well.
An industrious wife is the best savings account.
If you go barefoot, don't plant thorns.
The rose is red, but its thorn is sharp.
Children and fools tell the truth.
Little children step on ones lap; tall ones tread on one's heart.
Morning showers and old women's dancing do not last long.
A wife that does not know how to keep house throws out more with the teaspoon than a man can bring in with a shovel.
Short hair is quickly brushed.
What one hasn't got in his head, he has to have in his feet.
A loafer prefers killing himself carrying a heavy load to making a second trip.
He who rides slowly gets just as far, only it takes a little longer.
There is not a pot so crooked that there isn't a lid to fit it.
An honest hand goes a long way.
He who digs a ditch for others falls in it himself.
As one tends the fence he also tends the farm.
A good cow one expects to find in a barn.
Whistling girls and crowing hens come to a bad end.
A sheep that bleats loses many a mouthful.
Well-whetted is half mowed.
A person who gets all wrapped up in himself makes a mighty small package.
The person who thinks too little usually talks too much.
A man's best fortune, or his worse, is a wife.
You can get many gentle sheep in a stable, but you can pack them in if they are unruly.
What is coarser than dirt goes away of itself.
Small and smart is worthwhile, too.
What one person doesn't want, the other one does.
Girls with fat cheeks have hearts like a rock.
One had better have no dealings with girls with fat legs.
If a sorrel is not tricky, its owner is.
We grow too soon old and too late smart.
Kissing wears out-cooking don't.
If you want healthy, large-sized plants, you must steal the slips.
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