428 Proverbs about Back / Page 8

142.

The more you stroke the cat's back the more set sets up her tail.

143.

To become rich in this world, it needs only to turn one's back on God.

144.

Who throws a stone at the sky, it falls back on his head.

145.

At the end of the game, the pawn and the king go back in the same box.

146.

A child's back must be bent early.

147.

A foul mouth must be provided with a strong back.

148.

A man cannot carry all his kin on his back.

149.

It is not all who turn their backs that flee.

150.

"It will come back," said the man, when he gave his sow pork.

151.

Many a one would like to lay his own shame on another man's back.

152.

The Lord will not fail to come, though he may not come on horseback.

153.

We must bear our cross with patience, said the man when he took his wife on his back.

154.

What is gotten over the devil's back is spent under his belly.

155.

You may often feel that heavily on your back which you took lightly on your conscience.

156.

Don't sail out farther than you can row back.

157.

A ring on a good woman's finger is no good without a blouse on her back.

158.

Put a beggar on horseback and he'll ride to hell.

159.

What would shame him would turn back a funeral.

160.

Long sleep makes a bare back.