938 Proverbs about King / Page 7
121. Looking for nails at low tide.
122. Dead flies cause the ointment of the apothecary to send forth a stinking savour.
123. A cat may look at a king.
124. Barking dogs seldom bite.
125. Barking dogs don't bite.
126. Creaking carts last the longest.
127. Fortune is round; it makes one a king, another a dunghill.
128. Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.
129. Give at first asking what you safely can; 'tis certain gain to help an honest man.
130. It is good speaking that improves good silence.
131. It's ill speaking between a full man and a fasting.
132. Speaking is silver, silence is gold.
133. The art is not in making money, but in keeping it.
134. The trade of thick-headed Michael: eating, drinking, and idling.
135. There's no making a donkey drink against his will.
136. There's no making a silk purse of a sow's ear.
137. They who are often at the looking-glass seldom spin.
138. They talk of my drinking but never my thirst.
139. A blind man needs no looking glass.
140. I'm speaking o' hay and you o' horse corn.
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