907 Proverbs about Water / Page 15
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Fire and water are good servants but bad masters.282.
He knows the water best who has waded through it.283.
He loves me as the devil loves holy water.284.
He who was born to be hanged will not be drowned, unless the water go over the gallows.285.
In still water are the largest fish.286.
In still water the worms are worst.287.
In still waters are the largest fish.288.
It is a bad well that need water to be carried to it.289.
It is hard to sail without wind, and to grind without water.290.
It is too late to throw water on the cinders when the house is burnt down.291.
Let the blood be ever so thin, it is always thicker than water.292.
Love's plant must be watered with tears, and tended with care.293.
Much water runs by while the miller sleeps.294.
Onions, smoke, and a shrew, make a good man's eyes water.295.
The heron blames the water because he cannot swim.296.
The used plough shines, standing water stinks.297.
The water runs while the miller sleeps.298.
To give counsel to a fool is like throwing water on a goose.299.
Trust not still water nor a silent man.300.
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