British Proverbs

An army of stags led by a lion would be more formidable than one of lions led by a stag. British Proverbs Image

An army of stags led by a lion would be more formidable than one of lions led by a stag.

The world still he keeps at his staff’s end that needs not to borrow and never will lend. British Proverbs Image

The world still he keeps at his staff’s end that needs not to borrow and never will lend.

He that seeks a horse or a wife without fault, has neither steed in his stable nor angel in his bed. British Proverbs Image

He that seeks a horse or a wife without fault, has neither steed in his stable nor angel in his bed.

Command your man, and do it yourself. British Proverbs Image

Command your man, and do it yourself.

If you always say “no’, you’ll never be married. British Proverbs Image

If you always say “no’, you’ll never be married.

Unprofitable is a fever of the world. British Proverbs Image

Unprofitable is a fever of the world.

Bob’s your uncle. British Proverbs Image

Bob’s your uncle.

Blue are the faraway hills. British Proverbs Image

Blue are the faraway hills.

Hope often deludes the foolish man. British Proverbs Image

Hope often deludes the foolish man.

Hope is grief’s best music. British Proverbs Image

Hope is grief’s best music.

Bashfulness is an enemy to poverty. British Proverbs Image

Bashfulness is an enemy to poverty.

Authority shows the man. British Proverbs Image

Authority shows the man.

Where coin is not common, provisions can be scant. British Proverbs Image

Where coin is not common, provisions can be scant.

Who comes uncalled, sits unserved. British Proverbs Image

Who comes uncalled, sits unserved.

You can lead a horse to water but you cannot make it drink. British Proverbs Image

You can lead a horse to water but you cannot make it drink.

If you will learn news, you must go to the oven or the mill. British Proverbs Image

If you will learn news, you must go to the oven or the mill.

Every man will have his own turn served. British Proverbs Image

Every man will have his own turn served.

Keep good men company, and you shall be of the number. British Proverbs Image

Keep good men company, and you shall be of the number.

Keep something for the sore foot. British Proverbs Image

Keep something for the sore foot.

Keep something for a rainy day. British Proverbs Image

Keep something for a rainy day.

When war begins, then hell opens. British Proverbs Image

When war begins, then hell opens.

When troubles are few, dreams are few. British Proverbs Image

When troubles are few, dreams are few.

Kill not the goose that lays the golden egg. British Proverbs Image

Kill not the goose that lays the golden egg.

Kings have many ears and many eyes. British Proverbs Image

Kings have many ears and many eyes.

Law is a lickpenny. British Proverbs Image

Law is a lickpenny.

Lawyers’ gowns are lined with the wilfulness of their clients. British Proverbs Image

Lawyers’ gowns are lined with the wilfulness of their clients.

Laziness goes so slowly that poverty overtakes it. British Proverbs Image

Laziness goes so slowly that poverty overtakes it.

The air of a window is as the stroke of a cross-bow. British Proverbs Image

The air of a window is as the stroke of a cross-bow.

The ant had wings to her hurt. British Proverbs Image

The ant had wings to her hurt.

The skilfullest wanting money is scorned. British Proverbs Image

The skilfullest wanting money is scorned.

Truth fears no trial British Proverbs Image

Truth fears no trial

Truth has always a sure bottom. British Proverbs Image

Truth has always a sure bottom.

Truth has a scratched face. British Proverbs Image

Truth has a scratched face.

Truth needs not the ornament of many words. British Proverbs Image

Truth needs not the ornament of many words.

Truth often hides in an ugly pool. British Proverbs Image

Truth often hides in an ugly pool.

Truth will come to light. British Proverbs Image

Truth will come to light.

There comes nothing out of the sack but what was there. British Proverbs Image

There comes nothing out of the sack but what was there.

There is a remedy for everything, could men find it. British Proverbs Image

There is a remedy for everything, could men find it.

Understand is better than stare. British Proverbs Image

Understand is better than stare.

There is no blindness like ignorance. British Proverbs Image

There is no blindness like ignorance.

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