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LIST III
You cannot clap with one hand A penny too little spoils many a pickle Leavings are half satisfying If you drink milk ’neath a toddy tree, you’ll be suspected When two ride a horse one must be behind It’s a wise man who knows how fish sleep in water A hundred strokes of the goldsmith don’t equal one of the blacksmith The small fish do the skipping; the big ones get in the net Paying as you go saves the cost of many a trip The highest hill must bear the most clouds Better snow than rain in May The stone that doesn’t meet my foot won’t hurt me A man can sleep on every hurt but his own Don’t lose a ladleful in licking the outside At weddings and at funerals relatives and friends are known The world wears out the man Night is a good herder; she brings all creatures home Brave and Enterprising get off the beaten path Never count on tomorrow - a shoemaker’s tomorrow He that would live for aya must eat sage in May There are better lobsters left than ever swam One foot is enough for truth; a lie falls with three A soft-mannered man at a banquet affects to cough when he belches Patch, long sit; build, and soon flit When an old dog barks he gives councel |
LIST IV
Self-conceit turns a somersault before a monkey The shallows murmur, but the deeps are dumb Give neither counsel nor salt till asked The man who divides the pudding will have the thick end The idle man will put the cat in the fire Even the devil flees from a thrashing A cloud speckled lake a partridge wing means rain Never let your mouse trap smell of cheese Boil a pot with chips and the broth will smell of smoke Hope is a good breakfast food but a poor supper Barley corn is better than a diamond to a cock Standing is bigger but sitting is wiser The farmers foot is the best manure The tongue is boneless yet it often knocks out teeth Kicks from a milch cow may be endured A feast is worth nothing without conversation The barber’s son must cut some heads to learn to shave A barrowed horse never tires The potter sleeps secure; no one will steal clay There’s a breath of arbutus, for April is here Tis looking downward that makes us dizzy It isn’t the worst thing to fail; the worst thing is not to try If your wife is small, bend down to her counsels Why blister your hands in pounding chaff? A woman is known by the door she keeps |