More English Proverbs

Use your enemy's hand to catch a snake... >>

In the year when plums flourish, all else fails.... >>

He that will thrive must first ask his wife.... >>

Light Christmas, light wheatsheaf; dark Christmas, heavy wheatsheaf.... >>

If a hen does not prate she'll never lay.... >>

Other Proverbs

The dog may be wonderful prose, but only the cat is poetry.... (French) >>

It is easy to undress the naked.... (Russian) >>

When the flatterer pipes, the devil dances.... (Spanish) >>

He expects to find water at the first stroke of the spade.... (Spanish) >>

Walk till the blood appears on the cheek, but not the sweat ... (Spanish) >>

A lawyer never goes to law himself

- English Proverb