More English Proverbs

Luck has a slender anchorage.... >>

A fog from the sea brings corn to the mills.... >>

An illiterate king is a crowned ass.... >>

Better wear out shoes than sheets.... >>

Desperate diseases must have desperate remedies.... >>

Other Proverbs

Policy goes beyond strength.... (French) >>

If Jack's in love, he's no judge of Jill's beauty... (Yiddish) >>

The greater love is a mother's; then comes a dog's; then a s... (French) >>

One deceit brings on another.... (French) >>

The gown does not make the monk.... (French) >>

The devil owed a cake and paid a loaf.

- English Proverb