English 18th Century Proverbs Quotations

Give a dog a bad name and hang him.

Half the truth is often a whole lie.

Keep your own fish-guts for your own sea-maws.

Three removals are as bad as a fire.

Those who play at bowls must look out for rubbers.

Big fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite them, and little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum.

Don't halloo till you are out of the wood.

A fool at forty is a fool indeed.

A door must be either shut or open.

One hand for oneself and one for the ship.

Fools and bairns should never see half-done work.

Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves.

Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.

He that will eat the fruit must climb the tree.

He that follows freits (omens), freits will follow him.

The greater the sinner the greater the saint.

The devil finds work for idle hands to do.