Ants will not go to an empty granary, and friends will not visit us when our wealth is gone.


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There's a skin without and a skin within, A covering skin and a lining skin, But the skin with...
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In good King Charles's golden days When royalty no harm meant, A zealous high-churchman was I,...
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Over the hills and o'er the main, To Flanders, Portugal and Spain, Queen Anne commands and we'...
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When this old cap was new 'Tis since two hundred years.
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As the yellow gold is tried in the fire, so is sincerity tested in adversity.
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An injury may prove a blessing.
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Accursed poison lies hid beneath sweet honey.
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A soldier when aged is not appreciated; the love of an old man sickens.
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A light breath fans the flame, a violent gust extinguishes it.
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A gift in time of need is most acceptable.
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A credulous thing is love.
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A burthen cheerfully borne becomes light.
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A bitter drug oft brings relief.
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Old soldiers never die; They fade away!
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St. George he was for England; St. Dennis was for France. Sing, "Honi soit qui mal y pense."
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A wealthy traveller fears an ambush, while one with empty pockets journeys on in safety.
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Always keep your hook in the water: where you least expect one, the fish will be found.
OLD SONG
What I gave, I have; what I spent, I had; what I kept, I lost.
OLD EPITAPH
When clouds appear like rocks and towers, The earth's refreshed by frequent showers.
OLD RHYME
If woolly fleeces spread the heavenly way No rain, be sure, disturbs the summer's day.
OLD RHYME
A rainbow in the morning Is the Shepherd's warning; But a rainbow at night Is the Shephe...
OLD RHYME
It is the silence between the notes that makes the music; it is the space between the bars that hol...
OLD SAYING
Tell that to the Marines--the sailors won't believe it.
OLD SAYING
A leap year Is never a good sheep year.
OLD SAYING
There's a health to poverty; it sticks by us when all friends forsake us.
OLD SAYING
Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him.
OLD TESTAMENT
As many mince pies as you taste at Christmas' so many happy months will you have.
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Fostering mother. [Lat., Alma mater.]
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Here's a health to you and yours who have done such things for us and ours. And when we and ours ...
OLD SAYING
Here's a health to all those that we love, Here's a health to all those that love us, Here's a...
OLD SAYING
A wicked book cannot repent.
OLD PROVERB
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Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof.
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I didn't even really want to go for it, but my caddie convinced me.
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Well everything went as planned today pretty much. I hit a lot of fairways and a lot of greens and m...
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This way the scent sample can maintain its freshness for at least three years.
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Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. We believe we have that proof.
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Do not mix de galloping of your horse, my knight, with the beating of your heart.
OLD CHINESE PROVERB
I survived that trouble so likewise may I survive this one.
OLD ENGLISH WRITING
The wind that blows, the ship that goes And the lass the loves a sailor.
OLD ENGLISH SAYING
The usefulness of a cup is in its emptiness.
OLD CHINESE PROVERB
One’s own shit doesn’t smell
OLD RUSSIAN SAYING
In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out infriendship, never in want.
OLD IRISH TOAST
May the devil make a ladder of your backbone - While he is picking apples in the garden of Hell
OLD IRISH TOAST
Here's to you, as good as you are, And here's to me, as bad as I am; But as good as you are, a...
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May your glass be ever full May the roof over your head be always strong, And may you be in he...
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May all your labors be in vein.
OLD ENGLISH SAYING
He that fights and runs away will live to fight another day.
OLD ENGLISH RHYME
Here's to a long life, and a merry one; a quick death, and an easy one; a pretty girl, and an honest...
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Insanity is doing the same thing in thesame way & expecting a different outcome
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A journey of a thousand miles begins with one small step
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A wise man knows everything.A shrewd one, everybody.
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In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in
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Both of us played really well today.
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I usually go to the swimming pool if I want to swim.
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