Quotes from English proverb

A stitch in time saves nine.

The crow when travelling abroad came back just as black.

Time trieth truth.

The absent are always wrong.

A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.

It takes two to make a bargain.

It's a bad bargain where nobody gains.

As you make your bed you must lie in it.

One boy is more trouble than a dozen girls.

Boys will be boys.

When the cat's away the mice will play.

When they came to shoe the horses, the beetle stretched out his leg.

Children should be seen and not heard.

Spare the rod and spoil the child.

Two's a company, three's a crowd.

Despair doubles our strength.

Desperate diseases require desperate remedies.

The nearer the bone, the sweeter the meat.

A Scotch mist may wet an Englishman to the skin.

He who is shipwrecked the second time cannot lay the blame on Neptune.

All is fair in love and war.

There are as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it.

Everyone must row with the oars he has.

God gives the milk but not the pail.