A sow may whistle, though it has an ill mouth for it.

A bellowing cow soon forgets her calf.

You pays your money and you takes your choice.

A chain is no stronger than its weakest link.

Revolutions are not made with rose-water.

Praise the child, and you make love to the mother.

If you don’t make mistakes you don’t make anything.

The way to a man’s heart is through his stomach.

First catch your hare.tin

There’s many a good cock come out of a tattered bag.

Third time lucky.

One year’s seeding makes seven years weeding.

Let the dead bury the dead.

Never marry for money, but marry where money is.

To the pure all things are pure.

Better be safe than sorry.

You should know a man seven years before you stir his fire.

A civil question deserves a civil answer.

Scratch a Russian and you find a Tartar.

Providence is always on the side of the big battalions.

If you play with fire you get burnt.

What Manchester says today, the rest of England says tomorrow.

Fools for luck.

Truth is stranger than fiction.

Fear the Greeks bearing gifts.

Tastes differ.

There are more ways of killing a cat than choking it with butter.

Where MacGregor sits at the head of the table.

No cure, no pay.

Trade follows the flag.

Cheats never prosper.

Youth must be served.

Clergyman’s sons always turn out badly.

Self-praise is no recommendation.

The sharper the storm, the sooner it’s over.

It’s a sin to steal a pin.

What the soldier said isn’t evidence.

He is a good dog who goes to church.

The bread never falls but on its buttered side.

Happy is the country that has no history.

Don’t go near the water until you learn how to swim.

A watched pot never boils.

Why should the devil have all the best tunes?

Nothing so bad but it might have been worse.

The unexpected always happens.

Easy does it.

When the furze is in bloom, my love’s in tune.

Coming events cast their shadow before.

Shrouds have no pockets.

Willful waste makes woeful want.