Manx Proverbs (57 Proverbs)
- As poor as a church mouse.
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- It's good to be forward, but bad to be too impudent.
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- The man who minds his own business well has always enough to do.
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- Whoever is durable, the aged will not be durable.
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- Avoid all evil
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- Learning is fine clothes for the rich man, and riches for the poor man.
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- The more a man catches the more he'll have.
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- Wisdom is folly unless a wise man guides it.
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- Better leave something to an enemy than borrow from a friend.
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- Let every bird hatch its own eggs.
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- The remembrance of the heart is better than the remembrance of the head.
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- Wit bought is the wit best, If it be not bought too dear.
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- Better to be poor and honest than to be rich and lying.
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- Listen with each ear, then to judgment.
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- The smaller the company the bigger the share.
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- Your first care must be the care of your own heart.
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- Between two stools is a fall.
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- Man has his own will, but woman has her own way.
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- The weaknesses of old age are no fit cause for laughter, since they must be our own portion at the end.
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- Black as is the raven, he'll get a partner.
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- Many a man has been guarding the bush and another plucking the fruit.
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- They live like cat and dog.
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- Choose him for a friend who incites you to good works.
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- Maybe the last dog is catching the hare.
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- To share is sweet, but to pay is bitter.
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- Don't tell me what I was, but tell me what I am.
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- Never marry an heiress, unless her father has been hanged. She is sure to be proud.
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- Two faggots will burn better than one.
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- Eaten bread is forgotten.
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- Poor, poor for ever.
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- What must be, will be.
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- Eaten food is forgotten.
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- She's for knitting and sewing and scraping potatoes, and you should be glad to catch the like.
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- What's taken well is better than what's well done.
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- Foolish spending is a father of poverty.
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- Ten thousand of the greatest faults in our neighbours is of less consequence than the smallest of our own.
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- When a man wants a wife, he wants but a wife; But when he has got a wife, he wants a great deal.
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- A rich man without liberality is like a tree without fruit.
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- Give a piece to the raven and he'll come again.
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- The black ox never stamps on his own foot.
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- When men are rightly occupied their happiness grows of their work.
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- A short courtship is the best courtship.
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- Hot broth softens hard bread.
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- The crooked bannock straightens the body.
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- When the sun shines is the time to make up hay.
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- A stitch in due time saves nine.
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- How good to be forward, but how bad to be too forward.
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- The greatest pleasure in life lies in doing that which people say we cannot do.
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- When the wind blows the sea is moving.
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- A wise man will not receive rebuke.
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- If you would grow poor without knowing it, put your helpers to work and go to sleep
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- The little hemlock is sister to the great hemlock.
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- Where there are women there is talk, where there are geese there is keck, where there are tailors there are crabs, where there are carpenters, there are chips.
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- After spring-tide, neap.
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- It is easy to bake where there is plenty of meal.
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- The man who looks after his own work has plenty to do to keep everything right.
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- While seeking new friends, hold to the old.
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