What are some old folk sayings

Cut off your nose to spite your face.So i started doing that at funerals.If it's drowning you're after, don't torment yourself with shallow water.Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.It takes a long time to grow an old friend..

We've picked the choicest sayings about old age here.He's so mean he'd steal a fly from a blind spider.All there was in the olden days was women and some men who believed in herbal cures and in folklore and in the wish to fly.A soldier about to undergo an operation was given a bullet to bite.A proverbial phrase or a proverbial expression is a type of conventional saying similar to proverbs and transmitted by oral tradition.

The dogs would then sit and bark at the base of the tree, waiting for their masters.The difference is that a proverb is a fixed expression, while a proverbial phrase permits alterations to fit the grammar.American (on proverbs) 1 copy economy is the wealth of the poor and the wisdom of the rich.Don't let the cat out of the bagHe was so mean, he'd fight a rattler and give him the first bite.

A man warned is half saved.White elephant white elephants were once.May misfortune follow you the rest of your life, and never catch up.Some historians have since dismissed nelson's famous quip as merely a battlefield myth, but the phrase turn a blind eye persists to this day.She's putty in my hands.

This goes together with another of the old sayings, the sleeping fox will catch no chicken. these two simply mean a person who doesn't work, doesn't eat.Abraham lincoln on some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the white house will be adorned by a downright moron.The hand of an old friend..(wont admit to anything) get on the stick.