Make clothes white and maids dun.
Make clothes white and maids dun.
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Make clothes white and maids dun.
If you would have your business done, go; if not, send.
Don't wake a sleeping dog.
Many talk of Robin Hood that never shot in his bow.
It is hard to halt before a cripple.
'Tis the place shows the man.
That's Hackerton's cow.
When April blows his horn it's good both for hay and corn.
If he has no gear to tine, he has shins to pine.
Too much is stark nought.
Old friends and old wine are best.
Fools make feasts, and wise men eat them.
An honest man's word is as good as his bond.
I will make a shaft or a bolt of it.
A fool's bolt is soon shot.
All lay load on the willing horse.
One man may lead the horse to the water, but fifty can't make him drink.
When bale is highest, boot is nighest.
A friend is never known till one have need.
A shower in July, when the corn begins to fill,
"The case is altered," quoth Plowden.
There's never enough where nought is left.
Bought wit is best.
War's sweet to them that never tried it.