A cat pent up becomes a lion.

A favour to come is better than a hundred received.

A runaway monk never praises his monastery.

A woman, a steak, and a walnut tree, the more they are beaten the better they be.

Anger can be an expensive luxury.

At a dangerous passage, yield to precedence.

Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still

Be thine enemy an ant, see in him an elephant.

Better a mouse in the pot than no flesh at all.

Better give a penny then lend twenty.

Between saying and doing many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Beware of a man of one book

By learning you will teach; by teaching you will learn

Choose neither a woman nor linen by candlelight

Choose neither a woman nor linen by candlelight.

Everyone loves justice in the affairs of another.

For a wife and horse to your neighbour.

Give neither counsel nor salt till you are asked for it.

Half a brain is enough for him who says little.

Have an open face but conceal your thoughts.

He that marries a widow with four children marries four thieves.

He who begins many things finishes but few.

He who doesn't risk never gets to drink champagne

He who knows little quickly tells it

He who knows nothing doubts nothing

He who puts up with insult invites injury

He who wants a great deal must not ask for little.

He would share even his share of the sun.

High birth is a poor dish at table.

I'm buying a horse and taking a wife, shut your eyes and commend yourself to God.

If the patient dies, the doctor has killed him, but if he gets well, the saints have saved him.

If you see in your wine the reflection of a person not in your range of vision, don't drink it

In prosperity no altars smoke.

It is the great north wind that made the Vikings

Land was never lost for want of an heir.

Let him make use of instinct who cannot make use of reason

Love is an excuse for its own faults.

Love tells us many things that are not so

No pear falls into a shut mouth.

One may have good eyes and yet see nothing.

Praise a maid in the morning, and the weather at night.

She who is born a beauty is born betrothed.

Silence was never written down.

Since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we can get

Spread the table and contention will cease

Teeth placed before the tongue give good advice.

Tell me who's your friend and I'll tell you who you are

Tell not all you know, believe not all your hear, do not all you are able.

The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected

The beginning is the half of every action

The comforter's head never aches.

The pope and a peasant know more between them than the pope alone.

The robes of lawyers are lined with obstinacy of suitors.

There is no need to bind up one's head before it is broken.

Those who have fine clothes in their chests can wear rags.

Though a tree grow ever so high, the falling leaves return to the ground

To a covered ill an open razor.

Trifles makes perfection, but perfection is no trifle.

Trouble rides a fast horse.

What does not poison fattens.

When ill luck falls asleep, let none wake her.

When the sun is highest it casts the least shadow.

Who gives bread to other's dogs is often barked at by his own.

Who offends writes on sand; who is offended, on marble.

Who sows thorns should not go barefoot.

Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you

With so many roosters crowing, the sun never comes up.

Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.