A favour to come is better than a hundred received.... >>
He would share even his share of the sun.... >>
Praise a maid in the morning, and the weather at night.... >>
Land was never lost for want of an heir.... >>
There is no need to bind up one's head before it is broken.... >>
Who does not respect himself, will not be respected from oth... (German) >>
It is a bad hen that eats at your house and lays at another'... (Spanish) >>
He expects to find water at the first stroke of the spade.... (Spanish) >>
He that will not when he can, cannot when he will.... (Spanish) >>
The bath has sworn not to whiten the blackamoor.... (Spanish) >>