A great man's entreaty is a command.... >>
The green burns for the dry, and the righteous pay for sinners.... >>
Never marry a widow unless her first husband was hanged.... >>
Money soothes more than a gentleman's words.... >>
The well-fed sheep makes a cloak of its tail.... >>
The north wind has no corn and a poor man no friend.... (English) >>
Take heed of an enemy reconciled.... (French) >>
There is no need to bind up one's head before it is broken.... (Italian) >>
Those who have free seats at a play hiss first... (Sufi) >>
God helps three sorts of people: fools, children and drunkar... (French) >>