To a hard knot a hard wedge.... >>
Poverty is not perversity.... >>
Live your own life, for you will die your own death... >>
I neither give nor take, like a Jew on the Sabbath.... >>
Like a parakeet that says what he knows but doesn't know what he says.... >>
If your head is made of butter, don't be a baker.... (French) >>
A wise man may learn of a fool.... (French) >>
The pitcher will go to the well once too often.... (English) >>
Choose neither a woman nor linen by candlelight.... (Italian) >>
Riches serve a man, but command a fool.... (English) >>