When you are an anvil, bear; when you are a hammer, strike.... >>
Ill luck enters by fathoms and departs by inches.... >>
A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.... >>
He who begins badly, ends badly.... >>
He that eats the king's geese shall be choked with the feathers.... >>
Take heed of enemies reconciled, and of meat twice boiled.... (English) >>
What is true is not always probable.... (French) >>
We are not so much concerned if you are slow as when you com... (Chinese) >>
Youth will be served... (English) >>
Choose neither a woman nor linen by candlelight.... (Italian) >>