If you want to make God laugh, tell him your plans.... >>
Colts by falling, and lads by losing, grow prudent.... >>
He who has been first a novice and then an abbot, knows what the boys ... >>
A blind man's stroke, which raises a dust from beneath water.... >>
A shoemaker's wife and a smith's mare are always the worst shod.... >>
People count up the faults of those who keep them waiting.... (French) >>
When a man begins to reason, he ceases to feel.... (French) >>
He is past preaching to who does not care to do well.... (French) >>
Greater qualities are needed to bear good fortune than bad.... (French) >>
He falls on his back and breaks his nose.... (French) >>