For want of a nail the shoe is lost.... >>
When the fields yield not, the saints have not.... >>
Have a bill to pay at Easter, and your Lent will be short.... >>
He who hangs out a branch wants to sell his wine.... >>
Don't spoil the ship for a halfpenny-worth of tar.... >>
He that is afraid of bad luck will never know good.... (Russian) >>
A hungry dog is not afraid of a cudgelling.... (French) >>
A good hater,a good lover.... (French) >>
He is a horse with four white feet (i.e., he is unlucky).... (French) >>
The monk that begs for God's sake begs for two.... (French) >>