The cat is friendly, but scratches.... >>
Trouts are not caught with dry breeches.... >>
What does not happen in a year may happen in a moment.... >>
The wages of sin is death.... >>
The shirt is nearer than the frock.... >>
The saint who works no cures has few pilgrims to his shrine.... (French) >>
Better to be envied than pitied.... (French) >>
A fool's head never whitens.... (French) >>
Since the house is on fire let us warm ourselves... (Swedish) >>
Great scholars are not the shrewdest men.... (French) >>