You can't get blood out of a turnip.... >>
We are usually the best men when in the worst health.... >>
You never miss a slice from a cut loaf.... >>
When the pigeons go abenting, the farmers go lamenting.... >>
The afterthought is good for nought, except it be to catch blind horse... >>
I dance to the tune that is played.... (Spanish) >>
There is plenty of sound in an empty barrel.... (Russian) >>
He that that hath a head of wax must not approach the fire.... (French) >>
What the child hears at the fireside is soon known at the pa... (French) >>
He that lives on hope will die fasting... (American) >>