Far fowls have fair feathers.... >>
First deserve, and then desire.... >>
Big thunder, little rain.... >>
Absence is a shrew.... >>
Dogs that bark at a distance never bite.... >>
A frog in a well shaft seeing the sky.... (Chinese) >>
Confessed faults are half mended... (Yugoslav) >>
It is just that the priest should live by the altar.... (French) >>
Wine will not keep in a foul vessel.... (French) >>
Horses run after benefices and asses get them.... (French) >>