It is good to sleep in a whole skin.... >>
What the rake gathers, the fork scatters.... >>
Even a coffin is made to measure.... >>
Some people are masters of money, and some its slaves.... >>
An indispensable thing never has much value.... >>
Custom in infancy becomes nature in old age.... (Spanish) >>
Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names... (American) >>
A hook's well lost to catch a salmon.... (French) >>
At the king's court every one for himself.... (French) >>
A good fox does not eat his neighbour's fowls.... (French) >>