If you want to make God laugh, tell him your plans.... >>
A good man's pedigree is little hunted up.... >>
Entreaties to get him to sing, and entreaties to leave off.... >>
Listeners hear no good of themselves.... >>
The heart is no traitor.... >>
The best you get is an even break.... (French) >>
Fortune can take from us only what she has given us.... (French) >>
There is plenty of sound in an empty barrel.... (Russian) >>
Better give a penny then lend twenty.... (Italian) >>
A runaway monk never praises his monastery.... (Italian) >>