Drop by drop the lake is drained.... >>
He lies like a toothdrawer.... >>
A honeyed tongue with a heart of gall.... >>
A short mass and a long dinner.... >>
A girl unemployed is thinking of mischief.... >>
The eyes believe themselves; the ears believe other people... (English) >>
The girl as she is taught, the flax as it is wrought.... (Spanish) >>
To know and to act are one and the same... (Greek) >>
Ask not after a good man's pedigree.... (Spanish) >>
If youth but had the knowledge and old age the strength... (Benjamin Franklin) >>