To get the chicks one must coax the hen.... >>
Write injuries in dust, But kindnesses in marble. [Fr., Eerivez les in... >>
The interested friend is a swallow on the roof. (Prepared to leave at ... >>
The most friendly fortune trips up your heels.... >>
There's nothing like having the key of the fields.... >>
A man may hap to bring home with him what makes him weep.... (Spanish) >>
Copper begets copper, and not ()the labour of) men's bones.... (Spanish) >>
A word and a stone once launched cannot be recalled.... (Spanish) >>
Pride that dines on vanity sups on contempt.... (American) >>
Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.... (Spanish) >>