Much would have more, and lost all.... >>
He that would go to sea for pleasure would go to hell for a pastime.... >>
Fine dressing is a foul house, swept before the windows.... >>
It will not do to keep holidays before they come.... >>
He is a horse with four white feet (i.e., he is unlucky).... >>
At an ambuscade of villains a man does better with his feet ... (Spanish) >>
Even the best writer has to erase.... (Spanish) >>
A good paymaster is keeper of other men's purses.... (Spanish) >>
He who at twenty understands nothing, at thirty knows nothin... (Spanish) >>
A buffeting threatened is never well given.... (Spanish) >>