Better lose the wool than the sheep.... >>
No wind can do him good who steers for no port.... >>
You cannot get oil out of a wall.... >>
There never was a banquet so sumptuous but some one dined ill at it.... >>
The old monkey gets the apple.... >>
The magistrate's son gets out of every scrape.... (Spanish) >>
A little gall embitters much honey.... (Spanish) >>
A hundred tailors, a hundred millers, and a hundred weavers,... (Spanish) >>
When anger rises, think of the consequences... (Hindu) >>
Every cask smells of the wine it contained.... (Spanish) >>