A house ready made and a wife to make.... >>
A girl unemployed is thinking of mischief.... >>
He never did a good day's work who went grumblingly about it.... >>
He who waits for a dead man's shoes is in danger of going barefoot.... >>
It is not the greatest beauties that inspire the most profound passion... >>
Never miss a good chance to shut up.... (American) >>
A buffeting threatened is never well given.... (Spanish) >>
It is the great north wind that made the Vikings... (Italian) >>
He who wants to catch fish must not mind a wetting.... (Spanish) >>
A runaway monk never praises his monastery.... (Italian) >>