To the jaundiced all things seem yellow.... >>
A bad workman never finds a good tool.... >>
Honest poverty is thinly sown.... >>
A silver hammer breaks an iron door.... >>
You play with edged tools.... >>
He who begins badly, ends badly.... (Spanish) >>
Better a mouse in the pot than no meat at all... (Turkish) >>
Every potter praises his pot, especially if cracked.... (Spanish) >>
Every one feels the cold according as he is clad.... (Spanish) >>
An oak is not felled at one stroke.... (Spanish) >>