He who waits for another man's trencher often dines in imagination (or... >>
The devil may die without my inheriting his horns.... >>
Ask no questions and hear no lies.... >>
A man know's no more to any purpose than he practises.... >>
A hundred years is not much, but never is a long while.... >>
Poor Trust is dead; Bad Pay killed him.... (English) >>
Ill luck enters by fathoms and departs by inches.... (Spanish) >>
At an ambuscade of villains a man does better with his feet ... (Spanish) >>
Better be ill spoken of by one before all than by all before... (Romanian) >>
Fish or cut bait... (Greek) >>