One can't hinder the wind from blowing.... >>
Handsomely asked, handsomely refused.... >>
It is a sorry house in which the cock is silent and the hen crows.... >>
A civil denial is better than a rude grant.... >>
He who recovers but the tail of his cow does not lose all.... >>
Business today, tomorrow never.... (Spanish) >>
A great man's entreaty is a command.... (Spanish) >>
Give me the ass that carries me in preference to the horse t... (Spanish) >>
A fool, unless he know Latin, is never a great fool.... (Spanish) >>
Za dvumya zaitsami pogonish'sya, ne odnogo ne poimaesh'. (If... (Chinese) >>