A lawsuit for a maravedi consumes a real's worth of paper.... >>
Pour not water on a drowned mouse.... >>
When every one says you are an ass, bray.... >>
The gossips fall out and tell each other truths.... >>
One wedding brings another.... >>
He looks for his ass and sits on its back.... (French) >>
A young branch takes on all the bends that one gives it.... (Chinese) >>
The wise adapt themselves to circumstances, as water moulds ... (Chinese) >>
They are not all saints who use holy waters... (English) >>
He who would rule must hear and be deaf, see and be blind... (Persian) >>