Talk little and well, and you will be looked upon as somebody.... >>
Take the middle of the way and thou wilt not fall.... >>
There's no making a good cloak of bad cloth.... >>
The woman in finery, the house in filth, but the doorway swept.... >>
When you can't get bread, oat-cakes are not amiss.... >>
A half-truth is a whole lie... (Polish) >>
He who wants to be rich in a year is hanged at six months' e... (French) >>
When two quarrel, both are to blame... (African) >>
It is not the big oxen that do the best day's work.... (French) >>
Some think they have done when they are only beginning.... (French) >>