If you would be pope, you must think of nothing else.... >>
It's enough to make a parson swear, or a quaker kick his mother.... >>
Ask not after a good man's pedigree.... >>
If you want to beat a dog, say he eat your iron.... >>
When a man is not used to breeches the seams gall him.... >>
Upon a slight pretext the wolf takes the sheep.... (French) >>
Every hooked beak is maintained by prey.... (French) >>
There is no one to sweep a common hall.... (Chinese) >>
Kill one to warn a hundred... (Chinese) >>
Be not afraid of going slowly; be afraid only of standing st... (Chinese) >>