Listeners hear no good of themselves.... >>
If you want to be dead, wash your head and go to bed.... >>
Better sit idle than work for naught.... >>
Every one is wise when the mischief is done.... >>
Compare your griefs with other men's and they will seem less.... >>
It is merry in hall when beards wag all.... (French) >>
Of wine the middle, of oil the top, and of honey the bottom ... (English) >>
Least said is soonest mended.... (English) >>
It is an equal failing to trust everybody and to trust nobod... (English) >>
After me the deluge.... (French) >>