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"A bad excuse is better than none."
" A bad wound may be cured, bad repute kills."
" A barking dog was never a good biter."
" A blow from a frying-pan, if it does not hurt, smuts."
" A boaster and a liar are cousins."
" A bully is always a coward."
" A good heart breaks bad fortune."
" A good hope is better than a bad possession."
" A good life defers wrinkles."
" A good listener is a silent flatterer."
" A horseshoe that clatters wants a nail."
" A house filled with guests is eaten up and ill spoken of."
" A lazy youth, a lousy age."
" A little gall embitters much honey."
" A man that is lean, not from hunger, is harder than brass."
" A man who prides himself on his ancestry is like the potato plant, the best part of which is underground."
" A measly hog infects the whole sty."
" A melon and a woman are hard to know."
" A mistress in a high place is not a bad thing."
" A penny spared is a penny saved."
" A poor man is all schemes."
" A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience."
" A rich man is either a scoundrel or the heir of a scoundrel."
" A rose too often smelled loses its fragrance."
" A secret between two is God's secret, a secret between three is everybody's."
" A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study;
" A turn of the key is better than the conscience of a friar."
" A wise man changes his mind, a fool never."
" Bad news is always true."
" Beads about the neck, and the devil in the heart."
" Before the time, great courage; when at the point, great fear."
" Before you marry, beware, for it is a knot difficult to untie."
" Beggars must not be choosers."
" Better a quiet death than a public misfortune."
" Blessings on him that said, Face about."
" Blood boils without fire."
" Business today, tomorrow never."
" Call me not fortunate till you see me buried."
" Charity well regulated begins at home."
" Chastise one that is worthless, and he will presently hate you."
" Cleanliness is next to godliness."
" Come live with me and you'll know me."
" Command your wealth, else that will command you."
" Compare your griefs with other men's and they will seem less."
" Dance to the tune that is played."
" Danger and delight grow on one stalk;
" Debts are like children; the smaller they are the more noise they make."
" Deceive not thy physician, confessor, or lawyer."
" Deeds are love, and not fine phrases."
" Desire beautifies what is ugly."
" Don't speak unless you can improve on the silence."
" Don't stay long when the husband is not at home."
" Either the ass will die, or he that goads it."
" Either you sink or you swim."
" Feet that are used to move cannot remain quiet."
" Fire and love do not say "Go to your work.";
" Fire, fire, many pots on. and one pea in them all."
" First cobwebs, then chains."
" First come to the mill, first grind."
" First secure an independent income, then practice virtue;
" Folly is the product of all countries and ages."
" Give a traitor good words and you make him loyal."
" Give me the ass that carries me in preference to the horse that throws me."
" Go to friends for advice; to women for pity; to strangers for charity; to relatives for nothing."
" God comes to see without ringing the bell."
" God defend you from the devil, the eye of a harlot, and the turn of a die."
" God delays but doesn't forget."
" I know what I know, but will say nothing about it."
" I say it to you, daughter; hear it, daughter-in-law."
" If I die, I forgive you; if I live, we shall see."
" If love be timid it is not true."
" If lying were a capital crime, the hangman would work overtime."
" If people lead, the leaders will follow."
" If the eyes don't see, the heart won't break."
" In the street of by-and-by one arrives at the house of "never"."
" Ingratitude is the daughter of pride."
" Leave the jest at its best."
" Let every man mind his own business."
" Live with wolves, and you learn to howl."
" Live your own life, for you will die your own death;
" Losers are always in the wrong."
" Love is like war, begin when you like and leave off when you can."
" Love one that does not love you, answer one that does not call you, and you will run a fruitless race."
" Love, pain, and money cannot be kept secret; they soon betray themselves."
" Luck comes to those who look after it."
" Lying and gossiping go hand in hand."
" May God not so prosper our friends that they forget us."
" Money gets money."
" Money turns bad into good."
" Much talking, much erring."
" My word is my bond."
" Needs must when the devil drives."
" Neither sign a paper without reading it, nor drink water without seeing it."
" Never advise a man to go to the wars, or to marry."
" Poverty is not a crime."
" Punishment is a cripple, but it arrives."
" Put a beggar into your barn and he will make himself your heir."
" Sense comes with age."
" So wise, so young, they say, do ne'er live long."
" Take away the motive, and the sin is taken away."
" Take hold lightly; let go lightly. This is one of the great secrets of felicity in love."
" Take hold of a good minute."
" Take the middle of the way and thou wilt not fall."
" Take the will for the deed."
" Take what you want, then pay for it."
" Taking out and not putting in soon reaches the bottom."
" To-morrow will be another day."
" Under a tattered cloak you will generally find a good drinker."
" Use power to curb power;
" Vainglory blossoms, and bears no fruit."
" We do not know what is good until we have lost it."
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" We make more enemies by what we say than friends by what we do."
" You have broken my head and now you bring plaister."
" You have debts, and make debts still; if you've not lied, lie you will."
" You notice what I drink, and not the thirst I feel."
" You surrender your freedom where you deposit your secret."
" You will not be loved if you care for none but yourself."

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