Giving alms never lessens the purse.... >>
From a thorn comes a rose, and from a rose comes a thorn... >>
He did not invent gunpowder.... >>
An oak is not felled at one blow.... >>
Give me the ass that carries me in preference to the horse that throws... >>
There is a pinch of the madman in every great man... (Russian) >>
Better wed over the mixen than over the moor.... (English) >>
What you don't see with your eyes, don't invent with your mo... (Native American) >>
With seven nurses the child loses it eye.... (Russian) >>
A honeyed tongue with a heart of gall.... (French) >>