Use your enemy's hand to catch a snake... >>
In the year when plums flourish, all else fails.... >>
He that will thrive must first ask his wife.... >>
Light Christmas, light wheatsheaf; dark Christmas, heavy wheatsheaf.... >>
If a hen does not prate she'll never lay.... >>
The dog may be wonderful prose, but only the cat is poetry.... (French) >>
It is easy to undress the naked.... (Russian) >>
When the flatterer pipes, the devil dances.... (Spanish) >>
He expects to find water at the first stroke of the spade.... (Spanish) >>
Walk till the blood appears on the cheek, but not the sweat ... (Spanish) >>