Absence is a shrew.... >>
He that serves at the altar ought to live by the altar.... >>
A fair day in winter is the mother of a storm... >>
The pitcher will go to the well once too often.... >>
When a proud man hears another praised, he feels himself injured.... >>
Give him a foot and he'll take four.... (French) >>
A galled horse does not care to be curried.... (French) >>
A silver hammer breaks an iron door.... (French) >>
A little man sometimes casts a long shadow.... (French) >>
A sparrow in hand is worth a pheasant that flieth by.... (French) >>