The dog may be wonderful prose, but only the cat is poetry.... >>
He who turns aside avoids danger.... >>
He that holds the handle of a frying-pan runs the risk of burning hims... >>
I know by my own pot how the others boil.... >>
Hunger looks in at the industrious man's door but dares not enter.... >>
A word from the mouth, a stone from a sling.... (Spanish) >>
It is courage that vanquishes in war, and not good weapons.... (Spanish) >>
One eye on the frying-pan and the other on the cat.... (Spanish) >>
To forget a wrong is the best revenge.... (Spanish) >>
A lawsuit for a maravedi consumes a real's worth of paper.... (Spanish) >>