A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a peb... >>
Christmas has been talked of so long that it has come at last.... >>
Good wine needs no sign.... >>
He had need rise early who would please everybody.... >>
A man at five may be a fool at fifteen.... >>
An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.... (Spanish) >>
In the year when plums flourish, all else fails.... (English) >>
To find oneself in tight breeches. (Ill at ease--we say in t... (Spanish) >>
We have not yet saddled, and are already mounted.... (Spanish) >>
If a son is uneducated, his dad is to blame.... (Chinese) >>