Better walk before a hen than behind an ox.... >>
Dressed like a windmill.... >>
He wears the mourning of his washerwoman.... >>
No feast like a miser's.... >>
Nothing is so burdensome as a secret.... >>
To him who gives you a capon you may spare a leg and a wing.... (Spanish) >>
To find oneself in tight breeches. (Ill at ease--we say in t... (Spanish) >>
The greater the truth, the greater the libel.... (English) >>
When passion entereth at the fore-gate wisdom goes out at th... (Spanish) >>
Wounds from the knife are healed, but not those from the ton... (Spanish) >>