A bad mother wishes for good children.... >>
Woe to the house where the hen crows and the rooster is still.... >>
She is good and honoured who is dead and buried.... >>
The golden ass passes everywhere.... >>
He who does not look before lags behind.... >>
The noisiest drum has nothing in it but air.... (English) >>
God alone understands fools.... (French) >>
Do when ye may, or suffer ye the nay, in love 'tis the way.... (English) >>
Death always comes too early or too late... (English) >>
A man who has but one eye must take good care of it.... (French) >>