If you want to know secrets, seek for them in trouble or in pleasure.... >>
Who is to bell the cat?... >>
To beards with money cavaliers pay respect.... >>
There would be no ill word if it were not ill taken.... >>
To find oneself in tight breeches. (Ill at ease--we say in tight boots... >>
The niggard spends as much as he who is liberal, and in the ... (French) >>
He that hath a head of wax must not walk in the sun.... (Latin) >>
There's many a good cock come out of a tattered bag.... (English) >>
Despair doubles our strength.... (English) >>
A woman and a ship ever want mending.... (French) >>