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| A father is a banker provided by nature. |
| Love makes time pass; time makes love pass. |
| When we cannot get what we love, we must love what is within our reach. |
| Men count up the faults of those who keep them waiting. French Proverb |
| Nothing is as burdensome as a secret. French Proverb |
| One beggar at the door is enough. French Proverb |
| One flower will not make a garland. French Proverb |
| Patience is bitter but its fruit is sweet. French Proverb |
| Wait until it is night before saying that is has been a fine day. |
| The sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness. |
| Life is half spent before one knows what life is. |
| It's all very well in practice, but it will never work in theory. |
| Write injuries in sand, kindnesses in marble. |
| A bad bush is better than an open field. |
| A bad sheerer never had a good sickle. |
| A black hen lays a white egg. |
| A healthy man is a successful man. |
| A hedge between keeps friendship green. |
| A late Easter, a long cold spring. |
| A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on. |
| A summer's sun is worth the having. |
| A teacher stands in fear of teaching. |
| A wet May was never kind yet. |
| A white Christmas fills the churchyard. |
| A wise fox will never rob his neighbours hen roost. |
| A year of snow, a year of plenty. |
| A young doctor brings a green churchyard. |
| And old rat is a brave rat. |
| A good lawyer, a bad neighbour. |
| The end of passion is the beginning of repentance. |
| Appearances are deceiving. |
| Who spits against the wind, spits in his own face. |
| Who is angry must be pleased again. |
| Stretch your arm no further than your sleeve. |
| Fortune helps him that's willing to help himself. |
| The cart leads the horse; the young instruct the old (on reversed governing). |
| Report makes mischiefs greater than they need to be. |
| He that asks what he should not, hears what he would not. |
| One bee makes no swarm. |
| Ill seed, ill weed |
| One turn serves another. |
| A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. |
| Birds of a feather flock together. |
| Don't bark if you can't bite. |
| He that goes a-borrowing goes a-sorrowing. |
| Charity begins at home. |
| A ragged colt may make a good horse. |
| A dry cough is the trumpeter of death |
| All is not lost that is delayed. |
| In too much discourse, truth ist lost. |
| It is very hard to shave an egg. |
| What can't be cured, must be endured. |
| The eye of the master does more than both his hands. |
| Who never climbed, never fell. |
| Every flow has its ebb. |
| Forewarned, forearmed. |
| Save a thief from the gallows and he will cut your throat. |
| Tell me with whom you go, and I'll tell what you do. |
| Fresh fish and new-come guests smell when they are three days old. |
| Every evil comes to us on wings and goes away limping. |
| There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience. |
| Only that which is provisional endures. |
| Men count up the faults of those who keep them waiting. French Proverb |
| Nothing is as burdensome as a secret. French Proverb |
| One beggar at the door is enough. French Proverb |
| One flower will not make a garland. French Proverb |
| Patience is bitter but its fruit is sweet. French Proverb |
| Wait until it is night before saying that is has been a fine day. |
| The sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness. |
| Life is half spent before one knows what life is. |
| It's all very well in practice, but it will never work in theory. |
| Write injuries in sand, kindnesses in marble. |
| A bad bush is better than an open field. |
| A bad sheerer never had a good sickle. |
| A black hen lays a white egg. |
| A healthy man is a successful man. |
| A hedge between keeps friendship green. |
| A late Easter, a long cold spring. |
| A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on. |
| A summer's sun is worth the having. |
| A teacher stands in fear of teaching. |
| A wet May was never kind yet. |
| A white Christmas fills the churchyard. |
| A wise fox will never rob his neighbours hen roost. |
| A year of snow, a year of plenty. |
| A young doctor brings a green churchyard. |
| And old rat is a brave rat. |
| A good lawyer, a bad neighbour. |
| The end of passion is the beginning of repentance. |
| Appearances are deceiving. |
| Who spits against the wind, spits in his own face. |
| Who is angry must be pleased again. |
| Stretch your arm no further than your sleeve. |
| Fortune helps him that's willing to help himself. |
| The cart leads the horse; the young instruct the old (on reversed governing). |
| Report makes mischiefs greater than they need to be. |
| He that asks what he should not, hears what he would not. |
| One bee makes no swarm. |
| Ill seed, ill weed |
| One turn serves another. |
| A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. |
| Birds of a feather flock together. |
| Don't bark if you can't bite. |
| He that goes a-borrowing goes a-sorrowing. |
| Charity begins at home. |
| A ragged colt may make a good horse. |
| A dry cough is the trumpeter of death |
| All is not lost that is delayed. |
| In too much discourse, truth ist lost. |
| It is very hard to shave an egg. |
| What can't be cured, must be endured. |
| The eye of the master does more than both his hands. |
| Who never climbed, never fell. |
| Every flow has its ebb. |
| Forewarned, forearmed. |
| Save a thief from the gallows and he will cut your throat. |
| Tell me with whom you go, and I'll tell what you do. |
| Fresh fish and new-come guests smell when they are three days old. |
