| Monday is the key day of the week. |
| Never give advice unless asked. |
| To advise is easier than to help. |
| To advise is not to compel. |
| Who digs a pit for others will fall in themselves. |
| God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them. |
| The greatest step is out the door. |
| Take the world as it is, not as it ought to be. |
| Between the anvil and the hammer. |
| An old man loved is winter with flowers. |
| Even the lion has to defend himself against flies. |
| Mules are always boasting that their ancestors were horses. |
| The fatter the flea the leaner the dog. |
| Work is our business; it's success is God s. |
| To change and change for the better are two different things |
| Charity sees the need, not the cause. |
| A clear conscience is a soft pillow. |
| No answer is also an answer. |
| Envy eats nothing, but its own heart. |
| Forever is a long bargain. |
| In bad fortune hold out, in good hold in. |
| It is better to trust the eyes rather than the ears. |
| Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet. |
| In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray. |
| One must either be the hammer or the anvil. |
| Fair flowers are not left standing along the wayside long. |
| Office without pay makes thieves. |
| Always something new, seldom something good. |
| Too much humility is pride. |
| What little Jack does not learn, big John will never. |
| Towards evening the lazy person begins to get busy. |
| Those that rule must hear and be deaf, must see and be blind. |
| Liberty is God's gift, liberties the devil s. |
| Luck seeks those who flee and flees those who seek it. |
| Weeping bride, laughing wife, laughing bride, weeping wife. |
| A man trying to sell a blind horse always praises its feet. |
| Prudent men woo thrifty women. |
| An old error is always more popular than a new truth. |
| Today must not borrow from tomorrow. |
| Too aim is not enough, you must hit! |
| Buying is cheaper than asking. |
| When fortune knocks open the door. |
| Nothing is as new as something which as been long forgotten. |
| Those that will not hear must be made to feel. |
| The worst behaved students turn out to be the most pious preachers. |
| Begin to weave and God will give the thread. |
| Nothing weights lighter than a promise. |
| A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs. |
| Rest breeds rust. |
| Revenge converts a little right into a great wrong. |
| A good speaker makes a good liar. |
| Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding. |
| Cunning surpasses strength. |
| What the lion cannot manage to do the fox can. |
| He who undertakes to be his own teacher has a fool for a pupil. |
| The morning hour has gold in its mouth. |
| Necessity unites. |
| To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love. |
| The wise person has long ears and a short tongue. |
| A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs. |
