The path of duty lies in what is nearby, but men look for it in things far off.
Take off your hat quickly but slowly take hold of your purse.
Petty thieves are hanged, you take off your hat to the big ones.
When the healthy dog fights with a mad dog, it is the ears of the healthy one that are bitten off.
Better a thousand enemies outside the tent than one within.
Better to kiss an ugly woman than to lick yourself.
A diamond with a flaw is better than a common stone that is perfect.
Great business is good; to sit and sip this glass is better.
It is better to be a bull for a year than a cow for a hundred years.
Better a lie which heals than a truth which wounds.
It is better not to begin than, having begun, leave unfinished.
Better a bite from a friend than a caress from an enemy.
A penny saved is better than a florin earned.
Better have a dog for your friend than your enemy.
Better once in heaven than ten times at the gate.
Better bread in the basket than a feather in your cap.
Better a good conscience without wisdom than wisdom without a good conscience.
Better ask twice than go wrong once.
Better one living word than a hundred dead ones.
There are no bad beers; some kinds are better than others.
When the ear does not hear the eye will see better.
