The bee gets honey from the same flower where the snake sucks her poison.
When you get older you keep warm with the wood you gathered as a youth.
Heaven has a road, but no one travels it; Hell has no gate but men will dig to get there.
Seeking fish? Don't dive in the pond; go home and get a net.
Hope is an egg, of which one man gets the yolk, another the white, and a third the shell.
When thieves fall out, honest men get their goods back.
Try not to get hold of a leopard's tail, but if you do -- don't let go.
When you put your nose into the water your cheeks get wet as well.
When the wise man gets angry, he stops being wise.
He who slowly gets angry will stay angry for a long time.
If a man from humble beginnings gets rich, he will carry his umbrella at midnight.
I can only get better if I have good friends.
He who gets a name for early rising can stay in bed until midday.
When the goat goes to church, he does not stop till he gets to the altar.
A canoe does not know who is king. When it turns over, everyone gets wet.
I would as soon see your nose be cheese, and the cat get the first bite of it.
Married folk are like rats in a trap -- fain to get others in, but fain to be out themselves.
If the master gets drunk it is an honorable drunkenness; if the servant does it is evidence of his mean disposition.
The beggar who asks for crumbs gets more than the one who asks for bread.
Put an Irishman on the spit, and you can always get another Irishman to baste him.
The lion and the lamb shall lie down together, but the lamb won't get much sleep.
