A hundred "no's" are less painful than one insincere "yes."
It is easier to visit your friends than to live with them.
The frog knows more about the rain than the calendar.
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.
A single bag of money is stronger than two bags of truth.
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.
No one can have peace longer than his neighbor pleases.
Better bread in the basket than a feather in your cap.
Don't slaughter more pigs than you can salt.
Nothing ages more than a good deed.
A good lie finds more believers than a bad truth.
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.
Big trees cast more shadow than fruit.
Green wood gives more smoke than heat.
