Don't boast when you start out, but when you get there.
If you don't crack the shell, you can't eat the nut.
They bow to you when borrowing, you bow to them when collecting.
You have summer and you have winter -- why, then, be in a hurry?
He who does not shave you does not cut you.
Since I wronged you, I have never liked you.
Before you build a house you have to dig a pit.
If you have planted a tree you must water it too.
If you look for a faultless woman, you will remain a bachelor.
Oh, misfortune, I forgive you when you come alone.
You don't have to know much to read, but you do to cook.
If you want to gather a lot of knowledge, act as if you are ignorant.
If you are bitter at heart, sugar in the mouth will not help you.
If you pray for another, you will be helped yourself.
Protest long enough that you are right, and you will be wrong.
The way you prepare the bed, so shall you sleep.
You reproach your daughter, but you mean your daughter-in-law.
When you are there, you are. With words, you aren't.
If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.
Clinging to him desperately, Sara kept her mouth at his ear. "Listen to me." All she could do was play her last card. Her voice trembled with emotion. "You can't change the truth. You can act as though you're deaf and blind, you can walk away from me...
Rhett, do you really--is it to protect me that you--" "Yes, my dear, it is my much advertised chivalry that makes me protect you." The mocking light began to dance in his black eyes and all signs of earnestness fled from his face. "And why? Because o...
