It is better to blow than burn your mouth.
It is better to ride for half a year on a good horse than to spend your entire life riding on a mule.
It is easier to make a lady of a peasant girl than a peasant girl of a lady.
It is good rowing with the sail set.
It is good spinning from another's yarn.
It is good to warm oneself by another's fire.
It is hard to blow with a full mouth.
It is hard to steal where the host is a thief.
It is hard to swim against the current.
It is hasty speed that doesn't succeed.
It is safest to sail within reach of the shore.
It is too late to cry "Hold hard!" when the arrow has left the bow.
It is too late to lock the stable door when the horses have already been stolen.
It needs a cunning hand to shave a fool's head.
It's better that the bakers are on horseback than the doctors.
It's good to watch the rain from a dry standpoint.
Learn who are your friends when you are in need.
Let me get over the lake, and I will have no fear of the brook.
Like will to like, be they poor or rich.
Little fish are sweet.
Little is done where many command.
