I can chew for you, my child, but you must swallow by yourself.
If it's God's will the broom will lose its handle.
If women were not vain, men could teach them how to be.
In the dark all cats and all girls are beautiful.
In the long run even a dog will compromise with the cat.
It is a fine thing to die for one's fatherland, but a still finer thing to live for it.
Look at the mother, marry the daughter.
No one was ever hung for what he was thinking.
Nobody can rest in his own shadow.
One road leads to heaven but many lead to hell.
Peccadillos at home, deadly sins abroad.
The believer is happy; the doubter is wise.
The crowd is not led by the head but by the heart.
The wife of a careless man is almost a widow.
The woman of a man without sorrows is almost a widow.
There is no coat big enough to hide both poverty and drunkenness.
Try to be in good company, even when you are alone.
Where there is no bridge the smallest plank is of great value.
