In the face of love and death, courage is useless.
In the presence of your neighbor don't praise your wife or his.
In wartime no sweets are given out.
Indiscreet questions must be answered with a lie.
Ingratitude is the daughter of pride.
Insults should be well avenged or well endured.
It is better to be a mouse in a cat's mouth than a man in a lawyer's hands.
It is better to have bread left over than to run short of wine.
It is better to skip one meal than to consult a hundred doctors.
It is better to weep with wise men than to laugh with fools.
It is good to have friends, even in hell.
It is no fun to guard a house with two doors.
It is not the same thing to talk of bulls as to be in the bullring.
It is the truth that irritates a person.
It rains sorrow on him who is already wet.
It takes taste to account for taste.
It's better to arrive on time than to be invited.
It's the grinding of his teeth that awakes the blacksmith's dog, not the noise of the hammer.
Italians talk to women, Frenchmen to the learned, and the Spaniard talks to God.
Keeping a woman to her word is like trying to hold an eel by its tail.
Late children are early orphans.