Great Throughts Treasury

"The eyes deceive."

"Time gives good advice."

"A bird in your hands is better then one hundred in the sky."

"An alerted man is half armoured."

"Nobody makes nothing for nothing."

"Death spares no one."

"Dont make sauce before catching fish."

"No finger is like another."

"The world teaches you more than your task-master."

"You must kill the spider to get rid of the cobweb."

"We are all equal before death."

"One man's fault is another man's lesson."

"A good mule can be sold in his own territory."

"A cup must be bitter that a smile will not sweeten."

"A handful of dust, four capitals and shit on all I possessed."

"A kiss without a hug is like a flower without the fragrance."

"A cry, a sniff, and all comes to naught."

"A good cow gets sold in its own country."

"A lovely girl attracts attention by her good looks, an ugly girl by the help of a mirror."

"A man and a sheaf of straw make two."

"A neck without a head, buttocks without a hole and a girl without shame are not worth admiring or marrying."

"A woman can raise you to heaven and can dump you in hell."

"A man's heart is a forest."

"A mountain never meets a mountain, but a man meets a man."

"A woman is like a lemon; you squeeze her and throw her away."

"A woman has got seven souls."

"A woman has even cheated the devil"

"A woman?s tongue cracks bones."

"A woman who does not understand by a look of the eye won't understand by a box of the fist."

"Advice most needed is the least heeded."

"After taking ninety-nine years to climb a stairway, the tortoise falls and says there is a curse on haste."

"All is well that ends well."

"Asking is the sister of knowing."

"After bad weather comes fine weather"

"At night all women are alike."

"An oven whose door does not shut does not bake its loaves."

"Believe not a swearing man and a weeping woman."

"Better an ache than a tear."

"Better an old but wise man than a young but foolish man."

"Better (marry) an old but wise man than a young but foolish man."

"Burn a good Maltese; let alone a bad one."

"Death rights everything"

"Chasten thy son while there is hope."

"Do good and forget it; do ill and remember it."

"Charm is stronger than beauty."

"Death said to the man with his throat cut, "How ugly you look.""

"Enjoy yourself, for there is nothing in the world we can call our own."

"Don't marry a good-looking bride for you'll have to watch her."

"Everyone conceals his own beam and notices the mote in other people's eyes."

"Every bird is proud of its feathers."