Great Throughts Treasury

"The seller has one eye, the buyer, one hundred."

"The wallet of the timid man neither increases nor decreases."

"The weather vane will not work without wind."

"The wagtail hops and flaps its wings, but the male dove feeds and coos."

"The world is nonsense: what looks beautiful in the morning looks ugly in the evening."

"Time is precious and cannot be bought."

"The world is a wheel and men are the fellows, and the devil prowling around spins."

"There is no rose without thorns"

"Today me, tomorrow you."

"Well begun, is half done."

"We are all flesh and blood."

"When a miser dies, the heirs feel as happy as when they kill a pig."

"What was is no more, what if is just if."

"Whatsoever a new bride touches is fragrant."

"When it's raining and the sun shines -- then a Turk is born."

"When the cat is not at home, the mice are free."

"When the cock is euphoric, the brain is amnesic."

"When the husband is a hen and the wife is a cock, the house is topsy-turvy."

"Where the heart loves, there the legs walk."

"With money you can build a road in the sea."

"Without money you can neither hug nor kiss."

"You can't buy heaven with money."

"You cannot serve God and the devil."

"Women have got long hair and short sense."

"Your soul to God, your body to dust, your property to your relatives, because thus it has been found written."

"You see the splinter in another's eye but fail to see the beam in your own."