Great Throughts Treasury

"He can just spit under my window."

"He who carries, doesn?t have to beg."

"He who drinks on credit, gets drunk twice."

"He who is moving is not cheerful."

"He who is on fire is not troubled by the smoke."

"Hold your word like a sieve holds water."

"Honest laughs, guilty hides."

"Honest man is easily swindled."

"How much is from the earth to the sky, that?s how much is from a man to a no-man."

"I am fine and hoping for better; whatever I wear by day is what I wear to sleep."

"I am scratching myself where I am itching."

"I can buy you a hat, but not the brains."

"If a step mother was a good thing, she would have been grown in garden."

"If born crooked, time cannot straighten it."

"If evil won?t be after you, you run away from it."

"If evil won?t run away from you, you run away from it."

"If he fell on his back, he would break his nose."

"If it were as easy to get rich as it is to talk, everyone would be rich."

"If it weren?t for the wind, the spiders would net the whole sky."

"If marriage was good, the devil would be married too."

"If someone didn?t get it with mothers? milk, he won?t make it up with cow?s milk."

"If the goat is lying, her horn isn?t."

"If the heart were harder than stone, still gold would melt it."

"If the neighbor?s house is on fire, check your own."

"If we drink like cattle, there will be enough. If we drink like people ? there will be too little."

"If winter doesn?t bite, it swooshes with its tail."

"If words had to be paid for, they would be spoken less."

"If you beat your wife, you beat your good fortune."

"If you cannot help me, don?t deter me."

"If you can't hold on to the horse's mane then don't try to hang on to its tail."

"If you dig a new well, don?t spit into the old one."

"If you do good, don?t bang into big bells."

"If you don?t meet luck, you won?t catch her."

"If you don?t start, you won?t finish."

"If you humble yourself too much, you will get trampled on."

"If you know what happened, you don?t know what will happen."

"If you put all brains out on a fair, everyone would grab for his own."

"If you want everyone to hate you, tell them exactly what they are like."

"If you want the core, break the shell."

"If you want to be mean to a man, wish that his wife dies."

"Illness can take down a mountain, and certainly a man."

"Impossible to hold two watermelons under one armpit."

"In healthy body, healthy spirit."

"In this case, ?product? is a young lady trying to get married."

"Iron cuts both wood and stone, but is eaten by rust."

"Iron is cast while hot."

"Iron is worked when it's still hot."

"It does no harm now and then to burn a candle for the devil."

"It is a bad man who finds joy in others? misfortune."

"It is better not to have, than to grab by force."