A man cannot wive and thrive the same year.
They that will not be counselled cannot be helped.
The glory of ancestors should not prevent a man from winning glory for himself.
Visits always give pleasure; if not the arrival, the departure.
He who is covered with other people's clothes is naked.
He that speaks truth must have one foot in the stirrup.
If you look for a faultless woman, you will remain a bachelor.
Love thy neighbour, but pull not down thy hedge.
The obliging fool is worse than an enemy.
If you hold high office, the whole village will share your fame.
At the bottom of patience one finds heaven.
Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering -an image of death.
There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.
Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.
Life is so very difficult. How can we be anything but kind.
Below the navel there is neither religion nor truth.
A clear conscience laughs at false accusations.
The winner has many friends, the loser has good friends.
A fool's tongue is long enough to cut his own throat.
When the sky falls we'll all catch larks.
Time is a wealth of change, but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth.
He that is warm thinks all so.
If you would shoot a general, shoot his horse first.
With money, a dragon - without it, a worm.
Silence is the voice of complicity.
Silence was never written down.
Do not rejoice at my grief, for when mine is old yours will be new.
If the mountain won't come to mohammed, mohammed must go to the mountain.
Before telling secrets on the road, look in the bushes.
The eye that sees all things else, sees not itself.
