Youth and white paper take any impression.
Your words are fair, said the wolf, "but I will not come into the village."
Young soldiers, old beggars.
Young saint, old devil.
Young men may die, but old men must die.
Young gamblers, old beggars.
Young gambler, old beggar.
Young drinkers, old beggars.
Young angel, old devil.
You have to take life as it happens, but you should try to make it happen the way you want to take it.
You don't need a teacher of wickedness.
You catch the mice with bacon.
You cannot make a silk purse of a sow's ear.
You cannot make a sieve of an ass's tail.
You cannot hang a man twice.
A bad beginning may make a good ending.
Truth has a handsome countenance but torn garments.
Experience is the teacher of jesters and the intelligence of the wise.
Gold goes in at any gate.
The higher the bell is hung, the shriller it sounds.
They wrangle about an egg, and let the hens fly away.
The fish lead a pleasant life, they drink when they like.
Those who wade in unknown waters will be sure to be drowned.
He goes as willingly as a thief to the gallows.
Better free in a foreign land than a serf at home.
Deferred is not annulled.
Old birds are hard to pluck.
He who brings bad tidings, comes soon enough.
When god says "today," the devil says "tomorrow."
