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.
"O what we must suffer for the sake of god's church!" said the abbot, when the roast fowl burned his fingers.
"Red is love's colour," said the wooer to his foxy charmer.
"Success to you! God speed the craft!" as the hangman said to the judge.
"With all my heart!" says the boor, when he must.
"With great pleasure," says the boor, when he must.
"Your words are fair," said the wolf, "but I will not come into the village."
A bad beginning may make a good ending.
A bad cause requires many words.
A baptised jew is a circumcised christian.
A bargain is a bargain.
A bashful dog never fattens.
A better seldom comes after.
A blind horse goes straightforward.
A blind leader of the blind.
A blind man swallows many a fly.
