Do unto others as you would have them do to you.
You can't win them all.
I'd rather have them say "there he goes" than "here he lies.".
When two agree in their desire, one sparke will set them both on fire.
Whom we love best, to them we can say least.
A woman, a dog, and a walnut tree, the more you beat them the better they be.
All had rather it were well for themselves than for another.
Apes remain apes, though you cloth them in velvet.
Dissemblers oftener deceive themselves than others.
Either fight not with priests or beat them to death.
Priests bless themselves first.
Riches abuse them who know not how to use them.
Those who tickle themselves may laugh when they please.
Thousands drink themselves to death before one dies of thirst.
Men are like bagpipes: no sound comes from them till they're full.
If you let them put the calf on your shoulders, it will not be long before they clap on the cow.
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
To censure princes is perilous, and to praise them is lying.
The ass embraced the thistle, and they found themselves relations.
The ass that trespasses on a stranger's premises will leave them laden with wood (i.e. Cudgelled).
Fire, fire, many pots on. And one pea in them all.
I don't count them to you, wife, but a hog makes twelve puddings.
If you want to know secrets, seek for them in trouble or in pleasure.
Let them be birds. (Small eggs make little soup.)
Let them talk of men, and beg of me.
Let them whip me in the market-place, provided it be not known at home.
Where they eat your meat let them pick the bones.
Men are like bagpipes-no sound comes from them until they're full.
There's a fool born every minute- and every one of them lives!
Women are shy and shame prevents them from refusing a man.