| Truth is the safest lie. |
| Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it. |
| People come to poverty in two ways accumulating debts and paying them off. |
| God could not be everywhere, and therefore he created mothers. |
| Make sure to be in with your equals if you're going to fall out with your superiors. |
| He who puts up with insult invites injury. |
| Your friend has a friend don't tell him. |
| Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house. |
| Don't live in a town where there are no doctors. |
| Look for the good, not the evil, in the conduct of members of the family. |
| If you can't go over, you must go under. |
| Don't be sweet, lest you be eaten up don't be bitter, lest you be spewed out. |
| Never trust the man who tells you all his troubles but keeps from you all his joys. |
| Don't open a shop unless you know how to smile. |
| What you don't see with your eyes, don't invent with your mouth. |
| You can't force anyone to love you or lend you money. |
| With money in your pocket you are wise, you are handsome, and you sing well too. |
| The only truly dead are those who have been forgotten. |
| The innkeeper loves a drunkard, but not for a son-in-law. |
| If the rich could hire someone else to die for them, the poor would make a wonderful living. |
| A half-truth is a whole lie. |
| Worries go down better with soup than without. |
| If God lived on earth, people would break his windows. |
| He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see the good. |
| Don't look for more honor than your learning merits. |
| Rejoice not at thine enemy's fall - but don't rush to pick him up either. |
