There is many a good tune played on an old fiddle.

A fence should be horse high hog tight and bull strong.

Beauty is potent but money is omnipotent.

If you fail to plan you plan to fail.

Today's sales should be better than yesterday's - and worse than tomorrow's.

There is no crisis to which academics will not respond with a seminar.

He who drinks a little too much drinks much too much.

They talk of my drinking but never my thirst.

Danger and delight grow on one stalk .

He who has daughters is always a shepherd.

A fool's head never whitens.

Men trip not on mountains they stumble on stones.

There are bearded fools.

It is a long lane that has no turning.

When you live next to the cemetery you cannot weep for everyone.

Ten lands are sooner known than one man.

Living in the past has one thing in its favour - it's cheaper.

Every time history repeats itself the price goes up.

What is the use of running when you are on the wrong road?

The eyes are the window of the soul.

What can't be cured must be endured.

The French have a passion for revolution but an abhorrence of change.

Self-praise is no recommendation.

Every path has its puddle.

In the ant's house the dew is a flood.

An indecent mind is a perpetual feast.

From listening comes wisdom and from speaking repentance.

If you can't bite don't show your teeth.

The silent dog is the first to bite.

There is no crisis to which academics will not respond with a seminar.

Poor men seek meat for their stomach rich men stomach for their meat.

Riches serve a wise man but command a fool.

Young folk silly folk old folk cold folk.