“When the mouse is full, the flour tastes bitter.”

He who bids for much, often loses all.

Shame on he who gives up.

Grab the bull by its horns.

Money does not smell.

You never get tired of working for yourself.

It is seldom the fault of one when two argue.

Where shall the ladle be if not in the cauldron?

When God brings death, the devil brings heirs.

Don’t waste gunpowder on dead crows.

Faith can move mountains.

He who builds and he who marries are never safe.

In the desert sand is cheap.

‘If it isn’t one thing it’s the other’ said the girl with a nosebleed.

One shouldn’t buy a pig in a sack.

Better to flee than to fence poorly.

Better to dam the brook than the creek.