It is easy to preach fasting with a full belly, [95]

It is easy to sit at the helm in fine weather, [371]

It is easy to stride a tree when it is down, [361]

It is easy to swim, when another holds up your head, [360]

It is easy to threaten a bull from a window, [95]

“It is easy to work with a good comb,” said the devil, when he combed his mother’s hair with a pitchfork, [360]

It is fair and just to cheat the cheater, [225]

It is folly to drown on dry land, [358]

It is folly to fear what one cannot avoid, [351]

It is folly to gape against an oven, [11], [361]