You may call that your own which no one can take from you, [358]
You may cook in small pots as well as in large ones, [388]
You may force a horse (or an ox) to the water, but you cannot make him drink, [388], [388]
You may force a man to shut his eyes, but you cannot make him sleep, [388]
You may gain by fair words what may fail you by angry ones, [386]
You may get something off a bone, but nothing off a stone, [387]
You may keep yourself safe from fire, but not from a bad man, [276]
You may knock a long while against an alder-bush before you get a swarm of bees out of it, [389]
You may know the lion by his claw, [3]