The eye of a friend is a good looking-glass.

’Tis the fool has luck.

What the Pookha writes, he himself can read.

A blind man can see his mouth.

To die and to lose one’s life are much the same.

Don’t leave a tailor’s remnant behind you.

’Tis a wedge of itself that splits the oak.

The three sharpest things at all—a thorn in mire, a hound’s tooth, and a fool’s retort.

When it goes hard with the old hag, she must run.

The jewel most rare is the jewel most fair.