It is hard to dry a rush that has been dipped in tallow (i.e., it is hard to break off a habit).

Might is not lasting.

Wrath speaketh not true.

A bribe bursts the rock.

What goes to length goes to coldness.

Better the good that is than the double good that was.

Often a mouse went under a cornstack.

A good retreat is better than a bad stand.

Not better is food than sense at time of drinking.

The idiot knows the fault of the fool.