He who wants canes should go to the cane-brake; and he who would court the daughter should be polite to the mother.
For the buyer a hundred eyes are too few, for the seller one is enough.
If you want to have your hands full buy a watch, take a wife, or beat a friar.
God keep thee from the fury of the wind, from a monk outside his monastery, from a woman who can speak Latin, and from a man who cannot hold up his head.
Brother Modestus was never made Prior.
Tie up the ass where his owner tells you, and if he breaks his neck the blame is not yours.
You cannot drink and whistle at the same time; you cannot both carry the cross and sing with the choir.
An unfrocked monk and warmed-up cabbage were never yet good for anything.
There are no pockets in the shroud.