He who seeks better bread than is made of wheat must be either a fool or a knave.
He who sleeps with dogs will get up with fleas.
He who eats a bone chokes himself.
Bread and kicks will get no thanks, even from a dog.
Make haste and get rich—and then I am your uncle.
You call on St. Paul without having seen the viper. (You cry out before you are hurt.)
When two have set their minds on each other, a hundred cannot keep them apart.
On a fool’s beard the barber learns to shave.
A man who was pleading asked a judge whether the lawyer or the physician had the precedence in any judicial affair. Says the judge, “Pray, who goes first, the criminal or the executioner?” “The criminal,” replied the pleader. “Then,” says the judge, “the lawyer may go first as the thief, and the physician follow after as the executioner.”
A certain person who had squandered away all his patrimony being at an entertainment, one of the guests said, “The earth used to swallow up men, but this man has swallowed up the earth.”