A guest sees more in an hour than the host in a year.
Fish to taste right must swim three times - in water in butter and in wine.
God pays but not weekly wages.
Spring is a virgin Summer a mother Autumn a widow and Winter a stepmother.
When I had money everyone called me brother.
Even were a cook to cook a fly he would keep the breast for himself.
Even a clock that is not going is right twice a day.
The woman cries before the wedding the man afterward.
The greater love is a mother's then comes a dog's then a sweetheart's.