You may find your best friend or your worst enemy in yourself.

The parrot utters one cry, the quail another.

Better to be a crystal and to be broken, than to be a tile upon the housetop.

He that has no ill luck grows weary of good luck.

Every man has one black patch, and some have two.

De dismounts the tent-poles.

Bad planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.

Noble is, that noble does.

A penny spared is better than a florin gained.

However long the dry season takes a seasonal river will never forget where it used to pass.