A threatened man lives long, if he can get bread.

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When the game is most thriving it is time to leave off.

It is a bad sheep that is too lazy to carry its own fleece.

The man who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning.

The corn that is taken to a bad mill. will be badly ground.

Where there is love there is pain.

Vipers breed vipers.

Many a man labours for the day he will never live to see.

That's but an empty purse which is full of other men's money.

Where there is no wit within no wit will come out.

One eye is a better witness than two ears.

It is difficult to get many heads under one hat.

Speech is silver, but silence is golden.

It is better to buy dearly than to hunger direly.

The anvil does not fear a good sledge-hammer.