Two wrongs don’t make a right.

Being a swimmer and spending time in the water does not make you a fish.

If a horn deserves a jawbone, they attach one to it.

Men do not know liberality.

If you tie a frog on the leg a snake will follow you.

He who boasts of his ancestry unduly will bring trouble.

He fears the sack who has been in it.

Take a woman’s first advice and not her second.

Only he who does nothing makes no mistakes.

One should punish a child the first time he comes home with a stolen egg.

Whoever buys a house must examine the beams.

Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Once on a tiger’s back, it is hard to alight.

A mother understands what a child does not say.

Don’t buy the house; buy the neighborhood.

Prepare the sickles in may, use the sickles in june

Pluck the rose and leave the thorns.

At a hunting expedition you cannot apportion the meat before you kill the animal.

Where there is a glut of words, there is a dearth of intelligence.