Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.

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Last updated on December 4th, 2016

However would the string wind, the end will be reached.

There is never an old brogue but there is a foot to fit it.

The former highwayman men are the best gendarmes.

Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses.

One year of joy, another of comfort, and all rest of content.

A problem is solved when it gets tougher.

A stolen object brings no joy to one’s heart.

You can’t shake hands with a clenched fist.

Don’t praise your furnace when the house is cold.

Stown dints are sweetest.

He who does not intend to pay is not troubled in making his bargain.

A lazy woman is never virtuous.

Him that lives on hope has a slim diet.

You may go to kukutyin to sharpen oats.

Seeing once is better than hearing a hundred times.

Even silence speaks.

Even a cat is a lion in her own lair.

The hearts of fools are in their mouths but the mouths of the wise are in their hearts.