Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.

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Last updated on December 4th, 2016

Who more busy than they who have least to do?

Fish and visitors smell in three days.

Riches: a dream in the night; fame: a gull floating on water.

You cannot make an appointment with death.

Foul water will quench fire.

Love thy neighbour, but pull not down thy hedge.

Surfeit slayes mae nor the sword.

His bread fell into the honey.

He’s a hawk of a right nest.

Sending the goose on a message to the fox’s den.

It is no sin to sell dear, but a sin to give ill measure.

Human blood is all of a color.

Let it roll; it will right itself.

It’s evil to give meat to those who do not eat meat.

O man, you who do not live a hundred years, why fret a thousand minutes?

Not everybody is as bad as he is dressed.

Friendship broken may be soldered, but never made whole.

No matter how much milk a cow has, you cannot milk butter from it.