If you do not have brains you have legs. It's not good for all of our wishes to be fulfilled. Through sickness, we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest. In baiting a mousetrap with cheese, always leave room for the mouse. Young wood makes a hot fire. My first wedding makes me proud in front of people. Nothing, in excess. Passing from mouth to mouth it was learned by a thousand, and by the time it came to be heard by the king he learned of how a cow laid an egg! The fox is one hundred years old its' child is one hundred and ten. The liar and the thief rejoice in their first year only. The rabbits' eye differs from that of the owl. |