Bernard always had a few prayers in the hall and some whiskey afterwards as he was rather pious.
Penny wise is often pound foolish.
Proverb
People will ignore their misfortunes and their interests when they are in competition with their pleasures.
There is something in the misfortune of our best friends which does not displease us.
The French work to live, but the Swiss live to work.
There is nothing new, but what has become antiquated.
More flies are caught with honey than with vinegar.
Never speak of a rope in the family of one who has been hanged.
The while we keep a man waiting, he reflects on our shortcomings.
When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.
One is rated by others as he rates himself.
A sin confessed is half forgiven.
Skeptics are never deceived.
A closed mouth catches no flies.
He who comes from afar may lie without fear of contradiction as he is sure to be listened to with the utmost attention.
Beauty, unaccompanied by virtue, is as a flower without perfume.
To believe a thing is impossible is to make it so.
The man who has nothing to do is always the busiest.
Don't dance on a volcano.
Everyone according to their talent and every talent according to its work.
People count the faults of those who keep them waiting.
Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.
Life is half spent before one knows what it is.
Love makes time pass away and time makes love pass away.
Why kill time when one can employ it.
We know the true worth of a thing when we have lost it.
It is a wise man who lives with money in the bank, it is a fool who dies that way.
Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.
Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.
If youth but had the knowledge and old age the strength.
It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.
He who is near the Church is often far from God.
A good swordsman is not given to quarrel.
What makes us discontented with our condition is the absurdly exaggerated idea we have of the happiness of others.
By continually scolding someone, they in time become accustomed to it and despise your reproof.
Set a thief to catch a thief.
Save a thief from the gallows and he will cut your throat.
More than we use is more than we want.
Scottish Proverb
Carelessness is worse than a thieve.
There is no greater fraud than a promise not kept.
Who God does not teach, man cannot.
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