179 Proverbs about Monk / Page 4
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A drunkard can be a sheep, a monkey or a lion.62.
Women in state affairs are like monkeys in glass-houses.63.
A monkey remains a monkey, though dressed in silk.64.
One ass among many monkeys is grinned at by all.65.
When the Devil was sick the Devil a monk would be, When the Devil got well, the devil a monk was he.66.
When the prior plays cards, what will the monks do?67.
At twenty a man will be a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy a monkey, and at eighty nothing.68.
If the devil is going to disguise himself, it will be as a monk or a lawyer.69.
The cassock does not make the monk.70.
The monk responds to the abbot's chants.71.
The monk responds as the abbot chants.72.
Every monkey will have his gambols.73.
No man understands knavery better than the abbot who has been a monk.74.
Take heed of an ox before. an ass behind, and a monk on all sides.75.
The abbey does not fail for want on one monk.76.
The gown does not make the monk.77.
The monk that begs for God's sake begs for two.78.
The old monkey gets the apple.79.
To do like the monkey, get the chesnuts out of the fire with the cat's paw.80.
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