1817 Romanian Proverbs / Page 84
1661.
Virtue is its own reward.1662.
Walls have ears.1663.
War is death's feast.1664.
Water afar off quenches not fire.1665.
Water flows, rocks remain.1666.
We carry our neighbours' failings in sight; we throw our own crimes over our shoulders.1667.
We don't kill a pig every day.1668.
We must live by the living, not by the dead.1669.
We must live by the quick, not by the dead.1670.
We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.1671.
We soon believe what we desire.1672.
Welcome evil if thou comest alone.1673.
Well begun is half done.1674.
What does a donkey know about the life of a nightingale?1675.
What god hath joined together, let not man put asunder.1676.
What is bred in the bone will not out of the flesh.1677.
What is done by night appears by day.1678.
What is got over the devil's back is spent under his belly.1679.
What must be, must be.1680.
What soberness conceals, drunkenness reveals.