Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.
From Miguel de Cervantes
I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.
Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory.
Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.
For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.
Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.
There are only two families in the world, my old grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Have-nots.
Jests that give pains are no jests.
No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.
I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.
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