A guest sees more in an hour than the host in a year.
Even were a cook to cook a fly, he would keep the breast for himself.
Fish, to taste right, must swim three times - in water, in butter and in wine.
God pays, but not weekly wages.
The greater love is a mother's; then comes a dog's; then a sweetheart's.
The woman cries before the wedding; the man afterward.
When I had money everyone called me brother.