One who sees his friends roasted on a spit tells all he knows.
Proverbs and old sayings
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A righteous man by praise will render thee firm in favor and love.
Proverbs and old sayings about praise, love, man
Seek not ever to draw to thyself in love-whispering another's wife.
Proverbs and old sayings about wife, love
Whim rules the child, and weather the field, each is open to chance.
Proverbs and old sayings about rules, chance, weather, children
Rejoice not ever at tidings of ill, but glad let thy soul be in good.
Proverbs and old sayings about soul, good, good luck
Many a sweet maid when one knows her mind is fickle found towards men.
Proverbs and old sayings about mind, man
Never in speech with a foolish knave shouldst thou waste a single word.
Proverbs and old sayings about waste, word
Let him speak soft words and offer wealth who longs for a woman's love.
Proverbs and old sayings about wealth, word, woman, love
A lying tongue had bereft him of life, and all without reason of right.
Proverbs and old sayings about lie, reason, rightness, life
Be never the first with friend of thine to break the bond of fellowship.
Proverbs and old sayings
Care shall gnaw thy heart if thou canst not tell all thy mind to another.
Proverbs and old sayings about mind, heart
Much pressed is he who fain on the hearth would seek for warmth and weal.
Proverbs and old sayings
I saw and was silent, I saw and pondered, I listened to the speech of men.
Proverbs and old sayings about man
So shall she charm that thou shalt not heed the council, or words of the king.
Proverbs and old sayings about charm, word
We speak them fairest when thoughts are falsest and wile the wisest of hearts.
Proverbs and old sayings
Let the wary stranger who seeks refreshment keep silent with sharpened hearing.
Proverbs and old sayings
There is mingling in friendship when man can utter all his whole mind to another.
Proverbs and old sayings about friendship, mind, man
Thou shalt never sleep in the arms of a sorceress, lest she should lock thy limbs.
Proverbs and old sayings about sleep
Of runes they spoke, and the reading of runes was little withheld from their lips.
Proverbs and old sayings
Let no man glory in the greatness of his mind, but rather keep watch o'er his wits.
Proverbs and old sayings about greatness, glory, mind, man
