Dat deus immiti cornua curta bovi.
God sends a curst cow short horns.
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Malum vas non frangitur.
Cracked pots last longest.
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Procellae quanto plus habent virium, tanto minus temporis.
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Campus habet oculos, Silva aures.
Walls have ears.
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Dis iratis natus.
Bread never falls but on its buttered side.
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Barbam vellere mortuo leoni.
Hares may pull dead lions by the beard.
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Mala ultro adsunt.
Don't trouble trouble till trouble troubles you.
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Nam non conveniens omnibus omnis erit.
He that all men will please shall never find ease.
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Quem fata pendere volunt, non mergitur undis.
What is, must be.
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Ut homo est, ita morem geras.
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Verbum dulce multiplicat amicos.
Lip-honour costs little, yet may bring in much.
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Venter non habet aures.
Hungry bellies have no ears.
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Colubra restem non parit.
To ask pears of an elm tree.
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Sus Minervam docet.
Old foxes want no tutors.
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Magna venit nulli sine magno fama labore.
He that will eat the kernel must crack the nut.
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Non te laudabis: propria laus foetet in ore.
A man's praise in his own mouth stinks.
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Unus vir, nullus vir.
One and none is all one.
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Nemo sine vitiis nascitur.
Nobody is perfect.
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Canis festinans caecos parit catulos.
Nothing should be done in haste but gripping a flea.
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Tenebris nigrescunt omnia circum.
When candles are out, all cats are grey.
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