Proverbs from Elsewhere
Never open your door to the least of your misfortunes. If you do, the rest will follow.
Wedlock is like a place besieged, those without wish to get in, those without want to get out.
Other forms:
Marriage is like a besieged city, everyone on the outside wants to get in, anyone on the inside wants to get out.
French: Le mariage est une forteresse assiégée, ceux qui sont dehors veulent y entrer, ceux qui sont dedans veulent en sortir.
Four things come not back: the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life and the neglected opportunity.
Friend are like shoes, some loose some tight.
Once you grip the head of a serpent, the rest of the body is a piece of rope.
Give a thousand chances to your enemy to become a friend but do not give a single chance to your friend to become an enemy.
