128 Darkovan Proverbs / Page 5
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Only a race horse or a Comyn lord is judged by his pedigree.82.
Only men laugh, only men weep, only men dance.83.
Put no faith in a drunkard's prophecy, another man's dog, or the weather at any season.84.
Rats make havoc in the kitchen when the cat's a kitten.85.
Take care how you beseech the gods for a gift, for they will give it to you.86.
Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves.87.
That land fares ill where the king's but a babe.88.
The best horse can't wear two saddles.89.
The dead cannot come to kinsmen's aid.90.
The dead in heaven is too happy to grieve for indignities to his corpse; the dead in hell has too much else to grieve for.91.
The mouse in the wall may look at a cat, but he is wise not to squeak about it.92.
The rain can only drown the mud-rabbit if he hasn't the wits to keep his mouth shut.93.
The rain does not all fall on one roof.94.
The sex of a cralmac is of interest only to another cralmac.95.
The wine has been poured and must be drunk.96.
The world goes as it will and not as you or I would want it.97.
The world goes as men make it go; and men are free to make it go otherwise, if they have the courage.98.
There is neither wisdom nor courage in an empty belly.99.
There is no way to teach a machine wisdom after folly.100.
There is nothing so evil as the mind of a virtuous woman.