A hungry stomach cannot hear.
It is impossible to please all the world and one's father.
Cats know not how to pardon.
Example is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat sticks fast.
A cheerful mind is a vigorous mind.
A mountain in labour shouted so loud that everyone, summoned by the noise, ran up expecting that she would be delivered of a city bigger than Paris; she brought forth a mouse.