Fools carry their daggers in their open mouths.
Pity cost nothing and ain't worth nothing.
If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.
Advice is like castor oil — easy enough to give but dreadful hard to take.
Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
Friendship is like earthenware, once broken, it can be mended; love is like a mirror, once broken that ends it.