It is better to be a mouse in a cat's mouth than a man in a lawyer's hands.

It is better to leap over the ditch than trust to the pleadings of good men.

It is better to lose than lose more.

It is better to strive with a stubborn ass than to carry the wood on one's back.

It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive.

It is better to weep with wise men than to laugh with fools.

It is courage that vanquishes in war, and not good weapons.

It is fair and just to cheat the cheater.

It is in putting it into the oven that the loaf is made crooked.

It is in vain to cast nets in a river where there are no fish.

It is not in the pilot's power to prevent the wind from blowing.

It is not necessary to fall into a well to know its depth.

It is not the fine, but the coarse and ill-spun that breaks.

It is not the hook or the rod, but the bait that lures.

It is not the load but the overload that kills.

It is not the same thing to talk of bulls as to be in the bullring.

It is nothing, they are only thrashing my husband.

It is the bait that lures, not the fisherman or the rod.

It is very savoury to eat scot free.

It little avails the unfortunate to be brave.

It will all come out in the soap-suds.

It's better to arrive on time than to be invited.

It's dogged as does it.

It's enough to make a parson swear, or a quaker kick his mother.

It's not the same to talk of bulls as to be in the bullring.