Proverbs from around the world:

• Gray hair is a sign of age, not wisdom. (Greek)
• A smiling face is half the meal. (Latvia)
• Fear has big eyes. (Russia)
• Adversity makes a man wise, not rich. (Romania)
• The child tells what is in the house. (Albania)
• Love makes time pass; time makes love pass. (France)
• The seeds of the day are best planted in the first hour. (Dutch)
• It is easier to criticize art than to create it. (Spain)
• A house does not rest upon the ground, but upon a woman. (Mexico)
• All fear is bondage. (England)
• Nature is better than a middling doctor. (China)
• The miles are longer at night. (German)
• Respect is given to wealth, not to men. (Lebanon)
• If everyone swept in front of his house, the whole town would be clean. (Poland)
• Even the handsome are divorced. (Egypt)

“With art and knavery we live through half the year,” the Italians say. “With knavery and art we live through the other.”