Time is a file that wears and makes no noise

Things are not always what they seem [appear] to be

Thou clearly knowest when to speak, and when to keep silent

You’re never too old to learn

You cannot make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear

You ask an elm-tree for pears

You can’t make a silk purse from a sow’s ear

Wise men learn by other men´s harmas, fools by their own

Whoso learn young, forgets not when he is old

Who has skirts of straw, needs fear the fire

Who keeps company with the wolf, will learn to howl

Who learns young, forgets not when he is old

Whispered words are heard afar

Through obedience learn to command

Three helping one another, bear the burthen of six

What’s learnt in the cradle lasts till the tomb

When a new book appears, read an old one

What is done by night appears by day

What we first learn, we best know [can]

Were there no hearers, there would be no backbiters

What children hear at home, soon flies abroad

We have to learn as long as we live

We learn by teaching others

We learn wisdom by the follies of others

We must learn to walk before we can run

Walls have ears

Truth fears no colours

Truth fears no trial

To cast pearls before swine

To be head over ears in debt

To ask pears of an elm tree

There are no birds in last year’s nests

The worst hog often gets the best pear

The word that is heard perishes, but the letter that is written abides

The truest jests sound worst in guilty ears

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