Disclaimer: I did not write any of this it is all from The One Armed Queen by Jane Yolen.

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A snake sheds an old skin but still he does not go skinless.

Before you make a friend, eat dirt with him.

A woman's mouth is like a spring flood.

The king should be servant to the state.

One can never repay one's debt to one's mother.

A girl is never to young for the Game.

Do not roll up your trousers before you get to the stream.

The sharper the thorn, the sweeter the rose.

So not speak to a man's girlchild least you come bearing a wedding ring.

Dogs bark, but the caravan goes on.

Help first, chat later.

If you cannot swim, do not go near the water.

Never trust a cat to do a dog's job.

Sorry puts no coins in the purse.

What you give away with love, you keep.

Better a calf of one's own then a cow owned by another.

If your mouth turns into a knife, it will cut off your lips.

Let a new wind blow through an old place.

Storm in Berick, sun in Bewick.

To speak is to sow and to listen is to reap.

Do not measure a shroud before there is a corpse.

Kill once, morn ever.

Stretch your feet according to your blanket.

Even a highest tree has an axe at its foot.

The anvil must be patient. Only the hammer can be strong.

Easier to love a dead hero then a live king.

Two sisters, two sides.

The skate and eel do not swim the same, but they both live in the sea.

Art is in born, craft is out born.

An hour makes a difference between the wise man and the fool.

Drink with Garuns, use a long straw.

Blood is blood no matter who sucks it.

A good shepherd tells his sheep of green grass, not grey wolves.

A knife wound heals, a tongue wound festers.

To take is to keep.

Small keys open big doors.

A hard head hides a soft tongue.

Both the hunter and the hunted pray to god.

The spider sits in the centre of its web and entrances the fly to come to it.

The farther north, the more noise.

A white ewe may have a black lamb.

You can call a rock a fish but it still cannot swim.

A rabbit cannot put its paws on the deer's horns.

Better late in the pan than never in the pot.

Man is wood, woman water.

Water weighs wood.

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