Robert Christy, comp. Proverbs, Maxims and Phrases of All Ages. 1887.

Wall

A white wall is the fool’s paper.French, Italian.

Bring your line to the wall, not the wall to your line.

Hard with hard makes not the stone wall.

It is bad to lean against a falling wall.Danish.

One may see through a wall if there is a hole in it.German.

The walls are the books of the poor.Punch.

The walls have ears and the plain has eyes.Modern Greek.

Walls have ears.French, German, Portuguese, Dutch.

Walls sink and dunghills rise.Spanish, Portuguese.

When a wall is cracked and lofty, its fall will be speedy.Chinese.

White walls are fools’ writing-paper.