One must bend or crawl to make his way through the world. He spins the world on his thumb. He puts a stick in the wheel. Two people tear apart a pretzel OR They pull for the biggest part. He cannot reach from one loaf of bread to the next. He who spills his porridge cannot get it all up.

Pieter Bruegel the Elder, The Netherlandish Proverbs or The Blue Cloak, Detail, (panel; 117 x 163 cm [46 X 64 1/8 in.]), Staatliche Museen, Berlin Signed and dated bottom right: BRVEGEL 1559