In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.

There's no taking trout with dry breeches.

He had a face like a blessing.

Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

He preaches well that lives well.

It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.

Pray look better, Sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.

Jests that give pains are no jests.

No padlocks, bolts, or bars can secure a maiden better than her own reserve.

Every man is the son of his own works.

Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.

There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.

Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory.

Liberty, as well as honor, man ought to preserve at the hazard of his life, for without it life is insupportable.

I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.

Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.

That which costs little is less valued.

It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.

For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.

Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.

From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment.

Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.

In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.

Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.

Thou hast seen nothing yet.

Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.

When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.

A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.

There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.

Fair and softly goes far.

I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.

Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise.

True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.

One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world will be better for this.

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

A person dishonored is worst than dead.

Be a terror to the butchers, that they may be fair in their weight; and keep hucksters and fraudulent dealers in awe, for the same reason.

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.

The eyes those silent tongues of love.

'Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged.

That's the nature of women, not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.

No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.

Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.

Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.