You lose some... and you win some... and some you don't even bother to play.

When they give you a piglet, run there quickly with a little cord.

Though you don't believe in other gods, you believe in the god of thunder; though you don't believe in medicine generally, you believe in laxatives.

The wise man speaks of what he sees, the idiot of what he hears.

A smooth talker is a good-for-nothing person.

What ripens fast does not last.

Suspicion is the sister of the wrong.

Anger is a transient madness.

He is a fool who praises the fruit of a tree and forgets its roots.

No matter how big the sea may be, sometimes two ships meet.