Crooked logs make straight fires.
Custom is the guide of the ignorant.
Dead news, like dead love, has no phoenix in its ashes.
Death always comes too early or too late.
Death is a shadow that always follows the body.
Death keeps no calendar.
Do not fall before you are pushed.
Do not triumph before the victory.
Don't dig your grave with your knife and fork.
Don't do all you can, spend all you have, believe all you hear, or tell all you know.
Don't drown the man who taught you to swim.
Don't halt before you are lame.
Each cross has its own inscription.
Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him.
Envy shoots at others and wounds itself.
Everyone must row with the oars he has.
Far fowls have fair feathers.
Few are fit to be entrusted with themselves.
Fools build houses, and wise men buy them.
For whom does the blind man's wife paint herself?
Foul water will quench fire.
