Thirst is the end of drinking and sorrow is the end of drunkenness.
This is better than the thing we never had.
Though honey is sweet, don't lick it off a briar.
Three diseases without shame: love, itch, and thirst.
Three things that can't be taught: generosity, poetry and a singing voice.
Time is a great story teller.
Trust me, but look to thyself.
Twenty years a child; twenty years running wild; twenty years a mature man --and after that, praying.
Two shorten the road.
Two thirds of the work is the semblance.
Walk straight, my son -- as the old crab said to the young crab.
What fills the eye fills the heart.
What is the world to a man when his wife is a widow.
What the child sees, the child does. What the child does, the child is.
What whiskey will not cure, there is no cure for.
What's good for the goose is good for the gander.
When a twig grows hard it is difficult to twist it. Every beginning is weak.
When fire is applied to a stone it cracks.
When the apple is ripe it will fall.
When the drop is inside the sense is outside.
When the goat goes to church, he does not stop till he gets to the altar.