Don't go looking for trouble.
A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.
If you had half as much brains as you have beard, you would have looked before you leaped.
Wealth unused might as well not exist.
No argument, no matter how convincing, will give courage to a coward
He that is neither one thing nor the other has no friends.