Fine clothes may disguise, but silly words will disclose a fool
He that is hard to please, may get nothing in the end.
The haft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagle's own Lures. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction.
It is one thing to conceive a good plan, and another to execute it
No argument, no matter how convincing, will give courage to a coward
Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.