Those who enter through the back door can expect to be shown out through the window
Appearances often are deceiving.
Yield to all and you will soon have nothing to yield.
If you wish me well, do not stand pitying me, but lend me some succour as fast as you can; for pity is but cold comfort when one is up to the chin in water, and within a hair's breadth of starving or drowning.
He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.