The cat always leaves a mark on his friend.
Yield to all and you will soon have nothing to yield.
A word in season is most precious.
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.
Familiarity breeds contempt.
Look and see which way the wind blows before you commit yourself.