Don't go looking for trouble.

A Fox entered the house of an actor and, rummaging through all his properties, came upon a Mask, an admirable imitation of a human head. He placed his paws on it and said, "What a beautiful head! Yet it is of no value, as it entirely lacks brains."

once upon a time all the rivers combined to protest against the action of the sea in making their waters salt. "When we come to you," sad they to the sea, "we are sweet and drinkable; but when once we have mingled with you, our waters become as briny and unpalatable as your own." The sea replied shortly, "Keep away from me, and you'll remain sweet.

If you had half as much brains as you have beard, you would have looked before you leaped.

It is possible to have too much of a good thing.

Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit; and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture in.

Persuasion is better than force.