Please all, and you will please none.
If you had half as much brains as you have beard, you would have looked before you leaped.
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.
I will have nought to do with a man who can blow hot and cold with the same breath.
You may share the labors of the great, but you will not share the spoil.
Self-help is the best help