Good things come in small packages.
A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.
If you had half as much brains as you have beard, you would have looked before you leaped.
If these town gods can't detect the thieves who steal from their own temples, it's hardly likely they'll tell me who stole my spade.
Better one safe way than a hundred on which you cannot reckon.
He that is hard to please, may get nothing in the end.