Slow but steady wins the race.
In serving the wicked, expect no reward, and be thankful if you escape injury for your pains.
Keep your place in life and your place will keep you
United we stand, divided we fall.
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 thought these grapes were ripe, but I see now they are quite sour.