A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.
In levying taxes and in shearing sheep, it is well to stop when you get down to the skin.
It is as easy to give advice to yourself as to others, and as useless.
A drunkard is like a whiskey-bottle, all neck and belly and no head.
The bigger the dam of patience, the worse the flood when the dam breaks.
Learned men fall into error oftenest by mistaking knowledge for wisdom.