Women and people of low birth are very hard to deal with. If you are friendly to them, they get out of hand, and if you keep your distance, they resent it.
In language clarity is everything.
There is only one thing in life which never changes, and it is change.
he who will not economize will agonize
The funniest people are the saddest once
Those who break down the dikes will themselves be drowned in the inundation.