Reading is like permitting a man to talk a long time, and refusing you the right to answer.
When a man once gets a start holding office, it is nearly always necessary to finally choke him off.
Probably no man ever had a friend that he did not dislike a little.
A woman might as well propose: her husband will claim she did.
Many a man is saved from being a thief by finding everything locked up.
Even if a farmer intends to loaf, he gets up in time to get an early start.