Friends are like a pleasant park where you wish to go; while you may enjoy the flowers, you may not eat them.
A man forgets his good luck next day, but remembers his bad luck until next year.
If you want to know how old a woman is . . . ask her sister-in-law.
Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.
Most people have seen worse things in private than they pretend to be shocked at in public.
Half the promises people say were never kept, were never made.