What's wan man's news is another man's throubles.
A man's idea in a game of cards is war, cruel, devastating, and pitiless. A lady's idea of it is a combination of larceny, embezzlement and burglary.
There are no friends at cards or world politics
You can lade a man up to th' university, but ye can't make him think.
Drink never made a man better, but it has made many a man think he was better.
A rayformer thinks he was ilicted because he was a rayformer, whin th thruth iv th matther is he was ilicted because no wan knew him.