An old monkey never makes a pretty face.
Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.
The right moment wears a full head of hair: when it has been missed, you can't get it back; it's bald in the back of the head and never turns around.
Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.
Ignorance is the mother of all evils.
The remedy for thirst? It is the opposite of the one for a dog bite: run always after a dog, he'll never bite you; drink always before thirst, and it will never overtake you.