The incompetent quickly throws himself into another impressive enterprise in order to escape his responsibility from previous disaster.
Blood, though it sleep a time, yet never dies. The gods on murtherers fix revengeful eyes.
He that shuns trifles must shun the world.
Who to himself is law no law doth need; offends none and is king indeed.
Promise is most given when the least is said.
An Englishman, being flattered, is a lamb; threatened, a lion.