The incompetent quickly throws himself into another impressive enterprise in order to escape his responsibility from previous disaster.
Young men think old men are fools, but old men know young men are fools.
Perfect happiness, by princes sought, Is not with birth born, nor exchequers bought.
An Englishman, being flattered, is a lamb; threatened, a lion.
There is a nick in Fortune's restless wheel For each man's good.
Black is a pearl in a woman's eye.