A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

It is, perhaps, a debatable question, whether a person who has always been notoriously in the habit of lying, has a right to tell the truth; it is, of course, the only device by which he can deceive people.

A man bitten by a dog, whether the animal is mad or not, is apt to get mad himself.

A dentist at work in his vocation always looks down in the mouth.

Some old women and men grow bitter with age; the more their teeth drop out, the more biting they get.

We are in favor of tolerance, but it is a very difficult thing to tolerate the intolerant and impossible to tolerate the intolerable.

A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.