The woman and the soldier who do not defend the first pass will never defend the last.
A wonder lasts but nine days, and then the puppy's eyes are open.
Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.
Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.
Nothing can be so quick and sudden as the operations of the mind, especially when hope, or fear, or jealousy, to which the other two are but journeymen, set it to work.
A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.