The ox longs for the gaudy trappings of the horse; the lazy pack-horse would fain plough. [We envy the position of others, dissatisfied with our own.]
Nos numeros sumus et fruges consumere nati. We are but ciphers, born to consume earth's fruits.
While your client is watching for you at the front door, slip out at the back.
Brighter than Parian marble.
The words can not return.
Kings play the fool, and the people suffer for it.