Who talks much, must talk in vain.

I cannot raise my worth too high; Of what vast consequence am I! "Not of the importance you suppose," Replies a Flea upon his nose; "Be humble, learn thyself to scan; Know, pride was never made for man.

Around the steel no tortur'd worm shall twine, No blood of living insect stain my line; Let me, less cruel, cast the feather'd hook, With pliant rod athwart the pebbled brook, Silent along the mazy margin stray, And with the fur-wrought fly delude the prey.

Fair words cost nothing.

A man is always afraid of a woman that loves him too much

Gamesters and highwaymen are generally very good to their whores, but they are very devils to their wives.

I must have women - there is nothing unbends the mind like them.