Listeners ne'er hear good of themselves.
A talkative person runs himself upon great inconvenience by blabbing out his own and others' secrets.
Lean liberty is better than fat slavery
Feather by feather the goose is plucked.
Little children, little sorrows; big children, big sorrows.
He that uses many words for explaining any subject, doth, like the cuttlefish, hide himself for the most part in his own ink.