Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
Common fluency of speech in many men and most women is owing to a scarcity of matter.
Don't set your wit against a child.
Men who possess all the advantages of life are in a state where there are many accidents to disorder and discompose, but few to please them.
Some dire misfortune to portend, no enemy can match a friend.
Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.