There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.

'Tis happy for him that his Father was born before him.

They say fingers were made before forks, and hands before knives.

When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.

There are but three ways for a man to revenge himself of the censure of the world,--to despise it, to return the like, or to endeavor to live so as to avoid it; the first of these is usually pretended, the last is almost impossible, the universal practice is for the second.

I shall be like that tree-I shall die at the top.

Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.