How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning.
Nothing is so great an instance of ill-manners as flattery.
A fig for your bill of fare; show me your bill of company.
A fig for partridges and quails, ye dainties I know nothing of ye; But on the highest mount in Wales Would choose in peace to drink my coffee.
There's none so blind as they that won't see.
An English tongue, if refined to a certain standard, might perhaps be fixed forever.