If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.

Never work before breakfast; if you have to work before breakfast, eat your breakfast first.

And now the lads and lasses, following the example of the birds, bill and coo together.

As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them.

Young widows still bide their time.

Dangers are sum like a kold bath, very dangerous while you stand stripped on the bank, but often not only harmless, but invigorating, if you pitch into them.

Zoroaster said, when in doubt abstain; but this does not always apply. At cards, when in doubt take the trick.