There is a significant Latin proverb; to wit: Who will guard the guards?

Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal.

Friendship is like earthenware, once broken, it can be mended; love is like a mirror, once broken that ends it.

A man running for office puts me in mind of a dog that's lost-he smells everybody he meets, and wags himself all over.

Despatch is taking time by the ears; hurry is taking it by the end of the tail.

...But why discourse Upon the Virtues of the Horse? They are too numerous to tell Save when you have a Horse to Sell.

The miser and the glutton are two facetious buzzards: one hides his store, and the other stores his hide.