Be kind to your mother-in-law, but pay for her board at some good hotel.
Half of the troubles of this life can be traced to saying yes too quickly and not saying no soon enough.
There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.
I don't care how much a man talks, if he only says it in a few words.
Pity cost nothing and ain't worth nothing.
There is gravity in wisdom, but no particular wisdom in gravity.