It is easy to assume a habit; but when you try to cast it off, it will take skin and all.
Fools carry their daggers in their open mouths.
Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.
A man cannot learn to be wise any more than he can learn to be handsome.
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.