Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.
It ain't no disgrace for a man to fall, but to lie there and grunt is.
Doesn't know much, but leads the league in nostril hair.
The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear.
It's not so hard to get rich as it is to know when you have gotten rich.
Too many individuals are like Shakespeare's definition of "echo,"--babbling gossips of the air.