The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear.
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.
The miser and the glutton are two facetious buzzards: one hides his store, and the other stores his hide.
Fun is a sugar-coated physic.
There never yet was a mother who taught her child to be an infidel.
A man cannot learn to be wise any more than he can learn to be handsome.