The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear.
Fun is a sugar-coated physic.
Despatch is taking time by the ears; hurry is taking it by the end of the tail.
There are very few good judges of humor, and they don't agree.
Fortune is like a coquette; if you don't run after her, she will run after you.
Don't ever prophesy; for if you prophesy wrong, nobody will forget it; and if you prophesy right, nobody will remember it.