Advice is like castor oil — easy enough to give but dreadful hard to take.

The devil is the father of lies, but he neglected to patent the idea, and the business now suffers from competition.

Plenty of folks are so contrary that if they should fall into the river, they would insist upon floating upstream.

Be kind to your mother-in-law, but pay for her board at some good hotel.

Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just, But four times he who gets his blow in fust

Experience makes more timid men than it does wise ones.

Everyone who does the best he can is a hero.