They lead only as the carved wooden figurehead leads the ship.
When a person puts his best foot forward and gets it stepped on, that's life.
Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.
It's strange that men should take up crime when there are so many legal ways to be dishonest.
Only mediocrities rise to the top in a system that won't tolerate wave making.
Two things reduce prejudice: education and laughter.