Honesty's the best policy.

The ass bears the load, but not the overload.

I had rather munch a crust of brown bread and an onion in a corner, without any more ado or ceremony, than feed upon turkey at another man?s table, where one is fain to sit mincing and chewing his meat an hour together, drink little, be always wiping his fingers and his chops, and never dare to cough nor sneeze, though he has never so much a mind to it, nor do a many things which a body may do freely by one?s self.

I can tell where my own shoe pinches me.

Truly I was born to be an example of misfortune, and a target at which the arrows of adversary are aimed.

For neither good nor evil can last for ever; and so it follows that as evil has lasted a long time, good must now be close at hand.

Tell me what company thou keepest and I'll tell thee what thou art.