Leap out of the frying pan into the fire.

I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

Be a terror to the butchers, that they may be fair in their weight; and keep hucksters and fraudulent dealers in awe, for the same reason.

There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.

Mere flimflam stories, and nothing but shams and lies.

Well-gotten wealth may lose itself, but the ill-gotten loses its master also.