Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.

History is the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instructor of the present, and monitor to the future.

A wise man does not trust all his eggs to one basket.

For if he like a madman lived; At least he like a wise one died.

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

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.

Let us not throw the rope after the bucket.