From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment.
Never look for birds of this year in the nests of the last.
There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war.
Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
One should not talk of hatters in the house of the hanged.
A silly remark can be made in Latin as well as in Spanish.