Do not eat garlic or onions; for their smell will reveal that you are a peasant.

Leap out of the frying pan into the fire.

If thou takest virtue for the rule of life, and valuest thyself upon acting in all things comfortably thereto, thou wilt have no cause to envy lords and princes; for blood is inherited, but virtue is common property, and may be acquired by all; it has, moreover, an intrinsic worth, which blood has not.

Under a bad cloak there is often a good drinker

A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.

I have other fish to fry.

Thou art a cat, and a rat, and a coward.