Hunger is the best sauce in the world.
There are only two families in the world, my old grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Have-nots.
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.
Tell me what company thou keepest and I'll tell thee what thou art.
Experience is the universal mother of sciences.
Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.