When you are at Rome, do as you see.

God helps everyone with what is his own.

I shall be as secret as the grave.

Be brief, for no talk can please when too long. Being prepared is half the victory.

But do not give it to a lawyer's clerk to write, for they use a legal hand that Satan himself will not understand.

Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.

There are only two families in the world, my old grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Have-nots.