Every man was not born with a silver spoon in his mouth.
Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.
Under a bad cloak there is often a good drinker
Old, that's an affront no woman can well bear.
Mere flimflam stories, and nothing but shams and lies.
Three things too much, and three too little are pernicious to man; to speak much, and know little; to spend much, and have little; to presume much, and be worth little.