One shouldn't talk of halters in the hanged man's house.

Thank you for nothing.

But my thoughts ran a wool-gathering; and I did like the countryman, who looked for his ass while he was mounted on his back.

A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency.

For the army is a school in which the miser becomes generous, and the generous prodigal; miserly soldiers are like monsters, but very rarely seen.

God bears with the wicked, but not forever.

The little birds have God for their caterer.