If you listen carefully, you get to hear everything you didn't want to hear in the first place.

A wise word is not a substitute for a piece of herring.

Love is a taste of paradise.

Playing nuts is a game like any other, neither better than tops, nor worse than cards. The game is played in various ways. There are 'holes' and 'bank' and 'caps.' But every game finishes up in the same way. One boy loses, another wins. And, as always, he who wins is a clever fellow, a smart fellow, a good fellow.

They say that children become men, and men become children. Many generations have grown up, become men, and gone hence.

The rich swell up with pride, the poor from hunger.

Barking dogs don't bite, but they themselves don't know it.