The mob shouts with one big mouth and eats with a thousand little ones.
You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
People find life entirely too time-consuming.
Among giants, try and be a dwarf; among dwarfs, try and be a giant; but among equals, try and be an equal
When gossip gets old it becomes a myth.
Many who tried to enlighten were hanged from the lamppost.