Anyone who campaigns for public office becomes disqualified for holding any office at all.
An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.
We cannot go to heaven in featherbeds.
No living creature is naturally greedy, except from fear of want - or in the case of human beings, from vanity, the notion that you're better than people if you can display more superfluous property than they can.
If the lion knew his own strength, hard were it for any man to rule him.
Oh! blame not the bard.