The liquor of statecraft is distilled from the mash you got.
Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.
An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
Tain't no use in you cryin' . . . But folks is meant to cry 'bout somethin' or other. Better leave things de way dey is. Youse young yet. No tellin' whut mout happen befo' you die.
[Proverbs] are short sayings made out of long experience.
Sweat, sweat, sweat! Work and sweat, cry and sweat, pray and sweat!