"It is the part of a wise man to keep himself today for tomorrow, and not venture all his eggs in one basket."

"The more you stir it, the more it stinks."

"When the wine is in, the wit is out."

"There are no birds of this year in last year's nests."

"Too much sanity may be madness — and the maddest of all: to see life as it is, and not as it should be."