A False Tale Often Betrays

If You Wish Me Well, Do Not Stand Pitying Me, But Lend Me Some Succour As Fast As You Can; For Pity Is But Cold Comfort When One Is Up To The Chin In Water, And Within A Hair's Breadth Of Starving Or Drowning.

What's Bred In The Bone Will Stick To The Flesh.

Don't Neglect The Future In Times Of Plenty, For Tomorrow You May Need What You Wasted Today.

The Smaller The Mind The Greater The Conceit.

Distrust Unsolicited Advice.