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A dead man cannot bite.
-- Gnaeus Pompeius (Pompey)


One good turn asketh another.
-- John Heywood


Set the cart before the horse.
-- John Heywood


A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
-- Lao Tsu


Beggars should be no choosers.
-- John Heywood


He that bringeth a present, findeth the door open.
-- Scottish proverb.


Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake?
-- John Heywood


A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that balances are
correct.
-- Princess Irulan, "Manual of Maud'Dib"


Haste makes waste.
-- John Heywood


Pereant, inquit, qui ante nos nostra dixerunt.
[Confound those who have said our remarks before us.]
or
[May they perish who have expressed our bright ideas before us.]
-- Aelius Donatus


I know on which side my bread is buttered.
-- John Heywood


What you don't know won't help you much either.
-- D. Bennett


A word to the wise is enough.
-- Miguel de Cervantes


There's no such thing as an original sin.
-- Elvis Costello


Desist from enumerating your fowl prior to their emergence from the shell.


There is no fool to the old fool.
-- John Heywood


A good name lost is seldom regained. When character is gone,
all is gone, and one of the richest jewels of life is lost forever.
-- J. Hawes


The coast was clear.
-- Lope de Vega


A little inaccuracy saves a world of explanation.
-- C.E. Ayres


In this world, nothing is certain but death and taxes.
-- Benjamin Franklin


There's no such thing as a free lunch.
-- Milton Friendman


A man's house is his castle.
-- Sir Edward Coke


It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails,
admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt


When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson


Let sleeping dogs lie.
-- Charles Dickens


A good scapegoat is hard to find.
A guilty conscience is the mother of invention.
-- Carolyn Wells


After the game the king and the pawn go in the same box.
-- Italian proverb


Rome wasn't burnt in a day.


He who laughs has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht


A man gazing at the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles
in the road.
-- Alexander Smith