The poor schlemiel is a man who falls on his back and breaks his nose.
To be full of yourself is to make a fool of yourself.
Nothing complements a fast mind better than a slow tongue. And nothing aggravates a slow mind better than a fast tongue.
Buy a gift for a dog, and you'll be amazed at the way it will dance and swerve its tail, but if don't have anything to offer to it, it won't even recognize your arrival; such are the attributes of fak...
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
Bitter people are not interested in what you say, but what you hide.
No matter how valuable you are and your ideas, fools will certainly play both of you down, so exclude yourselves from the inflammatory environs of fools.
Most people do not want to follow a leader, they want to command the leading of a servant.
People who smoke would have probably been regarded as fools or insane, if only a percentage of people who smoke smoked.
Never allow carping critics to deter you from success. Instead, silence them with it.
A fool's head never whitens.