Many count their chickens before they are hatched; and where they expect bacon, meet with broken bones.

It is a true saying that a man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him.

No man is more than another unless he does more than another.

Every man was not born with a silver spoon in his mouth.

Troubles take wing for the man who can sing.

Every tooth in a man's head is more valuable than a diamond.

Man appoints, and God disappoints.

The most perceptive character in a play is the fool, because the man who wishes to seem simple cannot possibly be a simpleton.

A wise man does not trust all his eggs to one basket.