“You can't cheat an honest man.”
“Business is an establishment that gives you the legal, even though unethical, right to screw the naive-right, left, and in the middle.”
“There are only two real ways to get ahead today - sell liquor or drink it.”
“Oh, insomnia! Ah, well, I know a good cure for it... Get plenty of sleep.”
“Marry an outdoors woman. Then if you throw her out into the yard on a cold night, she can still survive.”
“Anyone who hates children and animals can't be all bad.”
“What a fool honesty is.”
“Honest plain words best pierce the ear of grief.”
“To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.”
“Things are often spoke and seldom meant.”
“All hoods make not monks.”
“Twas never merry world Since lowly feigning was called compliment.”
“The wound of peace is surety, Surety secure; but modest doubt is called The beacon of the wise, the tent that searches To th' bottom of the worst.”
“Love all, trust a few, Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence, But never tax'd for speech.”
“Tongues I'll hang on every treeThat shall civil sayings show. . . .”