A fellow failing makes us wondrous unkind. (H)
Society covers a multitude of sins. (T)
All is not bold that titters. (T)
The ways of the transgressor are smooth. (H)
The Steamer's Motto – You can't eat your cake and have it, too. (H)
The more waist the less speed. (M)
The self-made man is often proud of a poor job. (T)
Many a man's house is his Bastille. (T)
Costly thy garments as thy tailor will stand for. (M)
To have and to scold. (M)
Busy people are never busybodies. (T)
To make the winter pass quickly – sign a note in the fall. (H)
The Grafter's Motto – Work ill done must be twice paid for. (T)
Never give up from the ship. (M)
Look out for your friends – the neighbors will look in for themselves. (T)
Come in (and see if you can stay in) without knocking. (M)
Better a live doggerel than a dead sonnet. (T)
A cat may look at a king – but it takes four aces to see four of 'em. (T & M))
Chicago Motto – I smell a vat. (M)
Diplomacy: Lying in State. (H)
Millionaire: A large body entirely surrounded by water-ed stock. (T & M))
Contentment is the smother of invention. (T)
"The law is open" – to question. (T)
Life Insurance Motto – Robbing the widows early and orphan. (T)
An ounce of convention is worth a pound of explanation. (T)
Opportunity knows no law. (T)
Avoid the plate in sincere prayer. (M)
A kiss in time saves brine. (H)
The Doctor's Motto – Better a dead patient than a live appendix. (T)
Whom the Gallery Gods love dye young. (H)
The locksmith is the only tradesman Love can afford to laugh at. (T)
Where the fire burns hottest there is no smoke. (M)
Nobody's business is everybody's curiosity. (T)
Rice makes might. (H) General Oyama.
Sow your wild oats in a peach orchard. (M)
First waters run steep. (H)
A hair in the head is worth two in the brush. (H)
O woman, in thine hours of ease,
Uncertain, coy, and hard to please,
When pains of anguish wring the brow,
You send us to the hospital now! (T)
Take what comes your way – but select the way. (T)
He that seweth the wind will bust his singer. (T)
Jealousy is confession of weakness. (T)
Chauffeur – and much further. (H) Motophor.
Put not your Trust in investigation. (T)
All's well that ends swell. (T)
Meet out Justice as she should be met. (M)
The woman who forgives and doesn't forget is trying to preempt heaven and raise hell. (T)
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