“A fault confessed is half-redressed.”

Admitting error clears the score and proves you wiser than before.

Don’t buy a cow to get a glass of milk.

Any port in a storm.

There are three kinds of people; those that make things happen, those that watch things happen and those who don’t know what’s happening.

Don’t bite the hand that feeds you.

If the shoe fits, put it on.

A fellow can do anything if he lists.

Don’t ask a man for a favour before he has had his lunch.

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

Dogs delight to bark and bite for God has made them so.

Don’t cast your pearls before swine.

There are two sides to every story — and then there’s the truth.

There are other fish in the sea.

Answer a fool according to his folly.

If we blame others for our failures, then we should also give others credit for our successes.

There are more ways to kill a dog than by choking him on peanut butter.