"Reverence thy preceptors: shun the conversation of those whom thou desirest not to resemble, and receive not in vain …"

"Oignez vilain, il vous poindra. Poignez vilain, il vous oindra."

"Tout vient à point à qui sait attendre."

"Make three bites of a cherry."

"Strike the iron whilst it is hot."

"A baker's dozen."

"Performed to a T."

"Readers, friends, if you turn these pages Put your prejudice aside, For, really, there's nothing here that's outrageo…"

"Je m'en vais chercher un grand peut-être; tirez le rideau, la farce est jouée."

"Appetite comes with eating, says Angeston. But the thirst goes away with drinking."