It Is Bad Taste For A Poet

Do Not Bandy Words With Your Father, Nor Treat Him As A Dotard, Nor Reproach The Old Man, Who Has Cherished You, With His Age.

A Truce To Idle Phrases!

The Truth Is Forced Upon Us, Very Quickly, By A Foe.

What Unlooked-for Things Do Happen, To Be Sure, In A Long Life!

You Cannot Teach A Crab To Walk Straight.