It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
Beware the pull on your heartstrings -- it's often the pursestrings that are actually being reached for.
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.