The fox changes his skin but not his habits. [Lat., Vulpem pilum mutare, non mores.]

He [Caesar Augustus] found a city built of brick; he left it built of marble. [Lat., Urbem lateritiam accepit, mamoream relinquit.]

Would that the Roman people had but one neck! [Lat., Utinam populus Romanus unam cervicem haberet!]

The best way to get promoted is to work yourself out of a job.

She is forever buying things because it is so cheap! That's financial suicide.