Wise men make proverbs but fools repeat them

Haste is slow. [Lat., Festinatio tarda est.]

Timid dogs more eagerly bark than bite.

Nothing is so secure in its position as not to be in danger from the attack even of the weak.

Let them call it mischief; Then it is past and prosper'd, 'twill be virtue.

I from the jaws of a gardener's bitch Snatched this bone and then leapt the ditch.