ambition

hunger

is like hunger : it obeys no law but its appetite.

AMBITION. Ambition is like hunger : it obeys no law but its appetite.

is a good deal like money, the more a man has of it, the more he seems to want.

Laziness is a good deal like money, the more a man has of it, the more he seems to want.

is a vagrant without a home, and lives upon what it can pick up.

Rumor is a vagrant without a home, and lives upon what it can pick up.

is like bees; the more you fight them the more you don't get rid of them.

Rumor is like bees; the more you fight them the more you don't get rid of them.

is like a hornet ; if you cannot kill it dead the first blow, better not strike at it.

A slander is like a hornet ; if you cannot kill it dead the first blow, better not strike at it.