Make yourself sheep and the wolves will eat you.

Benjamin Franklin

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

Picasso

Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

George Bernard Shaw

Even from a foe a man may learn wisdom.

Greek proverb

Draw not your bow till your arrow is fixed.

Russian proverb

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

Robert Louis Stevenson