| 1 | The tongue breaks bone, though itself has none. | |
| 2 | A loyal friend will stay loyal under enormous amounts of thoughtless abuse. | |
| 3 | If you sow gossip, people are going to gossip about you. | |
| 4 | It sounds great, but seldom can people do that because there is another aphorism, "people's clamor can melt metals, while accumulated defamation wears the bones." | |
| 5 | It was never exactly clear why this was supposed to piss people off, but after the sixth or seventh week of coverage it was just assumed that it did. |