“Money talks and walks, but it does not bark.”

“Does your ma know you're this silly?" she demanded tartly.He nodded, comically sad. "The few gray hairs she has on her head are my doing. But" — with an exaggerated change of mood — "I send her plenty of money, so she can pay to have them dyed!""I hope she beat you as a child," Onua grumbled.”

“Pride is something only folk with money can afford.”

“Tris: "I was reading." Sandry: "You're always reading. The only way people can ever talk to you is to interrupt." Tris: "Then maybe they shouldn't talk to me.”

“A cat understands how to be pleasant in the morning. He doesn't talk.”

“Does anyone in this land act like they're supposed to?”

“You haven't been bit till a dragon does it.”