Even someone with limited abilities or opportunities is dominant over, and considered special by, those who have even fewer abilities and opportunities; the value of any ability depends on its prevalence.

One's lack of intelligence may be judged by one's actions.

Honesty is preferable as a course of action because it tends to work out best in the end.

A maxim for thrift that says that money not spent may be spent later, or may earn interest in the meantime.

When one is hungry, anything will taste good.

A lack of information reported about a situation suggests that nothing bad has happened.

(among word-game enthusiasts) Used to turn semordnilaps into palindromes.

(often humorous) Even if a person is in his or her senior years, with gray hair, he or she can still have ambition and energy, especially sexual energy.

(idiomatic, colloquial) Used to introduce the main point or issue.

There is no need to worry about the future; the present provides enough to worry about.