Birds of a feather will gather together. - Robert Burton

Joh. Mayor, in the first book of his "History of Scotland," contends much for the wholesomeness of oaten bread; it was objected to him, then living at Paris, that his countrymen fed on oats and base grain…. And yet Wecker out of Galen calls it horse-meat, and fitter juments than men to feed on.

It is most true, stylus virum arguit,—our style bewrays us.

Smile with an intent to do mischief, or cozen him whom he salutes.