Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Honor sinks where commerce long prevails. Walter Bagehot
However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police. Quentin Crisp
A ship with two captains sinks. Turkish Proverb
He who paddles two canoes, sinks. Zambian Proverb
A horse with two masters is always skinny; the ship with two captains sinks. Chinese Proverb