Look before you leap - an impulsive character, always getting in hot water. Love me, love my dog - selfish, opinionated, mother's boy. Lucky at cards, unlucky in love - the gambler, risking all on the turn of a card, and losing all he holds dear in the process. Money talks - he has it, she wants it, and agrees to marry him to get her greedy little hands on it. Never too old to learn - the mature student, having a high old time with the younger students, and the repercussions that follow.
Silence means consent - a rape victim.
Stolen fruit is sweet - a wife or husband caught up in an affair and torn between loyalty and love. Time is a great healer - a woman coming to terms with the loss of husband, child or lover. He travels fastest who travels alone - the loner in whatever setting you choose. Even a worm will turn - the nagged husband, wife or colleague, finally being driven to kill. Power corrupts - a sinister character, intent on taking over a corporation, no matter how he does it, or who he walks over and ruins in the process.