All sorrows are good (or are less) with bread.

The sage left nothing in his ink-horn.

The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.

The stomach carries the heart, and not the heart the stomach.

Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged

Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.

A man dishonored is worse than dead

Never meddle with play-actors, for they’re a favoured race.

Can one desire too much of a good thing?

I hate to keep things long in case they go mouldy from over-keeping.

I have other fish to fry.

If you are ambitious of climbing up to the difficult, and in a manner inaccessible, summit of the Temple of Fame, your surest way is to leave on one hand the narrow path of Poetry,...

One man is no more than another if he does no more than another

In hell there is no retention.

Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.

When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.

Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches.

There’s no sauce in the world like hunger

It is the part of a wise man to keep himself to-day for to-morrow, and not to venture all his eggs in one basket.

Be a terror to the butchers, that they may be fair in their weight; and keep hucksters and fraudulent dealers in awe, for the same reason.

Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.

My grandma (rest her soul) used to say, ”there were but two families in the world, have-much and have-little.”

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

That which costs little is less valued.

If that should not be, cousin, I say: patience and shuffle the cards.

From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment.

All the physicians and authors in the world could not give a clear account of his madness. He is mad in patches, full of lucid intervals.

Thou art a cat, and rat, and a coward to boot.

True valor lies half way between cowardice and rashness.

Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Hold you there, neither a strange hand nor my own, neither heavy nor light shall touch my bum.

Honesty is the best policy.

Hunger is the best sauce in the world.

There are only two families in the world, as a grandmother of mine used to say: the haves and the have-nots.

As much is lost by a card too many as a card too few

For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.

The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.

That’s the nature of women not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.

All that glisters is not gold.

I find my familiarity with thee has bred contempt.

There’s no taking trout with dry breeches.

By the street of By and By, one arrives at the house of Never

I would do what I pleased, and doing what I pleased, I should have my will, and having my will, I should be contented; and when one is contented, there is no more to be...

Patience and shuffle the cards.

Oh, sir, sir, there are more tricks done in the village than make a noise – saving her ladyship’s presence.

Don’t put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted.

El ver mucho y leer mucho aviva los ingenios de los hombres.

‘ Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o...

There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.

Tis the only comfort of the miserable to have partners in their woes.