A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.

They who lose today may win tomorrow

Spare your breath to cool your porridge.

All music jars when the soul is out of tune

God bears with the wicked, but not forever

Man appoints, and God disappoints.

Fortune sometimes turns round like a mill wheel and he who was yesterday at the top lies today at the bottom

It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

The proof of the pudding is in the eating. By a small sample we may judge of the whole piece.

Love not what you are, but what you may become.

Delay always heeds danger.

Liberty, as well as honor, man ought to preserve at the hazard of his life, for without it life is insupportable.

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.

Time ripens all thing. No man is born wise.

All will come out in the washing.

When a man says “”Get out of my house! what would you have with my wife?”” there’s no answer to be made

He who sings scares away his woes

One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world will be better for this.

God who sends the wound sends the medicine.

He who sings frightens away his ills.

The most artful part in a play,may is the fool’s

There are men that will make you books, and turn them loose into the world, with as much dispatch as they would do a dish of fritters.

To be prepared is half the victory.

Tell me what company you keep and I’ll tell you what you are.

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.

And the first thing I would do in my government, I would have nobody to control me, I would be absolute; and who but I: now, he that is absolute, can do what he likes;...

But my thoughts ran woolgathering; and I did like the countryman, who looked for his ass while he was mounted on his back.

Fair and softly goes far.

Every one is the son of his own works.

A woman’s advice has little value, but he who won’t take it is a fool

A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.

Didn’t I tell you, Don Quixote, sir, to turn back, for they were not armies you were going to attack, but flocks of sheep?

Mind your own business

Fear is sharp-sighted and can see things under ground and much more in the skies.

Jests that give pains are no jests

There are but few proverbial sayings that are not true, for they are all drawn from experience itself, which is the mother of all sciences

Take care, your worship, those things over there are not giants but windmills.

Thou hast seen nothing yet.

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

He got the better of himself, and that’s the best kind of victory one can wish for

Be slow of tongue and quick of eye

Blessings on him who invented sleep, the mantle that covers all human thoughts.

There is a strange charm in the hope of a good legacy that wonderfully reduces the sorrow people otherwise may feel for the death of their relatives and friends

In me the need to talk is a primary impulse, and I can’t help saying right off what comes to my tongue.

I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.

Who doesn’t know how to enjoy luck when it comes, should not complain when it passes him by

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds

Delay always breeds danger and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.

Faint heart ne’er won fair lady