I can look sharp as well as another, and let me alone keep the cobwebs out of my eyes.

The Knight of the Sad Countenance.

Once a woman parts with her virtue, she loses the esteem even of the man whose vows and tears won her to abandon it

Drink moderately, for drunkenness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise

I never thrust my nose into other men’s porridge. It is no bread and butter of mine: Every man for himself and God for us all.

Fear has many eyes.

Among the attributes of God, although they are all equal, mercy shines with even more brilliancy than justice

Never look for birds of this year in the nests of the last.

Make yourself honey and the flies will devour you.

Heaven’s help is better than early rising

Let us not throw the rope after the bucket.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

For if he like a madman lived, at least he like a wise one died.

Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills:...

Never stand begging for what you have the power to earn.

Good painters imitate nature, bad ones spew it up.

Tis a dainty thing to command, though ’twere but a flock of sheep.

Too much sanity may be madness

Give the devil his due

Take away the cause, and the effect ceases; what the eye ne’er sees, the heart ne’er rues

It is bad judgment to speak of halters in the house of a man who was hanged

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.