The half is better than the whole.

A barking dog never bites.

A bleating sheep loses a bite.

He who fights and runs away, may live to fight another day.

No money, no Swiss.

There is a time and place for everything.

You cannot shift an old tree without it dying.

A word to the wise is enough.

Go further and fare worse.

Dog does not eat dog.

It is good to make a bridge of gold to a flying enemy.

Pay beforehand was never well served.

Time works wonders.

It is the first step that is difficult.

September blow soft till the fruit’s in the loft.

Beauty draws with a single hair.

The devil makes his Christmas pies of lawyers’ tongues and clerks’ fingers.

Evil doers are evil dreaders.

Like people, like priest.

A mouse may help a lion.

A shut mouth catches no flies.

Why keep a dog and bark yourself?

A tale never loses in the telling.

The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church.

Bear and forbear.

Call no man happy till he dies.

If Saint Paul’s day be fair and clear, it will betide a happy year.

No pain, no gain.

There is luck in odd numbers.

Young folks think old folks to be fools, but old folks know young folks to be fools.

The worth of a thing is what it will bring.

Hanging and wiving go by destiny.

Don’t cry before you’re hurt.

It is never too late to mend.

A peck of March dust is worth a king’s ransom.

Times change and we with time.

Let the buyer beware.

The sooner begun, the sooner done.

Beggars can’t be choosers.

Give a thing, and take a thing, to wear the devil’s gold ring.

A false confessed is half redressed.

Little pitchers have large ears.

Nature abhors a vacuum.

Silence is a woman’s best garment.

A woman and a ship ever want mending.

There are as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it.

As you make your bed, so you must lie upon it.

A carpenter is known by his chips.

If two ride on a horse, one must ride behind.

No penny, no paternoster.