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.

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.

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.

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.

He lives long who lives well.

Don’t cut off your nose to spite your face.

It’s an ill wind that blows nobody any good.

No penny, no paternoster.

There is truth in wine.

A young man married is a young man marred.

Be the day weary or be the day long, at last it ringeth to evensong.

He that cannot obey cannot command.

God sends meat, but the Devil sends cooks.

Fine feathers make fine birds.

A little pot is soon hot.

Poverty is no disgrace, but it’s a great inconvenience.

To err is human (to forgive divine).

Let the cobbler stick to his last.

They that sow the wind, shall reap the whirlwind.

Better to be an old man’s darling than a young man’s slave.

A cat in gloves catches no mice.

If you don’t work you shan’t eat.

Near is my shirt, but nearer is my skin.

A slice off a cut loaf isn’t missed.

A woman’s work is never done.

There is nothing new under the sun.

He that liveth in hope dances to an ill tune.

A drowning man will clutch at a straw.

It takes two to make a bargain.

One cannot love and be wise.

There’s many a slip Itwixt cup and lip.

Young men may die, but old men must die.

Buy in the cheapest market and sell in the dearest.

The age of miracles is past.

A grey mare is the better horse.

Forewarned is forearmed.

Long and lazy, little and loud; fat and fulsome, pretty and proud.

Poverty is not a crime.

Turkey, heresy, hops, and beer came into England all in one year.

Lookers-on see most of the game.