To give reason for fancy were to weigh the fire, and measure the wind

Cupid and my Campaspe played / At cards for kisses, Cupid paid.

Long quaffing maketh a short lyfe

Night hath a thousand eyes.

Most high and happy princess, we must tell you a tale of the Man in the Moon, which if it seem ridiculous for the method, or superfluous for the matter, or for the means incredible,...

Night hath a thousand eyes

A clear conscience is a sure card.

In misery it is great comfort to have a companion.

A merry companion is as good as a wagon

A merry companion is as good as a wagon.

Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame

As the best wine doth make the sharpest vinegar, so the deepest love turneth to the deadliest hate.

The true measure of life is not length, but honesty.

Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.

He that loseth his honesty hath nothing else to lose.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

The sun shineth upon the dunghill, and is not corrupted

Time draweth wrinkles in a fair face, but addeth fresh colors to a fast friend, which neither heat, nor cold, nor misery, nor place, nor destiny, can alter or diminish

It is a blind goose that cometh to the fox’s sermon

None but the lark so shrill and clear; / How at heaven’s gates she claps her wings, / The morn not waking till she sings.

There can no great smoke arise, but there must be some fire

The empty vessel giveth a greater sound than the full barrel

It seems to me (said she) that you are in some brown study.

We might knit that knot with our tongues that we shall never undo with our teeth