The mob has many heads, but no brains

Security is the mother of danger and the grandmother of destruction.

Health is not valued till sickness comes.

Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

A conservative believes nothing should be done for the first time.

Search not a wound too deep lest thou make a new one.

Better break your word than do worse by keeping it

He who cures a disease may be the skillfullest, but he that prevents it is the safest physician.

Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth.

Poor men’s reasons are not heard.

Send not for a hatchet to break open an egg with

Seeing’s believing, but feeling’s the truth

Nothing sharpens sight like envy

First get an absolute conquest over thyself, and then thou wilt easily govern thy wife.

He that bringeth a present findeth the door open.

Nothing is easy to the unwilling.

Slight small injuries, and they will become none at all.

Great hopes make great men.

Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get em, get em right, or they will get you wrong.

Riches enlarge rather than satisfy appetites.

The devil lies brooding in the miser’s chest

Soft words are hard arguments.

We have all forgot more than we remember.

Care and diligence bring luck.

Many have been the wise speeches of fools, though not so many as the foolish speeches of wise men.

Change of weather is the discourse of fools

He that knows least commonly presumes most

Plain dealing is a jewel, but they that wear it are out of fashion

Good clothes open all doors.

He does not believe who does not live according to his belief.

Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.

He’s my friend that speaks well of me behind my back

Welcome death, quoth the rat, when the trap fell

As the sword of the best tempered metal is most flexible, so the truly generous are most pliant and courteous in their behavior to their inferiors

A fool’s paradise is a wise man’s hell!

It is much better to have your gold in the hand than in the heart.

Abused patience turns to fury.

Today is yesterday’s pupil.

Danger past, God is forgotten.

Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved

A generous confession disarms slander.

A good friend is my nearest relation.

When good people have a falling out, only one of them may be at fault at first; but if the strife continues long, usually both become guilty.

If a man falls once, all will tread upon him.

Change of weather is the discourse of fools.

We shall never have friends if we expect to find them without fault.

Accusing the times is but excusing ourselves

The best way to see divine light is to put out thy own candle

Cruelty is a tyrant that’s always attended with fear

Nothing sharpens sight like envy.