The mob has many heads, but no brains

Health is not valued till sickness comes.

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

Do nothing hastily but catching of fleas

Willful waste brings woeful want.

A mob is a group of persons with heads but no brains

Blindness hatred is blind, as well as love.

In fair Weather prepare for foul.

Despair gives courage to a coward.

Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.

He that travels much knows much

Great is the difference betwixt a man’s being frightened at, and humbled for his sins

Be the business never so painful, you may have it done for money.

He that has a great nose, thinks everybody is speaking of it.

Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them.

There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

With devotion’s visage and pious action we do sugar o’er the devil himself.

Nothing is easy to the unwilling

Anger is one of the sinews of the soul.

If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too.

A book that is shut is but a block.

Govern thy life and thy thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one, and read the other.

Unseasonable kindness gets no thanks.

All the world will beat the man whom fortune buffets

The weakest and most timorous are the most revengeful and implacable.

If a friend tell thee a fault, imagine always that he telleth thee not the whole

A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him.

A man is not good or bad for one action.

Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all, and often more than all.

Be a friend to thyself, and others will be so too.

A woman, a dog and a walnut tree, the more you beat them, the better they be

If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

Eaten bread is forgotten.

Judge of thine improvement, not by what thou speakest or writest, but by the firmness of thy mind, and the government of thy passions and affections.

Seeing is believing, but feeling’s the truth.

Vows made in storms are forgotten in calm.

Purchase not friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love.

Debt is the worst poverty.

A fox should not be of the jury at a goose’s trial.

He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.

Do nothing hastily but catching of fleas.

A drinker has a hole under his nose that all his money runs into.

Good is not good, where better is expected.

One good head is better than a hundred strong hands

All things are difficult before they are easy.

He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil.

He who is afraid of every nettle should not piss in the grass

Don’t let your will roar when your power only whispers.

A man surprised is half beaten.

He is not poor that hath not much, but he that craves much.