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

Health is not valued till sickness comes.

The mob has many heads, but no brains

Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed

My son is my son till he have got him a wife, But my daughter’s my daughter all the days of her life.

The patient is not likely to recover who makes the doctor his heir

Contentment consist not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire.

Better one’s House be too little one day than too big all the Year after.

No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy.

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

We have all forgot more than we remember

Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship.

Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.

A good horse should be seldom spurred.

A small demerit extinguishes a long service.

A good horse should be seldom spurred

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

Suspect all extraneous and groundless civilities.

Haste and rashness are storms and tempests, breaking and wrecking business; but nimbleness is a full, fair wind, blowing it with speed to the heaven.

He that hopes no good fears no ill.

Light, God’s eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.

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

Better be alone than in bad company.

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

With foxes we must play the fox.

A man’s best fortune, or his worst, is his wife

Boldness in business is the first, second, and third thing.

An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.

He knows little, who will tell his wife all he knows.

One that would have the fruit must climb the tree.

If thou art a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf

Willful waste brings woeful want

Lavishness is not generosity.

Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.

Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth...

If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.

If an ass goes travelling he will not come home a horse.

The more laws, the more offenders.

Many come to bring their clothes to church rather than themselves

Never contend with one that is foolish, proud, positive, testy, or with a superior, or a clown, in matter of argument.

A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present.

Better break your word than do worse in keeping it.

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.