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.

He is rich that is satisfied.

There is nothing that so much gratifies an ill tongue as when it finds an angry heart.

Better lose a jest than a friend

That trial is not fair where affection is judge

There is not so much comfort in the having of children as there is sorrow in parting with them

Act nothing in a furious passion. It’s putting to sea in a storm.

The devil himself is good when he is pleased.

‘Tis not every question that deserves an answer.

Fool’s names, like fool’s faces – Are often seen in public places

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

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.

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

He that travels much knows much