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.

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