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.

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

Willful waste brings woeful want

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

Better break your word than do worse in keeping it.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

We have all forgot more than we remember.

Care and diligence bring luck.

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.

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

Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.

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.

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.

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

Welcome death, quoth the rat, when the trap fell