Short reckonings make long friends.

Why keep a dog and bark yourself?

A tale never loses in the telling.

The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church.

Go further and fare worse.

Dog does not eat dog.

It is good to make a bridge of gold to a flying enemy.

No money, no Swiss.

There is luck in odd numbers.

Young folks think old folks to be fools, but old folks know young folks to be fools.

The worth of a thing is what it will bring.

Beauty draws with a single hair.

The devil makes his Christmas pies of lawyers’ tongues and clerks’ fingers.

Evil doers are evil dreaders.

Like people, like priest.

Pay beforehand was never well served.

Times change and we with time.

Let the buyer beware.

The sooner begun, the sooner done.

Bear and forbear.

Call no man happy till he dies.

If Saint Paul’s day be fair and clear, it will betide a happy year.

A mouse may help a lion.

A shut mouth catches no flies.

A woman and a ship ever want mending.

There are as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it.

Handsome is as handsome does.

Hanging and wiving go by destiny.

Don’t cry before you’re hurt.

It is never too late to mend.

No pain, no gain.

There is truth in wine.

A young man married is a young man marred.

Be the day weary or be the day long, at last it ringeth to evensong.

Beggars can’t be choosers.

Give a thing, and take a thing, to wear the devil’s gold ring.

A false confessed is half redressed.

Little pitchers have large ears.

A peck of March dust is worth a king’s ransom.

To err is human (to forgive divine).

Let the cobbler stick to his last.

They that sow the wind, shall reap the whirlwind.

As you make your bed, so you must lie upon it.

A carpenter is known by his chips.

If two ride on a horse, one must ride behind.

Nature abhors a vacuum.

Silence is a woman’s best garment.

A woman’s work is never done.

There is nothing new under the sun.

He lives long who lives well.