Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.

Drink today, and drown all sorrow; You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow; Best, while you have it, use your breath; There is no drinking after death.

A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.

The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.

It holds for good polity ever, to have that outwardly in vilest estimation, which inwardly is most dear to us.

No man is so foolish but may give another good counsel sometimes; and no man is so wise, but may easily err, if he will take no others counsel but his own. But very few men are wise by their own counsel; or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself had a fool to his master.

Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.