A rugged stone growes smooth from hand to hand.
Be not too presumptuously sure in any business; for things of this world depend on such a train of unseen chances that if it were in man's hands to set the tables, still he would not be certain to win the game.
Good & quickly seldome meete.
It is good to hold the asse by the bridle.
It's better to be head of a Lyzard, then the tayle of a Lyon.
Of a little thing a little displeaseth.