Great Fortune brings with it Great misfortune.
The Fox, when hee cannot reach the grapes, saies they are not ripe.
Fear keepes and looks to the vineyard, and not the owner.
Vertue and a Trade are the best portion for Children.
The chicken is the country's, but the city eats it.
No Alchymy to saving.
Without businesse debauchery.
You may bring a horse to the river, but he will drinke when and what he pleaseth.
Beare with evill, and expect good.
Prettiness dies first.
An ill wound is cured, not an ill name.
Wouldst thou both eat thy cake and have it?
Who hath no head, needes no heart.
Drought never brought dearth.
A dead Bee maketh no Hony.
Hee that hath one hogge makes him fat, and hee that hath one son makes him a foole.
Feare keepes the garden better then the gardiner.
God complaines not, but doth what is fitting.
Men speake of the faire, as things went with them there.
The Mr. absent, and the house dead.
A full belly neither fights nor flies well.
The most effective mirror is definitely an previous good friend.
It's more paine to doe nothing then something.
He that marries late, marries ill.
Feare, the Bedle of the Law.
Stay a little and news will find you.
Weening is not measure.
He is not poore that hath little, but he that desireth much.
The tooth-ach is more ease then to deale with ill people.
Good service is a great inchantment.
He warmes too neere that burnes.
He that goeth farre hath many encounters.
To a good spender God is the Treasurer.
Living well is the best revenge.
In war, hunting, and love, men for one pleasure a thousand griefes prove.
HELP = H(umor), E-go, edging God out, L-istening, P-urpose
Hee a beast doth die, that hath done no good to his country.
If yee would know a knave, give him a staffe.
There would be no great ones, if there were no little ones.
None is offended but by himselfe.
Hee that labours and thrives spins gold.
With customes wee live well, but Lawes undoe us.
He that studies his content, wants it.
The foole askes much, but hee is more foole that grants it.
Hee that should have what hee hath not, should doe what he doth not.
In a Leopard the spotts are not observed.
Hee is rich enough that wants nothing.
Old men go to Death, Death comes to Young men.