The back-doore robs the house.
Ther's no great banquet but some fares ill.
A poore beauty finds more lovers then husbands.
The Catt sees not the mouse ever.
If the staffe be crooked, the shadow cannot be straight.
Honour without profit is a ring on the finger.
Everyone is a master and servant.
Power seldome grows old at Court.
The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.
Bee not a Baker, if your head be of butter.
He that pitties another, remembers himselfe.
When the Foxe preacheth, beware geese.
Better to be blinde, then to see ill.
He that speakes sowes, and he that holds his peace, gathers.
He that serves well needes not ask his wages.
The market is the best garden.
When God will, no winde but brings raine.
Every thing is of use to a houskeeper.
An ill deed cannot bring honor.
At dinner my man appeares.
To whirle the eyes too much shewes a Kites braine.
We must recoile a little, to the end we may leap the better.
All are not merry that dance lightly.
He that is not in the warres is not out of danger.
Rivers neede a spring.
One foote is better then two crutches.
Souldiers in peace are like chimneys in summer.
By the needle you shall draw the thread, and by that which is past, see how that which is to come will be drawne on.
A wicked mans gift hath a touch of his master.
An examin'd enterprize goes on boldly.
Hee that is throwne would ever wrestle.
Nothing wears clothes, but Man; nothing doth need But he to wear them.
He that measures not himselfe, is measured.
He that trusts in a lie, shall perish in truth.
The wrongs of a Husband or Master are not reproached.
Many things are lost for want of asking.
Gossips are frogs, they drinke and talke.
Ill natures, the more you aske them, the more they stick.
Hee wrongs not an old man that steales his supper from him.
A jade eates as much as a good horse.
He that plaies his mony ought not to value it.
The Wolfe knowes, what the ill beast thinkes.
Where there is peace, God is.
Show me a liar, and I'll show you a thief.
It's good tying the sack before it be full.
If you would bee at ease, all the world is not.
An old friend is a new house.
Warre and Physicke are governed by the eye.