In time of prosperity friends will be plenty; In time of adversity not one in twenty.
Proverbs may not improperly be called the philosophy of the common people.
Owe money at Easter and Lent will seem short to thee.
Apelles used to paint a good housewife on a snail, to import that she home-keeping.
He that hath the name to be an early riser may sleep till noon.
One hair of a woman can draw more than a hundred pair of oxen.