Owe money at Easter and Lent will seem short to thee.
One hair of a woman can draw more than a hundred pair of oxen.
Love is the life of friendship.
The fangs of a bear, and the tusks of a wild boar, do not bite worse and make deeper gashes than a goose-quill sometimes; no, not even the badger himself, who is said to be so tenacious of his bite that he will not give over his hold till he feels his teeth meet and the bones crack.
Burn not thy fingers to snuff another man's candle.
Proverbs may not improperly be called the philosophy of the common people.