A comely olde man as busie as a bee.
To give reason for fancy were to weigh the fire, and measure the wind.
Though women have small force to overcome men by reason; yet have they good fortune to undermine them by policy.
If you will be cherished when you are old, be courteous while you be young.
Where the streame runneth smoothest, the water is deepest.
In arguing of the shadow, we forgo the substance.