There would not be so many open mouths if there were not so many open ears.

As you see in a pair of bellows, there is a forced breath without life, so in those that are puffed up with the wind of ostentation, there may be charitable words without works.

I first adventure, follow me who list And be the second English satirist

A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was.

Those who give not till they die show that they would not then if they could keep it any longer.

For every bad there might be a worse; and when one breaks his leg let him be thankful it was not his neck.

This field is so spacious that it were easy for a man to lose himself in it; and if I should spend all my pilgrimage in this walk, my time would sooner end than my way.