Friendly counsel cuts off many foes.

I despised my arrival on this earth and I despise my departure; it is a tragedy.

A table full of welcome makes scarce one dainty dish.

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.

Women are as roses, whose fair flower, being once displayed, doth fall that very hour.

I praise God for you, sir: your reasons at dinner have been sharp and sententious; pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, audacious without impudency, learned without opinion, and strange with-out heresy.

Some grief shows much of love, But much of grief shows still some want of wit.