Crosses are ladders that do lead up to heaven. Honour buys no beef in the market. When it rains pottage you must hold up your dish. He that would thrive must ask leave of his wife. A wonder lasts but nine days. The second meal makes the glutton; and the second blow, or second ill word, makes the quarrel. A young serving man an old beggar. A pennyworth of ease is worth a penny at all times. As proud comes behind as goes before. Bachelors' wives and maids' children are well taught. Beware of the geese when the fox preaches. Rich men seem happy, great, and wise, All which the good man only is. Look not on pleasures as they come, but go. Love me little, and love me long. He that buys an house ready wrought, Hath many a pin and nail for nought. Fools build houses, and wise men buy them, or live in them. Opportunity makes the thief. Out of debt, out of deadly sin. Pride goes before, and shame follows after. The groat is ill saved that shames its master. Quick believers need broad shoulders. Three may keep counsel, if two be away. He who weddeth ere he be wise, shall die ere he thrives. He who most studies his content, wants it most. God hath often a great share in a little house, and but a little share in a great one. When prayers are done my lady is ready. He that is warm thinks all are so. If every man will mend one, we shall all be mended. Marry your son when you will, your daughter when you can. None is a fool always, every one sometimes. Think of ease, but work on. He that lies long in bed his estate feels it. The child saith nothing but what it heard by the fire-side. A gentleman, a greyhound, and a saitbox look for at the fire-side. The son full and tattered, the daughter empty and fine. He who riseth betimes bath something in his head. Fine dressing is a foul house swept before the doors. Discontent is a man's worst evil. Thou art to me the Escurial. He who seeks trouble never misseth it. eye. He that hath little is the less dirty. Good counsel breaks no man's head. Fly the pleasure that will bite to mor row. Wo be to the house where there is no chiding. The greatest step is that out of doors. Poverty is the mother of health. Wealth, like rheum, falls on the weakest parts. If all fools wore white caps, we should look like a flock of geese. Living well is the best revenge we can take on our enemies. Fair words make me look to my purse. The shortest answer is doing the thing. He who would have what he hath not should do what he doth not. not He who hath horns in his bosom needs God is at the end when we think he is farthest off. He who contemplates hath a day without night. Time is the rider that breaks youth. Better suffer a great evil than do a little one. Talk much, and err much. The persuasion of the unfortunate sways the doubtful. True praise takes root and spreads. Happy is the body which is blest with a mind not needing. Foolish tongues talk by the dozen. Shew a good man his error, and he turns it into a virtue; a bad man doubles his fault. When either side grows warm in arguing, the wisest man give over first. Wise men with pity do behold. Fools worship mules that carry gold. In the husband wisdom, in the wife gentleness. A wise man cares not much for what he cannot have. Pardon others, but not thyself. Conversation makes a man what he is. The dainties of the great are the tears of the poor. The great put the little on the hook. If a good man thrives all thrive with of fools. him. Old praise dies unless you feed it. self. Prosperity lets go the bridle. Take care to be what thou wouldst Night is the mother of counsels. He who once hits will be ever shooting. He that cockers his child provides for his enemy. The faulty stands always on his guard. He goes not out of his way who goes to a good inn. It is an ill air where we gain nothing. Every one hath a fool in his sleeve. Too much taking heed is sometimes loss. Among good men two suffice. The best bred have the best portion. To live peaceably with all breeds good blood. He who hath the charge of souls transports them not in bundles. Pains to get, care to keep, fear to lose. When a lackey comes to hell, the devil locks the gates. He that tells his wife news is but newly married. He who will make a door of gold, must knock in a nail every day. If the brain sows not corn, it plants thistles. A woman conceals what she knows not. Some evils are cured by contempt. God deals his wrath by weight, but without weight his mercy. Follow not truth too near at the heels, lest it dash out your teeth. Say to pleasure, gentle Eve, I will have none of your apple. Marry your daughters betimes, lest they marry themselves. Every man's censure is usually first moulded in his own nature. Suspicion is the virtue of a coward. Stay a while, that we may make an end the sooner. Let us ride fair and softly that we may get home the sooner. Debtors are liars. A penny spared is twice got. Pensions never enriched young men. If things were to be done twice, all would be wise. If the mother had never been in the 'Tis easier to build two chimneys than oven, she would not have looked for her to maintain one. He hath no leisure who useth it not. The wife is the key of the house. The life of man is a winter day. The least foolish is accounted wise. Life is half spent before we know what it is to live. Wine is a turn-coat; first a friend, then an enemy. Wine ever pays for his lodging. daughter there. The body is sooner well dressed than the soul. Every one is a master, and a servant. No profit to honour, no honour to virtue or religion. Every sin brings its punishment along with it. The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition. Good husbandry is good divinity. ger Be reasonable and you will be happy. It is better to please a fool than to anhim. A fool, if he saith he will have a crab, he will not have an apple. death, is rather liberal of another man's than of his own. A wise man hath more ballast than sail. Great men's promises, courtiers' oaths, Take heed you find not what you do and dead men's shoes, a man may look not seek. The highway is never about. He lives long enough who hath lived. well. Mettle is dangerous in a blind horse. Winter never rots in the sky. God help the rich, the poor can beg. He that speaks me fair, and loves me not, I will speak him fair, and trust him not. He who preaches war is the devil's chaplain. The truest wealth is contentment with a little. A man's best fortune, or his worst, is a wife. Marry in haste, and repent at leisure. Sir John Barley-Corn is the strongest knight. Like blood, like good, and like age, Make the happiest marriage. Every ass thinks himself worthy to stand with the king's horses. A good beginning makes a good ending. One ounce of discretion, or of wisdom, is worth two pounds of wit. The devil is good, or kind, when he is pleased. A fair face is half a portion. To forget a wrong is the best revenge. Man doth what he can, God doth what he pleases. Gold goes in at any gate except that of heaven. Knaves and fools divide the world. No great loss but may bring some little profit. When poverty comes in at the door, love leaps out at the window. That suit is best that best fits me. Riches are but the baggage of virtue. for, but not trust to. Be wise on this side heaven. The devil tempts others, an idle man tempts the devil. Good looks buy nothing in the market. He who will be his own master often hath a fool for a scholar. That man is well bought who costs you but a compliment. The greatest king must at last go to bed with a shovel or spade. He only truly lives who lives in peace. If wise men never erred, it would go hard with the fool. Great virtue seldom descends. One wise (in marriage) and two happy. Almsgiving never made any man poor, nor robbery, rich, nor prosperity wise. A fool and his money are soon parted. Fear of hell is the true valour of a christian. For ill do well, then fear not hell. The best thing in the world is to live above it. Happy is he who knows his follies in his youth. A thousand pounds and a bottle of hay, One pair of heels is sometimes worth two pair of hands. 'Tis good sleeping in a whole skin. He who hath an ill name is half hanged. A friend's frown is better than a fool's That is my good that doth me good. Let your purse still be your master. Women's and children's wishes are the aim and happiness of the more weak men. Ignorance is better than pride with greater knowledge. The charitable man gives out at the door, and God puts in at the window. Every man is a fool where he hath not considered or thought. Wranglers never want words. Idle lazy folks have most labour. Knavery may serve a turn, but honesty is best at the long run. A quick landlord makes a careful tenant. Look ever to the main chance. I will keep no more cats than what will catch mice. Reprove others, but correct thyself. Once a knave and ever a knave. Planting of trees is England's old thrift. It is more painful to do nothing than something. Any thing for a quiet life. 'Tis great folly to want when we have it, and when we have it not too. Fly pleasure, and it will follow thee. God's providence is the surest and best inheritance. That is not good language which all understand not. Much better lose a jest than a friend. He that hath some land must have some labour. Shew me a liar and I will shew you a thief. We must wink at small faults. Keep your shop and your shop will keep you. Every one should sweep before his own door. Much coin usually much care. A pound of gold is better than an ounce of honour. We think lawyers to be wise men, and they know us to be fools. Eaten bread is soon forgotten. When you see your friend, trust to yourself. Let my friend tell my tale. Mention not a rope in the house of one He who angers others is not himself at whose father was hanged. ease. He dies like a beast who hath done no good while he lived. Heaven is not to be had by men's barely wishing for it. Patch and long sit, build and soon flit. One hour's sleep before midnight is worth two hours sleep after it. Speak the truth and shame the devil. Idiot.) Lend and lose my money; so play fools. Early to go to bed, and then early to rise, make man more holy, more healthy, wealthy, and wize. Anger dies soon with a wise and good man. He who will not be counselled, cannot be helped. God hath provided no remedy for wilful obstinacy. All vice infatuates and corrupts the judgment. He who converses with nobody, knows nothing. There is no fool to the old fool. A good wife makes a good husband. "Tis much better to be thought a fool than to be a knave. One fool makes many. Penny, whence camest thou? Penny, whither goest thou? and, Penny, when wilt thou come again? 'Tis worse to be an ill man than to be thought to be one. A fool comes always short of his reckoning. A young saint an old saint; and a young devil and an old devil. Wit is folly unless a wise man hath the keeping of it. Knowledge of God and ourselves is the mother of true devotion, and the perfection of wisdom. Afflictions are sent us from God for our good. Confession of a fault makes half amends. Every man can tame a shrew but he who hath her. "Tis better to die poor than to live poor. Plain-dealing is a jewel; but who useth it will die a beggar. Honour bought is temporal simony. lord. Children are certain cares, but very uncertain comforts. Giving begets love, lending usually lessens it. He is the wise, who is the honest man. Take part with reason against thy own will or humour, Wit is a fine thing in a wise man's hand. Speak not of my debts except you mean to pay them. Words instruct, but examples persuade effectually. He who lives in hopes dies a fool. Live so as you do mean to die. All earthly joys are empty bubbles, and do make men boys. Better unborn than untaught. If thou do ill, the joy fades, not the pains; if well, the pains do fade, the joy remains. Always refuse the advice which passion gives. Nor say nor do that thing which anger prompts you to. Bear and forbear is short and good philosophy. Set out wisely at first; custom will make every virtue more easy and pleasant to you than any vice can be. The best and noblest conquest is that of a man's own reason over his passions and follies. Religion hath true lasting joys; weigh all, and so If any thing have more, or such, let heaven go. Whatever good thou dost, give God the praise, Who both the power and will first gave to thee. § 131. Old Italian Proverbs. He He who serves God hath the best master in the world. Where God is, there nothing is wanting. No man is greater in truth than he is in God's esteem. hath a good judgment who doth not rely on his own. Wealth is not his who gets it, but his who enjoys it. He who converses with nobody, is either a brute or an angel. Go not over the water where you cannot see the bottom: He who lives disorderly one year, doth not enjoy himself for five years after. Friendships are cheap when they are to be bought with pulling off your hat. Speak well of your friend, of your enemy neither well nor ill. The friendship of a great man is a lion at the next door. The money you refuse will never do you good. A beggar's wallet is a mile to the bottom. I once had, is a poor man. There are a great many asses without long ears. An iron anvil should have a hammer of feathers. He keeps his road well enough who gets rid of bad company. You are in debt, and run in farther; if you are not a liar yet, you will be one. The best throw upon the dice is to throw them away. 'Tis horribly dangerous to sleep near the gates of hell. He who |