Think of ease, but work on.

He that lies long a bed, his estate feels it.

Whether you boil snow or pound it, you can have but

water of it.

One stroke fells not an oak.

God complains not, but doth what is fitting.

A diligent scholar, and the master's paid.
Milk says to wine, Welcome, friend.

They that know one another, salute afar off.
Where there is no honour, there is no grief.

Where the drink goes in, there the wit goes out.
He that stays does the business.

Great alms-giving lessens no man's living.

Giving much to the poor doth enrich a man's store.

It takes much from the account, to which his sin doth amount.

It adds to the glory both of soul and body.

Ill comes in by ells, and goes out by inches.

The smith and his penny both are black.

Whose house is of glass, must not throw stones at another.

If the old dog bark, he gives counsel.

The tree that grows slowly, keeps itself for another.
I wept when I was born, and every day shews why.
He that looks not before, finds himself behind.

He that plays his money, ought not to value it.

He that riseth first, is first drest.

Diseases of the eye are to be cured with the elbow.
The hole calls the thief.

A gentleman's greyhound and a salt box, seek them at the fire.

A child's service is little, yet he is no little fool that despiseth it.

The river past, and God forgotten.

Evils have their comfort; good none can support (to wit)

with a moderate and contented heart.

Who must account for himself and others, must know both.

He that eats the hard, shall eat the ripe.

The miserable man maketh a penny of a farthing, and the liberal of a farthing sixpence.

The honey is sweet, but the bee stings.

Weight and measure take away strife.

The son full and tattered, the daughter empty and fine. Every path hath a puddle.

In good years corn is hay, in ill years straw is corn.

Send a wise man on an errand, and say nothing unto him.
In life you loved me not, in death
bewail me.
Into a mouth shut flies fly not.

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The heart's letter is read in the eyes.

The ill that comes out of our mouth falls into our bosom. In great pedigrees there are governors and chandlers.

In the house of a fiddler, all fiddle.

Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Working and making a fire doth discretion require.

One grain fills not a sack, but helps his fellows.

It is a great victory that comes without blood.

In war, hunting, and love, men for one pleasure a thousand griefs prove.

Reckon right, and February hath one and thirty days.

Honour without profit is a ring on the finger.

Estate in two parishes is bread in two wallets.
Honour and profit lie not in one sack.

A naughty child is better sick than whole.

Truth and oil are ever above.

He that riseth betimes, hath something in his head.
Advise none to marry or go to war.

To steal the hog, and give the feet for alms.

The thorn comes forth with the point forwards.

One hand washeth another, and both the face.
The fault of the horse is put on the saddle.

The corn hides itself in the snow as an old man in furs. The Jews spend at Easter, the Moors at marriages, the Christians in suits.

Fine dressing is a foul house swept before the doors.

A woman and a glass are ever in danger.

An ill wound is cured, not an ill name.

The wise hand doth not all that the foolish mouth speaks. On painting and fighting look aloof.

Knowledge is folly except grace guide it.

Punishment is lame, but it comes.

The more women look in their glass, the less they look to

their house.

A long tongue is a sign of a short hand.

Marry a widow before she leave mourning.

The worst of law is, that one suit breeds twenty.

Providence is better than a rent.

What your glass tells you, will not be told by counsel.
There are more men threatened than stricken.

A fool knows more in his house, than a wise man in another's.

I had rather ride on an ass that carries me, than a horse

that throws me.

The hard gives more than he that hath nothing.

The beast that goes always, never wants blows.
Good cheap is dear.

It costs more to do ill than to do well.

Good words quench more than a bucket of water.
An ill agreement is better than a good judgment.
There is more talk than trouble.

Better spare to have of thine own, than ask of other

men.

Better good afar off, than evil at hand.

Fear keeps the garden better than the gardener.

I had rather ask of my sire brown bread, than borrow of my neighbour white.

Your pot broken seems better than my whole one.

Let an ill man lie in thy straw, and he looks to be thy heir.

By suppers more have been killed than Galen ever cured.
While the discreet advise, the fool doth his business.
A mountain and a river are good neighbours.

Gossips are frogs, they drink and talk.

Much spends the traveller more than the abider.
Prayers and provender hinder no journey.

A well-bred youth neither speaks of himself, nor, being spoken to, is silent.

A journeying woman speaks much of all, and all of her.
The fox knows much, but more he that catcheth him.
Many friends in general, one in special.

The fool asks much, but he is more fool that grants it.
Many kiss the hand they wish cut off.

Neither bribe, nor lose thy right.

In the world who knows not to swim, goes to the bot

tom.

Choose not a house near an inn (viz. for noise): or in a corner (for filth).

He is a fool that thinks not that another thinks.

Neither eyes on letters, nor hands in coffers.

The lion is not so fierce as they paint him.

Go not for every grief to the physician, nor for every quarrel to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot. Good service is a great enchantment.

There would be no great ones, if there were no little

ones.

It is no sure rule to fish with a cross-bow.

There were no ill language, if it were not ill taken.

The groundsel speaks not, save what it heard at the hinges.

The best mirror is an old friend.

Say no ill of the year till it be past.
A man's discontent is his worst evil.
Fear nothing but sin.

The child says nothing, but what it heard by the fire.
Call me not an olive, till thou see me gathered.
That is not good language which all understand not.
He that burns his house, warms himself for once.
He will burn his house to warm his hands.

He will spend a whole year's rent at one meal's meat.
All is not gold that glisters.

A blustering night, a fair day.

Be not idle, and you shall not be longing.

He is not poor that hath little, but he that desireth much. Let none say, I will not drink water.

He wrongs not an old man that steals his supper from

him.

The tongue talks at the head's cost.

He that strikes with his tongue, must ward with his head.
Keep not ill men company, lest you increase the number.
God strikes not with both hands, for to the sea he made
heavens, and to rivers fords.

A rugged stone grows smooth from hand to hand.
No lock will hold against the power of gold.

The absent party is still faulty.

Peace and patience, and death with repentance.

If

you lose your time, you cannot get money nor gain. Be not a baker, if your head be of butter.

Ask much to have a little.

Little sticks kindle the fire; great ones put it out.
Another's bread costs dear.

Although it rain, throw not away thy watering pot.
Although the sun shine, leave not thy cloak at home.
A little with quiet is the only diet.

In vain is the mill-clack, if the miller his hearing lack.