Living well is the best revenge. Votes: 13
War makes thieves and peace hangs them. Votes: 11
The resolved mind hath no cares. Votes: 7
His bark is worse than his bite. Votes: 6
Never was a miser a brave soul. Votes: 5
Man is no star, but a quick coalOf mortal fire:Who blows it not, nor doth controlA faint desire, Votes: 2
Every mile is two in winter Votes: 0
February makes a bridge and March breakes it. [February makes a bridge, and March breaks it.] Votes: 0
Love and a cough cannot be hid. Votes: 0
Take the gentle path. Votes: 0
God provides for him that trusteth. Votes: 0
Good horses make short miles. Votes: 0
An ill agreement is better then a good judgement. [An ill agreement is better than a good judgment.] Votes: 0
Good service is a great inchantment. Votes: 0
To a great night, a great Lanthorne. Votes: 0
Punishment is lame, but it comes. Votes: 0
The bird loves her nest. Votes: 0
Everyone is a master and servant. Votes: 0
Look not for musk in a dog's kennel. Votes: 0
The best mirror is an old friend. Votes: 0
Beauty drawes more then oxen. Votes: 0
Prettiness dies first. Votes: 0
Every path hath a puddle. Votes: 0
The market is the best garden. Votes: 0
There is no heat of affection but is joyned with some idlenesse of brain, says the Spaniard. Votes: 0
Be thrifty, but not covetous. Votes: 0
Music helps not the toothache. Votes: 0
Princes are venison in Heaven. Votes: 0
All flesh is not venison. Votes: 0
The offender never pardons. Votes: 0
Night is the mother of counsels. Votes: 0
The shortest answer is doing. Votes: 0
A bad dog never sees the Wolfe. Votes: 0
A dead Bee maketh no Hony. Votes: 0
A disarmed peace is weake. Votes: 0
A drunkards purse is a bottle. Votes: 0
A good heart cannot lye Votes: 0
A hatt is not made for one shower. Votes: 0
A kinsman, a friend, or whom you intreate, take not to serve you, if you will be served neately. Votes: 0
A little labour, much health. Votes: 0
A Lyons skin is never cheape. Votes: 0
A penny spar'd is twice got. Votes: 0
A pittifull looke askes enough. Votes: 0
A small heart hath small desires. Votes: 0
A snow year, a rich year. Votes: 0
A trade is better then service. Votes: 0
A Tyrant is most tyrant to himselfe. Votes: 0
Advise none to marry or go to war. Votes: 0
All feete tread not in one shoe. Votes: 0
All griefes with bread are lesse. Votes: 0
All keyes hang not on one girdle. Votes: 0
All our pompe the earth covers. Votes: 0
All that shakes falles not. Votes: 0
All truths are not to be told. Votes: 0
Almes never make poore. Votes: 0
Amongst good men two men suffice. Votes: 0
An Idle youth, a needy Age. Votes: 0
An ill deed cannot bring honor. Votes: 0
An ill deede cannot bring honour. Votes: 0
An old cat sports not with her prey. Votes: 0
An old dog barks not in vain. Votes: 0
An old friend is a new house. Votes: 0
Anothers bread costs deare. Votes: 0
Armour is light at table. Votes: 0
Aske much to have a little. Votes: 0
At dinner my man appeares. Votes: 0
At Length the Fox turnes Monk. Votes: 0
Be useful where thou livest. Votes: 0
Be what thou wouldst seeme to be. Votes: 0
Beare with evill, and expect good. Votes: 0
Beate the dog before the Lyon. Votes: 0
Beauty draws more than oxen. Votes: 0
Better a bare foote then none. Votes: 0
Better a barefoot than none. Votes: 0
Building is a sweet impoverishing. Votes: 0
Church bells beyond the stars heard, the soul's blood, The land of spices; something understood. Votes: 0
Cities seldome change Religion only. Votes: 0
Citties are taken by the eares. Votes: 0
Conversation makes one what he is. Votes: 0
Could have recovered greenness? Votes: 0
Councell breakes not the head. Votes: 0
Covetousnesse breaks the bag. Votes: 0
Craft against craft makes no living. Votes: 0
Death keepes no Calender. Votes: 0
Death keeps no calendar. Votes: 0
Destiny is always dark. Votes: 0
Disgraces are like cherries, one drawes another. [Disgraces are like cherries, one draws another.] Votes: 0
Divine grace was never slow. Votes: 0
Dogs are fine in the field. Votes: 0
Emptie vessels sound most. Votes: 0
Empty Chambers make foolish maides. Votes: 0
Envy not greatness: for thou mak'st thereby Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater. Votes: 0
Every bees hony is sweet. Votes: 0
Every day brings his bread with it. Votes: 0
Every ill man hath his ill day. Votes: 0
Every thing new is fine. Votes: 0
Everyone thinks his sack heaviest. Votes: 0
Farre shooting never kild bird. Votes: 0
Fear kills more than disease. Votes: 0
Feare nothing but sinne. Votes: 0
Feare, the Bedle of the Law. Votes: 0
Feares are divided in the midst. Votes: 0
Fine words dresse ill deedes. Votes: 0
Folly growes without watering. Votes: 0
Foolish tongues talke by the dozen. Votes: 0
Give loosers leave to talke. Votes: 0
God comes to see without a bell. Votes: 0
God sees hearts as we see faces. Votes: 0
God sends a curst cow short horns. Votes: 0
God sends cold according to clothes. Votes: 0
God's mill grinds slow, but sure. Votes: 0
Good & quickly seldome meete. Votes: 0
Good and quickly seldom meet. Votes: 0
Good cable, to enforce and draw, And be thy law, While thou didst wink and wouldst not see. Votes: 0
Good is god, but better carries it. Votes: 0
Good land, evill way. Votes: 0
Good swimmers at length are drowned. Votes: 0
Good workemen are seldome rich. Votes: 0
Good workmen are seldom rich. Votes: 0
Great paines quickly find ease. Votes: 0
Greene wood makes a hott fire. Votes: 0
Hast comes not alone. Votes: 0
He hath no leisure who useth it not. Votes: 0
He that burnes most shines most. Votes: 0
He that chastens one, chastens 20. Votes: 0
He that endures is not overcome. Votes: 0
He that feares death lives not. Votes: 0
He that hath lands hath quarrells. Votes: 0
He that is angry at a feast is rude. Votes: 0
He that is fallen cannot helpe him that is downe. [He that is fallen cannot help him that is down.] Votes: 0
He that is once borne, once must dy. Votes: 0
He that is warme, thinkes all so. Votes: 0
He that lends, gives. Votes: 0
He that lives most dies most. Votes: 0
He that lives well sees a farre off. Votes: 0
He that praiseth himselfe spattereth himselfe. [He that praiseth himself spatteteth himself.] Votes: 0
He that preacheth giveth almes. Votes: 0
He that sends a foole expects one. Votes: 0
He that serves, must serve. Votes: 0
He that sowes trusts in God. Votes: 0
He that staies does the businesse. Votes: 0
He that will be surety, shall pay. Votes: 0
He that will not have peace, God gives him warre. [He that will not have peace, God gives him war.] Votes: 0
He warmes too neere that burnes. Votes: 0
Hee that comes of a hen must scrape. Votes: 0
Heresie is the school of pride. Votes: 0
Hope is the poor man's bread. Votes: 0
Humble Hearts have humble desires. Votes: 0
If folly were griefe every house would weepe. [If folly were grief, every house would weep.] Votes: 0
If thou do ill, the joy fades, not the pains. If well, the pain doth fade, the joy remains. Votes: 0
If you must flie, flie well. Votes: 0
Ill vessels seldome miscarry. Votes: 0
In a long journey straw waighs. Votes: 0
In every countrey the sun rises in the morning. [In every country the sun rises in the morning.] Votes: 0
In every country dogges bite. Votes: 0
In the husband wisedome, in the wife gentlenesse. [In the husband wisdom, in the wife gentleness.] Votes: 0
In time comes he whom God sends. Votes: 0
Infants manners are moulded more by the example of Parents, then by stars at their nativities. Votes: 0
Into a mouth shut flies flie not. Votes: 0
Knowledge is no burden. Votes: 0
Least at thine own things laugh. Votes: 0
Let all live as they would die. Votes: 0
Let anger's fire be slow to burn. Votes: 0
Little losses amaze, great tame. Votes: 0
Little wealth, little care. Votes: 0
Long jesting was never good. Votes: 0
Lord! who hath praise enough? Votes: 0
Losse embraceth shame. Votes: 0
Love and businesse teach eloquence. Votes: 0
Love is not found in the market. Votes: 0
Love is the true price of love. Votes: 0
Love makes a good eye squint. Votes: 0
Love makes all hard hearts gentle. Votes: 0
Love makes one fitt for any work. Votes: 0
Man Proposeth, God disposeth. Votes: 0
Money wants no followers. Votes: 0
Musick helps not the tooth-ach. Votes: 0
Neither bribe nor loose thy right. Votes: 0
Never had ill workeman good tooles. Votes: 0
Never was strumpet faire. Votes: 0
No Alchymy to saving. Votes: 0
No love is foule, nor prison fair. Votes: 0
Noble houskeepers neede no dores. Votes: 0
None is borne Master. Votes: 0
None is offended but by himselfe. Votes: 0
None saies his Garner is full. Votes: 0
Nothing dries sooner then a teare. Votes: 0
Nothing lasts but the Church. Votes: 0
Nothing secure unlesse suspected. Votes: 0
Of a new Prince, new bondage. Votes: 0
Of a pigs taile you can never make a good shaft. [Of a pig's tail you can never make a good shaft.] Votes: 0
One flower makes no garland. Votes: 0
One foole makes a hundred. Votes: 0
One slumber finds another. Votes: 0
One stroke fells not an oke. Votes: 0
Parsons are soules waggoners. Votes: 0
Perversnes makes one squint ey'd. Votes: 0
Pleasing ware is half sold. Votes: 0
Power seldome grows old at Court. Votes: 0
Praise a hill, but keepe below. Votes: 0
Praise the Sea, but keepe on land. Votes: 0
Promising is the eve of giving. Votes: 0
Prosperity lets goe the bridle. Votes: 0
Ready mony is a ready Medicine. Votes: 0
Reason and speech we onely bring. Votes: 0
Reason lies betweene the spurre and the bridle. [Reason lies between the spur and the bridle.] Votes: 0
Rivers neede a spring. Votes: 0
Send not a Catt for Lard. Votes: 0
Service is no Inheritance. Votes: 0
Short boughs, long vintage. Votes: 0
Soft and faire goes farre. Votes: 0
Some evils are cured by contempt. Votes: 0
Sometimes the best gain is to lose. Votes: 0
Speake fitly, or be silent wisely. Votes: 0
Step by step the ladder is ascended. Votes: 0
Still fisheth he that catcheth one. Votes: 0
Storms make oaks take deeper root. Votes: 0
Such a Saint, such an offering. Votes: 0
Sweet discourse makes short daies and nights. [Sweet discourse makes short days and nights.] Votes: 0
Talking payes no toll. Votes: 0
Teach me, my God and king In all things thee to see And what I do in anything To do it as for thee Votes: 0
That is gold which is worth gold. Votes: 0
That which sufficeth is not little. Votes: 0
That which two will, takes effect. Votes: 0
The absent partie is still faultie. Votes: 0
The back-doore robs the house. Votes: 0
The Catt sees not the mouse ever. Votes: 0
The chiefe boxe of health is time. Votes: 0
The cholerick man never wants woe. Votes: 0
The command of custome is great. Votes: 0
The Divell never assailes a man, except he find him either void of knowledge, or of the fear of God. Votes: 0
The dog that licks ashes, trust not with meale. [The dog that licks ashes trust not with meal.] Votes: 0
The eye will have his part. Votes: 0
The faulty stands on his guard. Votes: 0
The first blow is as much as two. Votes: 0
The first dish pleaseth all. Votes: 0
The fish adores the bait. Votes: 0
The Germans wit is in his fingers. Votes: 0
The House shewes the owner. Votes: 0
The house shows the owner. Votes: 0
The Jews spend at Easter. Votes: 0
The least foolish is wise. Votes: 0
The life of man is a winter way. Votes: 0
The Mill gets by going. Votes: 0
The morning Sunne never lasts a day. Votes: 0
The Mr. absent, and the house dead. Votes: 0
The noise is greater then the nuts. Votes: 0
The Physitian owes all to the patient, but the patient owes nothing to him but a little mony. Votes: 0
The scalded head feares cold water. Votes: 0
The table robbes more then a thiefe. Votes: 0
The tongue talkes at the heads cost. Votes: 0
The vertue of a coward is suspition. Votes: 0
The War is not don so long as my Enemy lives. [The war is not done so long as my enemy lives.] Votes: 0
The way is an ill neighbour. Votes: 0
The wife is the key of the house. Votes: 0
The worst speak something good; if all want sense, God takes a text, and preacheth patience. Votes: 0
There is more talke then trouble. Votes: 0
There is no jollitie but hath a smack of folly. [There is no jollity but hath a smack of folly.] Votes: 0
Things well fitted abide. Votes: 0
Thinke of ease, but worke on. Votes: 0
Thornes whiten yet doe nothing. Votes: 0
Three women make a market. Votes: 0
Thursday come, and the week's gone. Votes: 0
Time is the rider that breaks youth. Votes: 0
To a boiling pot flies come not. Votes: 0
To a child all weather is cold. Votes: 0
To be too busie gets contempt. Votes: 0
To buy deare is not bounty. Votes: 0
To deceive ones selfe is very easie. Votes: 0
To steale the Hog, and give the feet for almes. [To steal the hog, and give the feet to alms.] Votes: 0
True praise rootes and spreedes. Votes: 0
Trust not one night's ice. Votes: 0
Ty it well, and let it goe. Votes: 0
Vertue never growes old. Votes: 0
Waight and measure take away strife. Votes: 0
War is death's feast. Votes: 0
Warre is deaths feast. Votes: 0
Was ever grief like mine? Votes: 0
Water trotted is as good as oates. Votes: 0
Water, fire, and souldiers, quickly make roome. [Water, fire, and soldiers quickly make room.] Votes: 0
We are fooles one to another. Votes: 0
Wee know not who lives or dies. Votes: 0
Weening is not measure. Votes: 0
Weight justly and sell dearely. Votes: 0
Were it not for the bone in the legge, all the world would turne Carpenters (to make them crutches). Votes: 0
What one day gives us, another takes away from us. [What one day gives, another takes away from us.] Votes: 0
When age is jocond it makes sport for death. [When age is jocund, it makes sport for death.] Votes: 0
When war begins, then hell openeth. Votes: 0
Where there is peace, God is. Votes: 0
Who gives to all, denies all. Votes: 0
Who hastens a glutton choakes him. Votes: 0
Who hath no head, needes no heart. Votes: 0
Wine ever paies for his loding. Votes: 0
Wine-Counsels seldome prosper. Votes: 0
Without businesse debauchery. Votes: 0
Words are women, deeds are men. Votes: 0
Yeeres know more then bookes. Votes: 0
You cannot flea a stone. Votes: 0
You cannot hide an eele in a sacke. Votes: 0
You cannot know wine by the barrell. Votes: 0
A crooked log makes a strait fire. Votes: 0
The wolf must die in his own skin. Votes: 0
Castles are Forrests of stones. Votes: 0
Drought never brought dearth. Votes: 0
Goods are theirs that enjoy them. Votes: 0
The longest Day hath an Eueninge. Votes: 0
He that marries late, marries ill. Votes: 0
The comforters head never akes. Votes: 0
Money refused loose its brightness. Votes: 0
One enemy is too much. Votes: 0
On a good bargain think twice. Votes: 0
A great ship asks deep water. Votes: 0
A snow yeare, a rich yeare. Votes: 0