Life is half spent before we know what it is.

One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.

Do not wait; the time will never be "just right." Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy.

Take all that is given whether wealth, love or language, nothing comes by mistake and with good digestion all can be turned to health.

A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.

He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise.

There would be no great men if there were no little ones.

A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread.

Hell is full of good meanings and wishings.

In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.

There is an hour wherein a man might be happy all his life, could he find it.

Living well is the best revenge.

War makes thieves and peace hangs them.

The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the seller not one.

There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

The mouse that hath but one hole is quickly taken.

Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee.

Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them.

Night is the mother of counsels.

A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.

The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.

Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie: a fault which needs it most, grows two thereby.

None knows the weight of another's burden.

The resolved mind hath no cares.

Life is half spent before we know what it is.

Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Be thrifty, but not covetous.

He that will learn to pray, let him go to sea.

If a donkey bray at you, don't bray at him.

Storms make the oak grow deeper roots.

Punishment is lame, but it comes.

You must lose a fly to catch a trout.

Many kiss the hand they wish cut off.

He that hath lost his credit is dead to the world.

Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, a box where sweets compacted lie.

It is part of a poor spirit to undervalue himself and blush.

Better never begin than never make an end.

He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven.

Spend not on hopes.

Love and a cough cannot be hid.

One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.

Throw away thy rod, throw away thy wrath; O my God, take the gentle path.

Never was a miser a brave soul.

Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.

The eyes have one language everywhere.

He hath no leisure who useth it not.

The shortest answer is doing.