Eaten bread is forgotten.

Prayer: the key of the day and the lock of the night.

One that would have the fruit must climb the tree.

Compliments cost nothing, yet many pay dear for them.

We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

Better a tooth out than always aching.

He's my friend that speaks well of me behind my back.

Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get em, get em right, or they will get you wrong.

Care and diligence bring luck.

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

Great hopes make great men.

Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.

A man's best fortune, or his worst, is his wife.

Old foxes want no tutors.

With devotion's visage and pious action we do sugar o'er the devil himself.

Cruelty is a tyrant that's always attended with fear.

He that has a great nose, thinks everybody is speaking of it.

A wise man turns chance into good fortune.

Bad excuses are worse than none.

'Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship.

We have all forgot more than we remember.

Scalded cats fear even cold water.

If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.

We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity.

A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present.

It is more difficult to praise rightly than to blame.

With foxes we must play the fox.

First get an absolute conquest over thyself, and then thou wilt easily govern thy wife.

Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth.

'Tis better to suffer wrong than do it.

The more wit the less courage.

Every horse thinks its own pack heaviest.

The fool wanders, a wise man travels.

He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.

The devil lies brooding in the miser's chest.

Health is not valued till sickness comes.

Charity begins at home, but should not end there.

One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low.

He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil.

Let him who expects one class of society to prosper in the highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side; of the face can smile while the other is pinched.

All doors open to courtesy.

Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye.

It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf.

Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.

A good garden may have some weeds.

Eaten bread is forgotten.

A fox should not be on the jury at a goose's trial.

All things are difficult before they are easy.