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Better Is To Bow Than Break.

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Good To Be Merie And Wise.

So Many Heads So Many Wits.

A Cat May Look At A King.

Who Waite For Dead Men Shall Goe Long Barefoote.

It's An Ill Wind That Blows No Good.

If Nothing Is Ventured, Nothing Is Gained.

Better To Be Happy Than Wise.

Never Look A Gift Horse In The Mouth.

Hunger Makes Hard Beans Sweet.

Time Trieth Troth In Every Doubt.

All Is Fish That Comth To Net.

Better Is Half A Loaf Than No Bread.

No Man Ought To Looke A Given Horse In The Mouth.

There Is No Fyre Without Some Smoke.

When The Devil Drives, Needs Must.

Nothing Is Impossible To A Willing Heart.

Who Waiteth For Dead Man's Shoes Will Go Long Barefoot.

Three May Keep Counsel, If Two Be Away.

Men Say, Kinde Will Creepe Where It May Not Goe.

But Now I See Well The Old Proverb Is True: That Parish Priest Forgetteth That Ever He Was A Clerk!

Would Ye Both Eat Your Cake And Have Your Cake?

None So Blind As Those Who Won't See.

It Is Good The Have A Hatch Before The Durre.

A Woman Hath Nine Lives Like A Cat.

Beggars Should Be No Choosers.

Let The World Wagge, And Take Mine Ease In Myne Inne.

Went In At The One Ear And Out At The Other.

Ill Wéede Growth Fast.

Look Before You Leap.

Cut Your Coat According To Your Cloth.

Tis Not The Robe Or Garment I Affect; For Who Would Marry With A Suit Of Clothes?

A Cat May Looke On A King.

A Hard Beginning Maketh A Good Ending.

There Is No Fool To The Old Fool.

A Hard Beginnyng Makth A Good Endyng.

A Man May Well Bring A Horse To Water But He Cannot Make Him Drink.

Som Thingis That Prouoke Young Men To Wed In Haste,show After Weddyng, That Hast Maketh Waste.

Put Your Toong In Your Purse.

All A Green Willow, Willow, All A Green Willow Is My Garland.

When All Candles Are Out, All Cats Are Grey, All Things Are Then Of One Color, As Who Say. And This Proverb Faith, For Quenching Hot Desire, Foul Water As Soon As Faire, Will Quench Hot Fire.

Thrée Maie A Kepe Counsayle, If Two Be Away.

A Fig For A Care, A Fig For A Woe!

The Rolling Stone Never Gathereth Mosse.

It Hurts Not The Tongue To Give Faire Words.

The Nearer To The Church, The Further From God.

No Man Loveth His Fetters, Be They Made Of Gold.

Be The Day Never So Long, Evermore At Last They Ring To Evensong.

The Grey Mare Is The Better Horse.

Hit The Nail On The Head.

What Heart Can Think, Or Tongue Express, The Harm That Groweth Of Idleness?

One Good Turne Asketh Another.

The Tide Tarrieth No Man.

Many Handis Make Light Warke.

The More Haste, The Less Speed.

It Is Better To Be An Old Man's Derling Than A Yong Man's Werling.

The Loss Of Wealth Is Loss Of Dirt, As Sages In All Times Assert; The Happy Man's Without A Shirt.

It Is A Poor Dog That Is Not Worth The Whistling

And Death Makes Equal The High And Low.

She Is Nether Fish Nor Flesh, Nor Good Red Herring.

Every Dog Has Its Day.

While The Grasse Groweth The Horse Starveth.

Better To Give Then To Take.

A Day After The Faire.

Prove Your Friend Ere You Have Need, But In Deed A Friend Is Never Known Till A Man Have Need.

Of A Good Beginning Cometh A Good End.

For When I Gave You An Inch, You Took An Ell.

Praie And Shifte Eche One For Him Selfe, As He Can.euery Man For Him Selfe, And God For Us All.

One Swallow Maketh Not Summer.

This Wonder (as Wonders Last) Lasted Nine Daies.

Who Is Wurs Shod, Than The Shoemakers Wyfe,with Shops Full Of Shoes All Hir Lyfe?

He Must Needes Go That The Dyvell Dryveth.

Feare May Force A Man To Cast Beyond The Moone.

Every Cocke Is Proud On His Owne Dunghill.

I Know On Which Side My Bread Is Buttered.

It Had Need To Bee A Wylie Mouse That Should Breed In The Cats Eare.

I Pray Thee Let Me And My Fellow Have A Haire Of The Dog That Bit Us Last Night.

Children And Fooles Cannot Lye.

A Short Horse Is Soone Currid.

Who Is So Deaf Or So Blind As Is He That Willfully Will Neither Hear Nor See?

Small Pitchers Have Wyde Eares.

The More The Merrier.

Inspirational Life

Happy Man, Happy Dole.

Beggars Can't Be Choosers.

Who Will In Time Present Pleasure Refrain, Shall In Time To Come The More Pleasure Obtain.

To Give Importance To Trifling Matters.

The Happy Man's Without A Shirt.

Better One Byrde In Hand Than Ten In The Wood.

A Good Wife Maketh A Good Husband.

Children Learne To Creepe Ere They Can Learne To Goe.

A Fooles Bolt Is Soone Shot.

When The Iron Is Hot, Strike.

Let The World Slide, Let The World Go; A Fig For Care, And A Fig For Woe! If I Can't Pay, Why I Can Owe, And Death Makes Equal The High And Low.

Little Pitchers Have Big Ears.

Though He Love Not To Buy The Pig In The Poke.

It Will Not Out Of The Flesh That Is Bred In The Bone.

Nought Venture, Nought Have. [nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained.]

What A Time Herbs And Weeds, And Such Things Could Talk, A Man In His Garden One Day Did Walk, Spying A Nettle Green (as Th'emeraude) Spread In A Bed Of Roses Like The Ruby Red. Between Which Two Colors He Thought, But His Eye, The Green Nettle Did The Red Rose Beautify. "how Be It," He Asked The Nettle, "what Thing Made Him So Pert? So Nigh The Rose To Spring.

He That Will Not Whan He May,whan He Would, He Shall Haue Nay.

It's No Use Closing The Barn Door After The Horse Is Gone.

To Say That Which Is Instructive And Also Pleasing.

Half A Loaf Is Better Than None.

Spanish Proverb

Love Me Litle, Love Me Long.

It Takes Nine Tailors To Make A Man.

God Never Sends The Mouth But He Sendeth Meat.

Better Is To Bow Than Break.

When The Sun Shineth, Make Hay.

Pryde Will Have A Fall;for Pryde Goeth Before And Shame Commeth After.

Fieldes Have Eies And Woods Have Eares.

There Are None So Blind As Those Who Will Not See. The Most Deluded People Are Those Who Choose To Ignore What They Already Know.

I Perfectly Feele Even At My Fingers End.

The Still Sowe Eats Up All The Draffe.

Make Hay While The Sun Shines.

And While I At Length Debate And Beate The Bush, There Shall Steppe In Other Men And Catch The Burdes.

Nought Venture Nought Have.

The Wise Man Sayth, Store Is No Sore.

It Is A Foul Bird That Filleth His Own Nest.

Now For Good Lucke, Cast An Old Shooe After Mee.

It Is A Foule Byrd That Fyleth His Owne Nest.

Many Hands Make Light Work.

All Things On Earth Thus Change, Some Up, Some Down; Content's A Kingdom, And I Wear That Crown.

An Ill Winde That Bloweth No Man To Good.

What Is Got Over The Devil's Back Is Spent Under His Belly.

One Swallow Never Makes A Summer.

When The Sunne Shineth, Make Hay.

If You Will Call Your Troubles Experiences, And Remember That Every Experience Develops Some Latent Force Within You, You Will Grow Vigorous And Happy, However Adverse Your Circumstances May Seem To Be.

One Good Turn Asketh Another.

When The Steede Is Stolne, Shut The Stable Durre.

Feed By Measure, And Defy The Physician.

Would Ye Both Eat Your Cake And Have Your Cake? This Is Commonly Misquotes As You Can't Have You're Cake And Eat It, Too.

All's Well That Ends Well.

Though Ye Loue Not To Bye The Pyg In The Poke,yet Snatche Ye At The Poke, That The Pyg Is In,not For The Poke, But The Pyg Good Chepe To Wyn.

Children And Fools Cannot Lie.

Burnt Child Fire Dredth.

Hee Must Have A Long Spoone, Shall Eat With The Devill.

Much Water Goeth By The Millthat The Miller Knoweth Not Of.

Be Of Comfort, And Your Heavy Sorrow Part Equally Among Us; Storms Divided, Abate Their Force, And With Less Rage Are Guided.

Might Have Gone Further And Have Fared Worse.

Follow Pleasure, And Then Will Pleasure Flee, Flee Pleasure, And Pleasure Will Follow Thee.

He Makes A Beggar First That First Relieves Him; Not Us'rers Make More Beggars Where They Live Than Charitable Men That Use To Give.

When All Candles Be Out, All Cats Be Grey.

Tell Tales Out Of School.

The Moon Is Made Of A Green Cheese.

The Cat Would Eate Fish, And Would Not Wet Her Feete.

Wedding Is Destiny, And Hanging Likewise.

Don't Put The Cart Before The Horse.

The Greatest Clerkes Be Not The Wisest Men.

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