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One Faire Day In Winter Makes Not Birds Merrie.

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Fooles Bite One Another, But Wise-men Agree Together.

God, And Parents, And Our Master, Can Never Be Requited.

The Ignorant Hath An Eagles Wings, And An Owles Eyes. [the Ignorant Hath An Eagle's Wings And An Owl's Eyes.]

In A Retreat The Lame Are Formost. [in A Retreat The Lame Are Foremost.]

The Ill That Comes Out Of Our Mouth Falles Into Our Bosome.

If You Would Bee At Ease, All The World Is Not.

Good Cable, To Enforce And Draw, And Be Thy Law, While Thou Didst Wink And Wouldst Not See.

The Sundaies Of Man's Life, Thredded Together On Time's String, Make Bracelets To Adorn The Wife Of The Eternal, Glorious King. On Sunday Heaven's Gates Stand Ope; Blessings Are Plentiful And Rife. More Plentiful Than Hope.

Every One Thinkes His Sacke Heaviest.

Hee That Would Bee Well Old, Must Bee Old Betimes.

None Is Offended But By Himselfe.

One Hour's Sleep Before Midnight Is Worth Three After.

Be Calm In Arguing; For Fierceness Makes Error A Fault, And Truth Discourtesy.

Spectacles Are Deaths Harquebuze. [spectacles Are Death's Arquebuse.]

Who Hath No More Bread Then Neede, Must Not Keepe A Dog.

When My House Burnes, It's Not Good Playing At Chesse.

The Italians Are Wise Before The Deede, The Germanes In The Deede, The French After The Deede. [the Italians Are Wise Before The Deed, The Germens In The Deed, The French After The Deed.]

Praise None Too Much, For All Are Fickle.

A Wise Man Cares Not For What He Cannot Have.

Gold Thou Mayst Safely Touch; But If It Stick Unto Thy Hands, It Woundeth To The Quick.

He That Is Drunken * * * Is Outlawed By Himself; All Kind Of Ill Did With His Liquor Slide Into His Veins.

An Ill Deede Cannot Bring Honour.

The Hole Calls The Thiefe. [the Hole Calls The Thief.]

Marry Your Sonne When You Will; Your Daughter When You Can. [marry Your Son When You Will, Your Daughter When You Can.]

Let All Live As They Would Die.

Thornes Whiten Yet Doe Nothing.

Good Is The Mora That Makes All Sure.

Hee That Burnes His House Warmes Himselfe For Once.

Some Make A Conscience Of Spitting In The Church, Yet Robbe The Altar.

Take Heed Of Foul Dirty Wayes, And Long Sicknesse.

A House And A Woman Sute Excellently.

Hee That Demands Misseth Not, Unlesse His Demands Be Foolish.

Hee That Looseth His Due, Gets Not Thankes.

A Gentle Heart Is Tied With An Easy Thread.

Summe Up At Night What Thou Hast Done By Day; And In The Morning What Thou Hast To Do. Dresse And Undresse Thy Soul; Mark The Decay And Growth Of It; If, With Thy Watch, That Too Be Down Then Winde Up Both; Since We Shall Be Most Surely Judg'd, Make Thy Accounts Agree.

Take Heed Of The Wrath Of A Mighty Man, And The Tumult Of The People.

Thou Who Hast Given So Much To Me, Give Me One More Thing... A Grateful Heart!

Many, Affecting Wit Beyond Their Power, Have Got To Be A Dear Fool For An Hour.

A Beane In Liberty Is Better Then A Comfit In Prison.

Princes Are Venison In Heaven.

One Foole Makes A Hundred.

Prayers And Provender Hinder No Journey. [prayers And Provender Hinder No Man's Journey.]

Who Hath No Head, Needes No Heart.

Sorrow Was All My Soul; I Scarce Believed, Till Grief Did Tell Me Roundly, That I Lived.

A Lyons Skin Is Never Cheape.

Love Your Neighbor, Yet Pull Not Down Your Hedge.

All The Armes Of England Will Not Arme Feare.

Pardons And Pleasantnesse Are Great Revenges Of Slanders.

If Folly Were Griefe Every House Would Weepe. [if Folly Were Grief, Every House Would Weep.]

Wood Halfe Burnt Is Easily Kindled. [wood Half-burnt Is Easily Kindled.]

Threatned Men Eat Bread, Says The Spaniard.

Aske Much To Have A Little.

In The Kingdome Of Blind Men The One Ey'd Is King. [in The Kingdom Of Blind Men The One Eyed Is King.]

Who Spits Against Heaven, It Falls In His Face.

A Fair Day In Winter Is The Mother Of A Storme.

Honour And Profit Lie Not In One Sacke. [honour And Profit Lie Not In One Sack.]

There Were No Ill Language, If It Were Not Ill Taken.

Of The Smells, Bread; Of The Tastes, Salt.

The Miserable Man Makes A Peny Of A Farthing, And The Liberall Of A Farthing Sixe Pence. [the Miserable Man Maketh A Penny Of A Farthing, And The Liberal Of A Farthing Sixpence.]

Pension Never Inriched Young Man. [pension Never Enriched A Young Man.]

He Quits His Place Well, That Leaves His Friend There.

A Pleasure Long Expected Is Deare Enough Sold.

Hee That Bewailes Himselfe Hath The Cure In His Hands.

A Noble Plant Suites Not With A Stubborne Ground.

It's No Sure Rule To Fish With A Cros-bow.

Every One Is Witty For His Owne Purpose.

On Painting And Fighting Looke Aloofe. [on Painting And Fighting Look Aloof.]

The Lame Goes As Farre As Your Staggerer. [the Lame Goes As Far As Your Staggerer.]

Whether You Boyle Snow Or Pound It, You Can Have But Water Of It.

Every Day Brings His Bread With It.

Hee That Is In A Towne In May Loseth His Spring.

The Thought Hath Good Leggs, And The Quill A Good Tongue.

Fine Dressing Is A Foule House Swept Before The Doores.

Take Heede Of The Viniger Of Sweet Wine.

Do Not Grudge To Pick Out Treasures From An Earthen Pot. The Worst Speaks Something Good.

The Thorne Comes Forth With The Point Forwards.

He Who Has The Pepper May Season As He Lists.

Good Service Is A Great Inchantment.

Help = H(umor), E-go, Edging God Out, L-istening, P-urpose

You Cannot Know Wine By The Barrell.

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.

Let An Ill Man Lie In Thy Straw, And He Looks To Be Thy Heire.

Better Be A Foole Then A Knave. [better Be A Fool Than A Knave.]

All Are Presumed Good Till They Are Found At Fault.

For Want Of A Naile The Shoe Is Lost, For Want Of A Shoe The Horse Is Lost, For Want Of A Horse The Rider Is Lost.

Into A Mouth Shut Flies Flie Not.

One Flower Makes No Garland.

Love Is Not Found In The Market.

Disgraces Are Like Cherries, One Drawes Another. [disgraces Are Like Cherries, One Draws Another.]

God Heales, And The Physitian Hath The Thankes.

Vnder Water, Famine; Under Snow, Bread.

Diseases Of The Eye Are To Bee Cured With The Elbow.

The Dog That Licks Ashes, Trust Not With Meale. [the Dog That Licks Ashes Trust Not With Meal.]

All Truths Are Not To Be Told.

Fine Words Dresse Ill Deedes.

None Is So Wise, But The Foole Overtakes Him.

God Comes To See Without A Bell.

Only The Wearer Knows Where The Shoe Pinches.

Assaile Who Will, The Valiant Attends.

There Is Great Force Hidden In A Sweet Command.

Corn Is Cleaned With Wind, And The Soul With Chastening

The Soule Needs Few Things, The Body Many.

Of Faire Things, The Autumne Is Faire.

Words And Feathers The Wind Carries Away.

He That Owes Nothing, If He Makes Not Mouthes At Us, Is Courteous.

Nothing Secure Unlesse Suspected.

Short Boughs, Long Vintage.

He That Passeth A Winters Day Escapes An Enemy.

They That Are Booted Are Not Alwaies Ready.

Beauty Draws More Than Oxen.

In A Great River Great Fish Are Found, But Take Heede, Lest You Bee Drowned.

Love Makes A Good Eye Squint.

Frenzy, Heresie, And Jealovsie, Seldome Cured.

One Mouth Doth Nothing Without Another.

He That Is Warme, Thinkes All So.

The Life Of Man Is A Winter Way.

Discreet Women Have Neither Eyes Nor Eares. [discreet Women Have Neither Eyes Nor Ears.]

He That Speakes Sowes, And He That Holds His Peace, Gathers.

Flies Are Busiest About Leane Horses.

Sweet Rose, Whose Hue, Angry And Brave, Bids The Rash Gazer Wipe His Eye, Thy Root Is Even In The Grave, And Thou Must Die.

Who Doth His Owne Businesse, Foules Not His Hands.

The Thread Breakes, Where It Is Weakest.

One Sound Blow Will Serve To Undo Us All.

War Makes Thieves And Peace Hangs Them.

Greene Wood Makes A Hott Fire.

The First Dish Pleaseth All.

Giving Is Dead, Restoring Very Sicke.

Hee That Wipes The Childs Nose, Kisseth The Mothers Cheeke.

A Married Man Turns His Staffe Into A Stake.

Ill Comes In By Ells, And Goes Out By Inches.

At Court, Every One For Himselfe. [at Court, Everyone For Himself.]

No Day So Clear But Hath Dark Clouds.

Truth And Oyle Are Ever Above. [truth And Oil Are Ever Above.]

Wine Is A Turne-coate (first A Friend, Then An Enemy). [wine Is A Turncoat, First A Friend, Then An Enemy.]

To Review Ones Store Is To Mow Twice.

One Father Is Enough To Govern One Hundred Sons, But Not A Hundred Sons One Father.

Withough Danger You Cannot Go Beyond Danger.

In A Leopard The Spotts Are Not Observed.

The Rage Of A Wild Boar Is Able To Spoil More Then One Wood.

Let Not Him That Feares Feathers Come Among Wild-foule.

In Every Art It Is Good To Have A Master. [in Every Art It Is Good To Have A Master.]

Night Is The Mother Of Counsels.

Express Yourself

True Praise Rootes And Spreedes.

He That Hath A Head Of Waxe Must Not Walke In The Sunne. [he That Hath A Head Of Wax Must Not Walk In The Sun.]

Ill Vessels Seldome Miscarry.

Man Is All Symmetry, Full Of Proportions, One Limb To Another.

Willowes Are Weak, Yet They Bind Other Wood.

Who Hastens A Glutton Choakes Him.

Better Suffer Ill, Then Doe Ill. [better Suffer Ill, Than Do Ill.]

No Sooner Is A Temple Built To God But The Devill Builds A Chappell Hard By.

You Must Strike In Measure, When There Are Many To Strike On One Anvile.

All Things In Their Beeing Are Good For Something.

A Kinsman, A Friend, Or Whom You Intreate, Take Not To Serve You, If You Will Be Served Neately.

Religion, Credit, And The Eye Are Not To Be Touched.

Presents Of Love Fear Not To Be Ill Taken Of Strangers.

The House Is A Fine House, When Good Folks Are Within.

Good Newes May Bee Told At Any Time, But Ill In The Morning.

In The Kingdome Of A Cheater The Wallet Is Carried Before.

God Strikes With His Finger, And Not With All His Arm.

Every Mile Is Two In Winter

He That Will Be Served Must Bee Patient.

When A Man Sleepes, His Head Is In His Stomach.

If The Mother Had Not Beene In The Oven, Shee Had Never Sought Her Daughter There.

Everyone Is A Master And Servant.

Masters And Servants

Craft Against Craft Makes No Living.

He That Hath Children, All His Morsels Are Not His Owne.

An Idle Head Is A Boxe For The Winde.

It Is Very Hard To Shave An Egge. [it Is Very Hard To Shave An Egg.]

We Must Recoile A Little, To The End We May Leap The Better.

Divine Ashes Are Better Then Earthly Meale.

He That Steals An Egg Will Steal An Ox.

The Royall Crowne Cures Not The Head-ach. [the Royal Crown Cures Not The Headache.]

Sweet Day, So Cool, So Calm, So Bright, / The Bridal Of The Earth And Sky.

When God Is Made The Master Of A Family, He Disorders The Disorderly.

Promising Is The Eve Of Giving.

A City That Parlies Is Half Gotten. [a City That Parleys Is Half Gotten.]

Sink Not In Spirit; Who Aimeth At The Sky Shoots Higher Much Than He That Means A Tree.

A Mountaine And A River Are Good Neighbours.

Hee That Gives Thee A Bone, Would Not Have Thee Die.

Wealth Is The Conjurer's Devil, Whom, When He Thinks He Hath, The Devil Hath Him.

When A Knave Is In A Plumtree He Hath Neither Friend Nor Kin.

God Sees Hearts As We See Faces.

But, Indeed, The Science Of Logic And The Whole Framework Of Philosophical Thought Men Have Kept Since The Days Of Plato And Aristotle, Has No More Essential Permanence As A Final Expression Of The Human Mind, Than The Scottish Longer Catechism.

The Fault Is As Great As Hee That Is Faulty.

Religion A Stalking Horse To Shoot Other Foul.

In Doing We Learne. [in Doing We Learn.]

God's Mill Grinds Slow, But Sure.

You Cannot Make A Windmill Go With A Pair Of Bellows.

That's The Best Gowne That Goes Up And Downe The House.

The Fatt Man Knoweth Not, What The Leane Thinketh.

The Jewes Spend At Easter, The Moors At Marriages, The Christians In Sutes.

To Whirle The Eyes Too Much Shewes A Kites Braine.

A Good Heart Cannot Lye

Sinnes Are Not Knowne Till They Bee Acted.

Ever Since We Weare Cloathes, We Know Not One Another.

He That Will Be Surety, Shall Pay.

To A Great Night, A Great Lanthorne.

Litle Stickes Kindle The Fire; Great Ones Put It Out.

Church Bells Beyond The Stars Heard, The Soul's Blood, The Land Of Spices; Something Understood.

Never Was Strumpet Faire.

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