The creditor hath a better memory than the debtor.Collection: Money
One hair of a woman can draw more than a hundred pair of oxen.Collection: Women
Respect a man, he will do it the more.Collection: Respect
We learn by teaching.Collection: Teacher
Respect a man, he will do the more.Collection: Respect
Distance sometimes endears friendship, and absence sweeteneth it.Collection: Distance
French wines may be said but to pickle meat in the stomach, but this is the wine that digests, and doth not only breed good blood, but it nutrifieth also, being a glutinous substantial liquor; of this wine, if of any other, may be verified that merry induction: That good wine makes good blood, good blood causeth good humors, good humors cause good thoughts, good thoughts bring forth good works, good works carry a man to heaven, ergo, good wine carrieth a man to heaven.Collection: Wine
He can hardly be a true friend to another, who is an enemy to himself.Collection: Friendship
We are saved from nothing if we are not saved from sin. Little sins are pioneers of hell. The backslider begins with what he foolishly considers trifling with little sins. There are no little sins. There was a time when all the evil that has existed in the world was comprehended in one sinful thought of our first parent; and all the now evil is the numerous and horrid progeny of one little sin.Collection: Evil
After rain comes fair weather.Collection: Rain
Proverbs may not improperly be called the philosophy of the common people.Collection: Philosophy
All we can do is be better prepared today than yesterday and better prepared tomorrow than today.Collection: Yesterday
Good wine makes good blood, good blood causeth good humors, good humors cause good thoughts, good thoughts bring forth good works, good works carry a man to heaven, ergo, good wine carrieth a man to heaven.Collection: Wine
Distance sometimes endears friendships, and sweetens it - for separation from those we love shows us, by the loss, their real value and dearness to us.Collection: Real
A secret is too little for one, enough for two, and too much for three.Collection: Two
Feed sparingly and defy the physician.Collection: Loss
Words and works eat not at one table.Collection: Tables
In time of prosperity friends will be plenty; In time of adversity not one in twenty.Collection: Adversity
Easter, so longed for, is gone in a day.Collection: Easter
Such is the strength of art, rough things to shape.Collection: Art
Man's best candle is his understanding.Collection: Men
He that hath money in his purse cannot want a head for his shoulders.Collection: Money
We are saved from nothing if we are not saved from sin.Collection: Sin
Appeles us'd to paint a good housewife upon a snayl; which intimated that she should be as slow from gadding abroad, and when she went she should carry her house upon her back; that is, she should make all sure at home.Collection: Home
He that hath the name to be an early riser may sleep till noon.Collection: Sleep
Words are the soul's ambassadors, who go / Abroad upon her errands to and fro.Collection: Political
Little sins are pioneers of hell.Collection: Pioneers
Fly and you will catch the swallow.Collection: Aviation
Burn not thy fingers to snuff another man's candle.Collection: Men
Owe money at Easter and Lent will seem short to thee.Collection: Easter
God guard me from my friends, for I shall guard myself from my enemies.Collection: Real
Nature, the handmaid of God Almighty, does nothing but with good advice, if we make research into the true reason of things.Collection: Nature
The fangs of a bear, and the tusks of a wild boar, do not bite worse and make deeper gashes than a goose-quill sometimes; no, not even the badger himself, who is said to be so tenacious of his bite that he will not give over his hold till he feels his teeth meet and the bones crack.Collection: Giving
This life at best is but an inn, and we the passengers.Collection: Life
Apelles used to paint a good housewife on a snail, to import that she home-keeping.Collection: Home
Choose thy friends like thy books, few but choice.Collection: Friends
Love is the life of friendship.Collection: Real
God comes at last when we think he is farthest off.Collection: Religious