John Florio
A good husband makes a good wife.Collection: Marriage
Patience is the best medicine.Collection: Patience
Wisdom sails with wind and time.Collection: Wisdom
Who has not served cannot command.Collection: Command
To long for that which comes not. To lie a-bed and sleep not. To serve well and please not. To have a horse that goes not. To have a man obeys not. To lie in jail and hope not. To be sick and recover not. To lose one's way and know not. To wait at door and enter not, and to have a friend we trust not: are ten such spites as hell hath not.Collection: Money
Night is the mother of thoughts.Collection: Mother
A deaf husband and a blind wife are always a happy couple.Collection: Couple
Who hath not served can not command.Collection: Military
England is the paradise of women, the purgatory of men, and the hell of horses.Collection: Horse
If you will be a traveler, have always two bags very full. That is one of patience and another of money.Collection: Two
Praise the sea; on shore remain.Collection: Rain
Poverty is no vice, but an inconvenience.Collection: Vices
Be circumspect how you offend schollers, for knowe, a serpent tooth bites not so ill, as dooth a schollers angrie quill.Collection: Power
From the physician and lawyer keep not the truth hidden.Collection: Truth
For proverbs are the pith, the proprieties, the proofs, the purities, the elegancies, as the commonest so the commendablest phrases of a language. To use them is a grace, to understand them a good.Collection: Grace
Who will not suffer labor in this world, let him not be born.Collection: Suffering
Fish marreth the water, and flesh doth dress itCollection: Water