Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.Collection: Marriage
The empty vessel giveth a greater sound than the full barrel.Collection: Ignorance
A heat full of coldness, a sweet full of bitterness, a pain full of pleasantness, which maketh thoughts have eyes and hearts ears, bred by desire, nursed by delight, weaned by jealousy, kill'd by dissembling, buried by ingratitude, and this is love.Collection: Sweet
Time draweth wrinkles in a fair face, but addeth fresh colors to a fast friend, which neither heat, nor cold, nor misery, nor place, nor destiny, can alter or diminishCollection: Friendship
The bee that hath honey in her mouth hath a sting in her tail.Collection: Tails
When adversities flow, then love ebbs; but friendship standeth stiffly in storms.Collection: Loyalty
The night has a thousand eyes.Collection: Eye
It is a blind goose that cometh to the fox's sermon.Collection: Ignorance
Nothing so perilous as procrastinationCollection: Procrastination
Fish and guests in three days are stale.Collection: Three
Let the falling out of friends be a renewing of affection.Collection: Friendship
It is the disposition of the thought that altered the nature of the thing.Collection: Ideas
The wound that bleedeth inward is most dangerous.Collection: Inward
The broken bone, once set together, is stronger than ever.Collection: Broken
All men [are] of one metal, but not in one mold.Collection: Men
The tongue, the ambassador of the heart.Collection: Heart
To love women and never enjoy them, is as much to love wine and never taste it.Collection: Wine
[Beauty is] a delicate bait with a deadly hook; a sweet panther with a devouring paunch, a sour poison in a silver pot.Collection: Sweet
To love and to live well is wished of many, but incident to few.Collection: Incidents
If you will be cherished when you are old, be courteous while you be young.Collection: Young
The soft droppes of rain perce the hard marble.Collection: Rain
Whatsoever is in the heart of the sober man, is in the mouth of the drunkard.Collection: Heart
As the best wine doth make the sharpest vinegar, so the deepest love turns to the deadliest hate.Collection: Hate
I am of this mind, that might and malice, deceit and treachery perjury and impiety may lawfully be committed in love; which is lawless.Collection: Law
Children and fools speak true.Collection: Children
Beauty - a deceitful bait with a deadly hook.Collection: Beauty
There can no great smoke arise, but there must be some fire.Collection: Fire
Be valyaunt, but not too venturous. Let thy attyre bee comely, but not costly.Collection: Bees
Maydens, be they never so foolyshe, yet beeing fayre they are commonly fortunate.Collection: Fortunate
For experience teacheth me that straight trees have crooked roots.Collection: Roots
Where the countenance is fair, there need no colors.Collection: Color
In arguing of the shadow, we forgo the substance.Collection: Anger
Do you think that any one can move the heart but He that made it?Collection: Moving
It is a world to see.Collection: World
Lette me stande to the maine chance.Collection: Maine
All fish are not caught with fliesCollection: Fishing
A comely olde man as busie as a bee.Collection: Men
Thou art an heyre to fayre lying, that is nothing, if thou be disinherited of learning, for better were it to thee to inherite righteousnesse then riches, and far more seemly were if for thee to haue thy Studie full of bookes, then thy pursse full of mony.Collection: Art
He that comes in print because he would be known, is like the fool that comes into the market because he would be seen.Collection: Would Be
Thou shalt come out of a warme Sunne into God's blessing.Collection: Blessing