At Christmas play and make good cheer, for Christmas comes but once a year.Collection: Christmas
Seek home for rest, for home is best.Collection: Home
Sweet April showers do spring May flowers.Collection: Nature
A fool and his money are soon parted.Collection: Money
Who goeth a borrowing. Goeth a sorrowing.Collection: Debt
A fool and his money be soon at debateCollection: Fool
What a greater crime. Than loss of time.Collection: Loss
The stone that is rolling can gather no moss;For master and servant oft changing is loss.Collection: Loss
Who quick be to borrow and slow be to pay, their credit is naught, go they ever so gay.Collection: Gay
Fear God, and offend not the Prince nor his laws, and keep thyself out of the magistrate's claws.Collection: Law
A fool and his money are soon parted. - Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry.Collection: Money
Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man.Collection: Peace
Look ere thou leap, see ere thou go.Collection: Looks
God sendeth and giveth both mouth and the meat.Collection: Meat
Ill husbandry braggeth To go with the best: Good husbandry baggeth Up gold in his chest.Collection: Agriculture
In March and in April from morning till night In sowing and seeding good housewives delight.Collection: Morning
Time tries the troth in everything.Collection: Time
February, fill the dyke with what thou dost like.Collection: Dykes
Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.Collection: Medicine
Tide flowing is feared, for many a thing, Great danger to such as be sick, it doth bring; Sea ebb, by long ebbing, some respite doth give, And sendeth good comfort, to such as shall live.Collection: Sea
If a garden require it, now trench it ye may, one trench not a yard, from another go lay; Which being well filled with muck by and by, to cover with mould, for a season to lie.Collection: Lying
Ill husbandry lieth In prison for debt: Good husbandry spieth Where profit get.Collection: Agriculture
Dry August and warm, Doth harvest no harm.Collection: August
For the first fourteen years for a rod they do while for the next as a pearl in the world they do shine. For the next trim beauty beginneth to swerve. For the next matrons or drudges they serve. For the next doth crave a staff for a stay. For the next a bier to fetch them away.Collection: Years
Who goes a-borrowing goes a-sorrowing.Collection: Sadness