Many things are lost for want of asking.

Short boughs, long vintage.

Quick believers need broad shoulders.

In the kingdom of a cheater the wallet is carried before.

Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.

You cannot flea a stone.

Give looser leave to talk.

Better never begin than never make an end.

God sends cold according to clothes.

A good pay-master starts not at assurances.

The life of man is a winter way.

The house is a fine house, when good folks are within.

Love is not found in the market.

You must lose a fly to catch a trout.

An old friend is a new house.

It is a poor sport that is not worth a candle.

The love of money and the love of learning rarely meet.

Beauty draws more than oxen.

Love your neighbor, yet pull not down your hedge.

Words are women, deeds are men.

Love makes a good eye squint.

Knowledge is no burden.

The chicken is the country’s, but the city eats it.

When children stand quiet, they have done some ill.

An Idle youth, a needy Age.

Everyone is a master and servant.

Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love, or life.

Let anger’s fire be slow to burn.

The Fox, when he cannot reach the grapes, says they are not ripe.

A snow year, a rich year.

If things were to be done twice, all would be wise.

War makes thieves and peace hangs them.

To him that will, waies are not wanting.

Good land, evill way.

Grief melts away Like snow in May, As if there were no such cold thing.

Keep not ill men company, lest you increase the number.

The wine in the bottle does not quench thirst.

The shortest answer is doing.

Good service is a great inchantment.

Little wealth, little care.

Good is god, but better carries it.

A handful of good life is better than a bushel of learning.

Three women make a market.

Hope is the poor man’s bread.

The eyes have one language everywhere.

Death keeps no calendar.

In solitude, be a multitude to thyself.

God’s mill grinds slow, but sure.

He that steals an egg will steal an ox.

Where your will is ready, your feet are light.

Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy.

If he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven.

The Law is not the same at morning and at night.

Do well and right and let the world sink.

There’s no such conquering weapon as the necessity of conquering.

If a donkey bray at you, don’t bray at him.

When war begins, then hell openeth.

Be thrifty, but not covetous.

Lend only what you can afford to lose.

One hour’s sleep before midnight is worth three after.

Every path hath a puddle.

In heaven at his manour I him sought: They told me there, that he was lately gone About some land, which he had dearly bought Long since on earth, to take possession.

Peace, prattler.

Love is swift of foot;/Love’s a man of war.

Of theeves and murderers: there I him espied, Who straight, Your suit is granted, said, and died.

Throw away thy rod, throw away thy wrath; O my God, take the gentle path.

None knows the weight of another’s burthen.

Love bade me welcome; yet my soul drew back, Guilty of dust and sin.

Love is that liquor sweet and most divine, Which my God feels as blood; but I, as wine.

Many kisses the hand they wish cut off.

Storms make the oak grow deeper roots.

God sees hearts as we see faces.

Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Night is the mother of counsels.

There is an hour wherein a man might be happy all his life, could he find it.

Better never begin than never make an end.

Praise the sea, but keep on the land.

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Show me a liar, and I will show thee a thief.

Living well is the best revenge.

Every mile is two in winter.

A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread.

The market is the best garden.

The best mirror is an old friend.

Success does not depend on what kind of tools we use but how we use .

A bad workman quarrels with his tools.

Good words are worth much, and cost little.

One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.

Where there is peace, God is.

Knowledge makes one laugh, but wealth makes one dance.

Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night.

He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass.

There is more talkie then trouble.

God gives his wrath by weight, and without weight his mercy.

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.