Vows made in storms are forgotten in calm.
Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye.
An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.
A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him.
He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil.
He that travels much knows much.
There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.
A wise man turns chance into good fortune.
Every horse thinks its own pack heaviest.
If an ass goes travelling he will not come home a horse.
Eaten bread is forgotten.
Compliments cost nothing, yet many pay dear for them.
A lie has no leg, but a scandal has wings.
Better a tooth out than always aching.
He that hopes no good fears no ill.
Better break your word than do worse in keeping it.
Govern thy life and thy thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one, and read the other.
We have all forgot more than we remember.
Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth.
With devotion’s visage and pious action we do sugar o’er the devil himself.