Who will not suffer labor in this world, let him not be born.
Who has not served cannot command.
A deaf husband and a blind wife are always a happy couple.
A good husband makes a good wife.
Night is the mother of thoughts.
Praise the sea; on shore remain.
Patience is the best medicine.
If you will be a traveler, have always two bags very full. That is one of patience and another of money.
Wisdom sails with wind and time.
Fish marreth the water, and flesh doth dress it.
Be circumspect how you offend schollers, for knowe, a serpent tooth bites not so ill, as dooth a schollers angrie quill.
England is the paradise of women, the purgatory of men, and the hell of horses.
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.
Poverty is no vice, but an inconvenience.
From the physician and lawyer keep not the truth hidden.