Bad excuses are worse than none.

A drinker has a hole under his nose that all his money runs into.

A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery.

A man is not good or bad for one action.

Compliments cost nothing, yet many pay dear for them.

‘Tis not every question that deserves an answer.

A woman, a dog and a walnut tree, the more you beat them, the better they be.

Nothing is easy to the unwilling.

The more wit the less courage.

Abused patience turns to fury.

Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get em, get em right, or they will get you wrong.

One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low.

Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing.

Prayer: the key of the day and the lock of the night.

He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.

There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.

Light, God’s eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.

Many come to bring their clothes to church rather than themselves.

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.

Don’t let your will roar when your power only whispers.

Change of weather is the discourse of fools.

One that would have the fruit must climb the tree.

A conservative believes nothing should be done for the first time.

Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.

With foxes we must play the fox.

All things are difficult before they are easy.

He’s my friend that speaks well of me behind my back.

Be the business never so painful, you may have it done for money.

There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

Better one’s House be too little one day than too big all the Year after.

Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart.

Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved.

A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him.

Scalded cats fear even cold water.

If thou art a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf.

He that hopes no good fears no ill.

He that has a great nose, thinks everybody is speaking of it.

Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.

The devil lies brooding in the miser’s chest.

If an ass goes travelling he will not come home a horse.

With devotion’s visage and pious action we do sugar o’er the devil himself.

If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.

Poor men’s reasons are not heard.

Every horse thinks its own pack heaviest.

Great is the difference betwixt a man’s being frightened at, and humbled for his sins.

Anger is one of the sinews of the soul.

An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.

Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.

‘Tis better to suffer wrong than do it.

A good garden may have some weeds.

He that travels much knows much.

A good horse should be seldom spurred.

Better be alone than in bad company.

Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all, and often more than all.

He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil.

Let him who expects one class of society to prosper in the highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side; of the face can smile while the other is pinched.

A wise man turns chance into good fortune.

‘Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship.

We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth.

Vows made in storms are forgotten in calm.

Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye.

Better a tooth out than always aching.

Pride will spit in pride’s face.

An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.

First get an absolute conquest over thyself, and then thou wilt easily govern thy wife.

The patient is not likely to recover who makes the doctor his heir.

Today is yesterday’s pupil.

If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

Cruelty is a tyrant that’s always attended with fear.

A fox should not be on the jury at a goose’s trial.

We have all forgot more than we remember.

The fool wanders, a wise man travels.

He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.

A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present.

Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.

All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer.

Unseasonable kindness gets no thanks.

If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

A book that is shut is but a block.

A man’s best fortune, or his worst, is his wife.

Eaten bread is forgotten.

All doors open to courtesy.

A fool’s paradise is a wise man’s hell!

Better break your word than do worse in keeping it.

Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.

Great hopes make great men.

Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.

We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity.

Bad excuses are worse than none.

It is more difficult to praise rightly than to blame.

Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.

Men are more prone to revenge injuries than to requite kindness.

Contentment consist not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire.

Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.

Health is not valued till sickness comes.

Old foxes want no tutors.

He knows little, who will tell his wife all he knows.

It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf.

A good friend is my nearest relation.

There is nothing that so much gratifies an ill tongue as when it finds an angry heart.

A lie has no leg, but a scandal has wings.

In fair weather prepare for foul.

No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy.

Slight small injuries, and they will become none at all.

Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them.

Care and diligence bring luck.

He is not poor that hath not much, but he that craves much.

He does not believe who does not live according to his belief.

Despair gives courage to a coward.

If you command wisely, you’ll be obeyed cheerfully.

Charity begins at home, but should not end there.