Lawyers houfes are built on the heads of fools. Among good men two fuffice. The best bred have the best portion. To live peaceably with all breeds good blood. He who hath the charge of fouls tranfports them not in bundles. Pains to get, care to keep, fear to lose. When a lackey comes to hell, the devil locks the gates. He that tells his wife news is but newly married. He who will make a door of gold, must knock in a nail every day. If the brain fows not corn, it plants thiftles. A woman conceals what fhe knows not. Some evils are cured by contempt. God deals his wrath by weight, but without weight his mercy. Follow not truth too near at the heels, left it dafh out your teeth. Say to pleasure, gentle Eve, I will have none of your apple. Marry your daughters betimes, left they marry themselves. Every man's cenfure is ufually firft moulded in his own nature. Sufpicion is the virtue of a coward. Stay a while, that we may make an end the fooner. Let us ride fair and foftly that we may get home the fooner. Debtors are liers. A penny fpared is twice got. If the mother had never been in the oven, fhe would not have looked for her daughter there. The body is fooner well dreffed than the foul. Every one is a master, and a fervant. No profit to honour, no honour to virtue or religion. Every fin brings its punishment along with it. The devil divides the world between atheism and fuperftition. Good husbandry is good divinity. Be reasonable and you will be happy. It is better to please a fool than to anger him. A fool, if he faith he will have a crab, he will not have an apple. Take heed you find not what you do not feek. The highway is never about. He lives long enough who hath lived well. Metal is dangerous in a blind horse. Winter never rots in the sky. God help the rich, the poor can beg. He that fpeaks me fair, and loves me not, I will fpeak him fair, and trust him not. He who preaches war is the devil's chaplain. The trueft wealth is contentment with a little. A man's best fortune, or his worst, is a wife. Marry in hafte, and repent at leisure. Sir John Barley-Corn is the ftrongest knight. Like blood, like good, and like age, Make the happiest marriage. Every afs thinks himself worthy to stand with the king's horses. A good beginning makes a good ending. One ounce of difcretion, or of wisdom is worth two pounds of wit. The devil is good, or kind, when he is pleased. A fair face is half a portion. To forget a wrong is the best revenge. Manners make the man. Man doth what he can, God doth what he pleases. Gold goes in at any gate except that of heaven. Knaves and fools divide the world. No great lofs but may bring fome little profit. When poverty comes in at the door, love leaps out at the window. That fuit is beft that best fits me. If I had revenged every wrong, I had not worn my skirts fo long. Self-love is a mote in every man's eye. That which is well done is twice done. Ufe foft words and hard arguments. There is no coward to an ill conscience. He who makes other men afraid of his wit, had need be afraid of their memories. Riches are but the baggage of virtue. He who defers his charities till his death, is rather liberal of another man's than of his own. A wife man hath more ballaft than fail. Great men's promifes, courtiers' oaths, and dead men's fhoes, a man may look for, but not truft to. Be wife on this fide heaven. The devil tempts others, an idle man tempts the devil. 3 U Good Good looks buy nothing in the market. He who will be his own master often hath a fool for his scholar. That man is well bought who costs you but a compliment. The greatest king muft at laft go to bed with a fhovel or spade. He only truly lives who lives in peace. If wife men never erred, it would go hard with the fool. Great virtue feldom defcends. One wife (in marriage) and two happy. Almfgiving never made any man poor, nor robbery rich, nor profperity wife. A fool and his money are foon parted. Fear of hell is the true valour of a chriftian. For ill do well, then fear not hell. The best thing in this world is to live above it. Happy is he who knows his follies in his youth. A thousand pounds and a bottle of hay, Will be all one at Doomsday. One pair of heels is fometimes worth two pair of hands. 'Tis good fleeping in a whole skin. A fool's bolt is foon fhot. All is well that ends well. He who hath an ill name is half-hanged. A friend's frown is better than a fool's fmile. The eafieft work and way is, To beware. If the bett man's faults were written in his forehead, it would make him pull his hat over his eyes. A man may be great by chance; but never wife, or good, without taking pains for it. Succefs makes a fool feem wife, All worldly joys go lefs To that one joy of doing kindneffes. What fools fay doth not much trouble wife men. Money is a good fervant, but an ill mafter. Pleasure gives law to fools, God to the wife. He lives indeed who lives not to himself alone. Good to begin well, better to end well. There would be no ill langaage if it were not ill taken. Induftry is Fortune's right-hand, and frugality is her left. We hall lie all alike in our graves. When flatterers meet, the devil goes to dinner. 'Tis a small family that hath neither a thief nor an harlot in it. To give and to keep there is need of wit. A man never furfeits of too much honesty. Honour and ease are feldom bedfellows. Thofe hufbands are in heaven whole wives do not chide. He can want nothing who hath God for his friend. Young men's knocks old men feel. He who is poor when he is married, fhall be rich when he is buried. Of all tame bemts, I hate fluts. Giving much to the poor doth increase a man's flore. That is my good that doth me good. An idle brain is the devil's fhop. God fend us fomewhat of our own when rich men go to dinner. Let your purfe ftill be your mafter. Young men think old men fools; but old men know that young men are fools. Wit once bought is worth twice taught. A wife head makes a close mouth. All foolish fancies are bought much too dear. Women's and children's wishes are the aim and happiness of the more weak men. Ignorance is better than pride with great er knowledge. The charitable man gives out at the door, and God puts in at the window. Every man is a fool where he hath not confidered or thought. He who angers others is not himself at ease. He dies like a beaft who hath done no good while he lived. Heaven is not to be had by men's barely wishing for it. Patch and long fit, build and foon flit. One hour's fleep before midnight is worth two hours fleep after it. Wranglers never want words. War is death's feast. Idle lazy folks have most labour. Knavery may ferve a turn, but honesty is beft at the long-run. A quick landlord makes a careful tenant. Will is the cause of woe. I will keep no more cats than what will catch mice. Reprove others, but correct thy felf. Planting Planting of trees is England's old thrift. It is more painful to do nothing than fomething. Any thing for a quiet life. 'Tis great folly to want when we have it, and when we have it not too. Fly pleasure, and it will follow thee. God's Providence is the fureft and beft inheritance. That is not good language which all understand not. Much better lose a jeft than a friend. He that hath fome land must have fome labour. Shew me a lier, and I will fhew you a thief. We must wink at fmall fauits. Keep your shop and your fhop will keep you. Every one should fweep before his own door. Much coin ufually much care. Good take-heed doth always fpeed. He who gets doth much, but he who keeps doth more. A pound of gold is better than an ounce of honour. We think lawyers to be wife men, and they know us to be fools. Éaten bread is foon forgotten. A young faint an old faint; and a young devil an old devil. Wit is folly unless a wife man hath the keeping of it. Knowledge of God and of ourselves is the mother of true devotion, and the perfection of wisdom. Afflictions are fent us from God for our good. Confeffion of a fault makes half amends. Every man can tame a fhrew but he who hath her. 'Tis better to die poor than to live poor. Plain dealing is a jewel; but he who ufeth it will die a beggar. Honour bought is temporal fimony. Live, and let live, i.e. be a kind landlord. Children are certain cares, but very uncertain comforts. Giving begets love, lending ufually lef fens it. He is the wife, who is the honest man. When you fee your friend, truft to your will or humour. felf. Let my friend tell my tale. Mention not a rope in the house of one whofe father was hanged. Speak the truth and shame the devil. God help the fool, quoth Pedly. (An Ideot.) Lend, and lofe my money; fo play fools. Early to go to bed, and then early to rife, makes men more holy, more healthy, wealthy, and wife. Anger dies foon with a wife and good man. He who will not be counselled, cannot be helped. God hath provided no remedy for wilful obftinacy. All vice infatuates and corrupts the judgment. He who converses with nobody, knows nothing. There is no fool to the old fool. A good wife makes a good husband. 'Tis much better to be thought a fool than to be a knave. One fool makes many. Wit is a fine thing in a wife man's hand. Speak not of my debts except you mean to pay them. Words inftruct, but examples perfuade effectually. He who lives in hopes dies a fool. Live fo as you do mean to die. All earthly joys are empty bubbles, and do make men boys. Better unborn than untaught. If thou do ill, the joy fades, not the pains: if well, the pains do fade, the joy remains. Always refuse the advice which passion gives. Nor fay nor do that thing which anger prompts you to. Bear and forbear is fhort and good philofophy. Set out wifely at firft; cuftom will make every virtue more eafy and pleasant to you than any vice can be. The best and noblest conquest is that of 3 U 2 a man's § 152. Old Italian Proverbs. He who ferves God hath the best maf ter in the world. Where God is there nothing is wanting. No man is greater in truth than he is in God's efteem. He hath a good judgment who doth not rely on his own. Wealth is not his who gets it, but his who enjoys it. He who converfes with nobody, is either a brute or an angel. Go not over the water where you cannot fee the bottom. He who lives diforderly one year, doth not enjoy himself for five years after. Friendships are cheap, when they are to be bought with pulling off your hat. Speak well of your friend, of your enemy neither well nor ill. The friendship of a great man is a lion at the next door. The money you refufe will never do you good. A beggar's wallet is a mile to the bottom. I once had, is a poor man. There are a great many affes without long ears. An iron anvil should have a ham mer of feathers. He keeps his road well enough who gets rid of bad company. You are in debt, and run in farther; if you are not a lier yet, you will be one. The beft throw upon the dice is to throw them away. "Tis horribly dangerous to fleep near the gates of hell. He who thinks to cheat another, cheats himself moft. Giving is going a fishing. Too much profperity makes molt men fools. Dead men open the eyes of the living. No man's head aches while he comforts another. Bold and fhamelefs men are mafters of half the world. Every one hath enough to do to govern himfelf well. He who is an afs, and takes himself to be a ftag, when he comes to leap the ditch finds his mistake. Praife doth a wife man good, but a fool harm. No fooner is a law made but an evafion of it is found out. He who gives fair words, feeds you with an empty fpoon. Three things coft dear; the careffes of a dog, the love of a mifs, and the invitation of an hoft. Hunger never fails of a good cook. A man is valued as he makes himself valuable. Three littles make a man rich on a sudden; little wit, * bad bad who takes himself to be a good man. He is far from a good man who trives not to grow better. Keep good men company, and fall not out with the bad. He who throws away his eftate with his hands, goes afterwards to pick it up on his feet. 'Tis a bad houfe that hath not an old man in it. To crow well and fcrape ill is the devil's trade. Be ready with your hat, but flow with your purfe. A burthen which one chufes is not felt. The dearer me. fuch a thing is, the better pennyworth for Suppers kill more than the greatest doctor ever cured. All the wit in the world is not in one head. Let us do what we can and ought, and let God do his pleasure. 'Tis better to be condemned by the college of phyficians than by one judge. Skill and affurance are an invincible couple. The fool kneels to the diftaff. Knowing is worth nothing, unless we do the good we know. A man is half known when you fee him, when you hear him fpeak you know him all out. Write down the advice of him who loves you, tho' you like it not at prefent. Be flow to give advice, ready to do any fervice. Both anger and hafte hinder good counfel. Give neither counfel nor falt till you are afked for it. The fool never thinks higher than the top of his house. A courtier is a flave in a golden chain. A little kitchen makes a large house. Have money, and you will find kindred enough. He that lends his money hath a double lofs. Of money, wit, and virtue, believe one-fourth part of what you hear men fay. Money is his fervant who knows how to use it as he fhould, his master who doth not. "Tis better to give one fhilling than to lend twenty. Wife diftruft is the parent of fecurity. Mercy or goodnefs alone makes us like to God. So much only is mine, as I either ufe myself or give for God's fake. He who is about to fpeak evil of another, let him firft well confider himself. Speak not of me unless you know me well; think of yourself ere aught of me you tell. One day of a wife man is worth the whole life of a fool. What you give fhines ftill, what you eat fmells ill next day. Aking costs no great matter. A woman that loves to be at the window is like a bunch of grapes in the highway. A woman and a glafs are never out of danger. womaa and a cherry are painted for their own harm. The beft furniture in the houfe is a virtuous woman. The first wife is matrimony, the fecod company, the third herefy. A doctor and a clown A know more than a doctor alone. Hard upon hard never makes a good wall. The example of good men is vifible philofophy. One ill example spoils many good laws. Every thing may be, except a ditch without a bank. He who throws a ftone against God, it falls upon his own head. He who plays me one trick fhall not play me a fecond. Do what you ought, and let what will come on By making a fault you may learn to do better. The firft faults are theirs who commit them, all the following are his who doth not punish them. He who would be ill ferved, let him keep good ftore of fervants. To do good ftill make no delay; for life and time flide fait away. A little time will ferve to do it. ill. He who would have trouble in this life, let him get either a fhip or a wife. He who will take no pains, will never build a house three stories high. The best of the game is, to do one's bufinefs and talk little of it. The Italian is wife before he undertakes a thing, the German while he is doing it, and the Frenchman when it is over. In profperity we need moderation, in adverfity patience. Profperous men facrifice not, i. e. they forget God. Great profperity and modefty feldom go together. Women, wine, and horfes, are ware men are often deceived in. Give your friend a fig, and your enemy a peach. He who hath no children doth not know what love means. He who fpins hath one shirt, he who spins not hath two. He who confiders the end, reftrains all evil inclinations. He who hath the longest sword is always thought to be in the right. There lies no appeal from the decifion of fortune. Lucky men need no counsel. Three things only are well done in hafte; flying from the plague, escaping quarrels, and catching fleas. "Tis better it should be faid, Here he ran away, than Here he was flain. The fword from Heaven above falls not down in hafte. The best thing in gaming is, that it be but little ufed. Play, women, and wine, make a man laugh till he dies of it. Play or gaming hath the devil at the bottom. The devil goes fhares in gaming. He who doth not rife early never does a good day's work. He who hath good health is young, and he is rich who owes nothing. If young men had wit, and old men ftrength, enough, every thing might be well done. He who will have no judge but himself, condemns himself. Learning is folly unless a good judgment hath the mangement of it. Every man 3 U 3 loves |