- A bad wound may heal, but a bad name will kill.
- A day to come seems longer than a year that’s gone.
- A house without a dog, a cat, or a little child is a house without joy or laughter.
- A hungry man smells meat far.
- All that’s said in the kitchen should not be told in the hall.
- A man cannot wive and thrive the same year.
- A slothful man is a beggar’s brother.
- A tale never loses in the telling.
- A thread will tie an honest man better than a chain a rogue.
- A wise lawyer never goes to law himself.
- Be happy while you’re living, for you’re a long time dead.
- Be slow in choosing a friend but slower in changing him.
- Better bend than break.
- Better half hanged than ill married.
- Better to be off with the old love before we be on with the new.
- Better wear out shoes than sheets.
- Carelessness is worse than a thieve.
- Choose your wife with her nightcap on.
- Confessed faults are half-mended.
- Confession is good for the soul.
- Danger and delight grow on one stalk.
- Diet cures more than doctors.
- Don’t marry for money, you can borrow it cheaper.
- Either a man or a mouse.
- Egotism is an alphabet of one letter.
- Enough’s as good as a feast.
- Every man to his taste, as the man said when he kissed his cow.
- False friends are worst than bitter enemies.
- Fools look to tomorrow. Wise men use tonight.
- Forsake not God till you find a better master.
- Friends are lost by calling often and calling seldom.
- From saving comes having.
- Get what you can and keep what you have; that’s the way to get rich.
- Good company on a journey is worth a coach.
- He that loves law will soon get his fill of it.
- He that marries a widow will have a dead man’s head often thrown in his dish.
- If the Devil were dead, folk would do little for God’s sake.
- If the doctor cures, the sun sees it; if he kills, the earth hides it.
- If you don’t see the bottom, don’t wade.
- It’s a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.
- It’s sin and not poverty that makes men miserable.
- Laws catch flies, but let hornets go free.
- Learn young, learn fair; learn old, learn more.
- Luck never gives; it only lends.
- Married folk are like rats in a trap — fain to get others in, but fain to be out themselves.
- May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!
- Modesty is the beauty of women.
- Monday is the key day of the week.
- Money is better than my lord’s letter.
- Money is flat and meant to be piled up.
- Never let your feet run faster than your shoes.
- Never marry for money. You can borrow it cheaper.
- Never take a wife till you know what to do with her.
- One may survive distress, but not disgrace.
- One whisky is all right; two is too much; three is too few.
- Open confession is good for the soul.
- Peace is the well from which the stream of joy runs.
- Penny wise and pound foolish.
- Perfect love cannot be without equality.
- Plenty makes dainty!
- Praise the fine day in the evening.
- Prayer and practice is good rhyme.
- Repentance won’t cure mischief.
- Slippery is the flagstone at the mansion-house door.
- Take care of your pennies and your dollars will take care of themselves.
- The Devil’s boots don’t creak.
- The best mirror is a friend’s eye.
- The day has eyes, the night has ears.
- The devil’s boots don’t creak.
- The medicine that hurts the most is generally the best healer.
- There’s no medicine for fear.
- There never came ill of good advisement.
- There never was a five-pound note but there was a ten-pound road for it.
- They are good that are away.
- They talk of my drinking but never my thirst.
- They that dance must pay the fiddler.
- They that live longest, see most.
- They that smell least, smell best.
- They that sow the wind, shall reap the whirlwind.
- They that will not be counselled cannot be helped.
- War makes thieves, and peace hangs them.
- Waves will rise on silent water.
- We’ll never know the worth of water till the well go dry.
- Were it not for hope the heart would break.
- What cannot be cured must be endured.
- What may be done at any time will be done at no time.
- When the cup is full, carry it even.
- When the heart is full the tongue will speak.
- Where vice is vengeance follows.
- While a person gets they can never lose.
- Willful waste makes woeful want.
- Wink at small faults, for you have great ones yourself.
- Ye may not sit in Rome and strive with the Pope.
- You will never know a man till you do business with him.
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