He is ill clothed that is bare of virtue.
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In Rivers and bad Governments, the lightest things swim at top.
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Good Death, said a Woman, for once be so kind To take me, and leave my dear Husband behind; But when Death appear'd with a sour Grimace, The Woman was dash'd at his thin hatchet Face; So she made him a Court'sy, and modestly sed, If you come for my Husband, he lies there in Bed.
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The Horse thinks one thing, and he that saddles him another.
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The learned Fool writes his Nonsense in better Language than the unlearned; but still 'tis Nonsense.
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He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.
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An innocent plowman is more worthy than a vicious prince.
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Would you live with ease, do what you ought, and not what you please.
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People who are wrapped up in themselves make small packages.
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From a cross neighbour, and a sullen wife, A pointless needle, and a broken knife; From suretyship, and from an empty purse, A smoaky chimney, and jolting horse; From a dull razor, and an aking head; From a bad conscience, and a buggy bed, A blow upon the elbow and the knee: From each of these, good Lord, deliver me.
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If you ride a horse, sit close and tight, if you ride a man, sit easy and light.
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Would you persuade, speak of Interest, not of Reason.
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Lawyers, preachers, and tomtit's eggs, there are more of them hatched than come to perfection.
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Happy's the wooing that's not long a doing.
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Many Dishes, many Diseases.
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All things are cheap to the saving, dear to the wasteful.
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He that takes a wife takes Care.
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Where carcasses are, eagles will gather; where good Laws are, much people flock thither.
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A Pair of good Ears will drink dry an hundred tongues.
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A learned Blockhead is a greater Blockhead than an ignorant one.
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Approve not of him who commends all you say.
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Nothing humbler than Ambition, when it is about to climb.
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A house without woman and firelight, is like a body without soul or sprite.
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Do good to thy Friend to keep him, to thy Enemy to gain him.
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He that is rich need not live sparingly, and he that can live sparingly need not be rich.
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