A fat kitchen, a lean will.
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'Tis but a Folly to rejoice, or boast, How small a Price thy well bought Purchase cost. Until thy Death, thou shalt not fully know whether it was a Pennyworth or no; and, at that time, believe me 'twill appear extremely cheap, or else extremely dear.
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Teach your child to hold his tongue, he'll learn fast enough to speak.
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Danger is Sauce for Prayers.
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The discontented Man finds no easy Chair.
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Virtue and a Trade, are a Child's best Portion.
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The first Degree of Folly, is to conceit one's self wise; the second to profess it; the third to despise Counsel.
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The Bell calls others to Church, but itself never minds the Sermon.
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Be temperate in wine, in eating, girls, and cloth, or the Gout will seize you and plague you both.
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All things are easy to Industry, all things difficult to Sloth.
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Lost time is never found again.
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Take this remark from Richard, poor and lame, Whate'er's begun in Anger, ends in Shame.
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Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
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Beauty and folly are old companions.
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A Parrot is for Prating priz'd, But prattling Women are despis'd; She who attacks another's Honour Draws every living Thing upon her.
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You may delay, but Time will not.
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'Tis against some Men's Principle to pay Interest, and seems against others' interest to pay the Principal.
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He that cannot obey, cannot comand.
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When will the miser's chest be full enough? When will he cease his bags to cram and stuff? All day he labours and all night contrives, providing as if he'd an hundred lives, while endless care cuts short the common plan. So have I seen with dropsy swol'n and man, drink and drink more, and still unsatisfied, drink till drink drown'd him, yet he thirsty dy'd.
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What is Serving God? 'Tis doing Good to Man.
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When Prosperity was well mounted, she let go the Bridle, and soon came tumbling out of the Saddle.
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Friendship cannot live with Ceremony, nor without Civility.
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Tongue double, brings Trouble.
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He does not possess wealth, it possesses him.
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