Love knoweth no laws.
As love knoweth no lawes, so it regardeth no conditions
For experience teacheth me that straight trees have crooked roots.
To give reason for fancy were to weigh the fire, and measure the wind.
Let the falling out of friends be a renewing of affection.
It is a world to see.
An Englishman hath three qualities, he can suffer no partner in his love, no stranger to be his friend, nor to be dared by any.
There can no great smoke arise, but there must be some fire.
The broken bone, once set together, is stronger than ever.
It is the disposition of the thought that altered the nature of the thing.
Whatsoever is in the heart of the sober man, is in the mouth of the drunkard.
Whilst that the childe is young, let him be instructed in vertue and lytterature.
The empty vessel giveth a greater sound than the full barrel.
Marriage is destinie, made in heaven.
Lette me stande to the maine chance.
Fish and guests in three days are stale.
A heat full of coldness, a sweet full of bitterness, a pain full of pleasantness, which maketh thoughts have eyes and hearts ears, bred by desire, nursed by delight, weaned by jealousy, kill'd by dissembling, buried by ingratitude, and this is love.
Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
It is good walking when one hath his horse in hand.
As the best wine doth make the sharpest vinegar, so the deepest love turns to the deadliest hate.
Rather fast then surfette, rather starue then striue to exceede.
Lips are no part of the head, only made for a double-leaf door for the mouth.
The fallyng out of faithfull frends is the renuyng of loue.
To love and to live well is wished of many, but incident to few.
The greatest harm that you can do unto the envious, is to do well.
A clere conscience is a sure carde.
I am of this mind, that might and malice, deceit and treachery perjury and impiety may lawfully be committed in love; which is lawless.
I have ever thought so superstitiously of wit, that I fear I have committed idolatry against wisdom.
[Beauty is] a delicate bait with a deadly hook; a sweet panther with a devouring paunch, a sour poison in a silver pot.
Far more seemly to have thy study full of books, than thy purse full of money.
When adversities flow, then love ebbs; but friendship standeth stiffly in storms.
Though women have small force to overcome men by reason; yet have they good fortune to undermine them by policy.
To love women and never enjoy them, is as much to love wine and never taste it.
Time draweth wrinkles in a fair face, but addeth fresh colors to a fast friend, which neither heat, nor cold, nor misery, nor place, nor destiny, can alter or diminish
The bee that hath honey in her mouth hath a sting in her tail.
If all the earth were paper white / And all the sea were ink / 'Twere not enough for me to write / As my poor heart doth think.
Where the countenance is fair, there need no colors.
In arguing of the shadow, we forgo the substance.
He that loseth his honesty hath nothing else to lose.
In misery it is great comfort to have a companion.
All fish are not caught with flies
Be valyaunt, but not too venturous. Let thy attyre bee comely, but not costly.
The slothful are always ready to engage in idle talk of what will be done tomorrow, and every day after.
Long quaffing maketh a short lyfe.
Where the streame runneth smoothest, the water is deepest.
A bargain is a bargain.
Thou shalt come out of a warme Sunne into God's blessing.
A merry companion is as good as a wagon.
A new broome sweepeth cleane.
Maydens, be they never so foolyshe, yet beeing fayre they are commonly fortunate.
If thy wealth waste, they wit will give but small warmth.
The finest edge is made with the blunt whetstone.
A merry companion is as good as a wagon, For you shall be sure to ride though ye go a foot.
He that comes in print because he would be known, is like the fool that comes into the market because he would be seen.
All men [are] of one metal, but not in one mold.
The rattling thunderbolt hath but his clap, the lightning but his flash, and as they both come in a moment, so do they both end in a minute.
The night has a thousand eyes.
Nothing so perilous as procrastination
It is a blind goose that cometh to the fox's sermon.
The wound that bleedeth inward is most dangerous.
Beauty - a deceitful bait with a deadly hook.
Things of greatest profit are set forth with least price. Where the wine is neat there needeth no live blush.
The true measure of life is not length, but honesty.
The measure of love is to have no mean, the end to be everlasting.
If you will be cherished when you are old, be courteous while you be young.
When parents put gold into the hands of youth, when they should put a rod under their girdle--when instead of awe they make them past grace, and leave them rich executors of goods, and poor executors of godliness, then it is no marvel that the son being left rich by his father's will, becomes reckless by his own will.
Cupid and my Campaspe play'd At cards for kisses - Cupid paid: He stakes his quiver, bow, and arrows, His mother's doves, and team of sparrows; Loses them too; then down he throws The coral of his lips, the rose Growing one's cheek (but none knows how); With these, the crystal of his brow, And then the dimple of his chin: All these did my Campaspe win. At last he set her both his eyes - She won, and Cupid blind did rise. O Love! has she done this for thee? What shall, alas! become of me?
Children and fooles speake true.
Children and fools speak true.
The sun shineth upon the dunghill, and is not corrupted.
As lyke as one pease is to another.
A comely olde man as busie as a bee.
If love be a god, why should not lovers be virtuous?
The greater the kindred is, the lesse the kindnesse must bee.
Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame.
None but the lark so shrill and clear; Now at heaven's gate she claps her wings, The morn not waking till she sings.
It is the eye of the master that fatteth the horse, and the love of the woman that maketh the man.
I thank you for nothing, because I understand nothing.
The soft droppes of rain perce the hard marble.
Water runneth smoothest where it is deepest.
Instruments sound sweetest when they are touched softest.
Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.
Thou art an heyre to fayre lying, that is nothing, if thou be disinherited of learning, for better were it to thee to inherite righteousnesse then riches, and far more seemly were if for thee to haue thy Studie full of bookes, then thy pursse full of mony.
Gentlemen use books as Gentlewomen handle their flowers, who in the morning stick them in their heads, and at night strawe them at their heeles.
A Rose is sweeter in the budde than full blowne.
The tongue, the ambassador of the heart.
Do you think that any one can move the heart but He that made it?
