One means very effectual for the preservation of health is a quiet and cheerful mind, not afflicted with violent passions or distracted with immoderate cares.
A joy that's shared is a joy made double.
Money was made for the free-hearted and generous.
Nothing is invented and perfected at the same time.
The horse thinks one thing and he that rides him another
In a calm sea every man is a pilot.
The tree falls not at the first stroke.
The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation.
The Democratic Party: Con-men elected by the ignorant and the arrogant.
An ass is beautiful to an ass, and a pig is beautiful to a pig.
He is wise that can make a friend of a foe.
Lean liberty is better than fat slavery
Many without punishment, none without sin.
The wind in a man's face makes him wise.
He that preaches war is the devil's chaplain.
Manners make often fortunes.
The charitable give out at the door, and God puts in at the window.
What's good for the goose is good for the gander.
Adversity makes men wise but not rich.
I love thee like puddings; if thou wert pie I'd eat thee.
Diseases are the tax on pleasures.
If the first of July it be rainy weather, 'Twill rain more or less for four weeks together.
They that make laws must not break them.
My personal credo as a libertarian conservative: I think all attempts to reform your fellow-citizens or tell them how to live their lives are arrogant and tyrannical. THAT'S why I oppose Leftism. I want people to be free to manage their own lives. Reform is just authoritarianism. People are not playthings for anybody's theories or obsessions.
When friends meet, hearts warm.
Every man praises his own wares.
To go like a cat upon a hot bakestone.
He that uses many words for explaining any subject, doth, like the cuttlefish, hide himself for the most part in his own ink.
The more you rub a cat on the rump, the higher she sets her tail.
Little children, little sorrows; big children, big sorrows.
Wedlock is a padlock.
Love thy neighbor, but pull not down thy hedge.
A talkative person runs himself upon great inconvenience by blabbing out his own and others' secrets.
That which is evil is soon learned.
Where love fails we espy all faults.
Man does what he can, and God what he will.
A child may have too much of his mother's blessing.
The honester the man, the worse luck.
Adversity makes a man wise, not rich.
If wishes were horses, beggars might ride.
It is a foolish sheep that makes the wolf his counselor.
There is no doubt, that man is not built to be a carnivorous animal. What a sweet, pleasing and innocent sight is the spectacle of a table served that way and what a difference to a make up of fuming animal meat, slaughtered and dead! Man in no way has the constitution of a carnivorous being. Hunt and voracity are unnatural to him. Man has neither the sharp pointed teeth or claws to slaughter his prey. On the contrary his hands are made to pick fruits, berries and vegetables and teeth appropriate to chew them.
Learning makes the wise wiser and the fool more foolish.
Guilt is always jealous
Every animal is providentially directed to the use of its proper weapon.
Algebra is the metaphysics of arithmetic.
Spend and be free, but make no waste.
A wonder then it must needs be,-that there should be any Man found so stupid and forsaken of reason as to persuade himself, that this most beautiful and adorned world was or could be produced by the fortuitous concourse of atoms.
The younger brother hath the more wit.
A spaniel, a woman, and a walnut tree, the more they're beaten the better they be.
Though thou has never so many counselors, yet do not forsake the counsel of your soul.
He that counts all cost will never put plough in the earth.
Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.
ndustry is Fortune's right hand, and Frugality her left.
There is for a free man no occupation more worthy and delightful than to contemplate the beauteous works of nature and honor the infinite wisdom and goodness of God.
Let him make use of instinct who cannot make use of reason.
A multitude of words doth rather obscure than illustrate, they being a burden to the memory, and the first apt to be forgotten, before we come to the last. So that he that uses many words for the explaining of any subject, doth, like the cuttle-fish, hide himself, for the most part, in his own ink.
Children, when they are little, they make parents fools; when great, mad.
A pound of worry won't pay an ounce of debt.
Good words cool more than cold water.
A maid that laughs is half taken.
In a thousand pound of Law there's not an ounce of love.
Who depends upon another man's table often dines late.
The use of butterflies is to adorn the world and delight the eyes of men, to brighten the countryside, serving like so many golden spangles to decorate the fields.
Children pick up words as pigeons peas And utter them again as God shall please.
Fish must swim thrice--once is the water, a second time in the sauce, and a third time in wine in the stomach.
He that buys land buys many stones, He that buys flesh buys many bones, He that buys eggs buys many shells, But he that buys good ale buys nothing else.
A light-heel'd mother makes a heavy-heel'd daughter.
Misery loves company.
Pray devoutly, but hammer stoutly.
Feather by feather the goose is plucked.
They love too much that die for love.
He dances well to whom Fortune pipes.
The heart is the first part that quickens, and the last that dies.
He who pays the piper can call the tunes.
He that cannot abide a bad market, deserves not a good one
Never meet trouble half-way.
After a Christmas comes a Lent.
Better the last smile than the first laughter.
To those we love best we say the least
Listeners ne'er hear good of themselves.
