If an ass goes travelling he will not come home a horse.
Health is not valued till sickness comes.
Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.
Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.
It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf.
If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.
He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself for every man has need to be forgiven.
Cruelty is a tyrant that's always attended with fear.
One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low.
A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present.
Scalded cats fear even cold water.
Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.
Despair gives courage to a coward.
Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.
All things are difficult before they are easy.
He that hopes no good fears no ill.
All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer.
Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.
A good garden may have some weeds.
Anger is one of the sinews of the soul.
Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins.
'Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship.
There is nothing that so much gratifies an ill tongue as when it finds an angry heart.
A drinker has a hole under his nose that all his money runs into.
In fair weather prepare for foul.
An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.
Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth.
A man's best fortune, or his worst, is his wife.
There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.
Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.
There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.
Charity begins at home, but should not end there.
If thou art a master, be sometimes blind if a servant, sometimes deaf.
Unseasonable kindness gets no thanks.
Great hopes make great men.
Abused patience turns to fury.
Change of weather is the discourse of fools.
Better be alone than in bad company.
The more wit the less courage.
He that has a great nose, thinks everybody is speaking of it.
If you have one true friend you have more than your share.
If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.