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