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