| A hero is a man who is afraid to run away. |
| The first faults are theirs that commit them, the second theirs that permit them. |
| As you make your bed, so you must lie in it. |
| If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing. |
| A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner. |
| A stumble may prevent a fall. |
| Be not deceived with the first appearance of things, for show is not substance. |
| Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off. |
| Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old. |
| Use soft words and hard arguments. |
| A poor beauty finds more lovers than husbands. |
| A good beginning makes a good end. |
| A blind man will not thank you for a looking-glass. |
| An idle brain is the devil's workshop. |
| Cheat me in the price, but not in the goods. |
| While the doctors consult, the patient dies. |
| 'Tis money that begets money. |
| Death always comes too early or too late. |
| Death is a shadow that always follows the body. |
| Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them. |
| The difference is wide that sheets will not decide. |
| He that seeks trouble never misses. |
| Never step over one duty to perform another. |
| A burnt child dreads the fire. |
| A small family is soon provided for. |
| Don't dig your grave with your knife and fork. |
| Fools build houses, and wise men buy them. |
| He is a fool that kisseth the maid when he may kiss the mistress. |
| Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight. |
| You may poke a man's fire after you've known him for seven years. |
| The best throw of the dice is to throw them away. |
| Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him. |
| Take heed you do not find what you do not seek. |
| Gray hairs are death's blossoms. |
| If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden; If you want to be happy for life, plant a tree. |
| We are usually the best men when in the worst health. |
| Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst. |
| The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives. |
| Many a true word is spoken in jest. |
| Sometimes you must be cruel to be kind. |
| A young man idle, an old man needy. |
| Learning makes a man fit company for himself as well as for others. |
| He that plants trees loves others besides himself. |
| The mob has many heads but no brains. |
| He that would the daughter win must with the mother first begin. |
| Sticks and stones will break my bones, but names will never hurt me. |
| Foul water will quench fire. |
| Love your neighbor, yet pull not down your hedge. |
| The ship that will not obey the helm will have to obey the rocks. |
| Who is so deaf or so blind as he that willfully will neither hear nor see? |
| Some men go through a forest and see no firewood. |
| You must not expect old heads upon young shoulders. |
| No barber shaves so close but another finds his work. |
| Don't halt before you are lame. |
| Poverty is not a shame, but the being ashamed of it is. |
| Ask God for what man can give, and you may get it. |
| A full cup must be carried steadily. |
| A proverb is the child of experience. |
| When the sword of rebellion is drawn, the sheath should be thrown away. |
| Still waters run deep. |
| Six hours for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool. |
| To talk without thinking is to shoot without aiming. |
| There is but an hour a day between a good housewife and a bad one. |
| Time is the soul of business. |
| It is an equal failing to trust everybody, and to trust nobody. |
| It takes all sorts to make a world. |
| Sell not virtue to purchase wealth. |
| Sorrow for a husband is like a pain in the elbow, sharp and short. |
| Where there's a will, there's a way. |
| Two wrongs do not make a right. |
| A proverb is the child of experience. |
