Clergy

"His bark is worse than his bite."

"[ Old men go to death; death comes to young men. ]"

"[ Whatever is made by the hand of man, by the hand of man may be overturned. ]"

"[ Your thoughts close and your countenance loose. ]"

"[ Much money makes a countrey poor, for it sets a dearer price on every thing. ]"

"[ Some had rather lose their friend then their jest. ]"

"[ The love of money and the love of learning rarely meet. ]"

"[ Woe be to him that reads but one book. ]"

"[ There is an hour wherein a man might be happy all his life, could he find it. ]"

"[ There is a remedy for everything, could men find it. ]"

"[ When war begins then hell openeth. ]"

"[ The wolfe eats oft of the sheep that have been warn'd. ]"

"[ A scab'd horse cannot abide the comb. ]"

"[ What one day gives us another takes away from us. ]"

"[ Cruelty is more cruell if we defer the pain. ]"

"[ An old dog barks not in vain. ]"

"[ Hee that makes himself a sheep shall be eat by the wolfe. ]"

"[ The war is not don so long as my enemy lives. ]"

"[ Silke doth quench the fire in the kitchin. ]"

"[ An idle youth, a needy age. ]"

"1023. An old cat sports not with her prey."

"1011. The eye is bigger then the belly."

"1010. An oath that is not to bee made is not to be kept."

"991. Speake not of my debts, unlesse you mean to pay them."

"971. Hee that learnes a trade hath a purchase made."

"966. With customes wee live well, but lawes undoe us."

"942. Every mile is two in winter."

"940. The great would have none great, and the little all little."

"916. The little cannot bee great, unlesse he devoure many."

"911. Life is halfe spent before we know what it is."

"906. Silkes and satins put out the fire in the chimney."

"901. Halfe the world knowes not how the other halfe lies."

"897. There are more physitians in health then drunkards."

"891. Hee hath no leisure who useth it not."

"878. It's more paine to doe nothing then something."

"876. One houre's sleepe before midnight is worth three after."

"874. None knows the weight of another's burthen."

"850. He that talkes much of his happinesse summons griefe."

"848. He that endures is not overcome."

"838. Poverty is no sinne."

"837. Words are women, deedes are men."

"830. He thinkes not well that thinkes not againe."

"816. Women laugh when they can and weepe when they will."

"815. In a long journey straw waighs."

"782. He that lends gives."

"779. He that marries for wealth sells his liberty."

"778. He that doth what he should not shall feele what he would not."

"775. A shippe and a woman are ever repairing."

"766. Better suffer ill than doe ill."

"763. Better speake truth rudely then lye covertly."