Clergy

"759. Give not S. Peter so much, to leave Saint Paul nothing."

"756. Every sin brings its punishment with it."

"753. By doing nothing we learne to do ill."

"744. Every one thinkes his sacke heaviest."

"743. God's mill grinds slow but sure."

"737. The best smell is bread, the best savour salt, the best love that of children."

"720. Be what thou wouldst seem to be."

"719. One sword keepes another in the sheath."

"714. Comparisons are odious."

"710. Three can hold their peace if two be away."

"707. Reason lies betweene the spurre and the bridle."

"684. When God will punish, He will first take away the understanding."

"682. One father is more than a hundred schoole-masters."

"678. More have repented speech then silence."

"677. Dry bread at home is better than rost meate abroad."

"676. A little wind kindles, much puts out the fire."

"649. A beane in liberty is better than a comfit in prison."

"648. Show me a lyer, and I'l shew thee a theefe."

"639. Emptie vessels sound most."

"621. Speake fitly, or be silent wisely."

"620. Before you make a friend eate a bushell of salt with him."

"619. You may bring a horse to the river, but he will drinke when and what he pleaseth."

"611. Time is the rider that breakes youth."

"601. The fatt man knoweth not what the leane thinketh."

"583. Thursday come and the week's gone."

"577. Folly growes without watering."

"574. A feather in hand is better then a bird in the ayre."

"562. When the tree is fallen all goe with their hatchet."

"557. The offender never pardons."

"534. At the game's end we shall see who gaines."

"533. Help thyselfe, and God will helpe thee."

"523. A fool may throw a stone into a well, which a hundred wise men cannot pull out."

"520. Living well is the best revenge."

"519. One enemy is too much."

"511. Pension never inriched young man."

"508. He that tells a secret is another's servant."

"502. A penny spar'd is twice got."

"499. Gluttony kills more then the sword."

"497. Little wealth, little care."

"496. Weigh justly and sell dearely."

"495. For want of a naile the shoe is lost, for want of a shoe the horse is lost, for want of a horse the rider is lost."

"477. A poore beauty finds more lovers than husbands."

"475. Fine words dresse ill deedes."

"473. Hope is the poor man's bread."

"467. Warre makes theeves, and peace hangs them."

"465. In the kingdome of blind men the one-ey'd is king."

"460. The resolved minde hath no cares."

"449. Trust not one night's ice."

"445. A great ship askes deepe waters."

"440. Fly the pleasure that bites to-morrow."