Nonfiction Books

"Mary's mouth costs her nothing, for she never opens it but at others expense."

"If you desire many things, many things will seem but a few."

"God heals, and the Doctor takes the Fees."

"There's none deceived but he that trusts."

"He that scatters Thorns, let him not go barefoot."

"Poverty, Poetry and new Titles of Honour, make Men ridiculous."

"He that lives well, is learned enough."

"Three things are men most liable to be cheated in, a Horse, a Wig, and a Wife."

"Forwarn'd, forearm'd, unless in the case of Cuckolds, who are often forearm'd before warn'd."

"Creditors have better memories than debtors."

"He that speaks much, is much mistaken."

"Lovers, Travellers, and Poets, will give money to be heard."

"Force shites upon Reason's Back."

"Gifts burst rocks."

"He that sells upon trust, loses many friends, and always wants money."

"Pox take you, is no curse to some people."

"Good wives and good plantations are made by good husbands."

"The excellency of hogs is fatness, of men virtue."

"Don't throw stones at your neighbours, if your own windows are glass."

"The rotten Apple spoils his Companion."

"If wind blows on you thro' a hole, Make your will and take care of your soul."

"The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse."

"None preaches better than the ant, and she says nothing."

"Why does the blind man's wife paint herself?"

"God helps them that help themselves."

"He that can have Patience, can have what he will."

"He that takes a wife, takes care."

"She that paints her face, thinks of her Tail."

"There's more old Drunkards than old Doctors."

"Admiration is the Daughter of Ignorance."

"Bargaining has neither friends nor relations."

"Keep flax from fire, and youth from gaming."

"Let thy maidservant be faithful, strong, and homely."

"In a discreet man's mouth, a publick thing is private."

"Tis easy to see, hard to foresee."

"Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it."

"Never praise your Cyder, Horse, or Bedfellow."

"Do not do what you would not have known."

"He that lives upon Hope, dies fasting."

"Diligence is the mother of Good-Luck."

"Fish & Visitors stink in 3 days."

"The good Paymaster is Lord of another man's Purse."

"If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the Philosophers-Stone."

"He is no clown that drives the plow, but he that doth clownish things."

"One Mend-fault is worth two Findfaults, but one Findfault is better than two Makefaults."

"Are you angry that others disappoint you? remember you cannot depend upon yourself."

"Some are weatherwise,some are otherwise."

"An old young man, will be a young old man."

"The Sun never repents of the good he does, nor does he ever demand a recompence."

"If what most men admire, they would despise, 'Twould look as if mankind were growing wise."