Aphorists

"Be the day never so long, Evermore at last they ring to evensong."

"It is better to be An old man's derling than a yong man's werling."

"To th' end of a shot and beginning of a fray."

"The moe the merrier."

"Set the cart before the horse."

"He must needes goe whom the devill doth drive."

"Much water goeth by the mill That the miller knoweth not of."

"Mad as a march hare."

"Time trieth troth in every doubt."

"Leape out of the frying pan into the fyre."

"It had need to bee A wylie mouse that should breed in the cats eare."

"Hee must have a long spoone, shall eat with the devill."

"Have yee him on the hip."

"It is a foule byrd that fyleth his owne nest."

"A cat may looke on a King."

"Fieldes have eies and woods have eares."

"One swallow maketh not summer."

"There is no fire without some smoke."

"Out of Gods blessing into the warme Sunne."

"The greatest Clerkes be not the wisest men."

"Many hands make light warke."

"Small pitchers have wyde eares."

"Three may keepe counsayle, if two be away."

"The grey mare is the better horse."

"Might have gone further and have fared worse."

"Though chaunge be no robbry."

"You stand in your owne light."

"A peny for your thought."

"A woman hath nine lives like a cat."

"A fooles bolt is soone shot."

"Love me litle, love me long."

"All is not Gospell that thou doest speake."

"Burnt child fire dredth."

"New brome swepth cleene."

"This wonder (as wonders last) lasted nine daies."

"I pray thee let me and my fellow have A haire of the dog that bit us last night."

"She frieth in her owne grease."

"By hooke or crooke."

"One good turne asketh another."

"Who is worse shod than the shoemaker's wife?"

"All is fish that comth to net."

"Set all at sixe and seven."

"Children and fooles cannot lye."

"Nought venter nought have."

"Better is halfe a lofe than no bread."

"Children learne to creepe ere they can learne to goe."

"Many small make a great."

"Yee have many strings to your bowe."

"Rome was not built in one day."

"Better one byrde in hand than ten in the wood."