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"[ 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."
"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."
"429. Hee that hath one hogge makes him fat ; and hee that hath one sonne makes him a foole."