Men have a touchstone whereby to try gold, but gold is the touchstone whereby to try men. |
Men never think their fortune too great, nor their wit too little |
Misfortunes tell us what fortune is. |
Money is the best bait to fish for man with |
Much matter decocted into a few words. |
Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune. |
My son is my son till he have got him a wife, But my daughter's my daughter all the days of her life. |
Never contend with one that is foolish, proud, positive, testy, or with a superior, or a clown, in matter of argument |
No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy. |
No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend until he is unhappy. |
Nothing costs so much as what is given us |
Nothing is easy to the unwilling |
Nothing sharpens sight like envy |
Nowadays truth is the greatest news |
Often the cockloft is empty in those which nature hath built many stories high. |