Custom is the plague of wise men and the idol of fools |
Debt is the worst poverty. |
Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young ones. |
Despair gives courage to a coward. |
Do nothing hastily but catching of fleas |
Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers. |
Eaten bread is forgotten. |
Eaten bread is soon forgotten. |
Enquire not what boils in another's pot |
Even doubtful accusations leave a stain behind them |
Every horse thinks its own pack heaviest. |
Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all, and often more than all. |
First get an absolute conquest over thyself, and then thou wilt easily govern thy wife. |
Fool's names, like fool's faces - Are often seen in public places |
Fools grow without watering |