Every one is the son of his own works. |
Faint heart ne'er won fair lady |
Fair and softly goes far. |
Fear has many eyes and can see things underground. |
Fear has many eyes. |
Fear is sharp-sighted and can see things under ground and much more in the skies. |
For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences. |
For if he like a madman lived, at least he like a wise one died. |
Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory. |
Fortune sometimes turns round like a mill wheel and he who was yesterday at the top lies today at the bottom |
From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment. |
Give the devil his due |
God bears with the wicked, but not forever |
God bless the inventor of sleep, the cloak that covers all men's thoughts, the food that cures all hunger . . . the balancing weight that levels the shepherd with the king and the simple with the wise. |
God who sends the wound sends the medicine. |