A fool and his money are soon parted. |
A fool and his money are soon parted. |
A fool and his money be soon at debate (Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry) |
At Christmas play and make good cheer, for Christmas comes but once a year. |
February, fill the dyke with what thou dost like. |
For the first fourteen years for a rod they do while for the next as a pearl in the world they do shine. For the next trim beauty beginneth to swerve. For the next matrons or drudges they serve. For the next doth crave a staff for a stay. For the nex |
God sendeth and giveth both mouth and meat |
In doing of either, let wit bear a stroke,/ For buying or selling of pig in a poke. |
Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health. |
Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime. |
Seek home for rest, for home is best. |
Some respite to husbands the weather may send,/ But housewives' affairs have never an end. |
Sweet April showers do spring May flowers. |
Who goeth a borrowing/ Goeth a sorrowing./ Few lend (but fools)/ Their working tools. |
Who quick be to borrow and slow be to pay, Their credit is naught, go they ever so gay |