There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.
Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.
If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.
Scalded cats fear even cold water.
Despair gives courage to a coward.
Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.
It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf.
There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.
Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth.
Cruelty is a tyrant that's always attended with fear.
Anger is one of the sinews of the soul.
One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low.
Great hopes make great men.
An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.
If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.
A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present.
He that has a great nose, thinks everybody is speaking of it.
Unseasonable kindness gets no thanks.
Charity begins at home, but should not end there.
Health is not valued till sickness comes.
Better be alone than in bad company.
Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.
He that hopes no good fears no ill.
Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.
A good garden may have some weeds.
There is nothing that so much gratifies an ill tongue as when it finds an angry heart.
In fair weather prepare for foul.
Abused patience turns to fury.
All things are difficult before they are easy.
All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer.
If you have one true friend you have more than your share.
Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.
A drinker has a hole under his nose that all his money runs into.
Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.
Change of weather is the discourse of fools.
If thou art a master, be sometimes blind if a servant, sometimes deaf.
'Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship.
He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself for every man has need to be forgiven.
The more wit the less courage.
A man's best fortune, or his worst, is his wife.
Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins.
If an ass goes travelling he will not come home a horse.