“A closed mouth catches no flies.”

“Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.”

“Be a terror to the butchers, that they may be fair in their weight; and keep hucksters and fraudulent dealers in awe, for the same reason.”

“Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.”

“Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.”

“Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise.”

“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.”

“Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory.”

“From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment.”

“God bears with the wicked, but not forever.”

“Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.”

“He had a face like a blessing.”

“He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.”

“I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.”

“I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.”

“I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.”

“In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.”

“It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.”

“It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.”

“Jests that give pains are no jests.”

“Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.”

“Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.”

“Man appoints, and God disappoints.”

“Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.”

“Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.”

“No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.”

“One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world will be better for this.”

“Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.”

“Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches.”

“Pray look better, Sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.”

“Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.”

“That which costs little is less valued.”

“That's the nature of women, not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.”

“The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation.”

“The eyes those silent tongues of love.”

“The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity.”

“The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.”

“There are only two families in the world, my old grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Have-nots.”

“There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war.”

“There's no taking trout with dry breeches.”

“Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.”

“Tis a dainty thing to command, though twere but a flock of sheep.”

“To be prepared is half the victory.”

“Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.”

“True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.”

“Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.”

“Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.”

“Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.”

“Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.”

“Virtue is the truest nobility.”

“Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.”

“When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.”