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Plough deep while sluggards sleep and you shall have corn to sell and to keep.
Have you something to do tomorrow? Do it today.
If you were a servant would you not be ashamed that a good master should catch you idle? Then if you are your own master be ashamed to catch yourself idle.
Fools make feasts and wise men eat them.
The proud hate pride – in others.
A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.
The learned fool writes his nonsense in better languages than the unlearned; but still it is nonsense.
He that lives upon hope will die fasting.
The noblest question in the world is What good may I do in it?
Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure when he is really selling himself a slave to it.
The busy man has few idle visitors; to the boiling pot the flies come not.
He that does what he should not shall feel what he would not.
The honest man takes pains and then enjoys pleasures; The knave takes pleasures and then suffers pains.
Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools that have not wit enough to be honest.
Words may show a man’s wit but actions his meaning.
Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
Be civil to all serviceable to many familiar with few, friend to one, enemy to none.
Love your enemies for they tell you your faults.
Who is strong? He that can conquer his bad habits. Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion. Wish not so much to live long as to live well.
He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.
Many have quarreled about religion that never practiced it.
Who has deceived thee as often as thyself?
What signifies knowing the names if you know not the natures of things?
He that best understands the world, least likes it.
Silence is not always a sign of wisdom but babbling is ever a mark of folly.
How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.
Blessed is he who expects nothing for he shall never be disappointed.
O! ‘tis easier to keep holidays than commandments.
The things which hurt, instruct.
A lie stands on one leg, Truth on two.
Mankind are very odd creatures: One half censure what they practice, The other half practice what they censure, The rest always say and do as they ought.
Eat to live, and not live to eat. To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
Many a man would have been worse if his estate had been better.
‘Tis easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it.
He that pursues two hares at once, does not catch one and lets the other go.
I saw few die of hunger; of eating – 100,000.
Friendship increases by visiting friends, but by visiting seldom.
If your riches are yours, why don’t you take them with you to t’other world?
‘Tis easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
He is a governor that governs his passions, and he is a servant that serves them.
Drink Water, Put the Money in your Pocket, and leave the Dry- bellyache in the Punchbowl.
Deny Self for Self’s sake.
If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the Philosophers-Stone.
There’s none deceived but he that trusts.
If you desire many things, many things will seem but a few.
Reading makes a full Man, Meditation a profound Man, discourse a clear Man.
This
Rather go to bed supperless, than run in debt for a Breakfast.
Let thy Discontents be Secrets.
No wonder Tom grows fat, th’ unwieldy sinner, Makes his whole life but one continual dinner.
Learn of the skilful: He that teaches himself, hath a fool for his master.
