“While the doctors consult, the patient dies.”
“Never step over one duty to perform another.”
“Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.”
“Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.”
“A poor beauty finds more lovers than husbands.”
“Don't dig your grave with your knife and fork.”
“The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives.”
“Death is a shadow that always follows the body.”
“Take heed you do not find what you do not seek.”
“The best throw of the dice is to throw them away.”
“Love your neighbor, yet pull not down your hedge.”
“Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.”
“Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them.”
“He that plants trees loves others besides himself.”
“Ask God for what man can give, and you may get it.”
“A blind man will not thank you for a looking-glass.”
“The difference is wide that sheets will not decide.”
“You must not expect old heads upon young shoulders.”
“To talk without thinking is to shoot without aiming.”
“We are usually the best men when in the worst health.”
“No barber shaves so close but another finds his work.”
“Poverty is not a shame, but the being ashamed of it is.”
“Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him.”
“Six hours for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool.”
“It is an equal failing to trust everybody, and to trust nobody.”
“He that would the daughter win must with the mother first begin.”
“He is a fool that kisseth the maid when he may kiss the mistress.”
“You may poke a man's fire after you've known him for seven years.”
“The ship that will not obey the helm will have to obey the rocks.”
“There is but an hour a day between a good housewife and a bad one.”