“Miracle me no miracles.”
“Fair and softly goes far.”
“Thou hast seen nothing yet.”
“He had a face like a blessing.”
“Patience and shuffle the cards.”
“Faint heart never won fair lady.”
“He preaches well that lives well.”
“Man appoints, and God disappoints.”
“Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.”
“Jests that give pains are no jests.”
“To be prepared is half the victory.”
“Absence -- that common cure of love.”
“The eyes those silent tongues of love.”
“Every man is the son of his own works.”
“A person dishonored is worst than dead.”
“That which costs little is less valued.”
“A blot in thy escutcheon to all futurity.”
“There's no taking trout with dry breeches.”
“Take away the cause, and the effect ceases.”
“God bears with the wicked, but not forever.”
“Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.”
“True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.”
“Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.”
“Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.”
“Good painters imitate nature, bad ones spew it up.”
“Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.”
“No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.”
“Mere flimflam stories, and nothing but shams and lies.”
“Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art.”
“A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.”