Great Throughts Treasury

"One enemy is too much."

"Show me a lyer, and I'l shew thee a theefe."

"You may bring a horse to the river, but he will drinke when and what he pleaseth."

"Living well is the best revenge."

"Speake fitly, or be silent wisely."

"Reason lies betweene the spurre and the bridle."

"Every one thinkes his sacke heaviest."

"Comparisons are odious."

"He that endures is not overcome."

"He that lends gives."

"One sword keepes another in the sheath."

"In a long journey straw waighs."

"Halfe the world knowes not how the other halfe lies."

"Every mile is two in winter."

"None knows the weight of another's burthen."

"Life is halfe spent before we know what it is."

"Wo be to him that reads but one book."

" The love of money and the love of learning rarely meet."

"A blustering night, a fair day."

"A bad workman quarrels with his tools."

"A beane in liberty is better than a comfit in prison."

"A bad dog never sees the wolf."

"Tis the part of a poor spirit to undervalue himself and blush."

"A city that parleys is half gotten."

"A broken altar, lord, thy servant rears, made of a heart, and cemented with tears; whose parts are as thy hand did frame; no workman's tool hath touch'd the same. A heart alone is such a stone as nothing but thy pow'r doth cut. Wherefore each part of my hard heart meets in this frame, to praise thy name. That if i chance to hold my peace, these stones to praise tHe may not cease. O let thy blessed sacrifice be mine, and sanctify this altar to be thine."

"A child correct behind and not before."

"A Caske and an ill custome must be broken."

"A childs service is little, yet He is no little foole that despiseth it."

"A crooked log makes a straight fire."

"A curst cow has short horns."

"A civil guest will no more talk all, than eat all the feast."

"A cool mouth, and warm feet, live long."

"A crooked log makes a strait fire."

"A diligent scholar, and the master's paid."

"A drunkards purse is a bottle."

"A discontented man knowes not where to sit easie."

"A dead bee maketh no honey."

"A fair day in winter is the mother of a storme."

"A disarmed peace is weake."

"A faire wife and a frontire Castle breede quarrels."

"A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two."

"A fat housekeeper makes lean executors."

"A faire death honors the whole life."

"A feather in hand is better than a bird in the air."

"A fault, which needs it most, grows two thereby."

"A fool may throw a stone into a well, which a hundred wise men cannot pull out."

"A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread."

"A flatterers throat is an open Sepulcher."

"A full belly neither fights nor flys well."

"A garden must be looked into, and dressed as the body."