Great Throughts Treasury

"A gift much expected is paid, not given."

"A gentle housewife marries the household."

"A good bargain is a pick-purse."

"A gentlemans grayhound, and a salt-box; seeke them at the fire."

"A good heart cannot lie."

"A good prayer is master of another’s purse."

"A great dowry is a bed full of brambles."

"A good pay-master starts not at assurances."

"A hatt is not made for one shower."

"A holy habit clenseth not a foule soul."

"A handful of good life is worth a bushel of learning."

"A horse stumbles that has four legs."

"A Horse made, and a man to make."

"A house and a woman sute excellently."

"A jade eats as much as a good horse."

"A hundred load of worry will not pay an ounce of debt."

"A journeying woman speaks much of all, and all of her."

"A kinsman, a friend, or whom you entreat, take not to serve you, if you will be served neatly."

"A little and good fills the trencher."

"A Lions skin is never cheap."

"A little given seasonably excuses a great gift."

"A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit."

"A little Kitchen makes a large house."

"A little labor, much health."

"A little lett lets an ill workeman."

"A long tongue is a sign of a short hand."

"A little wind kindles, much puts out the fire."

"A little with quiet is the only diet."

"A man is known to be mortal by two things, Sleep and Lust."

"A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin."

"A man would live in Italy (a place of pleasure) but he would choose to die in Spain (where they say the Catholic Religion is professed with greatest strictness)."

"A man well mounted is ever Cholerick."

"A man's destiny is always dark."

"A man’s discontent is his worst evil."

"A married man turns his staff into a stake."

"A master of straw eats a servant of steel."

"A Merchant that gains not, looseth."

"A mountain and a river are good neighbors."

"A naughty child is better sick then whole."

"A morning sun and a wine-bred child and a Latin-bred woman seldom end well."

"A piece of a Churchyard fits everybody."

"A pitiful mother makes a scald head."

"A noble plant suits not with a stubborn ground."

"A pitiful look asks enough."

"A poor man’s cow dies a rich man’s child."

"A poor beauty finds more lovers than husbands"

"A rugged stone grows smooth from hand to hand."

"A pleasure long expected is dear enough sold."

"A scab'd horse cannot abide the comb."

"A sad, wise valor is the brave complexion."