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A hard beginning maketh a good ending.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.
Make hay while the sun shines.
Tis not the robe or garment I affect; For who would marry with a suit of clothes?
Beggars can't be choosers.
Beggars should be no choosers.
Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake?
Don't put the cart before the horse.
Rome was not built in one day.
When all candles be out, all cats be grey.
Look before you leap.
Hit the nail on the head.
Better is to bow than breake.
Many hands make light work.
If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be
It takes nine tailors to make a man.
The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.
Cut your coat according to your cloth.
All things on earth thus change, some up, some down; Content's a kingdom, and I wear that crown.
For when I gave you an inch, you tooke an ell.
All's well that ends well.
The grey mare is the better horse.
It had need to bee A wylie mouse that should breed in the cat's care.
The more the merrier.
A woman hath nine lives like a cat.
But now I see well the old proverb is true: That parish priest forgetteth that ever he was a clerk!
The moon is made of a green cheese.
Fieldes have eies and woods have eares.
There are none so blind as those who will not see. The most deluded people are those who choose to ignore what they already know.
It hurteth not the toung to give faire words.
And death makes equal the high and low.
Pryde will have a fall;For pryde goeth before and shame commeth after.
When the iron is hot, strike.
It's no use closing the barn door after the horse is gone.
Children and fooles cannot lye.
All a green willow, willow, All a green willow is my garland.
Be the day never so long, Evermore at last they ring to evensong.
A day after the faire.
Half a loaf is better than none.
Though he love not to buy the pig in the poke.
Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
It is a poor dog that is not worth the whistling
A fooles bolt is soone shot.
Much water goeth by the millThat the miller knoweth not of.
So many heads so many wits.
Small pitchers have wyde eares.
A fig for a care, a fig for a woe!
Let the world wagge, and take mine ease in myne Inne.
It will not out of the flesh that is bred in the bone.
Good to be merie and wise.
He that will not whan he may,Whan he would, he shall haue nay.
Of a good beginning cometh a good end.
Though ye loue not to bye the pyg in the poke,Yet snatche ye at the poke, that the pyg is in,Not for the poke, but the pyg good chepe to wyn.
He makes a beggar first that first relieves him; Not us'rers make more beggars where they live Than charitable men that use to give.
Feed by measure, and defy the physician.
When the devil drives, needs must.
While the grass groweth the horse starveth.
A man may well bring a horse to water but he cannot make him drink.
If nothing is ventured, nothing is gained.
Nought venture nought have.
Never look a gift horse in the mouth.
He must needes go that the dyvell dryveth.
Better to give then to take.
Children and fools cannot lie.
Little pitchers have big ears.
The nearer to the church, the further from God.
What a time herbs and weeds, and such things could talk, A man in his garden one day did walk, Spying a nettle green (as th'emeraude) spread in a bed of roses like the ruby red. Between which two colors he thought, but his eye, The green nettle did the red rose beautify. "How be it," he asked the nettle, "what thing Made him so pert? So nigh the Rose to Spring.
Who waiteth for dead man's shoes will go long barefoot.
It's an ill wind that blows no good.
The cat would eate fish, and would not wet her feete.
Every dog has its day.
One good turn asketh another.
Put your toong in your purse.
There is no fyre without some smoke.
The still sowe eats up all the draffe.
All is fish that comth to net.
A hard beginnyng makth a good endyng.
Who is wurs shod, than the shoemakers wyfe,With shops full of shoes all hir lyfe?
It is better to beAn old man's derling than a yong man's werling.
It is a foule byrd that fyleth his owne nest.
Might have gone further and have fared worse.
When the sun shineth, make hay.
The rolling stone never gathereth mosse.
Every cocke is proud on his owne dunghill.
A short horse is soone currid.
The wise man sayth, store is no sore.
There is no fool to the old fool.
Be of comfort, and your heavy sorrow Part equally among us; storms divided, Abate their force, and with less rage are guided.
Som thingis that prouoke young men to wed in haste,Show after weddyng, that hast maketh waste.
Nought venture, nought have. [Nothing ventured, nothing gained.]
One swallow never makes a summer.
The tide tarrieth no man.
When the sunne shineth, make hay.
When the steede is stolne, shut the stable durre.
I perfectly feele even at my fingers end.
No man ought to looke a given horse in the mouth.
Praie and shifte eche one for him selfe, as he can.Euery man for him selfe, and god for us all.
Many handis make light warke.
One swallow maketh not summer.
Let the world slide, let the world go; A fig for care, and a fig for woe! If I can't pay, why I can owe, And death makes equal the high and low.
Love me litle, love me long. 1546
Time trieth troth in every doubt.
Who will in time present pleasure refrain, shall in time to come the more pleasure obtain.
Happy man, happy dole.
A cat may looke on a King.
Men say, kinde will creepe where it may not goe.
And while I at length debate and beate the bush, There shall steppe in other men and catch the burdes.
Who waite for dead men shall goe long barefoote.
The greatest Clerkes be not the wisest men.
Hee must have a long spoone, shall eat with the devill.
But in deede, A friend is never knowne till a man have neede.
Burnt child fire dredth.
Children learne to creepe ere they can learne to goe.
Better to be happy than wise.
The happy man's without a shirt.
Who is so deaf or so blind as is he that willfully will neither hear nor see?
Two heads are better than one.

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