All things are difficult before they are easy.
Thomas Fuller
Health is not valued till sickness comes.
If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.
He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.
Care and diligence bring luck.
One that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
If you have one true friend you have more than your share.
We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.
Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.
It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf.
He's my friend that speaks well of me behind my back.
There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.
Charity begins at home, but should not end there.
A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell!
Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved.
Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.
One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low.
Great hopes make great men.
He that travels much knows much.
If an ass goes travelling he will not come home a horse.
With foxes we must play the fox.
Vows made in storms are forgotten in calm.
Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.
If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.
Scalded cats fear even cold water.
Abused patience turns to fury.
A wise man turns chance into good fortune.
Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye.
Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.
All doors open to courtesy.
Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.
A fox should not be on the jury at a goose's trial.
In fair weather prepare for foul.
An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.
Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.
Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.
He does not believe that does not live according to his belief.
Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart.
We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity.
The fool wanders, a wise man travels.
A good garden may have some weeds.
Eaten bread is forgotten.
Unseasonable kindness gets no thanks.
There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.
Nothing is easy to the unwilling.
'Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship.
If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.
No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy.
A lie has no leg, but a scandal has wings.
