Seek home for rest, for home is best.
Seek home for rest, for home is best.
A fool and his money be soon at debate.
Who quick be to borrow and slow be to pay, their credit is naught, go they ever so gay.
If a garden require it, now trench it ye may, one trench not a yard, from another go lay Which being well filled with muck by and by, to cover with mould, for a season to lie.
A fool and his money are soon parted.
Sweet April showers do spring May flowers.
Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.
Look ere thou leap, see ere thou go.
A fool and his money be soon at debate (Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry)
Yet true it is, as cow chews cud, And trees at spring do yield forth bud, Except wind stands as never it stood, It is an ill wind turns none to good.
Fear God, and offend not the Prince nor his laws, And keep thyself out of the magistrate's claws.
God sendeth and giveth both mouth and meat.
For the first fourteen years for a rod they do while for the next as a pearl in the world they do shine. For the next trim beauty beginneth to swerve. For the next matrons or drudges they serve. For the next doth crave a staff for a stay. For the nex.
In March and in April from morning till night In sowing and seeding good housewives delight.
Who goeth a borrowing Goeth a sorrowing. Few lend (but fools) Their working tools.
Such mistress, such Nan, Such master, such man.
Some respite to husbands the weather may send, But housewives' affairs have never an end.
The stone that is rolling can gather no moss; For master and servant oft changing is loss.
In doing of either, let wit bear a stroke, For buying or selling of pig in a poke.
Tis merry in hall Where beards wag all.
At Christmas play and make good cheer, for Christmas comes but once a year.
© 2020 Inspirational Stories
© 2020 Inspirational Stories