One good head is better than a hundred strong hands
One good head is better than a hundred strong hands
Suspicion may be no fault, but showing it may be a great one.
If a man falls once, all will tread upon him.
With devotion's visage and pious action we do sugar o'er the devil himself.
Honest men fear neither the light nor the dark.
Be the business never so painful, you may have it done for money.
Abused patience turns to fury.
Fame sometimes hath created something of nothing.
Care and diligence bring luck.
He knows little, who will tell his wife all he knows.
Lavishness is not generosity.
He teaches me to be good that does me good.
Believe and live according to belief.
Their heads sometimes so little that there is no room for wit sometimes so long that there is no wit for so much room.
A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder.
A great man will not trample upon a worm, nor sneak to an emperor.
As the sword of the best tempered metal is most flexible, so the truly generous are most pliant and courteous in their behavior to their inferiors.
He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.
If an ass goes traveling he will not come home a horse.
Cruelty is a tyrant that's always attended with fear.
Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.
Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.
A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery.
A woman, a dog and a walnut tree, the more you beat them, the better they be.
One year of Joy, another of Comfort, the rest of Content, make the married Life happy.
He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.
Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young ones.
He who cures a disease may be the skillfullest, but he that prevents it is the safest physician.
If thou art a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf.
The first faults are theirs that commit them The second theirs that permit them.
Today is yesterday's pupil.
Blindness hatred is blind, as well as love.
With foxes we must play the fox.
It is more difficult to praise rightly than to blame.
Riches rather enlarge than satisfy appetites.
Debt is the worst poverty.
Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye.
Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.
Compliments cost nothing, yet many pay dear for them.
First get an absolute conquest over thyself, and then thou wilt easily govern thy wife.
A conservative believes nothing should be done for the first time.
Do nothing hastily but catching of fleas.
Better one's House be too little one day than too big all the Year after.
Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get em, get em right, or they will get you wrong.
Despair gives courage to a coward.
Virtue is the only true nobility.
Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth.
A good life is the only religion.
A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present.
Better a tooth out than always aching.
© 2020 Inspirational Stories
© 2020 Inspirational Stories