312 quotes
Well may he smell fire, whose gown burns.
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
Love and a cough cannot be hid.
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
If thou do ill, the joy fades, not the pains.
If well, the pain doth fade, the joy remains.
619. You may bring a horse to the river, but he will drinke when and what he pleaseth.
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
778. He that doth what he should not shall feele what he would not.
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
940. The great would have none great, and the little all little.
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
620. Before you make a friend eate a bushell of salt with him.
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
876. One houre's sleepe before midnight is worth three after.
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
Get to live;
Then live, and use it; else, it is not true
That thou hast gotten. Surely use alone
Makes money not a contemptible stone.
The Temple (1633)
649. A beane in liberty is better than a comfit in prison.
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
850. He that talkes much of his happinesse summons griefe.
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
916. The little cannot bee great, unlesse he devoure many.
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
991. Speake not of my debts, unlesse you mean to pay them.
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
574. A feather in hand is better then a bird in the ayre.
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
562. When the tree is fallen all goe with their hatchet.
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
677. Dry bread at home is better than rost meate abroad.
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
816. Women laugh when they can and weepe when they will.
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
897. There are more physitians in health then drunkards.
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
1010. An oath that is not to bee made is not to be kept.
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
682. One father is more than a hundred schoole-masters.
Jacula Prudentum (1651)