April and May are the key of all the year.

Argument seldom convinces any one contrary to his inclination.

Art helps nature, and experience art.

Art must be deluded by art.

Ask thy purse what thou shouldest buy.

At the end of the game you'll see who's the winner.

At the end of the work you may judge of the workman.

Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.
Backbiting oftener proceeds from pride than malice.
Bad customs are better broke than kept up.

Bad excuses are worse than none.

Bald heads are soon shaven.

Bare words buy no barley.

Barefoot must not go among thorns.

Be a friend to thyself, and others will be so too.

Be as you would seem to be.

Be merry and wise.

Be not hasty to outbid another.

Be silent before a great man; or, speak what may please him.

Be silent, or speak something worth hearing.

Better a little fire to warm us, than a great one to burn us.

Better a master be feared than despised.

Better an empty house than an ill tenant.

Better be denied than deceived.

Better buy than borrow.

Better come at the latter end of a feast than the beginning

of a fray.

Better do it than wish it done.

Better fare hard with good men than feast it with bad.

Better give a shilling than lend and lose half a crown.

Better give the wool than the whole sheep.

Better go back than lose yourself.

Better go to bed supperless than rise in debt.

Better half a loaf than no bread.

Better hazard once than be always in fear.

Better known than trusted.

Better late ripe and bear, than early blossom and blast.

Better late than never.

Better live within compass than have large comings in.

Better one's house be too little one day than too big all the year after.

Better say nothing than nothing to the purpose.

Better's the last smile than the first laughter.

Better to say "Here it is" than "Here it was."

Better the foot slip than the tongue.

Better thou perish than truth.

Better two losses than one sorrow.

Better untaught than ill taught.

Bear with evil, and expect good.

Beauty draws more than oxen.

Beauty in women is like the flowers in Spring; but virtue is

like the stars of heaven.

Bees that have honey in their mouths have stings in their tails.

Begging of a courtesy is selling of liberty.

Believe well, and have well.

Bells call others to church, but go not themselves.

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Best to bend it while a twig.

Bestow on me what you will, so it be none of your secrets.

Beware of no man more than thyself.

Beware of the stone thou stumblest at before.

Bind so as you may unbind.

Birds are entangled by their feet, and men by their tongues.

Birth is much, but breeding is more.

Black plums may eat as sweet as white.

Black will take no other hue.

Blessed is the peace-maker, not the conqueror.
Blessings are not valued till they are gone.
Blow thy own pottage, and not mine.

Blushing is virtue's colour.

Bold resolution is the favourite of Providence.

Boldness in business is the first, second, and third thing.

Borrow not too much upon time to come.

Both folly and wisdom come upon us with years.

Bought friends are not friends indeed.

Brag's a good dog, but dares not bite.

Brave actions never want a trumpet.

Bread with eyes, cheese without eyes, and wine that leaps

up to the eyes.

Bribes throw dust into cunning men's eyes.

Broken sacks will hold no corn.

Business is the salt of life.

Business may be troublesome, but idleness is pernicious.

Busy-bodies never want a bad day.

But help me to money, and I'll help myself to friends. Butter is gold in the morning, silver at noon, and lead at night. Buy and sell, and live by the loss.

Buy at a market and sell at home.

By doing nothing we learn to do ill.

By hook or by crook.

By ignorance we mistake, and by mistakes we learn.

By land or water the wind is ever in my face.

By requiting one friend we invite many.

Capons were at first but chickens.

Care and diligence bring luck.

Careless men let their end steal upon them unawares and

unprovided.

Care's no cure.

Care will kill a cat; yet there's no living without it.

Carry coals to Newcastle.

Cause not thine own dog to bite thee.

Censure and scandal are not the same.

Chains of gold are stronger than chains of iron.
Change of weather is the discourse of fools.
Charity begins at home, but should not end there.
Cheat me in the price, but not in the goods.

Children and fools tell truth.

Children are poor men's riches.

Children are certain cares but uncertain comforts.

Children increase the cares of life, but mitigate the remem

brance of death.

Choleric men are blind and mad.

Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye.

Claw me, and I'll claw thee.

Clear and round dealing is the honour of man's nature.
Close mouth.

Clouds, that the sun builds up, darken him.
Cloudy mornings may turn to elear evenings.
Cold of complexion, good of condition.

Come and welcome; go by, and no quarrel.

Command your wealth, else that will command you.

Common sense is the growth of all countries.

Comparison, more than reality, makes men happy or wretched.

Comparisons are odious.

Compliments cost nothing, yet many pay dear for them.

Confession of a fault makes half amends.

Confidence goeth farther in company than good sense.

Conscience can't be compelled.

Consideration is the parent of wisdom.

Constant complaints never get pity.

Content is happiness.

Content is more than a kingdom.

Content is the philosopher's stone, that turns all it touches into gold.

Continual cheerfulness is a sign of wisdom.

Contradiction should awaken attention, not passion.

Conversation teaches more than meditation.

Cooks are not to be taught in their own kitchen.

Cool words scald not the tongue.

Corn in good years is hay; in ill years straw is corn.
Corn is not to be gathered in the blade, but the ear.
Corruption of the best becomes the worst.

Cover yourself with honey and the flies will have you.
Covetous men's chests are rich, not they.

Covetousness brings nothing home.