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Don't put the cart before the horse.

Every dog has its day.

It had need to bee
A wylie mouse that should breed in the cat's care.

The greatest Clerkes be not the wisest men.

Pryde will have a fall;For pryde goeth before and shame commeth after.

It will not out of the flesh that is bred in the bone.

Who will in time present pleasure refrain, shall in time to come the more pleasure obtain.

There is no fool to the old fool.

Hit the nail on the head.

Time trieth troth in every doubt.

One good turn asketh another.

Make hay while the sun shines.

When the sunne shineth, make hay.

A short horse is soone currid.

God never sends the mouth but he sendeth meat.

Half a loaf is better than none.

One swallow never makes a summer.

Tis not the robe or garment I affect; For who would marry with a suit of clothes?

A good wife maketh a good husband.

He that will not whan he may,Whan he would, he shall haue nay.

But now I see well the old proverb is true: That parish priest forgetteth that ever he was a clerk!

The cat would eate fish, and would not wet her feete.

It is a foule byrd that fyleth his owne nest.

Hunger makes hard beans sweet.

It hurteth not the toung to give faire words.

Better to be happy than wise.

Cut your coat according to your cloth.

It is better to beAn old man's derling than a yong man's werling.

He makes a beggar first that first relieves him;
Not us'rers make more beggars where they live
Than charitable men that use to give.

To give importance to trifling matters.

Praie and shifte eche one for him selfe, as he can.Euery man for him selfe, and god for us all.

I know on which side my bread is buttered.

The rolling stone never gathereth mosse.

When the sun shineth, make hay.

No man ought to looke a given horse in the mouth.

But in deede, A friend is never knowne till a man have neede.

One swallow maketh not summer.

Better is to bow than breake.

And death makes equal the high and low.

A day after the faire.

It is good the have a hatch before the durre.

Hee must have a long spoone, shall eat with the devill.

The moon is made of a green cheese.

Better is half a loaf than no bread.

A hard beginnyng makth a good endyng.

Every cocke is proud on his owne dunghill.

If nothing is ventured, nothing is gained.

While the grass groweth the horse starveth.

Nought venture, nought have.
[Nothing ventured, nothing gained.]

The more haste, the less speed.

I perfectly feele even at my fingers end.

Children and fools cannot lie.

The wise man sayth, store is no sore.

Better one byrde in hand than ten in the wood.

Men say, kinde will creepe where it may not goe.

Be of comfort, and your heavy sorrow
Part equally among us; storms divided,
Abate their force, and with less rage are guided.

Follow pleasure, and then will pleasure flee, Flee pleasure, and pleasure will follow thee.

Beggars should be no choosers.

He must needes go that the dyvell dryveth.

The nearer to the church, the further from God.

It's an ill wind that blows no good.

Love me litle, love me long. 1546

Small pitchers have wyde eares.

When all candles be out, all cats be grey.

A fig for a care, a fig for a woe!

Happy man, happy dole.

Better to give then to take.

When the steede is stolne, shut the stable durre.

Three may keep counsel, if two be away.

To say that which is instructive and also pleasing.

It is a foul bird that filleth his own nest.

Many handis make light warke.

The happy man's without a shirt.

No man loveth his fetters, be they made of gold.

Who waite for dead men shall goe long barefoote.

It is a poor dog that is not worth the whistling

A fooles bolt is soone shot.

For when I gave you an inch, you tooke an ell.

Feare may force a man to cast beyond the moone.

What heart can think, or tongue express, The harm that groweth of idleness?

When the iron is hot, strike.

None so blind as those who won't see.

The still sowe eats up all the draffe.

And while I at length debate and beate the bush, There shall steppe in other men and catch the burdes.

This wonder (as wonders last) lasted nine daies.

Went in at the one ear and out at the other.

When the devil drives, needs must.

Put your toong in your purse.

So many heads so many wits.

Children and fooles cannot lye.

The grey mare is the better horse.

Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness.

Who is wurs shod, than the shoemakers wyfe,With shops full of shoes all hir lyfe?

An ill winde that bloweth no man to good.

Little pitchers have big ears.

Tell tales out of school.

Som thingis that prouoke young men to wed in haste,Show after weddyng, that hast maketh waste.

The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.

Let the world wagge, and take mine ease in myne Inne.

Two heads are better than one.