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Marriage is destinie, made in heaven.

I have ever thought so superstitiously of wit, that I fear I have committed idolatry against wisdom.

Where the streame runneth smoothest, the water is deepest.

When adversities flow, then love ebbs; but friendship standeth stiffly in storms.

The tongue, the ambassador of the heart.

The empty vessel giveth a greater sound than the full barrel.

If you will be cherished when you are old, be courteous while you be young.

Rather fast then surfette, rather starue then striue to exceede.

Maydens, be they never so foolyshe, yet beeing fayre they are commonly fortunate.

Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.

Fish and guests in three days are stale.

Instruments sound sweetest when they are touched softest.

A bargain is a bargain.

All is fair in love and war

[Beauty is] a delicate bait with a deadly hook; a sweet panther with a devouring paunch, a sour poison in a silver pot.

Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame.

It is the eye of the master that fatteth the horse, and the love of the woman that maketh the man.

Be valyaunt, but not too venturous. Let thy attyre bee comely, but not costly.

An Englishman hath three qualities, he can suffer no partner in his love, no stranger to be his friend, nor to be dared by any.

None but the lark so shrill and clear;
Now at heaven's gate she claps her wings,
The morn not waking till she sings.

A comely olde man as busie as a bee.

Though women have small force to overcome men by reason; yet have they good fortune to undermine them by policy.

The greatest harm that you can do unto the envious, is to do well.

To love women and never enjoy them, is as much to love wine and never taste it.

Whilst that the childe is young, let him be instructed in vertue and lytterature.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Beauty - a deceitful bait with a deadly hook.

To love and to live well is wished of many, but incident to few.

In arguing of the shadow, we forgo the substance.

To give reason for fancy were to weigh the fire, and measure the wind.

I thank you for nothing, because I understand nothing.

I am of this mind, that might and malice, deceit and treachery perjury and impiety may lawfully be committed in love; which is lawless.

It is a blind goose that cometh to the fox's sermon.

The bee that hath honey in her mouth hath a sting in her tail.

He that loseth his honesty hath nothing else to lose.

The rules of fair play do not apply in love and war.

As love knoweth no lawes, so it regardeth no conditions

The slothful are always ready to engage in idle talk of what will be done tomorrow, and every day after.

A merry companion is as good as a wagon.

In misery it is great comfort to have a companion.

Long quaffing maketh a short lyfe.

Thou shalt come out of a warme Sunne into God's blessing.

It is the disposition of the thought that altered the nature of the thing.

The greater the kindred is, the lesse the kindnesse must bee.

There can no great smoke arise, but there must be some fire.

Children and fools speak true.

Lette me stande to the maine chance.

Love knoweth no laws.

We might knit that knot with our tongues that we shall never undo with our teeth.

The sun shineth upon the dunghill, and is not corrupted.

Let the falling out of friends be a renewing of affection.

Lips are no part of the head, only made for a double-leaf door for the mouth.

The measure of love is to have no mean, the end to be everlasting.

Water runneth smoothest where it is deepest.

Nothing so perilous as procrastination

As the best wine doth make the sharpest vinegar, so the deepest love turneth to the deadliest hate.

He that comes in print because he would be known, is like the fool that comes into the market because he would be seen.

Whatsoever is in the heart of the sober man, is in the mouth of the drunkard.

For experience teacheth me that straight trees have crooked roots.

The night has a thousand eyes.

Gentlemen use books as Gentlewomen handle their flowers, who in the morning stick them in their heads, and at night strawe them at their heeles.

The true measure of life is not length, but honesty.

If thy wealth waste, they wit will give but small warmth.

It is good walking when one hath his horse in hand.

It is far more seemly
to have thy Studie full of Bookes,
than thy Purse full of money.

All fish are not caught with flies

Where the countenance is fair, there need no colors.

The wound that bleedeth inward is most dangerous.

The broken bone, once set together, is stronger than ever.

A clear conscience is a sure card.

Do you think that any one can move the heart but He that made it?

As lyke as one pease is to another.

Things of greatest profit are set forth with least price. Where the wine is neat there needeth no live blush.

If love be a god, why should not lovers be virtuous?

The rattling thunderbolt hath but his clap, the lightning but his flash, and as they both come in a moment, so do they both end in a minute.

If all the earth were paper white / And all the sea were ink / 'Twere not enough for me to write / As my poor heart doth think.

The finest edge is made with the blunt whetstone.

The fallyng out of faithfull frends is the renuyng of loue.

Far more seemly to have thy study full of books, than thy purse full of money.

Children and fooles speake true.

A Rose is sweeter in the budde than full blowne.

It is a world to see.

All men [are] of one metal, but not in one mold.

The soft droppes of rain perce the hard marble.