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loves juftice at another man's house; no-
body cares for it at his own. He who
keeps company with great men is the laft
at the table, and the first at any toil or
danger. Every one hath his cricket in his
head, and makes it fing as he pleases. In
the conclufion, even forrows with bread are
good. When war begins, hell gates are
fet open. He that hath nothing knows no-
thing, and he that hath nothing is nobody.
He who hath more, hath more care, ftill
defires more, and enjoys lefs. At a danger-
ous paffage give the precedency. The
ficknefs of the body may prove the health
of the foul. Working in your calling is
half praying. An ill book is the worst of
thieves. The wife hand doth not all which
the foolish tongue faith. Let not your
tongue fay what your head may pay for.
The beft armour is to keep out of gun-
fhot. The good woman doth not fay,
Will you have this? but gives it you.
That is a good misfortune which comes
alone. He who doth no ill hath nothing
to fear. No ill befalls us but what may
be for our good. He that would be mafter
of his own must not be bound for another.
Eat after your own fashion, clothe yourfelf
as others do. A fat phyfician, but a lean
monk. Make yourself all honey, and the
flies will cat you up. Marry a wife, and
buy a horse from your neighbour. He is
mafter of the world who defpifes it; its
flave who values it. This world is a cage
of fools. He who hath moft patience
best enjoys the world. If veal (or mut-
ton) could fly, no wild fowl could come
near it. He is unhappy who wishes to die;
but more fo he who fears it. The more
you think of dying, the better you will live.
He who oft thinks on death provides for
the next life. Nature, time, and patience,
are the three great phyficians. When the
fhip is funk every man knows how the
might have been faved. Poverty is the
worft guard for chastity. Affairs, like falt-
fish, ought to lie a good while a foaking.
He who knows nothing is confident in
every thing. He who lives as he fhould,
has all that he needs. By doing nothing,
men learn to do ill.
The beft revenge is
to prevent the injury. Keep yourself from
the occafion, and God will keep you from
the fins it leads to. One eye of the mafter
fees more than four eyes of his fervant.
He who doth the injury never forgives the
injured man. Extravagant offers are a
kind of denial. Vice is fet off with the

fhadow or refemblance of virtue. The
Shadow of a lord is an hat or cap for a

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Large trees give more fhade than fruit. True love and honour go always together. He who would please every body in all he doth, troubles himself, and contents nobody. Happy is the man who doth all the good he talks of. That is beit or fineft which is moft fit or feasonable. He is a good orator who prevails with himfelf. One pair of ears will drain dry an hundred tongues. A great deal of pride obfcures, or blemishes, a thousand good qualities. He who hath gold hath fear, who hath none, hath forrow. An Arcadian aís, who is laden with gold, and eats but straw. The hare catched the lion in a net of gold. Obftinacy is the worft, the most incurable of all fins. Lawyers gowns are lined with the wilfulnefs of their clients. Idleness is the mother of vice, the step-mother to all virtues. He who is employed is tempted by one devil; he who is idle, by an hundred. An idle man is a bolter for the devil. Idleness buries a man alive. He that makes a good war hath a good peace. He who troubles not himself with other men's bufinefs, gets peace and ease thereby. Where peace is, there God is or dwells. The world without peace is the foldier's pay. Arms carry peace along with them. A lit tle in peace and quiet is my heart's with. He bears with others, and faith nothing, who would live in peace. One father is fuflicient to govern an hundred children, and an hundred children are not fufficient to govern one father. The mafter is the eye of the house. The first fervice a bad child doth his father, is to make him a fool; the next is, to make him mad. A rich country and a bad road. A good lawyer is a bad neighbour. He who pays well is matter of every body's purie. Another man's bread cofts very dear. Have you bread and wine? fing and be merry. If there is but little bread, keep it in your hand; if but a little wine, drink often; if but a little bed, go to bed early, and clap yourfelf down in the middle. 'Tis good keeping his cloaths who goes to fwim. A man's own opinion is never in the wrong. He who fpeaks little, needs but half fo much brains as another man. He who knows mott, commonly speaks leaft. Few men take his advice who talks a great deal. He that is going to speak ill of another, let him confider himself well, and he will hold his peace. Eating little, and fpeaking little, can never do a man hurt. A civil answer to a rude fpeech cofts not much, and is worth a great deal,

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Speaking without thinking is shooting without taking aim. He doth not lofe his labour who counts every word he fpeaks. One mild word quenches more heat than a whole bucket of water. Yes, good words to put off your rotten apples. Give every man good words, but keep your purfe-ftrings clofe. Fine words will not keep a cat from ftarving. He that hath no patience, hath nothing at all. No patience, no true wifdom. Make one bargain with other men, but make four with yourfelf. There is no fool to a learned fool. The first degree of folly is to think one's felf wife; the next to tell others fo; the third to defpife all counfel. If wife men play the fool, they do it with a vengeance. One fool in one houfe is enough in all confcience. He is not a thorough wife man who cannot play the fool on a juft occasion. A wife man doth that at the first which a fool must do at the laft. Men's years and their faults are always more than they are willing to own. Men's fins and their debts are more than they take them to be. Punishment, though lame, overtakes the finner at the last. He confiders ill, that confiders not on both fides. Think much and often, fpeak little, and write lefs. Confider well, Who you are, What you do, Whence you came, and Whither you are to go. Keep your thoughts to yourself, let your mien be free and open. Drink wine with pears, and water after figs. When the pear is ripe, it must fall of courfe. He that parts with what he ought, lofes nothing by the shift. Forgive every man's faults except your own. To forgive injuries is a noble and God-like revenge. 'Tis a mark of great proficiency, to bear eafily the failings of other men. Fond love of a man's felf fhews that he doth not know himself. That which a man likes well is half done. He who is ufed to do kindneffes, always finds them when he ftands in need. A wife lawyer never goes to law himself. A fluggard takes an hun dred fteps because he would not take one in due time. When you are all agreed upon the time, quoth the curate, I will make it rain. I will do what I can, and a little less, that I may hold out the better. Trust fome few, but beware of all men. He who knows but little prefently outs with it. He that doth not mind fmall things will never get a great deal. John Dolittle was the son of Good-wife Spin-little. To know how to be content with a little, is

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not a morfel for a fool's mouth. That is never to be called little, which a man thinks to be enough. Of two cowards, he hath the better who firft finds the other The worst pig often gets the beft pear. The devil turns his back when he finds the door fhut against him. The wifer man yields to him who is more than his match. He who thinks he can do moft, is molt mistaken. The wife difcourfes of a poor man go for nothing. Poor folks have neither any kindred nor any friends. Good preachers give their hearers fruit, not flowers. Woe to thofe preachers who liften not to themselves. He who quakes for cold, either wants money to buy him cloaths, or wit to put them on. Poverty is a good hated by all men. He that would have a thing done quickly and well, must do it himself. He who knows moft is the leaft prefuming or confident. 'Tis more noble to make yourfelf great, than to be born fo. The beginning of an amour (or gallantry) is fear, the middle fin, and the end forrow or repentance. The beginning only of a thing is hard, and costs dear. A fair promife catches the fool. He who is bound for another goes in at the wide end of the horn, and must come out at the narrow if he can. Promifing is not with defign to give, but to please fools. Give no great credit to a great promifer. Profperity is the worst enemy men ufually have. Proverbs bear age, and he who would do well may view himself in them as in a looking-glass. proverb is the child of experience. He that makes no reckoning of a farthing, will not be worth an halfpenny. Avoid carefully the firft ill or mischief, for that will breed an hundred more. Reafon governs the wife man, and a cudgel the fool. Suffering is the mother of fools, reafon of wife men. If you would be as happy as any king, confider not the few that are before, but the many that come behind you. Our religion and our language we fuck in, with our milk. Love, knavery, and neceffity, make men good orators. There is no fence against what comes from Heaven. husbandry is the first step towards riches. A ftock once gotten, wealth grows up of its own accord. Wealth hides many a great fault. Good ware was never dear, nor a mifs ever worth the money the cofts. The fool's eftate is the firft fpent. Wealth is his that enjoys it, and the world is his who fcrambles for it. A father with very great weth, and a fon with no virtue at

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all. Little wealth, and little care and trouble. The Roman conquers by fitting ftill at home. Between robbing and reftoring, men commonly get thirty in the hundred. He is learned enough who knows how to live well. The more a man knows, the lefs credulous he is. There is no harm in defiring to be thought wife by others, but a great deal in a man's thinking himself to be fo. Bare wages never made a fervant rich. Lofing much breeds bad blood. Health without any money is half fickness. When a man is tumbling down, every faint lends a hand. He that unfeafonably plays the wife man is a fool. He that pretends too much to wisdom is counted a fool. A wife man never fets his heart upon what he cannot have. A lewd batchelor makes a jealous husband. That crown is well spent which faves you ten. Love can do much, but fcorn or difdain can do more, If you would have a thing kept fecret, never tell it to any one; and if you would not have a thing known of you, never do it. Whatever you are going to do or fay, think well firft what may be the confequence of it. They are always felling wit to others who have leaft of it for them felves. He that gains time gains a great point. Every ditch is full of after-wit. A little wit will ferve a fortunate man. The favour of the court is like fair weather in winter. Neither take for a fervant him who you must entreat, nor a kinfman, nor a friend, if you would have a good one. A man never lofes by doing good offices to others. He that would be well ferved, must know when to change his fervants. Ignorance and profperity make them bold and confident. He who employs one fervant in any bufineffes, hath him all there; who employs two, hath half a fervant; who three, hath never a one. Either a civil grant, or a civil denial. When you have any bufinefs with a man give him title enough. The covetous man is the bailiff, not the mafter, of his own eftate. Trouble not your head about the weather, or the government. Like with like looks well, and lafts long. All worldly joy is but a short-lived dream. That is a curf ed pleasure that makes a man a fool. The foldier is well paid for doing mifchief. A foldier, fire, and water, foon make room for themselves. A confidering, careful man is half a conjurer. A man would not be alone even in paradife. One nap finds out, or draws on another. Have good

luck, and you may lie in bed. He that will maintain every thing must have his fword always ready drawn. That house is in an ill cafe where the diftaff commands the fword. One fword keeps another in the fcabbard. He that speaks ill of other men, burns his own tongue. He that is moft liberal where he should be fo, is the best hufband. He is gainer enough who gives over a vain hope. A mighty hope is a mighty cheat. Hope is a pleasant kind of deceit. A man cannot leave his experience or wisdom to his heirs. Fools learn to live at their own coft, the wife at other men's. He is mafter of the whole world who hath no value for it. He who faith Woman, faith Wo to man. One enemy is too much for a man in a great poft, and an hundred friends are too few. Let us enjoy the prefent, we shall have trouble enough hereafter. Men toil and take pains in order to live eafily at laft. He that takes no care of himself, must not expect it from others. Industry makes a gallant man, and breaks ill fortune. Study, like a staff of cotton, beats without noise. Mother-in-law and daughter-in-law are a tempeft and hail-ftorm. If pride were a deadly difeafe, how many would be now in their graves! He who cannot hold his peace will never lie at cafe. A fool will be always talking, right or wrong. In filence there is many a good morfel. Pray hold your peace, or you will make me fail afleep. The table, a fecret thief, fends its mafter to the hofpital. Begin your web, and God will fupply you with thread. Too much fear is an enemy to good deliberation. As foon as ever God hath a church built for him, the devil gets a tabernacle fet up for himfelf. Time is a file that wears, and makes no noife. Nothing is fo hard to bear well as profperity. Patience, time, and money, fet every thing to rights. The true art of making gold is to have a good eitate, and to fpend but little of it. Abate two-thirds of all the reports you hear. A fair face, or a fine head, and very little brains in it. He who lives wickedly lives always in fear. beautiful face is a pleafing traitor. If three know it, all the world will know it too. Many have too much, but nobody hath enough. An honest man hath half as much more brains as he needs, a knave hath rot half enough. A wife man changes his mind when there is reafon for it. From hearing, comes wisdom; and from speaking repentance. Old age

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is an evil defired by all men, and youth an advantage which no young man underftands. He that would have a good revenge, let him leave it to God. Would you be revenged on your enemy? live as you ought, and you have done it to pur pofe. He that will revenge every affront, either falls from a good poft, or never gets up to it. Truth is an inhabitant of heaven. That which feems probable is the greatest enemy to the truth. A thoufand probabilities cannot make one truth. 'Tis no great pains to speak the truth. That is most true which we least care to hear. Truth hath the plague in his houfe (i. e. is carefully avoided). A wife man will not tell fuch a truth as every one will take for a lie. Long voyages occafion great lies. The world makes men drunk as much as wine doth. Wine and youth are fire upon fire. Enrich your younger age with virtue's lore. 'Tis virtue's picture which we find in books. Virtue must be our trade and fludy, not our chance. We fhall have a houfe without a fault in the next world. Tell me what life you lead, and I will tell you how you fhall die. He is in a low form who never thinks beyond this fhort life. Vices are learned without a teacher. Wicked men are dead whilst they live. He is rich who defires nothing more. To recover a bad man is a double kindness or virtue. Who are you for? I am for him whom I get most by. He who eats bnt of one dish never wants a physician. He hath lived to ill purpose who cannot hope to live after his death. Live as they did of old; speak as men do now. The mob is a terrible monfter. Hell is very full of good meanings and intentions. He only is well kept whom God keeps. Break the legs of an evil cuftom. Tyrant cuftom makes a flave of reafon. Experience is the father, and memory the mother of wifdom. He whe doeth every thing he has a mind to do, doth not what he should do. He who fays all that he has a mind to fay, hears what he hath no mind to hear. That city thrives best where virtue is moft efteemed and rewarded. He cannot go wrong whom virtue guides. The fword kills many, but wine many more. "Tis truth which makes the man angry. He who tells all the truth he knows, muft lie in the streets. Oil and truth will get uppermoft at the laft. A probable story is the best weapon of calumny. He counts very unfkilfully who leaves God out of his reckoning. No

thing is of any great value but God only. All is good that God fends us. He that hath children, all his morfels are not his own. Thought is a nimble footman. Many know every thing else, but nothing at all of themselves. We ought not to give the fine flour to the devil, and the bran to God. Six foot of earth make all men of one fize. He that is born of a hen must scrape for his living. Afflictions draw men up towards heaven. That which does us good is never too late. Since my house must be burnt, I will warm myself at it. Tell every body your bufnefs, and the devil will do it for you. A man was hanged for faying what was true. Do not all that you can do; fpend not all that you have; believe not all that you hear; and tell not all that you know. A man fhould learn to fail with all winds. He is the man indeed who can govern himfelf as he ought. He that would live long, muft fometimes change his course of life. When children are little they make their parents heads ach; and when they are grown up, they make their hearts ach. To preach well, you must first practife what you teach others. Ufe or practice of a thing is the best master. A man that hath learning is worth two who have it not. A fool knows his own bufinefs better than a wife man doth another's. He who understands moft is other men's master. Have a care of-Had I known this before.- -Command your fervant, and do it yourself, and you will have lefs trouble. You may know the mafter by his man. He who ferves the public hath but a fcurvy mafter. He that would have good offices done to him, must do them to others. 'Tis the only true liberty to serve our good God. The common foldier's blood makes the general a great man. An huge great houfe is an huge great trouble. Never advise a man to go to the wars, nor to marry. Go to the war with as many as yon can, and with as few to counfel. 'Tis better keeping. out of a quarrel, than to make it up afterward. Great birth is a very poor dish on the table. Neither buy any thing of, nor fell to, your friend. Sickness or difeafes are vifits from God. Sickness is a perfonal citation before our Judge. Beauty and folly do not often part company. Beauty beats a call upon a drum. Teeth placed before the tongue give good advice. A great many pair of hoes are worn out before men do all they say. A

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great many words will not fill a purfe. Make a flow answer to an hally quellion. Self-praife is the ground of hatred. Speak ing evil of one another is the fifth element men are made up of. When a man fpeaks you fair, look to your purfe. Play not with a man till you hurt him, nor jeft till you fhame him. Eating more than you should at once, makes you eat lefs afterward. He makes his grief light who thinks it fo. He thinks but ill who doth not think twice of a thing. He who goes about a thing himfelf, hath a mind to have it done; who fends another, cares not whether it be done or no. There is no difcretion in love, nor counfel in anger. Withes never can fill a fack. The firit ftep a man makes towards being good, is to know he is not fo already. He who is bad to his relations is wort to himfelf. 'Tis good to know our friends' failings, but not to publish them. A man may fee his own faults in thofe which others do. 'Tis the virtue of faints to be always going on from one kind and degree of virtue to another. A man may talk like a wife man, and yet act like a fool. Every one thinks he hath more than his fhare of brains. The firit chapter (or point) of fools is to think they are wife men. Difcretion, or a true judgment of things, is the parent of all virtue. Chaftity is the chief and most charming beauty. Little confcience and great diligence make a Never count four except you have them in your bag. Open your door to a fair day, but make yourfelf ready for a foul one. A little too late is too late ftill. A good man is ever at home whereever he chance to be. Building is a word that men pay dear for. If you would be healthful, clothe yourself warm, and eat paringly. Rich men are flaves condemn ed to the mines. Many men's eftates come in at the door, and go out at the chimney. Wealth is more dear to men than their blood or life is. Foul dirty water makes the river great. That great faint intereft rules the world alone. Their power and their will are the meafures princes take of right and wrong. In governing others you must do what you can do, not all you would do. A wife man will stay for a convenient season, and will bend a little, rather than be torn up by the roots. Ever buy your wit at other men's charges. You must let your phlegm fubdue your choler, if you would not spoil your bufinefs. Take not phyfic when you are well, let you die to be better. Do not

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do evil to get good by it, which never yet happened to any. That pleafure's much too dear which is bought with any pain. To live poor that a man may die rich, is to be the king of fools, or a fool in grain. Good wine makes a bad head, and a long ftory. Be as eafy as you can in this world, provided you take good care to be happy in the next. Live well, and be cheerful. A man knows no more to any purpofe than he practifes. He that doth most at once, doth lealt. He is a wretch whofe hopes are all below. Thank you, good puss, tarved my cat. No great good comes without looking after it. Gather the rofe, and leave the thorn behind. He who would be rich in one year is harg ed at fix months end. He who hath a mouth will certainly eat. Go early to the market, and as late as ever you can to a battle. The barber learns to have at the beards of fools. He who is lucky (or rich) paffes for a wife man too. He commands enough who is ruled by a wife man. He who reveals his fecret makes himself a flave. Gaming fhews what metal a man is made of. How can the cat help it if the maid be a fool? Fools grow up apace without any watering. God fupplies him with more who lays out his eftate well. The printing-prefs is the mother of errors. Let me fee your man dead, and I will tell you how rich he is. Men live one half of the year with art and deceit, and the other half with deceit and art. Do yourself a kindnefs, Sir. [The beggar's phrafe for Give alms.] I was well, would be better; took phyfic, and died. [On a monument.] All row galley-wife; every man draws towards himself. He who hath money and capers is provided for Lent. A proud man hath vexation or fretting enough. He who buys by the penny keeps his own houfe and other men's too. Tell me what company you keep, and I will tell you what you do. At a good pennyworth paufe a while. He who doth his own bufinefs doth not foul his fingers. 'Tis good feating at other men's houfes. A wife man makes a virtue of what he cannot help. Talk but little, and live as you should do.

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