Ne’er take a wife till thou hast a house (& a fire) to put her in.
Love well, whip well.
Hunger never saw bad bread.
Beware of the young Doctor & the old Barber.
The poor have little, beggars none, the rich too much, enough not one.
After 3 days men grow weary, of a wench, a guest, & weather rainy.
He that drinks fast, pays slow.
The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
Men & Melons are hard to know.
He’s the best physician that knows the worthlessness of the most medicines.
Keep your mouth wet, feet dry.
Where bread is wanting, all’s to be sold.
Old Maids lead Apes there, where the old Batchelors are turn’d to Apes.
He that has neither fools, whores nor beggars among his kindred, is the son of a thunder-gust.
He that lives upon Hope, dies farting.
Never praise your Cyder, Horse, or Bedfellow.
Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.
Let thy maidservant be faithful, strong, and homely.
Necessity never made a good bargain.
There’s many witty men whose brains can’t fill their bellies.
Pain wastes the Body, Pleasures the Understanding.
There’s more old Drunkards than old Doctors.
She that paints her Face, thinks of her Tail.
Poverty wants some things, Luxury many things, Avarice all things.
A Lie stands on 1 leg, Truth on 2.
Great wits jump (says the Poet) and hit his Head against the Post.
If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the Philosophers-Stone.
Why does the blind man’s wife paint herself?
Force shits upon Reason’s Back.
He that speaks much, is much mistaken.
He that would live in peace & at ease, Must not speak all he knows, nor judge all he sees.
Would you persuade, speak of Interest, not of Reason.
Teach your child to hold his tongue, he’ll learn fast enough to speak.
He that is rich need not live sparingly, and he that can live sparingly need not be rich.
He does not possess Wealth, it possesses him.
Onions can make ev’n Heirs and Widows weep.
A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.
The greatest monarch on the proudest throne, is oblig’d to sit upon his own arse.
Poor Dick, eats like a well man, and drinks like a sick.
Well done is better than well said.
He that pursues two Hares at once, does not catch one and lets t’other go.
Great talkers should be cropt, for they’ve no need of ears.
Who has deceiv’d thee so oft as thy self?
Write with the learned, pronounce with the vulgar.
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
Wish not so much to live long as to live well.
Reading makes a full Man, Meditation a profound Man, discourse a clear Man.
Thou can’st not joke an Enemy into a Friend; but thou may’st a Friend into an Enemy.
How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them!
Tis a strange forest that has no rotten wood in’t.
And a strange Kindred that all are good in’t.
Observe all men; thy self most.
-Richard Suanders.
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