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The proud hate pride in others.
Sep 10, 2025
A word to the wise is enough, and many words won't fill a bushel.
Do good to thy friend to keep him, to thy enemy to gain him.
The way to be safe is never to be secure.
Trusting too much to others care is the ruin of many.
The ancients tell us what is best; but we must learn of the moderns what is fittest.
When you speak to a man, look on his eyes; when he speaks to you, look on his mouth.
Observe all men, thyself most.
Teach your child to hold his tongue; he'll learn fast enough to speak.
An old young man, will be a young old man.
Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.
Lost time is never found again, and what we call time enough, always proves little enough.
Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.
The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense.
It is better to take many injuries than to give one.
Cut the Wings of your Hens and Hopes, lest they lead you a weary Dance after them.
Handle your tools without mittens.
Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.
Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.
Sin is not hurtful because it is forbidden, but it is forbidden because it is hurtful.
If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.
As sore places meet most rubs, proud folks meet most affronts.
To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
Better slip with foot than tongue.
Neglect mending a small fault and 'twill soon be a great one.
The most exquisite folly is made of wisdom spun too fine.
If you, do what you should not, you must bear what you would not.
Hear no ill of a friend, nor speak any of an enemy.
The doors of wisdom are never shut.
Virtue and Happiness are Mother and Daughter.
It is ill-manners to silence a fool and cruelty to let him go on
Then plough deep while sluggards sleep, and you shall have corn to sell and to keep.
Plough deep while sluggards sleep.
Friends and neighbors complain that taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might the more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly.
Friendship cannot live with ceremony, nor without civility.
Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.
Lost time is never found again.
Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.
The poor have little; beggars, none; the rich, too much; enough, not one.
Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy
Speak with contempt of none, from slave to king, The meanest Bee hath, and will use, a sting.
To be proud of knowledge is to be blind with light.
To be humble to superiors is a duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness.
It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
Who is strong? He that can conquer his bad habits.
Silence is not always a sign of wisdom, but babbling is ever a mark of folly.
Poverty wants some things, Luxury many things, Avarice all things
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that; for it is true we may give advice, but we cannot give conduct.
Fools need advice most, but wise men only are the better for it.
He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.