The first glass for thirst, the second for nourishment, the third for pleasure and the fourth for madness.
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Even reckoning makes long friends.
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Name not a rope in his house that hanged himself.
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An ape is ne'er so like an ape, as when he wears a doctor's cape.
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Death is the grand leveller.
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Bread never falls but on its buttered side.
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If the Staff be crooked, the shadow cannot be straight.
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A traveller may lie with authority.
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He whose belly is full believes not him who is fasting.
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All one's geese are swans.
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What youth is used to, age remembers.
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Old men are twice children.
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Honour the tree that gives you shelter.
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Who spits against heaven, it falls in his face.
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The cow knows not What her tail is worth till she hath lost it.
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A fool will laugh when he is drowning.
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Fair words fill not the belly.
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What good can it do an ass to be called a lion?
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I gave the mouse a hole and she is become my heir.
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If the lion's skin cannot, the fox's shall.
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