Quotes to inspire and reflect

Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.

The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

That's the nature of women not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.

There is no love lost between us.

There is a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us out flat some time or other.

Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted.

The pot calls the kettle black.

Many count their chickens before they are hatched and where they expect bacon, meet with broken bones.

The more thou stir it, the worse it will be.

They can expect nothing but their labour for their pains.

Every man was not born with a silver spoon in his mouth.

As ill-luck would have it.

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

Delay always breeds danger.

Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world.

Building castles in the air, and making yourself a laughing-stock.

Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.

Love not what you are, but what you may become.

Tell me thy company, and I will tell thee what thou art.

Spare your breath to cool your porridge.

Never look for birds of this year in the nests of the last.

Sing away sorrow, cast away care.

There is a time for some things, and a time for all things a time for great things, and a time for small things.

I was so free with him as not to mince the matter.

Little said is soonest mended.

The ass will carry his load, but not a double load ride not a free horse to death.

Let me leap out of the frying-pan into the fire or, out of God's blessing into the warm sun.

Liberty is one of the most valuable blessings that Heaven has bestowed upon mankind.

Let every man mind his own business.

Let every man look before he leaps.

My heart is wax moulded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain.

All is not gold that glitters.

Within a stone's throw of it.

I can look sharp as well as another, and let me alone to keep the cobwebs out of my eyes.

He is as mad as a March hare.

He has an oar in every man's boat, and a finger in every pie.

What a man has, so much he is sure of.

In the night all cats are gray.

When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.

When the head aches, all the members partake of the pain.

You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his throne.

I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion.

You may as well expect pears from an elm.

You cannot eat your cake and have your cake.

Fortune leaves always some door open to come at a remedy.

Fear is sharp-sighted, and can see things under ground, and much more in the skies.

I find my familiarity with thee has bred contempt.

Which I have earned with the sweat of my brows.