Quotes to inspire and reflect

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

The pot calls the kettle black.

They can expect nothing but their labour for their pains.

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

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.

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

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

Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.

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

Spare your breath to cool your porridge.

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

Sing away sorrow, cast away care.

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

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.

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

Little said is soonest mended.

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.

All is not gold that glitters.

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

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

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

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 cannot eat your cake and have your cake.

You may as well expect pears from an elm.

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

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

Which I have earned with the sweat of my brows.

I find my familiarity with thee has bred contempt.

An honest man's word is as good as his bond.

God bears with the wicked, but not forever.

A little in one's own pocket is better than much in another man's purse.

As they use to say, spick and span new. Miguel de Cervantes A closed mouth catches no flies.

It is past all controversy that what costs dearest is, and ought to be, most valued.

I must follow him through thick and thin.