| The medicine that hurts the most is generally the best healer. |
| Take care of your pennies and your dollars will take care of themselves. |
| Better half hanged, than ill married. |
| A day to come seems longer than a year that’s gone. |
| Married folk are like rats in a trap; fain to get others in, but fain to be out themselves. |
| A pound of care will not pay an ounce of debt. |
| Be a friend to yourself and others will. |
| A great boaster is rarely a great performer. |
| Laws catch flies, but let hornets go free. |
| Never let your feet run faster than your shoes. |
| He who marries a chicken, soon gets henpecked. |
| To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties. |
| Him who's born to be hanged, will never be drowned. |
| Insults should be well avenged or well endured. |
| Prayer and practice is good rhyme. |
| He who lives upon hope has a slim diet. |
| A begun turn is half ended. |
| Confessed faults are half-mended. |
| It's a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock. |
| False friends are worse than bitter enemies. |
| Better bend than break. |
| Never marry for money. You can borrow it cheaper. |
| They who smell least, smell best. |
| Every man’s tale is good till another’s be told. |
| Modesty is the beauty of women. |
| Never show your teeth unless you can bite. |
| A slothful man is a beggar’s brother. |
| A wise lawyer never goes to law himself. |
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