I.B. George Quotes

Such a Saint, such an offering.

Sweet discourse makes short daies and nights. [Sweet discourse makes short days and nights.]

Take heed of a person marked, and a Widdow thrice married. [Take heed of a person marked, and a widow thrice married.]

Take heed of a step-mother; the very name of her sufficeth.

Take heed of a young wench, a prophetesse, and a Lattin bred woman.

Take heed of credit decaid, and people that have nothing.

Take heed of foul dirty wayes, and long sicknesse.

Take heed of mad folks in a narrow place.

Take heed of the wrath of a mighty man, and the tumult of the people.

Take heed of winde that comes in at a hole, and a reconciled Enemy.

Take heede of an oxe before, of an horse behind, of a monke on all sides.

Take heede of the viniger of sweet wine.

That is not good language which all understand not.

That which sufficeth is not little.

That which two will, takes effect.

That's the best gowne that goes up and downe the house.

The absent partie is still faultie.

The back-doore robs the house.

The ballance distinguisheth not betweene gold and lead.

The beast that goes alwaies never wants blowes.

The best of the sport is to doe the deede, and say nothing.

The bit that one eates, no friend makes.

The body is more drest then the soule.

The charges of building and making of gardens are unknowne.

The chiefe boxe of health is time.

The child saies nothing, but what it heard by the fire.

The cholerick man never wants woe.

The Chollerick drinkes, the Melancholick eats, the Flegmatick sleepes.

The comforters head never akes.

The command of custome is great.

The constancy of the benefit of the yeere in their seasons argues a Deity.

The corne hides it self in the snow, as an old man in furrs.

The crow bewailes the sheepe, and then eates it.

The dainties of the great are the teares of the poore.

The death of a young wolfe doth never come too soon.

The Devill is not alwaies at one doore.

The Divell never assailes a man, except he find him either void of knowledge, or of the fear of God.

The dog gnawes the bone because he cannot swallow it.

The dog that licks ashes, trust not with meale. [The dog that licks ashes trust not with meal.]

The effect speakes, the tongue needes not. [The effect speaks, the tongue needs not.]

The escaped mouse ever feeles the taste of the bait. [The escaped mouse ever feels the taste of the bait.]

The evening praises the day, and the morning a frost.

The eye and Religion can beare no jesting.

The eye is bigger then the belly. [The eye is bigger than the belly.]

The eye will have his part.

The fault is as great as hee that is faulty.

The fault of the horse is put on the saddle.

The faulty stands on his guard.

The first dish pleaseth all.

The first service a child doth his father is to make him foolish.