W. L. George Quotes

He that steals an egg will steal an ox.

That which will not be spun, let it not come betweene the spindle and the distaffe.

He that lives most dies most.

Hee pays too deare for honey that licks it from thornes.

An old cat sports not with her prey.

He that hath children, all his morsels are not his owne.

He that hath love in his brest, hath spurres in his sides.

He that hath one foot in the straw, hath another in the spittle.

Count not fowre except you have them in a wallett.

God, and Parents, and our Master, can never be requited.

He that is not in the warres is not out of danger.

He that takes not up a pin, slights his wife.

To take the nuts from the fire with the dogges foot. [To take the nuts from the fire with the dog's foot.]

He that sowes trusts in God.

He that commits a fault, thinkes every one speakes of it. [He that commits a fault thinks everyone speaks of it.]

Money wants no followers.

The more women looke in their glasse, the lesse they looke to their house. [The more women look in their glass, the less they look to their house.]

Better never begin than never make an end.

God oft hath a great share in a little house.

The hard gives more then he that hath nothing.

The healthfull man can give counsell to the sick.

He that goeth farre hath many encounters.

Love without end, hath no end, says the Spaniard: (meaning, if it were not begun on particular ends, it would last).

Every ill man hath his ill day.

A scab'd horse cannot abide the comb.

Religion a stalking horse to shoot other foul.

Religion, Credit, and the Eye are not to be touched.

Rivers neede a spring.

Saint Luke was a Saint and a Physitian, yet is dead.

Say no ill of the yeere, till it be past. [Say no ill of the year till it be past.]

Send a wise man on an errand, and say nothing unto him. [Send a wise man on an errand, and say nothing to him.]

Serve a noble disposition, though poore, the time comes that hee will repay thee.

Service is no Inheritance.

Set good against evill. [Set good against evil.]

Shee spins well that breedes her children.

Shewa good man his errour and he turnes it to a vertue, but an ill, it doubles his fault.

Ships feare fire more then water. [Ships fear fire more than water.]

Silke doth quench the fire in the Kitchin.

Sinnes are not knowne till they bee acted.

Slander is a shipwrack by a dry Tempest.

Sleepe without supping, and wake without owing.

Soft and faire goes farre.

Some had rather lose their friend then their Jest.

Some make a conscience of spitting in the Church, yet robbe the Altar.

Some men plant an opinion they seem to erradicate.

Speake fitly, or be silent wisely.

Speake not of a dead man at the table.

Spies are the ears and eyes of Princes.

States have their conversions and periods as well as naturall bodies.

Still fisheth he that catcheth one.