Make every bargain clear and plain,
That none may afterwards complain.

An old ape has an old eye.

Antiquity is not always a mark of verity.

The wind in a man's face makes him wise.

Life without a friend is like death without a witness.

He that counts all cost will never put plough in the earth.

Never meet trouble half-way.

Who depends upon another man's table often dines late.

Many without punishment, none without sin.

He that pryeth into every cloud may be struck with a thunderbolt.

Custom is the plague of wise men and the idol of fools.

Better one-eyed than stone blind.

Beggars breed and rich men feed.

Though thou has never so many counselors, yet do not forsake the counsel of your soul.

Learning makes the wise wiser and the fool more foolish.

Ndustry is Fortune's right hand, and Frugality her left.

My personal credo as a libertarian conservative: I think all attempts to reform your fellow-citizens or tell them how to live their lives are arrogant and tyrannical. THAT'S why I oppose Leftism. I want people to be free to manage their own lives. Reform is just authoritarianism. People are not playthings for anybody's theories or obsessions.

He that buys land buys many stones,

He that buys flesh buys many bones,

He that buys eggs buys many shells,

But he that buys good ale buys nothing else.

What's good for the goose is good for the gander.

Spend not where you may save; spare not where you must spend.