"Let me leap out of the frying-pan into the fire; or, out of God's blessing into the warm sun."
"There is no love lost between us."
"He had a face like a benediction."
"Let every man look before he leaps."
"Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted."
"Honesty is the best policy."
"The ass will carry his load, but not a double load; ride not a free horse to death."
"Take care, your worship, those things over there are not giants but windmills."
"Fear is sharp-sighted, and can see things under ground, and much more in the skies."
"For historians ought to be precise, truthful, and quite unprejudiced, and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should cause them to swerve from the path of truth, whose mother is history, the rival of time, the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instruction of the present, the monitor of the future."
"You may as well expect pears from an elm."
"Delay always breeds danger and to protract a great design is often to ruin it."
"The bow cannot possibly always stand bent, nor can human nature or human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation."
"A closed mouth catches no flies."
"As they use to say, spick and span new."
"A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush."
"The proof of the pudding is [in] the eating."
"Every man was not born with a silver spoon in his mouth."
"The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works."
"The pot calls the kettle black."
"I was so free with him as not to mince the matter."
"Fortune leaves always some door open to come at a remedy."
"I never thrust my nose into other men's porridge. It is no bread and butter of mine; every man for himself, and God for us all."
"Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched."
"Spare your breath to cool your porridge."