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[ Also see Catchphrases Laws of Life and Nature Old Sayings Proverbial Phrases Proverbs (General) ]

The mill cannot grind with water that's past.
      - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum

The Mill gets by going.
      - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum

The miserable man makes a peny of a farthing, and the liberall of a farthing sixe pence.
  [The miserable man maketh a penny of a farthing, and the liberal of a farthing sixpence.]
      - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum

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.]
      - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum

The morning Sunne never lasts a day.
      - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum

The Mr. absent, and the house dead.
      - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum

The noise is greater then the nuts.
      - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum

The offender never pardons.
      - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum

The ofspring of those that are very young, or very old, lasts not.
      - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum

The perswasion of the fortunate swaies the doubtfull.
      - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum

The Philosophy of Princes is to dive into the Secrets of men, leaving the secrets of nature to those that have spare time.
      - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum

The Physitian owes all to the patient, but the patient owes nothing to him but a little mony.
      - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum

The rage of a wild boar is able to spoil more then one wood.
      - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum

The reasons of the poore weigh not.
  [The reasons of the poor weigh not.]
      - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum

The resolved minde hath no cares.
  [The resolved mind hath no cares.]
      - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum

The Reverend are ever before.
      - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum

The Rich knowes not who is his friend.
  [The rich knows not who is his friend.]
      - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum

The river past, and God forgotten.
      - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum

The Royall Crowne cures not the head-ach.
  [The Royal Crown cures not the headache.]
      - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum

The scalded head feares cold water.
      - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum

The sight of a man hath the force of a Lyon.
      - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum

The singing man keepes his shop in his throate.
      - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum

The slothful is the servant of the counters.
      - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum

The Smith and his penny both are black.
      - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum

The sonne full and tattered, the daughter empty and fine.
      - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum

The soule needs few things, the body many.
      - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum

The table robbes more then a thiefe.
      - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum

The thorne comes forth with the point forwards.
      - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum

The thought hath good leggs, and the quill a good tongue.
      - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum

The thread breakes, where it is weakest.
      - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum

The tongue is not steele, yet it cuts.
  [The tongue is not steel yet it cuts.]
      - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum

The tongue talkes at the heads cost.
      - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum

The tongue walkes where the teeth speede not.
      - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum

The tooth-ach is more ease then to deale with ill people.
      - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum

The tree that God plants, no winde hurts it.
      - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum

The tree that growes slowly, keepes it selfe for another.
      - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum

The vertue of a coward is suspition.
      - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum

The War is not don so long as my Enemy lives.
  [The war is not done so long as my enemy lives.]
      - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum

The way is an ill neighbour.
      - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum

The wearer knowes, where the shoe wrings.
  [The wearer knows best where the shoe pinches.]
      - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum

The wife is the key of the house.
      - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum

The wind in ones face makes one wise.
      - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum

The wine in the bottell doth not quench thirst.
  [The wine in the bottle does not quench thirst.]
      - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum

The wise hand doth not all that the foolish mouth speakes.
  [The wise hand doth not all that the foolish mouth speaks.]
      - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum

The wolfe eats oft of the sheep that have been warn'd.
      - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum

The Wolfe knowes, what the ill beast thinkes.
      - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum

The Wolfe must dye in his owne skinne.
  [The wolf must die in his own skin.]
      - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum

The words ending in Ique do mocke the Physician (as Hectique, Paralitique, Apoplectique, Lethargique).
      - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum

The world is now adayes, God save the Conquerour.
      - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum

The worst of law is, that one suit breedes twenty.
  [The worst of law is that one suit breeds twenty.]
      - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum


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