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I talk of Chalk and you of Cheese; Charity begins at Home; Cut your Coat according to your Cloth; What can’t be cur’d must be endur’d.

Curs’d Cows have short Horns; Much falls between the Cup and the Lip. No longer pipe no longer dance.

Fast bind, fast find; Like Father like Son.

He makes a Rod for his own Breech.

He who has a mind to beat a Dog will easily find a Stick; Naught is never in Danger; Faint Heart never won fair Lady.

One scabbed Sheep marrs a whole Flock; Tread on a Worm and it will turn.

Better play at small Game than stand out; Give him a Rowland for his Oliver.

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Well begun is half ended; All is well that ends well.

Need makes the old Wife trot; [woodcut: barefoot old woman hitches up skirts to cross a stream]

Good Wine needs no Bush; Kissing goes by Favour; A Lark is better than a Kite

What is bred in the Bone will never be out of the Flesh; One Bird in the Hand is worth two in the Bush; A Cat may look upon a king.

A Shoemaker must not go beyond his Last

Give a Man Luck and throw him into the Sea; Money makes the Mare to go; Much falls between the Cup and the Lip.

Proferred Service stinks; The Receiver is as bad as the Thief; Reckon not your Chickens before they are hatched.

As sure as God’s in Gloucestershire; Every Man thinks his own Geese Swans.

When the Steed’s stolen, shut the Stable Door.

To buy a Pig in a poke; Robin Hood’s Pennyworths; He looks one way and rows another.

A Fool’s Bolt is soon shot; Birds of a Feather flock together; Out of the Frying-Pan into the Fire.

Hungry Dogs will eat dirty Pudding; He that would live at Peace and Rest, Must hear and see, and say the Best.

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