Men and melons are hard to know.
Marry’d in Haste, we oft repent at Leisure.
Marriage is the proper Remedy. It is the most natural State of Man, and therefore the State in which you are most likely to find solid Happiness.
Many would live by their Wits, but break for want of Stock.
Many Foxes grow grey, but few grow good.
Many Estates are spent in the Getting, Since Women for Tea forsook Spinning and Knitting, And Men for Punch forsook Hewing and Splitting.
Many dishes many diseases, Many medicines few cures.
Many a Man thinks he is buying Pleasure, when he is really selling himself a Slave to it.
Man’s tongue is soft, and bone doth lack; Yet a stroke therewith may break a man’s back.
Lost Time is never found again.
Little Strokes, Fell great Oaks.
Let thy vices die before thee.