To give importance to trifling matters.
The more haste, the less speed.
The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, As sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.
Put your toong in your purse.
Better is half a loaf than no bread.
Let the world wagge, and take mine ease in myne Inne.
Don't put the cart before the horse.
It's no use closing the barn door after the horse is gone.
Cut your coat according to your cloth.
Follow pleasure, and then will pleasure flee, Flee pleasure, and pleasure will follow thee.
None so blind as those who won't see.
Pryde will have a fall;For pryde goeth before and shame commeth after.
It hurts not the tongue to give faire words.
All things on earth thus change, some up, some down; Content's a kingdom, and I wear that crown.
Children and fooles cannot lye.
Prove your friend ere you have need, but in deed A friend is never known till a man have need.
No man ought to looke a given horse in the mouth.
Every cocke is proud on his owne dunghill.
So many heads so many wits.
There is no fyre without some smoke.
When the sunne shineth, make hay.
And death makes equal the high and low.
The grey mare is the better horse.
Wedding is destiny, And hanging likewise.
The tide tarrieth no man.
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