1.
A good husband makes a good wife.
John Florio
2.
Who has not served cannot command.
John Florio
3.
Wisdom sails with wind and time.
John Florio
4.
Praise the sea; on shore remain.
John Florio
5.
England is the paradise of women, the purgatory of men, and the hell of horses.
John Florio
6.
A deaf husband and a blind wife are always a happy couple.
John Florio
7.
Night is the mother of thoughts.
John Florio
8.
To long for that which comes not. To lie a-bed and sleep not. To serve well and please not. To have a horse that goes not. To have a man obeys not. To lie in jail and hope not. To be sick and recover not. To lose one's way and know not. To wait at door and enter not, and to have a friend we trust not: are ten such spites as hell hath not.
John Florio
9.
Patience is the best medicine.
John Florio
10.
Fish marreth the water, and flesh doth dress it
John Florio
11.
Who hath not served can not command.
John Florio
12.
Be circumspect how you offend schollers, for knowe, a serpent tooth bites not so ill, as dooth a schollers angrie quill.
John Florio
13.
One hand washeth another, both the face.
[Lat., Una mano lava l'altra, ed ambedue lavano il volto.]
John Florio
14.
If you will be a traveler, have always two bags very full. That is one of patience and another of money.
John Florio
15.
From the physician and lawyer keep not the truth hidden.
John Florio
16.
Poverty is no vice, but an inconvenience.
John Florio
17.
For proverbs are the pith, the proprieties, the proofs, the purities, the elegancies, as the commonest so the commendablest phrases of a language. To use them is a grace, to understand them a good.
John Florio
18.
Who will not suffer labor in this world, let him not be born.
John Florio
