If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.
As you make your bed, so you must lie in it.
A stumble may prevent a fall.
A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.
The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.
Be not deceived with the first appearance of things, for show is not substance.
Use soft words and hard arguments.
A poor beauty finds more lovers than husbands.
A good beginning makes a good end.
A blind man will not thank you for a looking-glass.
Cheat me in the price, but not in the goods.
Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.
Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.
While the doctors consult, the patient dies.
Death is a shadow that always follows the body.
Death always comes too early or too late.
Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them.
The difference is wide that sheets will not decide.
He that seeks trouble never misses.
Never step over one duty to perform another.
A burnt child dreads the fire.
The first faults are theirs that commit them, the second theirs that permit them.
A small family is soon provided for.
Don't dig your grave with your knife and fork.
Fools build houses, and wise men buy them.
He is a fool that kisseth the maid when he may kiss the mistress.
You may poke a man's fire after you've known him for seven years.
Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight.
The best throw of the dice is to throw them away.
Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him.
Take heed you do not find what you do not seek.
Gray hairs are death's blossoms.
If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden; If you want to be happy for life, plant a tree.
We are usually the best men when in the worst health.
A hero is a man who is afraid to run away.
Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.
The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives.
An idle brain is the devil's workshop.
'Tis money that begets money.
Many a true word is spoken in jest.
Sometimes you must be cruel to be kind.
A young man idle, an old man needy.
Learning makes a man fit company for himself as well as for others.
He that plants trees loves others besides himself.
The mob has many heads but no brains.
He that would the daughter win must with the mother first begin.
Sticks and stones will break my bones, but names will never hurt me.
Foul water will quench fire.
Love your neighbor, yet pull not down your hedge.
The ship that will not obey the helm will have to obey the rocks.
Who is so deaf or so blind as he that willfully will neither hear nor see?
Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.
You must not expect old heads upon young shoulders.
No barber shaves so close but another finds his work.
Don't halt before you are lame.
Poverty is not a shame, but the being ashamed of it is.
Ask God for what man can give, and you may get it.
A full cup must be carried steadily.
A proverb is the child of experience.
When the sword of rebellion is drawn, the sheath should be thrown away.
Still waters run deep.
Six hours for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool.
To talk without thinking is to shoot without aiming.
There is but an hour a day between a good housewife and a bad one.
Time is the soul of business.
It is an equal failing to trust everybody, and to trust nobody.
It takes all sorts to make a world.
Sell not virtue to purchase wealth.
Sorrow for a husband is like a pain in the elbow, sharp and short.
Where there's a will, there's a way.
Two wrongs do not make a right.