It is better to be a coward for a minute than dead for the rest of your life.
Pity the man who has a stranger's spancel on him.
You'll never plow a field by turning it over in your mind.
What is in the marrow is hard to take out of the bone.
Twenty years a child; twenty years running wild; twenty years a mature man --and after that, praying.
A trout in the pot is better than a salmon in the sea.
Put a beggar on horseback and he'll go on a gallop.
Often a cow does not take after its breed.
A nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse.
A scholars ink lasts longer than a martyrs blood.
A buckle is a great addition to an old shoe.
A boys best friend is his mother and there's no spancel stronger than her apron string.
Its a bad hen that won't scratch herself.
Do not mistake a goats beard for a fine stallions tail.
It's beter than the loan you couldn't get.
A handstaff of holly, a buailtin of hazel,a single sheaf and a clean floor.