As you make your bed, so you must lie in it.

Age and Aging

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Beginning

A good beginning makes a good end.

Children

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Debt

Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them.

Experience

A burnt child dreads the fire.

Fools and Foolishness

Fools build houses, and wise men buy them.

Happiness

If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden; If you want to be happy for life, plant a tree.

Husbands

The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives.

Kindness

Sometimes you must be cruel to be kind.

Love

He that plants trees loves others besides himself.

Necessity

Foul water will quench fire.

Opportunity

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Poverty and The Poor

Poverty is not a shame, but the being ashamed of it is.

Time and Time Management

There is but an hour a day between a good housewife and a bad one.

Virtue

Sell not virtue to purchase wealth.