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If thou art terrible to many, then beware of many.

It is always good When a man has two irons in the fire.

And I will fasten him as a nail in a sure place; and he shall be for a glorious throne to his father's house.

Let your loins be girded about, and your light burning; And ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their lord, when he will return from the wedding; that when he cometh and knocketh, they may open unto him immediately.

Prudence is a rich, ugly old maid wooed by incapacity.

And it is a common saying that it is best first to catch the stag, and afterwards, when he has been caught, to skin him.

Look before you ere you leap.

'Tis true no lover has that pow'r T' enforce a desperate amour, As he that has two strings t' his bow, And burns for love and money too.

Let us not throw the rope after the bucket.

Archers ever Have two strings to bow; and shall great Cupid , Be worse provided than a common archer?

Prudence is the knowledge of things to be sought, and those to be shunned.

I prefer silent prudence to loquacious folly.

Precaution is better than cure.

According to her cloth she cut her coat.

. . . Therefore I am wel pleased to take any coulor to defend your honour and hope you wyl remember that who seaketh two strings to one bowe, he may shute strong but never strait.

For chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.

Yes, I had two strings to my bow; both golden ones, egad! and both cracked.

Get Estates may venture more. Little Boats must keep near Shore.

He who does not stretch himself according to the coverlet finds his feet uncovered.

Better is to bow than breake.