128.* Drink water; put the money in your pocket, and leave the dry-bellyache in the punch-bowl. 129. Drive thy business, or it will drive thee. 130.* Drunkenness, that worst of evils, makes some men fools, some beasts, some devils. 131. Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise. 132. Eat few suppers, and you'll need few medicines. 133.* Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others. 134. Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure. 135. Ever since follies have pleased, fools have been able to divert. 136.* Every man has assurance enough to boast of his honesty, few of their understanding. 137. Experience keeps a dear school, yet fools will learn in no other. 138. Eyes and priests bear no jests. 139. Fear God, and your enemies will fear you. 140.* Fear not death; for the sooner we die, the longer shall we be immortal. 141. Fear to do ill, and you need fear nought else. 142.* Fine linen, girls and gold so bright, choose not to take by candle light. 143.* Fish and visitors stink in three days. 144. Fly pleasures and they'll follow you. 145.* Fond pride of dress is sure an empty curse; e'er fancy you consult, consult your purse. 146. Fools make feasts, and wise men eat 'em. 147. Fools multiply folly. 148.* Fools need advice most, but wise men only are the better for it. 149.* For age and want save while you may; no morning sun lasts a whole day. 150. For one poor man there are an hundred indigent. 151.* For want of a nail the shoe is lost; for want of a shoe, the horse is lost; for want of a horse the rider is lost. 152. Friendship cannot live with ceremony, nor without civility. 153. Friendship increases by visiting friends, but by visiting seldom. 154. Full of courtesy, full of craft. 155. Generous minds are all of kin. 156. Genius without education is like silver in the mine. 157. Gifts burst rocks. 158. Gifts much expected, are paid, not given. 159.* Give me yesterday's bread, this day's flesh, and last year's cyder. 160.* Glass, china, and reputation are easily crack'd, and never well mended. 161. God gives all things to industry. 162. God heals, and the doctor takes the fees. 163. God helps them that help themselves. 164. God, parents, and instructors, can never be requited. 165. Good sense is a thing all need, few have, and none think they want. 166. Good wives and good plantations are made by good husbands. 167. Grace thou thy house, and let not that grace thee. 168. Graft good fruit all, or graft not at all. 169. Great almsgiving, lessens no man's living. 170.* Great estates may venture more; little boats must keep near shore. 171. Great famine when wolves eat wolves. 172. Great good-nature, without prudence, is a great misfortune. 173.* Great merit is coy, as well as great pride. 174. Great modesty often hides great merit. 175. Great spenders are bad lenders. 176. Great talkers, little doers. 177. Great talkers should be cropt, for they've no need of ears. 178. Half hospitality opens his door and shuts up his countenance. 179. Half the truth is often a great lie. 180. Half wits talk much but say little. 181. Happy that Nation, fortunate that age, whose history is not diverting. 182. Happy's the wooing that's not long a doing. 183. Happy Tom Crump, ne'er sees his own hump. 184. Haste makes waste. 185. Harry Smatter, has a mouth for every matter. 186.