The man that’s out his portion cools (i.e., out of sight, out of mind).
That’s great softening on the butter-milk.
The law of lending is to break the ware.
No heat like that of shame.
A candle does not give light till lit.
Don’t praise your son-in-law till the year’s out.
It is not a sheep’s head that we wouldn’t have another turn at it (there being only one meal in a sheep’s head).
The glory the head cannot bear, ’twere better not there.
He that does not tie a knot will lose his first stitch.
The fox never found a better messenger than himself.