Quick believers need broad shoulders.
When thou dost tell another's jest, therein Omit the oaths, which true wit cannot need; Pick out of tales the mirth, but not the sin.
He that needs five thousand pound to live, Is full as poor as he that needs but five.
Trust no friend with that you need fear him if he were your enemy.
There needs a long time to know the worlds pulse.
The soule needs few things, the body many.
The effect speakes, the tongue needes not. [The effect speaks, the tongue needs not.]
He that would be well, needs not goe from his owne house. [He that would be well needs not go from his own house.]
Nothing wears clothes, but Man; nothing doth need But he to wear them.
The God of love my shepherd is, And he that doth me feed: While he is mine, and I am his, What can I want or need?
We live in an age that hath more need of good example than precepts.
He that gains well and spends well needs no count book.