If you would live for ever you must wash milk from your liver.
_Vin sur lait, c'est souhait; lait sur vin, c'est venin._
Butter is gold in the morning, silver at noon, and lead at night.
He that would live for aye, must eat sage in May.
_Cur moriatur homo, cui salvia crescit in horto?_
After cheese comes nothing.
An egg and to bed.
You must drink as much after an egg as after an ox.
He that goes to bed thirsty rises healthy.
_Qui couche avec la soif, se leve avec la sante._
One hour's sleep before midnight is worth two hours after.
Who goes to bed supperless, all night tumbles and tosses.
Often and little eating makes a man fat.
Fish must swim thrice.
_Poisson, goret, et cochon vit en l'eau, mort en vin._
Drink wine and have the gout, drink no wine and have it too.
Young men's knocks, old men feel.
_Quae peccamus Juvenes, ea luimus Senes._
Go to bed with the lamb, and rise with the lark.
Early to bed, and early to rise,
Makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
Wash your hands often, your feet seldom, and your head never.
Eat at pleasure, drink by measure.
_Pain tant qu'il dure, vin a mesure._
Cheese is a peevish elf,
It digests all but itself.
_Caseus est nequam,
Quia digerit omnia se quam._
The best physicians are Dr. Diet, Dr. Quiet, and Dr. Merryman.
_Si tibi deficiant medici, medici tibi fiant
Haec tria; mens laeta, requies, moderata diaeta._
Drink in the morning staring,
Then all the day be sparing.
Eat a bit before you drink.
Feed sparingly and dupe the physician.
Better be meals many than one too many.
You should never touch your eye but with your elbow.
_Non patitur ludum fama, fides, oculus._
The head and feet keep warm, the rest will take no harm.
_Tenez chaud le pied et la tete, au demurant vives en bete._
_Qui ne boit vin apres salade, est en danger d'etre malade._
Cover your head by day as much as you will, by night as much as you can.
Fish spoils water, but flesh mends it.
Apples, pears, and nuts spoil the voice.
Quartan agues kill old men and cure young.
Old fish, old oil, and an old friend.
_Pesce, oglio, ed amico vecchio._
Raw pullet, veal, and fish, make the churchyard fat.
Of wine the middle, of oil the top, of honey the bottom.
_Vino di mezzo, oglio di sopra, e miele di sotto._
The air of a window is the stroke of a cross-bow.
_Aria di finestra, colpo di balestra._
_Piscia chiaro, ed incaca al medico._
When the wind is in the east, it's neither good for man nor beast.
A hot May makes a fat churchyard.
That city is in a bad case, whose physicians have the gout.--_Hebrew
Proverb._
When the sun rises, the disease will abate.[21]
If you take away the salt, throw the meat to the dogs.
_Splen ridere facit, cogit amare jecur._[22]
Lever a cinq, diner a neuf.
Souper a cinq, coucher a neuf.
Font vivre dans nonante neuf.
_Surge quinta, prande nona, coena quinta, dormi nona, nec est morti vita
prona._
Hunger's the best sauce.