Kill no more pigeons than you can eat.

Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.

Lawyers, Preachers, and Tomtits Eggs, there are more of them hatch’d than come to perfection.

Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.

Lend money to an enemy, and thou will gain him, to a friend and thou will lose him.

Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.

Little strokes, Fell great oaks.

Lost time is never found again.

Man is a tool-making animal.

Many a long dispute among Divines may be thus abridg’d: