A dictionary of Proverbs (Oxford Paperback Reference)

bred see also YORKSHIRE born and Yorkshire bred, strong in the arm and weak in the head.
breed see FAMILIARITY breeds contempt; LIKE breeds like.
BREVITY is the soul of wit
In quot. 1600-1 soul of wit should be understood as ‘essence of wisdom’; wit is now commonly understood in its modern sense, the ‘(power of giving sudden intellectual pleasure by) the unexpected, quick, and humorous combining or contrasting of ideas or expressions’ (COD).

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  1600-1 SHAKESPEARE Hamlet II. ii. 90 Since brevity is the soul of wit.. I will be brief. 1833 M. SCOTT Tom Cringle’s Log II. v. Brevity is the soul of wit,—ahem. 1946 D. WELCH Maiden Voyage x. I will not repeat myself, since brevity is the soul of wit. 1996 Washington Post 8 Sept. C5 Clinton is Southern and given to garrulousness while brevity, as they say, is the soul of wit. "brevity and long-windedness
  

As you BREW, so shall you bake
Cf. As you BAKE, so shall you brew. Medieval usage makes the connection between brewing and drinking rather than between brewing and baking, as in the following: 1264 in C. Brown English Lyrics of XIIIth Century (1932) 131 Let him habbe ase he brew, bale [misery] to dryng [drink] a 1325 Cursor Mundi (EETS) 1. 2848 Nathing of that land [is not submerged], Suilk [such] als thai brued now ha thai dronken. c 1450 Towneley Play of Second Shepherd (EETS) 1. 501 Bot we must drynk as we brew And that is bot reson.

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  с 1570 T. INGELEND Disobedient Child D8V As he had brewed, that so shulde bake. 1766 COLMAN & GARRICK Clandestine Marriage I. 3 As you sow, you must reap—as you brew, so you must bake. 1922 S. J. WEYMAN Ovington’s Bank xxiii. No, you may go, my lad. As you ha’ brewed you may bake. ■ action and consequence