Robert Burton

Great actions are not always true sons
Of great and mighty resolutions.

Great actions are not always true sons
Of great and mighty resolutions.

Wonders I sing; the sun has set; no night has followed.
[Lat., Mira cano; sol occubuit;
Nox read more

Wonders I sing; the sun has set; no night has followed.
[Lat., Mira cano; sol occubuit;
Nox nulla secuta est.]

And were it not that they are loath to lay out money on a rope,
they would be hanged read more

And were it not that they are loath to lay out money on a rope,
they would be hanged forthwith, and sometimes die to save
charges.

Cookery is become an art, a noble science; cooks are gentlemen.

Cookery is become an art, a noble science; cooks are gentlemen.

When they are at Rome, they do there as they see done.

When they are at Rome, they do there as they see done.