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Wit's an unruly engine, wildly striking
Sometimes a friend, sometimes the engineer:
Hast thou the knack? pamper read more
Wit's an unruly engine, wildly striking
Sometimes a friend, sometimes the engineer:
Hast thou the knack? pamper it not with liking;
But if thou want it, buy it not too deare
Many affecting wit beyond their power,
Have got to be a deare fool for an houre.
The government of China
has become like
UK and US a pirate
of innocent kidnapped
pharmaceutically abused primates.
The government of China
has become like
UK and US a pirate
of innocent kidnapped
pharmaceutically abused primates.
Abuse a man unjustly and you will make friends for him.
Abuse a man unjustly and you will make friends for him.
He that flings dirt at another dirtieth himself the most.
He that flings dirt at another dirtieth himself the most.
It is better to receive than to do an injury.
[Lat., Accipere quam facere injuiam praestat.]
It is better to receive than to do an injury.
[Lat., Accipere quam facere injuiam praestat.]
It costs more to revenge injuries than to bear them.
It costs more to revenge injuries than to bear them.
Injuries may be forgiven, but not forgotten.
Injuries may be forgiven, but not forgotten.
There are some cases. . . in which the sense of injury breeds --not the will to inflict injuries and read more
There are some cases. . . in which the sense of injury breeds --not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but --a hatred of all injury.
Justice consists of doing no one injury, decency in giving no one offense.
Justice consists of doing no one injury, decency in giving no one offense.