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When war is raging the laws are dumb.
When war is raging the laws are dumb.
How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds
Makes ill deeds done.
How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds
Makes ill deeds done.
Snuffling through his nose some stale joke.
Snuffling through his nose some stale joke.
He who preserves a man's life against his will does the same
thing as if he slew him.
He who preserves a man's life against his will does the same
thing as if he slew him.
A hungry stomach rarely despises rough food.
A hungry stomach rarely despises rough food.
There is no reliance to be placed on appearance.
There is no reliance to be placed on appearance.
His bark is worse than his bite.
His bark is worse than his bite.
Take heede of an oxe before, of an horse behind, of a monke on
all sides.
Take heede of an oxe before, of an horse behind, of a monke on
all sides.
Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise,
(That last infirmity of noble mind)
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Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise,
(That last infirmity of noble mind)
To scorn delights, and live laborious days;
But the fair guerdon when we hope to find,
And think to burst out into sudden blaze,
Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears,
And slits the thin-spun life.
