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Gaming, women, and wine, while they laugh they make men pine.
Gaming, women, and wine, while they laugh they make men pine.
I hate all children of precocious talent.
I hate all children of precocious talent.
The rage of a wild boar is able to spoil more then one wood.
The rage of a wild boar is able to spoil more then one wood.
Gamsters and race-horses never last long.
Gamsters and race-horses never last long.
The wearer knowes, where the shoe wrings.
[The wearer knows best where the shoe pinches.]
The wearer knowes, where the shoe wrings.
[The wearer knows best where the shoe pinches.]
Very slight violence will break that which has once been cracked.
Very slight violence will break that which has once been cracked.
The silence often of pure innocence
Persuades, when speaking fails.
The silence often of pure innocence
Persuades, when speaking fails.
Alas! the fleeting years, how they roll on!
Alas! the fleeting years, how they roll on!