But why pursue the common tale?
Or wherefore show how knights prevail,
When ladies dare to hear?

But why pursue the common tale?
Or wherefore show how knights prevail,
When ladies dare to hear?

A pound of idleness weighs twenty ounces.

A pound of idleness weighs twenty ounces.

Time rolls his ceaseless course.

Time rolls his ceaseless course.

A wilful man maun hae his way.

A wilful man maun hae his way.

Let the straight-limbed laugh at the club-footed, the white
skinned at the blackamoor.

Let the straight-limbed laugh at the club-footed, the white
skinned at the blackamoor.

An angelic boyhood becomes a Satanic old age.
[Lat., Angelicus juvenis senibus satanizat in annis.]

An angelic boyhood becomes a Satanic old age.
[Lat., Angelicus juvenis senibus satanizat in annis.]

Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things.

Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things.

The world itself is too small for the covetous.

The world itself is too small for the covetous.

Let your mind, happily contented with the present, care not what
the morrow will bring with it.

Let your mind, happily contented with the present, care not what
the morrow will bring with it.