To live with them is far less sweet,
Than to remember thee!

To live with them is far less sweet,
Than to remember thee!

Politeness and an affable address are our best introduction.

Politeness and an affable address are our best introduction.

Nothing is so secure as that money will not defeat it.

Nothing is so secure as that money will not defeat it.

Let the cobbler stick to his last.

Let the cobbler stick to his last.

The doctors gave her over--to an ass.

The doctors gave her over--to an ass.

Not even piety will stay wrinkles, nor the encroachments of age,
nor the advance of death, which cannot be read more

Not even piety will stay wrinkles, nor the encroachments of age,
nor the advance of death, which cannot be resisted.

It is as well now and then not to remember all we know.

It is as well now and then not to remember all we know.

Fieldes have eies and woodes have eares.

Fieldes have eies and woodes have eares.

I'll tell the names and sayings and the places of their birth,
Of the seven great ancient sages so read more

I'll tell the names and sayings and the places of their birth,
Of the seven great ancient sages so renowned on Grecian earth,
The Lindian Cleobulus said, "The mean was still the best";
The Spartan Chilo said, "Know thyself," a heaven-born phrase
confessed.
Corinthian Periander taught "Our anger to command,"
"Too much of nothing," Pittacus, from Mitylene's strand;
Athenian Solon this advised, "Look to the end of life,"
And Bias from Priene showed, "Bad men are the most rife";
Milesian Thales uregd that "None should e'er a surety be";
Few were there words, but if you look, you'll much in little see.