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Fierce eagles breed not the tender dove.
Fierce eagles breed not the tender dove.
Always keep your hook in the water: where you least expect one,
the fish will be found.
Always keep your hook in the water: where you least expect one,
the fish will be found.
Where you thinke there is bacon, there is no Chimney.
Where you thinke there is bacon, there is no Chimney.
Seek not to inquire what the morrow will bring with it.
Seek not to inquire what the morrow will bring with it.
No injury can be complained of by a consenting party.
No injury can be complained of by a consenting party.
Ships feare fire more then water.
Ships feare fire more then water.
Better times perhaps await us who are now wretched.
Better times perhaps await us who are now wretched.
Such as she is, who died to-day,
Such thou alas! mayst be to-morrow.
Such as she is, who died to-day,
Such thou alas! mayst be to-morrow.
A master of straw eates a servant of steele.
A master of straw eates a servant of steele.