You May Also Like / View all maxioms
Work while your strength and years permit you; crooked age will
by-and-by come upon you with silent foot.
Work while your strength and years permit you; crooked age will
by-and-by come upon you with silent foot.
Fortune is like glass; she breaks when she is brightest.
Fortune is like glass; she breaks when she is brightest.
He touches nothing but he adds a charm.
He touches nothing but he adds a charm.
It is but the weak and little mind that rejoices in revenge.
It is but the weak and little mind that rejoices in revenge.
All things deteriorate in time.
All things deteriorate in time.
Hee that burnes his house warmes himselfe for once.
Hee that burnes his house warmes himselfe for once.
All things have their place, knew wee how to place them.
All things have their place, knew wee how to place them.
And there is a worm in the lonely wood,
That pierces the liver and blackens the blood,
read more
And there is a worm in the lonely wood,
That pierces the liver and blackens the blood,
And makes it a sorrow to be.