You May Also Like / View all maxioms
A leech that will not quit the skin until sated with blood.
A leech that will not quit the skin until sated with blood.
Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye.
Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye.
What! would'st thou have a serpent sting thee twice?
What! would'st thou have a serpent sting thee twice?
Stained
With grief, that's beauty's canter.
Stained
With grief, that's beauty's canter.
Diseases, desperate grown,
By desperate appliance are reliev'd,
Or not at all.
Diseases, desperate grown,
By desperate appliance are reliev'd,
Or not at all.
The charges of building and making of gardens are unknowne.
The charges of building and making of gardens are unknowne.
Common report is not always wrong.
Common report is not always wrong.
If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be
insulted.
If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be
insulted.
An oath that is not to bee made is not to be kept.
An oath that is not to bee made is not to be kept.