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Love-quarrels oft in pleasing concord end.
Love-quarrels oft in pleasing concord end.
For there's no motion
That tends to vice in man, but I affirm
It is the woman's read more
For there's no motion
That tends to vice in man, but I affirm
It is the woman's part.
Wine that cost nothing is digested before it be drunke.
Wine that cost nothing is digested before it be drunke.
God provides for him that trusteth.
God provides for him that trusteth.
It is not becoming to grieve immoderately for the dead.
It is not becoming to grieve immoderately for the dead.
Think'st thou it honourable for a noble man
Still to remember wrongs?
Think'st thou it honourable for a noble man
Still to remember wrongs?
When you are an Anvill, hold you still; when you are a hammer,
strike your fill.
When you are an Anvill, hold you still; when you are a hammer,
strike your fill.
Little pitchers have wide eares.
[Little pitchers have wide ears.]
Little pitchers have wide eares.
[Little pitchers have wide ears.]
Witty remarks are all very well when spoken at a proper time:
when out of place they are offensive.
Witty remarks are all very well when spoken at a proper time:
when out of place they are offensive.