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When devils will the blackest sins put on,
They do suggest at first with heavenly shows!
When devils will the blackest sins put on,
They do suggest at first with heavenly shows!
Hold one another's noses to the grindstone hard.
Hold one another's noses to the grindstone hard.
But thy true lovers more admire by far
Thy naked beauties; give me a cigar.
But thy true lovers more admire by far
Thy naked beauties; give me a cigar.
Jest not with the eye or with Religion.
Jest not with the eye or with Religion.
'Tis easier to build two chimneys, then to maintaine one.
'Tis easier to build two chimneys, then to maintaine one.
There is more of bitterness than good nature in him.
There is more of bitterness than good nature in him.
He who would eat the kernel, must crack the shell.
[Lat., Qui e nuce nucleum esse vult, frangat nucem.]
He who would eat the kernel, must crack the shell.
[Lat., Qui e nuce nucleum esse vult, frangat nucem.]
You whirled them to the back of beyont.
You whirled them to the back of beyont.
It is hard to abstain from writing satire.
It is hard to abstain from writing satire.