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Lawyers houses are built on the heads of fooles.
Lawyers houses are built on the heads of fooles.
A Caske and an ill custome must be broken.
A Caske and an ill custome must be broken.
A friend is a second self.
A friend is a second self.
Presse a stick, and it seemes a youth.
Presse a stick, and it seemes a youth.
Power acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose.
[Lat., Imperium flagitio acquisitum nemo unquam bonis artibus read more
Power acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose.
[Lat., Imperium flagitio acquisitum nemo unquam bonis artibus
exercuit.]
Censure pardons the ravens but rebukes the doves. [The innocent
are punished and the wicked escape.]
Censure pardons the ravens but rebukes the doves. [The innocent
are punished and the wicked escape.]
It's a bold mouse that nestles in the catts eare.
It's a bold mouse that nestles in the catts eare.
The beast that goes alwaies never wants blowes.
The beast that goes alwaies never wants blowes.
New customs,
Though they be never so ridiculous,
(Nay, let 'em be unmanly), yet are followed.
New customs,
Though they be never so ridiculous,
(Nay, let 'em be unmanly), yet are followed.
