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Let none say, I will not drinke water.
Let none say, I will not drinke water.
Idle folks have the most labour.
Idle folks have the most labour.
Corne is cleaned with winde, and the soule with chastnings.
Corne is cleaned with winde, and the soule with chastnings.
What is bred in the bone will never come out of the flesh.
What is bred in the bone will never come out of the flesh.
The good mother sayes not, Will you? but gives.
The good mother sayes not, Will you? but gives.
It's not improbable that a man may receive more solid
satisfaction from pudding while he is alive than from read more
It's not improbable that a man may receive more solid
satisfaction from pudding while he is alive than from praise
after he is dead.
Not surpassing in crafty measures, but in the power of arms.
Not surpassing in crafty measures, but in the power of arms.
The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.
The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.
Come what come may,
Time and the hour runs through the roughest day.
Come what come may,
Time and the hour runs through the roughest day.