You May Also Like / View all maxioms
I do not sacrifice, but lend myself to business.
I do not sacrifice, but lend myself to business.
Wine that cost nothing is digested before it be drunke.
Wine that cost nothing is digested before it be drunke.
That folly of old age which is called dotage is peculiar to silly
old men, not to age itself.
That folly of old age which is called dotage is peculiar to silly
old men, not to age itself.
The gentle Hawke halfe mans her selfe.
The gentle Hawke halfe mans her selfe.
Patience lightens the burthen we cannot avert.
Patience lightens the burthen we cannot avert.
A good bargaine is a pick-purse.
A good bargaine is a pick-purse.
Hee that blowes in the dust fills his eyes with it.
Hee that blowes in the dust fills his eyes with it.
Everything in art is but a copy of nature.
Everything in art is but a copy of nature.
One to destroy is murder by the law,
And gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe;
To read more
One to destroy is murder by the law,
And gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe;
To murder thousands takes a specious name,
War's glorious art, and gives immortal fame.
