You May Also Like / View all maxioms
A little and good fills the trencher.
A little and good fills the trencher.
Thus the whirligig of time
Brings in his revenges.
Thus the whirligig of time
Brings in his revenges.
Make hast to an ill way that you may get out of it.
Make hast to an ill way that you may get out of it.
Friends fly away when the cask has been drained to the dregs.
Friends fly away when the cask has been drained to the dregs.
But man, proud man,
Drest in a little brief authority,--
Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven
read more
But man, proud man,
Drest in a little brief authority,--
Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven
As make the angels weep.
The judge is condemned when the guilty is acquitted.
[Lat., Judex damnatur cum nocens absolvitur.]
The judge is condemned when the guilty is acquitted.
[Lat., Judex damnatur cum nocens absolvitur.]
Hee wrongs not an old man that steales his supper from him.
Hee wrongs not an old man that steales his supper from him.