You May Also Like / View all maxioms
Manners with Fortunes, Humours turn with Climes,
Tenets with Books, and Principles with Times.
Manners with Fortunes, Humours turn with Climes,
Tenets with Books, and Principles with Times.
Great things rush to the destruction of each other.
Great things rush to the destruction of each other.
Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
[Lat., Fortuna multis dat nimis, satis nulli.]
Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
[Lat., Fortuna multis dat nimis, satis nulli.]
Hug the shore; let others try the deep.
Hug the shore; let others try the deep.
Old soldiers never die;
They fade away!
Old soldiers never die;
They fade away!
A far greater warfare lies hidden under this assumed peace.
A far greater warfare lies hidden under this assumed peace.
They do not love that do not show their love.
They do not love that do not show their love.
How many cowards whose hearts are all as false
As stairs of sand, wear yet upon their chins
read more
How many cowards whose hearts are all as false
As stairs of sand, wear yet upon their chins
The beards of Hercules and frowning Mars,
Who inward searched, have livers white as milk!
