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Are you not accustomed to look at home, when you abuse others?
Are you not accustomed to look at home, when you abuse others?
Fill the bright goblet, spread the festive board!
Fill the bright goblet, spread the festive board!
In an evil hour thou bring'st her home. [You are marrying a
shrew.]
In an evil hour thou bring'st her home. [You are marrying a
shrew.]
Without favour none will know you, and with it you will not know
your selfe.
Without favour none will know you, and with it you will not know
your selfe.
Fortune, delighting in her cruel task, and playing her wanton
game untiringly, is ever shifting her uncertain favours.
Fortune, delighting in her cruel task, and playing her wanton
game untiringly, is ever shifting her uncertain favours.
To learn from other men's mistakes to prevent your own.
To learn from other men's mistakes to prevent your own.
O, what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practise to deceive!
O, what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practise to deceive!
A man that keeps riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that
carries gold and eats thistles.
A man that keeps riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that
carries gold and eats thistles.
All is not gold that glisters.
All is not gold that glisters.
