You May Also Like / View all maxioms
Each day that fate adds to your life, put down as so much gain.
Each day that fate adds to your life, put down as so much gain.
Begging a courtesy is selling liberty.
Begging a courtesy is selling liberty.
Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones.
Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones.
Every man's censure is first moulded in his own nature.
Every man's censure is first moulded in his own nature.
Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise,
(That last infirmity of noble mind)
To read more
Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise,
(That last infirmity of noble mind)
To scorn delights, and live laborious days;
But the fair guerdon when we hope to find,
And think to burst out into sudden blaze,
Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears,
And slits the thin-spun life.
All seems infected that th' infected spy,
As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
All seems infected that th' infected spy,
As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
'Tis easier to build two chimneys, then to maintaine one.
'Tis easier to build two chimneys, then to maintaine one.
It is good to be taught even by an enemy.
It is good to be taught even by an enemy.
I make a declaration every spring,
Of reformation ere the year run out,
But somehow this my read more
I make a declaration every spring,
Of reformation ere the year run out,
But somehow this my vestal vary takes wing.