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Suretyship is the precursor of ruin.
Suretyship is the precursor of ruin.
Betray not a secret even though racked by wine or wrath.
Betray not a secret even though racked by wine or wrath.
Let him be kept from paper, pen, and ink;
So may he cease to write, and learn to think.
Let him be kept from paper, pen, and ink;
So may he cease to write, and learn to think.
Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.
[Lat., Nihil aliud est ebrietas quam voluntaria insania.]
Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.
[Lat., Nihil aliud est ebrietas quam voluntaria insania.]
Beat all your feathers as flat as pancakes.
Beat all your feathers as flat as pancakes.
Since you know all, and I nothing, tell me what I dreamed last
night.
Since you know all, and I nothing, tell me what I dreamed last
night.
No profit to honour, no honour to Religion.
No profit to honour, no honour to Religion.
Hee that lives well is learned enough.
Hee that lives well is learned enough.
The worst punishment of all is, that in the court of his own
conscience no guilty man is acquitted.
The worst punishment of all is, that in the court of his own
conscience no guilty man is acquitted.