You May Also Like / View all maxioms
An old mans staffe is the rapper of deaths doore.
An old mans staffe is the rapper of deaths doore.
A mans discontent is his worst evill.
A mans discontent is his worst evill.
Even a ring of iron is worn away by constant use.
Even a ring of iron is worn away by constant use.
Thinke of ease, but worke on.
Thinke of ease, but worke on.
Sweet is pleasure after pain.
Sweet is pleasure after pain.
When sorrows come, they come not single spies,
But in battalions: first, her father slain;
Next, your read more
When sorrows come, they come not single spies,
But in battalions: first, her father slain;
Next, your son gone, and he most violent author
Of his own just remove; the people muddied,
Thick and unwholesome in their thoughts and whispers
For good Polonius' death, and we have done but greenly
In hugger-mugger to inter him; poor Ophelia
Divided from herself and her fair judgment,
Without the which we are pictures or mere beasts;
Last, and as much containing as all these,
Her brother is in secret come from France,
Feeds on his wonder, keeps himself in clouds,
And wants not buzzers to infect his ear
With pestilent speeches of his father's death,
Wherein necessity, of matter beggared,
Will nothing stick our person to arraign
In ear and ear.
Life without a friend is death without a witnesse.
Life without a friend is death without a witnesse.
Men who ape the saint and play the sinner.
Men who ape the saint and play the sinner.
