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Better suffer ill, then doe ill.
Better suffer ill, then doe ill.
Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions than ruined
by too confident a security.
Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions than ruined
by too confident a security.
The tongue walkes where the teeth speede not.
The tongue walkes where the teeth speede not.
Every mile is two in winter.
Every mile is two in winter.
That fair face will as years roll on lose its beauty, and old age
will bring its wrinkles to read more
That fair face will as years roll on lose its beauty, and old age
will bring its wrinkles to the brow.
Men of different tastes have different pursuits.
Men of different tastes have different pursuits.
If the husband be not at home, there is nobodie.
If the husband be not at home, there is nobodie.
But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls
of the air, and they shall read more
But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls
of the air, and they shall tell thee:
Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee: and the fishes
of the sea shall declare unto thee.
Man is to man a god or a wolf.
Man is to man a god or a wolf.