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In the mouth of a bad dog fals often a good bone.
In the mouth of a bad dog fals often a good bone.
Little pitchers have wide eares.
[Little pitchers have wide ears.]
Little pitchers have wide eares.
[Little pitchers have wide ears.]
O how full of briars is this working-day world.
O how full of briars is this working-day world.
Something attempted, something done
Has earned a night's repose.
Something attempted, something done
Has earned a night's repose.
Mere verbiage,--it is not worth a carrot!
Why Socrates or Plato--where's the odds?--
Once taught a jay read more
Mere verbiage,--it is not worth a carrot!
Why Socrates or Plato--where's the odds?--
Once taught a jay to supplicate the Gods,
And made a Polly-theist of a Parrot!
Unsound minds like unsound Bodies, if you feed, you poyson.
Unsound minds like unsound Bodies, if you feed, you poyson.
To a child all weather is cold.
To a child all weather is cold.
The mind does not easily unlearn what it has been long in
learning.
The mind does not easily unlearn what it has been long in
learning.
One faire day in winter makes not birds merrie.
One faire day in winter makes not birds merrie.
