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Integrity is praised and starves.
Integrity is praised and starves.
To be too busie gets contempt.
To be too busie gets contempt.
Which he by hook or crook has gather'd
And by his own inventions father'd.
Which he by hook or crook has gather'd
And by his own inventions father'd.
Never look a gift horse in the mouth.
[Lat., Noli equi dentes inspicere donati.]
Never look a gift horse in the mouth.
[Lat., Noli equi dentes inspicere donati.]
Whistle, and I'll come to you, my lad.
Whistle, and I'll come to you, my lad.
In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is King.
In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is King.
Bear with evil, and expect good.
Bear with evil, and expect good.
Pedigree and ancestry and what we ourselves have not achieved, I
scarcely recognize as our own.
Pedigree and ancestry and what we ourselves have not achieved, I
scarcely recognize as our own.
A bad dog never sees the Wolfe.
A bad dog never sees the Wolfe.