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Faire language grates not the tongue.
Faire language grates not the tongue.
As many men, so many opinions.
As many men, so many opinions.
That which sufficeth is not little.
That which sufficeth is not little.
He never sought to stem the current. [Of a statesman who
accommodates his views to public opinion.]
He never sought to stem the current. [Of a statesman who
accommodates his views to public opinion.]
A pittifull mother makes a scald head.
A pittifull mother makes a scald head.
Sweet to the father is his first-born's birth!
Sweet to the father is his first-born's birth!
He is a foole that makes a wedge of his fist.
He is a foole that makes a wedge of his fist.
Come, shepherd, let us make an honorable retreat; though not with
bag and baggage, yet with scrip and crippage.
Come, shepherd, let us make an honorable retreat; though not with
bag and baggage, yet with scrip and crippage.
Fools make feasts, and wise men eat them.
Fools make feasts, and wise men eat them.
