I hang my ears like an ass whose spirits droop.

I hang my ears like an ass whose spirits droop.

If one swain scorns you, you will soon find another.

If one swain scorns you, you will soon find another.

If you say hard things you must expect to hear them in return.

If you say hard things you must expect to hear them in return.

There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four
which I know not:
The way read more

There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four
which I know not:
The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock;
the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man
with a maid.

Who will think that the gods can be insulted with impunity?

Who will think that the gods can be insulted with impunity?

For the labourer is worthy of his hire.

For the labourer is worthy of his hire.

No one can keep a mask on long.

No one can keep a mask on long.

There would bee no great ones if there were no little ones.

There would bee no great ones if there were no little ones.

Not even piety will stay wrinkles, nor the encroachments of age,
nor the advance of death, which cannot be read more

Not even piety will stay wrinkles, nor the encroachments of age,
nor the advance of death, which cannot be resisted.