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All things require skill, but an appetite.
All things require skill, but an appetite.
Great men are not always wise: neither do the aged understand
judgment.
Great men are not always wise: neither do the aged understand
judgment.
My ventures are not in one bottom trusted.
My ventures are not in one bottom trusted.
Though this may be play to you,
'Tis death to us.
Though this may be play to you,
'Tis death to us.
Like lips like lettuce (i.e. like has met its like).
(Lat., Similem habent labra lactucam.]
Like lips like lettuce (i.e. like has met its like).
(Lat., Similem habent labra lactucam.]
An undying hatred, and a wound never to be healed.
An undying hatred, and a wound never to be healed.
One eye-witness is better than ten hearsays.
One eye-witness is better than ten hearsays.
Things at the worst will cease, or e'en climb upward
To what they were before.
Things at the worst will cease, or e'en climb upward
To what they were before.
A horse stumbles that hath foure legges.
A horse stumbles that hath foure legges.