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Sudden friendship, sure repentance.
Sudden friendship, sure repentance.
A fool bolts a door with a boiled carrot.
A fool bolts a door with a boiled carrot.
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!
Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.
Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.
Strict law is often great injustice.
Strict law is often great injustice.
The eagle suffers little birds to sing,
And is not careful what they mean thereby.
The eagle suffers little birds to sing,
And is not careful what they mean thereby.
The worst punishment of all is, that in the court of his own
conscience no guilty man is acquitted.
The worst punishment of all is, that in the court of his own
conscience no guilty man is acquitted.
Too much taking heede is losse.
Too much taking heede is losse.
Begging a courtesy is selling liberty.
Begging a courtesy is selling liberty.