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What is not in a man cannot come out of him surely.
What is not in a man cannot come out of him surely.
Anger manages everything badly.
Anger manages everything badly.
A pound of idleness weighs twenty ounces.
A pound of idleness weighs twenty ounces.
It's more paine to doe nothing then something.
It's more paine to doe nothing then something.
Be not too thick with anybody; your joys will be fewer, and so
will pains.
Be not too thick with anybody; your joys will be fewer, and so
will pains.
Busily engaged in doing nothing. [A squirrel in a cage.]
Busily engaged in doing nothing. [A squirrel in a cage.]
The sweetest honey
Is loathsome in his own deliciousness
And in the taste confounds the appetite.
The sweetest honey
Is loathsome in his own deliciousness
And in the taste confounds the appetite.
An upbraided morsell never choaked any.
An upbraided morsell never choaked any.
Happy is the man to whom nature has given a sufficiency with even
a sparing hand.
Happy is the man to whom nature has given a sufficiency with even
a sparing hand.