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Every tub must stand upon its bottom.
Every tub must stand upon its bottom.
You can drive out nature with a pitchfork but she keeps on coming
back.
You can drive out nature with a pitchfork but she keeps on coming
back.
He can do most who has most power.
He can do most who has most power.
Health and sicknesse surely are mens double enemies.
Health and sicknesse surely are mens double enemies.
Hee that eats the hard shall eate the ripe.
Hee that eats the hard shall eate the ripe.
Friend, for your epitaph I'm grieved,
Where still so much is said;
One half will never be read more
Friend, for your epitaph I'm grieved,
Where still so much is said;
One half will never be believed,
The other never read.
A scab'd horse cannot abide the comb.
A scab'd horse cannot abide the comb.
One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he
is.
One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he
is.
Vertue now is in herbs and stones and words onely.
Vertue now is in herbs and stones and words onely.