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I'll put a spoke among your wheels.
I'll put a spoke among your wheels.
Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and
hatred therewith.
Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and
hatred therewith.
We but teach
Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return
To plague the inventor.
We but teach
Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return
To plague the inventor.
Admonish your friends in private; praise them in public.
Admonish your friends in private; praise them in public.
The soule needs few things, the body many.
The soule needs few things, the body many.
Feare, the Bedle of the Law.
Feare, the Bedle of the Law.
Of two evils choose the least.
[Lat., E duobus malis minimum eligendum.]
Of two evils choose the least.
[Lat., E duobus malis minimum eligendum.]
He who trusts himself for safety to the care of a wicked man, in
seeking succour meets with ruin.
He who trusts himself for safety to the care of a wicked man, in
seeking succour meets with ruin.
One swallow does not make spring.
One swallow does not make spring.