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Most men are bad.
Most men are bad.
Love makes a good eye squint.
Love makes a good eye squint.
Come what come may,
Time and the hour runs through the roughest day.
Come what come may,
Time and the hour runs through the roughest day.
You have eaten a meal dangerously seasoned. [You have laid up a
grief in store for yourself.]
You have eaten a meal dangerously seasoned. [You have laid up a
grief in store for yourself.]
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 race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong.
The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong.
Folly growes without watering.
Folly growes without watering.
I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of
Arabia.
I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of
Arabia.
The love of popularity holds you in a vice.
The love of popularity holds you in a vice.