You May Also Like / View all maxioms
The chiefe disease that raignes this yeare is folly.
The chiefe disease that raignes this yeare is folly.
Summer lasts not for ever; seasons succeed each other.
Summer lasts not for ever; seasons succeed each other.
Who that has reason, and his smell,
Would not among roses and jasmin dwell?
Who that has reason, and his smell,
Would not among roses and jasmin dwell?
Be what thou wouldst seeme to be.
Be what thou wouldst seeme to be.
But we are all men
In our own natures frail.
But we are all men
In our own natures frail.
Yet gold all is not that doth golden seem.
Yet gold all is not that doth golden seem.
Without businesse debauchery.
Without businesse debauchery.
The miserable man makes a peny of a farthing, and the liberall of
a farthing sixe pence.
The miserable man makes a peny of a farthing, and the liberall of
a farthing sixe pence.