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Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye.
Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye.
Come, shepherd, let us make an honorable retreat; though not with
bag and baggage, yet with scrip and crippage.
Come, shepherd, let us make an honorable retreat; though not with
bag and baggage, yet with scrip and crippage.
It is sheer folly to tear the hair in grief as if sorrow could be
cured by baldness.
It is sheer folly to tear the hair in grief as if sorrow could be
cured by baldness.
He that is at ease seekes dainties.
He that is at ease seekes dainties.
To dismiss a guest is a more ungracious act than not to admit him
at all.
To dismiss a guest is a more ungracious act than not to admit him
at all.
The ofspring of those that are very young, or very old, lasts
not.
The ofspring of those that are very young, or very old, lasts
not.
The finishing stroke of all sorrow.
The finishing stroke of all sorrow.
To live with them is far less sweet,
Than to remember thee!
To live with them is far less sweet,
Than to remember thee!
