You May Also Like / View all maxioms
Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance.
Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance.
Though a lie be well drest, it is ever overcome.
Though a lie be well drest, it is ever overcome.
A laugh, if purchased at the expense of propriety, costs too
much.
A laugh, if purchased at the expense of propriety, costs too
much.
Censure pardons the ravens but rebukes the doves. [The innocent
are punished and the wicked escape.]
Censure pardons the ravens but rebukes the doves. [The innocent
are punished and the wicked escape.]
Short boughs, long vintage.
Short boughs, long vintage.
There is a good deal in a man's mode of eating.
There is a good deal in a man's mode of eating.
In misfortune if you cultivate a cheerful disposition you will
reap the advantage of it.
In misfortune if you cultivate a cheerful disposition you will
reap the advantage of it.
Who eates his cock alone must saddle his horse alone.
Who eates his cock alone must saddle his horse alone.
