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A kinsman, a friend, or whom you intreate, take not to serve you,
if you will be served neately.
A kinsman, a friend, or whom you intreate, take not to serve you,
if you will be served neately.
If fooles should not foole it, they shall lose their season.
If fooles should not foole it, they shall lose their season.
Fortune is never satisfied with bringing one sorrow.
Fortune is never satisfied with bringing one sorrow.
But this swift business
I must uneasy make, lest too light winning
Make the prize light.
But this swift business
I must uneasy make, lest too light winning
Make the prize light.
Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people.
Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people.
Ill comes in by ells, and goes out by inches.
Ill comes in by ells, and goes out by inches.
Good hay, sweet hay, hath no fellow.
Good hay, sweet hay, hath no fellow.
The hard gives more then he that hath nothing.
The hard gives more then he that hath nothing.
Things are worth what they will fetch at a sale.
Things are worth what they will fetch at a sale.