You May Also Like / View all maxioms
Oh, sweet youth, how soon it fades!
Sweet joys of youth, how fleeting!
Oh, sweet youth, how soon it fades!
Sweet joys of youth, how fleeting!
Time is the Rider that breakes youth.
Time is the Rider that breakes youth.
'Tis gone: a thousand such have slipt
Away from my embraces:
And fallen into the dusty crypt
read more
'Tis gone: a thousand such have slipt
Away from my embraces:
And fallen into the dusty crypt
Of darken'd forms and faces.
A little more than kin, and less than kind!
A little more than kin, and less than kind!
The more they drink the more they thirst.
The more they drink the more they thirst.
Crime requires further crime to conceal it.
Crime requires further crime to conceal it.
What sorrow was, thou bad'st her know,
And from her own she learnt to melt at others' woe.
What sorrow was, thou bad'st her know,
And from her own she learnt to melt at others' woe.
And yet your fair discourse hath been as sugar,
Making the hard way sweet and delectable.
And yet your fair discourse hath been as sugar,
Making the hard way sweet and delectable.
'Tis an easy thing to find a staff to beat a dog.
'Tis an easy thing to find a staff to beat a dog.
