Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher ( 10 of 73 )
I find the medicine worse than the malady.
I find the medicine worse than the malady.
Death hath so many doors to let out life.
Death hath so many doors to let out life.
Go far--too far you cannot, still the farther
The more experience finds you: And go sparing;--
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Go far--too far you cannot, still the farther
The more experience finds you: And go sparing;--
One meal a week will serve you, and one suit,
Through all your travels; for you'll find it certain,
The poorer and the baser you appear,
The more you look through still.
No friend's a friend till [he shall] prove a friend.
No friend's a friend till [he shall] prove a friend.
Hunger is sharper than the sword.
Hunger is sharper than the sword.
And he that will to bed go sober,
Falls with the leaf still in October.
And he that will to bed go sober,
Falls with the leaf still in October.
Calamity is man's true touch-stone.
- Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher,
Calamity is man's true touch-stone.
- Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher,
A civil habit
Oft covers a good man.
A civil habit
Oft covers a good man.
One foot in the grave.
One foot in the grave.
It is always good
When a man has two irons in the fire.
It is always good
When a man has two irons in the fire.
