Unknown Sayings

Let your mind, happily contented with the present, care not what
the morrow will bring with it.

Let your mind, happily contented with the present, care not what
the morrow will bring with it.

Though fame is smoke,
Its fumes are frankincense to human thought.

Though fame is smoke,
Its fumes are frankincense to human thought.

Beware of the young doctor and the old barber.

Beware of the young doctor and the old barber.

The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active
employment.

The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active
employment.

There is a good deal in a man's mode of eating.

There is a good deal in a man's mode of eating.

Flames too soon acquire strength if disregarded.

Flames too soon acquire strength if disregarded.

Think you if Laura had been Petrarch's wife
He would have written sonnets all his life?

Think you if Laura had been Petrarch's wife
He would have written sonnets all his life?

A pound of idleness weighs twenty ounces.

A pound of idleness weighs twenty ounces.

But with what incessant and grievous ills is old age surrounded!

But with what incessant and grievous ills is old age surrounded!

You must endure, and not cry out against that which cannot be
avoided.

You must endure, and not cry out against that which cannot be
avoided.