General Sayings ( 460 - 470 of 3562 )
Dull not device by coldness and delay.
Dull not device by coldness and delay.
 It so falls out
 That what we have we prize not to the worth
  Whiles we enjoy read more 
 It so falls out
 That what we have we prize not to the worth
  Whiles we enjoy it; but being lacked and lost,
   Why, then we rack the value. 
I follow him, to serve my turn upon him.
I follow him, to serve my turn upon him.
 'Tis not long after
 But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve,
  For daws to peck read more 
 'Tis not long after
 But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve,
  For daws to peck at. 
She has deceived her father, and may thee.
She has deceived her father, and may thee.
 She loved me for the dangers I had passed,
 And I loved her for having pitied them.  
 She loved me for the dangers I had passed,
 And I loved her for having pitied them. 
But men are men; the best sometimes forget.
But men are men; the best sometimes forget.
 Come, come, good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well 
used. Exclaim no more against it.  
 Come, come, good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well 
used. Exclaim no more against it. 
 Why, then the world's mine oyster,
 Which I with sword will open.  
 Why, then the world's mine oyster,
 Which I with sword will open. 
 O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults
 Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year.  
 O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults
 Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year.