General Sayings ( 670 - 680 of 3562 )
Turning these jests out of service, let us talk in good earnest.
Turning these jests out of service, let us talk in good earnest.
Are not these woods
More free from peril than the envious court?
Are not these woods
More free from peril than the envious court?
Sweep on, you fat and greasy citizens;
'Tis just the fashion. Wherefore do you look
Upon that read more
Sweep on, you fat and greasy citizens;
'Tis just the fashion. Wherefore do you look
Upon that poor and broken bankrupt there?
Come, shepherd, let us make an honorable retreat; though not with
bag and baggage, yet with scrip and crippage.
Come, shepherd, let us make an honorable retreat; though not with
bag and baggage, yet with scrip and crippage.
The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.
[Lat., Calamitosus est animus futuri anxius.]
The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.
[Lat., Calamitosus est animus futuri anxius.]
What you would not have done to yourselves, never do unto others.
What you would not have done to yourselves, never do unto others.
All is well ended, if the suit be won.
All is well ended, if the suit be won.
Love all, trust a few,
Do wrong to none.
Love all, trust a few,
Do wrong to none.
Oft expectation fails, and most oft there,
Where most it promises.
Oft expectation fails, and most oft there,
Where most it promises.
