Maxioms by Samuel Butler
For blocks are better cleft with wedges,
Tan tools of sharp or subtle edges,
And dullest nonsense read more
For blocks are better cleft with wedges,
Tan tools of sharp or subtle edges,
And dullest nonsense has been found
By some to be the most profound.
Shear swine, all cry and no wool.
Shear swine, all cry and no wool.
Videlicit,
That each man swore to do his best
To damn and perjure all the rest.
Videlicit,
That each man swore to do his best
To damn and perjure all the rest.
The Roman senate, when within
The city walls an owl was seen,
Did cause their clergy, with read more
The Roman senate, when within
The city walls an owl was seen,
Did cause their clergy, with lustrations
. . . .
The round-fac'd prodigy t' avert,
From doing town or country hurt.
