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Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.
Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.
When the tree is fallen, all goe with their hatchet.
When the tree is fallen, all goe with their hatchet.
No creature smarts so little as a fool.
No creature smarts so little as a fool.
To the counsell of fooles a woodden bell.
To the counsell of fooles a woodden bell.
Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot
That it doth singe yourself.
Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot
That it doth singe yourself.
It's more paine to doe nothing then something.
It's more paine to doe nothing then something.
He, who will not pardon others, must not himself expect pardon.
He, who will not pardon others, must not himself expect pardon.
Far from gay cities and the ways of men.
Far from gay cities and the ways of men.
The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together;
our virtues would be proud read more
The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together;
our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not, and
our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our
virtues.