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In great pedigrees there are Governours and Chandlers.
In great pedigrees there are Governours and Chandlers.
Whether you boyle snow or pound it, you can have but water of it.
Whether you boyle snow or pound it, you can have but water of it.
A fool bolts a door with a boiled carrot.
A fool bolts a door with a boiled carrot.
To have nothing is not poverty.
[Lat., Non est paupertas, Nestor, habere nihil.]
To have nothing is not poverty.
[Lat., Non est paupertas, Nestor, habere nihil.]
Civill Wars of France made a million of Atheists, and 30000
Witches.
Civill Wars of France made a million of Atheists, and 30000
Witches.
Dull not device by coldness and delay.
Dull not device by coldness and delay.
He makes a great row but does nothing.
He makes a great row but does nothing.
Poore and liberall, rich and coveteous.
Poore and liberall, rich and coveteous.
That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat
Of habit's devil.
That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat
Of habit's devil.
