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Good words quench more then a bucket of water.
Good words quench more then a bucket of water.
Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Hee hath not liv'd, that lives not after death.
Hee hath not liv'd, that lives not after death.
O how wretched
Is that poor man that hangs on princes' favours!
O how wretched
Is that poor man that hangs on princes' favours!
The ox longs for the gaudy trappings of the horse; the lazy
pack-horse would fain plough. [We envy the read more
The ox longs for the gaudy trappings of the horse; the lazy
pack-horse would fain plough. [We envy the position of others,
dissatisfied with our own.]
Hee hath no leisure who useth it not.
Hee hath no leisure who useth it not.
A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.
A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.
Hee goes not out of his way, that goes to a good Inne.
Hee goes not out of his way, that goes to a good Inne.
Those, who in quarrels interpose,
Must often wipe a bloody nose.
Those, who in quarrels interpose,
Must often wipe a bloody nose.
