You May Also Like / View all maxioms
Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
Such as she is, who died to-day,
Such thou alas! mayst be to-morrow.
Such as she is, who died to-day,
Such thou alas! mayst be to-morrow.
Some remedies are worse than the disease itself.
[Lat., Graviora quaedam sunt remedia periculis.]
Some remedies are worse than the disease itself.
[Lat., Graviora quaedam sunt remedia periculis.]
If you can't beat them, join them.
If you can't beat them, join them.
Good service is a great inchantment.
Good service is a great inchantment.
Try your skill in gilt first, and then in gold.
Try your skill in gilt first, and then in gold.
What! upon compulsion? No!
What! upon compulsion? No!
The truly noble mind has no resentments.
The truly noble mind has no resentments.
