You May Also Like / View all maxioms
If thou thy selfe canst doe it, attend no others helpe or hand.
If thou thy selfe canst doe it, attend no others helpe or hand.
The best smell is bread, the best savour, salt, the best love
that of children.
The best smell is bread, the best savour, salt, the best love
that of children.
The bitter past, more welcome is the sweet.
The bitter past, more welcome is the sweet.
Shoemaker, stick to your last.
[Lat., Ne supra crepidam judicaret.]
Shoemaker, stick to your last.
[Lat., Ne supra crepidam judicaret.]
What! can so young a thorn begin to prick?
What! can so young a thorn begin to prick?
To have done, is to hang
Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail
In monumental mockery.
To have done, is to hang
Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail
In monumental mockery.
A hatt is not made for one shower.
A hatt is not made for one shower.
O churl! drink all; and leave no friendly drop!
O churl! drink all; and leave no friendly drop!
He who has once made himself notorious as utterly unprincipled,
is not credited even when he speaks the truth.
He who has once made himself notorious as utterly unprincipled,
is not credited even when he speaks the truth.
